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AINDERBY STEEPLE CHURCH OF

ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER

SUMMER 2017

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Contents of This Term's Newsletter Page 2 Football Fanatics

Fancy Footy Football

Page 3 SATS

FASS School Disco

Page 4 Tennis Competition Y3&4

Tennis Competition Y5&6

Atlas Assembly

Page 5 Yorkshire Show Winners

Money on Trees

Page 6 Crazy Cricket Club

Kwik Cricket

Page 7 Buddy Photos

Fabulous FASS Fair

Page 8 Cool Quadders

Happy Hindus

Fantastic Farm to Fork

Page 9 Crawling Caterpillars

New Reception WOW

Pump House Museum

Page 10 Class 1 Picnic

Ripon Cathedral

Rounders Rained Off

Page 11 Magic Move-up Morning

Sex Education

Super Sports Day

Page 12 Fantastic FASS Bingo

Incredible Induction Days

Incredible Ignite Kids

Page 13 Class 4 Assembly

Class 1 and 2 Danby visit

Sporting Sensations

Page 14 Leaver’s Meal

Skip 2B fit Day

Page 15 Cool Class 4 Summer Fair

Leaver’s Service & Awards

Page 16 Lovely Leavers

Fancy Footy Footwork

This year, Years 2 to 6 have been doing a football after school club on Fridays. Conner, from North Yorkshire Soccer Academy, taught them most weeks when it was on. At the start of the club the children warmed up by playing a game of some sort. Then there were lots of different activities involving practicing football skills and at the end Conner split everyone into two teams to play a match of football using everything they had learnt. At the most recent club there weren’t many

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children as the club got a bit less popular because some students moved on to other things. Lucas D said “It was really fun and I rate it 8/10!”

SATS

At school on the 8th-11th of July years 2

and 6 did their SAT’s. The reason we do

these tests is for educational reasons and

the government. The children were quite

scared and anxious at the start to have a

go at these tests, but it got easier when

they were almost over. The children tried

really hard and did extremely well. If you

got a report back for your child and they

did the SAT’s their results should have

been in their report. Afterwards, there

was a party for class 4 and a treat for

class 2. Everyone had lots of fun!

Fabulous FASS School

Disco By Brandon M and Wiktoria K

On the 11th

of May our school

discos happened, starting with

Key Stage one (class one and

two) who had their disco take

place from 3:30 till 4:30. Here

are some quotes: Laila and

Roxy happily said, “I liked the

song where you put your

tongue out!” and Kaiden

smiled and said, “Silly Steve

was very funny and silly.”

After that Key Stage two’s

(classes 3 and 4) disco took

place. Here are some quotes

from people about the school

disco: Katie replied happily,

“On a scale of 1 to 10, it was

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answered, “It was very fun,

and I got covered in foam.”

Molly laughed and said, “I

really liked it especially when

he took us through the school

in a conga” and Cherrie said,

“It was weird and unexpected

walking through the school in

a conga.” After that class 3

and 4 had some snacks like

fruit-shoots, twirls, fudges,

water and crisps. Next they

had a dance-off, boys vs girls,

which the boys won. The

pupils danced to songs such

as Thriller, Happy and Shout

out to My Ex. Finally, (at the

end) everyone was exhausted

and looked like a red tomato

because they were so hot. But

in the end everyone had a

great night!

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Year 3/4 Tennis comp On the 16th of June, some of class 3 went to Northallerton Tennis club to play in the tennis competition.

William said, “I liked it because everyone was happy.”

Everyone enjoyed it and tried their hardest. It was a tough competition and everyone was really proud of them.

Terrific Tennis

Competition!

On the 24th May 2017 Sarah,

James, Katie, Daniel, Adam, Willow,

Alicia, Isabelle and some young

leaders went to Northallerton

Tennis Club to take part in a tennis

competition to compete against 8

other teams.

Sarah (age 10) exclaimed, “I liked

playing against different schools

because there were various levels

of skill, so I got to play the best

and the worst!” The school won 19

matches altogether and we are so

proud of the team. We interviewed

Grace S (one of the young leaders)

and she told us, “It was a great

experience judging the tennis!”

The competition was a great

success and thoroughly enjoyed by

everyone. ”I am so proud of myself

because I got a new best!” Isabelle

told us proudly, and we are not

surprised if anyone else got a new

best as well.

An article reported by Willow N and

James T.

Class 3 had been learning about

atlases and globes and on the 25th

of May they performed a collective

worship about it; read on to find out

more about their amazing

performance…

Class 3 had made a PowerPoint

about going around the whole world

and the different continents and

some of the countries.

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Here are some quotes from the

creators.

William said, “It was interesting

making the assembly”

Ruby said, “It was really fun!”

Here are some quotes from the

viewers:

Brandon exclaimed, “It was

interesting and I learned quite a

bit”

Wiktoria noted, “It was exciting

and fun.”

The children showed that they had

learned a lot about atlases and the

earth. Parents cheered and children

clapped. Altogether this was

amazing for the school and the

parents. The song they sang at the

end of the assembly was

exceptionally amazing- that was real

talent.

North Yorkshire

Show! By James G

On the 18th of June the North Yorkshire

Show took place at Camp Hill in Bedale.

Every one made an entry and some

children won a prize.

I ask three students for information

about how they felt when they got the

money and found out they’d won.

Molly said joyfully, “I felt happy and

proud when I got the money for 3rd”

Thomas said, “I like the money and was

happy”

Jack said, “It was extraordinary and I

loved the money”

Overall there were 26 winners from our

school meaning we got the award for

most prizes. The whole school were very

proud and everyone was very pleased

with their work.

By Eve and Lola, journalists

for the school

During the last half-term of

summer class 4 were preparing

their ‘make £5 grow’ projects to

sell at the summer fair on the 24th

of July in school. Make £5 grow was

an excellent fundraising idea to help

them learn about making profit,

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using money wisely and advertising

products. It also helped them raise

money for the school’s charity this

year, Globals Make Some Noise. In

this project class 4 split into groups

and each one thought of their own

unique ideas for them to raise

money. Each group decided on a

company name and what they were

going to sell: Splashy Wash Car

Wash- washing cars; Keelyson & Co-

anklets, shakes and snacks, drawing

on demand and lucky dip; Bon-bon

Boutique- trinket dishes, charms,

popcorn, bows, fairy houses,

friendship bracelets and keyrings;

Random Wriggling News Agency-

Small toys, bookmarks, comics and

games. Also, Super Smoothies and

Pretty Plaques are doing exactly

what their business name says.

Lucie, team leader of bon bon

boutique, said, “We chose to sell

products we enjoyed making and

what we would use ourselves.” Some

groups told us that their favourite

part of the project was making the

products, whilst others noted that

selling products to different people

interested them the most. Overall,

it was a fantastic experience that

should make lots of money for

Globals Make Some Noise (please

talk to Mrs Montgomery for more

information about this charity). The

children loved the experience and

Willow rated it, “11 out of 10!”

Crazy Cricket Club took

place on the 5th June to 3rd

July at school. Peter

Keigthley (the coach) was

the best coach in the world. If you want

to find out more read on.

Jenson W, Spencer P, Ayken N, Ryan B.J,

Lewis W and James G played a variety of

cricket games. James said, “I loved rapid

caterpillar and Pete!”

Ryan said, “I love the 3 catch game, Pete

was the best coach ever!”

Spencer exclaimed, “I loved caterpillar

cricket.”

Pete said, “I loved teaching Lewis, James,

Ryan, Ayken, Jenson and Spencer. I liked

watching the six pupils improve in their

time.”

On the 7th of June 2017, some members of class 4 attended at the Kwik cricket competition at

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the Northallerton Cricket club. The pupils who took at part were Ruby, Daniel, Lucas, Phoebe,

Miles, James G, Sarah and Grace B. They played many different

schools and really enjoyed playing. Everyone loved lunch because

they got a rest and found the food they had delicious! All the players

loved playing the matches. Most of the players preferred the batting to the bowling because they

thought it was more fun. Lucas said “It was very fun and we saw

some friends from East Barnby. Miles thought the first team was

the hardest to beat. The team didn’t get a medal but everyone

was very happy for taking part.

Fabulous FASS

Fair

The FASS summer fair- which was

on the 10th of June- was a hit. This

happened to raise money for FASS

and was held at Ainderby Steeple

Primary School. A group of parents

wanted to organise a fun day for

the children that also raised some

money for the school.

At the summer fair there was the

following stalls, Brick a Brack,

Plants, Raffle, Scrunchies,

Playdough, water or wine, face

paint, snacks, drinks and most

importantly cakes. Also Splashy

Wash Car Wash (a student-held car

wash from Class 4) was going to be

there but it was cancelled due to

the rain and a bouncy castle was

arranged but that had to be

dismissed as well due to bad

weather. Here are some opinions of

what other people said:

James T said, “I won playdough and

then sold all of my 16 pots for one

pound each.”

Eve E said, “It was fantastic and

had many fun activities to do.”

In conclusion the summer fair was

amazing and it should be done again!

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Cool quadders!

On the 13th of June 20 people from KS2 went to

Sacred Heart School to take part in a Quad Kids

competition. The sports were: sprinting, throwing,

long jump and a long distance run. The

competitors were Henry, James H, Freya, Lily-

Rose, Essie-May Isabella W, Ruby R, Ryan, and

Danny from Y3/4. From Y5/6 Miles, Adam, Molly,

Annabel, Wiktoria K, Jack S, Sarah, Daniel, James T

and Alicia represented our school.

Henry T exclaimed “My favourite activity was the

sprint.” On the big run he thought it was quite

hard and he preferred the throwing more than the

standing long jump. He rated it all 10 out of 10.

Miss Sanders came back for Quad Kids and the

children were excited to see her there. They all

worked really hard especially on the big run! Y5/6

had to run 600 meters. Miles came first out of

y5/6 Ainderby Steeple Boys, coming 8th overall.

Sarah T came first out of Y5/6 Ainderby Steeple

Girls, coming 6th overall. Miles told us “I’m glad I

came eighth overall but my legs got tired at the

end, I got 9.5 in standing long jump!”

HAPPY HINDUISM

By Daniel

On Tuesday the 20th of June, Indri

came to school to teach the

children about Hinduism in class 4

but taught all the classes

because it was Hinduism day.

Indri told stories, dressed them

up, taught them Bollywood and

taught them about the religion.

Willow N said, “It was extremely

fun and I got to have a bow and

snake.”

James G said, “I absolutely loved it

because I got to dress up like

someone cool”

This symbol

represents Hinduism

The Hindu day was

terrific and was

very fun.

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Crawling

Caterpillars! On Friday the 21st of June, every class in

the school got 5 or less caterpillars. We

got these caterpillars so the children

could learn more about wild life and how

the life cycle of caterpillars works. These

caterpillars were ordered online.

Everyone was so excited when they came

in and saw the caterpillars wriggling about

in their tub. Brandon M said, “The

caterpillars show you what wildlife is all

about and have been great!” Wiktoria K

said, “They were very interesting.”

Ruby k explained, “They’re VERY

beautiful.” All of the caterpillars have

turned into pretty butterflies and have

sadly they have been realized.

New Reception wow!

By wiktoria k and Ruby k On the 22nd of June 2017, the new

reception and their parents came to an

open evening. Mrs Sharp said, “It was

lovely to meet many new families and

see some we know very well.” It took

place in the school hall, there were

refreshments and a speech was given by

our head girl Eve E and one of our deputy

head girls Grace B. Eve E said, “The

evening was very informative and the

parents felt calm afterwards. Some of the

new children had come to the evening

and met Mrs Sharp. Jack S and James G

both said they felt over excited and really

proud because they are getting a little

one to look after. The new reception and

the other classes all took part in our

move-up mornings where the year ones

move into class 2 and the new reception

join Class 1.

Pump House

Museum

Class 3 went to on a

school trip to The

Pump House Museum

on the 29th

of June for

the full day.

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Everyone enjoyed it

and liked the fact

that they could stay

off school. The

museum was making

history a fun

subject. Isabella said,

“I like the fact we

could handle

artefacts which were

around 1000 years

old.”

It was a memorable

school trip that was

very interesting and

fun!

Class 1 Picnic On Friday the 30th of June 2017 the

children from Class 1 and their parents

enjoyed eating all of their picnic food.

This took place in their classroom at

school and was based on a story they had

been reading: The Lighthouse Keeper’s

Lunch. We asked 2 children from class 1

what they had enjoyed; Poppy said that

she liked that her mum was there and

that she got to play outside. She had ham

sandwiches, fairy cakes and blackcurrant

juice. Then we asked Ashton and he said,

“I really like that my mum was there.” He

had a packet of crisps, a cake and some

egg sandwiches.

Memorable Ripon Cathedral

Leavers Service

Reported by Isabelle and Adam

On the 4th July 2017 the year sixes (Lucie,

Alicia, Eve, Isabelle, Grace S, Lola, Grace B

and Makayla) went to Ripon Cathedral to

join other nearby schools in a leavers

service. Read on to find out more...

They made a tryptic on one of the

windows. There were 3 flowers and a

stork with leaves with our names on

them; then there was a picture of them

decorated with butterflies and shooting

stars and 2017 and then pictures of them

growing up over the years. Isabelle and

Makayla got chosen to present it to

everyone else at the service.

At the end of the service everyone got a

blue wristband which said, ‘Living Loving

Learning’ on it. Isabelle B (one of the year

sixes) said, “It was a great experience

influencing the cathedral and I loved the

wrist bands!”

ROUNDERS RAINED OFF

On Wednesday 5th of July a group of

children from class 3 and class 4 were

supposed to go to a rounder’s

competition, however the classic British

weather let them down with the worst

rain we have probably ever seen. It was

cancelled but some of the children going

were not so bothered! A similar thing

happened with the rugby competition.

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Magic Move-Up

Morning

By Molly and Annabel

On the 6th, 12th and 13th of July 2017, we

had our move-up mornings. 15 new

children joined our school, 8 girls and 7

boys. We have move-up mornings so that

the new children can see how school

works and see where their classrooms

are in the school. The new reception

children enjoyed looking around our

school and said it was an exciting day.

The year 5s enjoyed finding out who their

buddies were and meeting them. Molly

in class 4 said, “I am really happy with my

little one and loved meeting her.” Maisie

from class 1, who will be going into class

2, said, “In class 2 we made bookmarks,

stars and pictures. I rate the day 10 out

of 10. My favourite part of the day was

making the bookmarks.”

Many people in our school are looking

forward to next year and are interested

in learning new things!

Sex and Relationship

Education

On the 11th and 12th of July 2017, years 3-

6 had their sex and relationship

education. The reason why we do the

SRE is so that our children are aware of

what’s going to happen to them and

other people in the future, know what

sex is and means and how to stay safe on

the internet with inappropriate messages

on the social media. Class three did unit

two and class four did unit three.

Super Sport Day

A report by Sarah M T

On the 7/7/17 the whole school

gathered to do sports day in front of

their parents and family; it is a time when

pupils compete and show off their P.E

skills. Sometimes the parents, members

and pre-schoolers like to join in too!

We interviewed Leah S, Lilly L and Esther

N before sport day and this is what they

said Esther said, “I’m looking forward to

it because it will be fun to compete. The

races they did were the sack race,

running race, skipping race, bean bag

race (KS1 only), walking race (KS1 only).

After sport day we interviewed Lola R,

Adam R-J, Lilly L and Leah S. Here is what

they said: Lola said, “It was super fun, my

favourite race was the running race and I

even got a new personal best.” Adam

said, “Normally I would hate sport day

but I loved it, I didn’t get a new personal

best but my favourite race was the egg

and spoon.

The relay race was last, Beech won, Oak

came second, Ash came third and

Sycamore came last. Kian H had the last

quote and he said, “It was my first sport

day and I loved it because I won!”

It was a huge success!

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Fantastic FASS Bingo

On the 5th of May and the 7th

of July, FASS organised a

bingo night for the whole

family. It was in the school

hall and was happening to

raise money. Daniel (age

10) said,” It was frustrating

because my brother won

something.” Ruby (also age

10) said, “It was amazing, I

liked saying winner winner

chicken dinner.”

Incredible Induction Days

From the 12th to the 14th of July, the Year

6 girls visited the schools they would be

moving to in September. Seven of them

visited Northallerton School and Sixth

Form College.

Eve E visited the school she would be

going to (St Francis Xavier) she said, “I

was nervous at first, but I soon became

relaxed because the school was friendly

and welcoming. I loved trying new

things!” They went to meet their new

form tutor and make new friends, a bit

like a move-up morning.

Alicia B said, “It was scary but

interesting.” Everybody really enjoyed it,

especially the fun activities they did. Year

6 can’t wait to see what’s in store for

them in September.

Jen and the Ignite Roadshow came to our

school from New Life Baptist church, on

Friday the 14th of July 2017. The crew

that came were Jen, Trevor, Bob {Robyn},

Sue, Isaac, Chloe and Diane. We had lots

of fun and played lots of games. We

watched a Veggie tales video based on

the story of David and Goliath from the

Bible. It was cartoon and the characters

were vegetables! The games that we

its dark in hereplayed were: - you had to

Pit of do skittles with a blindfold on-

Death-you had to collect balls from a

paddling pool- Bottle bead shake- You

have 30 seconds to shake some beads

from one bottle to another bottle.

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Ella from class 2 said, “My favourite game

was the bottle bead shake because I liked

watching them do it in 30 seconds. I

really liked the song and my favourite

part was watching the Veggie Tales.

Amelia from class 3 said, “My favourite

part was the play because it was funny

and I also liked the song.

Class 4’s Colourful

Collective Worship

On the 17th of July class 4 pulled off an

amazing collective worship. It started at

2:30 and some of the pupils parents

arrived to watch.

Class 4 based there poems on two books,

The Tear Thief and The Colour Thief.

Class 4 made an amazing slide show to go

with the poems and the information

about them. The first part of the slide

show was the introduction about what

was going to happen and what makes a

good poem. There were four types of

poems that each child from class 4 wrote:

rhyming patterns, kennings, haikus and

acrostic poems. Alfie, age 9, said, “It was

amazing. My favourite part was when

they showed us the books that they were

inspired by. I loved the poems they

wrote. HOW DID THEY THINK OF SUCH

AMAZING POEMS?”

On the 18th of July 2017, Class 1 and 2

went to Danby on a school trip. They

witnessed some amazing views and had

lots of fun. The weather was gorgeous!

Jenson W said, “It was very interesting

and I liked playing all the games!”

They also played some fun activities like

Woodland Walk and Forest Hunting.

Olivia B said, “It was a great experience!”

Altogether, Class 1 and 2 had a lovely

time and learnt some new things.

SPORTING SENSATIONS

On Thursday 20th July

the school’s decathlon

was supposed to take

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place in the afternoon but

unfortunately it was

called off due to bad

weather again…

Not all was lost though as

earlier in the term, KS2

had all taken part in a

mile run around the

field.

Ruby K said, “I felt very

tired out.”

The points the children

earnt went toward their

sports day total. Everyone

can’t wait until next

year’s run and decathlon.

Fingers crossed the

weather holds out!

Pizza Express

Leavers Meal.

On the 20th of July 2017, Year 6, Mrs

Watts, Miss Sanders, Mrs Sharp, Mrs

Simons and Mrs Campbell went to Pizza

Express for a leaver’s meal, to celebrate

the great times they had at Primary

School. Year 6 all said that the pizza

tasted amazing and desert was gorgeous!

Grace .B. exclaimed, “The food was really

yummy, I love that we have the

opportunity all spend time together

before we leave!”

Eve said, “The food was delicious and we

all had lots fun!”

Overall it was a nice ending to primary

school; everybody really enjoyed it! Mrs

Sharp said, What a wonderful year 6

group we have. We will miss them all

next year.”

Skip 2B Fit

On the 21st

July Friday there

WAS a skip to be fit SESSION

WITH Dave. The reason we do

skip 2b fit is to become fitter

in a fun way and learn how to

skip. Dave from skip to be fit

helped us.

Dave said: each class was very

good.

Leah said: I love skipping!

Jenson said: I got over 50 skips.

Oliver said: I got out of breath

very quickly.

Everyone enjoyed it

especially the teachers

watching the children skip

their hardest to beat their

record in two minutes.

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Cool Class 4

Summer fair

On the 24th of July, the class 4 summer fair will take place. The class 4 pupils sell products they have made for ‘make £5 grow’. This fair happens every year although not always in association with the Make £5 Grow project.

Mrs Watts said, “It will be a huge success and I’m very proud of the year 5 and 6’s for doing this amazing summer fair.”

Break-up leaver’s

awards ceremony

On the 25th of July 2017 we will

have the leaver’s award and break-

up ceremony because it is the last

day of term and the year 6’s and

other children are leaving this

school. Molly G said, “I am really

sad that the year 6’s are leaving but

I hope they come back to visit

soon”.

Everyone in the school and parents

are welcome to come to the event.

These are the trophies that people

are awarded:

Creative Writing Award

Caring Cup (KS1 and KS2)

History Award

Personal Development Award

Creative Arts Award

Determination Award

KS1 Effort Award

Effort and Progress Award

Determination in Sports

Award

Female Player of the Match

Award

Male Player of the Match

Award

Great School Run Y3 and Y4

(Boy Award and Girl Award)

Great School Run Y5 and Y6

(Boy Award and Girl Award)

Biggest Improver Award

KS2 Winning Number of Sports

Day Points Award (Girl And

Boy)

KS1 Winning Number of Sports

Day Points Award (Girl and

Boy)

There are also the whole tree team

awards for most Sports Day Points

overall and most points for Sports

Day and Year together. Ruby K said,

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“It will be very exciting to find out

who gets a trophy but I will be

upset that the year 6’s were

leaving.”

Lovely Leavers

This year’s leavers are:

Lucie H

Alicia B

Eve E

Isabelle B

Grace S

Lola R

Grace B

Makayla N

Essie-May W

Lily-Rose W

Coco R

Wiktoria P

We are so sad to see them

go and wish them the best

of luck at their new

schools.

We would like to thank all

those parents and

grandparents who have

helped throughout the year

doing things such as hearing

readers, helping in lessons,

transporting children to

events, accompanying

educational visits and so

much more.

A huge thank you to FASS

for all their fundraising,

especially the fun bingo

nights!

WE WOULD LIKE TO

WISH EVERYONE a

very happy summer

holiday. School

opens on Tuesday

5th September