Horniman Primary School Newsleer Dear Parents and Carers, It has been a very busy week. On Monday, the school held a minute silence to remember those who lost their lives during the First World War as well as in more recent conflicts. Following on from that, Tuesday’s assembly explored why it is important to remember, who we are remembering and how we show that we remember. We looked at how most of us have had family or know of someone who either fought in World War I or II or supported in some way. ‘Change Starts With Us’ was the theme of anti-bullying Week. KS2 members of the Behaviour Committee led a lesson in their classes and supported KS1 children to deliver lessons to their peers. Today they helped conclude the week with a whole school assembly. The Behaviour Committee will continue to focus on Anti-bullying through- out the year, looking at how the whole school community can reduce bullying and ensure that we all know what to do when dealing with bullying. As part of anti-bullying week, we also celebrated World Kindness Day on Wednesday. The Health and Well-being Committee created an interactive display for pupils and staff to share acts of kindness that they had received or made. They also instigated a ‘Secret Friend’ activity: Children drew a random name from a hat and their task for the day was to be a ‘Secret Friend’ to that person. Friendship bracelets for all children from year 1 up were given out at the end of the day as a reminder of the importance of kindness. This week, Holly and Pear classes visited Shrek Adventure where they experienced a fictional world first hand by becoming the central characters in a live adventure. They also took part in a workshop where they reflected on their encounter with characters such as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty and the role they played within story structure, plot and setting. Birch class visited the British Library for an exhibition about rebels in literature. They explored characteristics of these rebels and why sometimes it’s okay to break the rules. Children had the opportunity to dress up as story char- acters and look at pop up books. Last Friday Elder class ran a pop up bakery. They made 5 different types of bread and sold them after school. They made £40 profit which the class will use to choose new books for the classroom. Thank you to all those who sup- ported this enterprise project and we hope you enjoyed the bread. Look out for children from Elder class on Bake Off in the future! A number of parents have been entering the school building, despite adults not being permitted inside without regis- tering first at the office. SLT will be monitoring this and I hope you will understand that these measures are to safe- guard your children whilst they are at school. Can I remind parents to make sure all items of clothing are named, particularly jumpers and coats which children often remove when they are in different parts of the school. Children tend to forget taking these items off; however, if they are named, it is very quick and easy to reunite them with their owners. We do have a considerable amount of clothing in our lost property and this would help to alleviate this. Winter Wonderland will soon be upon us, Friday 13 th December, and planning has already started. If you would like to be involved in the planning, please do come along to the meeting on 22 nd November at 9.30am (straight after parent workshop) in the community room at school. This morning was the second meeting of the Toilet Refurb Project working group who are developing design ideas for our upstairs toilets. Yr 5 and 6 children in our Interiors, Eco and Wellbeing Committees are working to gather ideas around colours and textures that could be used. Catherine is obtaining quotes, and once we have a rough total, fundraising will begin in earnest with the PTA, including a fundraising barometer in the school Reception area - so watch this space! As mentioned in last week’s Newsletter, our annual Parent Survey has gone live today. Please do take time to re- spond. You can complete the survey here https://forms.gle/unUH8uczKRk7Ntfy9 Wishing you all a lovely weekend, Sofie Hashmi, Assistant Headteacher Parent’s Newsleer Date— 15th November 2019 Issue—010 Thought of the week: “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” Timothy Ferriss School News Y4 Pear and Holly Shrek’s Adventure Y3 Birch Brish Library‘I enjoyed looking at Howie—’I enjoyed dressing up as a story character.’ the pop up books –Alice in Wonderland was my favourite! ‘ Sophia
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Dear Parents and Carers,
It has been a very busy week. On Monday, the school held a minute silence to remember those who lost their lives during the First World War as well as in more recent conflicts. Following on from that, Tuesday’s assembly explored why it is important to remember, who we are remembering and how we show that we remember. We looked at how most of us have had family or know of someone who either fought in World War I or II or supported in some way.
‘Change Starts With Us’ was the theme of anti-bullying Week. KS2 members of the Behaviour Committee led a lesson in their classes and supported KS1 children to deliver lessons to their peers. Today they helped conclude the week with a whole school assembly. The Behaviour Committee will continue to focus on Anti-bullying through-out the year, looking at how the whole school community can reduce bullying and ensure that we all know what to do when dealing with bullying.
As part of anti-bullying week, we also celebrated World Kindness Day on Wednesday. The Health and Well-being Committee created an interactive display for pupils and staff to share acts of kindness that they had received or made. They also instigated a ‘Secret Friend’ activity: Children drew a random name from a hat and their task for the day was to be a ‘Secret Friend’ to that person. Friendship bracelets for all children from year 1 up were given out at the end of the day as a reminder of the importance of kindness.
This week, Holly and Pear classes visited Shrek Adventure where they experienced a fictional world first hand by becoming the central characters in a live adventure. They also took part in a workshop where they reflected on their encounter with characters such as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty and the role they played within story structure, plot and setting. Birch class visited the British Library for an exhibition about rebels in literature. They explored characteristics of these rebels and why sometimes it’s okay to break the rules. Children had the opportunity to dress up as story char-acters and look at pop up books. Last Friday Elder class ran a pop up bakery. They made 5 different types of bread and sold them after school. They made £40 profit which the class will use to choose new books for the classroom. Thank you to all those who sup-ported this enterprise project and we hope you enjoyed the bread. Look out for children from Elder class on Bake Off in the future!
A number of parents have been entering the school building, despite adults not being permitted inside without regis-tering first at the office. SLT will be monitoring this and I hope you will understand that these measures are to safe-guard your children whilst they are at school.
Can I remind parents to make sure all items of clothing are named, particularly jumpers and coats which children often remove when they are in different parts of the school. Children tend to forget taking these items off; however, if they are named, it is very quick and easy to reunite them with their owners. We do have a considerable amount of clothing in our lost property and this would help to alleviate this.
Winter Wonderland will soon be upon us, Friday 13th December, and planning has already started. If you would like to be involved in the planning, please do come along to the meeting on 22nd November at 9.30am (straight after parent workshop) in the community room at school.
This morning was the second meeting of the Toilet Refurb Project working group who are developing design ideas for our upstairs toilets. Yr 5 and 6 children in our Interiors, Eco and Wellbeing Committees are working to gather ideas around colours and textures that could be used. Catherine is obtaining quotes, and once we have a rough total, fundraising will begin in earnest with the PTA, including a fundraising barometer in the school Reception area - so watch this space!
As mentioned in last week’s Newsletter, our annual Parent Survey has gone live today. Please do take time to re-spond. You can complete the survey here https://forms.gle/unUH8uczKRk7Ntfy9
Wishing you all a lovely weekend,
Sofie Hashmi, Assistant Headteacher
Parent’s Newsletter Date— 15th November 2019 Issue—010
Thought of the week: “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”
Timothy Ferriss
School News Y4 Pear and Holly Shrek’s Adventure Y3 Birch British Library‘I enjoyed looking at
Howie—’I enjoyed dressing up as a story character.’ the pop up books –Alice in Wonderland was my favourite! ‘
Sophia
Dates for your diary Wednesday 20th November– KS1 Autumn Assembly 0930
Thursday 21st November– KS2 Autumn Assembly 0930
Thursday 21st November– Y2 Elder to Florence Nightingale Museum
Tuesday 3rd December- Y5 Hornbeam to Royal Observatory Greenwich
Friday 13th December– Christmas Jumper Day & School Christmas Lunch
Friday 13th December– Winter Wonderland
Thursday 19th December—Last day of term
This week, although we have had a lot of illness within the school, attendance has remained above average at 97.34% and year to date the school stands at 97.15%. An amazing effort by Elder this week and re-ceive a star on the board for 100% attend-ance as well as a ball in their reward jar. Congratulations!!! Although the local area has had lots of road-works and traffic to contend with this week, as a school we achieved a weekly punctuali-ty of 98.05%. Thank you all. From looking at TFL plans it looks like most of the works complete by 15th November so travel next week should be easier. Steph
Class Attendance % Punctuality %
Apple R 94.44% 99.26%
Hawthorn 1 95.59% 99.26%
Elder 2 100% 98.02%
Birch 3 95.49% 98.77%
Pear 4 98.08% 99.23%
Holly 4 99.18% 97.94%
Hornbeam 5 98.52% 95.93%
Ash 6 97.63% 96.05%
Community News
Stars of the Week
Apple Rec Veyllan
Oli
Hawthorn 1 Aviana
Morgan
Elder 2 JJ
Olive
Birch 3 Martha
Milan
Pear 4 Mati
Carlos
Holly 4 Hunter
Campbell
Hornbeam 5 Felix
Olivia
Ash 6 Enzo
Heidi
Please click here to view Letters Sent Home this week
Club End Dates
Just a reminder, enrichment clubs will not run in the last week of term (week commencing 16.11.19). The only clubs which will still be on to make up for missed sessions are: Y3/4 Cricket Y5/6 Cricket Rec/Y1 Football Y3 Football Y4 Football Y5 Football Y6 Football KS1 Choir After School Club and Breakfast Club will still be run-
ning as usual, however there is no After School Club on the final day of term (19.12.19) Club Spaces We still have spaces in the following clubs: Reception Ballet Y2 Football Y3 Football Y5 football Netball For all club enquiries, please contact Emma at [email protected]
Club News Attendance and Punctuality
Christmas Forest in Dulwich
This year the Christmas Forest in Dulwich will be open from 20th November till 24th December 8am– 10pm, selling a variety of real Christmas trees. Christmas Forest has supported Tree Aid charity since 2006. For every tree sold, Christmas Forest donate so another tree can be grown by a family in African Drylands. Planting trees is improving the soil quality, helps to increase the biodiversity and protect the ecosystem in the area.
For more info please visit https://www.christmasforest.co.uk/pages/tree-aid
Year 3 Project Steve McQueen’s Year 3 Project is currently on display at Tate Britain from November 2019 until May 2020. Our school’s photographs are located in section 16.
The exhibition spans 24 sections that are marked clock-wise from the entrance.
Girls’ Football Team
One of our neighbours who lives on the corner of Ring-more Rise and Horniman Drive was concerned that the children are walking on and moving the stones at the top of the road that surround the grass area. These
stones are very old and we are kindly asking your chil-dren not to disturb or move them. Thank you!
Our former Pupil Zachery Robinson made his professional football debut on Wednesday for AFC Wimbledon.
Well done Zach, Horniman is proud of you!!
Help Needed: Donations of clothes size 5/6, 6/7 is needed. If you have any unwanted underwear, socks, tights, T-shirts or trousers, please bring them to the
school office. Your help is appreciated!
Reminder
KS1 Autumn Assembly– Wednesday 20th November
KS2 Autumn Assembly– Thursday 21st November
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