STAVERTON CE Primary School

Newsletter – 15th November 2019 Class News

Glebe Lane

Staverton

Daventry

NN11 6JF

01327 703154 bursar@staverton.northants-ecl.gov.uk

www.stavertonceprimary.org

Class Two

In Class 2 this week, we have been developing our adding skills. We have been investigating what happens when we add 10 and multiples of 10 to a number. We have started our new literacy focus on character descriptions using the book Halibut Jackson. In art, we have been learning to sketch using different grades of pencils.

Class One

Class 1 have listened to and sequenced the events of the The Three Little Pigs story, before using our phonic knowledge to do some writing. Through construction, we built different types of houses and we have used positional language to describe locations to others. In maths, we have been thinking about parts and a whole. Ask your child to tell you about The Big, Bad Wolf!

Class Three

Class 3 have been using a new picture book to inspire their writing this week, Snow White in New York. They have been using clues in the pictures to pose questions and develop skills using a question matrix to pose higher order questions. They have compared the two main characters in the story and predicted what they think is going to happen based on clues and prior knowledge of the original story.

Class Four

This week in Class 4, we have been exploring our new class text - Rose Blanche and making inferences from the book's illustrations. In maths, we have been practising our multiplication skills, thinking about how we can apply what we already know and learning a variety of different ways to solve calculations. This week, we have also begun our DT project of building Anderson Shelters, by investigating different structures and how to make them sturdy.

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Dates & messages

Message Board

Christmas Shoe Box Appeal Filled shoeboxes have been collected in and taken for delivery to the Samaritan’s Purse Charity. Thank you to all who returned a box and donated to put a smile on a child’s face this Christmas. Eco Club Now we have our complete eco club, we are looking forward to monitoring how much waste we produce at school and thinking about what we can do next to further reduce our waste. Please use the bins provided outside the hall to drop of waste for Terracycle. There are pictures on the boxes to show you what waste can be recycled. Augmented Reality Mrs Young is developing our computing curriculum and resources. She is very excited about using augmented reality in learning experiences so children can ‘visit’ places they are learning about. In order to do this affordably, we are looking for donations of old mobile phones which can be used with the program. The phones must have access to the Google Play Store or Apple App Store. For a list of compatible phones, please see this link:

https://www.maxboxvr.com/phones-work-

compatible-google-cardboard

School Photographs Order forms need to be completed and sent back to school by Tuesday 19th November. Name That Reader! Competition

We have launched a new reading competition in school…Name That Reader! Can you guess who it is this week? Could you please take a picture of your child(ren) reading a book, similar to the picture below.

Upcoming Dates 2019/20

Nov 19th Football vs Brixworth (away) Nov 20th Football vs Weedon (home) Nov 26th Scholastic Book Fair opens Nov 27th Dodgeball Festival Y5/6 Nov 28th CSALT Assembly Nov 29th Christingle service Scholastic Book Fair closes FoSS Parents’ Christmas Party Nov 30th FoSS Christmas Fayre Dec 5th Cross Country Competition Dec 6th Christmas Cake Competition Dec 10th School Christmas theatre trip FoSS Elfridges sale Dec 11th Christmas play dress rehearsal Christmas Dinner Day Dec 12th Children’s General Election

Christmas play 2pm & 6:30pm Dec 13th Christmas Jumper Day Dec 16th Carol Service @ church Dec 20th Christmas service 2pm

End of term Jan 3rd Teacher Training Day Jan 6th Children back to school Jan 8th Class 4 Swimming begins Coding Club begins Jan 16th Sportshall Athletics Y5/6 Jan 31st Class 2 Cake Sale Feb 6th Sportshall Athletics Y3/4 May 11th KS2 SATs week Jun 25th KS2 performance 2pm & 6pm Jun 29th Class 3 residential Jul 2nd Sports afternoon Jul 6th Sports evening & stocks Jul 9th Reserve sports evening Jul 16th Leavers’ Assembly 2pm Jul 17th Leavers’ service 2pm

Birthday Corner Happy Birthday to:

Lily and Liliane

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Page 3 – FoSS and News

FoSS Corner

FoSS Calendar November 9th: FoSS Chocoholics 12th: Christmas Crafts 29th: Parents’ Christmas Party 30th: Christmas Fayre December 6th Christmas Cake Competition 10th Father Christmas Trip 10th ‘Elfridges’ stalls 12th KS1 Performances

FoSS News A fantastic turn out at our Christmas Craft Fayre. Thank you to all that came to share in some early festive cheer. Your support is, as ever, very much appreciated and it was lovely to see such quality family time with plenty of smiles (and mess).

FoSS Website link

https://classlist.com

Remembrance Service

“When you go home, tell them of us and say: for your tomorrow, we gave our today.” The final message of our Remembrance Service on Monday, taken from the Kohima Epitaph. Children read beautifully in church and showed a great amount of respect for those who suffered to maintain peace. As the years pass, it becomes even more important to remember and educate about past events, in order to avoid them happening again and to realise what price was paid. Our young people will soon not have the honour to meet the heroes of WW2. Thank you to all that attended.

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Page 4 – Events

Children In Need

To support Children In Need this year, the whole school took part in a fitness session to start our Friday in style. We streamed a video to ‘Get Fit With Joe Wicks’ at nine o’clock, and took part in a nation wide fitness challenge. This last fortnight, there has been a big focus on helping those children less fortunate that ourselves, and Children in Need, along with Samaritan’s Purse, are both great charities that perform great work. Thank you for all the donations.

FoSS Christmas Craft Fayre

Christmas Crafts was a huge success on Tuesday. FoSS volunteers gathered and created a wonderful atmosphere for the children to use their artistic skills, creating Christmas decorations, cards, biscuits and even reindeer food! The hall was bustling with excitement so thank you to all for supporting and coming along.

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Page 5 – Pupil achievements

Our Achievements

Swimming – Gracie and Hannah shared certificates for moving up their swimming

stages.

Music – Isla passed her first piano exam with a glowing report.

Guides – Ashleigh shared badges for her night away.

Gymnastics – India, Millie, Scarlett, Ferne, Riona, Kiera, Josh and Lottie shared

certificates, medals, photos and trophies for a range of gymnastic achievements including

floor, vault and beam.

Cubs – Logan shared his new cubs blanket with badges sewn on, and shared his special

bronze badge – he is the first one to obtain this.

Well Done! STARS OF THE WEEK:

Class 1: Oscar – for making fantastic progress with blending to read. Class 2: Max - For his positive attitude towards learning, particularly in his maths.

Rupert - For his super knowledge of vocabulary. Class 3: Sophie – For her support and effort in maths.

Harry – For his positive attitude towards learning and always supporting others.

Class 4: Kizzy – For improved concentration and super effort in maths. John – For his explanations in reading - inferences.

Going for Gold: Class 3

Winning house: Sapphire!