27th June 2017
27th June 2017 Winyates News What a huge success Sports’ Day was last week, we’d like to thank the children, parents/carers and staff for supporting this –well done everyone! Our ‘Pop Up’ author visits have begun this week and the children have absolutely loved meeting them. This has been a real inspiration for the children to read and write, with many children now wanting to write their own books and become an author themselves! Our ‘move up’ transition day will be next Thursday, where the children will spend the day in their new classes, with their new teachers. A letter will follow next week with details of year group teachers and teaching assistants for next year. I’d like to with our Year 6s the best of luck on their transition days to secondary school next year –we are very proud of you and are confident that you will make excellent secondary students. Attendance and Punctuality Well done to all the classes last week. Class attendance for last week was: Reception 90.40% Year 1 90.83% Year 2 95.25% Year 3 96.18% Year 4 95.98% Year 5 95.31% Year 6 95.24% School overall 94.31% Our overall Class winner for the whole year is currently Year 4, who are heading for a lovely treat if they can hold off the competition! Miss C Lomas School Leader
Hot Chocolate Club We had a wonderful hot chocolate club this week. We sat around the big table enjoying the drink and talking at length. Our conversations were around pets and trying to decide what they might like to eat. We also talked about Grandparents and the roles they play in our lives! I cant wait to do my next one!! Mrs Firth Executive Headteacher Year 5 The Eagles Eagles class were excited yesterday when Jamie Thomson, author of the Dark Lord series and others, visited our class. He did a presentation and answered many questions before signing our class Dark Lord books, as well as personal autographs for us all! His visit has inspired many of us to create our own stories and we shall be using some of Jamie’s ideas to plan these from his workshop notes that he left with us. Thank you parents for attending! We are now looking forward to our Scholastic Book Fair, which starts on Wednesday 28th June until Wednesday 5th July from 3.15pm to 4.00pm (held in either our main hall or KS2 corridor). We hope you will come along and support us.
Sports News This week we are going to be very busy. On Thursday we have a phenomenal three teams representing the whole of Peterborough in the County Finals. Within this we have a team playing in the Tennis, Athletics and Hockey tournaments. Additionally to this we have the Year 5/6 Orton Tennis Tournament on Friday.
school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our own competitions possible. As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas of We are delighted to announce that participation, we have achieved the School competition, workforce and clubs, Games mark Award for the and we are pleased that the hard 2016/2017 academic year. The work of everyone at our school School Games Mark is a has been rewarded this year. Government led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward Parental Inclusion Clinic schools for their commitment to the Please take advantage of these development of competition across sessions with our Assistant SENCo their school and into the and Family Liason Officer by community and we are delighted to booking an appointment via the have been recognised for our front office. success. Our sporting achievements this Year 6 The Chameleons year include: Congratulations to Year 6 who Representing Peterborough in have all completed their writing the County School Games at assessment. They have worked Y5/6 Tag Rugby, Year 5/6 really hard writing in a range of Hockey, Year 3/4 Tennis and genres. We are now practising Year 5/6 Quadkids Athletics. ready for our leavers production, Representing the whole of continuing with maths Peterborough in the investigations and learning about Huntingdonshire Cricket the transition to secondary school. Board’s Year 1/2 Kwik Fire Trip reminder: Threes County Finals. The final payment of £10 is now With a total of 111 young people due for our class trip to Wicksteed competing in local inter-school park –many thanks to those that competitions this year, we are have already settled this payment. extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of
coloured bird who lays golden eggs Year 1 The Squirrels that you can find at the end of This week we met Bruce Ingman, rainbows. The children and Jane the illustrator of Previously,” the shared some fantastic ideas, and book we are studying this term. He Jane has challenged us to write the spent more than an hour with us and book. We plan to do this and send it told us all about his life and how he to Jane! The children were so well decided to become a children’s behaved and inspired by Jane. They illustrator. He also taught us how to asked lots of insightful questions draw someone riding a bike, and to and Jane said she thoroughly think about what is happening enjoyed her visit to Winyates. before and after the picture and leave clues in the picture. Year 3 The Owls Today, we have been through the book very carefully and found loads Year 3 are excited to be reading a of tiny details in the pictures that we poetry book by one of Pop Up had missed before. Now, we all authors who is due to visit this week. want to be illustrators! They have shown some excellent performance skills and have even Year 2 The Piglets written instructions for anyone who This week we had a fantastic visit needs a bit if help! from the author and illustrator Jane In numeracy, they have Ray. She has written 2 of the books concentrated hard on learning the we have used in our learning, properties of 3D shapes and including Ahmed and the Feather enjoyed a carousel of activities. girl which we are reading and We had a visit from Rubix after enjoying at the moment. Jessica won a competition and gave all of the children a Rubix cube to practise with!
It was a lovely afternoon joining in some collaging with Jane, as well as seeing her original artwork and finding out about what inspires her and how she creates her books. We even made a new book character with Jane called Flaminko a rainbow
In number time we will be looking at Reception The elephants subtraction and working out how many teeth the dinosaurs have left as some We had a fantastic visit from the of them are missing. Also we will be author Chloe Inkpen who introduced testing how far different eggs roll down us to lots of her characters including the ramp. Be careful they don’t crack! the moony mole. We enjoyed making In our writing this week we will be silly noises as we read the story and thinking about what we were scared of designed our own imaginary pet. when we started school and creating a We thoroughly enjoyed our visit from book to help the new children coming Shwing the alien last week, thankfully to school in September settle in to we found him when he went school and overcome some of their missing...he was hiding under Miss fears. We will also be writing about Scott’s desk having a sleep. We have and taking photos of the fantastic had great fun showing him all of the things we get up to in Reception. amazing learning we do in the This week Ebony received treasure elephants class. He has gone back to seeker for her enthusiasm for learning Planet Zort now as he misses his and using her thinking to create a mum and dad. spaceship for Shwing. Jessica and Today something else amazing Alisha received nominations and happened...Miss Venters found a glow special headteacher gold stickers. in the dark green egg in the classroom and we are trying to work out who it belongs to. We will be using our investigative skills to be egg detectives.
Term Dates Summer Term 2017 End of Term 20th July Autumn Term 2017 Term Starts 7th September Half Term 23rd October to 27th October End of Term 20th December
School Lunch Menu 3rd to 7th July allegen informationO- Oats D- Diary C- Celery E- Eggs W- Wheat F- Fish S- Sulphur Dioxide MONDAY Sausage Rolls (DW) with Baked Beans and Wedges Lasagne (W.DS.F) with Broccoli Autumn Fingers (W.O) – Cherry Shortbread (WDS) TUESDAY Beef and Vegetable Pie (W.C.F) Crispy Chicken (E.W) Smiley Potatoes with Carrot/Swede Fruit Salad – Marmalade Scones (E.D.W.) WEDNESDAY Roast Pork or Lamb Stew (FCW) Yorkshire Pudding (WD) and Roast Potato Cauliflower & Mixed Vegetables Chocolate Iced Sponge (E.W.D) – Jelly THURSDAY Spaghetti Bolognaise (WFS) Margaretta Pizza (W.DS) with Chips. Sweetcorn Ice-Cream (D) - Chocolate Biscuit (W FRIDAY Fish Fingers (F.W) with Mash Potato Ham & Tomato Pasta Bake (W.) Peas & Carrots Syrup Muffins (W.D.E) – Italian Cookies (DEW)
Hot Chocolate Club We had a wonderful hot chocolate club this week. We sat around the big table enjoying the drink and talking at length. Our conversations were around pets and trying to decide what they might like to eat. We also talked about Grandparents and the roles they play in our lives! I cant wait to do my next one!! Mrs Firth Executive Headteacher Year 5 The Eagles Eagles class were excited yesterday when Jamie Thomson, author of the Dark Lord series and others, visited our class. He did a presentation and answered many questions before signing our class Dark Lord books, as well as personal autographs for us all! His visit has inspired many of us to create our own stories and we shall be using some of Jamie’s ideas to plan these from his workshop notes that he left with us. Thank you parents for attending! We are now looking forward to our Scholastic Book Fair, which starts on Wednesday 28th June until Wednesday 5th July from 3.15pm to 4.00pm (held in either our main hall or KS2 corridor). We hope you will come along and support us.
Sports News This week we are going to be very busy. On Thursday we have a phenomenal three teams representing the whole of Peterborough in the County Finals. Within this we have a team playing in the Tennis, Athletics and Hockey tournaments. Additionally to this we have the Year 5/6 Orton Tennis Tournament on Friday.
school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our own competitions possible. As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas of We are delighted to announce that participation, we have achieved the School competition, workforce and clubs, Games mark Award for the and we are pleased that the hard 2016/2017 academic year. The work of everyone at our school School Games Mark is a has been rewarded this year. Government led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward Parental Inclusion Clinic schools for their commitment to the Please take advantage of these development of competition across sessions with our Assistant SENCo their school and into the and Family Liason Officer by community and we are delighted to booking an appointment via the have been recognised for our front office. success. Our sporting achievements this Year 6 The Chameleons year include: Congratulations to Year 6 who Representing Peterborough in have all completed their writing the County School Games at assessment. They have worked Y5/6 Tag Rugby, Year 5/6 really hard writing in a range of Hockey, Year 3/4 Tennis and genres. We are now practising Year 5/6 Quadkids Athletics. ready for our leavers production, Representing the whole of continuing with maths Peterborough in the investigations and learning about Huntingdonshire Cricket the transition to secondary school. Board’s Year 1/2 Kwik Fire Trip reminder: Threes County Finals. The final payment of £10 is now With a total of 111 young people due for our class trip to Wicksteed competing in local inter-school park –many thanks to those that competitions this year, we are have already settled this payment. extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of
coloured bird who lays golden eggs Year 1 The Squirrels that you can find at the end of This week we met Bruce Ingman, rainbows. The children and Jane the illustrator of Previously,” the shared some fantastic ideas, and book we are studying this term. He Jane has challenged us to write the spent more than an hour with us and book. We plan to do this and send it told us all about his life and how he to Jane! The children were so well decided to become a children’s behaved and inspired by Jane. They illustrator. He also taught us how to asked lots of insightful questions draw someone riding a bike, and to and Jane said she thoroughly think about what is happening enjoyed her visit to Winyates. before and after the picture and leave clues in the picture. Year 3 The Owls Today, we have been through the book very carefully and found loads Year 3 are excited to be reading a of tiny details in the pictures that we poetry book by one of Pop Up had missed before. Now, we all authors who is due to visit this week. want to be illustrators! They have shown some excellent performance skills and have even Year 2 The Piglets written instructions for anyone who This week we had a fantastic visit needs a bit if help! from the author and illustrator Jane In numeracy, they have Ray. She has written 2 of the books concentrated hard on learning the we have used in our learning, properties of 3D shapes and including Ahmed and the Feather enjoyed a carousel of activities. girl which we are reading and We had a visit from Rubix after enjoying at the moment. Jessica won a competition and gave all of the children a Rubix cube to practise with!
It was a lovely afternoon joining in some collaging with Jane, as well as seeing her original artwork and finding out about what inspires her and how she creates her books. We even made a new book character with Jane called Flaminko a rainbow
In number time we will be looking at Reception The elephants subtraction and working out how many teeth the dinosaurs have left as some We had a fantastic visit from the of them are missing. Also we will be author Chloe Inkpen who introduced testing how far different eggs roll down us to lots of her characters including the ramp. Be careful they don’t crack! the moony mole. We enjoyed making In our writing this week we will be silly noises as we read the story and thinking about what we were scared of designed our own imaginary pet. when we started school and creating a We thoroughly enjoyed our visit from book to help the new children coming Shwing the alien last week, thankfully to school in September settle in to we found him when he went school and overcome some of their missing...he was hiding under Miss fears. We will also be writing about Scott’s desk having a sleep. We have and taking photos of the fantastic had great fun showing him all of the things we get up to in Reception. amazing learning we do in the This week Ebony received treasure elephants class. He has gone back to seeker for her enthusiasm for learning Planet Zort now as he misses his and using her thinking to create a mum and dad. spaceship for Shwing. Jessica and Today something else amazing Alisha received nominations and happened...Miss Venters found a glow special headteacher gold stickers. in the dark green egg in the classroom and we are trying to work out who it belongs to. We will be using our investigative skills to be egg detectives.
Term Dates Summer Term 2017 End of Term 20th July Autumn Term 2017 Term Starts 7th September Half Term 23rd October to 27th October End of Term 20th December
School Lunch Menu 3rd to 7th July allegen informationO- Oats D- Diary C- Celery E- Eggs W- Wheat F- Fish S- Sulphur Dioxide MONDAY Sausage Rolls (DW) with Baked Beans and Wedges Lasagne (W.DS.F) with Broccoli Autumn Fingers (W.O) – Cherry Shortbread (WDS) TUESDAY Beef and Vegetable Pie (W.C.F) Crispy Chicken (E.W) Smiley Potatoes with Carrot/Swede Fruit Salad – Marmalade Scones (E.D.W.) WEDNESDAY Roast Pork or Lamb Stew (FCW) Yorkshire Pudding (WD) and Roast Potato Cauliflower & Mixed Vegetables Chocolate Iced Sponge (E.W.D) – Jelly THURSDAY Spaghetti Bolognaise (WFS) Margaretta Pizza (W.DS) with Chips. Sweetcorn Ice-Cream (D) - Chocolate Biscuit (W FRIDAY Fish Fingers (F.W) with Mash Potato Ham & Tomato Pasta Bake (W.) Peas & Carrots Syrup Muffins (W.D.E) – Italian Cookies (DEW)
