Junior Newsletter 12 January 2018

Looking Ahead

Clubs

Crafty Creatures Club is cancelled on: Wednesday 24 January, Wednesday 7 February and Wednesday 28 February.

There will be no Year 4 Netball club on Friday 26 January as Mr Urquhart is on a course.

Uniform changes

As mentioned previously, the only changes to Junior School uniform following our re-brand will be the shift to our new school logo. From September 2018 all items will be supplied with the new logo which new pupils will be expected to wear. Existing pupils may wear the current uniform until it needs replacing; swap shop will no longer sell items that contain the old logo. The PE kit for girls from Year 3 to 13 has been completely updated (CAD examples of the new items can be seen on the parents noticeboard in Junior School reception). Current PE kit may be worn until it needs to be replaced but we would like all girls in Years 4 to 6 to purchase the new Games top as it will be worn as team kit for sports fixtures. It will be available from Schoolblazer in the Summer term.

Junior Camps February 2018

Our next Junior Hockey Camp is being held by Futuresports on 12 and 13 February from 10am – 4pm at Moulton College, (Gate 4 on the Water based Artificial Pitch).

The emphasis is on creating a fun learning environment that provides all players aged 5-14 years with a memorable hockey camp experience.

All booking arrangement are conducted by Futuressports and the link is on the Camps page on the website http://www.saintshockey.org.uk/junior_camps

FoNHS

Thank you for your support for the Spooktacular Party and Sparkle Disco, both were fantastic, successful events.

2018 events are as follows:

Friday 26 January –  Fake or Bake Cake Sale – donations needed please.
Friday 9 February – Film Night- PJ’s and Popcorn
Saturday 16 June – School Ball, Marriott Hotel, parents and teachers invited.

All monies raised this year will be used for enrichment of the girls’ school life and a percentage donated to Cynthia Spencer Hospice.

Nursery

The Nursery team are very proud of way all the girls have settled into Nursery especially the girls in Kipper Room. Please remember to make sure your daughter has her hat, gloves and scarf as the weather is very cold.

Elmer Room
This week we have enjoyed printing with different fruits, making a fruit salad and exploring the new hospital role play. At Forest School we found an enormous bone which the girls found very interesting. They tried to decide what animal it belonged to. They also enjoyed making magic wands, jumping in puddles and balancing on the logs.

Next week the girls in Elmer Room will have opportunities try these activities:

Elmer Room
Painting observation pictures of fruit and vegetables.
Deciding what foods are healthy and not as healthy to eat.
Our sound of the week is ‘n’
Ordering routines.

Outside
Drawing round our bodies.
Physical activities.

Reception

This week Varnikha enjoyed painting cakes inspired by the story ‘The toys’ Party. Beattie felt proud about being able to sound out and blend lots of words.

Year 1

“My favourite lesson this week was DT – we ate lots of different salads. They were very yummy and I really liked it because I hadn’t tasted some of the salads before. I felt frightened when we were going to try the beetroot but it was a bit ok.” Dejonai

“My best bit of the week is today doing what I was just doing! I was doing very good maths… I had to add up coins to make a certain number. We had coins to stick on with glue. This was my favourite lesson because I like making different ways.” Melodee

Year 2

Mollie

“The highlight of my week has been writing about the adventures of Celesani’s gloves in New York”.

Celesani

“I have really enjoyed being back at school”.

Year 3

Fern
“My highlight of the week has been our Maths lessons and putting numbers onto a number line”

Evie
“I really enjoyed looking at google maps of where ‘Mousehole’ in Cornwall is and describing the harbour on the lap tops”

Year 4

Vheneka
“My highlight was looking at pop-up books in DT. I think the Cinderella book was best because it was from Jamaica”.

Amy
“My highlight was trying to make a bulb light up in the Science room with wires and crocodile clips”.

Year 5

Roja

“My highlight this week was deciding who can get in the new netball team”.

Sonya

“I really liked this week because we wrote our assembly and we made our role plays which was really fun”.

Year 6

GAP Club

With the opening of the 2 year old room in Nursery it has been lovely to welcome lots of new friends into GAP Club this term. The girls have participated in lots of different activities this week. The younger girls have particularly enjoyed the role play, exploring play dough and making masks. The older girls have had fun creating pencil pots, playing games and creating with water colours.

I asked two Reception girls if they could tell me what they had enjoyed doing in Gap Club this week they replied:

Beattie
“I liked doing colouring and masks”.

Varnikha
“l liked colouring pictures and playing with the play dough”.