NEXT WEEK’S DIARY:

Mon Y3 Netball—lunchtime

Y2 Tennis, Y3 Basketball, Y1

Speech & Drama

Tues

CHOIR

Y3 Swim Squad, Y2/3 Chess,

Y3 Making Games, Y2

Hockey, Y2 Story Club, Y1

Football, Reception Speech

& Drama

Wed Y3 Science Club, Y2/3 Animation Club, Y2/3 Sewing, Y2/3 Chess, Y2 Art, Y2 Football, Y1 Karate, Y1 K’nex

Thurs Nursery Assembly

Y3 Tag Rugby, Y3 Street

Dance, Y2 Nature Club, Y2

Athletics, Y2 Speech &

Drama, Y1/2 Ballet, Y1 Lego

Fri

Y3 Football, Y2/3 Maths

Challenge, Y1/2/3 Music

Box,Y1 Sports Club

A Giggle Doctor visited our assembly on Monday and described what their work

involved in hospitals. Giggle Doctors work for Theodora’s Children’s

Trust who provide ‘giggle doctors’ to work in hospitals with sick

children. Dr Nic Nac was brilliant and showed us a few magic tricks

and told some funny jokes. Please visit their Facebook page to

learn more about this wonderful charity→

On Tuesday, we had a visit from three Elves from the Community Action Team. They

told us about their Rudolph Appeal for families less fortunate than us. There is a box

in the Reception area for your contributions of chocolates, sweets and biscuits. Thank you to the wonderful Elves for visiting us and speaking so well in assembly.

Also on Tuesday, as part of their ‘Let’s Conquer York’ theme, the Year 2 children

visited the Assembly Rooms (which is now Ask restaurant) in town. They sketched

architectural drawings of the beautiful features of this Regency Building. As I write

this note, I have just returned from watching Mrs Spencer and Mrs Hall (dressed as

Georgians) and Mrs Hicks (dressed as normal) teaching the children Georgian dancing.

It was fantastic and the children thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Thank you to all

the staff for organising these wonderful opportunities and for entering into the spirit

of the age so enthusiastically!

On Wednesday and Thursday, the Year 1 children spent a day each orienteering with

Mr Snowden. The weather was fantastic on both days and the children had a brilliant

time learning how to map read and they were very proficient by the end of the day.

Thank you Mrs Griffiths and Miss Beadle for organising such a fabulous experience for

the children (I think Mr Gibb enjoyed himself too!).

At Assembly on Thursday, RS presented a wonderful adaptation of Goldilocks and

The Three Bears. The children were so excited, counting down the sleeps before

their performance! They acted and sang very confidently and enjoyed using their

special effects (party poppers) as a finale. Well done to all the children and to Miss

O’Sullivan and Mrs Brunton for organising and preparing the children.

A week has gone by since we all spent the day in PJs or Onesies for Children in Need

and the Nursery auctioned pictures. We raised over £500 for this very worthwhile

cause, there are some wonderful photos later in the newsletter but you can view

them all on or Facebook page. Thank you, as always, for your generosity.

You will have noticed an army of VIth formers from the Young Enterprise on your

way into school this week. They have been handing out leaflets on their Christmas

project. They have organised for each child to draw self portraits and have

reproduced these onto tea towels and bags. The order forms are available at the end

of this newsletter or in the Reception area.

I am looking forward to the St Peter’s production of ‘Alice’, next week.

Tess and Nell have worked very hard at their shared role of Young

Alice in their many rehearsals, but I know, they have thoroughly enjoyed

getting to know all the cast from St Peter’s. Good luck to you both

(but don’t break a leg!).

As mentioned in the newsletter last week, I have been very impressed with the work

of our children in school. They are inspired to write about all the exciting things they

do and I wanted to share a cross section of their literacy across the school.

The next three weeks will be very busy and we will be emailing details of all the

forthcoming events very shortly.

Meanwhile, have a lovely weekend,

Best wishes,

CoMPasS You can follow us ...….. Newsletter No: 10

Friday, 22nd November 2013

Registered Charity No: 1141329

Clifton’s Miss Bennett and Mr Darcy

Matilda Hallgate’s shoes are missing. They

were put on her peg on Monday morning by

another parent and when she arrived ten

minutes later they weren’t there! Please can

you check your child’s shoes to check that they

have the right ones on! Also Addy Birrell has

lost his PE shorts. Thank you.

This

week

in 3M

we

visited the Biology

department at St

Olaves. We went to

visit Mr Mallard and his tropical fish tank! We have

been learning all about fish that live under the sea

as part of our topic so this was a great treat! Mr

Mallard showed us how he feeds the fish, cleans

the tank and told us all about how to look after the

different fish, shrimp, clams and corals! A big thank

-you to Mrs Hall for the tip off, Mr Mallard, the

Biology department staff and our special slithering

visitor…that really surprised Miss Morgan!

2H have been getting used to using the library this

week and we enjoyed listening to a story and

choosing a new book. There are some important

things to remember, so please see a message from Mrs Hall

in this newsletter!

Gold – Tess

Silver – Sophie, Edward, Fred, Monty Nicky, Nitika, Athena, Meriel, Leila and Ethan

Our library at Clifton is much loved already! Please may we remind you of one or two things?

Remember to put a book back by scanning the book’s barcode and then putting it into the Returns Box. If you just put it on the shelf without scanning it, it will still be yours and you won’t be able to have another! Our Librarians will put all books back on the right shelves during their duty time.

If a book becomes damaged when you are looking at it, please give it to either Mrs Hall or Mrs Headlam-Morley to be mended.

This week 3C have been researching sharks following our trip to The Deep. We have used books and the internet to find out about their appearance, habitat and many other things. Pop into see the reports

we have written on sharks next week.

2S spent a lovely morning this week,

enjoying another walk around York together

with 2H. In their quest to find information

about the history of York, Year 2 have now

reached the Georgian era. The first visit was

to the Dragon Twins, who regularly send us

riddles requesting information about

buildings in the city. We then went to the

Assembly Rooms where Ask Restaurant

very kindly gave the children some juice

whilst they sat drawing some of the beautiful

features of the building.

Leila, Fred, Ivo, Harry, Saffron, Jack,

Harriet, Benedict, George, Thomas and Alfred

Raphael, Matilda, William, Harry, Amelia, Anna,

Meriel, Edward, and Charles

Housepoint

winners

this week:

Micklegate!

We raised a fantastic

total of £506.45. Thank

you for your support.

The children have been working really hard towards their class assembly this week. On Thursday they

performed to all the Mums and Dads and the whole school, a very big challenge! Afterwards the

children were delighted to show off their work in the classroom to the Mums, Dads and

grandparents. Thank you to everyone for coming along to watch.

In 3ST our Water topic has well and truly moved on from learning about The Titanic , so it was time to take the display down. Before we did we decided to make it sink to the bottom of The Atlantic!

Year 1 have had an amazing

time orienteering. Mr

Snowdon taught them all

about different mapping and

orienteering skills. They

used a map to navigate

around the school grounds

and used the skills learnt in

the morning to

complete

various

orienteering

tasks in the

afternoon.

Our Library Team doing duties until

February half-term.

The Highwayman of Doom

By Joshua

In Leeds a highwayman named the highwayman of doom is about to shoot a stagecoach and I am in it! Luckily I am armed with six pistols and one flintlock musket. I also have ten extra bullets. I tried to shoot the highwayman but when someone screamed it distracted me so I missed. I then took a horse and chased after the highwayman of doom with my flintlock musket and then I saw a ghost highwayman. Then I thought oh no! But he was actually a good ghost highwayman and he said I’ll kill the highwayman of doom for you!

15.11.13

The Highwayman

Once upon a time there was a kind highwayman called Stanly the astonishing. He had one horse called Bom. He had a smart cloak and some boots some army shorts and a mask that covers his mouth. He has a French hat on his head. He was rich. His next door neighbour was poor so he had to give his next door neighbour some money. But he didn’t want to give it to his next door neighbour because if he gave the money then they would just say that god wanted them to be poor. So I think I should put the money on the doorstep once I’ve got it. So the next night he got onto Bom his horse and rode away into the dark wood. He saw a horse and carriage so he pulled out his gun. The horse and carriage had horses and 4 passengers. Then Bom jumped out from the bushes and landed with a loud bang! Stanly got out his gun and said money or frogs in your boots! The person in the carriage said I want you to clean my boots and my sons boots. Stanly cleaned the sons and dads boots. So the son and the dad gave Stanly 50 pounds. So Stanly got onto his horse Bom and rode back into the woods. He left the 50 pounds on his next door neighbours doorstep and rided back to his grand house. The next door neighbour opened their door and picked up the 50 pounds and brought the money inside and lived happily ever after. Cameron W 2S

Millie Anna

Cameron

Alex B Y3

Nitika Y3

Some lovely examples of creative writing from Reception …..

Ahoy there land lubbers! This week in RJ we have been to pirate school. The children have been learning how to make swords, hats, eye patches, hooks and even bows and arrows. This has involved practising our fine motor skills, cutting, folding and knot tying. The children have also have written clues with magic pens practising our tricky words and turned our play loft into a pirate ship named’ Black Beauty’.

Mr Darcy, is

that my name on your dance card?