Brierley Primary School.

Mirion Street.

Crewe.

Cheshire.

CW1 2AZ

Tel: 01270 685527

Email: admin@brierley.cheshire.sch.uk

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Newsletter Update

2018 – 19 24th September

Dear Parents and Carers,

The first weeks of the new term have flown by and it has been great to see the children

return after the summer break full of energy and enthusiasm for their new topics and up for

the challenges this term has in store.

Thank you to parents for ensuring that children are correctly kitted out, we have been very impressed with how smart the children look. PE kits should be kept available at all times.

Don’t forget to label all items of clothing to avoid losing any items.

I would like to say a big thank you to all the new starters across the school that have

joined us at the beginning of September. They have all settled in well and have made lots

of new friends already. I know that the staff and children will continue to make them feel

welcome.

We take great pleasure in introducing our new

house captains for this year:

Tatton: Ashton Degnen, Izzy Roberts and Kalem

Cooper (Vice).

Jodrell: Darja Kozina, Chloe Wharton and Leo

Walters (Vice).

Delamere: Shekinah Marembo, Trinity Palin and

James-Stuart Clay (Vice).

Anderton: Carly Taylor, Matthew Thompson and

Alexis Edwards (Vice).

Warmest regards,

Mrs McIntosh

Timeline One Child Two Children Paid Within 21 Days

£60 per parent

£60 per child = £120 per

parent

After 21 days and

before 28 days

£120 per parent

£120 per child = £240 per

parent

After 28 days

You will be summoned to

appear before the Magistrates’

Court on the grounds that you have failed to secure your

child’s regular attendance.

You will be summoned to

appear before the

Magistrates’ Court on the grounds that you have failed

to secure your child’s regular

attendance.

Please can all parents be aware that Brierley does not authorise holidays during term-time,

and parents/carers are liable to face a fine given by the Local Authority. This also extends

to your child’s attendance – if they have 10 or more unauthorised absences,

parents/carers are liable to face a fine given by the Local Authority. Please see the table

below which provides further information.

If your child is due to take a leave of absence, please write a letter to the Head teacher

(ideally three weeks in advance) indicating the reasons why. In exceptional

circumstances, absence may be authorised.

ATTENDANCE

If your child is going to be absent from school, please notify the school office before

9:15am by calling 01270 685527 or sending an email to admin@brierley.cheshire.sch.uk

Just to keep you updated, please see below for the upcoming holiday dates for the rest of

this school term.

Holiday Period Date of closing Date of Re-opening

Autumn Half Term 2018 Friday 26th October 2018 Monday 5th November

Christmas 2018 Thursday 20th December 2018

Monday 7th January 2018

Stars of the week

Nursery: Jacob Burke Hurley for being such a kind friend to everyone this week and always lending a helping hand.

Year 1: Melvin Nicol for a very sensible, mature attitude towards his Year 1 work.

Year 2: Ryan Farr for trying to join his letters and working hard all week.

Year 3: Suzie Faddes for a fantastic power point presentation about rocks.

Year 4: Connor Franklin for his consistently mature and hardworking approach to learning.

Year 5: Eloise Brown for excellent work in English.

Year 6: Trinity Palin for super use of parenthesis and other higher level punctuation.

We have had lots of outdoor time in Little Bears whilst the good

weather was with us. We have been learning ball skills which has

been so much fun! We sing a special song whilst we bounce the

ball, pass the ball around the circle and have been starting to

learn how to throw and catch in pairs.

We have been also having lots of sensory experiences outside, we

have been fishing in the glittery water to see what we can find!

We have really impressed our teachers by learning to write our

names, we now do this every single morning when we come into

Nursery!

EYFS NEWS

We have also gone number mad! Little Bears have been looking at our

number recognition and had lots of fun whilst learning. We have used

our colourful number pebbles to go on our number hunt in the outdoor

play area. We dug up all the numbers to 10 from our indoor sandpit.

Then, we took our learning out to the playground and painted over

Miss Brogan’s number on the floor using our own and had a go at

using chalk to write out own!

In Reception, we have continued to settle into school and make more

friends. We have begun to learn our letters and sounds (phonics). We

have started to look at the ‘s’, ‘a’, ‘t’ and ‘p’ sounds. The children

have practised their letter and number formation by writing in salt.

We also became chefs this week as we made pizzas in maths! We

practised counting out the number of each topping we were putting

on. Then, we had lots of fun counting out malteasers when our

number of the day was 7!

In PE, the children were excited to wear their PE kits for the first time!

We worked in pairs to follow actions and move around the hall in

different ways such as hopping and skipping – and even walked backwards on our hands and feet!

We have continued to impress Mr Foulkes with our speedy changing

for PE. We have begun working on moving around the hall in different

directions – some of them were really tricky but we tried our best!

The Jolly Postman’s journey has taken us to the big, bad witch! We have

started looking into traditional tale characters and we sorted them into

good and bad, giving reasons for our answers. The children got very

engaged linking the characters to different traditional tales and

discussing what they had done that was bad.

Across Year 1 and 2, we have been working on describing the witch

using adjectives and noun phrases. Year 1’s focus has been writing

simple sentences using adjectives, whereas Year 2 have worked on

putting their noun phrases into sentences.

In maths we have continued our work on representing numbers. We

have been doing a lot of practical work on counting and making

numbers using objects such as counters and diennes. We have begun

looking at the place value of each number and thinking if it is a ten or a

unit, the children have done really well with this!

For curriculum in the afternoons we have become artists and created

self portraits of ourselves for a new classroom display. The children

thought carefully about their features including eyes, eye brows, lips,

ears and hair.

PHASE 2 NEWS

The Jolly Postman’s journey took us to Cinderella’s Palace as she was ----------------------

preparing for her wedding to Prince Charming. We have looked at how different people

celebrate weddings and different roles within a wedding e.g. bride, groom, bridesmaid

etc.

In English we have been creating invitations to Cinderella’s wedding. This has prepared us

for our own upcoming Phase 2 wedding which will be taking place next week, for details

see the letter.

Finally for curriculum our focus has been DT. We have looked at where different food

comes from (plant or animal) and sorted foods accordingly. We have also all had chance

to peel, chop and grate a range of different foods which the children really enjoyed and

can now help prepare dinner at home!

PHASE 3 NEWS

In Phase 3, we have been investigating how rocks can be

grouped according to their properties. We looked at

investigating their size, colour and texture. We used a 2p coin to

scratch the rocks to test how hard they were and we also

investigated their permeability.

In English, we have been continuing to read the story ‘Stone

Girl, Bone Girl’ which is a fictional story based on Mary Anning.

We have been using expanded noun phrases and compound

sentence to describe a coastal setting.

In maths, we are continuing with place value as well as starting

our shape, space and measure sessions which take place on a

Monday. This week, we investigated the properties of 2D

shapes including the number of corners, size and lines of

symmetry. Some children began drawing 2D shapes with given

properties.

In English, pupils have continued to work on their imaginative

setting descriptions linked to our book for this unit, Stone Girl,

Bone Girl.

In Science, Year 3 have enjoyed learning more about rocks

and soils, studying different types of rock and taking part in

practical experiments which investigated how soils

absorb water.

Year 4 started to explore Prehistoric Britain by studying timelines

and considering what a range of historical evidence can tell us

about life in the Stone Age.

Year 4 also had their third session of Forest Schools with Mr

Foulkes on Thursday afternoon, and all pupils in Phase 3 ended

their busy school week by taking part in exciting Music,

Computing and Spanish lessons.

It has been a fantastic second week for Phase 4, full of lots of exciting

learning! In English we have continued our work on explorers,

following the journey of David Attenborough. From the Galapagos

islands to the Amazon, our adventure has now taken us to the

Antarctic! We can’t wait to have a go at writing our own

documentary based on the settings we have been exploring.

In Maths, we have continued our work on number and place value

where we have been focusing on number sequences. In shape,

space and measure, children have been following steps from

naming and describing 2D and 3D shapes to finding lines of

symmetry.

After finishing our current topic on shape which has included

identifying shapes by their properties, sorting shapes according to

angles and edges, creating 3D shapes using nets and identifying lines

of symmetry.

We have finished our unit in Geography based on the world map

and have begun to start our new Science unit: Inheritance and

Evolution. We have been looking at photos of fossils to identify what

the creatures may have been, where they may have lived and what

characteristics they may have had. Year 5 even matched fossils to

the correct dinosaurs.

The children have also thoroughly enjoyed their curriculum day,

which takes place on Fridays, where they have had lots of fun

learning how to use the IPads in ICT to make funky iMusic songs,

playing the steel drums and learning Spanish phrases. Muy Bien!

PHASE 4 NEWS

We have been busy planning and writing our own documentary

scripts in the style of David Attenborough. Although we have looked

at a range of places, this week we focused on Antarctica and the

children wrote some fantastic descriptive sentences.

Brierley 2 – Gainsborough 0 On Wednesday 19th September, it was our first match of the Crewe Autumn Football League

against Gainsborough. This was our first fixture in our group which also contains Underwood

West and The Dingle. Played in the middle of 'Storm Ali‘, strong winds were brought to the

pitch and we knew we had to try to get our noses in front if we could, as the 2nd half against

the wind would be difficult. We started well, showing some nice touches and winning our

tackles. We had a few wayward shots from distance and then came close as Ashton Degnen

fizzed a shot just over the bar. We made the breakthrough when Lewis Plant weaved his way

through the Gainsborough defence and then calmly stroked the ball into the corner with his

left foot. We deserved to be 1-0 ahead but a 2nd goal would have put us in a great position

for the 2nd half. We had a couple of half chances from corners, with Leo Jones and Ashton

nearly getting on the end of two corners from Lewis.

In the 2nd half we made a couple of tactical changes, as we knew the wind was against us and we would probably have more defending to do. Ashton slotted in at centre back and

was straight into the action, winning headers and repelling any attack. Either side of him,

Joshua Watling and Harvey Lindsay were both outstanding and kept both wingers quiet. We

still tried to hit Gainsborough on the break and showed some neat play with Noah Jones, Lewis

and Lucas Jones linking up well. Lucas had a half chance but his shot went just wide and

Noah’s strike from the edge of the box didn't quite have the power to beat the keeper. At the

other end, Matthew Thompson made a couple of smart stops before we killed the game off

with a second goal. A long throw from Joshua was flicked on and a Gainsborough defender

stuck out a hand- penalty! Up stepped Ashton who had too much power on the penalty to

give the keeper any chance. Leo and Gracjan came on to bring some fresher legs for the last

few minutes and they along with the rest of the team worked really hard, right to the final whistle to preserve a clean sheet and record a great 2-0 win to start the season.

Squad: Ashton Degnen (c), Matthew Thompson, Lewis Plant, Leo Jones, Harvey Lindsay,

Gracjan Marcinkowski, Joshua Watling, Lucas Jones and Noah Jones.

Well done to all of the boys for a great start in difficult conditions. MOM went to Harvey

Lindsay who won most of his tackles and his distribution was excellent – however, both Lewis

Plant and Ashton Degnen were both outstanding in midfield and it could have gone to either

of them.

Thank you to all of the parents for their support at the fixture- it was nice to see a big crowd and the boys appreciated your support.