Key dates for your diary

3rd—17th April—Easter Holidays

18th April: INSET

19th April: Children return to school after Easter break

21st April: Nursery pre-visit day

22nd April: DPA Table top sale

27th April: 6pm Wales School Journey Meeting for Year 5 parents

28th April: DPA Year 6 Cake Sale at 3.30pm

1st May: May Day—School closed

May: throughout most of May: Yr 2 Assessments

2nd May:8pm DPA meeting at Long Pond

4th May: 6pm Swanage School Journey meeting for Yr 4 parents

5th May: Bags2School collection—Sort out your jumble!

8th May: KS2 SATS week

15th May: 1xYr5 class—Cycle training

17th May: Class photos

18th,19th,24th May: Year 6 meetings with School Nurse

19th May: DPA Cake Sale—Reception

22nd May: 1xYr 5 class– Cycle training

24th May: 9.10am: and 6pm: Secondary Transfer meeting for Yr 5 parents

26th May: DPA Movie Night tbc

29th May—2nd June: Half Term

5th June; Children return to school

12th June: Yr 1 Phonics Assessments

16th June: School Discos

19th June: Sportathon

21st June: Rec-Yr 6 Sports Day at Eltham Park

30th June: Nursery closed

13th July: Summer Open Evening—come along and meet your child’s new teachers in their new classrooms

14th July: Inclusion HT Coffee Morning

14th July: Yr 6 Leavers Party

18th July: Yr 6 Leavers Production

21st July: Nursery closed—Teddy Bears Picnic in Oxleas Meadow

21st July: Last day at school

Children return to school on Wednesday 6th September

Friday Flier Number 637 31st March 2017 http://www.deansfield.greenwich.sch.uk/

We can’t believe how quickly this term has gone— it seems no time ago since Christmas and now we are almost Summer Term. The chil-dren have had a wonderful term of learning. We hope parents of chil-dren from Reception to Year 6 took the opportunity of coming in to see your class teachers this week to discuss your child’s progress. Apolo-gies to the parents of Class 1B who missed Wednesday’s appointments due to Ms Brotherwood being un-well; we will rearrange with you af-ter Easter. If you came into school, we hope you also took the oppor-tunity of looking at our wonderful displays of children’s learning. We are very proud of all our children at school and welcome the oppor-tunity of displaying their fantastic work.

We would like to take this oppor-tunity of thanking you for your sup-port—from reading with your child each day, helping to bake bread at school, to overseeing home learning. From supporting your child singing at the Royal Festival Hall and other musical events to learning how well our instrumental-ists are faring at our Spring Con-cert. Your support of our cricket and football teams has also been fantastic at the matches they have participated in.

The school would not be the won-derful place it is without your su-perb support, which is very much appreciated.

We would like to wish you a very happy Easter break; we hope the weather is kind. Don’t forget—children are back on 19 April!

Today has been very sad as we say goodbye to Mrs Akindele, one of our Year 2 teachers, who is moving abroad. We thank Mrs Akindele for her hard work and commitment to children’s learning at Deansfield, and we are sure that you will join us in sending her our very best wishes for the future.

Year 5’s De-sign and Technology topic this term has been breadmak-ing—designing

their bread and making it! Thank you for your support of this project by sending in baking trays etc when required, togeth-er with additional toppings which the children have used in their design. Thank you also to those parents who have come in to help the children in their ef-forts. The smell of fresh bread baking has been mouth watering. We hope you get to enjoy it at home!

We hear from the DPA today that a marvellous £1044 was raised from the vey enjoyable quiz night last Friday. Well done both to the winning team through to the team with the wooden spoon. A very enjoyable evening.

We hope you will also support the Cake Sale after school today. Please come along and buy an Easter Cake.

Full details of future DPA events are out-lined overleaf. Please take a look.

Child Care problems over Easter and beyond? Please con-tact Alpha Club on 07939 917090, who will be happy to help.

Maths Challenge! Last week, our Puzzle was: What day do you go back to school, Horace?" asked his grandmother one day. "Well," Horace replied, "Nine days ago, the day before yesterday was three weeks before the second day of term." If Horace had this conversation on a Sunday, what day of the week did he start school?

Our solution is: Today is Sunday. So seven days ago was Sunday too. That means that NINE days ago was Friday. On Friday, the day before yesterday was Wednesday. Three weeks later is Wednesday again. That is the second day of term. So the term began on Tuesday.

Today’s puzzle to keep you guessing over the Easter Break is: I am thinking of one of these five cards:

You have to try to find out which one I am thinking of. Here are some clues: i) The value of my card is a prime number. ii) The values of my two neighbours add up to a multiple of 3. iii) My card is next to a card which is next to the 2 of hearts.

Look out for the solution after Easter. Good luck!

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Attendance: Star Attendance Award this week goes jointly to Class RA and 5H with 100% attendance. Well done to both classes, especially RA winning this award 2 weeks running! This week’s overall attendance is 97.2% and the attendance so far this term is also running at 96.8%. Thank you for recog-nising the importance of sending your child into school eve-ryday.

NEXT WEEK AT DEANSFIELD WILL BE EASTER BREAK. CHILDREN RETURN ON WEDNESDAY 19TH APRIL.

WEDNESDAY: Children return to school

THURSDAY: No swimming this week

THURSDAY: Year 4 to Globe Theatre (packed lunch please)

FRIDAY: We welcome children new to Nursery and their par-ents to have their first taste of Nursery life.

FRIDAY: Andrew Smith and his Mini Beast Workshop is in school working with Reception and Year 1 children. Chil-dren have the opportunity of meeting animals at very close quarters!

School lunches: Please remember that the price of din-ners increase to £1.80 per day on your return to school after Easter. This will mean a weekly bill of £9. Please re-member to pay for school meals in advance.

Changes to lunchtime options: Please ensure you let the school office know without delay if your child wishes to change their lunchtime option after Easter which has to be kept for the half term.

Clubs and Music Lessons: PLEASE NOTE that we will be sending our payment details for Activity Clubs as soon as we return after Easter. To secure your child’s place in an activity club, you must pay online using AGORA. We will not be able to accept children into clubs without pro-cessing your payment this way in advance.

For Music payments please ensure that you pay in ad-vance. If you have a difficulty, PLEASE contact the school office rather than letting a debt incur. Many thanks.

DPA News: Don’t forget to make a note of future DPA events:

Table Top Sale Saturday 22nd April: If you are having a good spring clean over Easter, then sell your unwanted stuff at the indoor table top sale. Tables £10, keep all your profits. More information to follow shortly.

Year 6 Cake Sale Friday 28th April after school.

DPA Meetings: Tuesday 2nd May and Tuesday 13th June both 8pm in the Long Pond on Westmount Road, SE9. Please come along to share your ideas and help us to plan upcoming events.

Children’s Movie Night 26th May. More information soon.

Thank you's….

Red Nose Day collection last Friday raised £333 which we have sent on Comic Relief. Thank you for your gen-erosity.

Easter Egg Raffle today raised £289 which will go to buying amongst other things, toys for children at break times.