As we break for half term, it amazes me how quickly we have reached the mid point of the year. It doesn’t seem any time at

all since we were welcoming children in September. It is true what they say - ‘time flies when you are having fun’!

This week has been extremely busy once again. I wasn’t in school on Tuesday, but I understand that the RJ assembly was

delayed owing to traffic problems that morning. However, once it was underway the audience was treated to a wonderful

assembly following Reception’s recent visit to ‘Scrap’ workshop in Leeds. The children showed everyone how to construct

things from reclaimed items and also treated them to a fantastic musical recital with their home made instruments! Well

done RJ—I loved the photos! The 2S assembly on Thursday was a journey through time on the theme of transport. Prof

‘Know It All’, invented a time machine and the children took us back to the time of the Mongolfier Brothers, Louis Bleriot,

Amy Johnson, the Wright brothers, George Stephenson and Amelia Earhart. All of these historical figures were appearing on

the ‘Two Show’ with Chris Evans and Alex Jones—fabulous 2S! Thank you to Mrs Johnson, Mrs Franey and Mrs Spencer for

putting these two lovely assemblies together.

Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 have thoroughly enjoyed their dance sessions this week which we bought courtesy of the

Sainsbury’s Voucher Scheme. There are some photos further in the newsletter but they will all be posted on our Facebook

page very soon—please look out for them! Thanks Mrs Hicks for organising these for us. Please bring any vouchers into

school (box by the reception desk) so we can keep them going in the coming years—thank you.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the staff at Clifton, our parent volunteer sports coaches and other outside

coaches and teachers, for providing such a breadth of opportunities for the children in our co-curricular programme. We are

now looking at the activities for the Summer Term and you will shortly receive the programme to discuss the choices with

your children. On the same note, I would like to thank Mrs Jo Deri-Clark for her wonderful organisation of our After School

Care facility. I know that she spends many hours researching ideas to keep the children motivated during the time they

spend there after school and, I also know, just how much the children enjoy it!

When we return to school after half term, we have a busy week. The Parent Forums are on Tuesday, 24th February at

7.30 pm and Wednesday, 25th February at 2.00 pm—both held in the Rayson Room. Please sign up at the reception desk in

order for us to cater for refreshments. We also have Taster Days for our applicants in September, our Air Ambulance

Fundraising Day and the CSF Quiz Night on Friday, 27th and also our Open Morning on Saturday, 28th from 10.30 am—12.00

noon. I would be grateful if you could share this information with your friends and family, It would be good to welcome any

interested parties to the school.

I hope that most of you now enjoy and share all the wonderful photographs of the children on our Facebook and Twitter

accounts. Please use the links at the top of the page and, for Facebook - just ‘like’ us!

Wishing you all a wonderful half term break—whether you are travelling or staying at home, have a lovely time.

Best wishes,

CoMPasS

You can follow us ...….. Newsletter No: 19

Friday, 13th February, 2015 Registered Charity No: 1141329

Full details of offers further in the

newsletter.

YORKSHIRE AIR AMBULANCE

FUNDRAISING DAY

FRIDAY, 27TH FEBRUARY

DETAILS FURTHER IN THE NEWSLETTER!

OPEN MORNING FOR

PROSPECTIVE PARENTS

SATURDAY

28TH FEBRUARY 2015

10.30 AM—12.00 NOON

Please pass on this

information to any friends or

relatives that may be

interested.

It has been a busy half term for Green Team. As the weather turns slightly warmer and brighter, our attention has been focused on outside. We saw that our vegetable patches by the dining hall have been getting rather trampled, so we made signs to ask children not to pick or step on our plants whilst waiting for dinner. We have been raking, weeding and tidying this week in the sunshine; maybe spring is finally on its way! We have sown spinach and garlic along with chives, parsley and thyme into seed trays. Fingers crossed that all these exciting things will soon start to grow! Please follow our activities on twitter: @GreenTeamClub

A massive thank you to Farmer Hudson

for an exciting visit to school with his

tractor! Mr Hudson (Harriet’s Dad)

thrilled RS by letting each child sit in

the driver’s seat and beep the horn!

Mr Hudson told us about the cleats on the

wheels, the power of the tractor and how and

when it is used.

Mr Hudson then presented a very interesting presentation

about growing crops, showing us images of the changes that

occur and when and how the crops are cut. He brought

samples of various crops that he grows on his farm and

showed us how to test for moisture in the crop. Finally we

looked at a mini combine harvester and the mechanisms of

how it works. Again many thanks to Farmer Hudson for a

very enjoyable afternoon!

2S had great fun

performing their

assembly this week. The

children all worked very

hard learning their lines

and delivered them

beautifully. We were so

pleased that Professor

Know-It-All decided to

be a bit more modest in

the end!

Reception to Year 2 have had a great time this week perfecting their dance moves in

their Sainsbury’s Dance Day sessions with Miss Jenny. Thank you to everyone that

contributed Active Kids vouchers last year to make these sessions possible.

The 2015 scheme is now up and running and a collection box can be found by the front

entrance for all your vouchers so enjoy shopping as the children enjoy dancing!

Year 2 are

enjoying building

with our new

Technic Lego!

This week 1G have been on a lion hunt! We’ve been to catch a BIG ONE! We weren’t scared! Should Alfred go into the dark cave or not? One side of the conscience corridor tried to persuade Alfred that it would be a good idea to go in and the opposite side tried to convince him to go home. We had some great points of view but in the end Alfred decided NOT to go into the cave and go home instead. Wise choice!

Menu for Tuesday, 24th February

Homemade Sweet & Sour Chicken

Rice

Vegetable noodles

Sugar Snap peas

Prawn Crackers

Ice-cream and Chinese fruits

2015 YEAR OF THE GOAT

have been carrying out an investigation – how to clean dirty water! This is us doing our filtration experiment.

started to learn about the importance of their 5 senses this week, focusing on smell and touch. They

were very brave and stuck their hands in mysterious boxes to describe the contents; thankfully nothing bit their

hand off! Miss Beadle had also filled mysterious pots full of smelly contents which ranged from nice toothpaste to

nasty onion!

This week Nursery have had a 'Dough Disco!' We each had a piece of dough and did a series of finger and hand exercises to music. We had to "squish it, squash it, roll it, pull it". This is an activity that helps us develop our fine motor skills ready to write. Our fingers really enjoyed dancing to Pharrell Williams, it certainly made us 'Happy!'

What a busy, creative and messy week in 3L!

First of all we were sculptors making canopic

jars out of cardboard rolls and clay! Once they

had dried we painted them mixing the primary

colours to create all sorts of godly effects! We

then explored the River Nile and sampled a

selection of fruits and vegetables that the

Ancient Egyptians would have grown! We

planned an investigation to see how the

Egyptians got clean water. 3L was full of

professors using a variety of sieves to filter

mud, sand, bark and leaves from a sample of

Nile water that Mrs Loftus bravely collected on

her lunch break!

Housepoints Micklegate

and

Monk

Clara, Oliver, Pietro, Victoria, Seb, Fraser, Alice,

Helena, Sophie, Millie and James

Shaurya, Rohan, Sam, Harry and Roman

It has been another very busy week in 2H! We have been

writing accounts of our visit to the Transport Museum last

week, experimenting with marking each other’s writing and

acting out the painting that we have been studying in

drama. In our writing, we have tried to think about what

each character might be thinking and write in the first

person. Here are the results of some of our drama work!

Over the last few weeks in RJ we have been investigating our similarities and differences. We looked at the work of Picasso and how he painted portraits with a difference. We started by matching our skin colour to a paint chart to get a base colour for our portraits then used photographs and cut out our features to make our own portraits with a difference. Can you tell who we are?

Gabriel Levine

has lost his school

coat and Funmi

Sanusi has

mislaid her

training pants—

please look out for

them at home.

Thank you.

Good Conduct

Ben, Abélard, Darci, Art, Jack, Charlie, Edward,

Cameron, Rory and Raya (not shown)

Superstars

Karim, Max, Raphie, Robbie, Hannah, Harry,

Rohan, Jake and Keziah

3T have been finding out about the gods and goddesses of Ancient Egypt this week. We have carried out some super research on the internet using the iPads and have all produced a class book of writing and drawings of the different

gods. We then went on to work in pairs to produce short movies about the gods. Our movies have images, voice-overs, backing tracks and even sound effects! They have been uploaded onto the school website and you can view them here!

https://www.facebook.com/clifton.school.and.nursery/videos

Clifton School and Nursery

Charity Fun Day

In Aid of Our School’s Chosen

Charity

27th February 2015

£5 donation will be

added to your fee

account, with an

opportunity to donate

more on the day if you

wish.

OBSTACLE COURSE WITH A

TEDDY ON A STRETCHER,

ORGANISED BY MRS HICKS

AND MISS MURRAY

ART, CRAFT AND OTHER

EXCITING ACTIVITIES IN

THE CLASSROOMS SESSIONS ON FIRST

AID FOR CHILDREN

WITH SCHOOL NURSE,

MRS FALCONER

ASSEMBLY AND SESSIONS

FROM A MEMBER OF THE

YAA TEAM A SPECIAL THEMED

LUNCH AND

BREAKTIME

SNACKS

WEAR OWN CLOTHES WITH

AS MUCH YELLOW AS YOU

LIKE