Cuddington Croft News—6 Nov 2015

Cuddington Croft News—6 Nov 2015
ROLL OF HONOUR
Dear Parents/Carers
The sponsored read/listen was extremely successful and the children
raised an amazing £1000. This means the school will have £1500 to
spend on books for the library. Well done to all the children for their
fantastic efforts and thank you to parents/carers and their families
and friends for sponsoring them.
Finley Curtis for amazing literacy
homework.
Evie Firmstone and Dylan Patel for
brilliant literacy homework on the
Ancient Greeks.
Danny Campbell for being
committed to working hard. Well
done Danny.
Well done!
A huge well done to last years year six, all the national attainment
data has come into school and the year groups attainment has
placed them in the first centile nationally.
Once again we have had a
complaint from a local
resident who has had her
drive blocked three times
this week. PLEASE park
considerately and DO NOT
block a residents driveway
even for a short time in
order to maintain good
relations with our local
residents.
Attendance and punctuality reminder:
This half term we are expecting a visit
from our Attendance Welfare Office
so she will be dropping in soon to
check our register records and to
meet parents at the school gate. Her
focus will be on punctuality in
addition to good overall attendance,
so we are grateful for your continued
support in ensuring your children
arrive at school in good time to begin
their learning promptly.
Ishaan Kotecha for being committed
to producing some great English
work.
Nethra Mahesh for great maths
class work.
Charlotte Gundry, Jessica Smith,
Luke Chapman, Fraser Williams,
Hannah Bower, Kitty Naylor, Harvey
Zhou, Daniel Steward, Louisa White,
Ishaan Kotecha, Mark Di Paolo,
Talha Gill, Ismail Haque, Scarlett
Leonardi, Charlotte Brand, Maria
Paget, Fletcher Douglas
Connor Sheppard for some great
shape work in maths.
Harrison Flack for some brilliant
homework on the Norse gods and
goddesses.
Date
Event
Alexander de Monchy
Monday 9th November
Year 6 trip to London Zoo meet at 8.30am at St Pauls
Lola Proctor a great piece of writing
on the value of school uniform.
Monday 9th November
Sporthall Athletics at Roseberry after school
Monday 9th November
Riordan swimming
Tue 10th—Fri 13th November
Bikeability (10 pupils)
Tuesday 10th November
Morpurgo Swimming
Wednesday 11th November
Football Competition at Priest Hill
Wednesday 11th November
Riordan catch up swim
Thursday 12th November
Cowell swimming
Friday 12th November
Diwali workshop—Reception and Year 1
Friday 12th November
Kinney swimming
Diary Dates – for a full listing please see our website
W/C 9/11—Tuesday football and Wednesday Tennis, Lego & Cartoon Drawing
cancelled
Ella Patel for a beautiful WW1
poem.
Maciek Berkasiuk for a super piece
of homework.
Well done to Samuil Sivinov for
winning a tennis tournament.
The whole of Mrs Cunningham’s
maths group for fantastic learning –
you are all mathematicians of the
future!
News from the Classroom
News
News from the classroom:
This week in science, we have
been investigating the
properties of materials. We
have started to learn about
making predictions and used
these predictions to test
whether the materials were
waterproof, flexible, strong and
Riordan have been reflecting on Remembrance and why we remember people who have sacrificed themselves for us in wars
around the world. We have been focusing on World War One and the conditions that the soldiers found themselves in. Isabella Walter and Ella Davies both brought in details about their great grand-parents and the experiences they had in active
service. The children have been very interested to learn about why we went to war and the challenges the soldiers had to
face.
This week in maths, Year 6 have been exploring the relationship between ratio and fractions. In order to provide context and
an additional incentive for this learning, they have been using chocolate to model their investigations.
On Monday, we worked on the 'Chocolate Conundrum', which asked children to order fractions and consider what would be
there optimum choice amongst a range of different options. By the end of the investigation, several groups had managed to
spot a recurring pattern, and used this to make very accurate predictions. Details of the Conundrum are available here:
http://nrich.maths.org/34
Then on Tuesday, we explored how fractions link to ratio using multi-coloured chocolates. This was an equally successful
session, as children moved on to consider how to work with triple and even sextuple ratios, a word some of them (including
Miss Davis) struggled not to snigger at.
On Wednesday, Miss Lobo's maths class went on a shape hunt around school to see if we could recognise any 2D shapes in
everyday objects. We found many different 2D shapes such as an octagon (the wooden gazebo on the field), pentagons (in
the quiet area on the playground), rectangles (the shape of bricks) and triangles (on top of the studio). We all enjoyed going
around the school, spotting different shapes and working as a team!
Inspire ~ Enrich ~ Succeed
STAR WRITERS AND CUDDINGTON ‘C’ CERTIFICATE HOLDERS
The ‘C’ of the week :
Year 1 topic!
In year 1 we have been learning more about ourselves and decorating
our special boxes with decoupage.
Inspire ~ Enrich ~ Succeed
Mrs Cunningham’s maths group
Mrs Cunningham’s
maths group today!
We have been
learning about
coordinates and shape
translations .
Y6 Maths
Inspire ~ Enrich ~ Succeed
Viking Day
Viking Day
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