RGS Junior School Bulletin Thursday 25th October 2018

Autumn Term: Volume 8

MANY HAPPY RETURNS….

….to Kaiah Banerjee, Jinfan Chen and Safiyah Ishaq who all either celebrated their birthday this week or are due to celebrate it during the half term break.

Miss Noble, Mrs Evans & Miss Gravely

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY (sports fixture timings as per letters)

Mon 5th Nov Term Resumes

All Y5 & Y6 pupils to watch Shakespeare Festival presentation of Julius Caesar by Y10

& Y11 pupils - timings TBC

Tues 6th Nov Hockey: Y4 v Dame Allan’s (H) - start 10.30am

Rugby: Y5 v NSB (A)

Wed 7th Nov National Young Mathematicians Award, round 1 - leave 11am, start 11.30am, return 3pm

Y3 & Y4 Spooky Disco (Fenwick Hall) - start 3.30pm, end 5.00pm

Thurs 8th Nov HMC Cross Country, Barlborough Hall (A)

Sat 10th Nov Rugby: Y6 Harrison Cup, QEGS (A)

'What does it mean

to be British?'

In assembly last week, we shared our ideas on ‘identity’ and learned about the important British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.

We also made connections between these five values and how they exist within our school. An example of such is our class elections for School Council. The representatives, chosen by us, are able to speak freely about things we would like to see changed and discuss ways forward.

In our PSHE books, we have a map, highlighting our British values and space to write down where we see more examples around us.

Without these values we would live in an unfair and horrible place.

Avantika, Craig and Alex 5S

Open Morning

We open our doors even wider than usual on Saturday 17th

November and welcome hundreds of visitors who wish to get a

flavour of our lovely school. Keep your eyes peeled for letters

asking for parent and student help - far better adverts for RGS

than us teachers! It’s a wonderful day to celebrate and reinforce

our ‘RGS Family’ - teachers, parents, students, office staff,

caretakers, cleaners, catering staff, governors, support staff and

more, all contributing to, and enhancing, the fabric and feel of

school. Everyone is welcome!

Half Term

How on earth is it the end of October already? The glorious

sound of leather on willow still echoes in my ears, yet the

autumnal leaves tumble to the floor (and mainly into Lambton

reception!)…and…its half term! It’s been a wonderful start to

the academic year in so

many ways and, of course

tricky in other ways – a

heartfelt thanks to parents,

children and staff for all the

help and support they have

given to school. So enjoy

yourselves over the break,

whatever adventures you

embark upon – I’m keen to

hear what you get up to!

Mr Miller

PS Thanks to Mukesh and

Priya (parents of Meghna and

Pranay M) for supplying the

photo!

Year 3 & 4 Halloween Disco

Wednesday 7th November 2018

Fenwick Hall, Brandling House

Time: 3.45pm - 5.00pm Ticket Price: £3.00

(includes party bag & snacks)

Dress Code: Spooky fancy dress!

To sign up, please go to

http://bit.ly/RGS-JFG-Halloween2018

If you have any problems, please email us at:

RGSJuniorFamilyGroup@gmail.com

CANCELLED: Y5/6 Chess Club on Friday 9th Nov

BUSY TIMES!

I couldn't resist

snapping this shot last

week.

It's not even 8.00am

and Lambton Road is full of cars. Busy parents getting

their kids to Mr Miller and Mr Cragg's soccer club.

Whilst it would be wonderful if everyone could walk to

school, I'm so pleased that we have dozens of

youngsters getting their dose of exercise before

lessons. What a school! Mr Craig

BOTTLES NEEDED!

Art Club will be completing an exciting art project using plastic bottles next half term. If you have any empty plastic bottles big or small please leave in the art room on the first week back after half term. Many thanks Mrs McCulloch

LOST IN TRANSLATION?

Last week after Dr Spencer’s lunchtime Eco Club, one of the children kindly presented Miss A Noble with one of the enormous courgettes that had been picked. Miss Noble said, “Wow! That’s a corker!” The child (looking mystified) replied, “No. It’s a courgette!” Oh how we giggled! Miss Gravely

PUZZLE OF THE WEEK

Please visit www.puzzleoftheweek.com for

full details, to see leaderboards and to test

your problem solving abilities in the puzzle

library. Mr Lloyd

Answer to last

week’s puzzle: 11

Mathtastic at the Centre for Life

It has been great to see the children so enthused with their maths. The event provided a variety of puzzling challenges including the Tower of Hanoi and triangular solitaire. In addition, the robotics exhibition was a real eye opener and higlighted how far we have come in the field of robotics. Definitely worth a visit if you have the time. Mr Lloyd

LOST PROPERTY

Akshara Saranga (4W) has lost her named

blazer and Daniel Beale (6M) has lost a black StartRite

school shoe, size 1.

Please can we all keep a look-out for these missing items.

Thank you.

U11 HMC Hockey Champions 2018

It was a beautiful sunny day for the U11 HMC Hockey Tournament

this year and despite the late arrival due to some bus trouble the

girls got stuck in quickly into their games. Both teams had 6 matches

to play with the B team playing in the plate competition and the A

team in the Cup competition. The B’s fought hard in their matches

coming up against some

tough competition but

with some great

defence and goals

scored finished in 4th

place.

The A’s battled hard, particularly in defence and after drawing their

first two games started to play some excellent attacking hockey. They

won all their remaining games finishing the tournament without

conceding a single goal, and the team were crowned the winners of

this years competition!

A great effort by all the girls involved – well done!

Miss Sunderland

YEAR 6 FOOTBALL MATCH REPORTS

Y6 Football (Bob Maddison Cup) v Sacred Heart On 17th October, the Y6 ‘A’ team played Sacred Heart. It was a good, fair game and everyone played well. With the help of some great saves from Ben Ponton, we won 6:1! Well played, everyone!

Y6 Football v Ponteland Middle School On 18th October, the Y6 ‘A’ team played Ponteland Middle School. Ponteland played very well and we lost 6:2, despite playing well ourselves. Ben Ponton deserves a special mention because, after hurting himself, he got back up and made some amazing saves.

Euan Wayman (6M)

ORIGAMI

CLUB

Friday Café

Friday 19th October saw us presenting the first Friday Café of the year. A musical presentation with 22 performers, all of whom were awarded a 'Highly Commended' in the recent heats for the House Music Soloist. A wide

variety of music, ranging from Diabelli to The White Stripes and a whole host of genres in between, was thoroughly enjoyed by the whole school, with many parents in the audience. We were also treated to a Hallowe’en performance of Time Warp by the Dance Club, led by Miss Richardson. What a wonderful way to end the week!

Mrs Clappison