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News for this week

DIARY DATES SEPTEMBER 25th Deer Park open evening 6.30pm 26th Piano Lessons SWR open evening 6.30pm 27th Y5 Celebration Assembly 2.30pm -All parents welcome PTFA Pre-loved Uniform Sale & Treat Friday in Hall 30th Drum Lessons After school clubs on as usual OCTOBER 1st Violin Lessons TT Kidz starts — see attached flyer SWR Open morning 9.15am 2nd Guitar Lessons No Gymnastics club after school 3rd Piano Lessons SWR Open morning 9.15am 4th KS1 Cross country @ Painswick 4-5pm NO Table Tennis Club 7th Rags 2 Riches collection 11th Harvest service at St. Georges Church 2.30pm All parents welcome 14th KS 2 Football Comp @ Painswick 1—4pm 17th Y5—School Trip 18th Y4—Noah's Ark Trip Y1 Celebration Assembly 2.30pm—All Parents Welcome 23rd School Open morning 9.30am 24th School Photographs — Individual and Family shots 25th Last day of Term 1 28th OCT—1st NOV is HALF TERM NOVEMBER 4th INSET Day 5th 1st Day of Term 2 6th School Open morning 9.30am 8th PTFA F irework Display 11th Parents evening Y6 Bikeability—All week 12th Parents evening

Date: 25th September 2019 Issue 67

Uniform sale This Friday after school we will be having a second hand uniform sale in the hall along with treat Friday.

EARN MONEY FOR SCHOOL ££ Bags will be sent home this week for reusable clothes donations ready for the collection on 7th October. Rags 2 Riches accept adult, children's and babies clothing, paired shoes and footwear, belts, handbags, jewellery and accessories. Please bring your filled bags to Cat in the office. The bags are weighed and school then receive 50p per kilo. Your kind clothes donations can end up anywhere in the world.

Naming day We are going to be organising a naming day of school uniform. Teachers will be equipped with a Sharpie pen and will name all children's uniform if it has not already been named. If for any reason you don’t want your child's uniform to be named please let the office know. We are just trying to cut down on the quantity of uniform which is being lost or misplaced on a daily basis.

Iron on name labels are available for as little as £4.99 for 50 labels on Amazon.

Hot off the press We are delighted to confirm our KS2 results which have just been released by the Department of Education. We have performed at “Well above national” for the 3rd year running. Our combined score for Reading, Writing and Maths is 84% compared to a national score of 65%. In Maths, we scored 96% compared to a national score of 79%. In Reading, we scored 88% compared to a national score of 73% and for Writing, we scored 88% compared to a national score of 78%. Many thanks to parents and carers for supporting our children in school. The hard work you put in at home to support your children in their learning is really appreciated.

Year 5 Residential Year 5 had a wonderful time at Hillcrest last week. Particular highlights were the “mud challenge” and the zip wire-which was very high and very fast! You can see photos of them overleaf.

After school clubs We still have spaces available in Fencing club on a Tuesday after school, this club is funded by school. Attached is a flyer for Martial Arts which takes place after school on Wednesday also spaces available there too, and first trail session is free of charge. Please note that Pottery club is now full for next half term.

Reception We have been learning numbers to 20. We have learnt s a t p I n in letters and sounds. We have met our Y6 buddies and have been enjoying spending time with them.

Year 1 We have been learning our cursive handwriting. I

I am getting much better. By Dorothy.

We have been acting out and pretending to be very hungry caterpillars!. By Grace.

Year 2 More bread making to report! This time it was Anglo Saxon bread. We discovered that the poor people in Saxon times (300AD) used barley and oat flour and rich people used wheat and rye flour. We are collecting our recipes to publish a historical bread recipe book for you to purchase later in the year.

Year 3 We’ve been writing leaflets about Guide Dogs. By Rhys.

In RE, we learnt about creation and when Eve ate the apple. By Michael.

Mrs Howard visited us with her baby. By Sofia.

Year 4 This week we have been discussing how to achieve our goal to raise £500 for the SUF (Shared universe foundation)! So keep your eyes peeled for some wonderful things to buy to support this great cause.

Year 5 This week in English we have been writing a diary entry from World War 2. Also, in Maths we have been learning about place value numbers up to ten thousand. In Science we have been learning about properties of materials.

Year 6 We drew the Vikings and wrote about them. I like to write and draw creative stuff. We needed to draw a doughnut with a Viking sword going through it. In Writing we had to write a Viking story using our own words. By Noah.

Homework…. Jake Thompson in Y5, has produced a fantastic piece of homework. Year 5’s topic is World War 2 and one of their choice piece’s of homework was to build an Anderson shelter (air raid shelter). Jake’s shelter is wired with power so there is a little light and even the siren sounds warning of an air raid. He made little sand bags, chairs and beds and has even painted a beautiful black silhouette sky line. It was defiantly a WOW moment when he brought it into school…..Well done Jake!

Y5 Residential