Friday 13th February 2015

Swaminarayan Prep School News
Head teacher of Prep School: Mr U Raja
Issue 20
Diary Dates
Friday 13th February
Last day of Half term
Monday 23rd February
INSET Day
No Clubs this week
Tuesday 24th February
Students return
Inspirer: H. H. Pramukh Swami Maharaj
Friday 13th February 2015
Reading Rocks!
After the success of the many events scheduled to celebrate National Storytelling Week last week, this week we have introduced some new and
exciting initiatives for the Reading Rocks festival which may also help to
keep you occupied over the half term break.
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Big Book Swap - Start looking through your book collection for books
which you no longer read or would like to swap for a new title at our Book
Swap event on World Book Day (Thursday 5th March)

Get Caught Reading photo competition - Have someone take a picture of you in a strange or interesting place while reading a book then
email it to [email protected] to enter the competition and have your
photo displayed somewhere around the school.
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Wednesday 25th February
Book Character Assembly - Our annual event will be held this year on World Book Day
which is Thursday 5th March. Start getting your costume bits together! Idea: Try to team up
with other students in your class to come as the cast of characters from the same book. Cost
-effective and time-saving costume ideas can be found at http://www.theschoolrun.com/12
-no-sew-costumes-world-book-day.
Rugby Fixture 2:00-3:15pm
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Year 5 Belmont Maths Competition 1.30 - 4.30pm
Football fixture 2:00-3:15pm
Readathon - Continue to seek sponsorship and READ in order to raise money for the
many worthy charities listed on your sponsorship card. Readathon ends on Friday 27th February 2015.
Thursday 26th February
Clubs
Parents invited in to read with
their children
The theme for this week is:
This is a reminder to all parents that there will be no clubs on the first week back after
half term. Clubs will resume the week beginning Monday 2nd of March.
As the Photos suggest, the students have been thoroughly enjoying their chosen clubs this
term.
Respect
Reception Football Club
Chess Club
The Swaminarayan School
260 Brentfield Road
Neasden
NW10 8HE
Tel No: 020 8965 8381
Fax No: 020 8961 4042
Website:
www.swaminarayan.brent.sch.uk
Art Club
Drawing Club
Seal of Approval
Class
Pupil
Reason for Certificate
KGN/RS
Dilan Kerai
For being focused in our R.S. lessons and participating in question and answering.
Nursery
Reyah Asani
For showing an interest in learning her phonics.
Rec W
Darshan Patel
For knowing his lines so well and saying them with confidence.
Diya Patel
For being an excellent helper in our Assembly practices,
Abhi Shah
For knowing his lines for the assembly and trying hard to be the character.
Radha Patel
For being an excellent helper in our Assembly practices,
Yr 1R
Keeya Patel
For working hard and taking great care when making her peg doll in History
Yr 1S
Ramya Jani
For completing excellent maths work on doubling numbers
Yr 2B
Dheekshana Chandrasekar
For speeding up and making increased efforts to finish her work on time
Yr 2N
Priya Oza
For demonstrating the 5 school values, especially friendliness. She is always willing to help out others.
Yr 3D
Diya Meghani
for keeping her focus throughout lessons and making sure she gets all her work done.
Yr 3N
Anya Hirani
For always being polite and respectful to her teachers and classmates.
Yr 4G
Aryan Bharadia
For displaying honesty in setting behaviour and academic targets
Yr 4C
Khushiv Shah
For consistently demonstrating the Value of respect when walking through the school corridors
Yr 5O
Prarthna Middha
Following the five core values, working well and helping others in class and in the playground.
Yr 5D
Meerali Patel
For making great strides during Reading Comprehension
Yr 6H
Rahul Kumar
For taking care with the presentation of his work, making sure it is neat and tidy.
Yr 6R
Shane Barrett
For always demonstrating teamwork when working with others
PE
Cross Country Team
For showing resilience, determination and honesty whilst completing the race.
Rec B
Brent Maths Competition
Miss Hodgeson writes: This week the Swaminarayan School hosted the Brent Local School’s Maths Competition for Year 5 and 6 children.
We had 5 other local schools participate in the event; Stonebridge Primary, Brentfield Primary, Leopold Primary, oakington Primary and
Gladstone Park Primary. Two teams of 5 were entered from each school. There were 3 challenges for the children to take part in: a logic
challenge, a team challenge and a relay challenge. The winning team was the team that accumulated the most points across all 3 challenges. Both of our teams scored well and enjoyed the morning. We would like to congratulate The Swaminarayan School Team 2 for being awarded 3rd place.
Team 1:
Team 2:
Isha Mistry
Sarina Jesani
Kushal Patel
Rohin Shah
Vishva Shah
Vaidehi Chauhan
Shaan Bajaj
Pari Parekh
Vedaangh Rungta
Girish Pindoria