WEEKLY NEWSLETTER 25th May 2018 Newsletter Number 32

Dates For The Diary

Friday 25th May

School closes for Half Term

Monday 4th June

School re-opens to pupils

Monday 4th June

Science Week - ‘Save Our Bees’

Thursday 14th June

Father’s Day Fun Afternoon 1.30-

3pm

Friday 15th June

Sports Day

Monday 18th June

Y6 Artist Workshop

Thursday 28th June

District Sports

Wednesday 4th July

Y5 Trip to Wicksteed Park

Tuesday 10th July

Y6 Concert

Wednesday 11th July

Y6 Concert

Wednesday 18th July

Disco - Year 3-5

Wednesday 18th July

Y6 Leaver’s Disco

Friday 20th July

School closes for the Summer

Tuesday 4th September

Training Day

Wednesday 5th September

School re-opens to pupils

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Last week was a very busy week for Year 6. Not only did they sit

their SATs but they took off to London on the Friday to visit the

world-famous art gallery, The Tate Modern! This trip was to kick

start their new topic called Gallery Rebels which will begin after

half term. During their time at the gallery, the pupils had the

opportunity to see all manner of weird and wonderful pieces of

modern art. Many displays caused some in depth discussions

about what art actually is as some were rather unusual (human

hair wrapped around car bumpers?!) Year 6 were a credit to the

school throughout the trip and behaved excellently. We are all

really looking forward to our next topic and all the creativity

which will be flowing in the classrooms and around the school!

More

from the

Tate!!

Some pupils were fortunate enough to

bump into some Chelsea Pensioners!

They had a chat with them and were in

complete awe!!

A fantastic day was had

by all! Bring on the

Gallery Rebels!!!

Save Our Bees!!!

There will be a ‘buzz’ around school when we return after half

term as it’s Science Week and our theme is Bees. We will be

collaborating with the Infants School so there will be lots of opportunities for the

children to move between the two sites to share their learning and teach others!

We will kick start the week with a visit from a local

bee-keeper who will bring some honey for the children to

taste. The children will research bees by answering the

questions: Why are bees important? What would happen if

there were no bees? How can we help to protect bees?

Year 3s will create a fact file of information about bees to share with the Year 2

children; Years 4-6 will research information about bees and create a board game to

teach younger children about bees. They will then play their board game with the

children at the Infants School.

The Infants School have planted lavender to attract bees so throughout the week we

will conduct a bee survey and submit the information to The Great British Bee Count

2018.

Finally, on the last day there will be a joint mufti day. The theme will be ‘bees’ and

children are asked to wear all black, all yellow or yellow and black stripes. We would

also kindly ask for a donation for mufti day which will be sent to Friends of the Earth

to help protect our bees.

We are looking forward to an exciting week and encouraging all our pupils to ‘Bee

the best they can Bee!

Mrs Münster

On Monday 21st May some of our Year 4 pupils enjoyed a Science and Sports Day during

which they carried out many investigations and enjoyed a game of Rounders! As part of their

investigations the pupils were asking themselves questions such as: How do balloons float

above a hairdryer? Where does the wax go when a candle burns? They also challenged

themselves to see who could build the tallest tower using only spaghetti and marshmallows!!

For their game of Rounders, the Y4s had

two teams: The Fantastics, captained by Ollie and the Ladybirds, captained by Grace. It was a

close game but the Fantastics beat the Ladybirds 14-10!!!

Everyone had a super day!

Year 4 Science and Sports Day

Have a great half term

break!

Chris Hill - Head Teacher

Don’t forget to check out our school website for the latest

news and information, dates and events! You can also view

past newsletters and complete an online Absence Request

Form if your child is going to be absent from school for any

reason!

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Miss Beale is looking for wonderful writers to enter the

annual Rotary Club of Rushden Writing Competition.

The task is to write either a piece of fiction, non-fiction

or a poem with the title 'The Fair'. If you choose to write

a story, it should be no more than a side of A4 and no

more than 500 words. The poem should be a maximum of

6 verses with no more than 6 lines per verse. You need to

show your writing skills alongside your imagination and

creativity! Your piece of writing can be illustrated too if

you wish.

Hand your entries to Miss Beale by Wednesday 20th

June for a chance to win the competition. Miss Beale will

be giving out prizes for taking part!