Issue 30 Term 3 PDF File

London Fields Post
Issue 30 Term 3
09.05. 2014
Bring me the correct answer to the prize question on a piece of paper (you can
find me in Rimu class) and you could be picked at random to receive a special
Geography prize!
Yes, this is Miss Goddard
in her jungle gear!
Let’s take a closer look
at…
Did you know…
1.
Pico Bolivar is the highest mountain at 4,979m and Angel Falls is
the highest waterfall found in Venezuela.
2.
The people here are mostly Roman Catholics with nearly 92% of
the population following this religion. Religion is very important
to the Venezuelan people.
3.
Venezuela has 43 national parks. The range of habitats is very
diverse. It snows in the Venezuelan Andes though the country is
in a tropical region. The country supports a large amount of
animal and plant life.
Prize Question: Which continent is Venezuela in?
Well done to last week’s winner—Aleyna in Year 3. The capital of Uruguay is
Montevideo!
Year 4 get
Hey Ladies and Gentlemen!
I am writing to say that our trip to London Zoo was impeccable! My sister also came too. So, first we took the train
to Camden Town, then we walked (which was long and
knackering) all the way to London Zoo, *sigh!*. So, back to
the zoo. First, we saw the luxurious habitat of the penguins, they glided through the clear water which looked
like a beach. Then we strolled into the hot habitat of the
butterflies where it was boiling. I took pictures of them on
my sister’s phone, amazing! Next we saw some incredible
gorillas; one even looked like it was posing. Afterwards we
saw the giraffes. My favourite part was going to see those
magnificent gorillas (and also devouring my lunch on the
lawn in the middle of the zoo).
By Monica.
Dear All Readers,
On the 6th May 2014 Year 4 visited London Zoo! I was so
looking forward to it but I was also very frightened of some
animals. Although the walk to Hackney Central was long
and knackering we all made it. I was aching all over and I
had to stand on the train. We arrived at Camden Road
train station 11 minutes later. “Oh no we have to walk
again!” Oh how I longed to take the bus. It was alright
though because had an amazing tour around the zoo when
we arrived with our fabulous guide; Mr Bass. We saw the
reptiles first, then the hippos, giraffes, zebras, tigers and
finally the meerkats unless you were one of the people in
Randy’s group who went to see the creepy crawlies. Unfortunately the only time we sat
down properly was at was
lunch, aaahhhh such tranquillity! On a freshly mowed lawn
we ate our delicious lunch. Although the heat might have put
us off a bit it was one of the
best trips ever. Wait a minute
haven’t I forgotten something?
Oh yes, when we saw the meerkats we got to crawl in a tunnel
and peek into their area. What a
good day!
By Amber.
ready to roar!
As I took a step out of London Fields
the sky was grey but as we were walking to the train station which was just
under a mile and making each other
laugh, the sun became boiling hot.
When we got to the zoo we saw incredible animals like cute monkeys,
big lions (and I mean BIG lions!) and
three giraffes. When we went to the
aquarium we saw interesting fish like
the angel fish, which were very cute.
After lunch we saw hippos, tigers and
zebras. The hippo was as still as a
statue. It was an epic adventure! Oh! I
forgot to tell you we also saw the
penguins!
Name: Navon
As we strolled along Mare Street to Hackney Central Over ground station we saw the train chugging along
to a stop. We stepped onto the crowed train, our teachers said we had to get off at Camden Road. So as
the train chugged up near to Camden Road my heart was pounding as we were nearly there. We skipped
along the street, it took ages to reach London Zoo but eventually we got there. Firstly we visited the reptiles and we saw many fascinating creatures. Secondly we saw the hippos, in our group our teacher liked
the hippos and took a picture. Then we stopped by and saw the giraffes, they came really close (that’s my
favourite animal). We made a quick stop to see the zebras, then something else caught my eye, it was like
a half zebra, half horse, it looked amazing! We went on to explore the tigers, then the lions. They weren’t
really doing anything, just circling each other. Next were the butterflies, they were exquisite. Finally Wesaw the penguins in the penguin show, they were adorable and swam everywhere but just before we left
we saw the meerkats close up as we walked through a tunnel. It was really fun but sadly we had to go.
By Jasmine.
When we arrived at London zoo it was very sunny and extremely hot! I was really looking forward to seeing
the penguins and tigers. First we went to the penguins and we saw lots of them! A few minutes later, there
was a show about penguins so we sat down and watched. What I
liked was when a girl from another school and Kaan dressed up as
penguins ! After we saw some tigers. They were asleep so we
went to lunch. Next we went to see the giraffes. Then everybody’s legs were aching and it was 2:15 so we went home. I felt
very exhausted!
By Minhaj
This SUPER picture comes courtesy of Raihan in Turquoise! Can you name
all the heroes?
The Arts page!
This fantastic picture is from Tanvir in Lime! Superb work Tanvir!
Information for Parents and Carers
Maths Investigations
The children have again had lots of fun carrying out their weekly maths investigations.
Below are the links and starting points to each of the investigations. Please do speak to
the children about them as although two year groups may have started on the same
problem the direction they will have taken with it will have been determined by how
the children in each class chose to approach it and often the children are able to go far
beyond these starting points.
Years 1
Year 2 and 3
http://nrich.maths.org/8123
http://nrich.maths.org/934
Years 4 and 5
http://nrich.maths.org/6605
Would you like to watch and help with one of your child’s maths
lessons?
If you haven’t already organised to come and help with one of our
Friday maths investigations then please speak to your child’s teacher.
Class
Here are the class
averages for levels
passed. The class
that has made the
most progress this
week is Willow!
Average
Levels
Passed
Cherry
Poplar
Willow
Lilac
Holly
Cedar
Lime
Palm
Rimu
Elm
Oak
42
42
56
30
28
32
27
21
23
13
9
And the individual winners are….
Jaden from Cedar! Don’t forget to collect your prize from
Mr Russell! Jaden has passed all 58 levels ! This is excellent
progress, we are VERY proud of you!
KS2 - Willow 99%
KS1
- Orange 98%
Whole school average is 97%
A very good average overall!
This week’s word count has
been confirmed and Duha
Bilal is our weekly winner
on 254,784 words!
Huge apologies to Samuel Ali in
year 3! Samuel was actually our
Accelerated Reader winner last
week with a huge figure of
138,345 words! Well done
Samuel, this is a fantastic effort
and shows how hard you have
been working!
To all of our weekly winners,
congratulations and KEEP IT UP!
Class
Name
Word
Count
Lilac
Duha Bilal
254,784
Lime
Yuki Hoshino
129,725
Willow
Venus Mejah
105,089
Elm
Liam Harper
95,124
Poplar
Umair Mohamed
79,839
Cedar
Zuriel Gabriel
52,245
Oak
Lutia Prokofiev
48,236
Turquoise
Robin Hoshino
44,982
Rimu
Amin Osman
38,483
Holly
Daniel Williams
29,413
Cherry
Daniel Ayinde
18,271
Palm
Freddy Kennedy
2,957
Yellow
Zalus Boateng
326
Information for Parents and Carers
Competition
Win tickets to the Big Fish Little Fish Rave!!
In conjunction with Camp Bestival on May
18th at Shapes (117 Wallis Rd, E9 5LN) from 2 until 4.30pm.
BFLF parties have been running since last summer and have always been a huge hit!
At this afternoon event for families with children there's
something for everyone to enjoy - well known DJs (Nihal, DJ
Food and Mixmaster Morris have all played), a bar, a baby/chill out
area, playrooms, crafts, dressing up, book readings, music workshops and interactive installations.
DJs are Felix Martin from Hot Chip and Matt Sanger from Camp Bestival.
Guests will be able to dance and see their moves copied by a real-time motion
capture skeleton projection 'The Harryhausenator' created by Marco
Gillies, Harry Brenton and Matthew Yee-King from the computing
department of Goldsmiths College, University of London.
The venue is all on ground level, it's a studio space with movable walls and modular bars so we'll
have it set up as two areas - one for play/craft and one for dancing. There's also an outside decking
area with seats which will be great if the weather is
nice. In the dancing room there will be bubble
machines, club lighting, confetti cannons and a
parachute dance. Sound levels are lower than at
normal clubs and monitored to be at safe levels for
babies and children.
Everyone is asked to come in circus fancy
dress - there will also be circus themed craft
activities for the children.
There will be The Ice Kitchen artisan ice lollies, a cake
stall and savoury food on offer.
For 5 lucky winners! Competition to win
family tickets to the event. Enter a picture
(drawing or photo) of self dressed in circus
gear! Closing date Weds 15th May, winners
announced Friday 17th & prizes given out.
Information for Parents and Carers
Dates for your diary
14th May
TRIP: Year 5 to Clissold Park
15th May
TRIP: Year 1 to Myddleton Gardens
20th May
TRIP: Year 2 to the Museum of Childhood
20th May
TRIP: Elm to Olympic Aquatics Centre
21st May
TRIP: Oak to Olympic Aquatics Centre
23rd May
LAST DAY SUMMER 1 HALF TERM
2nd June
FIRST DAY SUMMER 2 HALF TERM
4th June
TRIP: Year 3 to the London Zoo
9th June
Workshop: Year 6 ‘You Decide’ workshop
9th June
TRIP: Year 4 to the National Portrait Gallery
27th June
TRIP: Year 5 to the Natural History Museum (Mary Anning)
2nd July
TRIP: Palm Class to Pizza Express
4th July
Summer Party
8th July
TRIP: Elm to the National Portrait Gallery
9th July
TRIP: Oak to the National Portrait Gallery
10th July
Parents’ and carers’ evening
18th July
LAST DAY OF SUMMER TERM
4th September
FIRST DAY AUTUMN TERM
Please note due to staff training the last day of the summer term is now the
18th July.
Children’s Photographs
We are very proud of the work our children do and from time to time like to
publish photos of the children at work in the newsletter and on the website. If you
do not want your child's photograph to be published please let the office know.