Together Everyone Achieves More Wednesday 21st October Issue

Oct 15th Gifted and Talented writers

workshop (St Norberts)

Oct 15th Reception parents Meet and

Greet 6.30

Oct 20th Year 3/4 Tag Rugby

Oct 20th KS1 Curriculum Workshop 6-

7.30pm

Oct 21st LKS2 Curriculum Workshop

6-7pm

Oct 22nd Break up

Nov 2nd Return to school

Nov 4th Photographer in school

(individual)

Nov 10th Y3/4 football tournament

Nov 11th E.safety workshop for parents

– 6.30 pm

Nov 13th Diabetes fundraiser – Onesie

day

Nov 14th Choir participates in choir com

petition

Nov 17th Open Day for parents with Rec

children 2016

Nov 18th Parents’ Evening 3.30 -5.30pm

Nov 19th Parents Evenings 5.00 – 7.00pm

Nov 26th House Kingball competition

Dec 1st Y5/6 Tag Rugby tournament

Dec 8th KS1 Xmas play 1.30pm

Dec 9th Reception Xmas play 1.30pm

Dec 9th KS1 Xmas play 6.30pm

Dec 10th Reception Xmas play 9.30am

Dec 15th Xmas parties Y1-6

Dec 16th Reception and Nursery Xmas

parties

Dec 16th Y1 and 2 children go to panto

mime

Dec 16th Y3 to 6 children Carol Concert

at Church 6.00pm

Dec 17th Break up

School Photographs

On Wednesday 4th November the School Photo-

graphs will be taken. Children will have their photo-

graphs taken individually and in family groups

(this does includes the nursery children).

If you have any other pre-school children you wish to be included

then please come to school between 8.30am and 8.45am.

Menus

To do our bit for the environment, on a trial basis,

from Term 2, we shall not be sending out paper

copies of the school dinner menus. The menus will

be sent as usual via email, on the school website

and order slips will be available in the school office.

Orders can also be emailed to

reply@monkshouse.lincs.sch.uk. We would very

much appreciate your support in this initiative. Thank you.

Christmas

Please note that the Y1 and Y2 Christmas Plays

will take place on December 8th at 1.30pm and

December 9th at 6.30pm. A letter will go out

nearer the time for ticket requests.

Weekly Riddle

What gets wetter as it dries?

*Last weeks’ answer - ‘incorrectly’*

We break up on Thursday 22nd October!!!

Please can you ensure your child wears black

school shoes and NOT trainers. Thank you.

Reception Curriculum Evening

Many thanks to all the parents who attended the Reception cur-

riculum workshop the other evening. I hope you found it both en-

joyable and informative. Please can I remind you to return your

questionnaire by the end of the week. If you voted for a scare-

crow the results of the competition are on this newsletter.

Phonics Play

Can we draw your attention to an excellent phonics website which

will be of value to you when supporting your children at home.

Weekly Attendance

Class attendance for 5th - 9th October

goes to

KS1 - Mrs Jeffries’ class 97.82%

KS2 - Mr Roberts class 98.02%

Overall school attendance for 5th - 9th October

96.97%

Pupil of the Week

Logan Jenkins, Aliyah Mohammed, William

Emmons, Aryan Nyaupane, Megan Chetri, Max Butters,

Kristaps Leitis, Dawid Maksay, Chloe Ham, Laura Jurberga,

Aaron Hedaux, Marta Freimane, Jodie Dade, Millie-Mae Walker

This weeks’ Values goes to

Honor Rudderham, Kitty Lane, Cain Foster,

Ava Matthews, Esmee Warner, Harrison Jenkins,

Jessica Gildon, Olivia Olszycka, Amber McVeigh,

Nikola Gebka, Jazz Johnson, Melody Crane,

Ada Jakimiec, Leticia Amaral,

Rebecca Bembridge, Kelvin Ibeneme, Billy Stokes

Year 5 Viking WoW Day

During this day , year 5 dressed up as

Vikings. They tasted some Viking

bread made by Daisy Darley, did a

Viking Quiz, played a top trumps game

(dragon style) and wrote in Dragonese.

They then joined up with the other

year 5 class and created a human

Longboat and practised rowing with

some music and Mr Roberts keeping

the rhythm with a drum.

There will be no Cooking Club on Tuesday 3rd November.

Cooking Club

for

cracking an egg perfectly into

his cake mixture without

getting shell into it!

School Council Elections

The children have been busy voting for

their new School Council. The successful

candidates will be announced shortly.

Woodland Collage

The children in Reception and KS1 who

have been working with Mrs Lane have

produced some lovely collage work

relating to their topic.

Year 2

Children in year 2 worked with Mrs

Lane to create some fantastic castles

which were all made from recycled

items!

Gardening Club

During gardening club this week

we harvested the runner beans

on Reception’s beanstalk and re

-potted the plant to save it

from the building work! We also

harvested sunflower seeds

from a sunflower head ready to plant next year.

Eco Club

The ECO Warriors at ECO club have been

busy making wind chimes out of natural

resources, old keys and bits of metal. They

make a lovely sound and everyone enjoyed

making these.

Tremors

The year 3 and 4 children have

been working very hard on their

‘Tremors’ projects, focussing on

Volcanoes. They will be presenting

this work to their parents on

Wednesday.

FS Scarecrow Competition

The children in Foundation Stage worked to-

gether to create scarecrows for their outdoor

areas. Mrs Goodsell judged the nursery scare-

crow with the winner being ‘The Cool Dude

Scarecrow’ and the parents in reception

voted for their winner ‘Dingle Dangle

Scarecrow’ with an impressive 22 votes!