Ensuring every individual achieves their best through high expectations for all; with a focus on aspiration, confidence, creativity and care.

Monday 25th September 2017

This Week’s Learning Power: Co-operation This week we are focusing on being co-operative. We talk about Slinky Linky Snake. Being co-operative requires us to:

listen to others; say when we don’t understand; explain things to help others; be kind when we disagree; compromise when necessary; be tolerant.

Word of the Week Key Stage 1: sad The children will be reading the story ‘Mog and the V.E.T.’. Key Stage 2: ambition

Value of the Week

This week, we will be thinking about care in our values assembly.

House Points Results

Birch

Birch 1330

Maple 1172

Sycamore 1121

Oak 1253

Thought for the Week

Stars of the Week

Explorers (Reception & Year 1)

Sunny in Aldrin Class

Ingel in Attenborough Class

Daksh in Marco Polo Class

Scientists and Inventors (Years 2, 3 & 4)

Isla in Einstein Class

Rehaan in Marie Curie Class

Adam in Pasteur Class

Lucy in Da Vinci Class

Yasmin in Edison Class

Videlina in Galileo Class

Yusuf A in Berners-Lee Class

Maruf in Brunel Class

Nicolas in Hawking Class

Leaders (Years 5 & 6)

Larissa in Gandhi Class

Dhruv in Helen Keller Class

Adolfo in Rosa Parks Class

Jamilah in Malala Class

Simonas in Pankhurst Class

Assistant Head Teachers’

Stars of the Week

Miss Cook’s Star of the Week

Daniel in Pasteur Class

Miss Patora’s Star of the Week

Tammie in Da Vinci Class

Mrs Ttoffali’s Classes of the Week

Attenborough Class in Key Stage 1 for being

Go for it Gorillas; using excellent listening

skills and asking excellent questions at

Forest School.

Brunel Class in Lower Key Stage 2 for

making it an absolute pleasure to be in your

class because of your excellent learning

behaviour.

Rosa Parks Class in Upper Key Stage 2

excellent conduct at all times; what a super

start to Year 5! Thank you.

Park Ponders This week’s Park Ponders question is…

If you could be someone else for the day,

who would you want to be?

Don’t forget… Follow us on our Twitter account: @ParkPrimaryE15

School Lunch Menu This week is Week 3 of the menu. Our School Menu is available on our website.

Our Attendance Stars know Attendance Matters!

This week our winners are: KS1: Aldrin Class with 99.1% LKS2: Brunel Class with 99.5% UKS2: Malala Class with 98%

Enjoy your extra time on the climbing frame Aldrin, Brunel and Malala! Overall Attendance – 96.1%

Forest School Miss Peel returned to Park last week to run Forest School sessions with our Year 1 children. The groups this week and last week have been learning about minibeasts, their habitats, names and how to be kind and caring. Some children were scared at first but were supported by their friends and were ‘Go for it Gorillas’ in gaining confidence to pick them up gently with leaves or even to hold them. They also found some slugs eggs hiding under a log!

Able Writers’ Day Ms Ballesteros took a group of Year 5 children to Stratford Library last week to participate in Newham’s Able Writers’ Day. The children displayed great competency and confidence in working with children from other schools and in their poetry performance. Ms Ballesteros was very proud of the impressive poetry the children produced, and of their behaviour throughout the day.

Diary Dates 3.10.17 Year 5 visit Petrie Museum

4.10.17 Year 5 visit Petrie Museum

18.10.17 Parent/Carer Afternoon School Closes at 1:00pm. Children must be collected at this time.

23.10.17 - 27.10.17 School Closed - Half Term

6.11.17 Year 5 Shakespeare Schools Festival at Stratford Circus

12.12.17 Year 4 Production

15.12.17 Save the Children ‘Christmas Jumper Day’

19.12.17 Whole School Winter Showcase

20.`12.17 Star of the Term Assembly

21.12.17 - 2.1.18 School Closed - Christmas Holiday

3.1.18 School Closed - Staff Training Day

NB Term dates are available on the school website.

Sharing Assemblies Our sharing assemblies are on a Friday at 9:05am. Please enter the school through the main office if you are attending sharing assembly.

KS1: Drama Studio KS2: PE Hall

29.09.17 Marie Curie Brunel

6.10.17 Attenborough Gandhi

13.10.17 Einstein Mandela

20.10.17 Marco Polo Edison

3.11.17 Pasteur Berners-Lee

10.11.17 Aldrin Rosa Parks

17.11.17 Marie Curie Pankhurst

24.11.17 Attenborough Galileo

1.12.17 Einstein Hawking

8.12.17 Marco Polo Helen Keller

15.12.17 Pasteur Malala

Year 4 Roman London Visit Year 4 explored Roman London last week. Firstly, we visited the London Guildhall Art Gallery where we witnessed the remains of an actual Roman amphitheatre – the site of many a gladiatorial battle. We then moved on to the nearby Museum of London where we experienced how London changed through the Roman era. It was an interesting start to our topic on the Romans. We would like to draw your attention to forthcoming events as part of the Londinium Festival where children have a chance to handle roman objects – Roman London: Half term fun 21-22 October 12pm-4pm (FREE) at Museum of London; and also 21st October at 3:30pm Liberiorum Londinium (Children’s London) at Guildhall Art Gallery (FREE).

Fundraising for Charity in Summer Holidays One of our caring, kind-hearted Year 4 boys, decided to clear out his room of books and toys he no longer uses, and to make a stall, selling them to raise funds for charity. He did this on the last weekend of the summer holidays. Lots of local people stopped and donated money for toys, books, tea, coffee and biscuits. The total raised was £164.96. This thoughtful young man has sent the money, half to Cancer Research UK, and half to Malaria No More; both charities he is very keen to support.

Parent/Carer Day This term’s Parent/Carer Day is taking place on Wednesday 18th October. School closes at 1:00pm. Children must be collected at this time.

Please double check that you have the correct date in your diary. The date was changed in the spring term from Thursday 19th October when some of our staff and families will be celebrating Diwali, to Wednesday 18th October.