Kung Hei Fat Choi … is the traditional Chinese New Year greeting meaning:

Congratulations and best wishes for a prosperous New Year. This week we learned from our Year 5 children (who researched and presented this week’s Key Stage Assembly) all about the traditions of Chinese New Year. Our children learned that there are 12 animals that make up the Chinese Zodiac Signs, and that we were in the year of the Rat. We were all asked to find out which animal represented the year we were born in. Do you know what animal represents you? We learned about Dragon dancing, lucky bags and the importance of the colour red in China. Well done and thank you to Luke, Emma, Tilly, Luca, Keira, Maya, Bobby, Millie, Leonardo, Teddy and Rebecca for a wonderful Chinese New Year presentation. Still on the theme of Chinese New Year, our Reception Class have become quite the experts on this subject. Their Topic “Celebrations” has focused on the Chinese New Year and it was lovely to see them ending their Topic Learning cooking Chinese food over the fire pit in our outdoor classroom. This week saw us all celebrating another “Wellbeing Wednesday”. The children explored the theme: “Healthy bodies and healthy minds” throughout the day. Please do look at their class pages (next week) on the website to see the activities your child’s class took part in. A special thank you to Sam (Ninja) Saxon for the 7 different amazing workshops she delivered to each of our classes. We are looking forward to watching Year 4’s Liturgy on Monday morning when they will be celebrating the “Presentation of Jesus in the Temple” Please do come and support our children.

Have a lovely “Chinese New Year” weekend.

2nd February 2020

St Cuthbert’s Newsletter

Thought for the week:

Kung Hei Fat Choi Congratulations and best wishes for a prosperous New Year.

Spring No. 4

Bagshot Road – Englefield Green – Surrey – TW200RY

Tel: 01784 434128

Website: www.stcuthberts.surrey.sch.uk Email: info@stcuthberts.surrey.sch.uk

Jackie Gillin

Headteacher

Congratulations to our

Dojo Winners

EYFS Olivia Eaves Richards

Year 1 Penelope Bowler

Year 2 Isabel Fullan

Year 3 Amelia Colgan

Year 4 Philip Missen

Year 5 Maya Scotto Di Carlo

Year 6 Samuel Turner

Well done to you all, we are very

proud of you!

This week’s attendance

Year 2 100.0%

Year 4 98.0%

EYFS 96.7%

Year 3 96.0%

Year 6 95.9%

Year 5 95.0%

Year 1 94.1%

No boys football club Tuesday February 4th, due to staff training.

All other sports clubs are on

I am delighted to confirm that we have teamed up with Chelsea FC in their schools initiative training pro-gramme. I am hopeful they will be coming into school in March to run a training session for one of our classes, which will be amazing. As part of the scheme, they have offered us discounted tickets to Chelsea FC Womens matches. Parents can purchase adult tickets for just £6 to the upcoming match against West Ham United Women on Sunday 2nd February (kick-off 2pm) at Kingsmeadow! Simply visit chelseafc.com/womens and use the discount code CCWEST. Don’t forget, all junior tickets are just £1! Our year 5/6 girls football team will play Cleves School at home in the semi finals of the Cup on Wednesday February 26th. Letters for selected girls will be sent out next week. I would like to invite and encourage all the girls who don't make the team for this match to come and support the girls who are playing, in what is a huge game for us.

On a separate note, well done to the 11 girls who featured against St Jude's this week, with their 1-0 victory.

Paul Taylor

Dates for Diary

Year 4 Class Liturgy Monday 3rd February

Year 2 Cake Sale Monday 3rd February

Costume Swap The School Council needs your help for costume swap week!

It would be lovely if you could be involved with it and bring in your un-wanted costumes.

The swap will start Monday 10th February 2020 and will run all week before and after school.

If you don’t have a costume to swap you can possibly purchase one for a £1 donation. This might be a good chance to buy or swap a costume

for World Book Day on 5th March 2020. Thank you for your support,

Bella and Savannah

(Year 3 School Council Reps)

World Book Week World Book week is on the commencing 2nd March.

In the lead up to World Book Week we are joining in with the National ‘Share a Story’ competition. You can find more details in the parents section of our website. We have also sent home information today.

We can’t wait to hear all about the stories you share at home. Thursday 5th March is Grandparents Day and dress up for World Book Day: It is lovely to hear stories read or retold by our Grandparents in the morning. We also all enjoy dressing up as our favourite book characters on the Thursday.

Our Children’s Week Ahead

Year 1

In RE next week we will start the new topic on meals and we will think about meals being a special time to come together as a family. In English we will continue learning about The Emperor’s New Clothes and also learning about who Hans Christian Anderson was and the other stories that he wrote. In Maths, we will be counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s and also learning to group to make estimates. Next Friday, a volunteer from the British Hen Welfare Trust will be coming to talk to children about what animals need to be happy and healthy. This workshop will link to our project learning on where food comes from and Science learning about animals. Home Learning in Year 1: I have sent home a Maths problem solving activity where children need to make a 3D shape to carry a toy in.

Year 2

In RE next week we will be reflecting on our current RE topic of books and finishing off our rehearsals for our class liturgy. We will begin to look at our new topic ‘Thanksgiving’ and think of reasons we are thankful. In Maths, this week we are going to be looking at properties of 3D shapes and learning about measurement. In English, we will continue to get to know our new text and start using its structure so that we can start writing our own adventure stories. In Science we will look at the pond habitat in the school. We are also going to be doing some outdoor communicating skills. Finally for project we will be looking at aerial photos of England, the Arctic and Kenya and comparing them. Home Learning in Year 2: I have sent home a paper Maths Home-Learning for your child to complete. Can all home-learning please be returned by Tuesday 4th February. Thank you, have a lovely weekend!

Year 3

Next week in RE we will end the ‘Journeys’ topic with Respond. This is the part in which the children will be reflecting on their time learning about the seasons of the church and the journey in which we follow Jesus. In Maths, we will move onto fractions and identifying

, in a shape. In English, writing moves to report writing. Please do immerse the children in non-fiction books, these are often the basis for non-chronological report writing. In Outdoor Learning, the children will be using the HUB to investigate grid references and how these help to read maps. This is linked in with the project as we will be investigating Runnymede and mapping where the River Thames flows in our locality. As part of our Project, the children will meet Jess Kellard next week. She works for The National Trust at Runnymede and she will be assisting me in explaining our ‘Authentic Outcome’ for this Spring Term Project – very exciting! Learning in Year 3: I have sent home a comprehension based on a non-chronological report, as well as Project Learning linked with RE. Please can the children make note of when they pray at home as well as write down any special prayers that your families use at home. Have a great weekend.

Year 4

In RE we will be continuing to learn about the parish community, specifically the min-istries in the parish. In Maths, we will be learning to find non-unit fractions of 2 and 3-digit numbers and learning to simply fractions. We will continue to familiarise our-selves with the text ‘But It’s Not My Fault’ and begin to consider how we could per-suade others to be more responsible for our world. Our Science learning will continue to take us outdoors, where we will be setting up yoghurt pot pit traps in different are-as of the school in order to help collect more information about the living things in and around our school. Home Learning in Year 4: I have sent home Maths paper Home Learning this week, consolidating what we have been learning in class so far. If you have any empty yoghurt pots or something of a similar size, please send them in with your child by Wednesday next week; we will use this for our DIY pit traps in Science! Please do continue to practise times tables up to 12x12 and related division facts; your children should all know their Times Tables Rock Stars logins and be able to access this from home in order to practise regularly. Thank you very much. Have a lovely weekend!

Year 5

In RE we will be learning about ecumenism and we will be responding to our Mission themed learning. We have our trip to the RNLI station on Wednesday and we will be writing recounts afterwards. In Science we will be planting bean seeds using different variables and watching them grow. In Maths we will focus on column addition of dec-imal numbers, and on mental subtraction of decimal numbers. Home Learning in Year 5: For home learning this week I would like the children to write a script to narrate a wildlife documentary called ‘Life’: all about the life cycles of plants and animals. I have given them a template and a word bank to help them. There is also a maths sheet to complete. Please ensure that your child does not copy web pages verbatim as it is quite obvious which children have cut and pasted research. They must write things in their own words. Thank you. Have a good weekend.

Year 6

In RE this week, we will be continuing our topic ‘Common Good’ where we will be looking at how we can make an impact on the lives of others. In Maths, we will be focusing on adding and subtracting 5, 6 and 7 digit numbers. In English, we will be looking at the key features of information texts. Our Project focus this term is ‘change’, where we will be focusing on the changes that are happening to our world and the changes we can make for the benefit of our planet. This week we will continue to look at natural physical changes and how the area around us changed and create our own maps using natural resources. Home Learning in Year 6: I have set a SPAG SATs buster task for the children to complete for Tuesday 4th February. Please note PE is on Tuesday and Fridays, kits must be in for these days. Please practise spellings from the year 3/4 and 5/6 spelling list and practise times tables, which will help consolidate the learning they are doing in school. Please ensure all children have a handwriting pen and glue stick in school. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to ask me. Thank you

Important dates for your diary 4th September 2019 until 22nd July 2020

Year 4 Candlemass Monday 3rd February

Year 2 Cake Sale Monday 3rd February

Year 2 Year 2 Class Liturgy Monday 10th February

All Years INSET Day Friday 14th February

All Year Half Term Monday 17th until Friday 21st February

All Years Back to School Monday 24th February

All Years Book Week Week of 2nd March

All Years St. David’s Day Monday 2nd March

Year 1 Cake Sale & Popcorn Monday 2nd March

All Years World Book Day and Grandparents Day Thursday 5th March

All Years BUDs Day Friday 13th March

All Years St. Patrick’s Day Tuesday 17th March

All Years St. Cuthbert’s Day disco Friday 20th March

Years 4 and 5 Easter Reflection Friday 27th March

Years 1, 3, 4, 5 Reports due Week of 30th March

Book Fair Selection Monday 30th March

EYFS, 2, 6 Parents Evening (5pm – 7.30pm) Tuesday 31st March

Book Fair at Parents Evening Tuesday 31st March

EYFS, 2, 6 Parents Evening (4pm – 6.30pm) Wednesday 1st April

All Years School Finishes for Easter Holidays Friday 3rd April

All Years Back to School Monday 20th April

Reception Cake Sale Monday 20th April

PTA Meeting Wednesday 22nd April

All Years St. George’s Day Thursday 23rd April

Year 6 Lolly Sale Monday 4th May

All Years May Bank Holiday Friday 8th May

Year 6 SATs week Monday 11th May

Year 3 Year 3 Class Liturgy Monday 18th May

Year 5 Lolly Sale Monday 18th May

All Years Half Term Monday 25th until Friday 29th May

Important dates for your diary 4th September 2019 until 22nd July 2020

All Years Back to School Monday 1st June

Year 4 Lolly Sale Monday 1st June

PTA Meeting Wednesday 3rd June

All Years Sports Day Friday 5th June

Year 1 Year 1 Class Liturgy Monday 8th June

Year 1 Phonics Assessment Week Monday 8th June

All Years Back Up Sports Day Friday 12th June

Year 3 Lolly Sale Monday 15th June

All Years Celebration Mass 1pm 3.30pm Celebration Refreshments and Cake

Tuesday 16th June

All Years INSET Day Wednesday 24th June

Year 2 Lolly Sale Monday 29th June

Potential summer event/parish day/family sports day etc TBC July

Summer disco TBC July

Year 1 Lolly Sale Monday 6th July

Years 1, 3, 4, 5 Parents Evening (5pm – 7.30pm) including Book Fair Tuesday 7th July

Years 1, 3, 4, 5 Parents Evening (4pm – 6.30pm) including Book Fair Wednesday 8th July

EYFS EYFS Class Liturgy Friday 10th July

EYFS, Years 2, 6 Reports due Friday 10th July

Year 6 Production Monday 13th July

Reception Lolly Sale Monday 13th July

All Years Changeover Week 1 Week of Monday 13th July

All Years Changeover Week 2 Monday 20th and Tuesday 21st July

New EYFS Taster sessions Monday 20th and Tuesday 21st July

All Years Back to their own classes Wednesday 22nd July

All Years School finishes for Summer holidays at 1.40pm Wednesday 22nd July