Northwold Primary School Weekly newsletter 9 December 2016| Issue 117

News and events from Northwold Primary School

IN THIS ISSUE

END OF TERM – Important Dates

Reception Trip – Unicorn Theatre

Gillet Square Christmas Event – Friday 16th

Sutton House – Christmas Flyer

Santa’s Bike Grotto – Thursday 22nd

Free Maths and English Assessments - Adults

Wednesday Coffee Morning – Computing

Class Coffee Morning – SPRING TERM DATES

School Trip Dates

Get in touch

Tel: 020 8806 6352 | Fax: 020 8806 6315 | email: office@northwold.amayatrust.com

Golden Achievement Pupils Congratulations to the following pupils for being the golden pupil of the week this week:

Class Pupils

N Mexico Berat Yildiz

N Pakistan Tom Fassnidge

R Ireland Abdulwasii Balogun

R Somalia Daniel Ewiah

1 Bangladesh Aedan Harelimana

1 Ghana Tijan Jammeh

2 Barbados Leo Smith

2 Poland Syeed Zengin

3 Spain Inayat Patel

3 Nigeria Amira Dawud

4 Brazil Mambo Chibwape

4 Jamaica Umaimah Dawood

5 Turkey Brian Quispe Mita

5 Russia Fatimah Sidyot

6 China Meryem Mehmet

6 India Tamanna Choudhury

END OF TERM – Important Dates We’re getting excited as the holiday approaches. We have a fantastic Nativity performance to look forward to in the final week. See below for all the key dates. Please keep an eye out for letters from the school or from class teachers about individual events: Wednesday 14th December – 11.00-12.30 Music Concert – African Drumming Friday 16th December Christmas Dinner – Halal Roast Chicken Monday 19th December Nativity – 2.00pm Performance for Pupils Nativity – 6.30*pm Performance for Parents

Tuesday 20th December Class Christmas Parties – 2.00pm Carols by Candlelight – 4.00pm Infants Playground. All are welcome. Wednesday 21st December School Finishes – 1.00pm (No lunch or playcentre) Monday 9th January 2017 SPRING TERMS STARTS – 8.55am *NOT 8.30pm as stated last week!

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Get in touch

Tel: 020 8806 6352 | Fax: 020 8806 6315 | email: office@northwold.hackney.sch.uk

Reception Trip – Unicorn Theatre Last week we went on our annual trip to the Unicorn Theatre to see BOING. We loved BOING. It was a really funny play, it made us laugh and smile. BOING was about two boys on Christmas Eve; they were very excited. An important message to all the boys and girls was: "If you want Santa to come, you have to go to sleep." Thank you once again for the parent support.

Gillet Square Christmas Event

Sutton House – Christmas Activities

Santa’s Bike Grotto Are you getting your child a bike this Christmas? Do you need a hand getting the bike ready? See the flyer below for a FREE helping hand. Tap here for a map.

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Get in touch Tel: 020 8806 6352 | Fax: 020 8806 6315 | email: office@northwold.amayatrust.com

Forest School Fundraising Mr Patel from the Londis on Fountayne Rd has offered to donate all the money he gets from 5p carrier bags to the school. We’re going to put the money towards our Forest School Curriculum because it raises the pupils awareness of the environment. School Trips – REMINDER Trips are really exciting for the children; they really enjoy the experience of learning outside school. To help the support your children please could you bring them to school on time. Some classes have missed their workshops because they have been waiting for children that have come to school late

and delayed the start of the journeyWant to improve your Maths or English? Calling all parents and carers who want to improve their Maths or English. There are free assessment sessions to work out your current level and find the right class for you. Classes are FREE too. See the flyer below for more information about assessment dates and venues.

Forest School – Winter Wrap As you know we provide waterproof clothes for each child attending Forest School. But, as winter approaches and the weather gets wetter and colder, please ensure that your child is warmly wrapped up, wearing warm coats, hats, gloves and thermal socks.

Northwold Rucksacks – AVAILABLE NOW

Finally, the new totally fantastic Northwold Rucksacks have landed. In two sizes, in Northwold’s blazing red, don’t they look fabulous. The large one below costs £10.50 and the smaller one, at the top of the newsletter, costs £8.50. Snap them up in the Office, while you can!

Wednesday Coffee Mornings Every Wednesday from 9.00-10.00am there will be a coffee morning held in the Canteen. Each week, one of the school’s leaders will be talking about their area of responsibility. The next meeting is on 14th December. Mr Braune will be talking about how to program a robot and about programming in the new curriculum. We look forward to seeing you there.

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Get in touch Tel: 020 8806 6352 | Fax: 020 8806 6315 | email: office@northwold.amayatrust.com

P.E. – Correct Kit and P.E. Day Please see the list below for the correct kit. On your child’s P.E. day, your child will come to school in their P.E. kit* (NOT SCHOOL UNIFORM) and wear it for the whole day. Your child needs to wear the school’s P.E. kit: Black school hoodie (with your child’s name in

house colour)

House colour T-Shirt with your child’s name

Plain black jogging bottoms (Leggings, jogging

bottoms in other colours or with logos are not

acceptable)

Plimsolls or trainers

The P.E. day for each year group is as follows: Monday: Year 2 Tuesday: Nursery & Year 5 Wednesday: Reception, Years 1 & 4 Thursday: Year 3 Friday: Year 6

* Nursery to Year 4 children MUST also come to

school in their P.E. kit on Forest School days.

Class Coffee Mornings Class coffee mornings are finished for the Autumn Term. They resume in the second week back – Monday 16th January 2017. There’s one every Monday and Friday at 9.00am in the Canteen. The Spring Term 2017 timetable is published below. It’s a great chance for parents to meet the class teacher and one another. We look forward to seeing you there.

Week beginning

Class

Monday Friday

9.1.17 No Coffee Morning

16.1.17 India China

23.1.17 Russia Turkey

30.1.17 Spain Nigeria

6.2.17 Barbados Poland

HALF-TERM

20.2.17 No Coffee Morning

27.2.17 Brazil Jamaica

6.3.17 Bangladesh Ghana

13.3.17 Ireland Somalia

20.3.17 Pakistan Mexico

27.3.17 No Coffee Morning

Class Assemblies The final class assembly of the Autumn term will be hosted by Ghana on Friday 9th December. This year sees a change to class assemblies. Each class will do ONE assembly per year. It will still be on a Friday. The assembly will start at 9.30am and last up to half an hour. Below is the timetable for the whole year, so you can put the dates and time in your diaries. It really makes a big difference for children to see their family in the audience; we hope you can make the time for them. PLEASE NOTE: Ghana and Russia have swapped dates. Ghana is now before Christmas and Russia is now in the New Year.

Spring 2017

Week beginning Class

16.1.17 Spain

30.1.17 Russia

27.2.17 Jamaica

13.3.17 Brazil

27.3.17 Bangladesh

Summer 2017

Week Beginning Class

24.4.17 Somalia

8.5.17 Ireland

22.5.17 India

12.6.17 China

26.6.17 Pakistan

3.7.17 Mexico

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Get in touch Tel: 020 8806 6352 | Fax: 020 8806 6315 | email: office@northwold.amayatrust.com

Computing – Programming a Robot

Hello, my name is Rover. I have recently landed at Northwold Primary School. You can program me to do all sorts of useful things – scientific and computer-ific. Come and meet me at 9.00 am on Wednesday 14th December in the Canteen, where Mr Braune, my handler, will be showing parents how I can be used to teach children how to write computer code. (Dear readers: Don’t worry: e-Safety will return to these pages soon)

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Get in touch Tel: 020 8806 6352 | Fax: 020 8806 6315 | email: office@northwold.amayatrust.com

School Trip Dates – Autumn Term 2016

Key trips this term linked to your child’s Cornerstones and RE topics have been booked. Please add the dates to your calendars.

R.E. trips

School Trip Dates – Spring Term 2017

Key trips for the Spring term linked to your child’s Cornerstones topics have been booked. Please add the dates to your calendars.

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Get in touch Tel: 020 8806 6352 | Fax: 020 8806 6315 | email: office@northwold.amayatrust.com

Next Week’s Menu

Week 1 Please note that there are also different salad options on different days.

Term Dates for 2016-17 Below are dates for our 195 teaching days, including 5 days for the purpose of teachers’ staff development (INSET). These days can be taken as INSET days or equivalent twilight sessions. Academies, free schools and voluntary-aided schools are able to set their own dates but have been asked to set the same or similar dates in the interest of parents who may have children at different schools.

Summer Term 2017

First Day Half Term Finish Number of Days

Tuesday 18th April 2017

Monday 29th May to Friday 2nd June 2017

Friday 21st July 2017

63 (28 first half term, 35 second half term)

Autumn Term 2016

First Day Half Term Finish Number of Days

Tuesday 6th September 2016

(Staff INSET – Monday 5th September 2016)

Monday 24th October to Friday 28th October 2016

Wednesday 21st December 2016

72 days (34 first half-term, 38 second half-term)

Spring Term 2017

First Day Half Term Finish Number of Days

Monday 9th January 2017

(Staff INSET – Tuesday 3rd January – Friday 6th January 2017)

Monday 13th February to Friday 17th February 2017

Friday 31st

March 2017

59 (29 first half term, 30 second half term)