Junior Newsletter 6 July 2018

Dates for your diary

Clubs

Please remember that there are no teacher led clubs in the last week of term.

Class Assembly

• Wednesday 11 July – Year 6 Final Assembly (2pm)

Parents information meetings to prepare for transition into the next year group will take place on:

• Monday 9 July 5.00 – 5.30 pm for new Year 1 and 2 parents
• Tuesday 10 July 5.00 – 5.30 pm for new Year 3 and 6 parents
• Tuesday 10 July 5.30 – 6.00 pm for new Year 4 and 5 parents

More useful dates:

Friday 13 July – End of term 11.45am

Car Park

Please do not block the fire access point at the front of Junior School by parking in this area. We need to have emergency access available at all times.

The last day of term is Friday 13 July and Junior School will close at 11.45am. Nursery is open until 6.00pm for girls with existing bookings.

Sports Uniform Reminder

Foundation+

Foundation+ places are still available for the summer. Please see the office for a booking form.

Author Visit

The popular children’s author, Robin Stevens, is impressed!

Following on from Robin Steven’s inspiring visit to the school last week, as part of our Arts Festival, we are delighted to have received the following note from the author herself having read the beginnings of an idea for a murder mystery story from Laura Charles, Harriet Fordham and Grace Moulton in Year 6:

‘I’ve just had a chance to read Harriet, Laura and Grace’s mystery story, and I am so impressed. It’s incredibly inventive, fun and well-plotted, and honestly as good as anything my team could come up with!

Please pass on my thanks to them – I hope they enjoyed the day! I had a great time, and was so pleased to visit Northampton High.’

Photos in Flickr

To view the Flickr photo albums please click here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/northamptonhigh/albums

Nursery

This week all the girls have enjoyed the sunshine taking part in lots of activities outside.

On Wednesday they enjoyed our Teddy Bears picnic, the bears went on on a bear hunt and loved hiding in and up the trees. We also played games and enjoyed a lovely picnic in the shade of a tree.

Next week we are going to continue our summer activities.

Reception

For Reception this week, the highlight was definitely dressing up and performing the trolls dance. The girls could hardly contain their excitement in the lead up and were brilliant in the performance!  Again they rose to the occasion surpassing expectations, proving how they have matured as a class.

Year 1

“Sports Day was excellent because all the races were really fun. I felt good for everyone when they won. When I won in the egg and spoon race I was really happy. It was funny when Mummy dropped her egg and it was rolling to the finish line and she was running to get it… and she was last!” Harriet

“We made 2D shape pictures in the sun. We left them out in the sun for a few days and then the colour of the sugar paper that we didn’t cover with the 2D shapes went lighter but the bits we did cover were still the same colour. They look amazing!” Avleen

Year 2

2N have had a busy week!
We have made simple electrical devices, enjoyed watching The Sound of Music and listened to Monica Witherington, the author of Gabriela the Garden Angel.

“My wheels are going great, Mrs Russell!” (on her electric car) – Kristen

Emily asked Monica some amazing questions.

Year 3

Our favourite part of the week was definitely the Gym and Dance Extravaganza. It was great fun and we all got our own star parts. The finale was great too.

Another highlight was making our final bridge structure. Some of the bridges worked really well, some maybe not so well!

In Maths, we learnt about fractions and decimal equivalents and finding a fraction of a number. It really made us use our brains!

Year 4

My highlights of the week were DT and having fish cakes for lunch. Lilybella

I have improved my dividing on a number line. Millie

My highlight of the week is learning to do chunking and the shorter method for division. Izzy

Year 5

On Wednesday it was Food and Fashion day and we went to Senior School to make aprons. We had to do lots of sewing on a sewing machine and we had to do a a bit of ironing as well. We made them in the morning and they all turned out beautifully. Lola Andrew

We also made brownies and we each had to bring in some ingredients. We cooked them on the hob and then we put them in the oven. They were made out of bourbon biscuits and they all turned out delicious! Sonya Mittal

Year 6

This week Year 6 have enjoyed going to the allotment, where we picked and sampled lots of berries and harvested vegetables such as potatoes and courgettes. We can now announce that we raised an amazing £400.75 for the charity Re:Store, which will pay the rents on the allotments for the next year as well as enable them to buy them some tools and seeds.
On Thursday morning we went to the Senior School assembly, where Craig Styles came to talk to us about his sports career as an amputee.
6H also helped with the Year 1 and Year 2 Sports Day, it was a chance for the girls to help the younger ones.

Jessica really enjoyed the Craig Styles talk, it inspired her to look at other sports in a different way.

Jane Sigobodhla and Lucie Coombes

GAP Club

This week Beattie in Reception and Fern in Year Three shared their highlight of their time in GAP Club this week:

” Playing with the Fairy Lego”. – Beattie

“Watching movies.” – Fern