CHASE BRIDGE

NEWSLETTER

1st March 2019

London: Power, Politics and the People

Updates, Notices and ... News in Brief Parent Consultations— these are scheduled for Tuesday 19th

and Thursday 21st March. You will be able to book your

appointment at www.schoolinterviews.co.uk using the code

fmppc. Bookings will open on Friday 8th March from 4.00pm.

Nursery will be closed to children on Tuesday 19th March

due to Parent Consultations taking place all day.

Year 2 and 6 teachers won’t be running Parent Consultations as

you have recently had your 1:1 Academic Review meeting with your

child and their class teacher.

School clubs will not be running after school on Tuesday

19th and Thursday 21st

March due to the parent

consultations.

Year 6 children took part in

the Richmond High Five

Netball tournament at Barn

Elms Sports Centre on

Wednesday. Congratulations to

Eashan, Kayden, Oliver B,

Lois, Mahi, Nevaeh and

Amisha for reaching the plate of

the semi-finals and for showing

great resilience and

determination!

Congratulations to Sam and Holly

for winning this year’s eSafety

competition. Their winning entries

will be displayed around the school

to remind our pupils on how to stay

safe online. Thank you to all the chil-

dren who entered. We had some amazing posters to choose from.

Save the date! Thursday 7th March is World Book Day

and the children are invited to dress up as a book character of

their choice.

Plea from Welfare—Ms Gray would be delighted to receive

older boys underwear, preferably 8-9 and 9-10 years old as

her stocks are running low.

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You will remember that the PM, Theresa May, specially invited Chase Bridge to Downing Street recently. We took full advantage of the

opportunity and took the children in year 6 to visit locations in London that have housed key sources of power that have governed our

country for many centuries: the Tower of London; Westminster Abbey, where Kings and Queens have been crowned for the past

thousand years; and No.10 itself. We even got to walk through Parliament Square past a live demonstration – the power of the people! -

outside the Houses of Parliament. Being able to stand by the famous door at No.10 was rather special as well as sitting round the cabinet

table. We even got to meet Larry the cat, who was more interested in hugging a radiator than saying hello to us!

Meanwhile, year 2 were burning London down! Our apprentice arsonists have been learning about the Great Fire of London in their

history lessons and how the fire started and spread so quickly. They all carefully made houses and then we assembled them all into a model

version of our great city – then took a match to it to see how the fire spread and the buildings turned to ash. If you haven’t seen the

spectacular video of the event please have a look here.

Times, dates and places

Monday 4th March

Little Chasers

Reception Heights & Weights

Birch & Chestnut 1:1 Academic

Review meetings

2.30pm Year 1 Family Reading

Tuesday 5th March

Year 4 Family Reading 9.00am

4D swimming

Wednesday 6th March

Acacia 1:1 Academic Review

meetings

Year 5 Isle of Wight parents meeting

6.00pm

Thursday 7th March

World Book Day-children to dress up as

their favourite book character

Author visit—Laura Anderson

Netball match vs Nelson at Chase Bridge

Friday 8th March

7.30pm FoCB Quiz night

Monday 11th March

Little Chasers

Nursery Family Reading 11.15am &

2.45pm

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Tuesday 12th March

8.15am & 5.00pm Year 2 Assessment

meeting for parents

4D swimming

Year 3/4 Rugby event at Quins

Wednesday 13th March

Year 5 Family Reading 9.00am

Thursday 14th March

Year 3 Family Reading 9.00am

Monday 18th March

1.00pm Year 6 Junior Citizenship

Book Fair arriving

Wow! Writing! Every term Mrs Edgoose, our lead English teacher, collects some of the best writing from across the school from all the

teachers and displays it for everyone to see. It is wonderful to see the progression in standards from nursery all the way to year

6 and see the development of handwriting, spelling, punctuation and grammar as well as the more sophisticated aspects of style

and being able to write for specific purposes and audiences. Being chosen for display is a real honour so a special well done to

all of the children who have had their writing selected for presentation. Below are some excellent examples:

London’s Burning! Dramatic scenes were re-enacted at Chase Bridge with children in year 2 burning down the City of London! This was all a part

of their Time Detectives curriculum theme for last half term where they have been learning about significant people and events

from 1666.