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Christmas Activity Day has proved to be a hugely successful event. The children
were divided up in vertical groups with children from Reception, Year 1, Year 2
and Year 3 in each group. This enabled the Year 3 children to act as role models
and look after the younger children, so forming friendship bonds across the
school. The activities included printing, making reindeer hot chocolate and
snowman jars, party games and preparing reindeer food and light up reindeers.
My thanks to the amazing staff at Clifton for organising the activities, Clifton
School Friends for all their support and for the Christmas gifts and the army of
parents who came to help. Our amazing Chef Sarah prepared a delicious
Christmas lunch for all the children, staff and parent helpers. Thank you to
everyone for making the day so special for the children and huge thanks in
particular to Mrs Clarke for all her hard work in coordinating this event.
On Wednesday 1S presented their assembly, based on their themes this term.
They spoke clearly as they performed their re-enactment of Scott’s journey to
Antarctica. They also sang two songs beautifully. Well done to all of the children
and to Miss Seymour and Mrs Greenall for preparing them.
All our Reception children travelled to Xscape for a trip to the slopes. The
children had a fabulous day sledging and having great fun. A huge thank you to
Miss O’Sullivan, Mrs Loftus, Mrs Brunton and Mrs Bateson and all of the parent
helpers accompanying the trip. What a great day—please see the photos here
on Facebook.
Today we say goodbye to Lisa and Jana, our two German students, who have
been working in school with us this term. They have been a great support to the
children and staff and we wish them both well in the future. My sincere thanks to
both of them for all of their amazing work in school.
Last Friday Year 2 had a visit from Margaret Bateson-Hill, author of the Firebird.
She gave a reading from her book that has inspired the children’s learning and she
was very impressed with the children’s work this term. My thanks to Mrs Hall
and Mrs Spencer for organising such a wonderful visit.
Finally, I have been coaching the girls’ U18 hockey 2nd team this year. The girls
have been excellent and so far have had an unbeaten season. Tomorrow is our
last game of the season, against Pocklington which will be a tough final game. The
girls have worked hard all season for each other and had so much fun—our
children have so much to look forward to as they move through St Olave’s and
St Peter’s. To help the girls Alex Danson, the GB Olympic ladies hockey gold
medallist, coached a session at school and spoke to the girls about her journey in
the sport she loves. At break time we borrowed Alex to come and talk to our
children, answer questions and show the children her Olympic gold medal. My
thanks to Alex for giving her time and to the staff at St Peter’s for organising her
visit.
We have a tradition of rowing at St Peter’s and St Olave’s, made possible by the
good fortune of having a river running past the school. St Peter’s Boat Club
Supporters Group are currently organising the boat club’s annual dinner dance at
the Merchant Adventurers Hall on 4 February 2017. This year’s speakers are the
Yorkshire Rows (Atlantic mums). If you would like to join them for a fun and
well attended Dinner Dance, please see the flyer in this newsletter for further
information. Wishing you a wonderful weekend.
CoMPasS You can follow us ...….. Newsletter No: 11
Friday 2nd December 2016 Registered Charity No: 1141329
WEEK COMMENCING 5th DEC
DIARY:
Mon Y3 Badminton Club (lunchtime)
Y1 Ball Skills
Y2 Maths Club
Y1/Y2/Y3 Forest School Club
Y2/3 Yoga
Y3 Netball
Y3 Tennis
Reception Speech & Drama
Tues
Y2/3 Choir (lunchtime)
Y1 Lego
Y1/2/3 Ballet
Y2 Gym Club
Y2/3 Karate
Y3 Speech & Drama
Y2/3 Chess
Y3 Swimming Club
Wed 2:30-3:30pm Christmas Pop Up Shop, Memorial Hall, St Peter’s School
Y1 and Rec Yoga Bunnies (lunchtime)
No Co-Curricular Activities
ASC as normal
Thurs
Y3 Ukulele Club
(lunchtimes)
Y2/3 Multi Sports
Y2/3 Street Dance
Y2/3 Travellers Club
Y2 Library Club/Book Club
NO SWIMMING Fri Y2 Football
Y2/3 Jewellery Club
Y3 Football
Reception Get Messy
Christmas Pop Up Shop
Wed 7th December
2:30 pm to 3:30 pm
Please come along to our
Christmas Pop Up Shop next
Wednesday in the Memorial
Hall at St Peter’s School—all
welcome!
DIARY FOR THE FINAL WEEK OF TERM (Monday 12th December to Friday 16th December)
Music Lessons will also continue as normally as possible!
For all Christmas Performances, please park on the St Peter’s campus only. Disabled parking is available at St
Olave’s, please speak to Mrs Fattorini or Mrs Hulmes.
Monday 12th
December
Y3 Badminton Club (lunchtime) as normal
No Co-Curricular Activities, After School Care as normal
1.30 pm Nursery Christmas Performance in Nursery, followed by refreshments for parents in
the Dining Room.
2.15 pm Reception Christmas Performance in the Rayson Room, refreshments for parents
available before and after the performance in the Dining Room.
Children may be taken home after the performances.
5.30 pm Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3 Christmas Performances in the Shepherd Hall at St Olave’s
School. Children may stay at school once the school day has finished as we will provide
activities in their classrooms, followed by a packed tea (please advise the school office if you
would like your child to opt out of this).
Year 1 will perform first and parents of Year 1 children may collect their child following their
performance from St Olave’s, if they so wish.
Year 2 and Year 3 will perform and Year 2 will wait in classrooms at St Olave’s until Year 3
have finished their performance. Year 2 and Year 3 children will be taken back to Clifton
School following their performances. Please can parents collect their children from Clifton
School.
Refreshments available for parents in the Dining Room at St Olave’s following the last
Tuesday 13th
December
Y2/3 Choir (lunchtime) as normal
Co-Curricular Activities as normal, After School Care as normal
7.00 pm Public Lecture: Science Christmas Lecture
Wednesday
14th December
Reception/Yoga Bunnies (lunchtime) as normal
No Co-Curricular Activities, After School Care as normal
1.30 pm Years 1, 2 and 3 Christmas Performances in the Shepherd Hall at St Olave’s.
Refreshments available for parents in the Dining Room at St Olave’s following the last
performance.
All children will be taken back to Clifton School following the performances. Please can
parents collect their children from Clifton School.
Thursday 15th
December
No Co-curricular activities, No After School Care
No curriculum swimming
2.45 pm seasonal refreshments available in the Memorial Hall at St Peter’s School.
3.45 pm Christingle Service in the School Chapel
This is a wonderful opportunity for your family to enjoy a Festive Celebration together in the
School Chapel. All children are expected to attend this service and to be taken home directly
after the service.
Friday 16th
December
12.00 noon End of Term
No Co-Curricular activities, No After School Care
Torben Woolf has lost his school hat—it is
named. Please look out for it! Thank you.
Silver
Jinyi, Theo, Helena, Thomas, Ansh, Emelia,
Pietro, Margherita, Joshua, Diya, Kobe and
Elizabeth
Gold Class Winners
Some Charity Ambassadors visited Mrs Hobbs and Mrs Johnson in the finance office to deliver the donations received for our Children in Need day. We raised a staggering £382.42(in addition to the £1
donation added to your fee account which is amazing.
This week in 1M we have
been beavering away making
things for our pop-up stall in
the Memorial Hall next Wednesday!
We have had all hands on deck and
have thoroughly enjoyed working
collaboratively to create our FABULOUS
items! Along with the making of our
secret products, we have been making
posters, bunting and discussing in-
depth pricing structures! We have
been looking at how much things cost,
profits and offers. It’s been a fantastic
learning experience and we are looking
forward to selling our limited edition
merchandise!
Roll up, roll up!
On Monday RS
started the week in the
school Chapel. The
children searched
around the chapel for
carefully placed
Christmas objects.
This sparked a
conversation ‘What is
Christmas?’ The
children shared their family customs and traditions, discussed the importance of
giving and receiving presents as well as their knowledge of the fantastic Father Christmas.
In small groups the children created mind maps illustrating their thoughts and sharing their
perceptions. Thanks to Reverend Jones who visited the children during the morning also. It
definitely feels like the beginning of the Christmas season now!
This week 3C went to St Olave’s to visit the Cosmodome. We were inspired with the wonders of space in the inflatable planetarium. We flew through the Solar System looking at the planets. We watched the Sun move across the sky and discovered what happens to the stars during the day time and finally watched a short animation about space exploration. A very exciting afternoon!
This week Reception learnt about a
favourite French puppet show
called Guignol. We talked about
how puppets shows are very popular
in France, looked at different
types of puppets, watched clips of
a very funny Guignol show and got
our very own spoon puppets to
dance to a French song!
Christmas Pop Up Shop
Wednesday 7th December
2:30 pm to 3:30 pm Please come along to our Christmas Pop Up
Shop next Wednesday in the Memorial Hall at St
Peter’s School—all welcome!
Each class has been provided with a small amount
of money to increase for charity. Each class are
creating something to sell at our Christmas ‘Pop
up Shop’. All profits will go to our school charity
‘Small Steps Project’ and there will be class prizes
for the most original products and the most prof-
it raised. This type of enterprise education is at-
tempting to create an awareness of the value of
money and will involve mathematics. literacy, de-
sign, art, creativity and use all of our super pow-
ers of collaboration, reflection, resourcefulness
and resilience.
Last week we
designed snakes. They
were all very different and
had
wonderful colours.
This week we began the
festive mood by making pictures of santa and
decorating christmas trees.
They all looked fantastic.
Next week we have our
Christmas Party and the last Toddler Group until
Thursday
12th January.
See you all
next week.
Year 3 To round off our topic we will be having a VE Day
Party on Thursday 8th December.
We will also be watching Dad’s Army, the movie!
(Dad’s Army has a PG rating, if you would prefer your child not to watch this, please speak to their class teacher)
Thank you
The Year 3 Team
Housepoints
Monk
Core 5 Lexia
Emily, Kobe, Isaac, Aidan, Alex,
Ryan, Quatermain, Rohan
Emily, Alex, Huw, Thomas, Henry
Margherita, Monty and Dylan
Winners of the St. Peter’s Art Exhibition
Lyra, Emily, Diya,
Emily, Perim,
Theo and Arjan
(not shown)
Today we say a sad goodbye and big thank
you to our German Assistants Lisa König
and Jana Mosler. It has been great having
you both at Clifton School and we wish
you all the best for the future. Keep in
touch and come and visit us again soon!
auf Wiedersehen
This week 3P have been busy carrying out an investigation into which paper makes to best paper
aeroplane.
The children firstly learnt how to make a paper aeroplane and once their skills were perfected they made
lots of aeroplanes using different types of paper. They tested each plane and made sure it was a fair test.
Our results showed that tissue paper was definitely the worst material to use as it was too light and
delicate and just floated to the ground. The plain white paper seemed to be the best overall with card
coming a close second.
On Wednesday afternoon we were lucky enough to visit St Olaves where there was a Cosmodome set up.
The children looked up in amazement up at the night sky inside the dome and shared lots
of facts they remembered from the Space topic in Year 2!
On Friday the children bounded into school wearing their
Christmas jumpers and all looked very festive! Christmas
Activity Day was a great success and it was so lovely to
see the older children interacting and helping the
younger ones with their Christmas craft!
Next week we are looking forward to beginning our rehearsals for Cinderella &
Rockerfella, making our products for 3P’s Christmas Pop-up Shop and we will be
celebrating the end of our topic with a VE Day Party!
We were so excited to perform our assembly this week and share some of the things we’ve been learn-ing about in our Polar Explorers topic. The children looked fantastic in their costumes and worked so
Disaster struck when we found some penguins trapped in ice! We had to perform a special rescue
mission to free them. We tried different methods to melt the ice, predicted which would be quickest
and wrote up our experiment.
The Christmas elves have arrived in Nursery this week! The children have had lots of fun decorating their classroom; hanging baubles on the Christmas tree, setting up a Winter Wonderland and
making lots of lovely decorations for their Christmas 'pop up' shop stall. There has been lots of sparkle and glitter around - even in our Christmas playdough! The Christmas dressing up and Santa's workshop has proved very popular, with the children wrapping presents and getting everything organised for Christmas. If Santa needs any extra helpers this year Clifton Nursery
know just what to do.
Year 2 have said a very sad
goodbye to Lisa this week!
We have been so fortunate
to have her help since
September and she has been
such a great part of the Year
2 team. Amongst the many
things Lisa has done for us,
the children have listed,
Helping with sewing
Helping with writing
Helping with maths
Finding PE kit
Tidying up
Quiet Fox!
Making us laugh!
We are all very grateful to
Lisa and, we must have done
something right, she now
wants to train in Germany to
be a teacher!
Thank you Lisa - you have
been a Superstar!
A reminder that the Harrogate and District NHS Childhood Immunisation
Team will be visiting Clifton School on Monday 5th December to give the
Flu vaccination to pupils in Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3. If you have not already
returned your consent form to the office, please do so as soon as possible.
We do still need the form back, even if you do not wish your child to have this
vaccination. Thank you.
Christmas Cards
You should have received your Christmas cards and other items by now, if you have any items missing from your order then please let me know as soon as possible.
Christmas Activity Day
A BIG thank you to all the parents who very kindly gave their time to help at today’s Christmas Activity Day.
Forthcoming Events
Quiz Night – Friday 10th February 2017, 7.30pm in the Rayson Room
Please note change of date! Sign up sheets will be displayed this month for this fun evening. Teams will be either 6 or 8 people and the cost is £10 per person which will include some delicious food.
Parents’ Socials
Year 3 Mum’s & Dad’s Night Out – Friday 27th January 2017
Dates for your diary
CSF Meeting – Tuesday 17th January, 8.30 am in the school dining room – all welcome.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend,
Elizabeth