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Important Dates for Diary

Monday 16th December - Yr6 Trip to Kingsmead School

Monday 16th December  - Red House Non-Uniform Day

Friday 20th December - Last Day of Term 

Attendance week ending 13/12/2024

Overall school = 93.17%  Lates = 66 

Best attendance: 1st Rhine 98.7% 2nd Istanbul 98.32% 3rd Atlantic 97.95%

Punctuality: Well done to Snowdrop, Snowdon and Rhine with 100% for punctuality.

Free Sanitary Products – available to all pupils that need them, and we would like to help support them where we can. Please tell your daughter to see Mrs Truong in the welfare room or, for more information, please contact the office.

Donations - Please could we have donations of tissues, baby wipes, plasters, jogging bottoms and socks for both of our sites.

Scooters - Please make sure your child is taking the correct scooter/bike home at the end of each day. If they have the wrong scooter, please can it be returned. 

Year 1

Last week, the children in Year 1 learnt the names and properties of 2D and 3D shapes, and this week, to extend their learning, they have been creating repetitive patterns with 2D and 3D shapes.

D said "I say the shapes to know what comes next."

Year 2

In Maths, Y2 have been working on measurement this week. In partners, we made different objects using cubes and measured them with a ruler. We have to remember to always measure from 0! We then measured a variety of objects with a ruler and wrote the length on a sticky note. In Science, we have been working with different materials to construct the 'Three Little Pig's' houses. We used sticks, paper and bricks. We tested the strength and durability of the materials by putting our houses to the test! Some houses were destroyed when we balanced heavy objects on top and others did not survive a rainstorm. Bricks were certainly the most durable. 

Year 3 

Year 3: Writing

This half term, Year 3 have been using the book BFG by Roald Dahl to inspire our writing. We have written wanted posters, gruesome recipes, a diary entry as Sophie and even wrote our own chapter on how the Queen could capture the giants. 

This week we wrote a letter to the BFG, telling him our favourite parts of the story. Here are some of our favourite parts:

"My favourite part was when the Giants used the BFG like a football as that was funny!"  

"I loved when they talked about Whizzpopping! Now we call farts in Snowdon class whizzpops!"

"My favourite part was when Sophie visited the Queen!"

Year 5 

The weather in Year 5 has been rather 'stormy' this week as we experienced The Tempest on Monday morning. To immerse the children into our new writing topic 'The Tempest' by William Shakespeare, the year group headed out onto the Tyrrhenian Sea and faced an almighty storm - they experienced thunder, lightning, sea-sickness and panic-stricken crew mates. Having survived the storm, the children were able to recount their adventurous experience by creating sentences based on their senses, as well as powerful verbs and adjectives to add to our working walls. The ambitious vocabulary and creative noun phrases were highly impressive!

On Thursday of this week, we were treated to a wonderful RW excursion to a Cem-Evi in Turnpike Lane. The whole experience was incredible as we 

were able to listen to an expert who told us all about the '12 servants'. We were also lucky to hear the Baglama Saz being played live in front of us as well as take part in a Semah (holy dance). The children were respectful throughout - a credit to the school!

Year 6 

Year 6's Science lessons continue to explore the themes of evolution and inheritance. This week the children were learning about how animals adapt over time to suit their environment. They explored how this can lead to evolution with very small changes in the physical and behavioural qualities, which mean that they can survive better in order to reproduce. In an active lesson, the children explored and discussed Charles Darwin and his theories. They also looked at how we, as humans, have evolved over many millions of years to be able to successfully live in our world. Their lesson activity was to analyse and scale the evolution of the blue whale. Some of their work is shown.

Year 5 and 6 Writing Competition

Two weeks ago, the esteemed author of The World Between The Rain, Susan Cahill, challenged year 5 and 6 children to write the opening of a ‘portal story’, which is similar to the book's theme. 

Mr Rasheed and Susan Cahill read all of the entries and awarded 3 children with certificates for their pieces. All of the children should be very proud of their writing!

Entries were submitted by:

Year 5: Georgia, Elif, Amyra, Katie, Kamal, Edith, Isobel, Richard, Sophia

Year 6: Piran, George, Olivia, Suleiman, Sophia, Lola, Emilia

Carol Services at St Andrews Church

Last week, Years 3&6 attended St Andrews Church for their carol concert and today was Years 4&5 turn. The children did some beautiful Christmas singing which was enjoyed by parents and staff. A big thank you to Ms Heley for organising the Carol services.

Courses for parents

Enfield Council and the NHS, in collaboration with inourplace.co.uk, are delivering a host of courses for parents. A parent from Year 2 attended one of these courses and gave us some very positive feedback. Please see the posters and contact them directly if you would like to book a place on one of the courses.

Sports2Inspire

Please see below for after-school activities taking place from Monday 13th January. To book, please use the following link:

https://bookwhen.com/sports2inspiregeorgespicer#focus=ev-sb7r-20241107153000

Sports2Inspire will be running a half-term camp in the school during the February half term. Please see below for more information and use the following link to book.  https://bookwhen.com/sports2inspiregeorgespicer#focus=ev-sb7r-20241107153000