FRIDAY FLYER

Friday 1st December 2017

DIARY DATES Monday 4th December Christmas Craft Club (3.15pm-4.15pm) Year 6 Reading Club (3.15pm-4.30pm)

Tuesday 5th December Carnelian and Tiger - Trip to British Museum Year 5 Reading Club, selected pupils (3.15pm-4.30pm) Supper Club, selected pupils (3.15pm-4.30pm) KS2 Steel Pan Club (3.15pm-4.30pm)

Wednesday 6th December Garfield College (1.30pm-3.00pm) Parents’ Evening (3.30pm-7.30pm) Year 6 Reading Club (3.15pm-4.30pm) Year 5 Reading Club, selected pupils (3.15pm-4.30pm)

Thursday 7th December Opal, Fuchsia and Flamingo - Trip to British Museum SOTO Dance Club Bluebell and Sapphire (3.15pm-4.30pm)

Friday 8th December Year 5 Trip to Hindu Temple, Neasden Dance/Gymnastics Assembly 9.15am (All Parents

Welcome) KS2 SOTO Dance Club (3.15pm-4.30pm) KS1 Little Voices Choir (3.15pm-4.00pm) Homework Club, selected pupils (3.15pm-4.30pm)

FUTURE DATES Wednesday 13th December - Christmas Lunch Day Friday 15th December - Year 2 Christmas Assembly

9.15am (All Parents Welcome) Tuesday 19th December - Year 1 Hanukkah Assembly

9.15am (All Parents Welcome) Wednesday 20th December - KS2 Choir Carol Singing at

Rose View Residential Care Home Wednesday 20th December - Carols & Christingle

Assembly 9.15am (All Parents Welcome) Thursday 21st December - Last day, half-term (school

finishes at 2.15pm) Friday 22nd December – Tuesday 2nd January 2018

Christmas Holiday (School Closed) Wednesday 3rd January 2018 - INSET Day (School

closed to pupils) Friday 12th January - Year 3 Carnelian Assembly 9.15am

(All Parents Welcome) Friday 19th January - World Religion Day Assembly

9.15am (All Parents Welcome) Friday 26th January - Year 3 Tiger Assembly 9.15am

(All Parents Welcome) Monday 29th January-Friday 2nd February - Maths

Week Friday 2nd February - Maths Week Assembly 9.15am (All

Parents Welcome) Friday 9th February - Year 5 Chinese New Year

Assembly 9.15am (All Parents Welcome) Friday 9th February - Last day, half-term (School

finishes at 3.15pm)

INSET Days (School will be closed on these days) Wednesday 3rd January 2018 (New date) Friday 25th May 2018

Headteacher’s Message It has been such an exciting week! We had a visiting celebrity (who was very impressed with our school). Freshwater theatre group inspired our KS1 pupils, Garfield College continued to enthuse our KS2 pupils and it’s our Christmas Fair. What a week! Wishing you all a happy weekend. Ms Karen Khwaja

Melvin Odoom We were very lucky to have the

famous Melvin Odoom join us on

Monday for our assembly.

We all got the chance to ask him

questions. He told us his life story

and about how hard he had to work.

Did you know that he has to get up at

4.30am every day for work?

He showed us some of his dance moves such as the robot, which was the

best. Many lucky children won prizes for performing in front of the

school. He said that he loved R&B and hip hop music which we love

too. He brought his trophy from Strictly Come Dancing which he won

at the Christmas Special dressed up as an elf.

Melvin was great fun and we will be listening to him on Kiss FM radio.

Faith (Year 5, Lavender)

Sarah (Year 6, Hellebore)

REMINDER - CHRISTMAS FAIR TODAY!!

Parent View

Parent View is an important online parent questionnaire.

We want to encourage as many of our

parents to complete this.

The link is:

http://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/

SPECIAL COLOUR EDITION

RECIPE OF THE WEEK FOR CHILDREN & PARENT

Creamy Banana Porridge with Mish Mash Raspberries Ingredients:

200g porridge oats

300ml skimmed milk

750ml water

2 large ripe bananas

200g raspberries (thawed if frozen)

4 tbsp 0% fat Greek yoghurt

Method: Prep: 10mins; cook: 10mins; ready: 2mins 1. Put the porridge oats into a saucepan with milk (add water if

preferred)

2. Heat, stirring constantly, until the porridge thickens.

3. Reduce the heat and simmer for 3-4 minutes, stirring often.

4. Mash the bananas in a bowl using a fork.

5. Stir half into the porridge.

6. Add the raspberries (or thawed frozen summer berries) to the

rest of the banana and squash them a little with the fork.

7. Share the porridge between 6 warm bowls and top each portion

with the yoghurt and the raspberry mixture.

ATTENDANCE Week Ending 24th November

2017

Rose = 98.93% Ruby = 90.71% Sapphire = 94.29% Bluebell = 92.50% Carnelian = 89.33% Tiger = 96.54% Opal = 97.31% Flamingo = 92.67% Fuchsia = 93.67% Hummingbird = 99.31% Lavender = 96.07% Grasshopper = 90.67% Hellebore = 89.67%

TOTAL= 94.31%

Well done to all the classes who have improved on last week , especially Rose and Hummingbird who achieved well above National Average. However, a disappointing result overall. Please be mindful of your child’s attendance. Poor attendance will be monitored as parents are being invited to meet with the Education Welfare Officer. Let’s aim for a better outcome in following weeks.

Mrs Matas

Attendance Officer

Year 1 and 2

Freshwater Theatre Great Fire of London On Tuesday, Years 1 and 2 enjoyed an interactive production about "The Great Fire of London'. The children were taken back in time and learned about what life was like in 1666. They met Samuel Pepys, the Mayor and Thomas Farrynor.

It was good fun and everyone participated in bringing history alive.

Jo Choueke Year 1 Leader

ECOLOGY COMMITTEE This week, the Ecology Committee commenced. The club includes

13 children from Years 2-6. In our first meeting, we discussed what

we have already achieved as a school and what we hope to achieve

throughout the year. We are also very proud to announce that we

have attained the Silver award for Ecology from the Eco Schools

programme that we follow. Well done to all the children that

worked hard in the Eco Committee to help get the award.

Miss Pericleous

Ecology Leader

Gymnastics Festival On Tuesday and Wednesday, gymnasts from Years 3 and 4 took part

in the Enfield Schools Gymnastics Festival, a big competition

featuring many schools from around the borough. The children had

to perform a floor sequence and the vault in front of a panel of

judges. The gymnasts have been working really hard towards

preparing for this. After overcoming some early nerves about

performing, they did themselves and the school proud.

Mr McKenzie

PE Teacher and PE Leader

Keeping Safe Assembly

In assembly all the children demonstrated what they had learnt through safety month. Different year groups demonstrated different ways of being safe from how to cross the road, how to be safe online and also how to prevent bullying. Excellent work was produced by all year groups including songs, videos and art work. Well done.

Miss Pawson ICT Teacher

YEAR 5 Trip to Museum of London

Last Friday, Year 5 visited the Museum of London Archaeological

Archive. We were able to look at and handle real Viking artefacts

including a comb, a knife and a wooden bowl. We were also taken into

the enormous store where we gasped in amazement at the rows and

rows of objects which included parts of stone columns, boxes and

boxes of bones – some of them human! All of us got to design and

make a Viking brooch which we wore proudly for the rest of the day!

Mrs Warre

Year 5 Teacher

Reception Parent Phonics Workshop A big thank you to all the Reception parents that attended the Phonics workshops this week. We hope that this has helped you to understand our phonics programme and how we teach your children to read and write. Miss Sesstein Reception Class Teacher