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George Spicer Newsletter - Friday 1st July 2022

Lateness and attendance - Please ensure your child is in school on time, gates close at 9am any children that are in after will be recorded as unauthorised.  If your child is sick please report their absence by email/leaving a voicemail message stating their name/class and nature of illness, any messages reported as 'unwell' will be unauthorised.

Late collections - Please be reminded to collect your child/ren on time.  If you are running late call the office and advise asap or make alternative arrangements for collection of your child/ren.  After 3.30pm any late children will be signed into after school club where a £15 per child is charged as per our late collection policy. 

ParentPay accounts - Please make sure Breakfast & After School and School dinners accounts are topped up. All debts must be cleared by 18th July 2022.

School Streets Cameras will be operational from Monday 4^th July 

From Monday 4^th July the ANPR cameras on Sketty Road will be operational and you will be fined if you travel into the School Street between 8:30am-9:15am and 2:45pm-3:45pm during term time.  

Further information from Enfield Council can be found here

We advise anyone who travels by car to George Spicer Primary to park and stride from one of our convenient park and stride locations found here

Breakfast and After School Club Registration 

Please see below the link to request sessions for Breakfast & After School Club from September 2022. The registration form needs to be filled out whether your child is already in club. Deadline to submit the form is Friday 15^th July 2022.

BASC Form

Please note that ad hoc days cannot be requested and we ask that all payments are made at least 2 weeks in advance. The same applies with 2 weeks’ notice needed if you would like your child to attend or leave BASC Club.

If you currently have an outstanding balance, please ensure that this is cleared by 18^th July 2022 to ensure your child/children’s places is secured for September.

Email confirmation will be sent out week commencing 18^th July 2022.

Thank you for your cooperation.

BASC Team

Attendance week ending 01/07/2022

Overall school = 94.25%  Lates = 39

Best attendance: 1st Sioux 96.54%  2nd Navajo 96.07%  3rd RA 95.87%

Punctuality:  Well done Theseus with 99.69% punctuality

Reception Class

During our Kapow! sessions we have been using the bee-bots. We played the Cha Cha song and the children followed instructions and moved to the music. We then explored with the bee-bots. We practised programming the bee-bots to move forwards, backwards, left and right. The children really enjoyed our programming session and became confident to invent instructions with 2, 3 and 4 parts! Jessica said ‘look, they are moving forwards and backwards.’ K said ‘the mouse is chasing the cheese, it needs to move forwards.’   

Year 1

On Tuesday, Year One completed part one of their fieldwork. We went outside to find the wild flowers that we have at our school. Wild flowers means that they were not planted by people. They may have travelled by wind or animals may have dropped the seeds and then the flowers/plants grew.

In our school grounds we saw:

• Grass
• Forget-me-nots
• Ivy
• Bramble
• Dandelion
• Sow Thistle

Each class focused on a different area of the school. Anna-Maria. “We completed a tally to show the amount of wild flowers we saw. The most popular flower was the forget-me-nots. This wild flower has a small blue flowers.”

At the end of the week, we will share our findings with the rest of the cohort to compare our results. We really enjoyed our fieldwork.

Year 2

This week in Art, Year 2 looked at Bayeux tapestries. We discussed why they were made and the materials used. We then created our own tapestries to retell the story of Princess Nest. First, we sketched our designs and then we used acrylic paint to create them on fabric. 

Ahead of starting our new topic, 'Dead, Alive or Myth?' Year 2 had a very exciting visit from a poet named Cheryl. Cheryl shared some of her work and other poems that have been written as warnings of different endangered animals. She introduced us to the Thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, who is now extinct. Each class then worked with Cheryl, looking at a different endangered cousin of the Thylacine  (Quolls, Numbats, Dunnarts and Wambengers) and created their own poem.  At the end of the day, we all came together to perform them and hear each other's poem.

Woodpecker's chorus

Year 3 

Science

We have been learning all about plants in Science. This week, we were learning about water transportation in plants and learnt that the roots and stem play an important plant in transporting the water up the flower or plant. We did an investigation to see this process in action. First we cut the stem of a rose and then we put some food colouring into a cup of water. We put the rose in the water and as the water travelled up the stem, the rose changed colour!

We also had a fantastic morning at Sports Day. We all participated in the events and took part in a relay at the end of the morning. It was lovely to have our parents and carers there to support us - we had so much fun!

Year 5 

Geography: Analysis of Fieldwork 

This week in Geography, Year 5 analysed their data from their bird watching fieldwork trips last week. We firstly analysed the data (tally) of bird species across all of the four areas that were visited (Enfield Playing Fields, Bush Hill Park, Enfield Town Market Square and Enfield Town Park). We discussed which ways we could display our data, with a need to see a variety of birds in each of the four areas. We discussed that a bar chart would be able to show one type of species in four areas, or different species in one area, therefore would not be suitable to show a larger range of data. We looked at how a stacked bar chart would show each of the different species within each area, yet in some areas over 100 birds were recorded! This meant we would need to seriously consider our scale when creating a stacked bar chart. We collectively decided to create a grouped bar chart, choosing 4 species of birds to compare in each of the four areas.

We made sure to label the x and y axis on our grouped bar charts, including a key to distinguish each species and gave our grouped bar charts a title. Looking at the grouped bar charts, we then analysed each of the areas and recommended that Mr Combe take his son to visit Enfield Town Park (canal) as it showed the widest variety of birds and also showed birds in a range of different habitats (on the water and also on land - Global Goal 15 Life on Land). Well done Year 5 on persevering and learning a new skill! 

Year 6 

The Year 6 that have been at the George Spicer school all week have had an amazing week.

We started the week by going to the park for some games and art work. On Tuesday we had an amazing time at Go Ape, where we confronted our fears and worked on our balance and coordination. On Wednesday we had a fantastic time creating our digital diaries on Power Point, creating a trailer on iMovie maker and using Music Lab on Chrome to compose our own musical track. Thursday was a very active day. We helped out with the Sports Day in Kimberly Gardens and then we got our jumping game on at Jump In. On Friday, we solved puzzles as though we were in an escape room, and we made our pizzas, which we enjoyed in the afternoon. Here are a few pictures that showed what a great we had.

Enfield Music Services - Autumn Term Booking

Music Lessons for Autumn 22 are available to book now! The closing date for bookings is 10^th July – please visit the Music Store: https://traded.enfield.gov.uk/musicstore

Whatsapp Changes 

Parents, WhatsApp have now changed their settings to send one photo with one time viewing (like Snapchat). 

Please read the blog to become familiar with the difficulties and risks: https://www.waynedenner.com/blog/whatsapp-view-once-gets-rolled-out/

Year 5 Fundraising BBQ for their Year 6 memories 2023

On Sunday afternoon, the year 5 parent reps held a BBQ for all year 5 families as the start of their fundraising for the children's year 6 leavers memories,. Lots of families came along to enjoy the BBQ and refreshments as well as the sunshine. A range of games borrowed from FoGS provided the entertainment, along with music provided by another year 5 family. Mr Combe, Miss Eberle, Mr Guevara, Miss Foster and Miss Dawson all came along and Miss Dawson had the unenviable task of drawing the raffle at the end. A huge thank you to everyone who came along and supported the event, as well as the many local businesses who provided some fantastic raffle prizes. In total, just over £1600 was raised which is a great start to a fund that will contribute to a leavers year book, hoodies and a leaving party for the class of 2023!