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Term 4 Newsletter No. 4 2019

We are building a community where learners have no ceilings to their aspirations and successes. Everyone is respected and loved in their

own right.

Dates for your Diary:

Thurs 4th April – Easter Service at Methodist Church

10am

Fri 5th April – Ground Force Day 9am

Fri 5th April – End of Term 4

Tues 23rd April – Start of Term 5

Thurs 2nd May – Holly Class to Chew Valley Farm

Tues 14th May – New Reception parents Induction

Evening 6pm

Mon 13th May – 16th May – KS2 SATs Week

Thurs 16th May – Yr6 Camp at school

Fri 17th May – Yr6 Kayaking day

Fri 17th May – Oak Class to Farleigh Castle

Wed 22nd – Fri 24th May – Yr3/4 Chelwood Camp

Fri 24th May – End of Term 5

Mon 3rd June - Start of Term 6

Wed 5th June – Yr 3/4 Concert 9.30am

Mon 17th June – Sports Day

Wed 19th – Fri 21st June – Yr5/6 Camp – Isle of

Wight

Thurs 6th July – ‘Shuffle Up’ Day

Fri 12th July – Oak Class to Noah’s Ark Farm

Tues 16th July – Yr5/6 Performance 2pm & 6pm

Fri 19th July – Leavers Assembly

INSETS FOR THIS YEAR

Mon 22nd July 2019

Tues 23rd July 2019

“ part of the Midsomer Norton Schools Partnership"

On Tuesday March 26th 2019, Sycamore class

went to the Radstock Museum.

Everyone looked splendid dressed as Victorians,

from gentlemen to chimney sweeps. We were

captivated by the knowledgeable and fun

volunteers who transformed us back in time to

experience Victorian life. In the schoolroom, we

learnt a song in a round and heard about their

stricter discipline. Some were surprised that the

cane wasn’t as thick as they had expected!

We visited a blacksmith and the Co-op. Matty H

and Brandon helpfully pretended to be horses to

show how a horse’s shoe is fitted! At the Co-op,

we were inspired to hear how 28 people saved

their pennies until they could open a shop with

food that was not expensive. We were

challenged to examine various artefacts and

guess their function.

We explored Victorian ice skates, poison bottles,

and hair curlers. The iron was very heavy as it

was made of solid iron. We felt as though we had

spent a morning in a Victorian town and have

learned many details about life at that time.

MESSAGE FROM MRS COURTIER & MRS BAZELEY

The building work is progressing and pleasingly the

two classrooms being renovated at the back of the

school will be handed back to us after Easter, as

will two blocks of toilets, a new staffroom, a SEN

room and disabled toilet/shower room. Year 6 will

move to the old Maple and Willow classrooms and

the final classroom be renovated. The builders are

about four weeks behind schedule, due to finish the

first week of June.

We are looking forward to our Ground Force Day on

Friday morning. The Easter Service is on Thursday

at the Methodist Church. We hope you have a

peaceful and restful Easter holidays.


On Friday 8th of March, Oak Class visited Bristol Aquarium as part of their ‘Under the Sea’ topic. We were very about this trip; we spent time on the coach travelling to Bristol, discussing the different animals which we might see on arrival there. On arrival at the aquarium we were greeted by a large statue of a beetle, we had our picture taken with it. Then we went inside, it was so fascinating! We started the trip by investigating the aquarium by looking at all the creatures native to the Atlantic Ocean and we learnt how to make jelly fish out of bottles.

As we travelled around the aquarium, we looked at creatures from most of the different oceans and rivers around the world. Some of the most interesting were the electric eel (which was huge!) and the piranha fish. We saw very calm and beautiful seahorses and clown fish also, the clown fish look just like Nemo! When we had our specialist learning talk, our guide taught us all about sharks; we learnt about their teeth and eggs and even got to feel their skin, which was actually quite rough. I’m sure we all have our favourite fish or experience from the day, but all in all we had a great time. It was very enjoyable.

Uniform Reminders!

Now the weather is getting warmer please can we remind you of the following;-

No extreme haircuts or hair dying

No JoJo bows

No jewellery

Girls – No jumpsuits please - Shorts, trousers or summer dresses only.

Suitable footwear – school shoes only, not trainers.

Thank you for your co-operation!


Year 5 Maths Challenge

On Thursday March 28th, four Year 5 pupils: Hope, Georgina, Olivia and Grace, represented Longvernal

at the inter-school Mathematics Challenge, competing against about a dozen schools. They travelled to

The Paragon School, Bath, where they worked in pairs to tackle a variety of number and shape

problems which really challenged their application of skills. The team enjoyed the challenge and look

forward to enjoying similar tasks back at school.

Please can we remind you that all

dinner money, breakfast club and

after school club fees should be

paid for IN ADVANCE on

Parentpay. Failure to do so may

result in us having to withdraw

these services.

Thank you.

PARENTS WITH TODDLERS/PRE SCHOOL

CHILDREN - PLEASE NOTE!

Safety Concern:-

Please hold your child’s hand or keep them

strapped in a buggy when on school grounds.

We have had a few near misses recently with

children running loose/out of the gates/around

the car park. We do not want any accidents!

Do you live in the Kilmersdon area?

Are you able to offer a lift to school?

We have a parent/child currently living in

Kilmersdon who is having difficulty getting

the child to school on time due to other

family circumstances. If you are able to

offer this child a lift on route to school

please contact the office for further details.

Thank you.

RED NOSES

You may be wondering why the children are

coming home with red noses after comic relief

day? One of our parents works for a local

supermarket and they had lots of surplus red

nose stock. These have been kindly donated

to the school. Teachers/dinner ladies etc are

using them as rewards and incentives.

Therefore there is no payment required, thank

you.


We have had a great week in Holly Class learning all about different jobs! Firstly, we had a visit from two

paramedics, Emma and Sarah. Secondly, Becky, taught us all about her job as a carer. Our third visitor,

Sarah, taught us all about her job as a nurse. Our fourth visitor, Alex, taught us all about his job in the

Army. Our fifth visitor, PCSO Samways, taught us all about his job and let us become junior police officers!

Our final visitor, Philippa, taught us all about her job as a project manager in a bank and helped us to plan a

party! Last week we had Sophie from the Ambulance service come in, she taught us about her job as a 999

emergency call handler and what to do if we need to call an ambulance.

We are grateful to our visitors and we wish to extend a massive thank you to all of them, the children loved

learning about different jobs and have since produced some fantastic writing around what they would like

to be when they grow up and why.

Our Trip to the Egg Theatre, Bath

On Wednesday 20th March, Holly Class travelled to The Egg Theatre to watch ‘How to Catch a Star’ based

on a book by the award-winning author Oliver Jeffers. The children were mesmerised by the puppet show

performance and have since been enthusiastically discussing what happened during the performance. Even

the coach journey proved to be a great experience as children were eager to locate and name places and

animals they could see along the way, using some great descriptive and positional vocabulary! We also had

numerous games of ‘eye spy’! This was an extremely enjoyable first school trip for the class and behaviour

was exemplary. The children represented Longvernal Primary School amazingly and made staff feel very

proud, we cannot wait for our next school trip!

Chestnut Class thoroughly enjoyed their visit to

The Wild Place Project to launch into their topic

this term ‘Down at the bottom of the garden’. In

particular they enjoyed their woodland games

learning about nocturnal animals which is

feeding nicely into their writing this term.


The new school dinner menu was

sent home earlier this week. The

new menu starts after Easter. It

is also on the school website.

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Also, please find attached the

School term dates for 2019/20.

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Ground Force Morning

Friday 5th April

Please come along to our Ground Force morning

on Friday. There will be a number of activities

including:

Building new football goals on the field. Building a Lego car on the playground. Painting bays on the playground. Building a ‘Mud kitchen.’ Planting bulbs and herbs, building raised beds. Creating a wooden performance area.

You are all welcome, there is still time to sign up – Please let the office know, if you intend to join us. N'Fest Easter - Sunday 14th April, 3:30pm

- 5:30pm at Somervale School.

If you are aged 4-11, Welton Baptist church

invites you to have lots of fun celebrating

Easter together at this free event. There's

loads packed in to 2 hours including an

Easter egg hunt - Drama - Craft - Games -

Biscuit decorating - Cafe for parents/carers -

And more! Spaces are limited so please

book in soon at

https://nfesteaster.eventbrite.co.uk/

Reminder- children should not be on

site before 8.30am unless they are at

Breakfast Club. From 8.30 am a

member of staff is on duty on the

playground.

Thank you for your understanding.

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