NEWSLETTER April 2014

HEADTEACHER’S MESSAGE Dear Copenhagen Families,

I hope you are all well and looking forward to the Easter break. I am looking forward to seeing my family and friends. I am going for a short break in the English countryside to recharge my batteries in time for the start of the summer term.

I would like to thank all parents / carers for their patience during the installation of a multi use games area. We will be launching the pitch today with a game of football -staff verses the pupils. We aim to use the games area all year round and it u can be hired by the local community. If you wish to hire please speak to the school business manager Victoria Osbourne

During the Easter break we will be adding a boat to our KS2 playground. This will be another area for our children to be active and carry out some creative play.

I am hoping that the school website will be launched in the break. It looks really good and I hope you enjoy finding out more about our school. We aim to update the website periodically when new material is ready to up load.

Yours,

Miss Harsha Patel

COPENHAGEN STAFF

I want to thank all the staff at Copenhagen. They have worked really hard to improve the quality of teaching and learning across the school.

DROP IN WITH THE INCLUSION LEADER (Miss Saedi) and ME

If you have something that you feel we are doing really well let us know.

If you would like to give us some ideas that will help our school improve.

If you just want to ask us something or tell us something.

COME ALONG EVERY FRIDAY – 9:15 am COPENHAGEN EXTRA

Year 6 Residential

‘We will be visiting Hautbois Adventure centre in Norfolk in June. We can’t wait to experience all the adventure activities’. (Miss Sangaralingam)

   

 

 

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COPENHAGEN EXTRA/ BREAKFAST

JACKIE (Breakfast Club)

Debbie (EXTRA After school club)

COPENHAGEN EXTRA CLUBS

WORDS FROM THE TEAM

Breakfast club is a warm welcoming healthy club. The children enjoy a range of cereals and warm bagels. Breakfast club offers fun and rewarding learning activities and the children have a great start to their day at school.

Key benefits for breakfast club: Children are never late for class.

Few words from the children at Breakfast club:

Josh: “I like to make new friends and play fun games at breakfast club”.

Mya: “I like to write stories and helping others”.

At Copenhagen extra we have been planning a wide variety of clubs for after school. After school clubs give children the opportunity to develop skills and learn in a fun and exciting way. For example karate and drama, which have been very popular. We will also continue cooking. We would very much like to welcome any new children who would like to join us for some fun activities. Please keep a look out for the next terms clubs and activities for them to join. We hope everybody has a lovely restful holiday and we look forward to seeing you in the new term.

PARENTS /CARERS DATES We value you and the work that you already do with supporting your child’s learning.

HEADTEACHERS HOME LEARNING CHALLENGE

EASTER - 144 CLUB Get membership of the exclusive 144 club you will need to know all your Multiplication facts from 1X1 to 12 X12 To earn your certificate and become a proud member of this exclusive club, you need to prove that you have mastered your times tables and can recall all the facts (up to 12 x 12) extremely quickly. Learning multiplication facts is a vital part of any child’s mathematical development. Once rapid recall of multiplication facts becomes possible, a whole host of mathematical activities will seem easier. Children need to be able to recall multiplication facts in any order and also to derive associated division facts. The expectations for each year group are set out below: ALL YEAR GROUPS ARE INVITED TO THE 144 CLUB CHALLENGE.

Mac Millian Reading Volunteers

 

 

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I would like to thank Ms Clapham for the organization of the reading volunteers and Ms Begum our new Literacy Leader for presenting a really informative session for our volunteers on how to support our pupils with their reading. Our children really love reading aloud and I observed a session with Maxie in Y4 and it was amazing to see how much he gained from reading along with an adult. We have X volunteers and they have committed their lunchtimes to read with our children.

Reading Volunteers

Learning Highlights

Teachers comments:

Nursery Robins: Planted water cress and observed the growth and decay. Read the book ‘Little Red Hen’ and made some bread and the children loved eating them.

Reception Falcons and Owls: Planted and observed Beans growing and looking after the plant. Children have also enjoyed learning about time and identifying time. They also enjoyed problem solving in Maths.

Year 1 Swallows and Sparrows: In year 1 we have enjoyed stories from different cultures and learning about toys from all around the world. The past, present and future toys.

Year 2 Puffins and Doves: Learning in the dark. Finding out about different nocturnal animals, especially plop the Barn owl!

Year 3 Kestrels: This term we have been learning about health and fitness and how the type of food we eat and eercise we do helps our bosy stay fit and strong.

Year 4 Eagles: This term we have enjoyed learning aboit the Egyptians an even designing our own Egyptian themed board games.

Year 5 Swans: We have built great fairground, using our knowledge of forces.

Year 6 Kingfishers: We have been really focusing on our SATS revision this term! We are making sure we are ready and prepared.

COPENHAGEN SMART UNIFORM – Our new year’s resolution as a school is to smarten up!!!!

Reception to Year 6 to wear full school uniform every day. Our uniform is a logo or red plain sweatshirt or cardigan, red polo shirts grey trouser, pinafore or, skirt, dark or white socks and black school shoes. Please

 

 

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note all headscarves need to be black. PE kit

White t-shirt or logo white t-shirt, blue shorts and trainers.

Copenhagen Golden Rules DOJO POINTS

It has been a real pleasure to take on therole of Kids Company Team. Kids Co have had a fantastic Spring term- we have had cookery and art workshops. Children throughout the school have been learning songs and rhymes with action to help them relax with massage in school. And we have a school wide project planned with the art development next term around community and self-expression. I wish you a fantastic break! Warm wishes. Virginia Thorn (Kids Co Team Leader)  

STAR ATTENDANCE I would like to thank my wonderful punctual attendance team: SCHOOL TARGET IS 96% AUTUMN TERM

Nursery - Robins

86%

R- Owls 93.3% R- Falcons 96.5% Y1- Swallows 94.4% Y1-Sparrows 97.8% Y2-Doves 96% Y2-Puffins 95% Y3-Kestrels 95.4%

 Star Attendance : Y1 Sparrows

Star 100% Attendance Winner :

 

 

 

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Y4- Eagles 95% Y5-Swans 94.1% Y6 - Kingfishers 94.5%

Golden Award Pupils for Behaviour or Learning Afternoon Tea with Miss P I would like to thank all the children below for always showing outstanding behaviour or learning or making a big difference this term. It could be you next term.

Nursery Robins: Kyle Reception Owls and Falcons: Deema. Year 1 Sparrows and Swallows: Yasmin and Enoch. Year 2 Puffins and Doves: Christene and Alfonso Year 3 Kestrels: Nashwan and Claire. Year 4 Eagles: Ashaan and Ozlem. Year 5 Swans: Faizah and Ilion. Year 6 Kingfishers: Nadeem and Helin.

Well done to all the following children that have 100% Attendance: Nursery Robins: Fahd Sharif Reception Falcons: Abdulhakim, Deema, Calvin, Riyan, Robin, Sumeya, Jeevandeep. Reception Owls: Sara, Frankey, Anna. Yr1 Sparrows: Aisha- Saida, Lama, Marietta, Natalie, Ermal, Maysa. Yr1 Swallows: Nabeeha, Malak, Mikey, Jack, Antony. Yr 2 Puffins: Jack, Farrahnaz, Egemen, Nasreen, Alfonzo, Munira, Paramvir, Zachary, Jia Qi. Yr 2 Doves: Yigit, Kasey, Badr, Yaseen, Hala, Abdimalik, Shaimaa, Erin-Louise, Salma, Diyar, Victor. Yr 3 Kestrels: Abdihakin, Samir, Oze, Dre, Mara- Alexandra, Hayley, Natasha, Nashwan, Abukar, Yaqub. Yr 4 Eagles: Abbas, Hafsa, Ilham, Omar, Zerda, Dylan, Yusuf. Yr 5 Swans: Asha, Naciima, Naziyah, Nima. Yr 6 Kingfishers: Zilan, Sandy Abubakar, Cordelia, Emmanuel.

Sports Relief Fundraising - Swimathon Sponsorship! Chanyue in year 5 would like to thank everyone that sponsored her on doing the 1.5km within 58 minutes in Swimathon. If you haven’t sponsored yet, you can still do so by giving the money to Ms. Evans by Friday 4th April 2014.

 

 

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Y4 ART TRIP

Year 4 visited Kings Place art gallery to see some of the art by inspirational artist Lucy Jones. They enjoyed seeing some professional artwork and expressing their thoughts and opinions about it.

Y6 TRIP TO ARSENAL FOOTBALL GROUNDS We had a fantastic time meeting Arsenal players. They were really impressed with us for coming first in an anti-bullying competition!

NURSERY TRIP We visited local shops, Flower shop, Iceland ingredients for the cooking, Fruit stall and our future planned trip will be to go to the London Transport Museum.

TERM DATES

First Day - Last pupil day Half Term Return date -Last Pupil date

Autumn Wednesday 4th September 2013 – Friday 25th October 2013

Monday 28th October 2013 – Friday 1st November 2013

Monday 4th November 2013 - Friday 20th December 2013

Spring Wednesday 8th January 2014- Friday 14th February 2014

Monday 17th February 2014 - Friday 21st February 2014

Monday 24th February 2014- Friday 4th April GOOD FRIDAY – Fri 18th April EASTER MONDAY – Monday 21st April

Summer Tuesday 22nd April 2014 – Friday 23rd May 2014

May day bank holiday Monday 5th May Monday 26th May 2014- Friday 30th May 2014

Monday 2nd June 2014 – Monday 21st July

 

 

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Many thanks for all your continued support!