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Attendance and Punctuality View our attendance graph at

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The highest class attendance in school last week

was 100.0%. Well done to Miss Conway’s class!

You’ll all be getting a little treat this week

Late attendance last week affected children’s

learning on 56 occasions, which is an average of

11.2 per day.

Overall school attendance last week was 98.2%.

Class Lates Attendance

F2ES Miss Sefton 2 99.3

F2AW Mrs Wood & Mrs Atkinson 0 99.0

Y1RW Miss Webb 6 97.3

Y1WM Miss Waller & Ms Haigh 5 99.4

Y2LD Miss Duggleby 5 99.3

Y2LA Miss Andrew 4 94.8

Y3GP Miss Handy 0 95.7

Y3IF Miss Frost 2 99.0

Y4RH Mr Hawksworth 7 97.3

Y4IK Miss Kirk 7 98.7

Y5RC Miss Conway 7 100.0

Y5ES Miss Sweeney 6 98.1

Y6MT Mrs Tipping 0 99.7

Y6JW Miss Weir 5 97.0

Dates for your Diary

Tuesday 8th May

* Salmon for RED dinner, Pizza for GREEN dinner!

* Dinner menu week 3

* Year 2 SATs all week

Wednesday 9th May

* 9:00 Parent Forum – World In Our Playground

and Family Health Workshop

* 1:15 Stay’n’Play in CCC

* Year 3 and Y2LD swimming

Friday 11th May

* Year 1 Bun Day

Monday 14th May

* Year 6 SATs

Wednesday 16th May

* Swimming lessons start for Y1RW

* 9:00 Parent Forum – CAMHS Workshop

* Nursery closed

* Nursery trip to Cannon Hall Farm

Thursday 17th May

* Y3GP Parents’ Evening

Tuesday 22nd May

* Year 4 to Woodland Discover Centre

* Year 6 Notre Dame Roadshow for Year 6

Wednesday 23rd May

* 9:00 Parent Forum – Year 6 Writing

Wednesday 6th June

* Year 4 to the Great Yorkshire Show Ground

Friday 8th June

* Reception classes to Butterfly House

Wednesday 13th June

* Year 4 to Crucible Theatre

Wednesday 20th June

* Swimming lessons start for Y1WM

Thursday 21st June

* Year 6 to Holocaust Centre

Tuesday 10th July

* Year 4 to Crucible Theatre

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR CHILD IS

WEARING SUITABLE SHOES FOR SCHOOL

If they are wearing open-toed sandals, they

won’t be allowed to run around outside!

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Makaton Sign of the Week

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Parent Forum News There will be a coffee morning this Wednesday

from 9:00am to 10:00am in the community centre!

The Work in Our Playground will be from 9:00am

to 9:30am, and then at 9:30am there will be a

Family Health Workshop; Family Learning will be

working with parents on a Healthy Lunchbox

policy! Everyone welcome!

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P4C Homework This week, Mrs Tipping has set homework, the

challenge is to design four badges that illustrate

the Four C thinking skills in P4C!

The template is attached to the newsletter,

completed entries need to be returned to Mrs

Tipping by the end of this week

Tiger Work Could you help our e-Code members? They have

designed and made their own Tiger Worm! If you

would like to win it, please bring in 50p any day this

week. Jase and Amelia will come round every

afternoon to sell tickets! Thank you for your

support

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The Firefighters Charity Thank you for your support with the rags

collection, we raised £15.60, and £4.16 will be

donated to the Firefighters!

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Volunteers are Still Needed! Reception classes still need adult volunteers for

their class trip to the Butterfly House on Friday 8th

June! Please speak to one of the Reception

teachers if you are able to help on the day.

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Healthy Minds Attached to the newsletter is an invitation for

parents to attend a workshop on Friendship, Self

Esteem and Emotional Wellbeing. We really hope

you can join us! Please register by returning the

reply slip below!

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I would like to register my interest in attending the

Parent and Carer Workshop on Friendship, Self

Esteem and Emotional Wellbeing on:

⃣ Wednesday 16th May 2018

for KS1 and EYFS (Nursery to Year 2)

⃣ Wednesday 6th June 2018

for KS2 (Year 3 to Year 6)

Name: _____________________________________________

Parent of: __________________________________________

Class: ______________________________________________

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Recycling Each week, some of our children will be walking to

the Sheffield United Academy to recycle the

school’s waste plastic. You will get a little note if

your child is taking part in this local walk!

Attached to the newsletter are May’s Maths

Challenges.

Key Stage 1 – The Gobstopper

Key Stage 2 – The Seven Bridges of Konigsburg

When you have tried them and answered them,

please put them in the folder on the displays in Key

Stage 1 and Key Stage 2.

Thanks so much to everyone who answered April’s

challenges. There were so many good answers and

children coming to speak to Mr Mitchell about it

all. Keep up the hard work. This month’s winners

will be announced in Merit Assemblies. Don’t

forget to put your name on your answers!!!

Special mentions this month go to: Madison,

Tayana and Aiza!

Thanks and enjoy the challenge,

Mr Mitchell

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SEND Games Next week, some of our children will take part in

the SEND Games at Concord, we hope that they

have a great time! Children who are taking part will

have had a letter from school.

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F2ES Yannick For always trying his best in RWI and being a great partner, well done!

Khizr For practising and practising to write his name, and now he can, well done!

F2WA Muhammad For working hard with his Mum every morning to practise his writing, well done!

Luwam For thinking of some fantastic adjectives to describe mini beasts, well done!

Y1WM Jonathan For being such as amazing ambassador for St Catherine’s on our trip to the Yorkshire

Wildlife Park, well done!

Haris For concentrating, following the rules, and working very hard all week, well done!

Y1RW Halli For being such good friends

Lily

Y2LD Ekene For great participation in the sports trip, well done!

Armaan For always working hard and trying his best, well done!

Y2LA Anns For working really hard in Miss Ng’s reading group, to slow down and read the punctuation

correctly, well done!

Solyana For always coming into school with a fantastic attitude and a huge smile on her face. She

is always kind to everyone in our school, well done!

Y3GP Sema For beautiful sitting, well done!

Tadi

Y3IF Haris For swimming a lengths with no swimming aids, well done!

Wafa For trying hard in all subjects, especially ones she doesn’t find easy, well done!

Y4RH Emma For consistently making the right choices in class, well done!

Rhema For being extra critical of her own drafting when editing her work in literacy, well done!

Y4IK Ashley For making good choices in where to sit during independent work, and producing high

quality Literacy work through thorough concentration, well done!

Samudu For showing good participation in Maths workshops, and improving the standard of his

presentation, well done!

Y5ES Abu-bakr For trying really hard in his Literacy work, well done!

Isikena For always trying his best and doing the right thing, well done!

Y5RC Vermon For being creative in Art and taking fantastic photographs, well done!

Thuraiya For always having a brilliant attitude to learning, well done!

Y6JW Kelsey For always being consistent, behaving to a very high standard, listening, following instructions, and being all round excellent role models for the class, well done! William

Y6MT Logan For overcoming many challenges in Maths, showing a great positive attitude and not

giving up, well done!

Imogen For continuing to work hard and tackle any challenge, and as a result, growing in fantastic

confidence, especially in Maths, well done!

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Lunchtime Awards WOW

BEAT IT

MUGA

LT Challenge

Reader of the Week F2ES Ayesha For enjoying reading, well done!

F2WA Jaber For retelling his book of the week, well done!

Y1WM Jonathan For working his way quickly towards his Platinum award, well done!

Y1RW Eisa For huge progress, well done!

Y2LD Jeriah For great work in his reading group with Miss Ng, well done!

Y2LA Meerab For doing her Reading Record every single night, well done!

Y3GP Madjid For always bringing his Reading Record to school, well done!

Y3IF Safaa For finding a book that gripped her, and consistently completing her Reading Record, well

done!

Y4RH Elizabeth For always bringing in her Reading Record, well done!

Y4IK Raheem For achieving his Platinum reading certificate, well done!

Y5ES Zeah For the effort she put in for her fantastic reading review, well done!

Y5RC Isaac For reaching Platinum level in his Reading Record, well done!

Y6JW Julita For using reading strategies for work problem questions (read it, then read it again!) and

always volunteering to read out loud to the class, well done!

Y6MT Olivia

Aminah For both achieving their Platinum award, well done!

Key Stage 1 Maths Challenge – May 2018

The Gobstopper

Key Stage 2 Maths Challenge – May 2018

The Seven Bridges of Konigsberg

The old town of Königsberg has seven bridges:

Can you take a walk through the town, visiting each part of the town

and crossing each bridge only once?

Mrs Tipping has given you all the challenge of designing four badges that illustrate the Four C

thinking skills in P4C: Caring, Collaborative, Creative and Critical. Below are some of the ways

we use the Four C skills:

Caring - listen to and value responses.

Collaborative - build on and support arguments.

Critical - give reasons, question assumptions and make judgements.

Creative - make connections and suggest examples or alternatives.

The winning designs will be made into badges which will be awarded each week when a teacher

recognises excellent use of P4C skills!