Weekly NewsletterFriday 10th May 2019
Core value: Friendship
This week has been an exciting week for
your year 4 and 5 as they embarked on
their residential to Danbury Outdoors.
The weather wasn’t on their ide
yesterday and may got caught in one of
the downpours during the day – but this
didn’t dampen their spirits! When I
joined them in the evening they were
full or beans happily telling me about all
the things they had down that day. ‘I
didn’t think that I could do the aerial
walk, it was so high – but I did and really
enjoyed it’, Connor. During the evening
we all met round a camp fire, built by
Mrs Bott, and enjoyed toasted
marshmallows, then it was hot
chocolate and bed. They have another
exciting day today and I promise that
next week’s newsletter will be filled
with photos, as will our Twitter page.
Thank you to all the staff who went,
these trips couldn’t go ahead without
you!
Monday starts the SATs week for year
6s. they have worked so hard and we
wish them all the best.
Just a reminder that there is a
meeting on Monday for the parents
of the children in year 6 going on the
residential after half term. Please
come along so that you can get all the
information you need before the trip.
Meeting starts at 5pm in year 6 class.
We have exciting news, Mrs Bott will
be brining in a pair of guinea pigs to
school from next week. The children
will be able to hold the guinea pigs,
feed them and learn how to care for
them. Its such a great opportunity for
the children to learn about pets and
animals, thank you Mrs Bott and of
course Geoff and Purdy who supplied
the cage.
Lastly, next week we have two special
assemblies. On Monday Anthony
from Fizzpop Science will be in to talk
to the children about an exciting
science club that will start on Tuesday
10th June, letters will follow his talk
with the children. Then on Friday
Carly from Epic Dance will be in to
introduce her dance club to the
children. This club will start on
Tuesday 11th June at 3:30 pm and
letters will come out about this next
week.
Have a lovely weekend, I do hope the
sun shines a little more for you!
Keep smiling
Mrs Glynn
Change of menu—Thursday 16th May.
Pizza Hut Buffet, various slices of pizzas, meat and vegetarian, chips, salad bar. Dessert: Chocolate ice cream with chocolate sauce.
Class 1
Year 1 have been very busy at home making dioramas of the Jurassic age and writing fantastic stories about dinosaurs. We have been learning about Mary Anning, a famous fossil hunter from the early 1800's, who found the skeleton of and ichthyosaurus in the cliffs near Lyme Regis. In Forest Schools we are starting to make our own fossils!
Class 3
Eliza: We wrote a playscript about our lives.
Carmen: We are reading Peter Pan.
Dexter: We were learning about light.
Huey: We drew Peter Pan book covers.
Harvey: We tested materials and sorted them out into transparent, translucent and opaque.
Dyllan: We’ve learned about grids in maths.
Huey and Mollie: in PE we played Cups And Saucers, Beanbag Invasion, Go For The Goal.
Dexter: We made a display about Noah’s Ark.
Class 6
In Year 6 this week, they have been writing
balance arguments on their chosen topics,
ie. Should jet skis be banned in Australia,
should phones be banned and should school
uniform be banned. They have also been
working very hard practicing for their SATs
which take place next week.
ATTENDANCE THIS WEEK: 94.82%
Reception = 88.89%
Year 1 = 90%
Year 2 = 100%
Year 3 = 98.68%
Year 4 = 96.89%
Year 5 = 94.23%
Year 6 = 97.16%
Dairy Dates
13th—16th May—SATs Week (Year 6
Breakfast club 8.15am)
13th May—Year 6 Residential Parents/
Carers Meeting 5.00pm
16th May— Year 3 Bradwell Outdoors
23rd May—KS2 Dengie Sports Training
Day at Ormiston Rivers Academy
23rd May—PTA Disco 5.00pm
24th May—Class Photographs
27th—31st May—Half Term
3rd—7th June—Year 6 Residential Trip
Class 2
Religious Education saw us finishing our Johna and the Whale wall picture. The children all enjoyed making this particularly seeing Johna inside of the whale. In science as part of our health and well being we have started an experiment looking at mould on bread.
St Cedd’s Great Achievers
Back in September 2018, Kali Karaskas and her helm Lia qualified for the National Sailing squad in the UK Cadet Class. They had trained all through the winter in different locations and in some challenging conditions! Meanwhile, Pip Smith joined forces with helm, Cally an ex pupil of St Cedd’s from Stone Sailing club, in St Lawrence and trained hard at the club and both teams took part in some winter training at Alton Water over Christmas organised by the Cadet Class As-sociation.
All of this committed training on and off the water was for the UK Cadet Association Spring Selector Series, three week-end events held over four weeks at; Stone Sailing Club, Weymouth and Portland Sailing Academy and Grafham Water. Both teams did fantastically well, with Pip and Cally getting a 1st at Stone and Graham and Kali and Lia achieved 1st at Weymouth and 2nd at Stone.
After the prizegiving in the last event at Grafham Water last weekend, the tension was building as it was then time to announce the world team! Seven teams are picked, two go to helms that are under 15 years old.
Pip and Kali with their helms had worked so hard and both teams were placed in the top 3 for the world qualifying team!! They will now be representing Great Britain in the Cadet Class World Sailing Event in Poland later this summer.
This has been a wonderful experience for Kali & Pip, not only learning crewing sailing skills and racing, but working as a team and under pressure, communication, confidence building and thinking for themselves. They have made some great friends along the way too and got some pretty cool trophies!!
Well done girls we are all so proud of you!
By Mrs Kara Karaskas