INSIDE THIS ISSUE

Primary Notice Board ........ 2

Attendance updates ........... 2

Upcoming events ................ 2

Homework timetable ......... 3

Stars of the Half Term ........ 3

Year 6 SATS dates 2017 ..... 3

Student poem ..................... 4

SPECIAL POINTS OF INTEREST

SATS information even-ing November 2016, see page 2

Gap Year to Star Wars land, page 4

PRIMARY FOCUS

Autumn Term 2016 Volume 1, Issue 1

Part of Challenger Multi Academy Trust

Welcome to the first newsletter from the Primary Unit within Kempston Challenger Academy. I have been really impressed with the children’s effort and I am looking forward to the year ahead. The team mem-bers are: Mrs Savory, Miss Powel, Mrs Basi, Mrs Mayston-Barlow and Mrs Reed.

I look forward to updating you all on our fantastic journey together.

Best wishes,

Mrs N Savory

Reading for

pleasure

We encourage parents

and carers to read with

their children. Re-

search shows that read-

ing with your child ap-

pears to be the most

powerful predictor for

success.

‘You may have tangible

wealth untold;

Caskets of jewels and

coffers of gold.

Richer than I, you can

never be-

I had a mother who

read to me.’

Gillilan Strickland

(1936)

(or teacher, or father, or Gran, or big sister, or aunty, or carer, or an App, or anyone).

Primary Core Values We have introduced our core values which are the four ‘c’s: Courtesy Consideration Cooperation Care We will be referring these on a daily basis. We would like the children to create posters for the four ‘c’s which will be used to display within the

Primary Unit. If you have any worries, or want to contact your child’s class teach-er, please contact Carol Reed or write a message in your child’s planner.

ATTENDANCE

The attendance for the Primary unit for this half term

was (%). Our target for next half term is (%).

Form group attendance figures:

5RBA 96.6% 5APO 97.6% 6NSA 97.10% 6TMA 95.4%

Well done to 6NSA!

The primary notice board is located on the playground where information is updated weekly.

Please remember to read it weekly.

Challenger Diploma Hour

The next round of option choices for next half term have been shared with pupils. If you

would like your child to opt in, the choices are below. Please contact Carol Reed in Prima-

ry. (Choice timetable to be inserted)

Photos of work/pupils: NSA to add in

Uniform

The pupils look smart in their uniforms. Please encourage them to keep this up.

Break Snack Shop

A reminder that pupils can buy snacks at break time on the Primary playground. There are

lots of healthy options for the pupils to choose from.

National Poetry Day 6th October 2016: the theme was messages.

All our pupils took part in National Poetry Day by writing their own messages.

(NSA to include example)

October is Black History Month

Pupils have been learning about the historic and modern role models; Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Will Smith, Oprah Winfrey and Stevie Wonder.

PRIMARY NOTICE BOARD

Upcoming events SATs information evening Thursday 3rd of November 3:10-4:10 for Year 6 Parents/carers. This session is an opportunity to find out extra information about the tests year 6 take in May 2017 and how you can support with their learning at home.

Homework Timetable

All classes have been given a homework timetable which has been glued into the back of their organiser. Please refer to this to know which subject has been set on which day. All homework has a weeks due date. Extra re-wards will be handed out for brilliant effort.

Monday Foundation Arithmetic

Tuesday Spellings

Wednesday

Thursday English Maths

Friday

Monday Arithmetic

Tuesday Foundation Spellings

Wednesday Reading

Thursday English Maths

Friday

Monday Arithmetic

Tuesday Spellings

Wednesday Reading

Thursday English Maths

Friday Foundation

Monday Arithmetic

Tuesday Spellings

Wednesday Reading

Thursday English Maths

Friday Foundation

5APO 5RBA 6NSA 6TMA

WB 12.09.16 Giulia Caris Faith Niamh

WB 19.09.16 Freya Tamzin Junior Alisha

WB 26.09.16 Martin Bogdan Kristians Treshah

WB 03.10.16 Nuha Phoenix Emmanuela William S

WB 10.10.16 Jakub Karolina Joshua Harry

WB 17.10.16 Jasmine Daniel Adam Oliver

STARS OF THE HALF TERM

EMBRACE CHALLENGE : EXPECT EXCELLENCE

Part of Challenger Multi Academy Trust

Date Activity

Monday 8 May 2017 English reading

Tuesday 9 May 2017 English grammar, punctuation and spelling Paper 1: questions

English grammar, punctuation and spelling Paper 2: spelling

Wednesday 10 May 2017 Mathematics Paper 1: arithmetic

Mathematics Paper 2: reasoning

Thursday 11 May 2017 Mathematics Paper 3: reasoning

Year 6 SATs Dates for May 2017

Gap Year to Star Wars Land Hi Mum, Martin here, I’m in Star Wars land and I’m being attacked by an unknown spirit. It looks very long and it crawls around on a bit of paper. Anyway its gone now, you should visit. It takes four days to get from England to where I am. I hope you are ok and safe. If you see bad guys attack. So far I am fixing a crossbow for Hans Solo. C3PO has lost his leg again. If Jar Jar Binks knocks and sticks his tongue out again I’m going to grab it and rip it off I can’t face coming home. I’m staying here. My Gap Year’s for a lifetime, not a year. By Martin James 5APO

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