Weekly Round up

Despite the rainy weather this week, classes have been out and about in the community. 3L went to Redcar Leisure Centre to undertake an invasion games competition and 4H visited the Dormanstown library as well as having a successful week swimming each afternoon.

We welcomed parents and carers into the academy for parental engagement activities in 2C where the children enjoyed sharing their art skills with their parents/carers.  5H also performed their class assembly based on a text they had been reading called Shackleton’s Journey.

On Tuesday, we held a coffee morning for parents/carers to promote the Power of Women project and the importance of raising aspirations; many thanks to those people who attended.

Keep an eye on the diary dates below and School Gateway messages for more events coming up over the next few weeks.

Class Showcase

This week, our featured classes are 3L, 4H and B3G, so please enjoy reading what they have been learning about.

3L

Year three have been enjoying gymnastics in our PE sessions for the past two Fridays. They have been learning how to warm up and stretch their muscles using some gymnastic techniques.

Year 3 have been amazing at practicing their balance, concertation and body strength to perform obstacles.

4H

This week, Year 4 visited Dormanstown library where we had the pleasure of meeting the author Robin Bennett! We had lots of opportunities to ask questions about what it means to be an author. Robin gave the children an insight into life as an author and what it takes to write a book.

Year 4 left feeling very inspired by Robin’s work.

B3G

What a fun packed few weeks! B3G have shown Racism the Red card with Rich and Richie, celebrated being different by wearing odd socks and helped raise money for Children in Need through donation. I’m so proud of what they have achieved in class.

Our focus on electricity is ‘How does a circuit work?’ The children have explored how to connect components and complete a circuit so their bulb lights up and played pass the squeeze to understand the flow of electrons.

In Geography we have compared the North East with Lazio in Italy and discovered that it’s twice as big and has twice the population. We now can’t wait to delve into DT and discover the art of sewing.

Power of Women

On Tuesday, we hosted a coffee morning for Power of Women to allow parents to drop in and learn more about what they do. They were joined by our 4 ambassadors who are enjoying their role so far and looking forward to see where the journey takes them.

Reindeer Run

We would like to invite you to join us on Wednesday 7^th December at 12.30pm for tea/coffee and a mince pie, before watching the children take part in a sponsored Reindeer Run for Teesside Hospice. Your child will bring a sponsor form home today, please do not feel obliged to raise lots, every little helps.

The academy choir will also provide some Christmas cheer.

Please see attached our poster for all of the information.

We hope to see you there!

MFC Foundation competition

We need your help in designing a new warm up t-shirt that sends out a simple message that ‘Football is for Everyone’.

We want to see your creative side and design a warm up t-shirt for the players during our River-Side-By-Side game against QPR during Pride History Month (February).

The chosen winner will not only win tickets to the game but all see their t-shirt come to life and professionally made so that the players themselves can wear these during warm up.

The competition will close Sunday 18^th December

Please send your entries to Amy.Campbell@mfcfoundation.co.uk

Awesome Attendance

Each week we have an ‘Awesome Attendance’ competition for the class or classes with the highest attendance. The class with the highest attendance will receive a letter and the first class to spell out ‘Awesome’ receives a treat for the whole class.

Which class will be the first to receive that treat?

Missed Learning

31.5 days of missed learning occurred this week due to unauthorised absences. Unauthorised absences are for holidays, parents/carers not contacting the academy or any other unexplained absence. With most minor ailments, children can be in school, so we really encourage you to think about keeping your child at home.

Diary Dates and Reminders

Lunch Menu

Next weeks menu will be Week 2

Attendance Reporting on School Gateway

As you will be aware we are using a new app service called School Gateway to communicate with parents. You can now report your child’s absence through the app. If we have not heard from you, we will be sending out attendance messages which you can reply to, which will come directly to the team.

Links to support our children and Families

Max Card

CAMHS Training

Community School Clothing

A North East based organisation offering a range of free, non-branded school uniform to families. Please follow the link below for more information:

Free Generic School Uniform | Community School Clo (communityschoolclothingscheme.org)

Lollipops Schoolwear

You can also get your children’s uniform here.

Lollipops have a preloved rail out on the shop floor with various items on including polo tops, trousers, sweatshirts/cardigans, shoes, plimsolls, summer dresses etc. All items on the rail are free for anyone to take, they just ask for customers to be considerate of others when taking items. There is a box for anyone who would like to make donations which we then add to the rail.

Facebook – @lollipopsmiddlesbrough

Twitter – @LollipopsMiddl1

Instagram – @lollipops_middlesbrough

Lollipops
20 Norfolk Place
Berwick Hills
Middlesbrough
TS3 7PA

Action for Happiness

Weekly Round up

We focused on Anti-Bullying Week in assemblies this week whose theme was “Reach Out”, and we started this on Monday with Odd Socks Day to promote individuality. Friday was also Children in Need Day where the children dressed up in Pudsey themed clothing by going spotty, dressing in yellow or even coming as your favourite superhero.  Many thanks for all the generous donations.

As it was also Road Safety Week, we were pleased to welcome the fire service into school to undertake assemblies with both key stages to remind children how to stay safe near roads.

We welcomed parents and carers into the academy for parental engagement events in RB and 1T.  6A have had a successful week swimming each afternoon; it is 4H’s turn next week.

Keep an eye on the diary dates below for more events coming up over the next few weeks.

Class Showcase

This week, our featured classes are 1T, 2C and B2S, so please enjoy reading what they have been learning about.

1T

1T have been learning how to chop, peel and grate different vegetables in preparation for making our healthy vegetable soup today. We have talked about why fruit and vegetables are healthy and how we should eat them as part of a balanced diet.

We are really looking forward to our parents/ careers coming in to help up prepare the vegetables. 

2C

In Science, 2C have been learning about habitats and microhabitats. Microhabitats are very small habitats, such as the space between rocks or clumps of grass.

We had a great time exploring different microhabitats in the school grounds and found lots of minibeasts that live there, including, worms, woodlice and snails. 

In Music, we have been creating a piece of music to represent a rocket launch. We watched and listened to a rocket taking off, thinking carefully about the sounds it was making. We then wrote our own graphic score to represent the different noises. 

B2S

We have been very busy over the last few weeks.

In History we are looking at ‘What was different when my parents and grandparents were little?’ We have been looking at toys that our parents played with when they were our age. Mrs Thomas brought in a soft toy that was 60 years old.

We had a parent afternoon and one of the parents brought in a car that was 30 years old. We had lots of fun and looking at the old toys. Some of us made a ‘Jack in the Box’ with our mams. This was a popular toy in the olden days. Joseph brought in a toy that he has had since he was a baby; it was a baby dinosaur.

As well as History, we have been doing PE. We made some shapes with our bodies. Can you guess the shapes?

Headstart

Please find the link to the latest HeadStart newsletter which features Dormanstown being the first school in Redcar and Cleveland to achieve the Gold Standard.

https://wakelet.com/wake/2uYhAMYH8wGkLKPFXfbgk

Power of Women

Fancy a coffee?
Have you heard about Power of Women? We are a local organisation with big plans and have
been working with pupils at Dormanstown Primary Academy. We’ve received fantastic feedback
– we seem to be doing something right – but would like you to know more and be involved, if
you’d like to be.
We want to support all children to be more confident, know their strengths and have greater
information about future careers, as well as learn about equality and that everyone should have
the same access to opportunities, whatever their gender.
We would love to meet you and tell you more, as well as learn from you how YOU think we could
help to develop confidence and equality in our children. We are holding a coffee morning on
Tuesday 22nd November at 8:45am – 10:00am and really hope you can join us for coffee, tea,
cake and chat. If you’d just like a cuppa, that’s fine too!

Please RSVP to dormanstown@teesvalleyeducation.co.uk

Children in Need

We have raised a total of £178.58 for Children in Need, we want to thank everyone who contributed today and we are so happy with the amount raised.

Diary Dates and Reminders

Lunch Menu

Next weeks menu will be Week 1

Awesome Attendance

Each week we have an ‘Awesome Attendance’ competition for the class or classes with the highest attendance. The class with the highest attendance will receive a letter and the first class to spell out ‘Awesome’ receives a treat for the whole class.

Which class will be the first to receive that treat?

Missed Learning

9 days of missed learning occurred this week due to unauthorised absences. Unauthorised absences are for holidays, parents/carers not contacting the academy or any other unexplained absence. With most minor ailments, children can be in school, so we really encourage you to think about keeping your child at home.

Attendance Reporting on School Gateway

As you will be aware we are using a new app service called School Gateway to communicate with parents. You can now report your child’s absence through the app. If we have not heard from you, we will be sending out attendance messages which you can reply to, which will come directly to the team.

Links to support our children and families

Daisy Chain Coffee morning

Max Card

CAMHS Training

Community School Clothing

A North East based organisation offering a range of free, non-branded school uniform to families. Please follow the link below for more information:

Free Generic School Uniform | Community School Clo (communityschoolclothingscheme.org)

Lollipops Schoolwear

You can also get your children’s uniform here.

Lollipops have a preloved rail out on the shop floor with various items on including polo tops, trousers, sweatshirts/cardigans, shoes, plimsolls, summer dresses etc. All items on the rail are free for anyone to take, they just ask for customers to be considerate of others when taking items. There is a box for anyone who would like to make donations which we then add to the rail.

Facebook – @lollipopsmiddlesbrough

Twitter – @LollipopsMiddl1

Instagram – @lollipops_middlesbrough

Lollipops
20 Norfolk Place
Berwick Hills
Middlesbrough
TS3 7PA

Action for Happiness

Weekly Round up

It was lovely to see so many parents and carers in the academy this week for Parent Consultation meetings. We hope that you enjoyed seeing all the learning that your children have been doing and discussing their progress with their teachers. Thank you to everyone who undertook the parental questionnaire; we will feed back the results in the near future.

On Tuesday, our Nursery children had a wonderful experience going to Darlington Hippodrome to watch “Tales from Acorn Wood”. It was a long day and they were a credit to the academy.

1T were able to participate in a Fundamental Movement Skills Festival at Eston Leisure Centre on Wednesday which was a great opportunity to work with other schools.

Y6 were very proud to present their class assembly linked to their History topic of World War II. This was followed up on Friday when the whole school showed their respect on Remembrance Day by undertaking a 2 minutes silence at 11 o’clock. We also welcomed visitors in for B2S’s parental engagement afternoon.

We had our first week of swimming at Saltburn Swimming baths and 5H were the first year group to practice this essential skill each afternoon this week.

Another busy week is coming up with Anti-Bullying week being promoted throughout school with an Odd Socks Day on Monday where children wear odd socks to celebrate their individuality. It is also Children in Need Day on Friday where Children can dress up in Pudsey themed clothing by going spotty, dressing in yellow or even coming as your favourite superhero. There will be buckets at each entrance for any donations to this popular charity.

Class Showcase

This week, our featured classes are Nursery, RB and B1R, so please enjoy reading what they have been learning about.

Nursery

Nursery have really enjoyed their trip to the Theatre to watch ‘Tales from Acorn Woods’. We were all excited to set off on the big coach and were amazed by the beautiful setting of the Theatre.

Our favorite part was when Fox lost his Socks! All the children were so well behaved and we had a great afternoon out!

Reception

Reception visited Westfield Farm on Monday 10^th October.  The children had an amazing time picking and carving pumpkins with the support of the staff. We looked for signs of autumn in the beautiful garden. 

B1R

Last week, the children in B1R learned all about the festival Diwali. We learned how Hindu people celebrated the Festival of Light and why they celebrated. To celebrate ourselves, we made colourful Rangoli patterns using coloured rice, we used our fine motor skills to thread sparkly pipe cleaners to make a firework and we created lots of fantastic firework pictures.

Marvellous Me

You will notice that teachers are sending lots of Marvellous Me messages to share your child’s achievements.  We would be really grateful if you would “High 5” the messages to show that you have received them.  Also, please ask your children about what they have been doing in class as they would love to tell you.

Headstart

We are proud to share the letter we received to confirm out Gold HeadStart award:

School Gateway

Thank you to all our parents and carers who have started to use our School Gateway app, we hope you have found it beneficial. For those yet to join, please use the instructions below to download and sign up for the app.

Apple iPhone users, download the app here: schoolgateway.co.uk/iosdownload

Android phone users, download the app here: schoolgateway.co.uk/androiddownload

Click on the SIGN UP link and use the email address and mobile telephone number to register. You will be sent a PIN number directly to your mobile, once entered you will see your home screen.

To consent and pay for a trip, please go into the payments section and choose the correct visit. Please be sure to give consent and any required comments in the comments box. Once these are completed, add to basket and checkout. You are able to use most debit or credit cards to make payment.

All after school clubs are available to book on the app, please go into the clubs section showing on your home page, then choose make a booking, choose all sessions available for the club and click Make a Booking. Your child will be required to attend all sessions of the club.

If you have any issues with the Gateway app, please call into the school office with your device and we can assist you. Remember you can have the app on your phone, tablet or laptop. Thank you for your continued support.

Diary Dates and Reminders

Lunch Menu

Next weeks menu will be Week 3

Awesome Attendance

Each week we have an ‘Awesome Attendance’ competition for the class or classes with the highest attendance. The class with the highest attendance will receive a letter and the first class to spell out ‘Awesome’ receives a treat for the whole class.

Which class will be the first to receive that treat?

The ATTENDANCE WINNERS this week are B1R with 100%

Missed Learning

23 days of missed learning occurred this week due to unauthorised absences. Unauthorised absences are for holidays, parents/carers not contacting the academy or any other unexplained absence. With most minor ailments, children can be in school, so we really encourage you to think about keeping your child at home.

Attendance Reporting on School Gateway

As you will be aware we are using a new app service called School Gateway to communicate with parents. You can now report your child’s absence through the app. If we have not heard from you, we will be sending out attendance messages which you can reply to, which will come directly to the team.

Links to support our children and families

CAMHS TRAINING

Community School Clothing

A North East based organisation offering a range of free, non-branded school uniform to families. Please follow the link below for more information:

Free Generic School Uniform | Community School Clo (communityschoolclothingscheme.org)

Lollipops Schoolwear

You can also get your children’s uniform here.

Lollipops have a preloved rail out on the shop floor with various items on including polo tops, trousers, sweatshirts/cardigans, shoes, plimsolls, summer dresses etc. All items on the rail are free for anyone to take, they just ask for customers to be considerate of others when taking items. There is a box for anyone who would like to make donations which we then add to the rail.

Facebook – @lollipopsmiddlesbrough

Twitter – @LollipopsMiddl1

Instagram – @lollipops_middlesbrough

Lollipops
20 Norfolk Place
Berwick Hills
Middlesbrough
TS3 7PA

Action for Happiness

Weekly Round up

After the half term break, classes were straight back into their learning with 1T visiting Foxrush Woods on Tuesday, experiencing the features of autumn first hand.

A group of Year 5/6 children were able to visit Durham University as part of the introduction to the Scholars programme led by The Brilliant Club. This gave the children a taste of university life and will be followed up by a programme of work led by a PhD student. We hope that this will develop their knowledge, skills and confidence to progress to the most competitive universities and raise their aspirations for the future.

Our assembly theme focused on personal safety and responsibility, linked to Bonfire Night, and we had Rita Richardson, Schools Education Co-ordinator from Cleveland Fire Brigade in on Wednesday to support this

Clubs resumed this week with football, choir and art and crafts club. Choir have begun learning their songs for the Trust Carol Service on the 5^th December and art club made poppies that are going to be shared with patients in the Therapeutic Care team at James Cook University Hospital next week for Remembrance Day. We will be observing the two minutes silence at 11am next Friday.

We look forward to welcoming parents and carers into the academy next week for Parent Consultation meetings with teachers.  Everyone should have received their appointment time, and please contact class teachers if there are any problems with these.

Class Showcase

This week, our featured classes are 5H and 6A so please enjoy reading what they have been learning about.

5H

Last half term, Year 5 visited the Teesmouth field centre. The children learned about the River Tees from its source, in the Pennine Hills, to its mouth. The children got to visit the Transporter Bridge, and took part in an activity spotting different objects and landmarks along the River Tees. As a whole class, we created a model of the River Tees using different fabrics and other materials, before heading down to South Gare beach to create their own models of the river on the sand, in small groups. The children loved exploring the beach for natural materials to make their models of the River Tees! 

6L

As part of our ‘Show Racism The Red Card’ day on 21^st October, Year 6 had a visitor who came into school to work with them to raise their awareness of why we ‘wear red’. Richard talked to the children about inclusion of all and what we mean by racism. The children were involved in many activities and games to help improve their awareness and understanding. The children wore something red for this day and they were certainly motivated and inspired by our guest. 

Marvellous Me

You will notice that teachers are sending lots of Marvellous Me messages to share your child’s achievements.  We would be really grateful if you would “High 5” the messages to show that you have received them.  Also, please ask your children about what they have been doing in class as they would love to tell you.

Headstart

We are so proud to announce that we have achieved our HeadStart Gold award.  

We have been working with HeadStart for around 2 years and are the first school in Redcar and Cleveland to achieve this status. 

Some of our HeadStarters were presented the award by Andy Appleyard- HeadStart Programme Officer earlier this week.  

HeadStart supports us by delivering sessions on a range of topics linked to well-being to groups of children. The children work to complete an award which enables them to support themselves and their peers. 

Please follow the link to the latest HeadStart Newsletter below:

https://wakelet.com/wake/fazttjgsfsjb9ZJk58pN9

Power of Women

 On Thursday, some of our year 5 children participated in interviews to become a Power of Women ambassador. They were interviewed by Sonia Herlingshaw, Amelia (Head Girl) and Joshua (Head Boy). All children should be extremely proud of themselves for getting to the interview stage, we are delighted for them. The final 4 children were Anthony, Lucia, Noah and Harper and we wish them every success in their role. 

School Gateway

Thank you to all our parents and carers who have started to use our School Gateway app, we hope you have found it beneficial. For those yet to join, please use the instructions below to download and sign up for the app.

Apple iPhone users, download the app here: schoolgateway.co.uk/iosdownload

Android phone users, download the app here: schoolgateway.co.uk/androiddownload

Click on the SIGN UP link and use the email address and mobile telephone number to register. You will be sent a PIN number directly to your mobile, once entered you will see your home screen.

To consent and pay for a trip, please go into the payments section and choose the correct visit. Please be sure to give consent and any required comments in the comments box. Once these are completed, add to basket and checkout. You are able to use most debit or credit cards to make payment.

All after school clubs are available to book on the app, please go into the clubs section showing on your home page, then choose make a booking, choose all sessions available for the club and click Make a Booking. Your child will be required to attend all sessions of the club.

If you have any issues with the Gateway app, please call into the school office with your device and we can assist you. Remember you can have the app on your phone, tablet or laptop. Thank you for your continued support.

Diary Dates and Reminders

Lunch Menu

The menu next week will be Week 2

Awesome Attendance

Each week we have an ‘Awesome Attendance’ competition for the class or classes with the highest attendance. The class with the highest attendance will receive a letter and the first class to spell out ‘Awesome’ receives a treat for the whole class.

Which class will be the first to receive that treat?

This weeks winners are B1R, B3G and 4H Congratulations

Missed Learning

8 days of missed learning occurred this week due to unauthorised absences. Unauthorised absences are for holidays, parents/carers not contacting the academy or any other unexplained absence. With most minor ailments, children can be in school, so we really encourage you to think about keeping your child at home.

Attendance Reporting on School Gateway

As you will be aware we are using a new app service called School Gateway to communicate with parents. You can now report your child’s absence through the app. If we have not heard from you, we will be sending out attendance messages which you can reply to, which will come directly to the team.

Links to support our children and families

CAMHS TRAINING

Community School Clothing

A North East based organisation offering a range of free, non-branded school uniform to families. Please follow the link below for more information:

Free Generic School Uniform | Community School Clo (communityschoolclothingscheme.org)

Lollipops Schoolwear

You can also get your children’s uniform here.

Lollipops have a preloved rail out on the shop floor with various items on including polo tops, trousers, sweatshirts/cardigans, shoes, plimsolls, summer dresses etc. All items on the rail are free for anyone to take, they just ask for customers to be considerate of others when taking items. There is a box for anyone who would like to make donations which we then add to the rail.

Facebook – @lollipopsmiddlesbrough

Twitter – @LollipopsMiddl1

Instagram – @lollipops_middlesbrough

Lollipops
20 Norfolk Place
Berwick Hills
Middlesbrough
TS3 7PA

Action for Happiness

Weekly Round up

On this last week of the half term, our choir sang in the Trust Choir Festival at St Nicholas Church, Guisborough. We were so proud of the children involved who performed their songs, Shine Jesus Shine and I have a Voice perfectly. Thank you to all the parents/carers who were able to attend.

Wednesday was Halloween Day across the academy with a spooky lunch provided by Mellors followed by our very well attended Halloween Discos. Children (and staff) had so much fun to end the half term.

We also celebrated Harvest Festival on Thursday with a special assembly attended by Reverend Rebecca from All Saints’ Church. Thank you to everyone who was able to donate items that have been sent to the local foodbank.

Finally, today we promoted Wear Red Day to raise awareness of Show Racism the Red Card. All the children were able to wear something red in the academy, promoting this important cause, and our Year 5 and Year 6 children took part in workshops throughout the day.

We wish everyone a happy and restful half term week, and we look forward to welcoming children back into the academy on Monday 31^st October.

Class Showcase

This week, our featured classes are 3L, 4H and B3G so please enjoy reading what they have been learning about.

3L

Year three have been learning about how L.S Lowry used perspective in his paintings during our ART lessons. We have enjoyed practicing drawing three-dimensional and geometric shapes to create illusion towards the vanishing point in our own drawings. Well done year 3 you have created some amazing Lowry paintings using his key techniques.

4H

In Art, Year 4 have been learning about the artist Antony Gormley. So far, we have explored his work and recognised he uses human form and his sculptures are placed in a range of different outdoor settings. We are now creating our own wire sculptures that represent his work.

B3G

Our focus over that last few weeks has been bringing our Sound Science focus to an end where we have created our own instruments with various pitches according to the length and tension of the band. We also created string phones to show how sound travels through solid materials and that the further away you are the harder it is to hear. The children also discovered that the string needed to be slightly taught for it to work effectively. Further, our focus for Art is Antony Gormley. We have looked at his life and examined his art work identifying that he uses different mediums like wire, iron, and clay. The children have begun to manipulate wire to create a person which forms the bases of their model.

Marvellous Me

You will notice that teachers are sending lots of Marvellous Me messages to share your child’s achievements.  We would be really grateful if you would High 5 the messages to show that you have received them.  Also, please ask your children about what they have been doing in class as they would love to tell you.

School Gateway

Thank you to all our parents and carers who have started to use our School Gateway app, we hope you have found it beneficial. For those yet to join, please use the instructions below to download and sign up for the app.

Apple iPhone users, download the app here: schoolgateway.co.uk/iosdownload

Android phone users, download the app here: schoolgateway.co.uk/androiddownload

Click on the SIGN UP link and use the email address and mobile telehone number to register. You will be sent a PIN number directly to your mobile, once entered you will see your home screen.

To consent and pay for a trip, please go into the payments section and choose the correct visit. Please be sure to give consent and any required comments in the comments box. Once these are completed, add to basket and checkout. You are able to use most debit or credit cards to make payment.

All after school clubs are available to book on the app, please go into the clubs section showing on your home page, then choose make a booking, choose all sessions available for the club and click Make a Booking. Your child will be required to attend all sessions of the club.

If you have any issues with the Gateway app, please call into the school office with your device and we can assist you. Remember you can have the app on your phone, tablet or laptop. Thank you for your continued support.

Diary Dates and Reminders

School Photograph Day

Tempest will be visiting the school on Friday, 4th November to take our school photos. This year, we are delighted to invite pre-school age siblings into the academy for family group photos, from 8:15am. Further details and instructions will be given when we return from half term.

Lunch Menu

When we return from Half term we have new options on our menus

The menu on the 31st October will be Week 1

Attendance

Each week we have an ‘Awesome Attendance’ competition for the class or classes with the highest attendance. The class with the highest attendance will receive a letter and the first class to spell out ‘Awesome’ receives a treat for the whole class.

Which class will be the first to receive that treat?

This weeks attendance winners are 5H!! Congratulations

Missed Learning

15 days of missed learning occurred this week due to unauthorised absences. Unauthorised absences are for holidays, parents/carers not contacting the academy or any other unexplained absence. With most minor ailments, children can be in school, so we really encourage you to think about keeping your child at home.

Links to support our children and families.

Community School Clothing

A North East based organisation offering a range of free, non-branded school uniform to families. Please follow the link below for more information:

Free Generic School Uniform | Community School Clo (communityschoolclothingscheme.org)

Lollipops Schoolwear

You can also get your children’s uniform here.

Lollipops
20 Norfolk Place
Berwick Hills
Middlesbrough
TS3 7PA

Headstart

Please follow the link to the most recent Newsletter:

https://wakelet.com/wake/8TW0ionYtwHLqGSFBFCo9

CAMHS TRAINING

WORKSHOPS FOR PARENTS AND CARERS

We have dates available for the online workshop for parents and carers to book on to, including a new Understanding Eating Disorders session, details can be found at https://www.tewv.nhs.uk/get-involved/training/training-for-parents-and-carers-of-children-under-18-in-teesside/

*Please note these sessions are for parents and carers only and you must request your own place.

Action For Happiness

Weekly Round up

Our assembly theme this week focused on Resilience, linked to World Mental Health Day on Monday, and we continued our Character Education theme of co-operation.

Our Year 5s had a busy week with 5H visiting Teesmouth Field Centre on Tuesday to start their Geography work. All of Year 5 had the opportunity of visiting PD Ports on Thursday, where they were able to see how a busy port worked and the range of jobs available within this large company, supporting aspirations and careers that could be pursued. They also had a workshop to introduce the Power of Women initiative for this academic year on Friday.

3L welcomed parents into the academy on Thursday for their parental engagement afternoon – thank you to everyone who was able to come along.

Next week, we look forward to the Choir Festival at St Nicholas Church, Guisborough, our Harvest Festival, the Halloween Discos as well as promoting “Show Racism the Red Card” on Friday where children from across the academy can wear something red as well as Year 5 and 6 having workshops throughout the day.

Class Showcase

This week, our featured classes are 1T, 2T and B2S so please enjoy reading what they have been learning about.

1T

This week in Science, 1T have been learning about the polar climate. We have talked about what the weather is like and which animals live in a polar climate. We completed an unusual science experiment using icy water and lard. We also found out how polar bears keep warm in a polar climate. 

2C

In Geography, 2C have been learning all about The United Kingdom. We have been looking at the different countries in the UK, the capital cities and the surrounding seas. We also looked at how the different flags of the UK come together to create the Union Jack. We enjoyed using an atlas to find out more information about The British Isles. 

To recognise mental health on World Mental Health Day, we spent time thinking about mindfulness and how it can improve our mental wellbeing. We enjoyed taking part in some yoga, which was lots of fun and also very relaxing! 

B2S

This week B2S have been reading ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’. We have been acting out the story and retelling it. We now know the story.  The children have been on their own bear hunt and found some strange foot prints. In English we have started to write about our trip.

Also, as it is Mental Health week, we have took some time out to think about how we can look after our minds and what we can do to help each other. We have been dancing, singing, colouring in and making people smile in B2S. We know how to make people happy.

Choir Festival and Halloween Disco

Tickets are available through the School Gateway App to purchase for both the Choir Festival at St Nicholas Church, Guisborough on Tuesday 18th October (for Choir children only) and for the Halloween Discos on Wednesday 19^th October.

Harvest Festival

We are having our Harvest Festival in the academy on Thursday 20^th October and would be grateful of any donations of tins, packets and other dried foods as well as toiletries (see the letter from Miss Riley). These will be donated to the food bank.

Please can these be brought into the academy week beginning 17^th October.

How we celebrate your child’s achievements

Each week, class teachers select one child to receive a celebration, collaboration, aspiration or inspiration award and they receive a badge. Once your child receives all four badges, they exchange them for a rainbow badge.

A Praise and Share certificate is awarded weekly to someone out of each class for a piece of work or action that shows a particular achievement that the class teacher wants to praise. These are then displayed in our picture frames that are located around the academy. 

Gold coins earned over the week are placed into a draw for a prize from our special table.

If children read three times a week, then they achieve a Golden Ticket which goes into a draw to choose a reading book off our bookcase.  Please encourage your child to read as much as possible at home, it is a wonderful way of learning.

National Assessments

Throughout the year, some year groups will be taking part in National assessments. These are done within the class with familiar adults but they have to be completed at a specific time, so please do not book a holiday over this period. Further information will be shared with parents closer to the assessment dates. 

Year 1 Phonics Screening Check – Week beginning 12^th June 2023

Year 2 SATs assessments in Reading, GPS (Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling) and Maths – May 2023

Children who did not meet the required standard in the Year 1 Phonics check will re-sit this assessment in Year 2 – Week beginning 12^th June 2023 Year 6 SATs assessments in Reading, GPS (Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling) and Maths – Week beginning 8^th May 2023

Marvellous Me

You will notice that teachers are sending lots of Marvellous Me messages to share your child’s achievements.  We would be really grateful if you would High 5 the messages to show that you have received them.  Also, please ask your children about what they have been doing in class as they would love to tell you.

Diary Dates and Reminders

Lunch Menu

Next weeks menus will be Week 1 with Wednesday, 19th our “Spooky Halloween Lunch”. If your child usually has a packed lunch and would like to join us for a school lunch, please log onto School Gateway app and message us.

Awesome Attendance

Each week we have an ‘Awesome Attendance’ competition for the class or classes with the highest attendance. The class with the highest attendance will receive a letter and the first class to spell out ‘Awesome’ receives a treat for the whole class.

Which class will be the first to receive that treat?

Attendance

The ATTENDANCE WINNERS for this week are

………….B1R with…..98% Congratulations

Missed Learning!

27 days of missed learning occurred this week due to unauthorised absences. Unauthorised absences are for holidays, parents/carers not contacting the academy or any other unexplained absence. With most minor ailments, children can be in school, so we really encourage you to think about keeping your child at home.

Links to support our children and families.

Community School Clothing

A North East based organisation offering a range of free, non-branded school uniform to families. Please follow the link below for more information:

Free Generic School Uniform | Community School Clo (communityschoolclothingscheme.org)

Lollipops Schoolwear

You can also get your children’s uniform here.

Lollipops
20 Norfolk Place
Berwick Hills
Middlesbrough
TS3 7PA

Headstart

Please follow the link to the most recent Newsletter

https://wakelet.com/wake/VjUP4C9TjKRSUFbqOu0rH

CAMHS TRAINING

WORKSHOPS FOR PARENTS AND CARERS

We have dates available for the online workshop for parents and carers to book on to, including a new Understanding Eating Disorders session, details can be found at https://www.tewv.nhs.uk/get-involved/training/training-for-parents-and-carers-of-children-under-18-in-teesside/

*Please note these sessions are for parents and carers only and you must request your own place.

Action for Happiness

Weekly Round up

Our assembly theme this week focused on Black History Month, sharing significant events from the past, and our Character Education theme was co-operation.

Year 4 and B3G performed their assembly about the Romans to their parents and carers – well done on all the effort that went into this to share what they had learnt in their history work. Thank you to all the parents and carers who were able to attend.

Class Showcase

This week, our featured classes are Nursery, RB and B1R so please enjoy reading what they have been learning about.

Nursery

Over the last couple weeks, we have been learning all about our bodies and how they work. We were amazed to learn that we all have a skeleton and that it helps us move. We also learnt how to look after ourselves and were very excited when we made our own doctors’ surgery. We learnt new words and what they mean such as appointment, receptionist and surgery. This week we explored our bodies further by discovering our senses and what they do. We especially enjoyed exploring our senses of taste during our very own taste testing experiment.

RB

This week Reception class have been listening to the story ‘After the Storm’.

Following a stormy night, we received a letter from Percy the Park Keeper asking us to help the animals who had lost their homes in the storm.  

We explored the outdoor area and found the animals in the woodland area.

The children brought them back to class and helped to make them a warm and safe home.

B1R

B1R have been reading the story Handa’s Surprise, learning about how Chefs help us and learning about healthy food. The children have enjoyed smelling, touching and tasting some of the delicious, healthy fruits from the story. Then we became chefs and used some of these fruits to make a healthy fruit smoothie.

Marvellous Me

You will notice that teachers are sending lots of Marvellous Me messages to share your child’s achievements.  We would be really grateful if you would High 5 the messages to show that you have received them.  Also, please ask your children about what they have been doing in class as they would love to tell you.

Diary Dates and Reminders

Lunch Menu

Next weeks menu will be week 3

Attendance

Awesome Attendance

Each week we have an ‘Awesome Attendance’ competition for the class or classes with the highest attendance. The class with the highest attendance will receive a letter and the first class to spell out ‘Awesome’ receives a treat for the whole class.

Which class will be the first to receive that treat?

Our Winners for this weeks Awesome Attendance are B1R with 100%

Missed Learning!

29 days of missed learning occurred this week due to unauthorised absences. Unauthorised absences are for holidays, parents/carers not contacting the academy or any other unexplained absence. With most minor ailments, children can be in school, so we really encourage you to think about keeping your child at home.

Links to support for children and families

Community School Clothing

A North East based organisation offering a range of free, non-branded school uniform to families. Please follow the link below for more information:

Free Generic School Uniform | Community School Clo (communityschoolclothingscheme.org)

CAMHS TRAINING

WORKSHOPS FOR PARENTS AND CARERS

We have dates available for the online workshop for parents and carers to book on to, including a new Understanding Eating Disorders session, details can be found at https://www.tewv.nhs.uk/get-involved/training/training-for-parents-and-carers-of-children-under-18-in-teesside/

*Please note these sessions are for parents and carers only and you must request your own place.

Action for Happiness

Optimistic October!