A Message from Mrs Merritt

October 2018 Issue 2

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Maybury News Everyone is a learner and every experience is a learning opportunity.

Every Day Counts!

Attendance up until half term.

Dragonflies 94.9%

Ladybirds 97%

Butterflies 96.7%

Beetles 96.4%

Ants 98.2%

Spiders 95.9%

Grasshoppers 96.4%

Harvest

At the beginning of the month we had our harvest festival assembly, the children enjoyed learning about how our donations to the foodbank would help our local community . The foodbank were de-lighted with the generous amount of food which was donated, thank you very much.

Swimming

This month the children in years 2, 3 and 4 had a week of intensive swimming lessons, which has helped the children develop vital swim-ming skills and water confidence. The National Curriculum expectation is that by the end of Year 6 children are able to swim 25 meters without flotation aids, and in order to meet this expectation we would encour-age children to have addi-tional swimming lessons throughout the year outside school. The children really enjoyed developing their swimming skills and it is a very important life skill to have!

International Food Day

A very big thank you for your support at our International food event held on Thursday 18th October. The event was a huge success and with your support we raised an impressive £249.40! This money will go towards school fund to benefit all the children in their daily activities.

Nursey

Busy Bees have been learning the nursery rules and routines and how to keep the nursery clean and tidy. They are learning to do things for themselves, such as putting their own coats on and selecting their own resources for learning. Please practise letting your child be independent at home so they can have their photo on our nursery display, it’s this month’s value!

At story time the children have been developing their listening skills and have had fun joining in with action rhymes and counting games.

Dragonflies

In Dragonflies we have started to learn our phonics sounds and are learning to use those sounds to read and write simple words. We have also been practising writing our names using the correct formation with lowercase letters, learning that we only use a capital letter for the first letter of our name!

Dragonflies have particularly enjoyed developing their fine motor control by hammering nails into logs, learning to use tools safely and with control. In turn this will help develop their pencil control for writing.

A few reminders… Please can you send your child to school with a coat every day as we play out in all types of weather. Also for your child's safety please do not send them to school with earrings in their ears.

Thank you for your support!

Mrs Eldred

Early Years Foundation Stage Leader

Early Years Foundation Stage Update

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Diary Dates

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Ladybirds The children in Ladybirds are enjoying all their learning and are discovering lots of interesting things about their bodies in Science and PSHE. In Learning for Life (PSHE) lessons they have found out about the importance of washing their hands. Mrs Aitchison put some non-toxic gel on the children’s hands and then shook hands with all of the children. When the lights were turned off and the UV lamp turned on, the children could all see the germs on their hands. The children then all washed their hands properly and checked again and the germs had all gone. Now the children in Ladybirds are very good at washing their hands so they don’t spread germs! Also in Science, the children learned all about their five senses. They ran some fun experiments, and especially enjoyed the one to test their sense of smell!

Butterflies Butterflies class had a wonderful time during their swimming lessons. They learnt numerous things includ-

ing walking in the water and swimming using a float on their front and back.

In topic, the children have been learning all about Florence Nightingale. They were fortunate enough to

have a special afternoon learning all about her. The children pretended to be soldiers fighting in the war

and nurses having to care for the wounded. They also scrubbed the classroom from top to bottom until it

was sparkling!

Key Stage 1 Update

Beetles

This month, we have been learning more about the Ancient Egyptians—particularly what treasures they hid in their tombs! We even made our own Egyptian pharaoh necklaces.

We have also been learning about writing instructions and all the features we would need to include. These are going to help us write a recipe for a healthy smoothie that we are going to make in the next few weeks.

Ants

Earlier this month, Year 4 learnt about measuring accurately and converting measurements in Maths.

The children were surprised when arriving one morning to find that a giant had come to visit their classroom. The children enjoyed using their measurement skills to record how many cm, m and mm the giant measured - they also calculated the difference between different body parts!

Spiders

Spiders class have enjoyed a fun-filled trip to Winchester Science Museum, the children enjoyed a range of workshops including a visit to the planetarium. We learned some interesting facts about our solar system and even how to locate the north star.

Key Stage 2 Update

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Diary Dates

Grasshoppers This month we have been lucky enough to have three different workshops to help with our learning. They have taught us a lot and been fun at the same time! The first two were 'Explore Learning' workshops. We had one maths session and one literacy session. In the maths session, we looked at creating packaging using nets. It was very helpful to plan our nets first, think about tabs we would need and then add them on after we had the whole net drawn.

The literacy session was about writing a persuasive advert for a holiday destination. We had a fact sheet to help us and we used techniques from our literacy lessons too! AFOREST helped us to make them ap-pealing to the public. We planned it and then wrote it out in the leaflet provided. Our final workshop was the the hands only CPR training from the St John's Ambulance service.

Finally, we were shown how to use a defibrillator safely. The instructons are in all of the boxes you see around town and all you have to do is follow the instruc-tions and stay back from the person once the machine is switched on! This workshop has given us the confidence to help someone in an emergency situation!

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Key Stage 2 Update

Miss Slade Key Stage 2 Phase Leader

Useful Dates

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November

Tuesday – Thursday 6-8 Parent Meetings for main school only (Tues & Thurs 3:30-4:30 and Wed 3:30-7:00)

Tuesday 6 Life Bus

Wednesday 7 Life Bus

Wednesday 7 Dragonflies class trip to Little Street

Monday 12 Individual Photographs

Thursday 15 Grasshoppers Class Assembly

Friday 16 Children In Need (TBC) Themed mufti day

Friday 30 Mufti Day

December

Wednesday 5 Winter Wonderland Party

Monday 10 Christmas Performances – KS2 (Beetles, Ants, Spiders and Grasshoppers) 9am

Monday 10 Christmas Performances - KS2 (Beetles, Ants, Spiders and Grasshoppers) 2.15pm

Tuesday 11 Christmas Performances - KS2 (Beetles, Ants, Spiders and Grasshoppers) 9am

Tuesday 11 Christmas Performances –Rec & KS1 (Dragonflies, Ladybirds and Butterflies) 2.15pm

Wednesday 12 Christmas Performances –Rec & KS1 (Dragonflies, Ladybirds and Butterflies) 9am

Thursday 13 Whole school trip to see the Cinderella panto at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking (excluding Nursery)

Friday 14 Nursery ONLY last day of term

Monday 17 Christmas meal for children

Monday 17 Christmas parties for all classes

Monday 17 Parent drop in session – 3:15pm

Monday 17 Nursery ONLY—CLOSED

Tuesday 18 Nursery ONLY – CLOSED

Tuesday 18 End of term, school closes at 1:30pm

Wednesday 19 INSET Day – school closed for staff training

Winter break—20th December 2018 to 2nd January 2019

Thursday 3 INSET Day—school closed for staff training

Friday 4 Spring Term starts—Children return to school

Academic Dates 2018/19

Autumn Term 2018

4th September 2018 to 19th December 2018

Half Term 22nd October 2018—26th October 2018

Spring Term 2019

3rd January 2019 to 4th April 2019

Half Term 18th February 2019—22nd February 2019

Summer Term 2019

23rd April 2019 to 24th July 2019

Half Term 27th May 2019—31st May 2019

INSET Days (School closed for training)

Tuesday 4th September 2018

Wednesday 19th December 2018

Thursday 3rd January 2019

Tuesday 23rd April 2019

Monday 3rd June 2019

This month we have opened up the reading shed at break times and lunch times. We have created a timetable so that children know which learning councillors are taking care of the shed that day. This means that every break time and every lunch time, children can choose to sit in the reading shed—which even has bean bags—and read a book quietly or with a friend.

We are now starting preparations for Children in Need.

Miss Briggs

Learning Council Leader

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Learning Council in Action

September: Friendship

October: Independence

November: Respect

December: Appreciation

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Our Values – Autumn Term

Friendship: September's value is friendship, some suggestions to encourage this

important value at home are:

Talk about why it is important to have friends and how we can be a good friend.

Play with friends outside school.

Read ‘Harry Potter’ by J.K Rowling, ‘Charlottes web’ by E.B White or ‘Elmer and friends’ by David McKee

Independence: October’s value is independence, some suggestions to encourage this

important value at home are:

Give children opportunities to be independent e.g. getting dressed independently, learning to tie their shoe laces and ties on they own, organising their school equipment

Forget perfection- Accept that children won’t do the task as well as you. Let them try to do things for themselves e.g. Making their own cereal, if the milk spills, show them how to clean it up with-out criticism and assure them it happens to everyone

Read ‘Meerkat Mail’ by Emily Gravett or ‘Nelson Mandela, Long walk to freedom’ by Chris Van Wyk.

Respect: November’s value is respect , some suggestions to encourage this

important value at home are:

Talk about why it is important to show good manners.

Encourage to help with recycling and discuss why we need to respect our environment

Read ‘Little Rabbit Foo Foo ‘by Michael Rosen

Appreciation: December's value is appreciation, some sug-gestions to encourage this important value at home are:

Talk about people who are important to us and why we appreciate them.

Talk about people less fortunate than ourselves and think about how we could help them.

Read ‘Owl babies’ by Martin Waddell

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