No. 254 5 November 2021 This week for lots of reasons ...
Transcript of No. 254 5 November 2021 This week for lots of reasons ...
No. 254 5th November 2021
Welcome back to school! I have really enjoyed hearing from your children about your active half term holidays.
What a difference a year makes, with many families being able to venture far and wide and reconnect with
loved ones and happy pastimes that have been missing for some time.
This week – for lots of reasons – has been full of light and laughter. Community is one of our school values.
It has been our weekly theme and it has been a great joy to acknowledge our rich variety along with our
shared ideals in the LGJS school family. School assemblies this week have included stories from around the
world and songs from close to home. Divali has been a wonderful additional theme for all of us – whatever
our Faith background – and we have relished hearing about the children’s celebrations and their excitement
about the festival. I enjoyed taking part in after school Indian Dancing, and am extremely grateful that nobody
had a camera!
Careful plans are being put in place for the various activities and events in the calendar for the next few
weeks. Thank you in advance for working with us and for your understanding when adjustments have to be
made.
School council have been extremely busy in helping us to support Remembrance Day and, the week following
week, Children in Need. If your child asks to buy a poppy or to make a donation, please do make sure they
are coming straight to the office so that their money stays safe.
Please continue to make sure that the children have all their winterwear in school. We all share a love of the
great outdoors and venture into the grounds in all temperatures! School coats, hats, scarves and gloves
must come into school now the days are getting colder – and if they are named, they will always find their
way back to you!
With warmest wishes, and take care with those fireworks!
With warmest wishes,
Sophia Ashworth Jones
Headmistress
We are delighted to announce that our Fun Fest afternoon on the last day of term raised the amazing sum
of £1,409.20. A huge thank you to all our parents who once again were so generous and also to our Year 6
children who helped make the day an enormous success.
Year 2 Street Detectives Topic
On Monday, Year 2 enjoyed launching their
Street Detectives Topic with a walk around our
local area. They were looking for a range of
landmarks, signs and buildings around Great
Glen. It was an enjoyable morning and the sun
even shone for us! Fabulous detecting skills Year
2! This got our Topic off to a very positive start.
Hamerton Zoo Park
Year 1 began this half term with a very loud ROAR! We visited
Hamerton Zoo in Cambridgeshire on Monday to launch our new topic
called Paws, Claws and Whiskers! We saw so many different animals
and birds from tigers, cheetahs, monkeys and goats to camels,
lizards, flamingos, snakes and even a baby sloth! The children had a
thoroughly fabulous time finding out about these amazing creatures.
The weather even stayed sunny and bright for the whole day so we
had a picnic outside too!
I loved the bush budgies because they are really colourful, cute and
small. Theo
The little black monkeys looked like they had a moustache! Oscar
I loved the snowy white owl because it was copying me moving my
head. Azlan
I loved the flamingos because they are pink and they were standing on one leg! Sienna
I loved seeing the lemurs because they have a long stripy tail. Maaria.
Halloween Competition Winners
Dear Parents,
thank you for sending in photos of the most amazing and fabulously decorated pumpkins and witches' hats!
We really do have a bunch of talented children here! We had the hardest time choosing the winning entries,
with so many wild and wonderful creations.
Thank you for your support and participation and for making this school competition a great success. And
now without further delay, here are the winners!
Kinders: Belle Chudasama and Lilian Blackmore.
Reception: Layla Somani (Reception G) and Haniya Abdulmajid (Reception S).
Year 1: Oscar Welsh (1LH) and Sami Sirur (1C).
Year 2: Hetty Staniforth (2E) and Holly Allen (2W).
Year 3: Aarush Patel (3W) and Siena Zarola (3D).
Year 4: Iyla Mistry (4M) and Charlie Hardwicke (4C).
Year 5: No entries.
Year 6: Jnay Pau.
Many thanks for your support.
LGJS Friends Committee.
Welcome back everyone to LGJS Sport! We look forward to a fun packed term, we have plenty to offer you
and hope that smiles prevail. Please note the weather has obviously turned for the chilly winter, make sure
you have NAVY baselayers to wear underneath your PE & Games kit if you wish. For boys rugby, boots are
essential now the ground is wet and muddy.
Rising Sports Stars
Bolu Adesanya (Year 6 prep) for a fantastic attitude in rugby and superb, powerful running with the ball
Kimaya Maheshwar (Year 3) for her superb gymnastics knowledge and solid body tension throughout the
lesson
The PE Department
NB Swimming Hats are back in Stock!!
We have gone with a much better design having our school logo printed on our house colour caps. They
are available from reception at £3. Bargain!
Mouthguards are now also available £2
PE Department
MATCH REPORTS
DATE TEAM REPORT MOST VALUABLE
PLAYER
15/11/21
U11 IAPS Regional Tournament
The U11 A hockey squad travelled to Repton to play in the IAPS Regional Hockey tournament on the Friday before half term break. It was the girls' first experience of a tournament and they were very excited on arrival and keen to play their best hockey. During the group stage of the competition the girls demonsrated some excellent skills and for large sections of every game played in their attacking half of the pitch. However an early goal against them in the last game meant they finished in 3rd place in the group and qualified for the plate final. The girls' were detirmined to reach the final of the plate and played with great spirit to win the semi final against St Elms with ease. In the final two very closely matched teams both scored and on the final whistle it was one all which meant the girls now entered a penalty shoot up to detirmine the winner. However 15 penalty shots later, the teams were still equal!! Therefore it was decided we would share the plater with St Hughes. All the girls played extremely well throughout the day and it was a pleasure to support and coach them. A great team effort!
Coaches Players Catherine Lv and Hanna Patel Goal Scorers - Melak Majeed, Catherine Lv, Frankie Fitzgerald, Ammara Cayless
Music Award
Aishani Sarkar
Piano Grade
1
Distinction
Headteacher Awards:
Congratulations to the following children who have achieved a Headteacher Award this week:
Saanchi Singh Rec S Brilliant work on the computer
Krishan Doshi 1RH Excellent writing
Maisie Cao 1RH Excellent writing
Ananya Bhardwaj 1RH Excellent writing
Evelyn Bedenham 3D Amazing vocabulary in her fireworks poem
Eleanore Waylett 4C Excellent Geography
Caelan Beveridge 5H An amazing diary entry
Adam Makda 5H Excellent conduct
Joseph Nurse 5H Designing a zentangle
Safa Rizvi 5H Designing a zentangle
Housepoints:
St. Andrew’s St. Cuthbert’s St. Giles St. Mary’s
Noah Greenyer *Aishani sarkar *Tanisha Deore *Lucia Greathead
Nicholas Upton *Siyaam Karim *Zane Ezzat *George Elliott
Joseph Upton *Annabelle Fulton Astrid Cowdell *Florence Platt
Freya Payne Leodeb Scott Ethan McNally Farhaan Khokhar
Lily Trystram Aabir Mann Teddy Ellis-Smith Amara Singh
Ranulph Kangurs Sebastian Geraghty Manraj Johan Thom Baines
Karamvir Hundle Jamin Patel Hannah Hawkins Vikram Sahdev
Anvi Obeja Nidhi Kulkarni
Evelyn Bedenham Digby Kay
Anwita Rai Rocco Gill
Zhanvi Rayarel Armaan Takhar
Arian Adat
Saihaan Morshed
St. Andrew’s: 627 St. Cuthbert’s: 677 St. Giles: 618 St. Mary’s : 660
Congratulations to: Lennon Weiner who won a medal at his clubs Football Tournament. Tinka Cheung who achieved the British Gymnastics proficiency award for level 8. Robin Young who was awarded a certificate for ‘acing’ his treetop adventure at Forest of Dean. Maisie Cao who achieved the British Gymnastics proficiency award for levels 5 & 6. Alex Jones who was awarded his Blue Peter Music Badge. Well Done! Dates for your Diary: Weds. 10th Nov: am – Reception G at Forest School pm – Reception S at Forest School
Years 5 & 6 to watch The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Thurs. 11th Nov. 11.00am Act of Rememberence