Orders must be in by 15th November please. Late orders will not be able to be accepted. The cards and other goodies will be back at school by 3 December and will be given to the children to bring home as soon as possible. Yellow - School Photograph Closing Date Tuesday 6th November Please be advised if you have not yet placed your school photograph order, the order closing date is Tuesday 6th November. Please either return your order to the school office or visit using the passwords on the proofcard. Star of the Week (w/e - 19/10/18) – Halloween Disco Thank you to the PTA for organising a fantastic disco and fair. Well done to all of those who took part in the pumpkin art contest. As you can imagine it was very difficult to choose the winners: Fox 1st Gracie K 2nd Aidan Otter 1st Izzy H 2nd Riana A Squirrel 1st Harriet 2nd George O Hedgehog 1st Isabell L 2nd Neve Dormouse 1st Lois 2nd Bea Maths Challenge Day On Tuesday 30th October, I had the pleasure of supporting some challenging maths work with George, Henry, Ethan and Isibeal. We spent the day at Heron Way Primary and covered some material that was new to the children as well as reinforcing some of the Maths they were already acquainted with. We debunked a few challenges, played a lot of ‘Twitter’ number games and investigated Tangrams. As is always the case when we take our pupils out of school, people commented on their excellent behaviour. Weekly Maths Challenge Class have written to me and asked if they could have harder Maths homework (well, some of them did!). Inspired by the above day, each week the newsletter will contain a Maths challenge. This is not going to be a compulsory activity it’s just for fun. The – challenges will be drawn from as wide a variety of sources as possible. Some will be
Orders must be in by 15th November please. Late orders will not be able to be accepted. The cards and other goodies will be back at school by 3 December and will be given to the children to bring home as soon as possible. Yellow - School Photograph Closing Date Tuesday 6th November Please be advised if you have not yet placed your school photograph order, the order closing date is Tuesday 6th November. Please either return your order to the school office or visit using the passwords on the proofcard. Star of the Week – (w/e - 19/10/18) Halloween Disco Thank you to the PTA for organising a fantastic disco and fair. Well done to all of those who took part in the pumpkin art contest. As you can imagine it was very difficult to choose the winners: Fox 1st Gracie K 2nd Aidan Otter 1st Izzy H 2nd Riana A Squirrel 1st Harriet 2nd George O Hedgehog 1st Isabell L 2nd Neve Dormouse 1st Lois 2nd Bea Maths Challenge Day On Tuesday 30th October, I had the pleasure of supporting some challenging maths work with George, Henry, Ethan and Isibeal. We spent the day at Heron Way Primary and covered some material that was new to the children as well as reinforcing some of the Maths they were already acquainted with. We debunked a few ‘Twitter’ challenges, played a lot of number games and investigated Tangrams. As is always the case when we take our pupils out of school, people commented on their excellent behaviour. Weekly Maths Challenge Class have written to me and asked if they could have harder Maths homework (well, some of them did!). Inspired by the above day, each week the newsletter will contain a Maths challenge. This is not going to be a compulsory activity – it’s just for fun. The challenges will be drawn from as wide a variety of sources as possible. Some will be
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