Message sent from:

Livingstone Primary & Nursery School WK1 FEB 2018

February Week 1

Friday 2^nd February

Welcome to the first addition of the Newsletter, written by the pupils of Livingstone School. The aim of this is to increase ‘Pupil Voice’ and further improve our school.

A few weeks ago, Miss Papas and Mrs Ferdenzi ran an International Day assembly to celebrate all the countries and languages in the worlds. This day was first celebrated in 1998; 20 years ago! Can you believe that Livingstone School can speak over 30 different languages? This amount really is incredible. We are really lucky to have this many cultures in our school. It was amazing to see so many traditional costumes that represent the different countries. Even the performances were informative. What an incredible family Livingstone School is! We look forward to many more assemblies in future. By Nicholas (Yr5)

Sophia, Darina and Nicholas (Yr 5) composed and conducted a questionnaire that all children from Livingstone completed.

What is GREAT about our school?

Teachers
Fun lessons
Playtime / Lunchtime
Lots of equipment to play with at Playtime / Lunchtime
Themed weeks: Black History / Art Week /Dance Day
Buddies
Children are nice and kind
Food at lunchtime
Golden time
The Library
PE
Lots of space to play
Lots of different cultures
Visitors and show that come to the school
Trips
Afterschool clubs
Interesting topics in class
PTA events - Camp night and discos
Creative curriculum
Parties at the end of term
Computing Suite
Breakfast and Cabin Club

EYFS Book Review

Gruffalo: 'The Gruffalo' is a funny tale that will keep you fascinated and wondering what will happen next. Brychan from Reception said, “I love it. It is funny, easy to read and the book is interesting.” Some children in Year 2 said that 'The Gruffalo' is still their favourite book, which means that their love for the book has not gone.

KS1 Book Review

The Gruffalo’s Child: 'The Gruffalo’s Child' is a book that most kids love. It is a sequel to The Gruffalo and is just as funny. One kid from Year 2 said, “I like the bit where 'The Gruffalo’s Child' runs away from the mouse. It is exciting but my favourite part is when the Gruffalo is snoring.” By Kash (Yr6)

How could we improve our school?

The Year 5 children asked the children from all classes what their priority would be, and here are the results:

Fix the apparatus in the playground		21
Improve the apparatus in the playground		40
More books in the library inc comic books		14
Redecorate - More colourful colours		15
Mirrors in the bathroom		18
Fix the shed / soap in the bathroom		3
A friendship stop		4
Whiteboard pens/Glue sticks that work		6
Artificial grass football pitch		31
Rotate the lunchtime Rota		7
KS2 – not to sit on the carpet		6
Umbrellas for shade		10
Somewhere to read during playtimes		10
More afterschool clubs – tennis, trampolining, cricket, archery and badminton		11

The Yr 5 children are taking this information to the School Council and Mrs Phelan to ask for some improvements.

Riddle of the week – A cowboy rides into town on Friday stays for three days and leaves on Friday. How does he do it? By Darina (Yr5)

Mathletics and Bug Club

There were many mixed emotions about Bug Club by our pupils.

Sean thinks that the new updated version is confusing.
Maria likes how you can store things on the virtual library.
Joseph likes the wide variety of books.
Samira likes the quiz at the end of each book.

Other classes also had opinions on Mathletics.

Hattie likes how it extends your education.
Ashlee-Dean likes the scoring process.
Tarannom finds it too challenging at times.
Maisie (Yr2) likes the addition and subtraction sections.

Both interactive resources are given to all the children for free and help everyone get better at reading and Maths.

There is also now an opportunity for students to go to the ICT Suite on Tuesday lunchtimes at 12;:30pm if they do not have the internet.

I have heard from Mr Madle that the next free trip is to London watching a sporting event. So get practicing!

Jack Church, Y6

Sporting Reports

Year 5 and Year 6 girls had the opportunity to play football at Powerleague and to compete against other schools in the Borough. Despite the weather, the girls carried on playing and won every match (5 in total!). They got through to the semi-finals but it was a tough game but sadly we lost to Akiva. We still came 4th out of 18 schools and we will be competing in the Borough Finals. Great teamwork prevailed – well done to Tillie, Maddy, Mimi, Terri-Ann, Nona, Sarah C, Darina and Sophia. Written by Terri-Ann (Yr6)

The year 5 and 6 netball team played a match against Churchill School. Jack, Billy, Sophia, Elijah, Tillie, Sara and Isabella did very well and won 6-5. The goals were all very good: Jack -who scored twice-, Billy, Sara and Elijah –who also scored twice- scored all the goals. By Billy (Yr6)

Livingstone Achievement Awards

Reception

Yr1

Yr2

3BG

Yr3P

Yr4F

Yr4T

Yr5

Yr6

Grace for fantastic acting of the story ‘Squash & Squeeze’

Marwa for her best writing on ‘The Smartest Giant in Town’

Artelion for focusing hard in independent tasks. Nate for a brilliant story map.

Setayesh for excellent independent writing on Traction Man.

Zack for joining in with Circle Time and telling everyone his favourite food.

Erin and Chloe for reading lots of books on Bug Club.

Well done both of you!

Eleni for sharing fantastic ideas.

Jannah for using fantastic language in her own Greek Myth story.

Aedan for his excellent Maths when solving perimeter.

Omar for his amazing journalistic phrases

Isabella for her amazing newspaper report.

Ella for her brilliant Science work on ‘Sound’

Uvasri

for hard in Maths on fractions.

Shyam for fantastic graph work in Science.

Daisy for a hard –working attitude especially in Maths.

Denis for improving his best time and score in his times tables test.

KF1

Calvin for writing his name and numbers to 10.

KF2

Fabiano for excellent writing in English

Diary Dates

Diary Dates	Event	Year Group/s	Cost	Comments
February
Monday 5th	E-Safety Week	All year groups
Thursday 8th	Spring Ball	All year groups
	Friendship Day Lunch Pizza and Pancakes	All year groups		Request Lunch via office
Friday 9th	Last day before Half Term
	Half Term Feb 12^th-16^th
Tues 13^th-Thur 15th	KS1 & KS2 SATs Holiday School Tues, Wed & Thur 10.00am -12:00pm			Letters to follow
Monday 19^th	School re-starts

Livingstone Primary & Nursery School | Hosted by New Era Technology | DB Primary | DB Learning Library