The Gordon Children’s Academy

Weekly Newsletter

Friday 23rd October 2018

Every Child, Every Day, Every Minute

This week has been another busy week in the life of Gordon Children’s Academy where we have attended

two mini youth games events: badminton and football. Our results have been good—and out of nineteen

schools, we are currently placed third in the fair play award. The children are continuing to enjoy the

lunchtime sports provision provided by our new sports coach.

We have also welcomed a large number of families into school this week for our successful open

mornings. The visitors were very complimentary of the children, their work and behaviour and the way

the school looked in general. As always, we were very proud of all of our children and the way they

conducted themselves.

As the weather has changed for the worse this week, please ensure that your child comes to school

wearing a warm, waterproof coat as we will endeavour to have playtimes as usual.

We hope that you have a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing you refreshed and enthusiastic on

Monday.

Notices

Christmas Dates

With Christmas quickly approaching we know you’re all eager to know what festive events are happening and

when. Below you can find a list of dates but more information regarding the events will follow at a later time.

Wednesday 12th December: 9:30—EYFS Nativity, 14:15—Year 1 Nativity

Thursday 13th December: 9:30—Year 1 Nativity, 14:15—Year 2 Nativity

Friday 14th December: 3:30—Year 2 Nativity, 14:15—EYFS Nativity

Monday 17th December: Carol Service: 10:00—KS1, 11:00—Years 3&4, 14:00—Years 5&6

Tuesday 18th December: 14:00—EYFS & KS1 Christmas Assembly

Wednesday 19th December: 14:00—Year 3&4 Christmas Assembly

Thursday 20th December: 14:00—Year 5&6 Christmas Assembly

Flu Immunisation

The Flu Immunisation for years R to 5 is taking place on the 11th December. If you haven’t received a form with

regards to this please collect one from the school office. Could any completed forms please be returned to The

School Office as soon as possible.

Every Child, Every Day, Every Minute

EYFS

This week in EYFS we have been learning all about woodland

animals within our literacy lessons. We have been writing

circle maps, tree maps and flow maps to find out lots of

information about animals such as squirrels, fox’s, rabbits

hedgehogs and owls. On Tuesday we took our white facts hat

down to the school library and discussed what we can use a

library for and how it can help us find out lots of information

and facts about animals. On Thursday we got to have a go at

creating our own woodland creatures! We used a variety of

recourses and materials to make the animals. All the children

in EYFS were then able to produce some amazing pictures

and writing pieces of their animals within the literacy lesson.

In maths EYFS have continued their learning with careful

counting and we have been doing lots of work on matching

an amount to a number. All the children have shown great

persistence with their maths this week and should be very

proud of themselves. Well done EYFS.

Year 1

This week in Year 1 we have been creating backrgrounds and

rockets based upon the work of Peter Thorpe. We used chalk

for our backgrounds and used paint to overlay the rockets.

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Year 3

This week Year 3 have been creating pictures of space using oil

pastels. We needed to think about the shapes and colours we would

use carefully. Using our green hats to think creatively we thought

about whether we would include planets or stars. We produced some

fantastic artwork!

Year 4

In Year 4, we have been learning about what

happens to a material when it changes state. We

have focused on melting this week and conducted an

experiment where we observed what happened to a

variety of materials when they were heated. We had

to be VERY patient to make sure we could observe

over a 15 minute period of time. We learned that

objects have different melting points and our

chocolate buttons turned to liquid!

In our Potions learning, we have been learning about

life as a doctor during the Tudor period. We learned

that hygiene still wasn’t important and we wrote

diaries from the view of a Plague doctor and a

trained doctor. We have also immersed ourselves

into our narrative writing and wrote some fantastic

setting descriptions inspired by Harry Potter!

If you are in Miss Kaur’s set, please bring in a jug or

bottle to your Maths lesson on Monday. Thank you!

Year 5

This week, Year 5 have been learning about the development of

humans in Science. Children were given the opportunity to use fruit to

compare the sizes of a foetus in development and then they created

their own timeline with key developmental milestones. In Maths, our

focus has been on fractions, which has really tested our accuracy and

persistence. In English, we have been continuing to read ‘The Lion, the

Witch and the Wardrobe’, using inference and summarising skills to

answer questions about the text and consolidate our knowledge. We

have also been writing a persuasive letter to the Pevensie children,

using our creativity and accuracy, to ensure we are producing our very

best work!

Year 6

This week, Year 6 have been using their accuracy and

creativity to plan their own investigations in Science!

They have based their investigations on our topic of

electricity and hope to be able to actually test them

out to see if they work. Each child has had to

carefully think through all of the details to ensure

that someone else could follow their plan. In

addition to this, we used the prediction to consider

the outcomes of our results before we investigate.

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House Points

3rd Place 4th Place 1st Place 2nd Place

Class Awards

Diary Dates

Monday 26th

Cinderella Pantomime—13:45

Wednesday 28th

Open morning for prospective Year 3 Parents—9:00

Height and Weight Measurements

Diary Dates

Thursday 29 November

Author Visit EYFS and KS1

YEAR Class Golden Tie

Winners

Reason Why Gordon Greats

Readers

Gordon Greats

Writers

EYFS Bell Caitlyn R Creativity Jack M Mason T

Nightingale Erin T Persistence & Collaboration Estelle Callum C

1 Brunel Jordan Consistency Jude Callum

Darwin Taylor Persistence Amelia-Grace Yolanda

2 Newton Lily-Rose Persistence Maxwell Daniel

Seacole Stefanie Accuracy Riley Teddy

3

Branson Taylor Persistence Olivia L-O Luke

Dyson Ruby Persistence Daisy Kian

Quant Emma All Habits Veli Jessica

4

Franklin Sara All Habits Josh Ruben

Hadid Billie Persistence & Collaboration Somto Chase

Killick Beth Flexibility & Collaboration Roman R Lily M

5

Thompson Jess D Persistence Nathan Bella

Faraday Dylan S Accuracy Oliver H Aleisha-Leigh M

Pankhurst Denis Persistence Izzy Jack B

6

Lawrence Jayden Persistence Elizabeth Chloe

Austen Jason Persistence Jay Mia

Turing Leila Accuracy Tia Nicole