Powick CE Primary School
Powick CE Primary School 42 Malvern Road, Powick, Worcestershire, WR2 4RT
Headteacher: Anthony Dixon-Gough
Dates for your diary.
Dear Parents, It was lovely to catch up with so many of you at the recent fireworks event and parents’ evenings; thank you to all who helped make the event such a success. I have been informed by the Friends of Powick Primary School that they have raised in excess of £1800 for the school. Well done!
14/11 THE POWICK BAKE-OFF
Staff Training
25/11 CHRISTMAS DISCO
This week the teaching staff have worked alongside staff from other local schools, looking at how children learn through discussion. This is a valuable area that we will be developing over the coming weeks.
5/12 Y2/KS2 PANTOMIME VISIT
16/11 Y4 TESCO VISIT 18/11 NON UNIFORM DAY
7-8/12 KS1 PRODUCTION 9/12 CHRISTMAS FAIR
Maths Calculation Policy A number of parents have asked about the methods of calculation that are used throughout the school. All current methods can be found on the school website at http://www.powick.worcs.sch.uk/maths/
12/12 CHRISTMAS DINNER 13/12 Y5 SPACE CENTRE VISIT 15/12 KS2 CAROL CONCERT
Computing update Since, with the support of the Governors, our investment in a class set of laptop computers, we have been able to begin the long and vital journey to integrate Computing into the teaching and learning at Powick School. Interestingly, it has become apparent that there has been a general migration away from keyboard skills as children and their families have adopted tablets as a primary means of electronic learning, communication and entertainment. The current National Curriculum (https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/239033/PRIMARY_national_curri culum_-_Computing.pdf ) has placed less explicit emphasis on the kind of skills we might expect to use when working with software you would associate with ‘Microsoft Windows’ (word processing, creating presentations, manipulating text and images, saving and retrieving work) but it is important that these skills are still addressed as they will undoubtedly be crucial in both further education and in the workplaces of the future. With this in mind, all staff have been asked to include elements of teaching and learning that can address these learning needs as well as developing teaching and learning from the new curriculum. Simple games to help with keyboard orientation can be found at these addresses: BBC Bitesize Dance Mat typing: http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3c6tfr#z873b9q Primary Games – finding the letters/keys http://primarygamesarena.com/Play/Keyboard-2030 Mr Irving Telephone 01905 830336 Fax 01905 831675
www.powick.worcs.sch.uk email: office @powick.worcs.sch.uk
Awesomest Book Award 2016 We can now announce the shortlist for Worcestershire's Awesomest Book Award 2016.
Author Butchart, Pamela Callaghan, Chris Coggin, Linda James, Laura Welford, Ross
Illustrator Flintham, Thomas Lalalimola N/A Ceulemans, Eglantine N/A
Title To we or not to wee! The Great Chocoplot The dog, Ray Captain Pug Time travelling with a hamster
So what happens next? Please do encourage children to read as many of these 5 titles as they are able. There are copies of most of these books available in public libraries and we have a limited supply in school that be borrowed from Year 5. Miss Maclean The development of the community garden A reminder that our next garden development session will take place on Saturday the 3rd of December. If you think that you can make yourself available, I would be most grateful if you could sign up at the following address, https://goo.gl/forms/NN5Qz1RoAH58stTC2 Whether you are able to help all day or just for an hour, any help will be most appreciated. Kind regards,
Anthony Dixon-Gough
Headteacher: Anthony Dixon-Gough
Dates for your diary.
Dear Parents, It was lovely to catch up with so many of you at the recent fireworks event and parents’ evenings; thank you to all who helped make the event such a success. I have been informed by the Friends of Powick Primary School that they have raised in excess of £1800 for the school. Well done!
14/11 THE POWICK BAKE-OFF
Staff Training
25/11 CHRISTMAS DISCO
This week the teaching staff have worked alongside staff from other local schools, looking at how children learn through discussion. This is a valuable area that we will be developing over the coming weeks.
5/12 Y2/KS2 PANTOMIME VISIT
16/11 Y4 TESCO VISIT 18/11 NON UNIFORM DAY
7-8/12 KS1 PRODUCTION 9/12 CHRISTMAS FAIR
Maths Calculation Policy A number of parents have asked about the methods of calculation that are used throughout the school. All current methods can be found on the school website at http://www.powick.worcs.sch.uk/maths/
12/12 CHRISTMAS DINNER 13/12 Y5 SPACE CENTRE VISIT 15/12 KS2 CAROL CONCERT
Computing update Since, with the support of the Governors, our investment in a class set of laptop computers, we have been able to begin the long and vital journey to integrate Computing into the teaching and learning at Powick School. Interestingly, it has become apparent that there has been a general migration away from keyboard skills as children and their families have adopted tablets as a primary means of electronic learning, communication and entertainment. The current National Curriculum (https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/239033/PRIMARY_national_curri culum_-_Computing.pdf ) has placed less explicit emphasis on the kind of skills we might expect to use when working with software you would associate with ‘Microsoft Windows’ (word processing, creating presentations, manipulating text and images, saving and retrieving work) but it is important that these skills are still addressed as they will undoubtedly be crucial in both further education and in the workplaces of the future. With this in mind, all staff have been asked to include elements of teaching and learning that can address these learning needs as well as developing teaching and learning from the new curriculum. Simple games to help with keyboard orientation can be found at these addresses: BBC Bitesize Dance Mat typing: http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z3c6tfr#z873b9q Primary Games – finding the letters/keys http://primarygamesarena.com/Play/Keyboard-2030 Mr Irving Telephone 01905 830336 Fax 01905 831675
www.powick.worcs.sch.uk email: office @powick.worcs.sch.uk
Awesomest Book Award 2016 We can now announce the shortlist for Worcestershire's Awesomest Book Award 2016.
Author Butchart, Pamela Callaghan, Chris Coggin, Linda James, Laura Welford, Ross
Illustrator Flintham, Thomas Lalalimola N/A Ceulemans, Eglantine N/A
Title To we or not to wee! The Great Chocoplot The dog, Ray Captain Pug Time travelling with a hamster
So what happens next? Please do encourage children to read as many of these 5 titles as they are able. There are copies of most of these books available in public libraries and we have a limited supply in school that be borrowed from Year 5. Miss Maclean The development of the community garden A reminder that our next garden development session will take place on Saturday the 3rd of December. If you think that you can make yourself available, I would be most grateful if you could sign up at the following address, https://goo.gl/forms/NN5Qz1RoAH58stTC2 Whether you are able to help all day or just for an hour, any help will be most appreciated. Kind regards,
Anthony Dixon-Gough
