Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

James Walton-Brown

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Holly Eyles

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Harry Dodgson

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Matilda Alford

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Corey & Amy Butterfield

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Jack Ellison

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Dylan Hodgson

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Euan Wood

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Nicholas Stump

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

William & Nicholas Walker

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Kaitlin & Summer Teasdale

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Gracie-Mae Robsinson

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

John Pearson

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Ethan McMahon

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Joshua Procter

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Isaac Lottey

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Reece & Phoenix Gautam

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Oliver & Monty Green

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Lily Brown

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Ellie Addis

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Joshua Procter (Dad)

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Lars Keyworth

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Samuel Blackwell

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Tyler & Aston Nutter-Moon

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Wyatt Robinson

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Annie Auckland

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Oscar MacGregor

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Victoria Taylor

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Henry Rimmer

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

George Lockhart

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Ayaan Ali

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Monty Carruthers

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Cath Ellis

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Emily Claxton

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Daniel & Emma Wills

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Beth & Neive Roberts

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Isaac, Kitty & Minny Turner

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Lucas & Cara Shutt

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Joshua & Crystal & Becca Ashworth

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Vincent & Poppy Tetley

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Evelyn & Grace Welsh

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Andrew Papai

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Max & George Butteree

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Oliver Metcalfe

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Ellie Greenwood

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Zoe Gaskell

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Annie Faulkner

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Izobela & Harry Dean

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Zara Pratt

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Brennan & Jamie Packer

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Erin & Josh Loydall

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Jessica & Lulu Starkey

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Luis Egan

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Bailey, Amber & Lola Dobson

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Jonny & Kit

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Ella & Luke Swift

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Lewis Varey

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Jenny Whitaker

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Callum & David Barker

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Jessica Clemson-Banks

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Thomas & Ruby Cadman-Bond

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Emma & Katy Hargraves

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Joey & Jack Driscoll

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Megan Webb

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Grace Galvin

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Alfie & Dylan Panter

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Oliver & Daisy Hill

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Finlay & Oliver Greenway

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Archie Shackleton

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Brandon Taylor

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Madeline & Freddie Moorhouse-

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

William Jose

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Maisy Whitworth

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Noticeboard

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Copy

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Copy

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

OSC

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

E-mail group

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Mrs Peel

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Joyce

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Copy

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Noticeboard

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Master Copy

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Lisa

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Staffroom

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Copy

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.

Garg

rave C

of E

Prim

ary

School

Thurs

day 1

5th

Octo

ber

2015

Gargrave CE (VC) Primary School, Neville

Road, Gargrave, BD23 3RE

Tel: 01756 749433 Fax: 01756 749463

Email: admin@gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

Website: www.gargrave.n-yorks.sch.uk

See overleaf for

Holly Eyles (super reading)

Lola Dobson (excellent behaviour)

Ayaan Ali (knowing space facts—confident)

Samuel Blackwell (fantastic number task homework)

Lars Keyworth (perseverance with his can work)

Daisy Hill (working hard during paired reading)

Emma Hargraves and Megan Webb (for kindness towards other children)

Ollie Metcalfe (not giving up with his tricky work)

Zara Pratt (expressive brainbuilder work)

Every Child Counts: Every Child Contributes Issue 6

Mrs Deville

Skipping For Schools—Wednesday 21st October

We have invited Sports Skipping for Schools to host an all day skipping coaching

session where our children will have the opportunity to learn a range of skipping

skills. Skipping on a regular basis will help improve general levels of fitness and,

along with the different skipping skills and challenges taught during the day,

children will gain new found confidence in their own physical abilities. Parents are

invited to attend the presentation at the end of the day ay 2.50pm. Ropes will

also be available to buy on the day only at a cost of £4.00 each.

White Ribbons

Vacancy—Midday Supervisor

We are looking for a fun person who can work alongside the lunchtime staff to

ensure a safe, happy and active lunchtime. The person will be fully supported by

the other members of staff—5 hrs per week, working everyday 12.00pm – 1.00pm

Term Time Only. Closing date for applications ~ Friday 6th November 2015. The job

is advertised on the NYCC website or you can obtain an application pack from

school.

Vacancy—Kitchen Assistant

We have a vacancy for a general kitchen assistant to cover long term maternity

leave. It is for 2 hours per day (11.30am-1.30pm). To apply or ask any further

questions, please contact Vivienne Sadler on 07779788585.

Parents evening

Thanks to every parent for attending to discuss the learning of your child. Feed-

back from parents included requests for a maths calculations evening and a

meeting about assessment without levels. We shall arrange both for after half

term, dates to follow. Parents of pupils in years 2 and 6 were given copies of the

criteria for a child to be awarded ‘national standard’. There are higher expecta-

tions on the pupils in all areas of the curriculum. We also had out sample test ma-

terials for both these year groups, these are available on-line – just search for sam-

ple national tests. In the spring term we shall give you more details of the tests and

the teacher assessment.

Clubs

Apologies as a few parents thought that the clubs were on this week, but they

weren’t because of parents’ evenings. They are on next week.

Oak Class

We have had a report of head lice, please check your child's hair and treat. Also

could you bring in an old shirt for the children to wear when they are doing art.

APPLE This week in Apple class we have focused on

Phonics and Maths activities. In our Phonics sessions

we have covered c, ck, and e. The children have

read words and phrases and draw pictures. In

Maths we have worked on weight and counting

and comparing different sets of objects. Thank you

for coming to our parent consultation evenings and we hope you found them useful.

OAK This week Oak class have been working really hard on their grammar and have been

coming up with some fantastic adverbs and adjectives to make sentences more

interesting. We have also focused on using some tricky punctuation; using colons, semi-

colons, bullet points and brackets. We really enjoyed our trip to Ilkley Literary Festival to

listen to Steve Cole talk. He gave the class lots of great ideas for their writing. In maths

we have been thinking about multiples and factors and learning how to recognise a

prime number.

WILLOW

We have been working hard this week on our

place value skills and accuracy when working

with money. Some of us have been ‘purchasing’

sports cars at Willow Class garage and working

out how much we can save. We have also been

developing skills in newspaper writing and using

peer marking to check we have all used

our Top Tips effectively.

BEECH We are really enjoying our work on measuring length this week.

Here are Monty and Minny measuring their playdough ‘snakes’

with their bead strings. We have continued to look at non-fiction

books in literacy and have been labelling features of a fire engine

and writing facts about fire engines and fire fighters. We watched

a very exciting video clip of a fire being put out.

ASH Thank you to everyone that came to Ash class assembly. We really enjoyed sharing all of

our work with you. We worked hard to speak clearly and confidently. In Maths we have

been playing games on the computer to practice our rapid recall of number bonds. We

have been looking at recycling in Science and had lots of ideas about what we could

recycle! Please can I remind all parents that we do not bring toys into school (unless it is

for show and tell—see timetable). We have had lots of upset over toys getting lost or

swapped, so please can you ensure that your children do not bring them.

Lisa’s

Kitchen

Monday 2nd November

Cheese & Tomato Pasta

Syrup Sponge & Custard

Tuesday 3rd November

Meatloaf

Raspberry Bun

Wednesday 4th November

Meat & Potato Pie

Chocolate Mandarin

Sponge

Thursday 5th November

Chicken Korma

Toffee Apple Cake &

Custard

Friday 6th November

Battered Fish

Fruit Salad

Monday 19th October Fish Fingers

Jam Roly Poly & Custard

Tuesday 20th October Pasta Bolognaise

Flapjack

Wednesday 21st October

Chicken Pie

Arctic Roll & Peaches

Thursday 22nd October Beef Hot Pot

Biscuit, Cheese & Grapes

Friday 23rd October

Sausage, Potato & Beans

Halloween Biscuits

PTA Update and Forthcoming Party

Sally, Carolyn and myself would like to say a big hello to you all! We are

looking forward to some exciting times ahead with you all in the coming

school year. As always, we welcome any fundraising ideas from you and

volunteers are always welcomed with enthusiasm!

After our first informal meeting on Friday we have a few ideas that we

would like to share with you, the first being an Autumn fancy dress

party. This will be held in school on Friday 23rd October 3.30pm til

6 pm. Please see details on posters around school.

We are also asking for donations of any magazines, as current as possible,

that you have finished with (these can be adults or children's) We aim to

leave these in reception where you may purchase one for £1.50, a great

way to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, gardening or children's

programmes at a much reduced price!

Finally, any jam jars that you may have, please bring them in! We have

many uses for them and donations throughout the year are appreciated.

Many thanks in advance, Claire Gautam

This is the main choice—there is

a vegetarian option available

every day (as per menus

sent at the start of term)

Football Report

Joey, Lewis, George, Jonny, Thomas, Alfie, Dylan, Corey, Neive and Kitty

all played in a Y3/4 football tournament at Sandylands last Friday. The

first match was 5 nil to us, then the 2nd match was 1 nil to them, 3rd

match was 3 nil to us, 4th match was 4 nil to them and then the 5th

match was 3 nil to us. Overall we came 4th . We were really proud of our

efforts. By Joey Driscoll

Can you Help?

World Prematurity Day is observed on the 17th November to raise

awareness of pre term birth and the care of premature babies world-

wide. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely every year, 1

in 10 around the world.

I volunteer on the neo natal unit at Bradford Royal Infirmary on behalf of

Bliss (Bliss.org.uk) and every year on World Prematurity Day we give gifts to

everyone currently spending time on the unit. This includes purple knitted

hats, one for each child. If any of our parents, grandparents or other

family members are a dab hand at knitting and would like to help out I

would be most grateful! I will need the hats for the first week in November

ideally (they must be purple!). If you need a pattern, please visit http://

www.fiberfluxblog.com/2011/02/free-pattern.html?m=1. Thank you.

Claire Gautam

Parking – Collection

Be aware that it is VERY busy at drop off and collection times. Please

consider parking at the village hall and walking up to school.

Assemblies

Next week: Thursday 22nd October it is Willow class assembly at 9am.

Friday 23rd October – achievement assembly, pupils are invited to bring

in something to show and speak about that they have achieved outside

school.

Oak and Willow class had been challenged to write a short story about

space on the back of a postcard. Amber Dobson won 2 tickets to go to

Settle Stories to see Tales from Cosmos—a story that was set in 1910

about a man shot down 9 suns so that we only had un in the whole wide

world. It was great.