Dear All

We are sure you are aware of the sad news one of our families experienced

before half-term. Our thoughts and prayers are with Ezekiel and his family.

Dad has been into school and would like us to extend his thanks to everyone

for being so supportive at this difficult time.

The ‘Wake Keeping’ will be held Monday 6th March at 6pm at KICC, 1

Darnley Road, E9 6HQ. The church service (also at KICC) will be held on

Tuesday 7th March at 11am with the burial taking place at 2pm at Islington

& Camden Cemetery. All are welcome to attend.

A number of parents have also asked about making donations to the family.

For more information please contact the school office.

Headteacher Tours The next batch of potential candidates visited school

yesterday and were shown around our school by the chair and vice-chair of

governors. The deadline for applications is next week.

‘Look-at-Me’ Workshop This takes place for Reception Parents from 9-

10am next Tuesday.

Reading and Homework This week we did a quick check on the numbers

of children reading at home and completing their homework. We are

concerned some children are not keeping up with their homework and

reading. Therefore, we are reminding the children to spend a little more

time completing their homework and reading tasks on a regular basis.

Reading, and sharing books is an excellent way of supporting your child and

helping them become more literate. If you are worried about how to best

support your child at home, please do speak to one of the members of the

staff, who are more than willing to give ideas about this. We will also be

introducing the homework badge, to encourage children more.

Behaviour The children have responded well to the new procedures at

playtimes and before school and very few children have been found in the

corridors. We respectfully ask parents to wait outside at the end of the day

to help the children to leave the building safely and with the minimum of

disruption. We are also reviewing all of our behaviour processes in school

with the staff and with the children. This week our collective worship has

focussed on rules, choices and a ‘personal rule of life’. The children have

come up with some amazingly thoughtful responses including: love God, love

your neighbour and love yourself. Quite right too.

We hope you have a lovely weekend.

Kind regards

The Revd John Pearson-Hicks, Headteacher Mrs Joy Ashwin-Carter, Deputy Headteacher

Phone: 020 7254 5598

Email: admin@sjsp.islington.sch.uk

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24th February 2017 Diary Dates:

28.02.17 ‘Look-at-Me’ workshop

for Reception Parents 9-10am

03.03.17 ‘Families for Life’ - Coffee

Morning for Parents 9am

08.03.17 Y6 trip to LMA (Fashion

through the decades)

22.03.17 Y1 trip to the Unicorn

Theatre

22.03.17 Y6 visit Thames Foreshore

and Museum of London

24.03.17 Red Nose Day (Jokes and

Sports)

28.03.17 Y6 Geffrye Museum

workshop

28.03.17 Y2 trip to the Unicorn

Theatre

30.03.17 Easter Service in Church

31.03.17 Break up for the Easter

holidays at 2pm

The children return to school after

Easter on Wednesday 19th April

2017

Thought for the Week

You can’t understand

another person until

you allow yourself to

step into their shoes.

Star Awards (Fridays)

Y1 Temo

Y2 Lillian

Y3 Rayan

Y4 Gracie

Y5 Jasmine

Y6 Jimmy

Book Awards (Mondays)

Y1 Faith

Y2 Anaya

Y3 Rudy

Y4 Jaydonn

Y5 Frankie

Y6 Jimmy

World Book Day Thursday 2nd March

Dress-up as a

character from a book.

Prizes for the

best costumes!

Ash Wednesday Service

at St Jude and St Paul’s Church

with Imposition of Ashes

7.30pm

The Revd Justus Omoyajowo

presiding

The Revd John Pearson-Hicks

preaching

May your Lent be a holy one.

Highbury Grove

Year 5 & 6 Parents/Carers We would like to extend an

invitation to all prospective parents to come to Highbury

Grove to meet some of our students, parents and the

Headteacher, Aimee Lyall. We know that choosing the best

school for children is of paramount importance to families, and

we would like to give parents the opportunity to ask any

questions that they may have when considering their options.

You may be aware, Highbury Grove School has had a difficult

time over the last few months. However, Aimee Lyall, our new

Headteacher, has made some rapid improvements. There is so

much to celebrate at our school; we have a well-considered

curriculum, excellent musicianship, a vast array of

extracurricular activities, a comprehensive transition

programme and nurture provision for students who need

additional support. Crucially, staff remain committed to

providing the very best education for students.

I would be very grateful if you could let Year 6 parents know

about this important meeting to be held at:

Highbury Grove, 6th March 2017, 6.15-7.30pm

Evidently this is very good and free. It

would especially appeal to those who are

artistic as well as Harry Potter fans.

Year 6 Grammar tests have been completed this week and the children are showing progress. The

class has shown a keen interest on the subject of air pollution in London and have written letters to

Sadiq Khan using persuasive language and emotive vocabulary. In maths we have been converting frac-

tions, decimals and percentages and using them to solve problems. Thank you for all the parents who

have helped their children with their tests over the half-term.

Year 5 This week we went on a very important and emotive trip to the Ben Kinsella exhibition at

Finsbury Library. There we learned all about Ben, who was sadly murdered in 2008, and how we can

help to stop knife crime in London. We watched a film where Ben's family and friends talked about

him and the impact losing him has had on their lives. We also met an actor playing a prisoner in a cell

who told us all about life in prison and why we really would not want to go there. We also learned

about the effects on the body and lives if someone is stabbed. We learned how to make correct

choices to avoid knife crime. It was very moving for both the children and the adults and we all came

away having signed a pledge to help each other to stay safe. We would all urge you to visit the exhibi-

tion yourselves if you can.

Year 4 This week Year 4 went to see ‘Song of the Sea’ at the Rio Cinema. We have been looking at

and writing film reviews. In Numeracy we have been learning fractions. As you will be aware, Miss

Green has been off work this week as she has had flu. We hope that she will be back on Monday.

Year 3 This week in Year 3 we have read The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. We started by making pre-

dictions about where he came from and why his headlight eyes change colour? Then we wrote amaz-

ing diary entries about the coming of The Iron Man and some of us included onomatopoeia and simi-

les to make our writing really descriptive and interesting. In Maths we learned to multiply and divide

3-digit numbers by 10 and 100. Finally, in RE we read the story of Jesus in the wilderness who had to

resist temptation from the Devil. We then talked about modern day temptations and things that are

hard to resist… like being mean to our siblings.

Year 2 This week we have been exploring the fantastic language that Julia Donaldson uses in her

book 'The Whale and the Snail.' We have been describing the different settings in the book. We have

included expanded noun phrases in our writing. In maths we have been adding different amounts of

coins together using a blank number line. We have also been practising how to find 1/2 and 1/4 of

different amounts of objects.

Year 1 This week in year 1 we have been working on understanding what each digit in a two-digit

number represents, ordering and comparing numbers to 100 and identifying a number between any

given neighbouring pairs of multiples of ten. In Literacy we wrote questions to find out more about

the mysterious egg in the story, planned what we would do if we could spend the day with a dinosaur

and wrote thought bubbles to show what particular characters are thinking. As a part of our topic

we will be looking at mythical sea creatures for the next few weeks which the children are very excit-

ed about!

Reception We had a fantastic start to our travel and transport topic with a trip to the London

Transport Museum on Monday. In literacy, we have been sharing our thoughts about the trip and

preparing to do some writing about our experiences. In maths, we have been practising adding and

taking away and writing the sums to show what we are doing; please challenge your child at home

with some simple sums, adding or taking away 1 or 2 from numbers up to 20. Please remember our

look@me workshop on Tuesday morning, this will be an opportunity to log in and have a look at

your child's learning journey.

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DRAFT—These dates will not be confirmed by the

Governing Body of our school until March 13th

Term Dates for 2017-2018 Academic Year

‘Bless us to encourage, love and learn’

Autumn Term 2017

Wednesday 6 September 2017 - Thursday 21 December 2017 (72 days)

Half Term: Monday 23 October 2017 - Friday 27 October 2017

Staff INSET Days 4 & 5 September 2017

Spring Term 2018

Wednesday 3 January 2018 - Thursday 29 March 2018 (57 days)

Half Term: Monday 12 February 2018 - Friday 16 February 2018

Good Friday: Monday 30 March 2018

Easter Monday: Monday 2 April 2018

Summer Term 2018

Tuesday 17 April 2018 - Friday 20 July 2018 (62 days)

Half Term: Monday 28 May - Friday 1 June 2018

May-day Bank Holiday: Monday 7 May 2018

Spring Bank Holiday: Monday 28 May 2018

Staff INSET Days 16 April 2018 & 4 June 2018

Total number of days: 195

One additional INSET day to be added to the Spring Term 2018