Dear Parents and Carers,

It is hard to believe that we are now half way through the school year! We are looking forward to seeing you next half term

at Parents’ Evenings and will be able to show you the progress your child has made so far this year. As you will be aware,

the national curriculum, assessment system and procedures for testing children has changed this academic year. Please see

our website for more information about this. I will also be leading presentations on the new assessment system during

Parents’ evenings and do encourage you to come along and ensure that you feel confident in tracking your child’s progress.

In staffing news, we are now able to inform you that Mrs Emily Evans will be our new Deputy Head Teacher from April

and she is looking forward to getting to know all of our families. We are also delighted to announce the return of both Mrs

Saddington and Mrs Griffin after half term, which also means that Mrs Webster will be returning to her role as Y1

Classroom Assistant. We are grateful to Ms Finch and Ms De Tuischer for their work at St. Paul’s this half term covering

staff absence. We also very much look forward to formally welcoming Mrs Alison Forrester to our team as our Year 2

morning Teaching Assistant after the half term break. We wish hope you all have a lovely half term and look forward to

seeing you on Monday 22nd February.

Football Champions! Our Year 3&4 Football Team played in a 6 a side

tournament at CCC against five other schools from the borough. They won four games and drew one, scoring fifteen goals and conceding just three. This gave them

a whopping thirteen points to win the tournament. Well done to the boys for an outstanding team

performance. Thanks also to our super supporters!

Headteacher Newsletter February 12th 2016

Best Class Punctuality Best Class Attendance Whole School Attendance

Week ending 5th Feb: Y3 & Y5 100% Week ending 5th Feb: Y1 100% Week ending 5th Feb: 96.2%

Week ending 12th Feb: Y3 100% Week ending 12th Feb: Y2 99.3% Week ending 12th Feb: 96.2%

Date Upcoming dates

Mon 22nd Feb

Wed 24th Feb

Mon 29th Feb

Tues 1st Mar

Thurs 3rd Mar

Fri 4th Mar

Mon 7th Mar

Tues 8th Mar

Fri 11th Mar

Mon 14th Mar

Tues 15th Mar

Wed 16th Mar

Thurs 17th Mar

Mon 21st Mar

Tues 22nd Mar

Wed 23rd Mar

Thurs 24th Mar

Mon 4th April

Return to school after half term

18:30 PSA meeting

Book week

2pm Faith Group meeting

Author visit for Y2,3 & 4 Cerrie Burnell from CBBC

World Book Day—dress as book character

Author visit for Y4,5 & 6 Sam and Mark from CBBC

Bringing Books to Life workshops (West end Theatre)

09:00 Y1 Class Assembly

Y5 Trip to Hampton Court Palace

David J Mason literacy workshops

David J Mason literacy workshops

Parent Consultations

15:15 Art Exhibition in Hall

Parent Consultations

Scholastic book fair in school

Y3 and Y4 Production of ‘Crikey Moses!’

Y3 and Y4 Production of ‘Crikey Moses!’

09:15 Easter service at St. Paul’s Church

School closes for Easter at 2pm

Return to school after Easter

Mrs Kathryn Hemming

Netball Success

On 5th February our Y5/6 Netball Team put in

an outstanding performance in the Primary High

5 Competition, coming 2nd in their group and

going through to the ‘Plate Round’ where they

came 4th. 24 teams took part, meaning that we

came 10th overall! Surbiton Girls’ School won

overall but we are delighted at such a strong

result and excellent team play! Well done!

Please visit our website for more information

and for up-to-date news and photographs:

http://www.stpaulsp.kingston.sch.uk/

On Tuesday we held Safer

Internet Day in school.

Please follow this link for

further guidance for parents: https://www.nspcc.org.uk/

preventing-abuse/keeping-

children-safe/online-safety/

Class news

Red: Red class have been learning all about Lent and Ash Wednesday this week. We made pancakes and

sprinkled sugar and lemon on yum yum! Then we had a special challenge to flip the pancakes in order

of the 2x table.

Yellow: Yellow class learnt about Shrove and Ash Wednesday and found out why people celebrate Pancake

day. We were very excited to look at different cultures and countries to find out about different ways

of celebrating 'Pancake day' all over the world. We listened and followed instructions of how to make

pancakes and had lots of fun tasting them. In Maths we learnt how to use our knowledge of number

bonds to 10 when adding up three numbers.

Blue: In Literacy we have been learning to sequence, retell and write traditional tales. We have even been

creating and describing our own alternate characters. We have been finding patterns in times tables in

maths, ordering fractions and finding fractions of shapes. We have really enjoyed creating vehicles

from different material and investigating their suitability for different purposes in Theme.

Year 3: We have enjoyed weighing, measuring and investigating if tall people can jump further—we also

looked at how honest supermarkets are with the weight on their packets. We really liked learning

about different types of soil and investigated their permeability.

Year 4: We have been writing fantasy stories involving sweets, a unicorn, Mr Marshmallow and a gummy

snake! We really impressed Mrs Hemming with our fraction work and some of use were even able to

find fractions of numbers involving decimals. We’re really enjoying developing our hockey skills in

PE and have been playing small matches.

Year 5: In English we have been writing Aztec legends based on Robin Hood. We have also been learning to

use semi-colons and writing using compound and complex sentences. In maths we celebrated Shrove

Tuesday by counting the number of times we could flip a pancake, bounce and ball and the laps we

could complete carrying an egg and spoon and then representing this information on line graphs. We

used our Aztec Sun Stone designs to make our own versions out of clay.

Year 6: We have been enjoying writing and performing rap poetry based on a fairy tale in English,

incorporating contractions, slang and nicknames. For Internet Safety day we learnt how to use

webcams safely and created posters to inform others. We also had a fantastic afternoon at

Kingsmeadow for our Junior Citizenship training.

Some of our pupils and parents

modelling the beautiful scarves

they have made in craft club with

Mrs Forrester.

Our Y6 pupils shared all

their learning in their

Ancient Greek topic in

their class assembly.

Y4 & Y5 both enjoyed

story-telling sessions at

Hook Library

KS1 really enjoyed

finding out about Chinese

New Year traditions and

doing Tai Chi in PE

with Ms Finch