Nelson Primary News Term 2 Issue 8

Friday 4th March 2016

Nurturing One Another, Discovering Together, Inspiring All

Learning in Reception Our topic in Reception this term is ‘growing’ and therefore we have been looking at the process of a plant’s growth from seedling to flower. Reception have been able to display their knowledge on this topic by naming the different parts of a plant, and also talking about what a plant needs in order to grow. Our main book for this term is Jack and the Beanstalk, which the year group have enjoyed reading, as they have been able to re-tell the story to their peers and also take part in role play, becoming the characters themselves. Jack and the Beanstalk is our inspiration for World Book Day, and the year group have shown just how creative and enthusiastic they are in terms of the costumes that were worn. Reception took the opportunity to bring in their favourite books and to talk about them to the rest of the class, showing they truly embraced the ethos of the day.

Learning in Year 2 Year 2 have become reporters this week and have been learning the features of newspaper articles. They started off the week by discussing the events leading up to the crime in the story and worked out questions they wanted to ask Comp, the naughty dinosaur who stole an egg. The children took on the role of the reporter, duckbill dinosaurs or Comp and interviewed each

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Important dates:

PGL Year 5 Meeting, Monday 14th March, 700pm, Studio

Parent Consultations, Tuesday 15th March, 3.30-6.30pm

Parent Consultations, Thurs-day 17th March, 5.30-8.30pm

Spring Term Ends, Wednesday 23rd March at 1.30pm

Summer Term Starts, Monday 11th April

PGL Year 5 Trip, Monday 25th April—Friday 29th April

Half-Term, Monday 30th May-Friday 3rd June

Summer Term Ends, Tuesday 19th July at 1.30pm

Class Cake sales this term

Friday 4th March, Class 2H

Tuesday 8th March, Class 3N

Friday 11th March, Class 5Le

Tuesday 15th March, Class 1D

Friday 18th March, Dolphins

other to find out more information. The children learnt how to use speech marks when they recorded the quotes ready to use in their newspaper reports. At the end of the week, Year 2 wrote some excellent newspaper articles. It is clear Year 2 have lots of budding journalists!

On Thursday 3rd March, Nelson celebrated World Book Day. The children dressed up as different book characters and were very excited to discuss their favourite books! Year 2 learnt how to summarise the book and wrote some interesting book reviews, sharing their opinions and explaining why they would recommend the book to others.

Learning in Year 4 Last week, Year 4 had a wonderful time at the Rose

Theatre watching Hetty Feather! The play tied in

perfectly with our current Power of Reading text

‘Leon and place between’, where Leon enters a

magical world of magicians, jugglers and trapeze

artists. This week, children have been creating a

new character for Leon to meet in the place

between. As well as thinking about the structure of

narrative, children have been focusing on the

differences between implicit and explicit writing to

encourage the reader to think in more depth about

how a character is feeling. Here are some fantastic

examples of this week’s writing:

‘Leon fell down, down, down, until he felt ice

Attendance & Success High attendance: more successful children. We set high standards for attendance and punctuali-

ty. Our target for attendance is 97%+. Good attendance is strongly linked to pupil achievement.

What time should my child be in class by each day? The bell is rung at 8.45 in the morning to allow children to start coming in to school as part of our ‘soft start’ in to school in the morning. Children in Year 3, 4 5 and 6 need to be in class for registration by 8.55am. Arriving after 8.55am means a child is late. For children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 registra-tion closes at 9.00am. Arriving after 9.00am means a child is late.

* This is defined as the total number of minutes lateness of children within the class Whole School Attendance for this week is 93.8% Whole School Attendance to date is 95.8%

Attendance Punctuality*

Minutes of lateness = lost learning

Attendance Punctuality*

Minutes of lateness = lost learning

Dolphin 94.8% 32 3B 90.5%

Starfish 85.6% 3J 96.1% 8

Turtle 95.8% 5 3N 94.8% 38

1FH 94.6% 31 4F 90.4% 37

1D 96.3% 5 4P 90.6% 31

1W 96.8% 12 5La 95.6% 45

2B 94.8% 11 5Le 96.7% 41

2C 93.2% 6M 96.7% 10

2H 89.2% 19 6W 95.2% 23

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pricking his cheeks. His eyes began to close. Every noise had disappeared except the thumping of his heart. When Leon awoke, his teeth chattered and he still felt half asleep. The one thing Leon was afraid of was the lion cub that was looming over him then scrambled away into a pitch black corner of what seemed to be a cave. The only warmth and light in the cave was a small fire. Then, the lion cub lay down next to the fire. His sapphire eyes twinkled in the light. Suddenly, a blinding yellow light appeared, and within the blink of an eye, it was gone. In its place, stood a boy about Leon’s age, with very light brown hair and blue eyes- just like the lion’s. Instantly, Leon recognised the pair. “Luke” whispered Leon, as he turned a little. “Leon! Where are we?” Leon felt a lot better now. “We are in the place between…” – Evie 4F

‘Leon fell down, down, down until he heard a snap!

His face went all red, and he had goose bumps all

over his arms and a shiver down his spine for a

finishing touch. He landed in a ring, with a man with

a face like a bull and a crocodile. The man asked

Leon for help. Leon shuddered, flinched, then tried

to climb out, but felt the crocodile bite him.

“Owww” He screamed. – Louis 4F

Learning in Year 6 In Year 6, we have now come to the end of our Power of Reading text “Skellig” by David Almond and have thoroughly enjoyed it. We have explored the themes in the book through our guided reading sessions. Birds and flight, and particularly owls, are one of the many themes we identified, and to acknowledge this, we have mixed art and literature to create our own owls in clay. The have yet to be varnished, but we would like to share with you the work we have done on them so far.

Our Values Respect In March we are focusing on understanding the importance of Respect.

Respect is knowing I am unique and valuable.

Respect is liking who I am. Respect is listening to others. Read more about values-based education,

http://valuesbasededucation.com

Winning Ship Reward Children in HMS Victory had their crew ship reward this week. The children chose a film and popcorn. A well earned reward for consistently showing our Nelson Values.

World Book Day What a wonderful day we had on Thursday when children dressed up as different book characters. Thank you to all the children and families who helped with making and organising costumes to mark World Book Day. Visit our gallery on the website where shortly our collection of photographs of the event will be showcased.

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Your Child’s Learning As you are aware, we publish year group learning maps and showcase the children’s learning through our year group reflections.

Website links:

http://nelson.richmond.sch.uk/learning-teaching/curriculum-learning-maps/

http://nelson.richmond.sch.uk/learning-teaching/year-1/

We have recently launched our subject specific curriculum pages which contain a wealth of information about the curriculum and learning across the school. Do take a look and let us know if there is anything else you would like included.

http://nelson.richmond.sch.uk/learning-teaching/curriculum/

Annual Parent Survey Each year we conduct an annual survey to find out parents’ and carers’ views. Views of parents combined with our own evaluation enables school leaders and the Governing Body to identify strengths and areas for improvement. Gathering views at this time of year supports our budget planning and shapes school improvement priorities for the next financial and school year. This year we are trialling a new electronic survey to obtain views. Today you will receive a separate email with a link to this year’s survey. All parents are encouraged to talk to their children and share their views through the on-line survey. We are still happy to receive completed paper survey, so should you wish to give your views in this way please pick up a paper survey from the main office. The survey will close on Thursday 24th March.

Sports Relief 2016 This year we are really excited to be raising money for Sport Relief 2016! As one of the UK’s biggest fundraising events, Sport Relief brings the entire nation together to get active, raise cash and change lives.

Children at Nelson will get involved and help raise money by taking part in a ‘moveathalon’, an event which will take place across the week for different year groups during the week Monday 14th March-

18th March.

Children are encouraged to bring in a donation for participating in the different activities to get them moving for a great cause. Activities will include speed skipping, catching and throwing and hula hooping to get all children involved!

We really appreciate your support and hope that the children will have fun helping our school raise lots of money for Sport Relief! More details to follow nest week.

Sainsbury’s Active Kids Vouchers We are collecting Sainsbury’s Active Kids vouchers again this year. The collection box will be situated at the front office. Please send vouchers in with your child and they can be given to their class teacher in the morning. We will be collecting vouchers from the 27th January until the 3rd May.

Last year the vouchers were used to purchase new playtime equipment and resources for sports day. Thank you for your support.

Letters & parent emails sent this week Astrodome Astronomy Workshop (Year 5

only).

Compass Adventure—further information (Year 4 only)

Natural History Museum (Year 3 only)

Science Museum ‘It takes guts’ show (Year 6 only)

School Milk If you pay for school milk and your child is going to be away on the Year 5 PGL trip or the Year 6 Activities Week, you may like to log onto the Cool Milk website and ensure that milk is not ordered for them on those days.

www.coolmilk.com

Our Forest School Forest school has started up at Nelson Primary. It is a fantastic experience which develops self-confidence, self-esteem and well-being in a woodland environment. We need your help to add to our forest! Please send in any pine cones, acorns,

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conkers, twigs or logs you may find to enhance our area. If you know of anyone who can help us by donating log supplies, wooden crates, camouflage nets or tarpaulin please speak to someone in the office.

Do you have any spare time and an interest in outdoor learning? If so, you could be a perfect forest school volunteer. If you are interested pick up a volunteer application form from the office. For more details about our forest school and to see it in action visit our website (click the teaching and learning tab, subject specific curriculum information tab and the forest school icon.)

Good bye and best wishes We say best wishes to Miss Jones today as she starts her maternity leave. We will keep you informed of the news of the arrival of her baby.

Absence Please telephone and tell us if your child is absent from school before 10.00am. When your child returns please send in a letter explaining the reason your child has been absent.

Scooters We have had a couple of scooters that have gone missing from the scooter park at the school. Can you please check that your child has the right scooter and that you have not acquired an additional one by mistake. Thank you.

Head lice We have had several recent reports of children with head lice in school. Please remember to check your child’s hair regularly and be persistent in your treatment of the problem. If you need any advice on treatment please speak to Mrs Robinson in Welfare.

School Meals Supervisory Assistant Vacancies Are you interested in working with children? Would you like to be more involved in school life and earn some extra income? Then we may well have the job for you! Nelson Primary School is looking for

cheerful lunchtime supervisors to join our very dedicated team. The role is for 6.25 hours per week, term-time only. For more details see the school website. The closing date for applications is 12 noon on Monday 14 March.

PTA News PTA Meeting

Our next PTA meeting will be held on Tuesday 8th March at 8pm in the school staffroom. Please join us to give your views about how we spend our funds and what you'd like to see at this year's school discos and Summer Fair. Everyone welcome!

Community News Easter holiday soccer academy at Nelson

Over the Easter holidays, Mr. Abbott, Mr. Houghton and Mr. Gunton will be running a soccer academy for boys and girls of mixed abilities from years 2-6. Spaces are limited to 45 children a day. Flyers will be sent out next week but if you require any further information please speak to the coaches or visit their website www.ssa.coach.

Home-Start Richmond

If you have some free time after the Easter holidays, and you are a parent or grandparent, you could help other families with pre-school children. Local charity Home-Start Richmond is offering a free course to train you to be a home-visiting volunteer, supporting families with difficulties such as post-natal illness, bereavement or disability. The course runs 10am-2.30pm, every Thursday from 28 April to 30 June (not half-term). After the course, you would visit a family for 2-3 hours a week. For more information, please contact Angie Ahmed on 020 8487 8500 info@homestart-richmond.org.uk or visit www.homestart-richmond.org.uk. Home-Start Richmond, 211 Parkway House, Sheen Lane, East Sheen, SW14 8LS. Registered charity no: 1108975.

Easter 2016 Holiday Activities at Albany Outdoors

We are running fun water based activities and training course at all levels.

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Parent Workshops Gill Hines is an Education and Parenting Consultant who has been supporting children, parents and schools in the Richmond Local Authority for many years.

We are looking to host some workshops for parents here at Nelson but would like to know more about what our parent community would find most valuable.

Below is a list of potential topics for workshops that could be led by Gill.

Please circle below the topic(s) that you think would be helpful to you as a parent and that you may be interested in attending.

The Angry child

The Anxious Child

Self Esteem

Encouraging sibling harmony Behaviour management How to say NO and have it

work

Developing resilience Helping children deal with the

behaviour of others

Bullying

Managing Anger Developing personal responsi-

bility Helping children make good

choices

Talking to your child about sex The bright and challenging

child Transition to secondary school

What makes children happy? The confident child

Please return to the School office by Friday 11th March.

Thank you.

Amanda Blunden

Inclusion Manager