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Friday, 30th June, 2017

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Registered Charity No: 1141329

Walking around the school it has been great to hear the happy and joyful noise of the children enjoying their penultimate week of the year. Mrs Hayden and all of the children have been working extremely hard rehearsing for their end of year review and celebration. I am sure you will be all impressed by their performances. On Monday the Year 2 children had a Ceilidh organised by Mrs Spencer, Mrs Hall and Mrs Hayden. This was part of their ‘Living on an Island’ theme and it was so much fun. On Monday they are off to Bridlington which promises to be a great day. On Tuesday we had to postpone the Sports Day and our Summer Fair because of the poor weather. These events are both rearranged for Tuesday 4th July. Sports Day will start at 9am and Summer Fair will start at 3.20pm. Let's cross our fingers for good weather. Mrs Keyes would appreciate any help from volunteers for the Summer Fair and also any baking contributions for the pop up café that day, please remember we endeavour to be a nut free school. On Wednesday 3M performed their assembly to the school. They created a montage of photographs and moving images for the audience to watch, that demonstrated their learning journey throughout the term. It clearly has been an enjoyable theme with so much going on. The children then acted out parts of the Neverland story with special effects including a message from Captain Hook (thanks Mr Morrison) and Ella walking the plank. The acting was excellent and the costumes stunning. They finished their assembly with a song 'Stronger' from Neverland the musical. Well done to all of the children in 3M, it was a brilliant assembly. My thanks to Mrs Morrison, Mrs Hart and Mrs Hayden for all their hard work too. On Thursday the Year 3 children had a wonderful day at Alnwick Castle. They travelled by train early in the morning from York to Alnmouth and then boarded a coach to Alnwick Castle. They had training to fly broomsticks, were taught how to be knights of the castle and explored the dungeons and castle. After our return journey on the train to York we all went to Pizza Express for tea, before the children were collected by parents. It was such a lovely day that was enjoyed by all. My thanks to Mrs Clarke for organising the trip and to all of the staff who accompanied the children to ensure they had a great time. Finally my thanks to the Year 3 children who were brilliant company, they all joined in the activities despite the atrocious weather conditions. Well done all. This week the children have had their last drama workshops with Paul Birch that once again have been inspirational. 3P explored the Peter Pan story. Thank you Paul from Riding Lights Theatre Company. Today Year 1 had their final swim and Miss Murray and Mrs Headlam-Morley jumped in the pool with 1M as well! I can't quite believe we only have one week left of this academic year. It is such a busy week and I am sure it is going to be memorable, fitting for such an amazing year at Clifton School and Nursery.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Mon Y2 Trip to Bridington

09:00—09:40 Nursery Sport

Showcase (Rising 3s are not

taking part in this activity)

Y3 Ukueles (lunchtime), Y1

Creature Creations, Y1 Tennis,

Y2 Maths Club, Y2/3 Chess, Y3

Athletics, Y3 Speech & Drama,

Reception Summer Fun/

Gardening, Y2/3 Yoga, No Y2/3

Forest School (Bushcraft)

Tues 9.00am—11.30am (approx.)

Sports Day

1M American themed party

Y2/3 Choir (lunchtime)

All Co-curricular Activities

Cancelled

ASC as normal

3.30pm CSF Summer Fair

Wed No Y3 Peri instrumental lessons

15:45 Band Club (short

presentation/performance of

practiced pieces for parents)

Reception/Y1 Yoga Bunnies

(lunchtime), Reception Speech &

Drama, Y1 Ball Skills, Y2/3 Chess,

Y2 Art, Y2 Kwik Cricket, Y3

Band, Y3 Cricket

Thurs

14:00 End of Year Review and

Presentation, Memorial Hall, St

Peter’s (please see invitation in

this newsletter) followed by

refreshments in the marquee

Rising 3s are staying in Nursery

throughout the afternoon.

Nursery will go to their parents

in the Memorial Hall after their

performance. All other children

will return to their classrooms

for refreshments at the end of

the Review and will remain there

until they are collected.

No Co-curricular Activities or

ASC

A reminder for children to come into school in FULL PE kit on Tuesday morning for our rescheduled Sports Day please.

Our final destination in our world trip has been Australia. The Children in

Nursery have looked at aboriginal art and used this to create their own

art works. They worked carefully using cotton buds and thought about

using different colours to make shapes and patterns. We’ve had a great

time on our worldwide adventure!

Housepoints

Micklegate

Music Awards

Mrs Spencer

and Viktoria

Superstars

Will, All of Year Three, Alexander, Alex, Joshua,

Viktoria, Arabella and Arjan—Tizzy and Joseph

not shown

Good Conduct

William, All of 1M, Sam, Alex,

Saffron, Harry, Emily, Hannah, Isla,

Thomas, Kobe and Aleena

Alex and Victor

The Nearly New Uniform Shop at St Olave’s will be open on two dates during the summer holidays. Firstly on Monday 14th August (Petersport Week) when the shop will open twice from 9-11am and then again from 2-4pm. Secondly the shop will be open on Thursday 31st August from 9-11am.

Volunteers Needed! We are looking for more volunteers to help with the running of the Nearly New Uniform Shop. If you can spare just a few hours

each term please contact jenny.black@btopenworld.com

NEARLY NEW

This week there was disappointment in 1J when rain stopped play for our Sports Day. Undeterred we decided to invent our own Sports Day races. The children planned then made their own models of arenas and tracks for their events. Their plans became more elaborate as Sports Bars, car parks, indoor shelters and seating appeared on the models! The children spent time thinking and planning carefully- measuring out start lines with rulers and dividing the spaces equally. Supports had to be added and structures rethought to ensure they stood upright. When the models were finished the children then wrote their own rules for their races. They took care to make this a really careful piece of writing as it may be one of the last they do in Year 1! The next day Mrs Hicks and Miss Eaton were invited to come and judge our races. After much deliberation and consideration they awarded 1st , 2nd and 3rd prizes. They were very impressed by the standard of work but also how the children had incorporated themes from their PE lessons into their models. Let's hope for some sunshine next week so the

real event can take place!

Beth

Searby has

lost her cardigan, please

look out for it!

Due to our Sports Day change of date and rehearsals next Tuesday don't forget our 4th July party in Year 1 has been moved a day earlier to Monday 3rd July!

Children are invited to come in American themed or red, white and blue outfits. They do not need their PE kit on Monday- just trainers please.

This week was fabulous and (SADLY)

our last one of this term. It was so much fun today so see all the children

(and MUMS) having such a great time. We made party hats and then had

party food followed by 'pass the

parcel'. The children loved the giant balloons too! I have enjoyed this

year so much and I really hope you all have enjoyed our Playgroup too, its very sad coming to the year end and I find it quite emotional, but I

have had a lovely time on a Thursday morning, thank you.

A HUGE THANK YOU TO YOU ALL FOR MY BEAUTIFUL PRESENT, IT’S GOING TO LOOK

GREAT ON OUR WALL. THANK YOU

Jo Deri-Clark XXX

This week was our last Year 1 Art Club for the year . We celebrated by making food art. The children worked with a partner and decorated biscuits with different features choosing an assortment of expressions for their work. Then they used the' I can Animate' app on their iPad to

create a short film... before finally our biscuits met a sticky end and were gobbled up! Well done Art Club, have a lovely summer holiday. From Mrs Johnson and Mrs Ferguson

Year 2 Book Club visited St Peter’s Library this

week, by invitation of the librarian Mrs Wong. She

had just hosted a party for all Harry Potter fans on

Monday and we saw dangling keys, Chambers of

Secrets, owls and lots of other exciting things!

Thank you to Mrs Wong for making us, her future

library-goers at St Peter’s, so welcome. Also, a big

thank you from Mrs Headlam-Morley and myself

to our lovely Book Club children. Your enthusiasm

for all things to do with books and reading has

made Mrs H M and I very happy all year!

See you next year- hopefully!

Year 3 had a fantastic time at Alnwick Castle yesterday and it was great fun catching the train with all their friends!

Once we arrived at the Castle, the children took part in broomstick training and a knight quest where they honed their skills on a broomstick and were all given knighthoods!

After lunch we visited the opulent state rooms inside the castle and the children were all rather impressed when they found out that the Duke of Northumberland’s family actually live in the castle! Their TV was massive!

Once back at York the children enjoyed delicious dinner at Pizza Express… Yummy!

SPORTS DAY…

WE’LL TRY AGAIN!!

Tuesday 4th

July

9am Start

Venue:

Sports field

Refreshments

will be

available in the

dining room

from drop off

Gold

Clara, Harriet and Ella

Mr Philip Hardy, staff and children invite you to their

End of Year Review & Celebration on

Thursday 6th July 2017 at 2:00pm

Memorial Hall, St Peter’s School

(followed by refreshments in the marquee)

Nursery will go to their parents in the Memorial Hall after their performance.

All other children will return to their classrooms for refreshments at the end of the Review,

and will remain there until they are collected.

There will be no After School Care or Co-curricular Activities.

*Please note no ticket is required

Silver

Aidan, Victor, Margherita,

Pietro and James

Class Winners

2H

Congratulations to Sam for

gaining seven gold

certificates in Mathletics.

This means he has had a

certificate every week (bar

two) since beginning Year 1.

Fabulous achievement Sam,

well done for all your time,

hard work and dedication!

2H and 2S all took part in an

exciting, surprise event on Monday

afternoon! We went to St Peter’s for

a Ceilidh, which we now know is a

special dance, often taking place in

Scotland. We think that Magnus, the

character from ‘Sula’ would have

gone to ceilidhs and certainly Katie

Morag would have done so!

We wore tartan sashes and first listened to Nick New from

St Peter’s play the bagpipes, which was fantastic and really

put us in the mood for dancing!

We had a fantastic band playing for us, with lots of different

instruments and a caller, which is someone who announces

which dances are coming up and explains how to do them!

Some of the dances were quite tricky, but we managed them

all and had a wonderful time! A big thank you goes to Mrs

Hayden for helping to arrange this treat and also to Mrs

Anderson, a teacher from St Peter’s, who arranged for the

band that she plays in to come and perform for us!

We have been

continuing our

American travels this

week, looking

particularly at its

famous landmarks. We

have visited and

learnt the facts about

the Statue of Liberty,

Mount Rushmore and

Florida Keys! Did you

know that the Statue

of Liberty was

constructed in France

and shipped over in

crates before being assembled on Liberty Island?

Alongside delving into the history of America, we

have been preparing for our American themed

party by creating menus,

designing bunting and making

posters! We are looking

forward to celebrating the

end of an amazing journey in

1M!

Ohhhhh it’s a jolly holiday with Reception!

RS and RL have been working hard together for a FAB

FINISH. All week they prepared for the event making

signs and getting resources ready. The weather wasn’t

quite seaside weather but even with the overcast sky

we turned up in our best sunglasses, sun hats and

beach towels to sunbathe!

Working in teams the children hosted beach games for

the Nursery children to come and play – hoopla, hook-a

-duck and a sponge throw. Special shout out to Mrs

Ferguson who took quite a soaking! Some children put

on a puppet show and others ran a sea-side themed photo booth! Lovely Chef

Sarah made us our own version of ‘fish and chips’ and we had a special visit from

an ice-cream van.

Year 3 Moving-On Beach Party

When: Wednesday 5th July 6-8pm

Where: York Sports Club, Clifton Park, Shipton Road, York YO30 5RE

What: Disco, Surf Simulator, Drinks, Snacks, Fun & Games

Why: To celebrate our time at Clifton School with our friends as we move on to the next stage

Tickets: £5

We are all looking forward to what promises to be a fantastic Year 3 Party at York Sports Club on Wednesday. Mr Hardy and a group of volunteer parents will ensure children are supervised, so please drop-off at 6pm and collect at 7.45/8pm. Children will be offered drinks (water, cordial juice) and snacks (sweets, crisps, popcorn, fruit). We will be in the large function room, up the stairs, turn right. There are both male and female toilets in that room for us to use exclusively. The downstairs clubhouse bar will be open should you wish to stay on site. We will have contact numbers with us in the unlikely event that we need to contact you.

Forthcoming Events

CSF Summer Fair – Tuesday 4th July 2017 – Fingers crossed for the weather!!

Our annual Summer Fair promises to be lots of fun this year there will be the usual favourites including the Bouncy Obstacle Course, Welly Throwing, Hook a Duck, Beauty Parlour along with a couple of new ideas for this year! A great fun afternoon which the children love, it couldn’t happen without the help of all our volunteers.

We can’t run our Summer Fair without your help so if you can spare some time to help out then please let me or school know as soon as possible!

To all those budding bakers who wowed us with their talents in our Clifton Bake Off competition here’s another opportunity to get baking, we need biscuits, buns and cakes (ALL NUT FREE) for our pop up café, just drop them off in reception on the morning of Tuesday 4th July.

During the Summer Fair we will be holding a pop up café please join us for tea, coffee, home made lemonade and other delicious goodies all proceeds to Clifton School Friends.

Guess the Teddy Bears Name and the How Many Sweets game will be available in reception prior to Sports Day.

Day Out at Piglets – Friday 18th August 2017

Everyone is welcome and it’s a chance to meet new families joining Clifton in September.

Mrs Spencer – Leaving Collection

As you know, Mrs Spencer will be leaving us at the end of this term. She has been a tremendous asset to Clifton School and we will all be sad to see her go. There is a card and collection in reception for anyone that would like to contribute to a leaving gift. Thank you!

Parents’ Socials

Year 3 Mum’s & Dad’s End of Year Drinks – Friday 30th June 2017

Dates for your diary

CSF AGM – Tuesday 12th September, 8.30 am in the school dining room – all welcome.

Wishing you all a lovely and relaxing weekend.

Elizabeth

Super Camps in 2017 A range of courses and activities are available to children during the Easter, May half term and summer holidays on Super Camps at St Peter’s School. All courses and activities are specifically designed for the ages of the children taking part to maximise fun and develop skills.

The Early Years programme just for 4 to 5 year olds ensures learning and development within a fun environment. The 6 to 9-year-old crews can explore new activities and take on new challenges. Our 10 to 12 year olds can come together in their very own common room as well as spend more time tackling activities in depth.

Parents at the school get 10% off throughout the year using code PARENT17.

Find out more at www.supercamps.co.uk or 01235 467300