NewsletterFriday 10th July 2020

September, new class teams and exciting news

We are working on a plan to allow all of our children to return safely to school on Thursday 3rd September. As you might imagine there is a lot to consider before we share the details with you - but rest assured we will

share the details with you as soon as we can.

The Teacher/TA teams have now been shared with the staff so we’re in a position to prepare transition messages for your children from their new teacher. We’ll also be sharing social stories to help to prepare

children for their return in September. A lot has changed and for lots of families it has been a very long time since the last school run so it is perfectly normal to feel some anxiety. We’re all here for your children and your

family, so please get in touch if you’d like some support on how to manage this.

Lastly from me this week - I have some very exciting news to share with you. We will be welcoming Mrs Tina Oakley to our team in the role of Head of School from September. I will still be here as Executive Headteacher but Mrs Oakley’s addition to the team will bring increased capacity to the team to help our school continue to

move onwards and upwards! Mrs Oakley has been Head of School for a number of years in another of our Trust Primaries and we are delighted that she will be joining us in a permanent role.

Louise Hopkins, Executive Headteacher

Confirmed FSM vouchers: The Edenred voucher scheme will continue over the summer break (last day for children is Weds 22nd July).

It will be paid in 2 installments to cover the whole holiday:1st one - 20th July 20202nd one - 10th August 2020

School closed on Fridays for all children.

Google Classroom Access from today - go straight to google,com and log in with your child’s @swale account to get in.

Thank you to the wonderful support staff at Beaver Green Primary School. A special thank you to those of you leading Pods!

When all the Beavers return...

New Logo, New Uniform

To celebrate the launch of our new logo we are providing one free jumper or cardigan to every child in our school.

We are also providing one free PE t-shirt to every child, in their house colour. From September onwards there will be no branded PE t-shirt, just the house colour. We hope this will make it easier for families to source unbranded colour t-shirts in the future.

We just ask that you trade these for an old branded t-shirt and jumper/cardi as these will no longer be allowed to be worn in school. There will be additional information about how to organise sizes and additional purchases shortly.

If you collected a new jumper/cardigan during lockdown please contact us for your options.

A mock-up of what our new logo could look like on our new green colour school jumpers.

Sports Week This week in the Year R/Nursery Pods we have been learning about the Olympics and Team GB! We have had a go at lots of different events such as Standing Long Jump, Vertical Jump and Racing. We have also been practising our PE skills during free flow using balls, hoops and tennis rackets. Jacob made a fantastic model of an Olympic athlete using construction!

Year R

Sports Week Year 1

In the year one pods, we have been learning about the Olympics, especially the London 2012 Olympics and have been looking at some of our medal winning athletes.

We made Olympic torches which we are proudly holding under the Olympic rings. We have been taking part in sporting challenges which have been very enjoyable, and we all tried our best.

After watching some highlights from The 2012 Olympics we felt super human like Mo, Jessica and Greg!

Sports Week Year 1

The children from our Year 2/3 Key Worker Pod have had a fun packed sports week at school. The children have been learning all about sports in the USA, as well as some the most famous American Olympians of all-time.

Sports Week

We looked into the spectacular career of NBA star, Michael Jordan. We then designed our own Air Jordan trainers and Beaver Green basketball jersey. We learned how to play another popular US sport, American Football and also designed our own Beaver Green baseball jersey.

Pod KA

Sports Week Pod KB

The Sunshine is spreading as we welcomed some more children to our pod this week.

Sports Week For sports week we have been learning about Russia and Russian sports people. Harlee discovered that the Russian goalkeeper Lev Yashin was nicknamed 'The black spider' and Caidence learnt that the Russian figure skater Evgeny Plushenko began skating at just 4 years old!!

We made Russian flags and designed our own special Lockdown 2020 Olympic mascots, medals and logos. We enjoyed taking part in various sports including running, target practice and the standing long jump.

Pod KC

Sports Week Pod KD have had loads of fun creating the Olympic torches to pass onto Tokyo 2020 (now 2021)!

Pod KD

Sports Week Alongside our sporting activities, year 6 focused on China this week. They designed stadiums on Minecraft, created Chinese zodiac signs wheels and origami, studied Olympic heroes and China leaflets

Year 6

Look carefully at the dancing dragons. Can you see the one with a top hat or another breathing fire?!

Sports Week We made Chinese lanterns and leant how to write our name using Chinese markings.

Year 6

Sports Week Year 3 at home

Sports Week Byron in 4BC has been researching and recording fascinating facts about Russia for Sports Week. You have worked so hard Byron. Well done!

For Sports Week Jake in 4BC has created a presentation about Lev Ivanovich Yashin, who was the greatest Russian Goalkeeper in the history of sport. Amazing work Jake!

Year 4 at home

Apart...yet together! This week the children and staff of year 6 were each given a piece of a larger picture. These pieces were coloured in and then reassembled to create the large picture. This shows that even though we are apart we can still work together to create something beautiful.

Hello Nursery children and staff.We wanted to tell you where we have been staying while the nursery has been closed. We have been looked after by Mrs Atkins (a TA in the main school) and settled into her home really well.Our cage is in her kitchen and we get very excited whenever she opens her fridge because we know that's where our fresh food comes from.

Mrs Atkins hasn't found anything we don't like yet! Sometimes we go outside into a run in her garden, where we get to nibble the grass. She says we do a better job of cutting the grass than her lawnmower!We also get lots of cuddles and have enjoyed our stay here. So until we all meet up again, enjoy the summer, stay safe. Peppa and Dora xx

This past week there have been many of you who have celebrated your birthday in lockdown, The staff at Beaver Green would like to wish Albie B, Maylynn S, Lexie B and Chloe G a very Happy Birthday!

Announcements

CAN YOU HELP?We are planning on developing our outside area in year 1. Please could everyone to keep an eye out for the following or if anyone can make any donations that would be amazing. We are looking for:

- A bench- Some logs to use in a seating

area. - Plastic pallets- Anything to make a teepee like

this...

Next week is STEM week. There will be lots of fun and exciting experiments and creative things happening. All will be shared in next week’s newsletter!

Home Learning HeroesNursery Reception

This week Alfie made a guitar using some recycling from his house. Amazing work Alfie.

Miss Read has some caterpillars at home which she has been sharing with Year R on google classroom. Olivia wrote a sentence about the caterpillars. Great work Olivia.

Home Learning HeroesYear 1 Year 2

This week we have two home learning heroes for Year 2 who have done some fantastic work during our Sports Week.

Jack in 2NB has designed a great American Football helmet.

We really like how colourful it is.

Jasmine in 2NB has designed a new pair of trainers using an app.

We think they look great!

Keiya Covey-Balfour is Year One's home learning hero. She has consistently sent in her home learning and done some amazing work. This week, amongst other things, she has designed a sports kit, read a 'Sport Day' poem, made up her own celebratory action called 'The Chop' and designed medals. Well done Keiya!

Home Learning HeroesYear 3 Year 4

This week, for Sports Week Year 4 have been learning about sports and sports people from Russia. Lucas E in 4BC has done a presentation using the research he has done about food and famous sports personalities from Russia. This is amazing Lucas E. Well done!

Look at this amazing maths bar chart based on NFL football. Well done Bella, you have worked so hard on this project and should be really proud of yourself!

This week I would like to say a huge well done to Bella Price-Morgan. She has really enjoyed sports week and has created some amazing fact pages about some USA sports stars. She has also answered questions about them accurately and shown an excellent understanding in guided reading.

Home Learning HeroesYear 5 Year 6

Riley B has worked so hard during lockdown and I’m so proud of him!

Year 6 have focused on China and Riley has produced lots of amazing work, I especially like the drawing of a terracotta soldier. He has also put lots of effort into his sport! Well done RIley!

The Year 5 home learning hero this week is Simrik G. Simrik has worked very hard throughout her home learning time.

Not only has she been doing the work set on the Google Classroom, but she has also undertaken extra work too.

Simrik researched a famous Russian tennis player as part of the topic work for this week.

Well done Simrik. Keep it up!