LONGWELL GREEN PRIMARY SCHOOL -

Newsletter No: 09

9th November 2018

‘Inspiring Learning’ www.longwellgreenprimaryschool.co.uk

enquiries@longwellgreenprimaryschool.co.uk

SCHOOL INFORMATION

In school next week: Monday, 12th November Children’s author, Liz Kessler, visiting Years

3, 4 5 and 6 Remembrance Service Tuesday, 13th November Year 1 Party WOW Day, children come to

school dressed in party clothes from the 50s/60s/70s /80s

Wednesday, 14th November Year 3 Celts WOW Day, children come to

school dressed in dark clothing 6.00 pm Open Evening for children due to

start school in September 2019 7.00 pm - 9.00 pm Festive Fayre preparation

evening - all welcome to come along and help support the Friends of the School

Thursday, 15th November Year 5 World War II WOW day, children

come to school dressed as evacuees Friday, 16th November Mufti Day for Children in Need

SCHOOL NEWS

Update from Mr Brown I love this term, it is full of optimism and excite-ment – we start off with children feeling really grounded and at home in their classrooms (after all they have had a full term now to settle in) and we end up with the wonderful wide eyed, ‘can’t sleep’ excitement of Christmas and the promise of our Nativity and Christmas concert. But for now it’s all about making the most of learn-ing in every area. And what a start! This week I’ve seen reception making the most of bonfire night with some ‘explosive’ firework painting. Year 6’s have had an amazing Egyptian Day and right now I can hear year fives working together at PE, learn-ing throwing skills for dodgeball – It’s brilliant, and I can’t imagine a more positive way for term to begin!

Remembrance Day My name is Mrs Jenny Newbolt, and my role within the Longwell Green Primary School community is as a Higher Level Teaching Assistant delivering cover lessons from EYFS to Year 6. This week our children have been working, learning and sharing about Remembrance Day and what the poppy, red, white or purple, symbolises. This year it marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War and each child has made poppies to commem-orate its importance. On Monday, during assembly, each class will bring their wreath of poppies and hold a two minute si-lence as a mark of respect. Year 5 children have made clay poppies and these are displayed at the United Church in Longwell Green and in our own Sensory Garden. During our sessions many children have enjoyed sharing memories of relatives’ experiences of war-time and their role within it. Please continue to share these precious memories as this is our way to show that ‘We Shall Remember Them’. School Photographs Any photograph orders need to be returned to school by next Friday, 16th November. Children in Need The School Council are organising a mufti day to support Children in Need. They would like chil-dren to come to school dressed in spots on Friday, 16th November and bring a silver coin to help raise money. Thank you School Council School Meals Parents and carers are reminded that all school meals should be paid for in advance via the School Money online payment system.

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On Wednesday we invited Ali from Egyptology in Schools to work with Year 6 for our Egyptian WOW day. We covered so many things from hieroglyphs to Egyptian maths to Gods and the afterlife. The children al-so dressed up in fantastic ancient Egyptian costume – the staff too! Some of the children from Thames and Mississippi class have written about our day: Egyptian WOW day! (Thames) On our Egyptian wow day, we learnt lots of interesting facts about the Ancient Egyptians. Firstly, we learnt how to translate Hieroglyphics (Egyptian writing) and how to write our names. In Egyptian history there was a big stone with Hieroglyphics on that is called the Rosetta Stone. This is how Egyp-tologists learnt how to translate Egyptian writing into English. After break, we took some time to learn Egyptian numbers. They did not use numbers like we do, they used different signs. For example, 10 was a bridge and a swirl was 100. Then, we had a go at using the numbers ourselves to Ancient Egyptian BINGO! However, instead of shouting the word ‘bingo’ you had to shout out ‘HOWIE’ – the Ancient Egyptian word for rejoice. The final part of the day, was all about Egyptian monsters and gods. Our Egyptologist told us a grue-some yet interesting story about ‘Seth’, the evil god and ‘Isis’, ‘Nepsis’, ‘Osiris’ and ‘Horus’, the good gods. The story says that Seth threw a party and trapped his brother Osiris in a golden tomb and chucked him in the River Nile never to be seen again. Osiris sister, Isis was devastated when she found out and went a dangerous journey to find him. She travelled many ways across the land until she finally reached a far off land where Osiris was supposedly held. Eventually, she took the tomb back to her land. Osiris became the god of the underworld because he could not be revived. We made our own underworld monsters related to this story. This was a wonderful experience and a great wow day! Josh & Ruby

Year 6 – Our Egyptian WOW day!

Egyptian WOW Day! (Mississippi) The first thing we learnt about was hieroglyphs. We wrote our names on bookmarks how ancient Egyp-tian gods carve their names into obelisk (pillars in English) it was tricky but fun. We learnt more hieroglyphs but in maths. We played bingo but you had to find the answers to the ques-tions. Every group had different questions. At the end you would pick the answers out of a bag without looking and if you got the answer to one of your questions you would get a counter. The first group to get five counters wins! After lunch we were recounted a story about Egyptian gods; it was very interesting. Our favourite part of the day was this because we learnt about many Gods eg. Anubis, Horus and Seth. The last thing we did in the day was making up our own afterlife Egyptian monster. We had to merge three animals together to make an animal that would guard the afterlife test and if they failed they would get eaten by the animals. Ali also brought lots of real artefacts. 15 people at a time would go up and look at the ancient artefacts. There was one that you couldn’t touch because it would cause the artefact to decay because it was made out of bronze. By Nathan, Lydia and Max.

Well done to Michael in Thames class for winning the Howard Carter award for the day. Ali was

very impressed with your knowledge!

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SCHOOL NEWS

Lunchtimes at Longwell Green We are always looking to improve the children’s experiences and enjoyment at Longwell Green Primary School. Our focus, this term, is on creating a calm and relaxed dining room environment with an emphasis on behaviour, where children can eat together, eat better and engage in good conversation and show kindness to each other. With this in mind, we have linked Golden Time on Friday afternoons to behaviour in the lunch hall. Children observing the lunchtime rules will be commended for their behaviour and re-warded by participating in Golden Time on Fridays in their classrooms. Golden Time will have a theme each week and children can bring games from home into school if they wish. The themes are as follows: Friday 9th November 2018 – board games Friday 16th November 2018 – card games Friday 23rd November 2018 – construction games Friday 30th November 2018 – imaginative role-play Friday 7th December 2018 - number games/puzzles Friday 14th December 2018 - pencil and paper games Friday 21st December 2018 - colouring Whilst we are looking forward to celebrating all the positive behaviour we see in school, we will also be speaking to children, who are not always polite and respectful to others including peers and staff mem-

bers. These children will meet with Mrs Dawson and Mr Brown during Golden Time and will be involved in helpful activities to re-inforce the importance of good behaviour.

Walk to School This Wednesday we had an exciting assembly! Cath-erine from Living Streets came in to talk to the chil-dren about the benefits of actively travelling to school. Training was given to WOW monitors for each class to record on our Daily Tacker System. They also got to meet Strider who is so pleased that the children will bring trying to achieve their badges each month. Strider will be visiting again soon to meet children at the gate at the end of a school day and see how they are doing! Be Seen and Be Safe now it's darker this time of year. Norovirus and Winter Bugs With the season approaching where bugs can spread let's remember our best defence. The best thing to do is have good hygiene. Always wash your hands after visiting the toilet and before eating. Catch it! Bin it! Kill it! Coughs and sneezes are best caught -in a tissue. -put straight into a bin Coughs and Sneezes go Sleevies! This means when you do not have a tissue with you coughs and sneezes should go to the inside of your elbow. We do open doors, pick up pencils, touch anything with our hands, but we do not use the inside of our elbows. This way we reduce the spread. Please avoid coughing and sneezing into hands as it spreads germs so much more rapidly. Please remind your children. Mrs George

Festive Tombola Competition

Win a prize!

Prizes for Best Dressed Festive Tom-

bola for KS1 and KS2.

Bring in your Festive Tombola by Friday 23th November ready for the Festive

Fair on Saturday 24th November

Harvest Collection Following our recent Harvest Collection we have received the letter opposite from the Kingswood Food Bank which we hope you will find interesting.

New challenge!

Can adults use their creative

talents to decorate a jar.

Guidelines –

Wash a used empty jar or container and

its lid.

Fill the jar with individually wrapped

sweets or small party bag items.

Decorate jar in festive Christmas theme

and add your name and class.

Give your Festive Tombola to your teach-

er any time between now and Friday 23th

November.

Prize for best dressed jars!

Remember to

come along to

the Festive Fair at

school from

12noon on Satur-

day 24th Novem-

ber for a chance

to win a Festive

jar in the Festive

Tombola – maybe

you will win your

own!

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Within our Community News pages we publicise events which may be of interest to the families within our school; however these should not be viewed as being recommended or promoted by Longwell Green

School.

COMMUNITY NEWS

Update from FOLG (PTA)

Festive Fayre - 24th November, 11.30-2.30pm

Festive Fayre in school 11.30-2.30 on Saturday, 24th November. Please re-

turn your Father Christmas ticket request forms by 13th November. Please

return your volunteer request forms ASAP – we cant run this event without parental help.

Please send all Festive Jar Tombola entries by 22nd November

Don't forget to do all of your online Christmas shopping (or booking next year's holidays) through https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/friends-of-longwell-green-school/

to effortlessly raise precious funds for the school! Who can raise the most? Anybody can sign up so spread the word to grandparents, friends and neighbours!

School Crossing Patrol Vacancies

Road Safety Team

Site: Longwell Green – Two vacant sites. Location: Bath Road, by lane opposite number 144.

Second location - Ellacombe Road, at dropped kerb, outside first house on the Bath Road side of school. Times: 8.30am – 9.00am and 3.10pm - 3.40pm

Hourly rate: £8.50 Post: Permanent

Full Training, Uniform and support is given, we are happy to consider a shared/half post. For further information or to apply please contact Martina Byrne-Obee martina.byrne-

obee@southglos.gov.uk