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AINDERBY STEEPLE CHURCH OF

ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER

July 2016

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Contents of This Term's Newsletter

Page 2 Dance Club

Football Club

Page 3 Quicksticks Hockey

Super Powerful Pedal

Ghana Assembly

Page 4 Football Competition

Tennis Champs

Y3/4 Golfers

Bake Sale

Page 5 Blue Reef Visit

Tag Rugby Comp

Queen’s Birthday

Page 6 Sports Week

Page 7 Box 2B Fit

Quick Cricket

Page 8 Crick-tastic

Tag Rugby

Play in a Day

Maths Morning

Page 9 Sainsbury’s School Run

Page 10 Sports Day

Class 3 Performance

Page 11 Painted Ladies

Flamingo Land

Joe McKechnie

Muslim Faith Day

Page 12 Decathlon

Leaver’s Meal

Deer Shed

Page 13 Summer Fair

Buddies

Page 14 Leaver’s Service and

Awards

Dance club The Dance Club started on the 15th of April after school on a Friday. We interviewed Sarah T and she said, “I really liked Dance Club. Gary the instructor was very funny and I would like to do it again!”

Football Club I spoke to some people who went to the

football club:

Oliver said, “I liked it. We played games

and made new friends. The best bits were

playing games and matches. One game was

Score You’re In.”

William said, “I loved it, we played a game

called Jail Break and there were two teams

of people and there was one goalkeeper, if

you missed you went to jail. If someone on

your team scored you would be released!”

“Another game was King of the Ring;

everyone has a ball. Connor the teacher

says something like ‘bananas’ and you are

allowed to tackle each other’s ball out of

the ring. The winners of the games were

made the captains of the matches. I was

captain once.”

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I asked Oscar what he did and if he

enjoyed it: he replied. “I played with a

football and a pitch. I liked it.”

It sounds like it was an excellent club and

everyone enjoyed it.

On Wednesday the 13th of April 2016,

Class 4 went to a quickstick Hockey

competition at Thirsk School. 6 people

from year 5 & 6 volunteered to take part.

Katie, who went to the competition said,

“It was really fun and the weather was

great.”

Charlie, who also went to the

competition said, “Everyone did really

well and I’m really proud of myself

because I got player of the match.”

Class 4 did really well and everyone tried

their hardest. We wonder if any one of

them will make it to a professional team?

Super powerful pedal

On the 18th April 2016 to the 29th April,

the whole school took part in the

Sainsbury’s big pedal.

During the 2 weeks of the big pedal, the

lowest amount of people to come on

bikes and scooters was 0 people, the

highest amount of people to go on bikes

and scooters was 22% of the school! Let’s

hope that next year we get some more

enthusiastic people to go on bikes and

scooters.

Well done for those people who came on

bikes and scooters to school.

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On the 22nd of April, Year 3 and 4

went to a football competition. Jack

in year 4 said, “It was a lot of fun,

but it was a bit different to the

matches I normally play.” Year 3

and 4 had a lot of fun at the

competition, battling for possession

and setting up goals. William in Year

3 said, “I had lots of fun playing mini

matches with different people. The

girls also had lots of fun because it is

a bit of a change for them.”

Well done to all who took part.

Tennis Champs! On Wednesday 27th of April, Annabel,

Alex, Daniel and Katie T went to the

tennis competition at Northallerton

Tennis Club. They got through to the

finals and played again on Thursday 5th

May, where they were joined by the

fabulous Year 5s as Young Sports

Leaders. They all played extremely well

and represented our school

tremendously.

Katie T said, “I thoroughly enjoyed it.”

Isabelle B said, “I loved the responsibility

and experience!”

Everyone tried their hardest and enjoyed

themselves.

Year 4 Golfers On the 3rd of May, Class 3

went to Romanby Golf

Course to do some golf

training and fun games. We

interviewed James T and

Daniel, and they both said, “I

really enjoyed it and I would

like to do it again”.

Class 4 charity

bake sale On Thursday 19th of May 2016,

Y5/6 had a bake sale to raise

money for the school charity,

Thirsk Wildlife Haven. They made

owl shortbread cookies, crispy

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cakes, pine cone hedgehogs and

much more. Class 4 also had a

cake raffle and Tehya Savage won

the cake she made! Lola Robson

said, “It was GRAND!”

It was a great day and everyone

enjoyed it. Altogether Class 4

raised an amazing £182 .50! Well

done!

Class 1 visit to

blue reef

aquarium On Thursday the 19th of May 2016,

class 1 went on a school trip to Blue

Reef aquarium in Newcastle. The

seaside was their topic so they

decided to go. Joe told us, “I really

enjoyed it and I learned lots of new

species and my favourite fish was

the conger eel. I give the day 10 out

of 10.” Jessica said, ”We did lots of

colouring activities and I really

enjoyed it.”

Class 1 saw lots of new fish and

learnt lots of new things. They were

very lucky to go on a school trip like

this and they absolutely loved it!

Tag Rugby

Training On Monday the 23rd May,

Class 3 and 4 began 4 weeks

of tag rugby training. Tehya

said, “It was good

preparation for the rugby

competition.”

Everyone had fun and tried

hard. In the warm up we

had to walk, run, skip and

lots more. Then we had to do

all of it backwards! Jack S.

said, “I liked the game’s

best”.

The Queen’s

birthday lunch On the 10

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of June, at 12:00,

the whole school gathered in

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the hall to eat a party lunch

and celebrate the Queen’s

90th

birthday. We also had a

hat competition. The judges

were Mrs Best and Mrs Sharp.

The winners were: Class 1,

Aeryn; Class 2 Ryan and Class

3 Wiktoria. Sadly there were

only 3 entries from class 4

and the winner was Isabelle.

The winners from each class

said:

Aeryn,“I won the prize and it

was so good!”

Ryan,“All of the hats were

very good and I loved the

dinner!”

Wikoria, “I was very surprised

I won and I thought Lewis

would win too because his

was so so good!”

Isabelle, “I was surprised I

won; I thought Alicia would

win because she sewed hers

and it was so good! WOW I

still can’t believe I won.”

Well done to everyone who

took part in the hat

competition.

Look at all the wonderful

crowns!

Sports week On the 13th to the 17th of June,

we had sports week. On the

Monday, it was class 3 and 4

rugby training. On the

Wednesday, it was year 5/6

kwik cricket competition and

they came second. On the

Thursday, it was skip2Bfit -

sponsored skip and also

box2Bfit. Finally on Friday, it

was whole school cricket

training.

A picture from box2bfit.

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On the 16th

of June 2016, Dave

came into our school to do

Skip 2B fit and Box 2B fit.

Unfortunately, due to the

rain, we couldn’t do the

decathlon as we had

planned, but we had lots of

fun doing Skip 2B fit and Box

2B fit.

All classes did fun activities,

including the Skip 2B Fit 2

minute challenge, boxer sit

ups, running with a

medicine ball, wobblers,

burpies and boxing with a

partner.

Alicia aged 10 said, “It was

really fun and good

exercise!”

As part of the day, every child

got sponsored to do a

2minute skip so we could

raise money for the Thirsk

Wildlife Haven. We raised a

whopping £530, so a huge

thank you for the donations!

We had a really fun day,

despite the rain!

Quick cricket On Wednesday June

15th, Tehya, Katie, Toby,

Harvey, Lola, Amelia,

grace b and Charlie

went to the Quick

cricket competition at

Northallerton cricket

ground. Katie, age 11,

said, “I was very pleased

that we came second

and I thought that we

all played very well”.

So over all, the day

went with a BANG !

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Crick-tastic! On the 17th June 2016, the whole school

took part in cricket training with Pete. He

showed everyone how to do basic

techniques and we played lots of fun

games.

Harvey P said, “I enjoyed it very much

and I learned new skills and techniques!”

All the children enjoyed it and some

enjoyed it so much that they decided to

join the club. Good luck to those budding

cricket enthusiasts.

Tag rugby

competition On the 29th of June, there was a tag

rugby competition which our school

was invited to at Thirsk High School.

We played six matches. We won 2,

lost 3 and drew 1. Everyone

improved as the day went on,

especially Isabelle who got Man of

the Match. She said, “I liked the tag

rugby because it was fun and cool.”

A pre-match photo.

Maths Morning On the 4th of July 2016, KS2 all did a

maths morning.

Year 3s, 4s, 5s and 6s were all put into

teams and we went outside into the

sunny weather and did some maths!

There were different challenge papers

dotted around the playground, with the

problems being based on nature. There

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was measuring, weighing and everyday

maths problems. Tehya’s team was given

a prize for good teamwork!

We had a great morning and would like

to say a big thank you to all the parents

that helped on the day.

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Sports Day

Class 3 Music Performance.

Over the past year, class 3 have been

doing music lessons with Mrs Rhodes,

from the North Yorkshire County Council

Music Service.

Before the lessons, each Class 3 member

got to choose a musical instrument and

then practice for a performance in front

of the whole school and for their parents.

Molly and Annabel said, “It was

extremely fun. Also it was interesting to

learn how to play different varieties of

instruments.”

The parents and children enjoyed the

show and were very happy with their

children for accomplishing a goal.

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Painted Ladies All of the classes got ten

caterpillars each so that they

could observe their life cycle. It

was so interesting watching

them change, especially when

they grew into butterflies and

we let them go. Thank you to

FASS for getting us the

caterpillars. Tehya said, “It was

fascinating and I liked watching

them when they were

caterpillars.”

On the 14th of July, Class 2 went to

Flamingo Land Zoo to see the animals

because they were learning about life

cycles. William said he liked the male

lions and the rhino. They saw a lot of

animals including a big snail, peacocks,

male lions, rhinos, stick insects, snakes,

hippopotamuses and lots more. Everyone

said they had fun and really enjoyed it.

Joe

mckechnie

visit!

On Friday the 15th of july

2016, all the classes did a

one hour PE session with joe

mckechnie, who participated

in the Paralympics 2012. Joe

taught us boccia, which is a

game where you have to get

three balls and try to hit the

white ball and whoever gets

the closest wins. we also

played curling and hand

ball. Alicia told us, “My

favourite sport was boccia.”

Isabelle also spoke to us and

said, “I think all the activities

were really fun and I really

enjoyed it.”

We all hope that joe will

make it to the rio 2016 gb

sports team! Good Luck Joe!

Majestic Muslim Faith

Day On Tuesday 19th of July, Yasmien came to talk to the whole school as part of our topic on the Muslim

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Faith. She did some exciting activities including using printing blocks, henna stencils, Arabic writing, dressing up and Bollywood music. Charlie Thompson shrieked, “I loved feeling the music!”

Alicia Bennet said, “The henna tattoos were beautiful.”

Everyone had a wonderful day and it was great to be able to do so many practical activities.

On Thursday the 21st of July 2016 the

whole school took part in a decathlon

(and this time the weather was perfect!)

There were 10 different sport activities

all in one afternoon. We worked in teams

to complete the activities and earn

points. Molly told us, “It was a really

entertaining day and I enjoyed all the

activities that we did.” Everyone did

really well and thoroughly enjoyed it. The

winning team was announced by Mr H in

our Celebration Assembly on Friday.

Congratulations ...

Leaver’s Meal

On the 21st

July, Mrs Sharp,

Mrs Watts, Mrs Simons, Jack,

Amelia, Tehya, Katie, Harvey,

Toby and Charlie went to Pizza

Express for a Leaver’s Dinner.

Tehya said, “I enjoyed going

out for dinner with all the Year

6 children.” Harvey and Toby

exclaimed, “The pizza was

delicious!” (The grown-ups

also enjoyed their enormous

Superfood Salads!)

Deer Shed Festival On the 22nd of July 2016, Class 3 visited

the Deer Shed festival. There were

different types of science workshops,

music and art activities. The theme this

year was ‘AT THE MOVIES’, which was

mainly about technology.

Mr Hodgson said, “To attend a Deer Shed

Festival with my Class is fantastic. I have

been before as a volunteer and loved it.

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The science workshops are educational

and exciting and the mix of fun, music

and art activities made a truly

unforgettable experience, which was a

really lovely way to end our busy year!’’

Class 3 had a wonderful time and learnt

lots.

Class 4 Summer

Fair On Monday 25th July, Class 4

had their annual summer fair.

There were 8 stalls selling lots

of different things. Katie and

Tehya sold gift tags, friendship

bracelets and held a lucky dip.

Eve and Amelia sold wooden

plaques and held a (not-so!)

mini tombola and a bake sale.

Lucie and Grace S did hair

styling and sold hair accessories.

Charlie sold Forest Friends.

Toby and Harvey ran two games

- guess how many sweets in the

jar and guess the name of the

teddy. Lola and Alicia did nails

(pedicures and nail painting).

Jack held a tattoo stall and

Isabelle sold hama beads and

held a treasure hunt. It was a

great afternoon and everyone

had fun. Once again all the

proceeds went to the Thirsk

Wildlife Haven, our school

charity this year.

Brilliant Buddies Next year, there will be some new

buddies in school. A buddy is one year six

pupil who is paired with one or two new

Reception pupils and they help them

through the school year. Here are the

buddies for next year:

Lucie H- Ashton

Alicia B- Jack

Eve–Frances and Isabella

Isabelle - Oliver

Grace S- Leah-Rose

Lola - Rose

Grace - Poppy

Lola said, “I’m so excited that I am having

a little one!”

We wish them all the best of luck and

hope the new Reception children feel at

home here at school.

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Lovely Leavers Service and

Amazing Awards Ceremony!

On the 26th July 2016, it was our

Leavers service and awards

ceremony. The whole school

attended and watched as the

leavers said their favourite things

about their time at primary school.

The songs were lovely and there

were lots of tears. The leavers this

year are:

Archie Brown (Year two)

Charlie Thompson (Year five)

Katie Dixon (Year six)

Toby Gardener (Year six)

Jack Palliser-Simpson (Year

six)

Harvey Phillips (Year six)

Tehya Savage (Year six)

Amelia Wharton (Year six)

The awards this year were

spectacular! It was very exciting

and the suspense was nerve-

wracking as everyone waited to see

who had won. These are the awards

that were given out:

Creative Writing Award

Caring Cup

Morgan History award

Rogers Award for Creative

Arts

Turner Award for

Determination

Murray Award for

Determination

Dixon Award for Effort in Key

Stage 1

Hall Award for Effort and

Progress

Sport award for

determination

Webster Player of the Match

(girl)

Chapman Player of the Match

(boy)

Great School Run Year 3/4

(boy)

Great School Run Year 3/4

(girl)

Great School Run Year 5/6

(boy)

Great School Run Year 5/6

(girl)

Great School Run Greatest

improver

Sports Day Key Stage 2 Boy

Sports Day Key Stage 2 Girl

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Sports Day Key Stage 1 Boy

Sports Day Key Stage 1 Girl

Sports Day Trophy

Total Points for the Year

Trophy (Sports Day Points and

End-of-Week Points)

Congratulations to all those

who won awards!

This newsletter has been

produced by children from

Class 4. A very big thank you

to them for their time.

Thank you to all the

parents, grandparents

and school friends who

have helped us in any

way at school this year.

SCHOOL OPENS ON

Wednesday 7th

September

WE WOULD LIKE

TO WISH

EVERYONE A very

happy summer

holiday