Newsletter

26th November 2021

MESSAGE FROM MRS COLLINS

Carols by Candlelight – Friday 17th December 2021

We are delighted to invite all our Sandfield

parents to our Carols by Candlelight Service

on Friday 17th December at 9:30am.

There will be readings and carols performed

by both the choir and different phase

groups.

Just so that we can organise seating and accessibility, please book your

seats by going to the Eventbrite website or by clicking this link.

Print My Kit sponsors Sandfield Primary School

READY RESPECTFUL SAFE

Sandfield Primary School, Stoke Road, Guildford, GU1

4DT, 01483 566586

Thank you to our wonderful sponsors

Print My Kit in Stoke Road,

Guildford, for providing our new

sports kits. Our football teams

enjoyed trying on the new kits and

they all decided they look absolutely

great. It is important that our

teams look professional after our

recent successes and looking the part will spur us on even more!

CELEBRATION ASSEMBLY

The following children mentioned in this week’s Celebration Assembly were:

Year R: Mattyas and Anvi and welcome to Paul!

Year 1: Zach and Sashant

Year 2: Isaac and Safryn

Year 3: Samuel and Jaidyel

Year 4: Aria and Twalumba

Year 5: Abeera and Hector

Year 6: Adam B and Aiman

The Attendance Cup Winners This Week!

This week’s winners are:

1st Year 4 & Year 5 97.0%

2nd Year 1 96%

3rd Year 3 95.1%

Congratulations everyone in Years 4 and 5!

The school target for the year set by the Surrey County Council Inclusion

Team is 93.4%. This week the school achieved 95.1%.

SCHOOL EVENT DEADLINES

Event Class Amount Deadline Late

Fee

KS1 Nativity Tickets R,1,2 £0.00 26/11/2021 No

Year 6 Residential 6 £30.00 30/11/2021 No

Parent & Pupil Reading Survey All n/a 30/11/2021 n/a

Christmas Fair Tickets All Pay on

the door 03/12/2021 No

Christmas Dinner All £2.40

KS2 only 08/12/2021 No

String Scheme Christmas

Concert Tickets 4

£0.00 08/12/2021 n/a

Carols by Candlelight Tickets All £0.00 13/12/2021 n/a

Great Fire of London Visitor 1 & 2 £9.24 04/01/2022 No

All tickets to events are now available on Eventbrite and follow links sent

home via Studybugs and on newsletters.

MESSAGE FROM THE PTA

Sandfield Winter Fair

Mufti day – Wednesday 1st December

All children are very welcome to wear mufti on Wednesday in return for

chocolates or a bottle for the Tombola! Please leave these in the Learning

Lab. All donations for the Winter Fair – Soft toys, board games, puzzles,

books, winter jumpers etc. and jolly jars need to be brought into the school

by Wednesday the 1st December to enable us the quarantine the items.

Parent Sign Ups

If there are any parents or carers wishing to help run the stalls or help with

the preparations before or clearing up after, please contact your Parent

Rep to sign up or contact Christina (Year 2 Rep) on 07738 887156.

International Food Stall

Parents wishing to sign up to the International Food Stall please sign up by

using the following link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSddzREi8uiIzIt8ud9n1h3M-

Tc4N-sjmTqeS_fGrMDSMYgpCg/viewform

For the Cake Stall please use the following link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_FxcWZkBYW3lkOB4SmF7V

SA3II_nIGKVgijgbvPWnv0wwbA/viewform

Please bring all items into the Learning Lab at school on Friday 3rd

December and hot food on the day of the Fair.

Tickets

So that we remain Covid safe, tickets for the Fair are available on

Eventbrite from 2:00pm-3:00pm or 3:00pm-4:00pm. Please be

aware that all adults will be asked to wear a mask, while you are

indoors.

Thank you for all your support and we look forward to seeing you on 4th

December at our Winter Fair.

Fundraising Information

Thank you everyone for your support of our first

fundraisers of the school year! So far, with the second

hand uniform sale, book sale and Christmas cards,

we've raised £575 towards resources to support our

children at school. This is a great start when we're only

a few weeks into the year. Our goal for this year is

£6,100 which was set at our AGM last month. Here are

a couple of graphics showing our target and

our progress so far. Let's finish the

term on a high with the Winter Fair

and push up the totaliser!

Events with a Rise in Covid-19 Cases

We would like to make all parents and carers aware, that we have just

received guidance from Surrey regarding Christmas events in school. We

currently have no live cases in school and events will go ahead as planned,

with the usual Covid-19 safe arrangements. If cases begin to rise, we will

need to look carefully at Nativity and our other Christmas events and will of

course let everyone know of any changes as soon as we are aware.

Sandfield Cinema Club

The all new Sandfield Cinema Club will be starting on Saturday 11th

December and will run from 1.30 – 4.00pm. The cost will be £5 per week

and you can pre-book with Nick (nicky.9@live.co.uk). Please see the flyer

later in the newsletter for further information.

A big thank you to Nick Hutton for organising and running this new club!

CHRISTMAS DECORATION SALE!

Pupils in Year 5 will be selling Christmas decorations in the Playground (or

Learning Lab if wet) on Thursday 2nd December at 3:15pm. Come along

and treat your home!

NEWS FROM THE CLASSROOMS

Reception

This week we have been looking at The Gingerbread Man. The children

have enjoyed decorating their own Gingerbread men. They have also

enjoyed looking at how different numbers are made up like 3+1=4.

Nativity is in full swing and the children have been working really hard

learning the songs and remembering all the actions. We have also been

practicing moving and throwing in PE.

Year 1 & Year 2

Year 1 and Year 2 have had another fantastic week. As part of our English

topic about toys, we had a joint computer experience lesson. We learned

how these games developed from the very first ones (Pong) in the 1970s

to today’s very interactive games. Mrs Sherwin was our Grandma Fantastic

who answered questions about her experience of growing up and playing

computer games. We created a word bank of adjectives to describe

different aspects of playing them and then we played a game with our

partner on the iPads. Well done, you have worked so hard in class and with

your Nativity practise, we are very proud of all of you.

Year 3 & Year 4

This week Year 3 and 4 have started to write a sequel to our current book,

‘Wolves in the Walls’ by Neil Gaiman. They have been using a variety of

writing techniques to create tension in their story about another mysterious

animal inside the walls of Lucy’s house. What could it be? In Science, the

children learnt about and replicated the digestion system, using tights to

represent the intestines, orange juice to represent stomach acid and a

plastic bag to represent the stomach. In Maths, Year 3 have been using

counters to make arrays and fact families to support their multiplication

and division. Year 4 have been using their knowledge of conversion to

calculate the perimeter of rectangles and rectilinear shape.

Year 5 and Year 6

Year 5 and Year 6 have begun writing their biographies of Winston

Churchill. We have focused on his most notable achievements and

WW2. We have also been researching facts on him as part of our

computing and will be creating an iMovie presentation about him. Year 5

have been recapping multiplying by 10, square and cube numbers and

their associated facts. Year 6 have been working out mental arithmetic

fraction work. Science was a practical lesson last week to make electrical

circuits and test the effect of increased voltage!