Headteacher Newsletter 16th November 2017

Best Class Punctuality Best Class Attendance Whole School Attendance

Week ending 10th Nov: Rec, Y3 & Y5 Week ending 10th Nov: Y5 & Y6 100% Week ending 10th Nov: 98.3%

Week ending 17th Nov: Y3, Y4 & Y5 Week ending 17th Nov: Y1 100% Week ending 17th Nov: 97.5%

Date Upcoming dates

Tues 21st Nov

Wed 22nd Nov

Thurs 23rd Nov

Fri 24th Nov

Wed 29th Nov

Thurs 30th Nov

Fri 1st December

W/B 4th Dec

Tues 5th Dec

Wed 6th Dec

Thurs 7th Dec

Tues 12th Dec

Wed 13th Dec

Thurs 14th Dec

Mon 18th Dec

Tues 19th Dec

Wed 20th Dec

Y4 trip to Victorian Kingston

Y6 Sports Hall Athletics at CCC

9am Y3 Class Assembly

Y2 Trip to The Natural History Museum

Reception children decorating tree at Squires

7pm PSA School Quiz Night—please come!

Y2 Trip to Christmas Journey

9am Y5 Class Assembly

Please bring cakes for the fair

5-7pm PSA School Christmas Fair—please come!

Bookfair in school

9am Head Teacher Coffee Morning

Reception, Y1 and Y2 Trip to The Rose Theatre

9am Y4 Class Assembly

Strictly Club Performance

2pm KS1 Nativity (adults only)

2pm KS1 Nativity (younger siblings welcome)

2pm KS2 Carol Concert

6pm KS2 Carol Concert

School Christmas lunch—Christmas Jumper Day

Class Christmas parties

PSA Christmas Film Night

9:15 Christmas Service in church

2pm Break for Christmas

Dear Parents and Carers, School felt extremely quiet last week without our Year 5 children and staff. They had an incredible time at Hindleap Warren, completing a range of exciting activities including: zip-wires, archery, team building, rock climbing, river wading, mud-puddle jumping, canoe games, orienteering, den building and (my personal favourite) the night walk - when we danced in the moonlight and gasped at shooting stars. These are activities which we are unable to offer in school and can be experienced in a safe and exciting location: perfect as it was the first time away from home for many of our children. Year 4 are already getting excited for next year! And now Christmas is almost upon us and we have lots of lovely plans for the children. The new PSA are working very hard to put the Christmas Fair together for Friday 1st December as well as fun events for children (Christmas film night and discos) and parents (Quiz night). We do hope you will be able to support as we are looking to raise funds to buy books, replace old furniture around the school, redevelop the Reception outside area and purchase equipment for the astro-turf area of the playground. I am delighted to announce that the winners for our Official School Christmas card are Daniel and Lucy - I will be sending these out from all the staff and children of St. Paul’s. Mrs Kathryn Hemming

Well done to our Year 6 boys who performed brilliantly at the local Football tournament, coming 4th

out of 10 schools and beating our local rivals! They won 3 games, drew 2 and lost 2. Well done also to our

Year 3/4 Tennis stars who performed brilliantly at Surbiton Tennis Club, coming 4th out of 8 schools—

all of the children won at least one game.

The Year 6 children enjoyed their workshop with

Swingcopation, when they learned basic swing moves and then showed these off, alongside their incredible writing and acting skills in

their brilliant WWII themed Class Assembly

Internet Safety It is challenging for us all, as adults, to keep abreast of

the latest technological developments and online trends and stay one step ahead of our children in order to keep them safe. Please make a point of

reading information on the following websites in order to help your child: www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/

Class news

Rec: It's Paddington Bear's birthday this week so Reception Class have been very busy organising a party for him. We have written invitations to the party, made cards, counted to make sure we have enough party plates and bowls for everyone and even had a guess at what's inside his present. We are also going to make him a birthday cake and put some of his favourite marmalade in the middle. I wonder if any of us will like it!

Year 1: In Year 1 we have been very busy learning about 2D shapes. We went on a shape walk where we identified shapes, described the properties and looked at the repeating patterns. In art we explored Mondrian’s paintings and created our own pieces of artwork inspired by Mondrian.

Year 2: In Literacy we have enjoyed writing instructions based on our new book 'How to Find Gold.' In maths we have been learning to partition, add and subtract 2 digit numbers. In science and theme we have been learning about the North Pole, the animals that live there and how they have adapted to their environments. We have really enjoyed learning new balances in gymnastics, working together to create routines and demonstrating them to the class.

Year 3: This week in year 3 we have been looking at fractions. Finding fractions of shapes and then finding fractions of amounts. We have investigated equivalent fractions and found as many ways as we could to write 1/2! In literacy we have been using similes and metaphors to write poems about animals. We looked at poems by different authors and how they used rhyming to enhance their poem. We are finishing off our poetry topic by looking at alliteration and how it can be used effectively. The vile Victorians were very villainous!

Year 4: We have had a great week in Year 4 exploring more of our book ‘Jemmy Button’ and using the events in the story to relate to ourselves. We have been finding out the origins of our own names, which we have found fascinating to create poetry from. Maths has proven to be challenging this week with 3 digit numbers, but we have used our school value of resilience to help us!

Year 5: We had a wonderful week last week at Hindleap Warren and all pushed ourselves out of our comfort zones. Back at school we have been creating play scripts for our class assembly in a few weeks, identifying factors and multiples of numbers in maths and reading about what life was like for the Vikings.

Year 6: In Year 6 we have been enjoying reading Rose Blanche in English - analysing the illustrations and writing setting descriptions. We have been busy practising for our assembly this week and classifying living things in science using the Linnaean system. Last week, we were invited to St. Paul's church, where Rev. Wickings kindly held a special remembrance service for us to attend.

Hindleap Warren