Junior Newsletter 17 November 2017

Week Ahead

Christmas Decorations Day

This annual occasion is on Friday 24 November and all girls are allowed to wear their own clothes, remembering that there will be paint, glue and glitter in abundance, so suitable attire required.

Sparkle Disco

Hello from your FoNHS (Friends of Northampton High School) team! After an incredibly successful first event with everyone thoroughly enjoying the Pumpkin Spooktacular night, we’ve decided to put on our fundraising hats once more and throw a most magical Winter Sparkle Party on Friday 24 November!

We have pushed the boat out and planned something very enticing including music and dancing, festive activities, treats and most excitingly, a very special visit from real, live reindeer who will be available to meet and feed!

Tear off slip letters will sent home with instructions for ticket purchasing. Tickets are £10 and this includes the wonderful reindeer experience. Ticket slips need to be submitted before Monday 20 November.

The event will be split into the groups below to accommodate your daughter’s age:

• 4.00 pm – 5.15pm – Reception – Year 3. (Form teachers have kindly offered to supervise girls until 4.00 pm if needed).
• 5.30 pm – 7.00 pm, Year 4 -Year 6.

Dress Code is ‘Sparkles’! If you can’t throw on a bit of glitter at Christmas, when can you? We also ask that your daughter has a warm coat as the reindeer will be stationed (with their trained handlers) outside.

All money raised will be put towards buying new equipment for the school, specifically a new shelter for the Forest School area, and Cynthia Spencer Hospice.

We are excited for our magically festive event, a wonderful opportunity for fun and frivolity and hope to see you there!

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Children in Need

This week Year 4 have been selling Pudsey ears and key rings, we also had a mufti day on Friday, all to raise money for Children in Need.  We have raised £384.92! Thank you for all your kind donations.

Also a big thank you to all the students that purchased ‘Pudsey Cookie and Sweet Bags’ today from our catering team. We raised a total of £155.70! Thank you.

Christmas Productions

The information about Christmas productions has been sent out via firefly and requires a response.  Thank you.

Sports

Under 11 Hockey A team v Milton Keynes Prep

Our A team played Milton Keynes Prep on Wednesday 15 November.  Unfortunately we lost  0 – 2.  We put in some good tackles but we did let 2 goals in.  Emily Horne,our goalie, saved a lot of goals.  Jane Sigobodhla got Player of the Match.  I think we just need to go back to the basics!

Arianna Hay – Captain

Under 9 Hockey v Thornton College

The B team performed well in this match and all girls in the class continue to be involved. The final score of 0 – 3 was not a fair reflection of possession or territory and we are now ready to start playing with a goalkeeper. The A team were a force to be reckoned with, winning impressively 9 – 2. Player of the Match was Charlotte Fordham, as voted by the opposition.

Nursery

This week in Nursery the girls have had fun participating in a range of different activities relating to our theme. They have enjoyed painting lovely tree pictures using corks, they have participated in lots of number and counting activities including dot to dots, counting objects from a larger pile and practising writing their numbers. At Forest School the girls enjoyed a triangle hunt, had snack and made a den.

Next week the girls will be:

Elmer Room:

• Practising our cutting skills.
• Developing our counting knowledge.

Outside:

• Going on a walk to identify different shapes in the environment.
• Playing number hopscotch to help us identify different numbers.

Please remember on Friday 24 November to dress your daughter in clothes you don’t mind getting messy as it is Christmas decoration day!

Reception

We have been singing and acting this week in preparation for our Christmas Play. The girls are very excited about their performances. Please can you help them to say their words clearly and loudly.

At Forest School some girls made wind ribbons so that we could find out the direction of the wind. Please remember to pack a hat and gloves for Forest School if the weather is cold.

Other activities have included writing with a quill for ‘q’ and finding a fox in a box for ‘x’.

Year 1

This week we have been revising addition and subtraction calculations and using the Numicon pieces to find missing numbers. On Wednesday we had a fabulous time visiting the Year 5 Hobbies Morning… the older girls are a real inspiration and had clearly put a lot of work into their presentations. We also had our ‘flu vaccinations… if your daughter was not able to have this, please do look at the letter from the health visitors and consider taking your daughter to one of the free clinics.

Next week the girls have their ballet exam on Thursday and an open ballet lesson for parents on Friday. Please ensure all kit is in school. Many thanks!

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

This week has been very exciting for Year 6. We had Inter-House hockey which was very enjoyable and competitive for all the girls, with an excellent draw between Demeter and Selene. We all enjoyed writing our letters to Mr Urquhart about taking a trip to the moon, which we all found very exciting. This week we all had fun acting and creating sounds of machines from ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. We also had fun making music about what we saw in a picture and trying to create different textures.

GAP Club

This week in GAP Club the girls have been creating puppets and made Pudsey pictures and ears ready for Children in Need.