Welcome back after half term and I hope you all found time to

rest either at home or on holiday, ready for the exciting half term

ahead.

On Monday Madame Knighton organised a sensational French Day.

There was an accordionist, French Punch & Judy Show, boules, a

French market, French art, board games , beret and rosette

making! My thanks to all of the staff, parents and helpers for

leading such a good start to the half term.

As you have been aware, we have been recruiting new staff for

next academic year. I am very pleased to announce two new

teachers to the school, Miss Victoria Platts who currently teaches

at a Prep School in London and Miss Cathryn Seymour who

teaches at a state school in Yorkshire. We are delighted that they

are joining our team in September. The structure of staffing for

the next academic year will be as follows:

Nursery—Mrs Johnson, Mrs Penn, Mrs Moss, Mrs Ferguson, Mrs

Scrimshaw (who is covering Miss Heels’ maternity leave)

Reception—Miss O’Sullivan, Mrs Loftus, Mrs Bateson, Mrs

Brunton

Year 1—Miss Seymour, Miss Murray, Mrs Greenall, Mrs Headlam-

Morley

Year 2—Mrs Hall, Mrs Spencer, Mrs Franey, Mrs Taylor

Year 3—Miss Platts, Miss Riley, Miss Collins, Mrs Hart, Mrs

Dodds, Mrs Deri-Clark

On the same note, Mrs Judy Sunderland, our amazing secretary,

has confirmed that she is going to retire at the end of August. Mr

and Mrs Sunderland have bought a house in Southport and are

moving to be closer to their daughters and the sea! Judy has

provided wonderful support to me over the past five years and

there are no words that can express my thanks for all that she has

done for the school for the past 37 years. Judy has helped the

whole school community of staff, children and parents and we will

all have the opportunity to give huge thanks to her at the

appropriate time. We will be recruiting immediately, so there will

be details on our website early next week.

I am writing this before I accompany the Year 3 children on their

Residential Visit to Marrick Priory near Richmond, North

Yorkshire. You can follow us on twitter #cpsmarrick16 and

there will be photos on facebook next week.

The next weeks of term will be busy and exciting ones, so please

keep an eye on the diary on the front of our weekly newsletter,

our reminders email on Tuesdays and the television screens in

school so updates.

Finally, this weekend the Queen celebrates her 90th birthday. We

wish her all of the very best and hope she enjoys her

celebrations.

Have an enjoyable weekend.

Best wishes,

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Newsletter

No: 31

Friday, 10th

June, 2016

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Calendar

Term Dates

Uniform Lists

Registered Charity

No: 1141329

WEEK COMMENCING 13TH JUNE

Mon Lunchtime: Ukulele Club

Choir

Year 1 swimming (tbc)

Rec Speech & Drama, Y1

Active Skills, Y2 Kwik Cricket,

Y2 Summer Fun Club!, Y3

Tennis, Y3 Comic Club, Y3

Cricket Club

Tues

Y2/3 Karate (STO Sports Hall),

Y2 Summer Football, Ballet ,

Y3 Speech & Drama, Swim

Squad (tbc)

2.40pm Storytime in Nursery

and Reception

Wed 8.40am 2H Assembly

Rec/Y1 Big Construction, Y1

Speech & Drama, Green

Team (2nd Group), Y2 Art,

Y2/3 Running Club (2nd

Group), Y3 Garage Band

Thurs

Lunchtime: Y3 Ukulele Club

Y2/3 Swimming (tbc)

Construction Club, Y1 Kwik

Cricket, Y1/2 Ball skills, Y2

Speech & Drama, Chess,

Street Dance

Fri Lunchtime: Y3 Netball

Y3 Group 2 depart for

Activity Weekend

Y1 Art, Y2/3 Rounders, Y3

Cookery, No Y3 Summer

Football

Cathryn Seymour

Hi, My name is Kat Seymour and I’m very excited to be joining Clifton School and Nursery in September. Now in my fourth year of teaching, I am looking forward to

working alongside the fantastic team in Year 1. I am also thrilled to be relocating to the beautiful city of York where I can hopefully carry on my acting, dancing and crafting both in school and outside. I look forward to meeting you all soon.

Victoria Platts

I am currently a Year 2 teacher and English

Coordinator at a Pre-Preparatory School in

North London. Having decided to leave the city

behind and being originally from North

Yorkshire myself, I am looking forward to moving to York this

summer with my fiancé. During my spare time I enjoy

travelling, visiting galleries and playing tennis. I am also a keen

cook and absolutely love baking!

2H had a wonderful

morning on Tuesday, thanks to Mr

Whitehouse, DT teacher at St Peter’s. He

came in to help Year 2 make an orchestra

from rubbish! We made a drum from a

pedal bin, a drum and cymbal set, a lyre

from a chair arm, chimes from a chair

frame and lots of shakers! We are

preparing to play the instruments in our assembly next

Wednesday and now just need to practise playing!

Class Photographs

The class photographs are now available to order

online. A proof copy is displayed in your child’s

classroom.

Details on how to order:

1. Go to https://www.flexschools.co.uk/host/

nicesmile/or NiceSmile.co.uk click Client log-

in and select left hand side image.

2. Enter Access Code: 2016CLIFTO N

This week in Nursery we have been discovering

France. The children have made croissants, crepes and brioche to share. Through various picture books

we have learnt about famous landmarks in Paris as well as the French artists Monet and Matisse. This

has inspired us to make our own pictures and

paintings using different media, from powder paints and water colours to pastels. We have made the

most of the glorious sunshine to take our sketching down to the river and the Museum gardens. This

afternoon Emily's mummy came to chat to us about life in France. Thank you, what a wonderful end to

the week!

Hope you had a fantastic half term. The last time the group met was so much fun with all the buzzy bees flying around the room - the children even used them at song time.

Year 2 are very busy preparing for a sale of items

that they have made, to raise money for our

charity. We are supporting the Small Steps

Project, who aim to help children around the

world living on landfill sites. We will be selling

very special items and we would love it if you

would save the date and come and spend some

money!

Save the Date!

Wednesday 22nd June

3.20 pm

Clifton Dining Room

This week we made little birds attached to invisible string - they looked FANTASTIC! The

Buzzy Bees from the week before looked AMAZING too!

This week the

children have had

some super activities to

come back to. French

Day on Monday was a

great success with some very French

weather to help things along! On Tuesday Mr

Whitehouse came over from St Peter’s to help

make some fantastic instruments out of the

junk we have been hoarding. Some children

helped with this and others made shakers from

bottles and

different

fillings which made different sounds.

This week, eleven Y3 children took part in a French

competition organised by the Alliance Francaise de

York and the Eboracum Roman Festival. They had to

translate Roman numerals into French and describe

what the well-known characters Astérix & Obélix think

of their Roman foes. Félicitations to winner Isabelle in

3L who won a French comic book, English edition. We

hope you enjoy reading it Isabelle! Well done also to

all participants! Bravo!

Ils sont fous ces romains!

Belle Jones has lost her Cath

Kitson ballet bag containing her

ballet shoes and leotard—have

you seen it—please let us

Year 1 introduced themselves to special their Reception “buddy” this week. They wrote their buddy a letter offering kind words of advice and support about the transition into Year 1. We look forward to meeting with them again soon!

At last ‘the build’ has begun! RS were thrilled to see the structure for their project ready in the

playground after half term. They agreed the best place to start was the garden. It was decided

a combination of wood and brick would be used for the surrounding fence. They also decided to

make a blue shed for storage (this will store the climbing frame, slide, swing

set and paddling pool!), to decorate ceramic pots and use them for planting

and even to make their own garden gnomes using clay! It’s a very personal

and precious garden.

RS

Housepoint winners

this week:

Monk

Good Conduct

Margaux, Isla, Margherita, Persephone, Ollie,

Mathilde, Mimi, Tabitha, Alice, Sophie, Beatrice

Superstars

Darci, Taras, Jacob, Henry, Loki, Tom, Isobel, Aleena

Year 3’s treasure boxes have gone missing! Did you see anything suspicious between 6.15pm on Tuesday night and 7.30am on Wednesday morning? We have started our investigation! We have been looking around our classroom for clues and created an evidence bag. We have been very careful not to touch the items so we can check for fingerprints! We have been creating a suspect list, interviewing teachers around the school and we have started our police investigation board. We are now waiting to hear back from Mr Hardy about what the police have to say. We are confident we will find them again, but first of all we need to do a little bit of digging!

Scan the QR code

to watch who

we suspect has

done it!

#whodunit

Silver

Ansh, William,

William, Harry,

Arthur, Huxley,

Teerdha and Karim

Gold

Emily, Tizzy and Emily

3C enjoyed

filling their treasure boxes

earlier in the week!

We had an exciting visit to look around a different type of home…. A caravan! The children looked at the outside of the caravan, then went in to examine the inside. They were surprised how cleverly the beds were stored away, and there was everything you need in your own home,

including a shower!

Clifton School Friends

I hope you all had a relaxing half term holiday? The Hoody and Tote bag orders have now been sent and the finished goods should be winging their way back to us in about three weeks. Thank you to all the year 3 parents for being so accommodating about the amended colour chart.

With just under 4 weeks to go the Friends are focussing on two key events The Summer Fair 28th June and Clifton Big Top 1st October. An awful lot of work and organisation has gone into these events, we are very excited and would appreciate your support and attendance to make them a success.

Clifton School Friends Summer Fair

28th June 3.30pm-5.30 pm

This is a great way fun way for the children to celebrate their sporting efforts after the Clifton Sports Day. Held on the field after sports day all the firm favourites will be there including a inflatable obstacle course, Bouncy castle, Beat the keeper, Tombola, Beauty Parlour , Welly throwing and water balloon catching plus a new Coconut Shy and Name the Bear competition.

Bring a picnic, coffee, cake & ice-cream are available to buy and share in a really fun filled afternoon.

The Summer Fair relies on volunteers sign up sheets are located outside each classroom, whether you can donate 30 minutes or 2 hours of your time all help is welcomed.

Also we still need Tombola prizes (smellies, bottles, boxes of chocolates, toys, books anything goes really) please leave your donations in the basket located in reception.

Finally thank you to everyone who has bought in nail polish we now have enough to last us for quite a few pamper sessions so no more required.

Clifton Big Top

1st October 7.30 onwards St Peters Memorial Hall

Tickets £40pp on sale in reception

Every Monday 8-8.30am and Friday 3.15-4pm until the end of term

Roll up, roll up for this Circus themed whole school charity fundraising social extravaganza. The night promises to be lots of fun and a great way to catch up with friends new and old. There will be hot food, magic, juggling, a fortune teller, lots of fun ways to raise money for the schools charity and a live band so get your dancing shoes ready and grab your tickets quick before they sell out.

If you aren’t around at drop off or pick up just email helenboyle@me.com. Also I know nursery parents often don’t come into Clifton reception so if you would like tickets just let Caroline, your Nursery representative know.

Have a great weekend

Helen

Super Camps in 2016

Super Camps, the UK’s no.1 for childcare during the school holidays, will

be running holiday activity camps here again during summer 2016.

Super Camps has a fun-packed schedule lined up for summer 2016, and

with guaranteed water-based activities, each child will go home smiling

after a fantastic day. The emphasis is on participation and enjoyment

with enthusiastic Super Camps staff on hand to help children acquire new

skills and confidence and make new friends.

Camps are open from 8am – 6pm, Monday – Friday.

To celebrate 20 fabulous years looking after children across the UK, Super

Camps is offering parents a year-round 10% discount off standard rates.

Use discount code 'PARENT16' when booking online or over the phone.

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'Ripples from the Big Bang' by Professor Jo Dunkley, Oxford

University

Wednesday 8 June, 7pm in the Memorial Hall

By looking far out into space, we can see back almost to the dawn of time. Faint

microwave light is reaching us now that set off on its journey almost 14 billion years

ago. It carries a picture of what the Universe looked like back then, and helps us find

out how galaxies like our own Milky Way came to be here billions of years later. It

also helps us discover what was happening at the Big Bang itself.

In her lecture, Professor Dunkley will talk about the space satellites and telescopes at the South Pole and in Chile that we are

using to study this light, and what we are learning from them about the beginning of the Universe.

'Maths on the Go' by Rob Eastaway

Friday 10 June, 7pm in the Memorial Hall

When life is busy, it isn't always possible to sit down with your child and help them get to grips with important maths skills like

multiplication, fractions and general problem solving. In this lively talk, Rob offers a range of simple tips and games that you

can try anywhere, any time. Find out how to make the most of time spent in the car, at the shops, at the breakfast table and

much, much more.

Free tickets are available from our Eventbrite page. If you have any other enquiries, please speak to Sue Jenks in the

External Relations Office or contact events@stpetersyork.org.uk. Further details of these lectures can be found here.

These two lectures are part of the York Festival of Ideas.

Wine and canapés will be served after each event and Rob will have a selection of his books for sale following his lecture.

This programme is run in association with the Institute of Physics and with the support of the Rotary Club of York Vikings, the

St Peter’s School Foundation and the Ogden Trust.

We are also pleased to be hosting this year’s York Festival of Ideas launch event in partnership with York University and

Stockholm Environment Institute.

'Three Minutes to Midnight'

Tuesday 7 June, 6pm-8.45pm in the Memorial Hall

The doomsday clock was created nearly 70 years ago. It serves as a metaphor, representing how close humanity is to a

civilization-ending catastrophe. Every year, twenty board members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists convene to assess

the biggest threats to humanity based on the ongoing threat of climate change, nuclear weapons and geopolitical tensions. The

closest the Doomsday Clock has ever been to midnight was in 1953 when the first tests on the hydrogen bomb were

conducted. The latest report, published in January 2016, places us at three minutes to midnight. Our opening night will

therefore focus on the findings and recommendations of the Three Minutes to Midnight report: How do we combat the threat

of climate change and the proliferation of nuclear arms in fragile states? What kind of multi-lateral agreements will be effective?

What is the likely impact of the Iran Nuclear Agreement or the Paris Climate Change?

We are delighted to welcome world-leading experts on climate change and nuclear policy including Prof Sivan Kartha, a

member of the Science and Security Board, and Oliver Morton, Environment Editor of The Economist.

Free tickets are available from the York Festival of Ideas Eventbrite page.

Our Public Lectures have proved very popular with schools and the public and places will be reserved on a first come, first

served basis.

I do hope that you will be able to support these lectures and please do contact us if we can be of any more assistance.

Yours sincerely,

David Morris

Head of Science

St Peter's School

Clifton

York

YO30 6AB

Tel: 01904 527422

d.morris@stpetersyork.org.uk