Northwold Primary School Weekly newsletter 29 April 2016| Issue 94

News and events from Northwold Primary School

IN THIS ISSUE

Governors’ Day – Thursday 28th

April

Raheem – Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Champion

BBL Playoff Finals - £1.00 tickets

Ireland Trip – Transport Museum

Espresso – Free learning resource for students

Crossrail (Y4) and Predator (Y3) Trips

After School Clubs

ONE YOU – Fitness and Cooking Courses

Forest School – Sspecial Guest Visitor

Cornerstones Launch – Year 1

Class Assembly & Coffee Morning Rotas

e-Safety – Parent Information Leaflet

Get in touch

Tel: 020 8806 6352 | Fax: 020 8806 6315 | email: office@northwold.hackney.sch.uk

Golden Achievement Pupils Congratulations to the following pupils for being the golden pupil of the week for last week:

Class Pupils

N Mexico Aaron George

N Pakistan Mustafa Yurtseven

R Ireland Inayat Chowdhury

R Somalia Omar Bah

1 Bangladesh La’nai Simpson Russell

1 Ghana Abdulkadir Azakan

2 Barbados Shannon Cleverly

2 Poland Alliat Salami

3 Spain Jotham Karugaba

3 Nigeria Riley Ernest

4 Brazil Aliberk Ilbahar

4 Jamaica Alyonne Edwards

5 Turkey Hakim Benhaddouch Lamnouar

5 Russia Jahira Peters

6 China Kenzy Gharbi

6 India Richard McGonigle

Next Week at Northwold – w.c. 3.5.16 Here are the key events happening at Northwold next week.

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Wednesday Natural History Museum – Nigeria

Thursday

Friday River Trip – Year 2

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Governors’ Day On Thursday 28th April, all the school’s Governors were in school for the whole day. They took time out of their regular day jobs to visit Northwold. After spending time in all the classrooms during the course of the morning, they then held an assembly, where they introduced themselves and answered questions from the children. A lot of children wondered what our governors would do if they weren’t governors at Northwold. Most answered that they couldn’t really imagine not being governors. We are really fortunate to have such a dedicated group of people helping to run the school. Again our thanks go to the governors for giving up their valuable time to be at Northwold.

Raheem – European BBJ Champion Regular readers of the newsletter will know about the incredible exploits of Raheem (Year 6 India) in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Back in February he came third in the World Championships in California. A couple of weekends back, Raheem became the European Champion in his age and weight group. Raheem and his coach, Marco, took to the school stage last week in a special assembly. They demonstrated some of the sport’s basic moves, as well as Raheem’s signature moves, that have brought him such success. Despite his phenomenal success, he told the school how important resilience is to his achievements. Sometimes he loses a bout, but he has the mental strength to get up, start again and aim for the top. We can all learn from his achievements. Coach Marco said that the sport is hoping to become an Olympic Sport in 2024. Maybe we’ll be cheering on a certain ex-Northwold pupil to a gold medal.

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British Basketball League (BBL) Playoff Finals – Sunday 8th May – £1.00 TICKETS The most eagerly anticipated event of any BBL campaign is only a week away. So… do you want to be in one of the biggest ever basketball crowds in the UK? Well… the BBL team have generously given us 30 tickets to this event at the O2 centre in Greenwich. The cost of each of these tickets is only £1.00. For more information about the event itself, visit www.bbl.org.uk/playofffinal. Now… how do you get your hands on these tickets? They will be issued on a first come, first served basis. Please leave your name and details with Cynthia in the Office to claim the tickets. A massive thank you to the team at BBL for such a generous and exciting treat.

Ireland Trip – London Transport Museum

On Monday, Ireland visited the London Transport Museum. "We saw lots of buses and tubes from the olden days." – D'Angelo

We have used the buses as an inspiration for our story writing.

Espresso – Learning resource We have a large number of online resources that children can access from home. We are pleased to announce that you have another fantastic resource to use to support your child’s learning. Espresso has resources across the whole curriculum. As part of our subscription we have paid for the school’s children to have access to the resources. We love them. We hope you like them too. Visit espresso at http://www.discoveryeducation.co.uk User name - student946. Password - northwold16.

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Enabling Enterprise – Crossrail – Year 4 “On Thursday 28th April, half of Brazil and Jamaica classes went on a trip to the Crossrail Offices. It was an Enabling Enterprise workshop. We had to create a strong tower from newspapers. The tallest and strongest tower would be the winner. There were four teams and my team won.” – Presley (Brazil) Look at the amazing view from the Crossrail Offices, on the 30th floor of the Citigroup skyscraper in Canary Wharf.

Predator! – Spain Trip Year 3 Spain went to the Natural History Museum on

Wednesday 27th

April to do a fossils workshop for our

Cornerstones topic 'Predator!' and also as part of our

science topic on 'Rocks.' We even got a chance to go to

the dinosaur exhibit and learn about how dinosaurs lived

and what they might have looked like. The trip was

described as 'brilliant fun' by Abdulmaleek.

After School Clubs The After School clubs have now started. Nearly all the clubs are full and we have sent out the confirmation letters. A few places are still available for Dance (Wednesday) and African Drumming (Wednesday). If your child has not got a place in their first choice of club and they are interested in the above clubs, please collect and complete the ‘club’ form in the Office.

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Tel: 020 8806 6352 | Fax: 020 8806 6315 | email: office@northwold.hackney.sch.uk

One You – Fitness and Cooking Courses We have great news from Hackney, who have decided to fund free and affordable fitness and cooking courses across the borough. For example estate-based fitness classes cost only £1.00. There are new courses – men’s fitness circuits (beginners), Judo/Taekwondo for children and teenagers. Check on the special webpages to find out what’s available in our area – http://www.hackney.gov.uk/healthy-hackney

Wednesday Coffee Mornings Every Wednesday from 9.00-9.30am there will be a coffee morning held in the Canteen. Each week, one of the school’s leaders will be talking about their area of responsibility. Why not join other parents afterwards for a coffee? The next meeting this term will be on 4th May, which will be led by Ms Kriel, the Head Teacher, who will be talking about current developments in school. We look forward to seeing you there.

Class Coffee Mornings Class coffee mornings next week are on both Monday and Friday. The full timetable is published below. It’s a great chance for parents to meet the class teacher and one another. We look forward to seeing you there.

Date- Week Beginning

Monday Friday

2.5.16 Bank Holiday Ghana

9.5.16 Brazil Jamaica

16.5.16 Turkey Barbados

23.5.16 Spain Poland

Half Term

6.6.16 China

13.6.16 Ireland India

20.6.16 Bangladesh Mexico

27.6.16 Pakistan Somalia

Class Assemblies Below is the schedule for the Summer Term. Please come and support your child and watch their fantastic assemblies. Class Assemblies are every Friday at 10.45am. We also film the assemblies and upload them to the school’s YouTube account.

Week beginning Class

2.5.16 Brazil

9.5.16 Poland

16.5.16 Ghana

23.5.16 India

Half Term

6.6.16 China

13.6.16 Somalia

20.6.16 Ireland

27.6.16 Mexico

4.7.16 Pakistan

e-Safety – T is for Tell

Let’s finish our review of the SMART rules for being online. T is for Tell. Your child will have so many fantastic and enjoyable experiences using the internet. However, every now and then they will see or hear something that makes them feel uncomfortable or worried. It could be rude language, inappropriate pictures of bullying. They may be afraid of telling someone about it, as they may fear that they will no longer be allowed to use the internet. So it is important that they feel confident to tell you, or a trusted adult, what has happened and let you deal with the matter. Talk to your child regularly about what they are doing online and agree what to do when these unpleasant events do (occasionally) happen. If there are any areas of e-Safety you want to know more about, please feel free to discuss it with Mr Braune, your child’s teacher or one of the school’s leaders.

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Next Week’s Menu Week 3

Term Dates for 2015-16 There are still 2 ½ INSET days to be allocated.

Autumn Term 2015

First Day Half Term Finish Number of Days

Monday 7th September 2015

Monday 26th October to Friday 30th October 2015

Friday 18th December 2015

70 days (35 first half-term, 35 second half-term)

Spring Term 2016

First Day Half Term Finish Number of Days

Monday 4th

January

2016

Monday 15th February to Friday 19th February 2016

Thursday 24th March 2016

54 (30 first half term, 24 second half term)

Summer Term 2016

First Day Half Term Finish Number of Days

Monday 11th April 2016

Monday 30th May to Friday 3rd June 2016

Friday 22nd July 2016

69 (34 first half term, 35 second half term)

Bank Holiday Monday