COMMUNITY NOTICEBOARD

COMMUNITY NOTICEBOARD

In Cobalt class we have been enjoying our rainforest topic. In science, we have been learning about living things and their habitats. In geography, we have been learning about the animals that inhabit the rainforest, indigenous tribes and the impact of deforestation. It has been really interesting! In English, we have used our knowledge to write non-chronological reports about animals in the rainforest. We are looking

forward to learning lots more in the final week of term!

This term in Year 6, we have been studying Japan. During our entry point, we had a different activity on each table - including making Japanese style fans, creating origami paper cranes, and brainstorming all we know about Japan on a large sheet of paper.

From this we have studied Japanese myths in English. The first we read was 'My Lord Bag of Rice' and we wrote our own based on the ideas within the story. We have also studied a myth which is all about a pilgrim, a goblin and an old lady... all we want to tell you is that it is really quite gruesome!

Nevaeh & Samara

Year 4 - Cobalt Class Year 6 Copper Class

Year 5 Lavender Class Clothing Bank

30th March@ Eliot Bank Children's Centre 11.00-12.30 all welcome, please bring proof of benefits or

low income. C call 020 8325 4600

Housing Advice

available @ Kelvin Grove Chil-dren's Centre 1pm-2.30pm call

0208 613 0172

Duncan Lewis

Solicitors

appointments available for Fri-day 24th March @ Eliot Bank Chil-dren's Centre, call 0208 325 4600

Advising London

@Kelvin Grove Children Centre Need advice with debt, housing, work, benefits, immigration? To book appointment for Thursday

27th April call 0208 613 0172

Foodie Friday

Guiding Hands Cooking with young parents starts on 21st April

Easter Family Fun

Day

Come and join us for an Easter celebration in Wells Park on

Thursday 13th April, 11:00-14:30. Weather permitting there'll be a picnic, egg hunt, bonnet parade,

games and face painting.

NCT Baby

Massage

@Eliot Bank Children's Centre .To book your place in April call Ali-

son 0300 3300 700

On Friday Lavender class went to the Royal Albert Hall for a classical spectacular, and it really was! There were canons and muskets firing right above our heads. It was so awesome – even if the balloons never did drop!

This week in Lavender class we’ve been doing assessments. The test has been quite hard but we were able to get through it. In English we have been planning our own stories about courage, like the story of Abikanile in ‘The Village That Vanished’, which we have been reading in class.

On Thursday, we celebrated ‘Red Nose Day’ having a great time! We had some sweets for snack time, and wore our own clothes to school – we had to wear something red, like socks! And we brought in 50p to donate to Comic Relief.

All in all we have had an exciting week, packed full of fun and challenging things.

24/03/2017

Kelvingrove

Newsletter Issue: 16/17 92

DIARY

HEADTEACHER®S’ MESSAGE

As I am sure you have read in the media, financial pressures on schools are becoming increasingly challenging. However, great learning is still going on at Kelvin Grove. We were visited yesterday by Kate Bond, Head of Education Standards and Inclusion, who was impressed to see the wonderful work that our children produce. As parents and carers, you can help us in these difficult financial times by making sure that your bills are paid on time and joining the PTA to support fundraising for the school. Kelvin Grove children are awarded stickers in school from all staff for being respectful, showing enthusiasm, encouraging others, participating and displaying learning behaviours such as resilience, reciprocity, reflectiveness and resourcefulness. Children add these stickers to their award booklets. All children start on the bronze award booklet and once they complete that. move on to silver, gold and then the high flyer award. Each booklet requires 50 stickers for it to be complete. You can view the list of awards on our website by clicking on ‘new’ then ‘awards’. I would like to wish you all a wonderful Spring break and look forward to seeing you on 19th April. MEDICATION REMINDER

We respectfully ask that children do not bring any medicines, ointments or tablets in to school in their bookbags. Only medication prescribed by a doctor can be given to children by staff and must come in through the main office. A consent form must be completed and signed by a parent to allow the child to be given any medication. Thank you.

ENRICHMENT CLUBS—IMPORTANT CHANGES

Clubs now need to be booked via Sims Agora, with payment made in advance. Please check your child’s bookbag for a letter with full details.

SCHOOL MEAL PRICES - 1ST MAY 2017

Lewisham Council has announced an increase in the price of child school meals from £2.00 to £2.10 as of 1st May 2017. At £2.10 school meals continue to provide all of the Government’s nutritional requirements and a tasty, value for money lunch option for children. Our two course daily menus vary throughout a three weekly cycle and over 80% of the meal offer uses fresh, quality products from sustainable sources. We will be sending out our summer term ‘meal pattern’ letter next week, so if you need to change your child’s meal option please fill in the slip or contact a member of the office staff.

Thank you to Dipti, Evie, Jahmar, Glory, Tiffany, Jasmin, and all of year 6 for organising red nose day yesterday. The children really enjoyed themselves and raised a massive £545.99.

RIOT ACT

Last Monday, two people came to school and told Year 6 all about air pollution! They did not just tell us, they showed us through a play! The group were called 'Riot Act'! At the beginning of the show they were acting like school children - always on their electronic devices! The theme of the play was aimed just right - not too old, and not too young - so we could understand it. The play was all about how we could travel in an environmentally sustainable way - walking, cycling, scootering or catching the bus! At the end of the show, they gave us a quiz, and we proved how well we had been listening, as most of us got 3 or 4 out of 5! We all really enjoyed it. Abimbola and Jake

MORE DIARY DATES: www.kelvingrove.lewisham.sch.uk

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African drumming concert, 2.55pm

29

Indigo class to The Planetarium in Greenwich

29

Parents’ evening 3.30pm-8.00pm

30

Spring music concert, 2.40pm Quiz night/dinner, 6.30pm

31

Cake sale - 2.30pm LAST DAY OF TERM SCHOOL CLOSES 2.30PM

03-18

EASTER HOLIDAYS Languages for All Holiday Club

19

1st day of Summer term 1

01

BANK HOLIDAY SCHOOL CLOSED

04

Reception trip to The Wetlands Centre

08

KS2 SATs week

15

Yr2 SATs week

15

Yr6 trip to The Globe Theatre

29-3

HALF TERM

07

Yr3 to South London Botanical Institute

09-16

School Journey to Nethercott Farm

QUIZ NIGHT is next Thursday 30th March. This adult only event promises to be an evening of fun and laughter with drinks and nibbles, with Mr Hyde as our MC. Plus there are prizes to be won! Don't miss out! Book your ticket today for only £5 on Sims Agora. Thank you to all those who came to our PTA meeting last week to discuss the summer fair. Lots of fantastic ideas were flying around the room! The theme for this year's summer fair is 'at the movies' and the fair takes place on 7th July so mark your calendars! If you want to help out or to hold a stall please email us. All help, ideas and comments welcomed. If your company have a match funding programme, please consider volunteering at the fair so that your company match funds whichever stall you decide to work on, or even the fair itself. It is a fantastic way to bulk up our fundraising effort in a most hassle free way. A quick reminder to install ‘easyfundraising’ on

your search engines. This allows the school to make money every time you make you make a purchase online. All you have to do is google Easyfundraising, go to their site look up ‘Kelvin Grove Charitable Trust’ and that's it! In the last month I personally have raised £1.42 which may not seem like much but if half the school signed up and we each raised that, it would be over £6,000 a year—well worth the effort! Don't forget to purchase your Kelvin Grove cookbook; only £3 for delicious puddings. These can be purchased from Sims Agora and picked up from the office. Lastly, my time as PTA chair is coming to an end with the school year, please consider putting yourself forward for this rewarding job. We would like to have someone in place by June so that there is time to do a hand over and you can take the reins with confidence come September!

RED NOSE DAY

On Wednesday the whole of year 1 went on a trip to the Horniman Museum to learn about animals. We visited the natural history area where we saw many bones and models of animals, some which are now extinct (like the Dodo!). We also went down to the aquarium where we saw jellyfish, coral and lots of colourful tropical fish. We then went into the robot zoo exhibition which had lots of robots and games to try and show how animals are adapted to their environments. We had a try at camouflaging ourselves like a chameleon! We had a great day and even the rain on the way home didn't dampen our spirits.

Year 1 - Amber Class

Land Ho!

Green Class have been enjoying being pirates again this week. We made pirate outfits and with telescopes went in search of

a class parrot, which we discovered perched on a window in the playground. Like all good pirates we have learnt some pirate songs which we sing with our pirate voices. In maths we have been counting stitches on our pirate scars and learning to use grid references to find treasure. When digging for jewels in sand we have also learnt about sharing - because good pirates share equally. With the Green Class crew all trained up - we just need a ship. Then to the high seas!

Rainbow - Green Class

Nursery have been nature detectives this week. We have been learning about different mini-beasts and went on a mini-beast hunt in the outdoor area. We have been closely observing our class caterpillars and impressed the adults by talking about how the caterpillars have changed. We were amazed when we saw the caterpillars go into their cocoons. We also made ladybirds out of paper plates. Next week are going to be learning about Easter and will be doing an Easter egg hunt.

Nursery

School Council

Congratulations to our newly appointed School Council representatives. You can view a list of the children on our school website by clicking on ‘Pupil Leadership’ then ‘School Council’ or the link below:

School Council Representatives

Year 2 - Saffron Class

Reception - Cerise Class

In science we went to forest school to look for minibeasts in their microhabitats and tried to identify them. Dheeran found leaves that had been chewed and guessed that it may have been a caterpillar’s work. Laia found so many woodlice under a log that she decided to record ‘countless’ in her table, rather than count them all. Boyan discovered an abandoned spider’s web in a muddy, grassy area under a tree. Jathushan spotted a small, grey slug tucked inside a damp hole in a log and Elson noticed three worms buried in a patch of earth. With Mrs Hewitt’s help, we discussed why each minibeast had chosen to live in the microhabitat where we found it.

Well done to everyone in cerise class who has returned their grass heads having looked after them at home. The children all remembered to water and place them in a sunny spot! It has been great to see the completed diaries with drawn pictures, photos and even the cut grass stuck into one; what a great idea!

Can we also take this opportunity to say a big thank you to all our parents, who have supported their children in making this home /school link such great success! A special certificate is on the way!

Year 3 - Jade Class This term we have been identifying the key features of a Greek soldier.

Greek soldiers were called a 'Hoplites' and were the backbone of the Greek army.

Hoplites were foot soldiers with large spears and used large round shields for protection.

In Jade class we have been making our own shield which would be used to intimidate the enemy.

We also wrote in role as a Greek soldier on the eve of battle.