Newsletter Number 12DATE 11.12.17

Message from the Leadership TeamThank you for all your support this term. I hope everyone has a lovely holi-day and gets some time to spend together as a family.

John Davison

Year 5 Swimming

Please note that children who have been awarded their 25metre certificate can also purchase a badge from the pool for £1.60.

Year 5 Forensic Workshop

The children have been learning how to use direct and reported speech, adverbs of certainty/possibility and modal verbs. They have applied the skills they have learnt to their short reports on the day. See how many examples of each you can find?

On 22nd November, Year 5 had a very exciting forensic workshop from Pulse CSI. The teachers planned it for us to take part in all day and we enjoyed it a lot! To begin with, we watched a video to tell us why we shouldn’t post personal details and photos online so that we stay safe. After that, we learnt about our handprints and the marks that they leave behind and made keyrings out of our favourite fingerprint. Then, we got some clear crystal tape and stuck it to the bottom of our shoe to see our footprint and we used the same tape to get hair off our cardigans/jumpers and peered at them under microscopes.After lunch, we wore white, baggy suits, shoe covers, gloves and masks so we could investigate our own crime scene using our knowledge from the morning. One student stated that we looked like marshmallows in our suits! We discovered that the victim was Michael Jones and that the murderer was the victim’s previous girlfriend, Maureen Smith!We all really enjoyed ourselves so perhaps we could share some opinions from the day with you? One student said, “I absolutely loved it and it was a very interesting day!” and Mrs Crawshaw said, “It was clearly the best workshop that I have ever booked in my whole career!”By Freya, Martha, Gabriella and Clara.

 

Attendance and punctualityWhole school attendance this week: 95.9%

Whole school attendance from September: 97%

Oak 98 % Elder 97.4% Holly 96.7% Hawthorn 97.8%

Ash 89.8% Beech 96.8% Willow 95.7% Syca-more

100%

Pine 95.9% Birch 96.5% Poplar 93.2%Elm 91.5% Hazel 100% Rowan 91.7%

This week 168 minutes of learning were lost due to children arriving late.

 Stars of the week!Oak Bella Elder Lucas Holly Louis Hawthorn FreddieAsh Lily-Rae Beech Zarina Willow Harry Syca-

moreAnya

Elm Amelia Birch Max Rowan KatiePin

eToby Hazel Noah Poplar Samuel

KS1 Stars of the week

KS2 Stars of the week

EventsAll events can be found on our website, by clicking here

Upcoming events

Date EventMonday 11th December AM – Reception NativityMonday 11th December PM – KS1 NativityTuesday 12th December AM – KS1 NativityTuesday 12th December (10.15-11.15am) Christmas crafts with parents in the

classrooms for Year 1 & Year 2Tuesday 12th December PM – Reception NativityWednesday 13th December AM- Years 3 & 4 – Cinderella PantomimeWednesday 13th December School Christmas DinnerWednesday 13th December 6.30pm – Years 5 & 6 Carol ServiceThursday 14th December AM – Years 5 & 6 Carol ServiceThursday 14th December 6.30pm – Years 3 & 4 – Cinderella Panto-

mime

Friday 15th December Whole school Christmas Party Day & Non uniform

Friday 15th December Break up for ChristmasTuesday 2nd January School re-opens

 Further information:Twitter: @WilsdenPrimary

Facebook: www.facebook.com/WilsdenPrimarySchool

Full Contact Details

Regular RemindersSchool menus are available by clicking here

School holidays are available by clicking here, or looking on our 'Events Calendar'

Parking

Please be aware that the PCSO’s are working in this area and have already given a fixed penalty fine to a parent parking illegally on Tweedy Street.

Please could parents and visitors to school be aware that there have been some incid-ents involving near misses with cars and children on Tweedy Street; please be careful whilst driving and parking on Tweedy Street. We have had complaints from resid-ents on Tweedy Street as parents are parking outside resident`s houses.

Please be reminded that Village Mews, just off Tweedy Street, is “access only”. No vehicles should be driving or parking on this road unless they need access to the houses on Village Mews.

Footballs

Please could children not bring in their own footballs to school, school will provide suit-able balls for use at break times.

 Attendance/Absence

Polite reminder: If your child is absent from school, it is vital that you ring school to in-form us as to the reason why. If we do not receive notification, a text will be sent fol-

lowed up by a phone call if we receive no message following the text. If we receive no communication after the text and call, we will try to contact all the listed contact num-bers which we have on our system.

If we still cannot make contact, we will undertake a home visit to ascertain the reason for the absence.

This is to safeguard all of our children.

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