CLAREMONT PRIMARY SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER FOR WEEK ENDING 7 February 2020

Whole School

Great teachers are never forgotten. Teachers transform lives and make futures brighter. Why not train to become one?

Find out more at one of our Get into Teaching information evenings. Upcoming events are:

13 Feb at Sir Henry Fermor, TN6 2SD – 9.30 – 11.15 am, suitable for primary applicants

18 March in the Sixth Form Centre, Bennett Memorial School, TN4 9SH – 7 – 8.30 pm, suitable for all

23 April at Speldhurst CofE Primary School, TN3 0NP - 9.30 – 11.15 am, suitable for primary applicants

Training will take place within our partnership of West Kent and East Sussex primary & secondary schools. Trained teachers gain a PGCE: the internationally recognised qualification of trained teachers. Our partnership has extensive expertise in training teachers and has a 100% employment rate. For secondary trainees a wide range of subjects is available. Generous bursaries & scholarships (up to £30k) are available to support you.

For further details see: www.teachkentandsussex.org.uk & twitter: @TeachKandS

Please contact Carol Hughes or Hilary Sutton by telephone on 01892 521595 for an informal discussion or email contact@teachkentandsussex.org.uk to register your interest. We can offer school experience days to support your application.

Our schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All trainee teacher posts are subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS check.

The Department for Education has sent schools advice on the Coronavirus. The government is closely monitoring the spread of the Coronavirus and is taking action at home and abroad. The overall risk of Coronavirus to the UK remains moderate. However we understand that people may be concerned where there are children, students or staff returning from or visiting China. Public Health England and the Foreign Office have issued advice for anyone travelling to the area. This can be found at: • https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/china • https://www.gov.uk/government/news/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-and-avian-flu-advice-for-travel-to-china Latest information and advice can also be found at: • https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus Advice for parents/guardians You should not be unduly worried about the possibility of your children catching the Coronavirus.

There is no reason why your children should not continue to attend their early years, school or further education setting

as normal.

We recognise that some families or children may be planning to travel to China during the forthcoming half term period.

If so, please refer to the FCO’s latest travel advice via the link above.

What action you can take: A UK wide campaign has been launched to provide clear advice on how to slow the spread of

Coronavirus. Please help to support the campaign which promotes basic hygiene practices, such as regularly washing

hands and always sneezing into a tissue, to stem the spread of viruses.

This Week’s Recipe

Food: Eating the right foods

Rest: Getting enough sleep

Exercise: Being active

Digital Devices: Managing time spent online

Recipe 10: Butternut squash & chickpea tagine Ingredients:

1 tbsp oil

1 red onion, finely chopped

2 garlic cloves, crushed

1 tsp grated ginger

½ tsp ground cumin

1 tsp ground coriander

1 tsp cinnamon

¼ tsp mild chilli powder

500g bag frozen butternut squash chunks

2 carrots, cut into small dice

1 courgette, cut into small dice

2 x 400g cans chopped tomatoes

1 x 400g can chickpeas, drained

cooked couscous or rice, to serve

Method:

1. Heat the oil in a heavy-based pan, then slowly cook the onions for around 10 mins until starting to

caramelise.

2. Stir in the garlic, ginger and spices and cook for a further 2 mins.

3. Add the vegetables and canned tomatoes and bring to a simmer. Put the lid on and simmer for

around 15 mins or until all the veg are tender. Stir in the chickpeas, heat through and serve with

couscous or rice.

There will be a change to the school dinner menu for Pancake Day on February 25th. Dessert will be a pancake served

with either lemon and sugar or golden syrup.

We have received an email from a resident of Cambridge Gardens asking us to remind parents not to park on the road

when collecting or dropping off children. This applies to not just normal times of dropping off and collection but

collection from after school clubs as well. Residents have noticed an increase in cars taking up spaces which residents

returning from work are unable to access.

There is no Cross Country club after school on Monday 10th February. Apologies for the short notice. Mr Hogwood

This week’s featured class – Elder

This week in Elder we have been learning about how to use clever colons and sensational semi-

colons. We have been writing different types of sentences, using colons and semi-colons, based

on our Power of Reading book: Journey to the River Sea.

We have also continued learning about exciting rainforests and in particular we have been

learning about the geography of the beautiful South America.

On Wednesday, we filmed our fun, educational e-safety video and the Digital Leaders will be

selecting a winner next week. Fingers crossed it will be us!

We have also had the first part of our class concert! We have been showing off our skills and

sharing our musical learning with each other by performing with our musical instruments.

Written by Elder Class

Year R

Year 6

Reception children – Acorns and Saplings

We would love your child to talk to you over the weekend and find out what jobs you do, what

you do every day and how far you have to travel. Maybe you could show them on a map and how

long it takes you to get there. Please can you put it in their sharing book or even better your

child could draw or have a go at writing it in their sharing book.

When you get the class teddy bear, we would love you to take the bear in to work, as we would

like the bear to travel to as many places as possible!

Please can your child bring in a named toy bear in on Monday 10 February. It will need to

stay in school until the Easter holidays, so it should not be their favourite toy that they need

to sleep with. It cannot be bigger than 50 cm please as it would be tricky to find space

for lots of big bears! It can be any type of toy bear such as a teddy bear, panda bear, brown

bear etc! If you do not have a bear at home, please do not buy one as we do have some

spares, and just tell us.

On Tuesday, Year 6 were visited by Reem who is a refugee from Syria. She came to talk to the children about her experiences while fleeing the war taking place in her homeland. She gave vivid accounts of her life before and during the war including her emotional recount of having to flee her home after coming under sustained bombing. Not only did she share her story, but also that of her sister who travelled across the Mediterranean in terrifying conditions. Reem certainly made the children think carefully about how fortunate we are to live in a peaceful country. Reem was accompanied by Tunbridge Wells Welcome Refugees (TWWR). This is a charity set up in 2016 to help families who have come to the UK and have been placed in different regions. They support the families by finding accomodation, job training and language courses. We are grateful of the time Reem and TWWR offered as this links brilliantly to our humanitarian work we are doing in Year 6 as part of our Explore term.

Cake Sale

Year 5&6 Disco

Diary Dates

Diary Dates for next week

Please see the calendar page on the website for advanced dates. The calendar is updated every Wednesday. For detailed

information, please click on the DAY view.

10th Feb –

11th Feb – Safer Internet Day

12th Feb –

13th Feb – Get Girls Going workshop am

14th Feb – Y5&6 PTA disco in hall/Cake sale

Cake sale

When - Friday 14th February

Time - 3.25 - 4.00

Cost - 50p per cake

Where –

YR, 1, 2 and 3 please go to the top playground.

Y4-6 please go to the bottom playground.

Please can you donate a cake on Friday 14th of February at school drop off at the main school entrance!

We are raising funds to buy more sports equipment. Thank you!

The Sports Leaders

If your child is attending the disco on Friday 14th February, and they would also like to go to the Cake Sale, they must go

to the hall straight from class and then a PTA member will take them to the cake sale.