Preview - King David School

Alcester Road
Moseley
Birmingham
B13 8EY
Tele/Fax: 0121 449 3364
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.kingdavid.org.uk
Newsletter 35 Thursday 18th June 2015
Summer
Summer Chill Out
a great success
Thank you to everyone involved in making last Sunday’s PTA
Summer Chill Out such a success. This includes the organisation team, who worked with such
imagination and efficiency; the many businesses, who donated prizes to the raffle; the army of
helpers, who sold tickets ahead of the event or set up the stalls last Friday, or helped on the day
itself; and of course everyone who came along and joined in the fun! There was a lovely atmosphere and laughs had by all. A highlight of the afternoon was definitely Mr Langford getting
gunged - check out the happy faces of the children as he gets covered!
The amount raised will be announced soon and will all go towards PTA projects, as part of the
“Year of Celebrations”, marking 50 years of the King David School at its present site.
Tickets go on sale next week for the end-of-year concert, entitled “A Tour Around the Torah”. It will give
a whistle-stop retelling of our favourite stories from
Biblical times, including the Garden of Eden, Noah’s
Ark and Jonah, to name but a few.
Year 6 children take the starring roles, while Y3, Y4
and Y5 form the choir and have their own features
spots. There are two performances - Tuesday 30th
June at 2pm, where Y1 and Y2 will also perform a
song and a dance, and Wednesday 1st July at 7pm,
with just Y3 up to Y6.
Tickets will be on sale Monday (22nd June) after
school, just to Y6 parents, and then on general release
from Tuesday 23rd June, after school.
P.T.O.
Each day, bread, soya milk, water and
fresh fruit are available. There is also a
daily sandwich option.
The menu next week:
Monday
Baked fish fingers with new potatoes, or
Sweet and Sour Quorn stir fry;
Fruit flapjack
Tuesday
Minced beef or vegetable spaghetti bolognaise;
Jam sponge tart with custard
Wednesday
Roast beef with roast potatoes and Yorkshire pudding, or vegetable samosas;
Non-dairy cheese, crackers and grapes
Thursday
Chicken and mushroom pie with creamed
potatoes or crispy topped vegetarian cottage pie;
Fruit jelly with fruit pieces
Friday
Vegetarian hot dogs and chips, beans and
peas;
Chocolate sponge with chocolate icing
This menu is dependent on availability
of ingredients and is subject to change.
All cream, custard and cheese is non-dairy.
Kiddush assembly
Every Friday afternoon the
whole school comes together
for a mock Friday evening
Kiddush - the meal in honour of Shabbat day, which starts on
Friday night. Tomorrow it is Y5’s turn
to help lay the table or sit and take
part. All parents are warmly welcomed to join us for
this assembly, Fridays at
1:30pm.
Letters home:
Bus trips (Nursery)
Year of Celebrations (all classes)
Albert Einstein was offered
the Presidency of Israel in
1952; however, he declined the
invitation.
Assessment fortnight
In most classes this week and next, the children
are completing summer assessments. For Y1, Y3,
Y4 and Y5, these are new tests, aligned to the new
National Curriculum. Y2 and Y6 have already
completed their national SATs tests.
The Department for Education removed the National Curriculum Levels,
with the introduction of the
new curriculum, and so this
year’s Y2 and Y6 will be the
last to be given levels in their
results. For all other classes,
in the end of year reports
they will be shown as either
“emergent” (working towards
the objectives for their year-group),
“secure” (achieved the expected level), or
“exceeding” (going beyond what is expected for
that age).
Reports will go out on Monday 20th July and parents will have an opportunity to discuss them with
the class teacher at the Open Evening on Wednesday 22nd July, between 5:30pm to 7pm.
Shabbat begins tomorrow evening
at 9:16pm and ends at 10:53pm
on Saturday evening. In Synagogue this Shabbat, the portion of the Torah being
read is “Parashat Korach”, giving us our Theme of
the Week “Avoiding quarrels.”
Coming up…
Friday 19th June, 1:30pm: Y5’s Kiddush
Tuesday 30th June, 2pm: End-of-year concert
Wednesday 1st July, 7pm: End-of-year concert