Welcome to our third

special newsletter. We

have been busy classes

during a busy year! We

have lots of visitors com-

ing to our school including

a paramedic, firefighters,

Pudsey bear and African

drummers called Millie

and James. A wild Life

lady called Suzanne came

to our school and taught

us about how to care for

wildlife. Heather, Gra-

ham and Chris who are

Christians have come to

do assemblies. too

In this issue we tell you

lots about these visitors

and the exciting things

we have been learning.

We hope you enjoy read-

ing it and learn lots from

us too!

BOOK WEEK

Simon James, an author

came during Book Week.

He was amazing at writing

stories and drawing pic-

tures. He worked with the

Awesome Authors in year

one and answered lots of

their questions.

This is what they found

out:

He loves walking and always

takes chocolate in his ruck-

sack.

He loves water pistol

fights!

Most of all he loves writing

stories and drawing pic-

tures!

Read year 2’s news on page

4 to find out more about

book week. We had a great

time and enjoyed

reading lots of dif-

ferent books.

The Press Gang is growing

and growing—with lots of

new members from Recep-

tion. The jokes just get

better and better!! Enjoy!

Mrs Kent

Deputy Headteacher

Chief Press Gang

Officer

Issue 3

March 2012

DIAMOND JUBILEE

Plans have begun for the

Queen’s Diamond Jubilee!

We are planning a celebra-

tion for the queen because

she has been the queen for

60 years. She has been a

great queen over England.

OYLMPICS

We are learning

about the Oylmpics and

are looking forward to find-

ing out about the torch and

all of the athletes coming

to London. The Kent

school torch is com-

ing to our school on 24th

April.

STOP PRESS!!!

THE DOWNS POINT OF VIEW

Reception News 2

Year 1 News 3

Year 2 News 4

Our own jokes! 2,3,4

Inside this issue:

Special points of

interest:

TRIPS

FACT FILES

CLUBS

JOKES

AND MUCH

MORE!

We have hidden lots of

book characters in our

newsletter…

How many can you

find?

The ‘Press Gang’

Andrew, Ewuraama, Grace, Harry U, George G, Jessica, Harry F, Zaccy, Evan S, Seth, Eloise, Jamie, Thomas, Pippa, Zoe, Paddy, Jude, Nina, William, Harley, Jade, Holly, Max, Bradley, Lucy G, Ava, Lewis,

Daniel, Lily D, Morgan, Isabelle D, Josh, Olivia G , Aaron, Ellie H, Declan, Olivia A, Lily M, Daniel S, Bradley S, Jude W

DOWNS VIEW NEVER SIT

STILL!

We have been learning about Chinese New year.

Gung Hey Fat Choi means Happy New Year in Chi-

nese.

Officer Harry F reported that “We have tried

noodles and prawn crackers.” Thomas comment-

ed “they were crunchy!” Evan added “ and yum-

my!” Harry went on to add “some children didn’t

like the noodles .”

We did a dragon dance and we hid under a big

dragon costume. It was the year of the dragon.

How do you get to the

church?

Roll in a

meatball!

Jessica

What do you call three men

standing in a row having a

haircut?

A barbe-queue!

Why did the elephant swing

his trunk?

To get the peanuts from the

sky.

P A G E 2

Firefighters Jim , Adam and Neil came to our school on a Friday.

They showed us how to put the flashing lights . Thomas from Owls

said “ They came in a red and big fire engine.” Grace added “They

squirted us with water from the black long hose. It

made us scream and laugh! We learnt that we

have to call 999 if there is a fire. We also learnt

that fire fighters do not just put out fires they

also rescue cats from trees.

We are learning about people who help us...

Our Community Police Officers came to talk to

use about how to keep safe.

We learnt not to go near people we do not know

and to stay with the grown ups who care for us.

Eloise made this poster to tell other

children to take care:

T H E D O W N S P O I N T O F V I E W

JOKES FROM RECEPTION

STRANGER DANGER

GUNG HEY FAT CHOI from

RECEPTION!

RECEPTION

FIRE FIGHTERS TO THE

RESCUE!

Kai, Mrs Flinn’s husband came to school be-

cause he is a paramedic. He came in a yellow

and white ambulance. We went on the am-

bulance and Kai showed us his tools he uses

to check on people who are hurt or ill. He

put the lights and siren on. It was very loud.

Press Gang Officer Eloise helped Kai to show

the children how to use a thermometer and

how he used oxygen for people

to help people to breathe.

A PARAMEDIC ON

CALL TO

DOWNS VIEW

We have learnt that all

animals need water

to survive. Some

lizards change differ-

ent colours. Animals grow every month.

Tigers have stripes to help them camouflage

in the grass. Tigers are dangerous animals

Many wild animals live in the forest or jun-

gle. As they live a long way away we can see

them in enclosures in zoos.

Year one have been learning about

wild animals. Jude said ‘Animals

need habitats. We have been learn-

ing about endangered animals. Some

of our classes are named after

them. In year one these are:

Turtles, Otters and Koalas .

.

What is a snake’s fa-

vourite lesson?

Hissssssssstory!

William Otters

Why do giraffes have long

necks?

Cos they have smelly feet!

Lewis Turtles

How do you start a jelly race?

Get set GO!

Zoe

Koalas

What do you get when you cross a

dinosaur and an explosive?

Dino-mite

Paddy koalas

Why did the cow cross the road ?

To get to the MOO

vies.

Harley Otters

What is a ghost’s favourite pudding?

Ice-scream

Ava Turtles

P A G E 3

YEAR ONE GO WILD!

JOKES FROM YEAR ONE

BREAKFAST CLUB

We eat healthy fruit and cereal every-

day and play with toys

and games. We make new

friends and have fun.

8.30 CLUB

We play games and play with the Noah’s

ark or cars before starting school. It’s

really cool and fun!

CHOIR CLUB

Choir is very funny be-

cause we sing songs

about zombies and the

bare necessities.

DECOPATCH CLUB

The fun starts on a Friday evening.

Decopatch means covering lots of dif-

ferent things with paper and special

glue. It is lots of fun. Do you like

our tree and

elephant?

You may recall in our last issue we

told you about some of our clubs.

Well, here is more information about

different clubs at our school:

SKIPPING CLUB

Press Gang Officers Jade and Holly

go to skipping club. They said “ We

do two jumps along a ladder to prac-

tice.” We have shown our skipping to

our Mums and Dads in assembly.

I S S U E 3

OUR AMAZING CLUBS

Year 1 have gone wild finding

out about wild animals:

ANIMAL FACT FILE:

Questions which Press

Gang Officers have learnt

the answers to ! How

many can you answer?

What does nocturnal

mean?

Why do koalas climb

trees?

Why do koalas have sharp

claws?

What do tigers like to eat?

BOG BABIES TAKE OVER DOWNS VIEW!

We have been reading a story about Bog Babies

and learning about them.

Here are some interesting facts about Bog Babies:

Bog babies can be found in ponds

My bog baby isn’t pleasant—Bradley

My bog baby has a big belly—Harley

We went to Dover Museum because we

were learning about Florence Nightingale .

We looked at some amazing artefacts

which were used in the olden days.

There was a very old

boat there that was

called the Bronze Age

boat. It was 3600

years old.

Lily D and

Isabelle D re-

ported: ‘We

had to pretend

to be Flor-

ence’s serv-

ants, it was very exiting! We even ate our

lunch there. Olivia and Amelia fell asleep

on the coach on the way home!

Why was 6 afraid of 7?

Because 7 8(ate) 9.

Morgan Tigers

What do ghosts eat?

Spooketti

Olivia G Tigers

What do you get when you

cross a smurf with a cow?

Blue cheese

Olivia A Elephants

What are clocks

good at

doing?

Grabbing because they have

hands! Declan Elephants

What do robots eat

?

Micro chips

Josh tigers.

Which animal should you

not play cards with?

A cheetah!

Jude

Pandas

JOKES FROM YEAR 2

INTERNATIONAL DAY

On Wednesday 22nd February the

guides and scouts celebrate thinking

day because it is the birthday of lord and lady Baden

Powel. Lord Baden Powel started the scout and Guide

monument. At Downs View we celebrated International

day by putting up flags and bringing in food from other

countries . We even had an African drummer came in!

YEAR 2

BOOK WEEK

During book week we had to dress

up as different characters from different books. In

year two we designed our own costumes. Press

gang officer Olivia dressed as a nurse and Josh

dressed up as a dragon. We got to show the

whole school our costumes in assembly. Ellie

dressed up as Dorothy, Lily dressed up as Mary

Poppins and also we had a family quiz and we

needed to answer 11 questions. The tie breaker

was very tricky! There were 12 winners who got a

book voucher. We all got stickers for taking part.

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DOVER EXPLORERS!

Mrs King acting out as Florence .

OTHER EVENTS

A skeleton taken by Josh Hair curler

Part of the boat