Weekly Newsflash! 24th November 2023
Coming up next week…
| Tuesday | – Y1 and Y5 swimming – Nursery Taster Afternoon – 1:30pm |
| Wednesday | – Y3/4 Mixed Football @ TWS – After-school sports – Nursery Taster Afternoon – 1:30pm |
| Friday | – After-school science club |
Safeguarding Item
black-friday-cyber-monday-1PTFA Updates
Thank you to all those that attended the PTFA meeting last night, if you couldn’t make it, please find the minutes here. The next meeting will take place on the 25th January 2024.
We have one table left at the Christmas Fair, please let us know if you would like to reserve it! Donations are still needed – chocolates, mince pies, wine, Christmas jumpers and school uniform would be all much appreciated! Donations can be dropped off at any school in the run up to the fair on the 10th December.
Don’t forget that The Wheatsheaf is also holding a pub quiz to raise funds for the school so please do pop along if you fancy a slightly different type of Mad Friday!
Upper Wensleydale Benefice
Leyburn Christmas Festival 2023
Leyburn-Christmas-Festival-2023Christmas Fair – Catterick Leisure Centre
FEAST Holiday Activities – Stage1Cycles
Stage1Cycles are offering free holiday activities for those eligible! This includes a Mountain Bike activity suitable for those aged 11 and above and a Christmas Bicycling activity which is aimed at beginners and is suitable for children with SEND for ages 4-11.
Stage 1 Cycles are also hosting a Christmas Club Ride on the 28th December, with a promise of hot chocolate and a mince pie too!
Diabetes UK
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Did you know you can synchronise our calendar with our school calendar? Click here to visit the calendar and click the link at the bottom of the page that says ‘subscribe to calendar’ – this will enable you to push events out to your personal calendars.
Robins
We have introduced the children to some “Problem Puppets” this week. The teachers have modelled different conflict scenarios with the puppets and the children have helped to come up with positive ways to resolve the conflict, so that no puppet is hurt or sad. If the children have a disagreement with a friend they are encouraged to use the puppets to talk through the problem, with the teachers supporting children where needed. We have been so proud to see children recognising when they need the puppets to help them and a friend. This really helps to remind the children that they have choices for how they react to situations.
Following on from the children’s interest in water and waterfalls last week, we have had some fabulous water play in our outdoor area! We provided tuff trays at different levels, along with other water resources, to encourage the children to work together to allow the water to flow. The children have also added tubes and buckets- it has been lots of fun and created lots of problem solving.
We are continuing to focus on numbers 4 and 5 in Maths this week. We have sung lots of popular counting songs, eg. “5 Currant buns”, “5 little Speckled frogs”. The children have used ‘Five Frames’ with counters on, so they can “take one away” as they sing the songs, to say “how many are left now?”
Each child has a space on the display boards in our setting with photos of their wonderful learning. This week we have spent some special time with the children in small groups where they have been able to talk about these photos. I think all the children felt proud. The opportunity to describe their learning in the photos and the progress they have made since the photos were taken has been really valuable.
Owls
Another busy week….
Last week in science we recorded the weather each day as part of our seasons unit of work…….we didn’t need to use many symbols other than wind and rain! This week we made rain gauges ready to collect and analyse more data next lesson, let’s hope they’re not overflowing by Monday!
In computing we have been developing our digital painting skills, this time using line and shape tools by recreating Piet Mondrian’s artwork.
We have been exploring shape in maths too, this time 3D shapes, building models and describing the properties of the shapes they used.
Swallows
Maths this week has been particularly tricky but the Swallows have smashed it! We have been working on subtracting two 2 digit numbers. Our key word was EXCHANGING. We used base ten to support our learning. Well done Swallows, a fantastic week!
Happy Birthday Mrs Park!!
Kingfishers
In computing this week we have continued our work on animations, here you will see two our of favourite animations using Lego.
Swallows & Kingfishers
Friday was a good day for all involved, because West Burton had a visit from the cake fairy (aka Mrs Fawcett!). A very chocolately birthday cake was shared out to celebrate Mrs Park’s birthday, we can safely say it was yummy!
Golden Eagles
The Golden Eagles have continued their work on shell structures by creating cubes from squares of card and more complex shapes from nets.
In PSHE the children have thoughtfully been discussing issues around bullying, which has tied in with our collective worship theme of “No Outsiders”.
Herons
This week in Herons we have been writing poetry linked to our book, The London Eye Mystery. We have also been doing some one-point perspective sketches linked to this book. Our sketches were inspired by the main character’s journey across London on the London Underground.
Merlins
In science, the Merlins have been investigating how different voltages change the brightness of a bulb and loudness of a buzzer. We discussed the different components as variables and what we needed to do to ensure a fair test.
This Week’s Awards:
| Pupil of the week | |||||
| Robins (Reception) | Grace for effort in lots of her creations this week. What a wonderful imagination Grace has! | ||||
| Owls (Y1) | James for effort with his handwriting, always presenting his work beautifully. | ||||
| Swallows (Y2) | Rose for her fabulous writing! Her enthusiasm for writing is fantastic which is lovely to see! | ||||
| Kingfishers (Y3) | Olivia for following every aspect of the RESPECT code and setting a superb example to others. | ||||
| Golden Eagles (Y4) | Sidney for effort with his joined up handwriting. | ||||
| Herons (Y5) | Abe for following a taught technique for PE and being successful as a result. | ||||
| Merlins (Y6) | Gabriel for embodying all aspects of our RESPECT code and for being an exemplary pupil, Gabriel is a credit to the BAWB Federation. |
| Headteacher’s Awards | |
| Bainbridge | Hugo for politeness and consistent effort in all subjects |
| Askrigg | Joey Teasdale for consistent effort in maths |
| West Burton | Rosie Benson for independent practice of times tables at home |
| Good Samaritan Awards | For courage, care, compassion (for the children, from the children). | Nominated by |
| Swallows | Aimee for inviting her to play in her game. | Rose |
| Kingfishers | Lizzy for checking she was okay when she fell. | Rosie |
| Olivia for helping her with a maths question. | Martha | |
| Golden Eagles | Maciek for helping him get his glasses when they fell behind the bookcase. | Jake |
| Alex for helping Fearne when she was upset. | Maisie | |
| Merlins | Dylan for guiding and encouraging him in maths. | Fred |
| Other | |
| Best Learning Space (classroom) | Golden Eagles |
| Most Effective learning Environment (school) | Askrigg |
| House Point Winning Team | Otters |
| Best Class Attendance | Swallows – 100% |
