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Head of School Message— Summer Term 5

24th May 2019 Term 5, Issue 5

Neuro-Linguistic Programming

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is an approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy creat-ed by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in California, United States in the 1970s.

Body Linguistics

Body linguistics is a kind of nonverbal communication, where thoughts, inten-tions, or feelings are expressed by physical behaviours, such as facial ex-pressions, body posture, gestures, eye movement, touch and the use of space.

Skinner’s Theory (Operant Condition-ing)

The theory of B.F. Skinner is based up-on the idea that learning is a function of change in overt behaviour. Changes in behaviour are the result of an individu-al’s response to events (stimuli) that occur in the environment.

Dear Parents, It has been a short but eventful half term with school trips, SATS, themed weeks, fundraising and many other exciting ac-tivities. Curriculum and Standards

As a school we have developed effective self-evaluation and this is closely monitored by the Trust. Being part of the Trust enables all staff on all levels to work collaboratively and share good practice. This forms part of their CPD and many members of staff are completing research projects to improve their knowledge of teaching and learning. All staff are committed to improving at all levels and strive to deliver the best for your children.

The model for effective self-evaluation is based on:

Pupils Class Middle management Whole-school and beyond This evaluation takes place through pupil voice, observations, monitoring at all levels and data analysis. Support from gover-nors is key to this process and we are lucky to have a very pro-active governing body. Governance supports honest, perceptive self-evaluation by the school, recognising problems and sup-porting the steps needed to address them. Governors take and support hard decisions in the interests of pupils; and, when they need to, challenge staff and myself. Teaching is an increasingly pressured profession and I would like to thank all the staff for their consistent hard work and more importantly the pupils for their enthusiasm for learning. Thank you to the governors also for their hard work and dedi-cation. Harley and the Dog Mentor Programme Thank you to those of you who attended the workshop. It was a shame that only four people attended this as the benefits of a dog mentor was explained in great detail. The aim of the pro-gramme is to: Improve Behaviour by employing several theory methods:

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Watson’s Theory J.B. Watson coined the term “Behaviourism”. This attempts to explain the relationship between antecedent conditions (stimuli), behaviour (the response to that stimuli) and consequences (reward, punishment or neutral effects). Pavlov Learning Theory This is part of Classical Conditioning and aims to create automatic behaviours as a result of ex-ternal stimuli. Harley is used for the above and other activities on an individual, group and class focus. Attendance Attendance continues to be a key area of focus and we are striving for all classes to be 97% or above. This is an Ofsted requirement and as a school we are judged against this. The class with the best attendance this term is Class 5 with 97.5% and they will be allowed to wear their own clothes on date Friday 5th July. It is key that you do not take your children out of school dur-ing term time as this can have a negative effect on their attainment and future learning. For example 90% attendance is like having one day off every two weeks and a 2 week holiday each year in primary school means a total of 14 weeks teaching time missed — this could have a real impact on their basic literacy and numeracy skills. Below are the attendance figures for each class this term. Rabbits 87.9% Hedgehogs 95.2% Otters 94.4% Eagles 96.1% Dolphins 95.3% Pandas 97.5% Tigers 96.4% FOSS Thank you to all members of FOSS who are constantly working hard behind the scenes to help raise money for the school. It is a growing concern that we do not have any new volunteers as some of the current members will be stepping down at the end of this year and it would be a great shame if this did not continue. They are busy planning the summer fete and I am sure they would appreciate some support. FOSS recently purchased Accelerated Reader for the school and two interactive whiteboards. Please check the website and Facebook page for information regarding meetings. It would be lovely to have some new members to join the team. On the last day of term in the summer FOSS have very kindly offered to give out free ice creams to all the children. I would also like to thank Mr South who very generously agreed to sponsor Maths Mastery for the pupils which has been greatly received considering the growing economic cuts to education. Finally, I would like to thank you all for your support and wish you all a very happy half term. Kind regards. Tara Hewett Head of School

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Sports News

Football A mixed team of boys and girls from Class 5 and a boys only team from Class 6 recently took part in football matches against Riverview Junior School. Unfortunately both teams lost their matches. Athletics On Thursday 23rd May a group of Class 4 boys and girls went to Cobham Hall for an Athlet-ics Tournament. They took part in a variety of track and field events and finished 10th overall. We would like to thank all our parent helpers for transport to and from these events and for your continual support.

Class R Trip to the Woodville Halls

Rabbit class have been learning all about mini beasts this term. They enjoyed a mini beast hunt at for-est school to start off the topic. They have been learn-ing to retell the story of the very Hungry

Caterpillar and during science week were lucky enough to have real caterpillars arrive in class so that they could watch them trans-form into butterflies. They went on a trip to watch the stage show of the very Hungry Caterpillar at the Wood-ville Halls theatre. Everyone thoroughly en-joyed the show. A special thank you to all the parents who came along to help.

Class 2 Trip to Chatham Dockyard

On Tuesday 24th April Class 2 visited Chatham Dockyard. Upon arrival they went straight onto HMS Gannet where they were greeted by a real pirate! They learnt all about life on a pirate ship and about different famous pirates like Blackbeard and how he was defeated. They then went and made their own boats in teams and tried to design their boat so it would travel fast and stay afloat. Finally, they looked at the book Jack and the Flum Flum Tree and thought about what items they would take with them on a pirate adventure. Class 2 had an ab-solutely fantastic day. Thank you to all the parent helpers.

Class 5 visit to Knole Park

This term Class 5 visited Knole Park where Henry VIII visited and hunted deer. Amber and Mack have written a report to share about their visit: First we were split into 4 groups: craftsman, Sackville child, Lady Sackville and servant. We were able to handle the replica objects which would have been used in Tudor times and guess what they were. We then had to decide who would use each object. After-wards we went into the Brown Gallery where we had to match portraits to their owner. Next we were shown around the house, we smelt different smells and listened to different types of Tudor music which would have been in the house. We learnt all about the leopard, which was the Sackville symbol, we went out-side and measured how old the trees were. Finally, we dressed up in Tudor outfits and learnt the reasons for the different colours and materials. We would definitely recommend Knole Park as a place to visit, it is beautiful and open.

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Cornerstones Curriculum

For your information the new topics for each class next term in the Cornerstones Curriculum are: Class Topic Class R Why do Zebras have stripes? Class 1 Paws, claws and whiskers Class 2 Beachcombers and Land Ahoy Class 3 Predators Class 4 Potions and 1066 Class 5 Beast Creature

All Age Worship

This term Year 3 joined St Pe-ter & St Paul’s church in cele-brating Julian of Norwich. They put together a presentation and delivered it expertly as well as leading the congregation in several pray-ers. Mr Mallinson was very proud of all those that took part.

Travelling Book Fair

During the week begin-ning Monday 20th May the Travelling Book Fair visited school. Many many thanks to all those pupils and parents who came along and support-ed this event which means the school receives new books for the school library. Thank you!!!

Science Week

During the week beginning Monday 29th April we held Sci-ence Week at school. This was basically a themed week where the children were encouraged to be hands on scien-

tists with lots of practical experiments developing their skills at predicting, observation and recording. We had a sharing assembly at the end of the week where each class presented what they had been learning.

Class 6 presentation

On Wednesday 8th May five children in Class 6 put togeth-er a presentation and shared it with our CEO , Steve Carey and the school Governors. They spoke about what life is like at Shorne School being in Class 6 and taking part in their SATS exams. Everyone was very impressed by the very high standards of the presentations.

Message from FOSS

Please see Forthcoming Events for our two non uniform days in June—the first in exchange for Un-wanted Gifts which will used to make up raffle hampers for the Summer Fete so used /opened items will be unsuitable. The second is in exchange for Sweets for the Tombola (please avoid sending in choc-olate in case we have another heat wave!) On Monday 24th June we have a Hamper Wrapping Night which will be held in the school hall from 7:30pm. The more hands, the less time it will take, so if you could spare an hour to help it would be greatly appreciated. Raffle tickets will be going out in book bags early June. We will send out one book of Children and one book of Adult raffle tickets in each bag. There will be plenty more in the office so please offer family and friends the chance to win something lovely. All proceeds from the fete benefits the children di-rectly so with this in mind, we'd like to offer a prize to the class that sell the most raffle tickets. Please note that the deadline for returning raffle ticket stubs is Monday 24 June. We are still looking for volunteers to help on the day and on the lead up to the fete. Any help welcome! You can get in touch via the Friends of Shorne School Facebook page. We would also like to ask that you share the 'Shorne Primary School Summer Fete' Facebook page. It will be a fantastic day and the more advertising we get, the better! SHARE, SHARE, SHARE! Lastly, the FOSS Annual General Meeting will be held in September and we will discuss appointment of posts. There will be some positions becoming available so please take some time to consider whether you’d like to become more involved and help by volunteering for one of the different roles. Thank you!

Forthcoming Events

May 24th—Last day of term, school finishes at 3.20pm 27th-31st—Half term holidays June 3rd—Staff Development Day, school closed to children 4th—First day back to school 4th—Avon Tyrrell presentation to Class 6 parents 7th—Coffee morning for parents/carers, 9.00am 7th—Pyjamarama Day, children come to school dressed in their pj’s 10th—Fire & Rescue talk, all years 12th—Class R—Hearing & vision checks 12th—District Cricket Tournament, classes 5 & 6 13th—Father’s Day sale 14th—Church Schools Celebrations for Class 6, Rochester Cathe-dral 14th—Non-uniform day in exchange for gifts/raffle prizes for Summer Fete 17th-21st—Inspiration Week 19th—Sports Day, KS2 am & KS1 pm 21st—Non-uniform day in exchange for bottles & sweets for Sum-mer Fete 24th-28th—Avon Tyrrell residential trip for Class 6 25th—Class 1 trip to Wingham Wildlife Park 29th—Summer Fete, 11.45am-3.00pm July 1st—Graduoke filming for Class 6 2nd—Trust Sports Day, Classes 5 & 6 5th—New Parents meeting, 9.30am 7th—All Age Worship led by Class 2 at the church of St Peter & St Paul, 10.00am 10th—Safety in Action, Class 6 11th—School Time uniform provider visiting school, 2.00pm 11th—KS2 production dress rehearsal 15th—KS2 production at Saint George’s Secondary School, 6.45pm-8.45pm (please note that Class 6 will spend all day at Saint George’s and further information will be sent out regarding jun-ior drop off times) 17th—Leavers’ Service, 10.00am at the church of St Peter & St Paul 19th—Last day of term, breakup at 1.30pm September 2nd—First day back to school

Medical Reminders

SUNSCREEN: Please can we remind you NOT to send bottles of sun-screen into school but put it on your child be-fore they come to school. The only exception is Reception chil-dren who spend a lot more time outside than other year groups. Mrs Thornley has asked them to bring in a named bottle, spray types are preferred. HAYFEVER: Medication should be given before school. MEDICATION: We can only administer medication (including eye drops) if prescribed for use 4 times per day. May we remind you that no child should have any medication in their bags whilst in school. GENERAL REMINDERS: each child should have a water bottle in school and a named hat for use at break times and also dur-ing PE lessons. Many thanks for your help and co-operation.

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Term 5 RAP Awards

YR R R Evelyn Barnes-Farnham A Rosie Jones P Cobie Diprose YR 1 R Sienna Dabner A Charlie Mack P Isla Hooper YR 2 R Riley Hall A Mia Lawrence P Chloe Jenkins YR 3 R Lily Smith A Lily Chase P Harrison Elliott YR 4 R Gabrielle Weston A Aleyna Thomas P Opeldoluwa Adewuyi YR 5 R Molly Williams A Byron Clarke P Ruby-Maddison Parmenter YR 6 R Head Girl A Harry Steggles P Ryan Cordner Respect Achievement Perseverance