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Dear Parents and Carers,

It has been lovely to feel spring is on the way and in Wednesday’s assembly this was our theme. We looked at all the

signs of Spring and how it is celebrated around the world within different faiths and their festivals. We looked at how

spring is the start of new life and how our world begins to become more colourful which is why the Hindu festival Holi

is all about being colourful. We then thought about the colours we could bring to each other’s lives; the red of a bril-

liant idea, the blue of being thoughtful, the yellow of laughter, the orange of warm friendship or the green of generosi-

ty.

Back in September we enrolled to be part of the Tate and Turner Prize and Oscar-winning artist Steve McQueen’s col-

lective portrait. The project plans to capture tens of thousands of Year 3 school children in a milestone year in their

development and be an epic picture of the city’s present and an intimation of its future. This week it was Holly and

Pear’s turn have their photography session. It will launch in the prestigious Duveen Galleries at Tate Britain this No-

vember.

On Thursday, Ash class were invited to take part in an author led workshop at Dalmain Primary School. The author's of the 'Kid Normal' superheroes book series, Greg James and Chris Smith, led a hall full of children through the jour-ney of creating a story; starting from simple ideas and characters. Demonstrating first hand, what an exciting process this can be! The children all received a book mark and a wrist band with the message 'You don't need superpowers to

be a hero'. Amelie was very brave and managed to ask for a selfie with the authors!

To build on our earlier success we began our next round of the math’s competitions, Sumdog this week. The contest,

which started today, is for Lewisham schools and next Friday will be the start of the London wide Sumdog contest. All

of KS1 and 2 are competing and we receive updates on the leader boards showing top student and top schools of

those involved daily. We will keep you updated of how we are doing.

Today was the last of our class assemblies and Holly class gave us a wonderful grand finale with a fabulous range of

amazing animal facts. They presented their findings in a lovely range of different ways and it was great to see such

confidence in their delivery. Well done Holly!

Further to your feedback, and to build on the successful Parent workshops we have delivered this year, we have

scheduled our next workshop for Friday 24th May 2019 around ‘how we can support our children to build resilience’

We have Natasha Orumbie who is the Safeguarding in Education Lead at Lewisham delivering the session, which will

start promptly at 8:45am and will last till 9:30am (refreshments will be served in the hall from 8:30) and there will be a

Senior Leader in the Early year’s playground to look after the children of those parents wishing to attend.

This forthcoming Monday 25th March 2019 at 9:30am we have our termly Rocksteady concert. Any parent who has a

child who takes part in Rocksteady is most welcome to come and watch.

As we are fast approaching the end of the term, please can I remind you all that school will be clos-

ing at 2pm for staff team building. As there will be no After School Club, please can you make alter-

native arrangements. Thank you for your support.

Wishing all our families a lovely spring time weekend!

Kind regards

Julie Loffstadt, Headteacher

Parent’s Newsletter Date— 22th March 2019 Issue—025

Holly Class Assembly

In Holly class’ assembly, we presented out topic on animals around the world, inspired by our trip to the Sea Life Centre. We have enjoyed re-searching different animals and learning new facts. Emma said ‘I loved using the green screen to make our video.’ Louis said ‘ I really enjoyed making our artwork.’

School Photographer The school will be visiting the school on Thursday 4th April to take the class photographs during the school day. Year 5 Ash “KidNormal” visit at Dalmain Primary School ‘It was really cool.’ Hannah Roy ‘It was really fun and we got to meet famous authors.’ Enzo ‘It was fun because we could get signed books.; Lucian ‘It was good because they made up a story and the characters were from the audience.’ Kayla

Thought of the week- “Children are not things to be moulded, but people to be unfolded.” Jess Lair

School News

The Early Years (EYs) learn through play with learning happening both in and out of the classroom. The teachers spend lots of time setting up learning in the EYs playground prior to school as they don't have time to do this once the day begins. Please can you help us by not letting your children play or disturb any of the equipment in the EYs playground before the school day? Thank you.

Dates for your diary

Monday 25th March— Rocksteady Concert

Tuesday 26th and Thursday 28th March— Y3 Pear and Holly National Gallery Art Workshops

Wednesday 27th March— Y4 Hornbeam trip to Imagination Lab

Friday 29th March— Y1 Elder trip to Leeds Castle

Tuesday 2nd April— Y5 Ash Class trip to Physics Funfair

Thursday 4th April—Class Photographs

Friday 5th April—School Closes at 2pm

Monday 8th April—Monday 22nd April - Easter Holidays

Tuesday 23rd April—Return to school

Tuesday 30th April— Y5 & Y6 Spring Assembly

Attendance and Punctuality

Our attendance rate this week had stayed above

the ‘good’ percentage and sits at 97.03% which is

great and means our year to date score remains

stable at 96.94%. Ash and Holly were SO close to

gaining their 100% star for attendance—hopefully

you can get it next week.

WOW—amazing work by Hawthorn, Holly, Pear

AND Hornbeam for all achieving 100% punctuality

this week. How impressive does the board look?

Well done all, keep up the good work.

Class Attendance % Punctuality %

Hawthorn R 96% 100%

Elder 1 96.67% 99.67%

Birch 2 96% 99%

Holly 3 99.31% 100%

Pear 3 96.67% 100%

Hornbeam 4 93.79% 100%

Ash 5 99.33% 98.33%

Rowan 6 98.57% 99.64%

Community News

Stars of the Week

Hawthorn Rec Isla

Lucas

Elder 1 Callum

Joshua

Birch 2 Tanya

Delphine

Pear 3 Lashawn

Genevieve

Holly 3 Rex

Noor

Hornbeam 4 No star

This week.

Ash 5 Lucian

Bruno

Rowan 6 William C.

Noa

PTA News

Please click here to view Letters Sent Home this week

Code Club -This Spring Term , Code Club has had a great response and we would like to open it to Year 5 & 6 for the Summer Term. In the Summer term, we plan to run the Code Club on Fridays from 3.30pm – 4.30pm.

The club explores how to use HTML, CSS and JavaS-cript to build web pages. The children will have an opportunity to learn how to

· place content on a page,

· create links from one page to another,

· graphically design pages,

· animate images

· and others. The club leaders believe in encouraging children’s creativity and own ideas and take inspiration from their interests and passions in order to design exciting projects. If your child would like to participate in this club please email Mrs McGregor at m.mcgregor@horniman.lewisham.sch.uk

Art Club—Art Year 4/5 & 6 that takes place on Tues-days and is run by Ms Salmon will no longer run next term. Please ensure to make alternative collec-tion arrangements.

Textiles Club- Textiles Club Year 4/5 & 6 that takes place on Wednesdays and is run by Ms Salmon will no longer run next term. Please ensure to make alterna-tive collection arrangements.

Club Spaces: Football Yr. 2, French club, gymnastics, tennis (KS2) and violin (KS2)

Help needed

We need a volunteer to help install a bird box containing a webcam by the treehouse in the Main Playground so the children can watch the new spring arrivals hatching. If you are able to help us,

please email admin@horniman.lewisham.sch.uk.

Club News

A technology conference for 10-14 years old. Introduces computer program-

ming, engineering and robotics in a fun and creative way through hands on

workshops.

When: Saturday 11th May 2019 8:45 –4pm

Location: The Relay Building, 114 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7PT

REMINDER: Rucksacks should NOT be used for packed lunch as they do not fit in the new trolleys. Thanks in advance.

Thank you all for making school disco a super suc-cessful event. The feedback is that the kids had an amazing time and wanted it to go on for longer! Clearly, an event that needs to be repeated again. A huge shout to school staff for their help on the night and to all bakers/popcorn makers/helpers - we couldn't have done it without you. Not only much fun we had, but we raised £842! Thank you again for your continued support. We will be putting these funds towards creating a reading/quiet area in the foyer.

Whilst we all are looking forward to the Easter break, we are already planning for our next event - Three Peak Challenge/Mayfair on Sunday, 12 May. This event is open to all families/extended fami-lies/friends & to the wider community. More infor-mation to follow in due course, but if you would like to get involved in helping with this event, please do get in touch on hornimanprimarypta@gmail.com. Thank you!

What Happens in Curiosity Club? Curiosity Club is all

about empowering pupils to learn through choice.

‘This club let’s me truly express my creativity’. ‘I love

curiosity club as it’s fun and we do lot’s of

Art’. ‘The best thing is

doing fun lessons in the

museum.’