Stottesdon C. of E.

Primary School Shropshire Gateway Educational Trust

Tel: 01746 718617 Email: admin@stottesdon-school.co.uk

Website: http://stottesdon-school.co.uk/home

…we really care and make learning fun.

10th January 2020

Diary Dates

Monday 13th January Guitar/Ukulele Lessons.

Mini Tag Rugby & Basketball After School Clubs.

Tuesday 14th January Teme Class @ Forest School within the school day (please come in outdoor clothes — uniform in bag).

Keyboard/Flute/recorder Lessons.

Mini Kickers After School Club, Corve class Homework Club & Severn Class SATS booster session.

3:30pm FoSPS Meeting in school, all welcome.

Wednesday 15th January Corve class Pottery @ Lacon, within the school day.

Craft After School Club.

Thursday 9th January Corve class STEM @ Lacon, within the school day.

Choir After School Club.

Friday 10th January Corve class Pottery @ Lacon, within the school day.

Tag Rugby After School Club.

Parents Evenings

Please find a parents’ evening letter attached to our newsletter this week.

You will note that there slight date variations for some teachers.

Requests should be returned by completing the attached request form, or by sending an email to the office as soon as possible, but no later than Friday 17th January please.

There will be no consultations for Nursery pupils this term, but if parents have any concerns, they are most welcome to contact their child's key adult.

London Residential July 2020

All first instalments for Severn class residential stay should have been paid by the

end of last term (£75.00 online). If you haven't already done so, please pay as soon as

possible.

The second instalment of £75.00 is now also available to pay online. This should be paid by the end of the spring term, or as soon as possible please.

Bags2School

Children are bringing home Bags2School bags once again for any unwanted clothing items you

may have.

Suggested items are as follows:- good quality adult and children's clothing (no uniform

please), paired shoes, hats, belts, handbags, soft toys, bedding, curtains and towels.

Bags should be returned on Wednesday 22nd January 2020 - by 9.00am - please leave them

under the shelter for collection.

Guitar/Ukulele lessons

The cost for children participating in guitar/ukulele lessons for the Spring term 2020 is £78.33 per pupil (10

lessons). This should be paid on our online payment system sQuid

as soon as possible please.

Teme Class

What a fun first day we had on Tuesday, building a campfire and roasting marshmallows at Forest School. We carried out little investigations with ice, to see how we could change it into a liquid. We have two more sessions booked for Tuesday 14th and 21st January 2020.

This first part of the term we are looking at the topic ‘People who help us in our community’. If any parents or relatives would like to come in and talk about their career or how they help in the community, our Reception class would enjoy the chance to practice their questioning skills. In our role play area, we have created a doctor’s surgery.

Look at the independent writing we found.

Does anybody have an old, no longer needed/working, corded telephone they would like to donate to our role play, please ?

Pawscars 2020 It is with great pleasure that we can announce that Stottesdon Primary school’s very own Maisie Allenby has been nominated for this year’s ‘Junior of the year’ at the PAWSCARS (which is the Dog showing world’s equivalent to the Oscars). It is a great achievement to receive a nomination and Maisie is one of the youngest to be nominated and is now in the final four. Voting has started and Maisie would be very grateful to receive any votes for her in the junior section (one vote per person) – this

can be done at the PAWSCAR website in the ‘Vote Now for 2020’ section at www.thepawscars.org.uk. Many thanks and please vote for Maisie.

New Year Resolution Happy New Year everyone! As we begin 2020, it would be great to see pupils in full school uniform and looking smart please. This is important as it is always less distracting in learning and less competitive. Earrings should be plain studs. No nail varnish. Hair bobbles should be a plain and simple hair bobble (preferably in school colours) - no fashion items please—one or two are currently more suitable for out of school!

Severn Class Congratulations to all the year 6 children who attended

the STEM morning at Lacon for their excellent behaviour and team work. Well done to Natasha,

Ruby, Adam, Daisy, Mia and Elsie whose team won

the challenge to build a stadium.

SATs club: From next

Tuesday Mrs McKay will be holding weekly SAT

booster sessions after school (3:15 – 4:15). Please let the office know if you would like your child to

attend.

There is a SATs revision book which Mrs McKay recommends – if parents would like to order a copy please pay online via squid by 24th January 2020. We will then be able to order copies through the school @ £2.50 which will be cheaper than ordering privately.

Stottesdon Gateway Nursery

Welcome back after the Christmas break. Our topic this half term is ’People Who Help Us’. We will be looking at postal workers, police officers, doctors/nurses, vets and fire fighters.

Talk for Writing: The Gingerbread Man

Nursery Rhyme of the Week: Days of the Week

If you received a funding form to complete last term, please could these be returned as soon as possible, to secure your funding.

PE Sessions: From next week, we will be introducing PE sessions once a week for our older nursery children (those attending school in September 2020). We will be practicing getting changed for PE independently, please provide shorts/tracksuit bottoms and trainers in a labelled bag.

Changes to the Green Home Diaries:As our nursery sessions are getting busy, we are having to adapt the way we complete your child’s green home diary. We will limit the written information in the home diary to be brief notes, as and when required for e.g. accidents / letters / forms / events. We will check the home dairies for any information or notes from yourselves.

At the end of your child’s session, we will continue to provide a detailed verbal report of your child’s day at nursery. Please feel free to ask us as many questions. Your child’s keyworker will update tapestry (weekly) with evidence of your child’s learning at SGN. There will also be a notice board by the peg area, with daily activity and menu information displayed.

FoSPS (Friends of Stottesdon Primary School)

Lottery winners, Saturday 21st December Tracey Clinton, Saturday 28th December Bianca Donnelly, Saturday 4th January Abigail Taylor, congratulations to all 3 winners!

A massive thank you to everyone who donated items for the Christmas hampers, baked cakes and biscuits for the school Christmas performances and purchased raffle tickets, we raised a Grand Total of £672.87 for our school.

If anyone has any unwanted tins/boxes of chocolates, or chocolate bars left over from Christmas, then please hand them into reception at school — FoSPS are organising a Chocolate Bingo event in March / April (date to be confirmed) so any unwanted chocolate would be gratefully received.

FoSPS Dates: Tuesday 14th January, FoSPSmeeting at school at 3.30pm — All welcome.

Corve Class Miss Robinson will be offering homework club on a Tuesday (3:15-4:00) for Corve class and

year 5s.

Tesco Tokens

Lacon Childe School has been selected by Tesco in Tenbury to be included in the 'Tesco Bags of

Help' scheme. Please see attachment.

Rea Class

Phonics next week for year one will focus on phase five tricky words and practicing our split digraphs.

Spellings for year two will focus on year two tricky words.

Corve Class

Corve Class enjoying learning about tenths outside. The children drew a number line showing tenths as fractions and decimals.

Curriculum Maps

Please see attached curriculum maps for this term. These maps highlight the different areas of learning for each class across the curriculum.

Well done this week to: Teddy for remembering our campfire safety rules and why it’s important to be safe around a fire.

Harriet W and Elliot for their detailed description and drawing of the characteristics of modern Toys. Ronnie for her work on possessive apostrophes. Nate for independently remembering to use possessive apostrophes in his writing. Handwriting star of the week is Lana for her focus on her handwriting in her topic work. Lilly May for her excellent effort in guided reading this week. Felicity, Rhys and Archie C for their fantastic work on tenths in maths. Samuel for excellent progress in his music lessons. Louisa for using ambitious words in English. Jack for enthusiastically sharing his book with Mrs King. Book Awards: Scarlett W, Teddy, Noah P.D., Jasmin, Torrhen, Zach B, Mia H, Felicity, Nils, Ana, Archie C, Lilly May, Lottie D, Billy, Lottie G, Henry G, Archie M and Ruby W., Paige, Isaac and Mya M Spelling Bee: Mia W and Adam

Achievers

Class Reading Information:

Teme=68% Rea=77% Corve Yr3=100% Yr4 = 90% Severn=97%

Sports News

Sports Champion

Teme: Jenson Strong demonstrated fantastic concentration as he controlled a ball in PE, by moving it around his body using a range of methods.

Rea: Payton for showing fair play in our co-operation games.

“After school I think I will go home and eat my tea.” Noah W

“I asked my Mummy if I could do something and she testily said, ’No, definitely not!’ Ana

“Exasperated, I slammed my bedroom door because my mum said I had to do my homework”. Adam

“The pen was inconvenient because it was made out of chocolate”. Billy C