Junior Newsletter 9 March 2018

Looking Ahead

Clubs

Please note that there will be no clubs led by Junior School teachers on Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 March due to parents’ evenings and in the last week of term.

Clubs forms for the Summer term will be shared with parents shortly through Firefly.

Dates for your diary

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

• Friday 6 July 12.00 – 1.00 pm for new Reception parents
• 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

World Book Day

Fund Raising

Marie Curie

Dates for your diaries!

Next Friday (16 March) Year 3 have organised their charity event to support Marie Curie. They have planned a mufti day (£1 to wear own clothes) and are asking for everyone to wear yellow clothing and/or accessories.

There will be a ‘yellow’ cake sale on the Friday morning and even a Marie Curie themed wordsearch planned for 10p!

Nursery and Reception we will be doing a lot of activities linked to the colour yellow. The girls will also be bringing home a box to fill with different yellow items on Monday 12 March.

Cynthia Spencer

Music

Good luck to all the girls who have music exams coming up. Some Year 6 girls chose one of their pieces to play at our Breakfast Concert on Wednesday. A lovely way to start the day.

The summer term concert “Out of this World” is coming up very soon on Thursday 26 April at 7.00 pm. All our extra extra curricular music groups will be performing.

Sports

Under 11 Netball A team  IAPS

On Wednesday 28 February the under 11 A netball team went to the IAPS.  The first people we played were King Henry VIII School and we won 5 – 3. Then we played Fairfield and we won with our shooters being Arianna Hay and Samiha Chaudhary. We then played Winchester House which we were quite nervous for because we have lost to them before, but we played really well and drew 1-1 which is the best we’ve ever played against them! Next we were up against Chesham who were a tough opposition and we ended up losing 5-2…. so we had to win the next match to get into the semi-finals…….our last opposition were Saint Christina’s , we played as well as possible with our defenders Charlotte Urban and Lizzie Tansley…. but unfortunately we lost 3-2. We finished coming in 3rd in our pool and 5th overall.

Under 11 Netball B team v Bilton Grange

We had a great match against Bilton Grange on Wednesday. We played well with good team work and confidence. The people who scored some goals for us were Libby Moore, Ariana Baninoe and Shruthi Padmabushan; the final score was 8 – 3 to Northampton High the Player of the Match was Libby Moore who was also our Captain. We hope that we can play as well next week.

GDST Cross-Country rally

A full report on the rally next week, but well done to all the runners!
Results out of 150 runners:
Ella Darby – 2nd
Abigail Waugh – 50th
Emily Horne – 57th
Lois Beacroft – 81st
Charlotte Smith – 85th
Charlotte Urban – 108th

Nursery

This week in Nursery both rooms have enjoyed watching the chicks and have even been lucky enough to have a little cuddle or stroke.  There were six chicks in total.

This week in Kipper Room the girls have been making cards to take home and talking about how our mummy takes care of us. In the library we looked at the book “No” as lots of the girls are developing independence and beginning to use this word frequently. We have also been learning chicken songs in singing group.

This week in Elmer Room the girls have had a very busy week.  We have been following the girls’ provocations.  They have enjoyed improving their number skills, making potions and creating characters out of fruit and vegetables.

We also had a lovely visit to the farm where we got to feed the baby lambs milk, give the goats their food and looked at the chickens, hens and ducks. To finish off we went in the tearoom for a cake and a drink. We were very pleased with the girls’ behaviour on our trip.

We have celebrated International Women’s Day by creating a surprise for mummies. Also during group time the girls liked talking about what they would like to be when they are older and which women were special to them.
Nafisa – ” Mechanic”
Gracie-Jane – “Fairy”

Next week the girls in Elmer Room will have the opportunity to create a symmetrical butterfly and start their Easter card.

Please remember next week:
Kipper girls’ trip to the farm on Wednesday 14th March 2018.  Yellow Day is on Friday so please come in yellow mufti or accessories and bring a £1 to help us raise money for Marie Curie.

Reception

There have been several highlights this week in Reception. Dressing up is a big favourite, so World Book Day on Tuesday was a very enjoyable occasion, with all the girls talking about their costume and book. Wednesday was our first Class Assembly and the confidence of all the girls was amazing. They performed, sang and remembered words, a real achievement in front of an audience.

On Thursday we joined in celebrating ‘International Women’s Day’, with a superb display of badges and sashes. We thought about The Queen, Mummies, Teachers and Julia Donaldson and had some fantastic ideas about why ‘girls are good.’!!

Year 1

“On Tuesday it was World Book Day. We could wear costumes from books. When we went into our classroom our chairs had gone! They sent us a letter saying they quit because we pushed them and pulled them. So we went round the school asking if they had seen our chairs and they said they will keep an eye out because they hadn’t seen them. So then we had to write a letter to them and when we did that we put it in a big, big envelope. When we came back from seeing the chick they were back!” Harriet

“On Tuesday the Year 4s came and read to us and my girls read me ‘The Smartest Giant in Town’ then I read ‘Little Miss Lucky and the Pixies’ to them.” Avleen

“We saw lots of facilities when we went for our walk around Wootton on Thursday afternoon. We had lots of fun and my favourite places were the massage place and the big church. When we were there we saw some poppies next to a big cross which was for all the people who died in the war.” Zoe

Year 2

Year 3

Last weeks highlights:

Sienna – I really enjoyed making the posters for our Marie Curie Charity event in a couple of weeks. I also enjoyed creating our ‘Health Doctor’ PowerPoint and working with my partner.

Sophia – my highlight this week has been creating our Marie Curie poster and creating simile sentences. Making my flower collage was also fun.

We are looking forward to our trip to the Herbert Art Gallery on Wednesday. We will be leaving school at 8.30 am so don’t be late! We will return to school by 3.00 pm. Please wear school uniform and a coat. Bring your own lunch and water bottle if you do not want a school provided packed lunch (again, no nuts please).

This weeks highlights:

Miraya – the best part of this week was International Women’s Day. I enjoyed making my plait sash for homework. I also enjoyed researching about Emmeline Pankhurst who was an influential woman in history.

Daisy-May – my highlight this week was dressing up for World Book Day. I was Mary Poppins. I also liked doing calligrams in our English lesson. My best one was the word ‘spike’

Year 4

Last week:

“My highlight of the week is English and writing a tanka verse” – Tobi

“This week in Science we have been learning about solids, liquids and gases, and it was lots of fun”- Lucy

Year 5

We will be cooking bread again on Monday 12 March.  The girls have been asked to bring in some ingredients/toppings to adapt the plain bread recipe we used this week. They will be making one roll so only a very small amount of extra ingredients will be required. Please remember that we cannot have nuts in school because of allergies.

We are looking forward to our trip to the Herbert Arty Gallery with Year 3 on Wednesday. We will be leaving school at 8.30 am so don’t be late!  We will return to school by
3.00 pm. Please wear school uniform and bring your own lunch if you do not want a school provided packed lunch (again, no nuts please).

Highlights:

“I got to hold the chicks in GAP club, but it pooed on me!” Maisie Bullock.

“I managed to conquer breast stroke and I feel really proud of my achievement” Monpriya Dhaliwal.

Year 6

Last week Year 6  had a more wonderful week than usual! In our Science lesson, we made periscopes that we got to take home.
Fleur said, “I liked Science because it was very fun, we learnt a lot and we did lots of practical work.”  On Wednesday, 6N had a Class Assembly.  Bella said, “The assembly was enjoyable because we created some environmental raps to perform!”  In Maths we focused on pie charts and converting percentages into degrees. Although these activities were really exciting, the best thing was yet to be revealed! Year 5 and 6 found out that their summer school play would be, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ by Shakespeare. Year 6 will take the lead and will be auditioning to get a part. It was a fun week and everyone is looking forward to the play!

This week we have created an art gallery in Maths, yes an art gallery! We were asked to represent the world as 100 people in a village, each person in the village representing 71 million people in the real world. This activity really made us think about visual representation of large numbers as well as the environmental issues that face our world today.

We have enjoyed rehearsing for our auditions for the Year 6 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Mrs Fordham and Mrs Dadge were very impressed with our energetic interpretations!

World Book Day was a chance for us to use our creativity and there were some amazing costumes on display!

“I was really looking forward to this week because after the snow day and all the excitement, I was keen to get back to work and see all my friends. My favourite part of the week was World Book Day as I loved seeing all the fantastic costumes.” Sophie Johnson

Laura Charles and Harriet Fordham
Selene

GAP Club

This week I’ve asked girls from Year 3, 4 and 5 to tell me what they have enjoyed in GAP Club this week.

“Holding the chicks with Maisie.” Sophia Year 3.
“I had lots of fun holding the chicks. Maisie Year 5
“I’ve enjoyed making my mum a card.” Millie Year 4