COMMUNITY NOTICEBOARD

COMMUNITY NOTICEBOARD

Year 3 - Sage Class

Year 6 - Brass Class

Our new topic in Year 6 is: ‘plague, pus and pestilence! We are learning about The Great Plague of 1665. Last week, to launch our topic, we had a visit from Mr History. He told us all about 17th Century England: we got to try on some traditional Stewart clothes; we handled guns and helmets from that time; we learnt about plague cures; we had

the chance to handle bricks and tiles that still had scorch marks from The Great Fire; and even got to put out The Fire of London with a 17th Century fire hose! Mr History finished our session by setting off gunpowder in the playground!

We are really looking forward to the rest of our topic: we will be learning all about the plague in more detail and doing lots of historical writing in our English lessons.

By Nathaniel and Inayia

Mindful Mums

5 week course

starts 12th January 10:00-11:45 at Eliot Bank Children & Family Centre.

Call 0208 613 0172 to book your place.

Baby Massage

5 week course starts Friday 12th January 13:30-14:30 at Kelvin

Grove Children & Family Centre. Cost £20, low income families free. Call 0208 613 0172 to book your place.

Moving Forward Group

6 week course starts Tuesday 30th January 10:00-12:00 at Kelvin Grove Children & Family Centre. Call 0208 613 0172 for further information.

The Mother's

Springboard

6 week interactive workshop starts 20th February 9:00-

13:00 at Eliot Bank Children & Family Centre, call 0208 613 0172 to

book your place.

Advising Communities

Is here to help and advise you with debt/money guidance, housing, welfare benefits, employment,

consumer and immigration - at Kelvin Grove Children &

Family Centre. Appointments available every Thursday 10.00-

13.00 Call 0208 613 0172 to book your place.

Employment & Training

Back to work advice every other Wednesday, next one 17th January

10:00-12:00 at Kelvin Grove Children & Family Centre. Call 0208

613 0172 to book your place.

Duncan Lewis Solicitors

appointments available every other Friday, next one 12th January at Eliot Bank Children & Family Centre. Call 0208 325 4600 to book your place.

Clothing Bank

Thursday 25th January at Eliot Bank Children & Family Centre 11.00-13.00, all welcome. Please bring

proof of benefits or low income. Any queries please call 0208 325 4600.

(Due to clothing bank running there will be no giant messy play on a day)

Watch out for details for

Forest Hill Family

Festival

http://www.lewishamcfc.org.uk

As the launch for our ‘quakes and shakes’ topic, last week we made our own volcanoes! The papier mache was wonderfully gloopy and we thoroughly enjoyed painting our creations to make them as realistic as possible! This week we 'erupted' our volcanoes using a mixture of bicarbonate of soda and vinegar. Our new topic is great!

12/01/2018

Kelvingrove

Newsletter Issue: 106 17/18

DIARY

HEADTEACHER®S’ MESSAGE

Happy new year to you all.

It has been a pacey start to 2018 and we are faced with quite short terms between now and Easter. You might think teachers look forward to short terms but actually it is quite a challenge to fit everything in to five weeks.

We do like our topics to be enhanced with trips and real experiences for our children; please be aware that we try to keep the cost to a minimum and it really helps us maintain these as part of our offer to children, if all parents contribute. In challenging times financially we still want our children to have opportunities to learn from experiences outside of the classroom.

I keep a careful eye on the playgrounds and although we have reduced the amount of accidents that happen in school quite significantly, I am still looking at ways to improve this further.

From this term, first aid packs will be carried by all teaching assistants on playground duty so they can deal with minor incidents in the playground. More serious incidents will still be dealt with by our senior first aid staff. Training for staff is updated regularly.

We do try to keep you informed of accidents that happen in school through either a note (if the incident is minor) or a call or text if we feel it is appropriate.

In the case of any child who reports an injury to the head, even if it is not apparent, we will call home to alert parents.

We will continue to do everything possible to reduce any risk to children having accidents at school and hopefully changes to our playground over the next few years will help further.

DON’T DELAY! APPLY TODAY! The deadline to apply for a primary school place is approaching fast! Applications need to be submitted by 15th January 2018. Find out all you need to know about making an application at:

www.lewisham.gov.uk/primaryadmissions

WORLD BOOK DAY

A forthcoming date for your diary - World Book Day 2018 is on Thursday 1st March. To celebrate this event, we have

organised some exciting author-led workshops for each year group on Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd February. These will run during the school day. As tradition dictates, we will of course be dressing up on the day itself (Thursday 1st March) - it is never too early to start thinking about costumes! More details will be coming your way soon.

15/16

Yr2 Transport Museum

23

Yr5 Victorian dance workshop

06

Rainbow parents’ coffee morning

9am

07

Year 6 mentors' afternoon tea,

4pm

09

Last day of half term

12-16 HALF TERM

19

Children return to school

22

Author visits for World Book Day

23

Author visits for World Book Day

27

Rainbow open morning, 10am

01

WORLD BOOK DAY

16-23

School Journey to Nethercott Farm

28

Yr2 to Kew Gardens

29

Last day of term No Club Xtra

School closes 2.30pm

17

Children return to school

The PTA have had a busy start to the year. Two pianos will be installed in the shed area of the main

playground any day now!

Plans for the school playground improvements have been presented to all the staff - and we are in the process of gathering quotes for the work.

Please join the:

FRIENDS OF KELVIN GROVE(PTA) Facebook page - and keep up to date with fundraising events and ideas - and let us know if you have any fun and innovative ways of raising more money!

The PTA

MORE DIARY DATES: www.kelvingrove.lewisham.sch.uk/

School-calendar

Reception - Magenta Class

Year 4 - Azure Class

Rainbow - Green Class

Magenta have had a busy and exciting week. We are so excited about our new topic 'castles, princesses and princes'. We have started to make a castle role play area in our classroom and are making bunting, flags, jewelled necklaces, and shields. We have written labels and designed our own castles. We are very excited about the real princess who is hopefully visiting us next week! In phonics we have started phase 3 and are going to be learning some new sounds this term.

Azure class have made a terrific start to our new topic ‘good vibrations’. After an inspiring hands-on visit to the Horniman Museum, we learnt how to change the pitch and volume of some amazing instruments from around the world! Do you know what a talking drum is? Do you know why it is

called a talking drum? If you want to find out the answers to these questions or if you would like to find out more about other musical instruments from around the world, just ask one of our musical experts in Azure class!

Greetings from Green class!

We have accomplished our first week of our superheroes training academy. All nine recruits are “looking good and feeling fine“! I believe they are well on the way to becoming fully fledged social superheroes.

The children worked marvellously as a team all week and they came up with our group name:

The Strong Fast Superheroes Squad

(That’s SFSS for short).

Year 5 - Violet Class

Year 1 - Coral Class

We have had a fantastic start to the term so far in Coral class! We have begun our new topic ‘journey to Neverland’ and the children were surprised to see that some fairy visitors visited our classroom over the holidays. They straight away were busy making houses for the fairies so that they would have somewhere comfortable to stay if they visited again. They have also written fantastic letters to the fairies trying to persuade them to come back, telling them about the new houses they have made. Next week, we are continuing our journey through Neverland and will be discovering and learning about pirates along the way. The children will be using their scientific skills to decide the best waterproof material for a pirate hat. Hopefully we will manage to keep dry!

Year 2 - Saffron Class In Saffron class we've had a busy start to the new term. To launch our topic on transport, we were given a range of materials and asked to make a moving vehicle. Here are a few of our creations. We tested

them and, with a gentle push, they moved across the room. We've also learned about some transport from the past, such as omnibuses, sedan chairs and Viking longboats. We're really looking forward to discovering more when we visit the London Transport Museum next week.

This term, in year 5, our topic is ‘Victorians – vile or victorious?’ Luckily, our teachers planned for us to go on a trip to the Ragged School Museum in London, where we will learn about Victorian schools. On Monday 8th January, Lavender and half of Indigo Class went on the trip whilst Violet class and the other half of Indigo class stayed (because we go on Wednesday

10th January). Whilst the other children were on the trip, we began our D&T project – to design and build a Penny Farthing. So far, we have created a historical timeline of the bicycle and then we compared it to a 21st century bike, describing the similarities and the differences between the two.

Violet Class