Newsletter
May Week 1
Athletics Competition
Friday 6th May
Last week, children from Years 5 and 6 represented our school at an athletics competition where we competed against seven other teams. Each child had to take part in four different sporting activities: 80 m sprint, 600 m run, vortex throw and long jump. The children worked hard to complete each activity to the best of their ability to collect points for our team. All of the scores were tallied together and we proudly placed 5th. It was a great day out and it gave the children a taste of athletics! Well done to Zeynep, Hattie, Lois, Katerina, Qamazarda, Alex, Zach and Mattero.
BEAT Inclusion Survey 2022
Barnet Education Arts Trust (BEAT) provides music education to children and young people within the London Borough of Barnet. BEAT is committed to ensuring that all our activities are inclusive and accessible, and we invite you to contribute to our first ever inclusion survey which focuses on out of school activities on weekday nights and Saturday mornings. We want to hear from any young person or parent/carer of a young person aged 3-21 in Barnet whether you currently use or used to use one of our groups, or have never been to a BEAT activity or even heard of us.
Click on the link below to take the survey, which will take 5-10 minutes and could really help us improve the services we provide.
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/Y6QVRPL
Thank you so much!
To find out more about BEAT and our activities, you can also visit our website at www.beatrust.org.uk
Half Term Holiday Camp Offer
Mother Nature Science are delighted to confirm the May-June Half-Term Science Activity Holiday Camp 2022 -Science Blast!
Use the special Venue School Discount Code ‘coolschool’ for an extra £10-off list price for full-week places and £5-off day places.
Note: All Childcare Vouchers, GTFC, CGPS and Universal Credit (UC) payment methods are now accepted by MNS, just choose ‘pay by other method’ at Checkout.
Find your closest camp location using your home postcode and book now, in under 5 mins here: https://www.mnature.co.uk/holiday-science-activity- camps/#book
Nursery
This week in Nursery we have been planting cress seeds and talking about germination. We have also been examining lots of other seeds from exotic fruits. The children were fascinated with all the seeds in the pomegranate! Lots of the children went on to draw their favourite seeds and make up some of their own too!
Kingfisher Nursery
What another exciting week in Kingfisher Nursery! As we continue our exploration on Spring Growth, we focused on seeds and where they come from. We used our senses to explore the smell, taste and texture of the different fruits and vegetables before using them to stamp. We worked hard on using our communication boards to make requests on the fruit/vegetable we wanted and the colour paint to stamp with. We also looked at the cress seeds we planted last week and discussed the changes from previous days.
Well done for a lovely week, Kingfisher Nursery. We look forward to another exciting week!
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Reception
We are being very patient in Reception class, watching our tadpoles for any changes that may happen soon! We are beginning to understand growing and plant life cycles. We read the story 'Jody's Beans' and were so excited when Mr Sudbury said that we could use part of the allotment to make our own wigwam to grow some runner beans, inspired by Jody. We have spent time preparing the soil, pulling weeds and turning it over. It was hard work in the words of Filip: 'I just love gardening!
Jack - for always being well behaved and polite.
Ruby - for some fantastic writing this week, even beginning to understand how to edit and improve her work.
Year 1
Another busy week has been had in Year 1 this week. In Maths, the children have been learning how to make equal groups of 2s, 5s, and 10s out of various amounts given. In English, we have begun our new text focus ‘Look Up’. The children have enjoyed creating their own flyer's inviting people to watch the next meteor shower; as well as writing letters in reply to the main character ‘Rocket’ to make her feel better about missing the meteor shower. We have reached the end of our Art topic on plants and had a great time learning about Van Gogh and Andy Goldsworthy. Their paintings and natural art sculptures where fabulous!
This week's awards go to Oliver for his positive attitude and challenging himself in all lessons and to Lacey for being brave when faced with new challenges.
Year 2
A short but productive week in Year 2! We have now finished our re-invention of our own Traction Man mission where all children used imaginative problems and solutions. We have started our new Art topic about plants. We used paint to do shades and tints on swatches and colour wheels as well as oil pastels. We are continuing with Measurement in Maths, measuring and comparing weight in kg and temperature in degrees Celsius.
Also, Year 2 spent an incredibly fun afternoon at East Barnet School doing various P.E. activities.
Homework Maths Reasoning p.30-31
This week's the award goes to Junior for his brilliant arithmetic skills and to Amelia for her lovely adventure story!
Kingfisher 1
This week, although slightly shorter, has been just as busy as ever! The children have continued their author study work on Eric Carle, writing lovely descriptions and retelling the story of 'The Bad-tempered Ladybird' together.
In Maths we have been working on addition using a variety of different materials to support calculations. Everyone has done very well!
This week's achievement award goes to Georgie for her excellent recall of detail in our English lessons, well done!
Year 3
Year 3 have been doing great math work to deepen their understanding of fractions. We have learnt to recognise tenths as fractions and decimals as well as count in fractions.
In English, we have been learning how to punctuate direct speech and write our own sentences linked to The Twits.
Our foundation subject this week has been R.E and we have been answering our big question, 'What does it mean to belong?' We have discussed what belonging means to us and linked this to Sikhism and Christianity.
CGP
Maths-Pages 28, 32 and 33.
English- Pages 68 and 69.
This week's awards go to Elon for settling in so well and being a fabulous new member of Year 3 and to Sotirio for his excellent work ethic and contributions in class.
Year 4
In Year 4 this week, we have continued with our work on decimals in Maths and exploring different grammatical and language features in English.
We have also started our new design and technology unit where we have been looking at different types of dips and where our food comes from.
CGP:
Maths: page 38-39
English: page 94
This week's achievement awards go to Dante for his positive attitude and to Jaime for excellent use of speech. Well done!
Year 5
This week, Year 5 have been busy solving decimal word problems and writing their romantic letters as characters from 'The Highwayman' poem. They've done a fantastic job.
They've been learning all about street art in the afternoons - everything from graffiti 'throwies' to art with an important message. Below are some of their pieces.
CGP Books
Maths: pages 21-22 (multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1000)
English: pages 86 - 87 (ei and ie words)
This week's awards go to Aidan and Alex for their excellent letters in English and their graffiti artwork - well done, boys!
Year 6
All the hard work is done and Y6 is ready for SATs. We are all so proud of all they've achieved, their determination and resilience.
Next week, free 'Breakfast Club' is available for the class followed by yoga at 8:30 am. Please send your child in to take advantage of these so they are ready to start the day relaxed and focused. If your child would rather not, then they need to be in school on time as we will be starting the tests each day, promptly, at 9 am.
Have a restful weekend and please reassure your children that the SATs are nothing to worry about and they are ready for them.
Go Year 6!
Everyone in Year 6!!
Kingfisher 2
This week, KF2 have been creating and described their own dragons and been working hard to multiply and divide numbers.
We also welcomed a new member Freddie to our class, who has settled in well and had a good first week!
Well done to Arin for a good week of work!
Arin was a super star, demonstrating that he knows all of his sounds in Phonics and made some very intricate models using plasticine!
Diary Dates
May 2022
Monday 9th:
Year 6 SATs Week - Free Breakfast Club followed by Yoga Session
Monday 16th:
Year 3 Swimming lessons begin - everyday for 2 weeks
Pupil Voice Week
Years 3 and 4 Road Safety Workshop - PM
Year 6 Intra-house Dodgeball
Thursday 19th:
Years 5 and 6 Girls Football Final v Christchurch - HOME
Friday 20th May:
KS2 Archery Workshops
Choir cluster rehearsals at Monken Hadley School - PM
Monday 23rd:
Science Week
Activity Clubs for Summer 2 go online for booking.
Tuesday 24th:
Year 5 Secondary School Transition Meeting for parents - 8.45am and 3.15pm
Thursday 26th:
Reception Vision and Hearing Tests - AM
Friday 27th:
Founder's Day
End of Summer 1 term - School finishes at normal time for Half Term.
Activity Clubs finish for Summer 1
HALF TERM Monday 30th May - Friday 3rd June 2022
June 2022
Monday 6th:
Summer 2 term begins - Pupils return to school
Phonics Screening Check Week
Activity Clubs begin for Summer 2
More dates will follow...