Torriano Tiny Issue 20 Spring 2020 13.03.20

Congratulations to the Torriano Choirs, alongside all Camden schools, who brought joy to all at the Royal Albert Hall on Tuesday. It really was an exceptional event with some of our children also playing the violin as part of an original piece ‘This Bus is on Diversion’, composed by Camden children. The finale of ‘It Must be Love’ was fitting in the company of local Camden musi-cian, Suggs from Madness. The children sang and played beautifully and with great confidence, supported by

many proud parents. I would like to thank Mr Cambata, Trish, the staff who supported the event and Camden Music Service for their passion and dedication.

We celebrated International Women’s Day on Monday with an assembly in KS1 and KS2 in which we explored the theme #EachforEqual. Children took part in gender equality lessons across the week, learning about great female and male scientists in honour of British Science Week 2020. As part of their STEAM project, Nursery and Reception worked with engineers to imagine a greener Torriano Avenue and learnt that both men and women can work in this role. Next Monday we celebrate World Speech Day and we are confident that gender equality will be a key theme in many of our young orators’ presentations!

We are very excited to have appointed our new PE Ambassadors! They have the very important job of consulting with their classes on Physical Education and healthy living across the school. They applied for the role and were selected for their enthusiasm for PE and com-mitment to ensuring all children enjoy sport and healthy living in school. You will be hearing from them soon! Also well done to Sidney (y4) who was not present for the photo.

Parents’ Evening and Structured Conversation meetings were extremely well attended this week. I hope you found the meetings informative and supportive. Thank you to all the par-ents and carers who completed our survey. You will find a summary of the results in next week’s newsletter. Thank you for taking part as the survey helps to consider your views and ideas and inform our school improvement strategy.

Following the Prime Minister’s announcement yesterday, the following guidance has been issued: Government stay at home guidance (12 March) Updated travel guidance for education sector (12 March) We would like to reassure you that we are taking all of the necessary steps to protect our community and minimise any risk.

School will be open as normal and after school clubs will still take place as normal including breakfast club and EYFS extended hours – any changes to this will be sent via Arbor and the school website.

If your child develops a temperature or cough at school, they will be sent home. Please refer to the government guidance above. If you child develops these symp-toms at home, please also refer to the government guidance.

All trips are now postponed until further notice. Sports events will continue to take place unless otherwise informed.

We are awaiting guidance from Camden regarding the postponement of upcoming events, such as those held by the PTA (Spring Fair).

All children will continue to wash their hands thoroughly throughout the day – please also encourage them to do so before they leave home for school.

We are providing hand sanitiser in every class.

Our cleaning routine is currently enhanced with additional regular cleaning of ban-isters and door handles

A deep clean of the whole school will take place during the Easter break.

All updates will be sent via Arbor and the school website. Please ensure you check for these regularly.

If you have any additional concerns please speak to a member of the Senior Leadership Team. Have a lovely weekend Helen Bruckdorfer Headteacher

Junk Please!

Reception needs your ‘Junk Modelling’ resources for our STEAM project i.e. cardboard

boxes, toilet roll tubes, yoghurt pots, egg boxes etc. Please ensure that they are clean and have no traces of nuts. Also, no glass please! Many thanks.

Secondary School Offers Deadline is

Monday 16th March To accept or decline your offer you must login to your eadmissions account. Failure to accept or decline an offer will result in the offer being withdrawn

Calling all parents/carers with science

careers!

Torriano will be celebrating Science Week from the 30th March to the 3rd April. As a part of this we would love to have some visitors who can talk to the children about their careers in science or STEM based roles. If this is you, please get in touch with Mrs Evange-lou so we can arrange your visit. Let's build our STEAM capital and inspire the children to aspire to some new jobs!

KS1 SATS Workshop

for Parents/Carers

1st April 9.00am in the Infant Hall

Date + Time Event

16th March, 9.00am Wellbeing Awareness Workshop

23rd March, 9.00am Managing Child Anxiety Workshop

26th March, 9.15am Autism Coffee Morning

27th March PTA Spring Fair

30th March Deadline for Nursery Applications

1st April Y2 SATS Parents Workshop

3rd April Last day of term (2.00pm)

Monday 6th April to Friday 17th April Easter Holiday

Monday 20th April Children Return to School

27th April Class Photos – Whole School

27th April, 9.00am Thinking About Behaviour Workshop

Friday 8th May May Day Bank Holiday

The sign of the week is: Work

Check out the sign of the week on the

website — demonstrated by one of the

Makateenies.

Ted & Earl’s Attendance Results

EYFS & KS1 Attendance 97.4%

Well done to Pumpkins for getting 98.7% and to Turnips and Strawberries for having the fewest lates.

KS2 Attendance 96.6%

Well done to 4W for getting 99.7% and to 5MP for having the fewest lates.

Weekly 100% Attendance Draw Last week 157 children in KS1 & EYFS and 202 children in KS2 had 100% attendance.

Torriano Fundraiser

Torriano is try to raise sponsorship for TA Vjosa's Brighton Marathon run. Everything that she raises from the run will go towards the ‘much needed’ water

fountains and a running track on school grounds. There is a Justgiving page set up for Vjosa's run, so please have a look at the link and make a donation there if you can. See the link here: https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/vjosabrightonmarathon?success=true

FREE 1 hour fitness training in the Gate

House every Monday morning 9.15-10.15am

For a fantastic workout and a great start to the week come and Join Rachel Berg, personal

trainer & fitness coach. This Women’s Only Workout caters for all levels of fitness and offers a variety of fitness disciplines each week. Choose from aerobics, body conditioning, resistance training, HIIT intervals, ballet, all styles of dance not to mention core training and more!

UNCRC Article of the Week Article: 41 If the laws of your country provide better protection of your rights than the articles in this Convention, those laws should apply.

Hi everyone,

We are all looking forward to upcoming PTA events- there is a lot in the diary!

We are keeping our fingers crossed that we can have the Spring Fair on

March 27th, after school, outside in the playground. There will be the usual Spring themed cake stall and bonnet parade (do start thinking about your Easter bonnet design) as well as pizza making workshops and a dedicated stall to raise awareness of Autism Awareness Week. Money raised will go towards buying sensory toys and creating a sensory play area for SEN children at Torriano, so do come along and support us in that.

Other confirmed dates are:

French themed bake sale to raise money for the Year 6 Paris trip– 22nd May

Eid Celebration- 4th June

Torriano Football Event- 19th June

Ocean Themed Summer Fair- 4th July

Do please put those dates in your dairy and let us know by emailing torrianopta@gmail.com if you have any ideas for stalls at any of those events.

Happy weekend x

Torriano PTA

Marathon kids

The whole school is joining the Marathon Kids movement with the goal to run/walk regularly and achieve up to four marathons over an academic year.

We want children to run at least a marathon from now until the summer holidays. They will be encouraged to run a mile a day with their class teacher in a given time during the day. All miles will be added up and hopefully all our children will walk/run the distance of a marathon.

Active children are happier and healthier children!

18th March, 9.30pm Y5-Y6 Football Eagles Girls’ Team—Talacre

Torriano Sports Events News + Dates

Y3-Y4 Football at the Arsenal

Hub

A group of Torriano children have been playing in football

matches every Wednesday at the Arsenal Hub.

They are learning about teamwork, fair play, honesty and how to be a good loser and winner.

Y4-Y6 Gymnastics Team

Congratulations to our Torriano gymnasts. Our year 5 team came 3rd and our year 4 team came 5th. Special mention to Sam who came 1st in both of his routines and vaulting, Ava and Sumner-who came 2nd in vaulting. All of them worked really hard to learn

the routines and new skills.

Athletes of the week

We had three athletes of the week this week! Two were cho-

sen as an example of amazing fair play during football matches at

the Arsenal Hub.

The third athlete has been cho-sen because of her resilience

when practicing for the gymnas-tics competition. Photo to follow

in next week’s newsletter!