Issue No.1 15.9.2017

Head of School Update

Dear Parents and Carers,

There’s been no business like show business for Katherines Primary Academy this week.

We were extremely fortunate to receive a surprise visit from a travelling theatre company.

They put on a spectacular performance of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. The children thor-

oughly enjoyed the pantomime accompanied my current chart music that they could all

sing along too. Here’s what they thought:

‘It was very, very good, there was even dancing!’ Sophia Lafrea - Oliver Jeffers Class (Yr2)

‘I loved the show, can they come again? My favourite part was when the cow was hiding

from Jack’ Ava-Mae Theedam - Oliver Jeffers Class (Yr2)

‘I liked it when we told the girl (Jill) where Jack was.’—Eleanor Burchell - Dr Seuss (YrR)

‘I liked the beanstalk and the smoke.’ Danny Chapman - Dr Seuss (YrR)

Katherines Chronicle

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In addition to this most of our pupils in Key Stage 2 went via coach to the Redbridge

Drama studio to watch ‘A tale of the Pied Piper’. Children, and teachers, came back

bursting to tell me how amazing it was. We hope Jacqueline Wilson Class enjoy their vis-

it just as much next week.

We have enjoyed these events so much this week that we intend

to book them both again next year.

Do you read the papers? This week’s news quiz

1. Who had an encounter with the three bears?

2. What is the name of Winnie the Pooh’s donkey friend?

3. Who was created by Gepetto the woodcarver?

4. Who is the bear in the jungle book?

5. What kind of creature was defeated b the

Three Billy Goats Gruff?

6. Who leads a gang of outlaws in Sher-

wood Forest?

7. Who stole Christmas in Dr Seuss’ book?

8. Who created Tracy Beaker?

9. Who has a dog called Snowy and is

Book Worms Fancy getting to know a new book? Here is our recommendation this week

Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren

Pippi is an irrepressible, irreverent, and irrefutably de-lightful girl who lives alone (with a monkey) in her wacky house, Villa Villekulla. When she's not dancing with the burglars who were just trying to rob her house, she's at-tempting to learn the "pluttification" tables at school; fighting Adolf, the strongest man in the world at the cir-cus; or playing tag with police officers. Pippi's high-spirited, good-natured hijinks cause as much trouble as fun, but a more generous child you won't find anywhere.

Astrid Lindgren has created a unique and lovable charac-ter, inspiring generations of children to want to be Pippi. More than anything, Pippi makes reading a pleasure; no child will welcome the end of the book, and many will return to

Pippi Longstocking again and again.

Simply put, Pippi is irresistible.

Some important things…

Star Pupils of the Fortnight We have been inundated with pupils demonstrating their exceptional tal-

ents in a multitude of subjects over the last fortnight. Have a look at some of their work.

They have all received stickers and House points to help their House on the way to win the

most House points for the term. They are: Katie for Karate, Lauren and for writing in Re-

ception, Abbie for extended writing, Cherrie and Darcie for sewing, Mason for Homework,

Carmen for Maths, Kiara for diary writing, Bethany for Maths homework, Natalie for dou-

ble adjectives with commas, Freddy for maths and Lexi for Information text with sub

headings. Well done to each and everyone of you!

Sensational Work this fortnight

Dr Seuss Class

We have been reading different fairy tales. The giant from Jack and the beanstalk came to visit our classroom, we planted our own beanstalks to try and reach him, we are very excited to see them grow. We also had great fun making our own castle, writ-ing letters to the giant and sending them through the magic post-box that we made.

A look inside…

Beatrix Potter

What fun we have had in Nursery over the last couple of weeks. For our topic of Once upon a time, we read the story of the ‘The Little Red Hen’ we all made our very own hens to go on display or take home, On Friday we had the very important job of starting of the danceathon in the hall for our children in need day, we all danced our legs off!

This week we have been reading the story of ‘Jack and the

Beanstalk’, you’ll never guess who has visited our class-

room? Jack and the Giant, we know as the giant’s foot

prints are all over our class, after going on a very exciting

hunt around the classroom we found three golden eggs!

Sensational Work this fortnight Oliver Jeffers Class

Oliver Jeffers class has had an exciting week. We finished constructing our fire engines and

then tested them out. The fire engines needed to move on their wheels and also carry a fire

'bear'. We were very proud when after a few adjustments, our fire engines worked well. We

also painted our diva lamps we had previously made from clay. The children used bright

colours and patterns to decorate their lamps. They were very excited to take them home. In

maths, we have been learning to add and subtract 10 using a 100 square to help us. Each day

we practise our counting in 2s, 5s and 10s to become expert counters.

Julia Donaldson Class

We have been busy using our creative skills, making fire engines for our Great Fire of

London topic. We used a range of resources to sure our engines had ladders, doors, hos-

es and sirens. They even have wheels so they can move! We had great fun dressing up for

Children In Need and used lots of energy to keep moving during the dance-athon.

A look inside…

Sensational Work this fortnight J.K. Rowling

These past two weeks have been quite exciting for JK Rowling. We have had a variety of external workshops, from Modern Slavery to Road Safety. The class engaged in this and enjoyed the experience of talking about mature sub-jects. In our lessons, we have been writing a dilemma based on our class book ‘Street Child’ – these have been of excellent qual-ity! In mathematics, we have looked at factors and multiples, in addition to our assessments this week. We also had immense fun making circuits in science out of strawberry laces and dolly mix-tures!

Eric Carle Class Yr 1 are reading Gorilla by Anthony Brown. They are looking at the animals in the zoo and even enjoying their movements in PE which is great fun. The take away sums

in maths are becoming more familiar to them and are now starting to be called subtract. I hope it continues to be dry so we can go outside in PE, please bring in jogging bottoms if they haven't got them already.

A look inside…

A look inside…

Sensational Work this fortnight

David Walliams Class We had an amazing Technology Taster session try-ing out sound mixers, programming robots and enjoying a virtual reality ride from the comfort of our lunch tables. It was amazing to see how much could be done with computers.

We have been enjoying writing character descrip-tions and dilemmas from our new class book, Ice Palace by Robert Swindell. We used a ‘Conscience Alley’ to give arguments for and against our main character Ivan to venture out in the cold to rescue his brother. We also practised our spellings this week by paying a card game like Top Trumps, but even more useful.

Addition and Subtraction using the column meth-od has been thoroughly investigated; especially how numbers need to keep their actual value when we write them out. Using the inverse was also rein-forced since it is such a useful tool for checking we have done our calculations correctly.

In Science lessons we have been learning about rocks. We found rocks in school, identified rocks in the landscape and learned the names of some rocks we use in everyday life. We had a good talk about how some were natural and some were man-made.

We found out the names of the continents and the countries that make up Britain in Geography, prac-tised some wonderful Christmas songs to delight our parents with at the end of term and have been painting the most colourful portraits (Warhol style) in Art.

We especially enjoyed our Children In Need day; taking part in a dance-a-thon, icing biscuits and dressing up all in a good cause.

Recipe Corner

Cornflake Tart

Ingredients 1 sheet ready-rolled shortcrust pastry. 15g golden syrup. 85g cornflake cereal. 55g butter. 25g dark brown soft sug-ar. 1 small pinch salt. 100g strawberry jam,

slightly warmed.

Method Preheat oven to 220C or Gas Mark 6

Line a quiche tray with pastry, trim off edges and lightly prick with a fork.

Place foil over the pastry and cover with dried beans, bake for 20minutes.

Melt the butter, sugar, golden syrup and salt in a pan. Once the sugar is dissolved add the cornflakes, stir until coated.

Remove pastry from over and cover the base with jam, add cornflakes level off and bake for a further 5 minutes. Enjoy with Custard!

Have fun baking this delicious tart at home. As ever, if they turn out well I know lots of

teachers that would appreciate them with a cup of tea. However they turn out I hope you

enjoy the experience of baking by yourself or with your family.

This week’s recipe from our school’s kitchen

is as follows:

A massive thank you for all your support, raising money for Children In Need. By wearing

something yellow or spotty we raised a 'spotacular' £425 , a truly incredible amount!

All your contributions are greatly appreciated. The children looked fabulous in their out-

fits and had great fun raising money by decorating biscuits. They showed fantastic stami-

na and didn't stop moving during our dance-athon. A great day was had by all, thank you

for your support.

Children In Need

Diary Dates

28th November: A Christmas Tale Pied Piper @ Redbridge The-

atre—JW Class

28th November: Yr3 Home Safety Workshop

1st December: EYFS Nativity trip to London Zoo

4th December: The Academies Choir performs at Stewards Sec-

ondary @7pm

4th—7th December: Winter Workshops for parents and children

6th December: EYFS Christmas Performance @ 9:30am and KS1 @ 3pm

7th December: Christmas Carol Redbridge Drama Centre perform for EYFS & KS1

8th December: KS1 Christmas Performance @ 9:30am and EYFS @ 2:45pm

11th December : Wrap a present and Movie and Munch for KS1

12th December : Wrap a present and Movie and Munch for KS2

13th December: Christmas Jumper and Christmas Dinner Day

15th December: Last Day of Term

2nd January: INSET Day

3rd January: First Day of Spring Term

Hinduism Workshop Years 1 and 2

Year 1 and 2 had a very special visitor called Krishna and took part in a Hinduism work-

shop. They listened really carefully to some of the customs associated with Hinduism

and looked at some special artefacts. The girls were very excited to dress up in beautiful

saris and the boys had the opportunity to dress up in traditional costumes, making them

look like handsome Princes. They had a fantastic morning and

were very respectful towards Krishna's beliefs. Everybody went

home wearing a bindi.

Road Safety Workshop Sharon from the Road Safety organisation visited our school this week to work with the

Year 5 children reminding them how to be safe whilst walking near a road. The children

listened to the theory explanation in class and the went out to practise this knowledge first

hand. We hope that all our children remain safe as the nights get darker, remember think

safe be safe!

Friends of Katherines

The Friends of Katherines have been busy selling tickets for Movie and Munch and Wrap a Present this week at their location next to the large tree on the playground. There are still a few tickets left but be quick, tickets will no longer be sold from 1st December. They have also been busy talking to a very important man, telling him what to buy for the chil-dren at Katherines. If we are all good maybe Father Christmas might even visit the school, fingers crossed! Friends of Katherines are also looking to support the school with two new corridor libraries which will hopefully be installed by the end of the year. We thank everyone for your continued support.

Lucky Listener

It has been brought to our attention that some parents are still unsure about Lucky Lis-

tener. Lucky Listener has been set up to promote oracy and confidence when reading

aloud. Children can choose anyone in the house to be their Lucky listener. As they read

aloud to their chosen listener the listener can get on with their everyday tasks. Dad’s you

can still wash the dishes, mum’s can you can still change the light bulbs, cats you can still

clean your paws, dogs you can still chase your tails. All we ask is that you acknowledge

that you are the lucky listener.

Site Manager

After a long few months we are delighted to announce that

Katherines Primary Academy has a new Site manager, Richard

McCall. Please say hello to him if you see him around the

school.

To request a place for your child: Nursery

For a nursery place please contact our school directly.

Primary

School year places are allocated by Essex County Council

http://www.essex.gov.uk/Education-Schools/Schools/Admissions/

0345 603 2200

admissions@essex.gov.uk

Katherines Primary Academy and Nursery Brookside Harlow Essex, CM19 5NJ

http://www.netacademies.net/katherines

01279 421495

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