Thursday 12th December 2024
This week our festive celebrations began with a delicious Christmas dinner in our festive jumpers on Wednesday and even Buddy Bear getting stuck into the celebrations! KS1 children have also been very busy preparing for their nativity; we cannot wait to show it to you on Friday. We are so proud of all the effort and hard work they have put into learning their songs and lines.
BeSMART Cup winners who will have a special treat next week:
Mr Banfield’s class for their incredible progress in their Chance to Shines. Mr Banfield is so proud of how the children have emersed themselves into their Narnia text.
Attendance winners this week – Gertie and Omar will join them next week in class and they will all enjoy an extra playtime:
KS1 winners are Miss Fisher’s class with 97.9%
KS2 winners are Mrs King’s class with 97.8%
Achievers of the week:
Year 6 achievers: Grace-Mae for always being an excellent example of our BeSMART code in action. Mrs Stack’s achiever for an amazing Chance to Shine that used fantastic figurative language and an abundance of Year 6 SPaG features.
Year 5 achievers: Oscar for including lots of newspaper features in his plan and draft and for putting exceptional effort into all lessons this week. We are excited to read his upcoming chance to shine. Teddy for contributing excellently to class discussion and trying hard in all subjects all the time.
Year 4 achievers: Brandon for exceptional progress in Literacy. His writing was so full of highlighter that it made the classroom shine. Mason for a fantastic Chance to Shine full of Year 4 SPaG features.
Year 3 achievers: Mrs Churm’s achiever for wowing her with his progress in shape during maths this week. Violet for her increased independence during writing and contributing super ideas in class.
Year 2 achievers: Miss Hill’s achiever for putting 100% into everything that she does and always following the Be SMART code. Stefanie for working very hard to learn all her lines for the nativity. Stefanie is also a super role model, always following the Be Smart code.
Year 1 achievers: Mrs Sturrock and Mrs Evan’s achiever for writing some super similes to describe a scene in the polar express. Erioluwa for working hard and making amazing progress in phonics and maths.
Year R achievers: Mattias for a wonderful week, being caring and for being such a great artist. Cody for blowing the adults away with his wonderful independent writing this week!
Readers of the week – these children were entered into our weekly reading raffle:
Year 6 readers: Bella for reading at least 5 times every week and working hard to improve her diary entries. Amelia for support effort with reading at home.
Year 5 readers: Kian for consistently reading every week with great reading comments. Mrs King’s reader for regular independent reading and taking pride in her Reading Diary.
Year 4 readers: Lila for fantastic descriptions of her reads in her reading diary and brilliant answers to her questions. Theo for reading a wide range of texts at home and updating his diary daily with detailed summaries.
Year 3 readers: Smrithi for reading consistently and challenging herself by writing her own questions and answering them. Zoey for making a great start at Newdale with consistent reading at home.
Year 2 readers: Miss Hill’s reader for reading consistently at home and writing lengthy comments in her reading diary. Daniel for consistent reading at home. Daniel is always keen to change his books and reads a variety of texts.
Year 1 readers: Daria for super reading at home and always writing her own comments. Lunar for reading lots of books at home and sharing her reads in her diary, well done Lunar.
