Friday 29th November

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07.12.13 BSA Christmas Fair

13.12.13 Caterpillar Nursery

Nativity play

16.12.13 F/Y1 Christmas Production

- 6:30

17.12.13 Years 2&3 Christmas

Production—2:15

17.12.13 Years 4-6 Christmas

Production at St Mark’s

Church

18.12.13 Children’s Christmas

Lunch

18.12.13 F/Y1 Christmas Production

- 2:15

18.12.13 Years 2&3 Christmas

Production—6:30

19.12.13 Choir to perform in Y3/4

Merit Assembly—9:05

19.12.13 Years 5&6 Merit Assembly

- 10:10

20.12.13 Foundation, Y1 and Y2

Merit Assembly – 9:05

20.12.13 End of Term

06.01.14 INSET Day

07.01.14 Start of Spring term

15.01.14 Closing Date for Primary

School Applications

20.01.14 Parent Forum meeting—

7:30

17.02.14

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21.02.14

Spring Half term holiday

24.02.14 Return to school

Santa Claus is coming to Town….

Brookhurst School Association Christmas Fair is taking place

on December the 7th from 2pm to 4pm.

There are lots of things planned including a Raffle, Santa’s

grotto, Tombola, Face painting and Stalls.

We are looking for donations. Please bring any second hand

books & toys, bottles of wine or unwanted gifts from last

year to the office from the 2nd of December.

The Cake stall is always popular so please ‘bake and donate’.

Cakes can be left on workbenches in the year 5 Corridor on

Thursday the 5th and Friday the 6th of December.

Can you help on the day? We need as much help as we can

get to run the stalls. We plan to make the day as fun as

possible for our volunteers and we can’t run this event

without your help. Please contact Ross

(rosseasterby@me.com) if you can spare some time to

support this event.

Friday 29th November

Foundation and Key Stage 1 Key Stage 2

FAK 98% 3A 97.9%

FP 98.3% 3L 98.3%

1F 99.3% 4G 99%

1M 97.7% 4W 92.6%

2AH 95.7% 5B 94.6%

2W 98% 5S 99%

6H 98.6%

6T 92.8%

Attendance

Week ending 22.11.13

Admission to

Primary School

Is your child due to start

school in September

2014?

You can apply for your

school place NOW on line

at

www.warwickshire.gov.uk/

applyforschool

Or telephone

01926 742 037

Closing date for on-line

applications is

Wednesday 15th

January 2014

Parent Communication

A very big thank you to all of the parents who have contacted either the school office or Mr Hughes with re-

gards Birthday sweets.

We are collating an article for our newsletter covering the main points raised in your responses and these will

be fully discussed at our next parents forum meeting on Monday 20th January. Please note that we will have 2

parent forum meeting on the 20th January—at 9:00am and 7:30. This will allow parents who can not attend the

meeting in the evening due to child care issues to have the opportunity to attend.

In the meantime, please note that the giving of sweets is a decision to be made by the parents of the birthday

child but we do ask that parents are mindful that not all parents are happy with this practice.

Alternative suggestions put forward have include the giving of Birthday stickers, pencils or badges.

Many thanks

Friday 29th November

As we head towards the end of our first term at Brookhurst, we would like to share just some of our fantas-

tic learning.

Our daily ‘Write Dance’ sessions have really helped us to develop

our pencil control and practice all the movements we need to

form our letters correctly.

We are having great fun at our ‘Junk Modelling’ station.

This really helps us to use our imagination, correctly handle and use

tools with increasing control, select appropriate resources and join

different materials together in a

variety of ways.

Friday 29th November

Our Daily Challenge keeps us busy each day. We

work independently on all sorts of activities.

We might contribute a drawing to this week’s ‘

Sounds of the Week’ board, write about a

nocturnal or diurnal animal, create a picture using

the 2d shapes and the light box, or add the

correct number of apples to the tree.

There’s something different to do each day, and

we receive a certificate on a Friday if we have

completed a challenge.

We love being outside. Our new equipment encourages us to

experiment we different ways of moving and jump off and land

appropriately. Now we have the confidence and skill to travel

under, over, around and through our equipment

We have had a great start to school life. All our teachers are very proud of us and

all that we have achieved this term.

Friday 29th November

Curriculum Information—Mathematics

Dear Parents,

Thank you to those people who rightly pointed out that 6x4 does not equal 20 (as I put in the

newsletter last week).

I am glad you all noticed my deliberate mistake!!!!

It does give me the opportunity to let you all know that at Brookhurst we value the mistakes

that the children make. Through identification we can focus them on improving their work and

ensuring they don’t make them again. So in true Brookhurst spirit I promise not to get 6 x 4

wrong again!

Now that I have your attention I thought I would take this opportunity to thank those parents

that have already responded regarding the maths workshops. They will go ahead after

Christmas (I promise the calculations will be correct!).

As we seem to be wearing our maths hats, I thought I would pose the following for people to work on at

home:

Take three different colour blocks, maybe red, yellow and blue.

Make a tower using one of each colour.

Here's one with red on top, blue in the middle and yellow on the bottom.

Now make another tower with a different colour on top.

How many different towers can you make?

What if there were 4 blocks? Could you work out a way of predicting for any number of blocks?

Menu Change

We have been advised by County Caterers that there will be a permanent

change to the Hot Lunch menu :

Week 1 - Friday Vegetable Korma now Vegetable Tikka

Friday 29th November

Year 5 Table Tennis Champions

Brookhurst are proud to share our Year 5 Table Tennis stars -

Jai Sispal, Caitlin Harper, Grace Phakathi and Andrew Hayden. They took part in a table tennis competi-

tion held at St. Pauls Primary. Caitlin took 1st place for the girls, Andrew 1st place for the boys and Jai

2nd place for the boys. Although Grace didn't enter the final, she played marvellously and her effort and

determination were noted by Mrs Belcher. Well done!!!

Mrs Archer, PE co-ordinator

Congratulations to Tayla Whyte in Year 5

Tayla’s mum has sent in a picture of Tayla competing at

her first major Irish Dancing competition.

She came 69th out of 100 in her first competition against

people from all over the world.

Well done Tayla.

Friday 29th November

KEEP CALM AND WEAR

YOUR SPORTS KIT.

Friday 6th December

Bring £1.00 to come to school dressed in your favourite

sports kit

We are raising money for sports in our school

Curriculum Information—Religious Education

At present Brookhurst School follows the Warwickshire Agreed Syllabus for teaching RE. This will not change

under the new curriculum. There are specific themes for each unit of work covering two of the major religions

in that theme.

The syllabus is under review now by SACRE but as a Warwickshire school we shall always use that syllabus.

Each year group follows six units a year, one each half term, appropriate to the age of the children. RE should

start with the children and their experiences, then move to considering the beliefs and views of others.

New artefacts have been purchased for the children to use in their lessons with the results that the children have

demonstrated a high level of interest and been able to take their learning further. The children were able to

develop the skills of enquiry, analysis, interpretation, evaluation and reflection by observing and discussing the

artefacts.

As a school we subscribe to the termly magazine RE Today, which has proved to be a useful resource; there is a

news element and a resource booklet which gives ideas for different age groups on a specific topic eg God.

L.Le Long—RE Subject Leader

Friday 29th November

Parent and Carers Questionnaire : November 2013

Thank you to all of the parents and carers who completed the Questionnaire during

our recent Parent Consultation evenings.

Attached to this newsletter are the collated findings from the 177 questionnaires that

were returned.

At the next Parents Forum in January we will be discussing the findings further.

My child is happy at this school

96.6% Strongly agree or Agree

My child is well looked after at this

school

94.3% Strongly agree or Agree

Would you recommend this

school to another parent

91% Strongly agree or Agree