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Friday, 17th November, 2017

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DIARY FOR WEEK COMMENCING

20th November 2017:

Mon Y3 Ukueles Club (lunchtime)

Y1 Netball Skills

Y2/3 Tennis

Y2/3 Chess

Y3 Tag Rugby

Y3 Netball

Y2 Speech & Drama

Tues

Y2/3 Choir (lunchtime)

Y1 Speech & Drama

Y1/2/3 Ballet

Y2/3 Karate

Y1/2 Creative Crafts

Y2/3 Chess

Y2 Netball

Y3 Swim Club

Wed

1J Assembly

Rec/Y1 Yoga Bunnies (lunchtime)

Rec Speech & Drama

Y1/2 Sign Language

Y2/3 Yoga

Y3 Sewing Club (2nd group)

Y2 Art Club

Y3 Recorders

Thurs

RB Assembly

Rec Arts & Crafts

Y1 iPad Club

Y2 Tag Rugby

Y2/3 Creative Film Club

Y3 Hockey Club

Y2/3 Book Club

Y3 Badminton Club Fri Y1 Football

Y2 Sport

Y3 IT Club (2nd group)

This week has been Anti-bullying week. The theme this year has been

‘All different, All equal, All welcome’. It started off with a wonderful

assembly organised by Mrs Clarke, supported by Miss Beadle and Miss

O’Sullivan. Throughout the week the children have completed many

activities in PSHEE lessons and throughout the curriculum. Year 3 have

made fantastic quote posters using #choosekind and Year 2 made mixed

up characters to show we are all unique.

Year 1 listened to the story of the day, ‘The

Crayons Quilt’ and Reception produced

wonderful videos after watching a clip of

children talking about their differences.

Please click here to view.

Today is Children in Need and the children

have all dressed in spots and home clothes. They have all completed a

sponsored walk raising money for this wonderful charity. A total will be

published in next week’s newsletter – thanks for your support.

On Saturday 18th (tomorrow), Friends of St Olave’s will be holding a

Christmas Shopping Fair. This will take place between 11am – 1pm in

the Shepherds Hall. Entrance to the fair is free and there will be a wide

range of Christmas gifts and treats on sale along with home baked cakes,

tea and coffee and an exciting raffle. St Olave’s School charity this year

is www.snappyyork.co.uk and proceeds of the Christmas Shopping Fair

will go towards this charity.

My thanks to the parents who attended our presentation ‘learning for

the future – Thematic Curriculum at Clifton’. It was wonderful to see

so many parents at the event and I have really appreciated the positive

feedback you have provided. The aim of the presentation was to

provide an insight into how and why we have created our curriculum

and the research supporting the curriculum design and approaches

demonstrating the importance we place on the school values and our

learning superhero’s (habits). My sincere thanks to Mrs Clarke for

preparing the presentation and to Chef Sarah for providing the

refreshments. We hope to look at other opportunities to provide an

insight to our teaching methods in the future. Please let Mrs Clarke or

myself know of any ideas for future information evenings.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend.

Best wishes

This week in 1T we have been continuing our work on light and dark. The children have enjoyed putting on their own bird of prey shows after our visit from the Bird of Prey centre last week. They have also begun to learn about some other nocturnal animals and writing about them. We have been making our owls choosing our own design

and writing which materials we need to complete our task. In maths we have been continuing to learn about subtraction learning how to extract the information we need from a word problem, make subtraction triangles and tackling tricky missing numbers. Our sewing table has been a big hit this week and the children have been

demonstrating what good fine motor skills they have. In between we have managed to fit in a 2 mile sponsored run/walk for Children in Need. Well done 1T have a well- deserved rest this weekend!

LOST PROPERTY Beth

Searby’s swim hat and

Elliott Lewis’ PE bag—

please look for them!

It was another busy week at Playgroup, we made owls which looked outstanding and cute, I really love all the ones the mummies did! Also we had another yummy cake as it was Oliver's Birthday. For the next two weeks as Mrs Hayden is busy with the Christmas Performance rehearsals, we will play with the parachute instead,which I am sure will be lots of fun. Next week there is an assembly on in the Rayson Room till 9am so after the assembly we can set up Playgroup together. See you all next week! Mrs Deri-Clarke

An Elf Recipe!

On Monday morning ‘Pickle’ the Elf had left an Elf Breakfast ready and waiting for us! We had never seen an Elf Breakfast before so were very curious to learn what it might be!

Pickle left 5 recipe cards each describing a recipe for compassion, patience, friendship, happiness and kindness. We followed the recipe cards making delicious, edible breakfasts to start our day. Over breakfast we chatted about why each recipe was a good breakfast and reasons why understanding feelings and emotions

are important. The children were filled with goodness and ready to start each school day with a great attitude! Thanks to Pickle we were able to learn that everyone is different, all equal and all welcome, no matter what.

Christmas Card orders – order deadline midday Monday 20th November

Your child’s Christmas Card came home in their book bags

yesterday. Details for ordering are included inside the card.

Please note that this year it is possible to order online, as well as by

returning a form to the school office.

If you need to change any details on your card (eg your child’s name is

spelt incorrectly) you can do this on both types of order form.

Online orders can be placed on this link www.fat-chilli.com/login.php

Please return any order forms to the post box on the office desk, together

with a cheque made out to ‘Fat-Chilli Cards & Gifts’.

The deadline for completing all orders is midday on Monday 20th

November.

Ordering by this deadline will ensure that your cards are delivered to

school free of charge by Monday 4th December.

If you miss this deadline, you can continue to order online up to Thursday

30th November. Orders placed online between 21st and 30th November will

incur a £3.50 delivery charge and the cards will be sent direct to your home

address within 7 days.

The children at Clifton are busy showing off their creative side in their dance lessons. From colours, alphabet actions, animal movements, fireworks and even some potions and wizardry, they have let their imaginations flow!

This week in 2H we have been

learning about Viking poetry! We

discovered that the Vikings invented

a way of writing poetry called

Kennings, or Drapas, which is a little

bit like writing a riddle. We read lots

of examples, trying to guess what

was being described. We decided to

write our own Kennings about

Nosepicker, Sigurd’s very special sword. We set about some very challenging team work, using

the technique of noun then verb and writing one line each in our groups. We then decided on

the order that the lines should be in, without making sure that ours was at the top! Our

finished poems show that we write rather violent and very descriptive poems…! We are working

on writing up our finished poems and illustrating them carefully-

come and see our finished work in Year 2!

1J have been Rita Resilient

learners this week – they have shown curiosity and enthusiasm when learning all about the different planets as part of our topic and assembly preparation. Challenge the children to tell you an interesting fact about one of the planets. We have been making nocturnal animal masks using different materials and followed this

up with research about our chosen nocturnal animal using a range of texts and websites.

In Maths we have been using number lines and hundred squares to solve subtraction problems and we are continuing to manipulate the numbers within the problems to see what other number sentences we can create.

We completed our sponsored walk for Children in Need which was a 2 mile walk/ run by the river. The children worked really hard and even out ran some of

the grown-ups! Well done 1J, a great effort.

Theo brought his Viking ship that he has

made with all of the Battersby family into

school this week! He enjoyed telling us all

about how it was made and had to have

help holding it up as it is so large!

This week Year 3

have been

completing their

script writing,

ready to start

filming! At Forest

School we

rehearsed our

scenes and gave

feedback on each

other’s performances to

help improve our final

pieces. As part of anti-bulling week some of

the children have been using their videoing

skills to record themselves discussing why we

are all unique! The children came with some

beautiful ideas about how we are all different and all

equal. In Maths we are continuing on our magical

measuring journey. We have been hunting around

school for different measurements and looking at how we can measure accurately.

We have been measuring brooms, wands and potion

bottles! Finally a big well done

to all of 3M for their fantastic

performance on Wednesday!

Your costumes were amazing

and you filled the whole room

with laughter while

demonstrating your great acting.

Well done, you made us very

proud!

In Art Club this week, we have been making scraper boards of Viking

treasures. However, we always start with some art history and this week

Mrs Hall showed us a painting called The Ambassadors, by Hans Holbein,

painted in 1533, when Elizabeth 1 was Queen of England. We learnt about

how well the picture was painted, looking at the fur and the silk, as well

as the detail on the cloth and the curtain. We looked at the painting from

the side, so that we could see the skull, painted cleverly so that we are

reminded that no one lives forever. Then we discussed whether or not it

was right that the people who cleaned the painting a few years ago should

have corrected the mistake in the cloth that Holbein had made. We de-

cided that they shouldn’t have done that. Seb Gemmell spoke really well

about why we should leave things as the artist did them, even though

those artists are not alive any more, apart from cleaning them. Mrs Clarke

and Mrs Hall were really impressed with art club’s thinking!

‘All Different, All Equal, All Welcome’

Anti-Bullying Week

We began with a whole school assembly to introduce the theme of

the week.

Year 3 demonstrated how they are all different and what a special

and wonderful thing it is to be unique. We sang ‘I’m Ok’ and

then RS sang their favourite song ‘True Colours’ to remind

us to always be ourselves and let our ‘true colours shine

through’. We finished our assembly by thinking about being a

school that welcomes everyone, so Miss Beadle and sign

language club taught us to say good morning, good afternoon,

good evening and good night using sign language. This reminded us that we can be

friendly and welcoming to everyone.

Throughout the week in PSHEE we used clips and extracts from the book (and soon

to be released film) of Wonder to explore difference and diversity and why we should

treat everyone equally and with kindness. We all liked this quote from the story:

“You can’t blend in when you were born to stand out”

Year 3 made some fantastic quote posters using the #choosekind and Year 2 made mixed up characters

to show that we are all unique. Year 1 listened to the story of the ‘Day the Crayons Quit’ which helped

them to think about all being different, but all being important. They all made their crayon to represent

themselves which they added to the box which says:

“We are all a box of crayons, each one of us unique, but when we get together the picture is complete”.

After watching a clip of children talking about their differences each class made their own film to share

with the school. They are fantastic!

The children have all had a great time and really thought hard about diversity, equality and kindness. Well

done everyone!

Mrs Clarke

After our skating expeditions, this week RB have been investigating ice! We filled ice cube trays with water

using squeezy pipettes and were very excited the following day to discover cold, hard, slippery ice! The children

chose where to leave an ice cube – in a bowl on the radiator, desk, in the fridge or wrapped up in bubble wrap

and half an hour later we discovered which ice cubes had melted completely, a little, a lot or not at all! We were

shocked to find the ice cubes wrapped up in a bubble wrap blanket stayed cold and didn’t warm up and melt!

Where in the world could we find even more ice?!

This week in school we have been celebrating Anti-bullying Week, with a particular focus on celebrating being different, being equal and being welcoming to

all!

We have celebrated each others achievement’s and talked about what sets us apart from each other. Gender, looks and things we are good at were just a few of the things we came up with. However, we all appreciated the fact that without us having different talents, different ideas and different looks, not only would it be

difficult for Miss Murray to tell us apart, but life would also be

dull and rather boring! We discussed the importance of making mistakes and learning from our own experiences!

The week has been filled with activities involving us working collaboratively on challenges and practicing being the best version of ourselves– and a jolly good job we did of it too!

News from the Friends

The Friends of Clifton enhances the experience for all of our children through events and

resources for school, as well as serving to involve parents in the school community. Additionally, it

helps to raise money for the school charity. We invite everyone to get involved and help the

Friends to support our school.

Meetings

Our next meeting is on Thursday 18th January, 08:30am, Clifton Dining Room and all

parents are invited to attend. We are always looking for volunteers to help with events

and we would be most grateful if you could help in any way.

Below is a list of events which we are planning to run throughout the year. If you would

like to get involved with any of these please speak to the person organising the event from

the list below:

Events

Christmas Term

Christmas Activity Day – Mrs Clarke

* Pop Up Christmas Cafe following Christmas Activity Day in the Dining Room

3.15pm onwards selling hot and cold drinks, donated cakes and buns, to raise

money for CSF.

* Christmas Elves from The Elves Store will be for sale - £3 each (50p per elf sale

to be donated to charity).

* cake and bun donations to be dropped off in the atrium on the morning of

Christmas Activity Day Friday 8th December.

* Does anyone have any Christmas crafts that they would like to sell at the Pop

Up Cafe?

Easter Term

* Valentine Disco for the children – Mrs Evans and Mrs Ingham

Summer Term

* Ball – Mrs Wright

* Summer Fair ‘Clif-Fest’ – Mrs Stubbs

* Teddy Bear’s Picnic (Homestead Park) – (volunteer needed)

A huge thank you for your incredibly generous donations for Children in Need. So far you have helped us to raise

a fantastic total of over £1,600.00. The children had a fabulous day and all enjoyed taking part in the sponsored

walk/run for Children in Need. In assembly Mrs Clarke showed us a short clip of two little girls in Leeds who,

through Children in Need, had been able to take part in the transplant games. A wonderful example of our school

value of compassion in action. Any outstanding donations can be bought to the school office.

Housepoints

Walmgate

Value Champions

James, Imogen,

Henry, Cissy, Hettie,

Heidi, Tabitha, Belle

and Daisy

Superheroes

Lachlan, Diya, Guy,

Alice, Travis, Victoria,

Arthur, Perin, Arthur

and Georgina

Core 5

Music Awards

Bo and Amélie

Silver

Alexander, Oscar, Georgina, Jack,

Will, Daisy, Joseph and Jacob

Gold

Hannah, Alex,

William,

Margherita

and Louis

Barbara Taylor Bradford in conversation

Monday 27 November 7pm

Leeds-born Barbara Taylor Bradford is something of a Yorkshire legend. With her books

having sold nearly 100 million copies, she will be talking about her life, her work and her

new novel, Secrets of Cavendon. Book your free tickets here.

Terry Waite: Survival in Solitude

Wednesday 6 December 7pm

Terry Waite was taken hostage in Lebanon in 1987 and held in solitary confinement for

1,763 days. Following his release in 1991, Terry has gone on to write a number of books

and take up presidency of two major charities. Book your free tickets here.

Science Society Christmas Lecture

Tuesday 12 December 7pm The St Peter’s Science staff return for their hugely popular annual lecture, featuring

fascinating insights, interactive challenges and dynamic demonstrations, this year

focusing on the periodic table. Book your free tickets here.

If you have any access requirements, are hard of hearing or have any other special

requests, please book your tickets using Eventbrite, then email

events@stpetersyork.org.uk or call 01904 527 315, stating which event(s) you are

attending and how many tickets you have booked.

Please note that many of our events sell out, and you must bring your ticket with you

to guarantee entry. Please either print off your ticket or display it to us on your

smartphone or tablet on the evening. With all best wishes, Ben Fuller, Head of Public

Lectures, St Peter’s School, York, YO30 6AB

Tickets are now available for the St Peter’s School

Christmas Term Public Lectures.