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- Message from Mrs Jones
- Dates for Term 6
- News from the PTA
- Reception Ladybirds and Legs
- Year1 - Beggar Bush and Adventure Stories
- Year 2 - Muller Museum
- Year 3 Claes Oldenburg’s ‘Dropped Cone'
- Year 4 - Beep Click Beep
- Year 5 - Stop Motion Animation
- Year 6 - Stepping Up and Lido
- Year 6 French Gâteau au yaourt
- July Reading Newsletter
As we approach the final two-and a-bit weeks of term 6 and this school year, we are looking forward to our end of year activities as well as supporting the children in making the transition to their next class.
On Monday, 4th July the children will bring home their school report in their bags. Parents/carers will receive further information about the content of the report via parentpay email. This email will include information about your child’s new teacher. There will be an opportunity offered to discuss your child’s report should you wish to do so.
On Tuesday, 5th July the children will have a ‘shuffle-up’ session to meet their new class teacher and visit their new classroom.
Friday 8th July- Sports Day-children will need to come to school as normal dressed in their PE kit, with a water bottle, sun hat and sun cream applied. All parents/carers are welcome to spectate, please meet us at New Fields, Clifton College sports grounds near the Redgrave theatre from 9.30am. A further information letter will follow next week.
Friday 8th-Sunday 10th July- PTA Campfest
It will be great to be able to have parents/carers join our school events this year. Please see the dates section below for further year group specific dates.
Date |
Activity |
July |
|
Mon 11th |
pm, Reception family member invite to class |
Weds 13th |
9am, Reception learning diaries invite for parents/carers |
11th-15th |
Year 6 camp at Kilve Court |
Tues 19th |
Last day of term for children 10am Leaver’s assembly in school, Year 6 parents/carers welcome |
CAMPFEST is coming - Tickets now on Sale!
https://forms.gle/csiT6L78yxdwzDVW8
If you are looking to attend, please sign up asap! We will be closing the form soon, so we can know numbers to help us prepare better.
Campfest will take place at Cotham Park Rugby Club on Beggar Bush Lane, from Friday 8th to Sunday 10th July – join us for as little or as much as you like – camping is optional.
KIDS sign up here to take part in CAMPFEST’s got talent:
https://forms.gle/CmfefGcNs6rCq9RU7
ADULTS see here to sign up for a job during the weekend:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050F49ADAC2AA6FC1-campfest
Click here to see our Amazon wish list for the event: https://amzn.eu/34lUwde
Big PTA Summer Raffle
We are joining in the ParentKind big PTA summer raffle! There is still time to buy some tickets to be in with a chance of winning up to £5,000 and raising funds for the school, with 50% of every ticket going to the PTA.
https://www.bigptaraffle.co.uk/support/christ-church-primary-school-bs8
Friends and family can also support us by buying tickets via the link so please forward on.
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A little reminder about two ways you can help fundraise for the PTA when you shop online:
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How?
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- Shop on Amazon using smile.amazon.co.uk
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If you shop Amazon Prime Day deals on 12 & 13 July, Amazon will double donations: Simply shop with AmazonSmile ON in the Amazon Shopping app or at smile.amazon.co.uk/ch/1023160-0, and AmazonSmile donates to Christ Church School Clifton Pta.
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How?
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- Once you’ve signed up:
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- If your friends/neighbours/relations shop online, show this to them, they can sign up too!
It’s been another exciting week in Reception. Our caterpillar’s have each formed a chrysalis and we are eagerly awaiting their transformation into butterflies! In fact one emerged in RRP from it’s chrysalis this morning! Our focus has been ‘ladybirds’ linking to the stories of ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ by Julia Donaldson and ‘Lucy Ladybird’ by Sharon King-Chai. We have loved creating lists of the characters and inventing our own ladybirds with different coloured spots. In maths we have risen to the challenge of solving ‘How many legs?’ based around the story of ‘Mr Gumpy’s Boat’. We’ve practised our addition skills to make totals of 6, 8 and 10 legs.
Year1 - Beggar Bush and Adventure Stories
Year 1 had lots of fun at Beggar Bush on Monday. After a drizzly start to the day, the sun shone for us and we even managed to have a picnic lunch in the sunshine. We loved exploring the woodland, playing amongst the trees, building dens and hunting for minibeasts. We learned about what we needed to make a fire and then toasted marshmallows. We also loved learning to use tools for woodwork.
In Literacy this week, Year 1 have been writing adventure stories. We started by learning a version of ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ and then changed the characters and setting to create our own stories. We have heard exciting tales from travelling to the land of the dinosaurs to meeting centaurs. We have been very impressed with Year 1’s creativity and imaginative ideas!
Newsflash! The butterflies have metamorphosised! The children have been rushing in every morning to see check on our class butterflies. In the early hours of the morning teachers heard a rustling and the first one emerged. The next day, another felt brave enough to hatch whilst we were on a school trip! We've put oranges out for them and are looking forward to releasing them into their natural habitats soon. This week in maths we scooped water with jugs and other containers to predict and measure capacity before finishing our topic with a lesson on temperature.
This term, Design and Technology has zoomed past and the children have already made their vehicles! They used their designs and knowledge of friction and force to create a moving vehicle with axels and wheels. They enjoyed selecting their chassis and used plenty of Sellotape and glue guns to adhere the axels to it!
Another highlight of the week was definitely a lovely trip to The Müller museum! The children were fascinated by old photos and interesting artefacts (inparticular, a rather grizzly bath colander which was to sieve dirty water before the next orphan got in) as the extraordinary story of George Müller and his 10,000 orphans was revealed to us. Year 2 thoroughly enjoyed their visit and were also allowed to ring the school bell, sit at an old school desk, try on real Victorian clothes and eat bread squares slathered with black treacle (a Victorian orphan’s treat…although not to everyone’s taste!). A special thank you to our excellent parent helpers who took such wonderful care of Year 2.
Year 3 Claes Oldenburg’s ‘Dropped Cone'
This week has been a messy, hands on one! We have started our final art project of ‘sculpture’ and we based this on the artists Claes Oldenburg’s ‘Dropped Cone’ sculpture. We began by designing what we would like our ice creams to look like I n our sketchbooks. We then started to create the main shape with recycling brought in from the children. It took some cooperation and dedication but we got there! They are starting to come together now and the children are very much looking forward to painting them and making them come to life, watch this space!
Our latest maths topic has also been hands on whilst studying ‘geometry’. We rounded off this topic by looking at 3D shape. We created these from ourselves (as seen in the pictures) and also creating them from nets.
We certainly haven’t taken our foot off the pedal yet, let’s keep going until the end year 3! You should be very proud of yourselves.
Year 4 have been rocking around the clock this week in Music. They have been learning about the origins and features of rock and roll and singing and grooving to some classics. In groups they have choreographed routines to Rock Around the Clock and also learnt the Hand Jive!
*Beep* *Click* *Beep* This week year 4 have become part human and part machine! On the topic of ‘Computational thinking’, the children have tried approaching problems just like a computer would. Using decomposition, they have been breaking down tricky tasks into manageable chunks and have made Mr Eades incredibly proud with their resilience and optimism.
Maths competition:
On Tuesday this week, 4 marvellous representatives from year 4 attended a mathematics challenge hosted by Redmaids Junior School. They encountered a number of difficult tasks under strict time conditions which were, “Quite hard but really fun at the same time!” They all performed fantastically with one of our pairs coming third out of forty-two teams!
Year 5 - Stop Motion Animation
During computing, we made our storyboards for our stop motion animation and had a go at testing them before we create our animations next week. We also joined a nationwide webinar about mathematical thinking and enjoyed the puzzles which were set. In Design and Technology this week we have continued making our reusable shopping bags. In science, we have been learning all about the parts of a plant and how plants reproduce. We had fun dissecting flowers and labelling their parts.
Year 6 had an absolutely brilliant ‘Stepping Up workshop’ this week run by visitors from Encounter Christianity- a group of secondary school teachers with hands on experience of transition. The children were encouraged to think about a variety of topics including their hopes, fears, worries and dreams. The film Inside Out was used as an example of a child struggling with her first day at school and enabled Year 6 to really open up and be honest about their transition journey. In the workshop we thought about a variety of topics including friendships and strategies to make friends, similarities and differences between primary and secondary structures, organisational skills and time-tabling and a general Q and A session.
A really valuable experience for everyone- including teachers.
‘It helped me feel less nervous than I was before’-Clover
‘It made me more confident about going to secondary school’-Nina
Lido:
Not much sun but loads of fun as Year 6 enjoy their tripn to the Portishead Lido. After a brilliant swim they had a kick about and a picnic lunch in the lake grounds...perfect!
Year 6 French Gâteau au yaourt
Two weeks ago, Anna had the idea to make a Gâteau au yaourt. Last week, Year 6 translated the ingredients and the recipe for the yogurt cake that is commonly made by children in France using a small yogurt pot for measurement. The children worked in groups and chose which ingredients they would bring. This week, having not forgotten to bring flour, egg, sugar, yogurt and oil, they followed the recipe. They all managed to make a homogenous dough and to pour it in a tin. All the cakes came out with a good rise! They all enjoyed making the cake and eating it especially. Bravo Year 6 et merci Anna!