1 Thursday 16th May 2019 www.evenswindon.co.uk A big congratulations to the whole of Year 6 who have taken their SATs this week. Their perseverance has been inspirational. Thank you to all of the staff involved, especially the Y6 team. Mrs Lowe NON UNIFORM DAY AND DRESS UP DAY There will be a non uniform day on Friday 7th June. Children are asked to bring in a donation for The Summer Fete. Further details to follow. Friday 21st June will be a Wild West Dress-Up day in preparation for the Summer Fete. Please re-use your costume from the maths Wild West Day. ADVANCE NOTICE OF ST ERTH NURSERY TRIP We are planning an exciting trip to Cotswold Wildlife Park in July. We will be writing to you soon with more details. Thursday 4th July—AM children Thursday 11th July—PM children Y3 PARENTS MEETING— RESIDENTIAL IN YEAR 4 We will be holding a meeting for all our year 3 parents and children regarding our planned residential trip in year 4. The meeting will take place on Tuesday 21st May at 3.15pm in Brunel Hall. Due to a change in venue we invite all parents to come along and find out more about the new location. YEAR 1 ASSEMBLY REMINDER Year1 would like to remind parents and carers that their class assembly will take place on Wednesday 22nd May in Hawksworth Hall at 9.15am. We hope you will be able to join us. YEAR 5 Some of our year 5 children attended three sessions at Commonweal school. They took part in art, science, maths, ICT and English lessons based on the GCSE text Frankenstein. We are very proud of how well they represented Even Swindon, even winning one of the teamwork awards on the final day. Well done to Atharv, Mahasin, Yashica, Tai Shi, Connor, Maisey, Zach, Alicia, Lola and Rudra.
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Thursday 16th May 2019
www.evenswindon.co.uk
A big congratulations to the whole of
Year 6 who have taken their SATs
this week. Their perseverance has
been inspirational. Thank you to all
of the staff involved, especially the Y6
team.
Mrs Lowe
NON UNIFORM DAY AND DRESS
UP DAY
There will be a non uniform day on Friday
7th June. Children are asked to
bring in a donation for The
Summer Fete. Further details to
follow.
Friday 21st June will be a Wild West
Dress-Up day in preparation for the
Summer Fete. Please re-use your costume
from the maths Wild West Day.
ADVANCE NOTICE OF ST ERTH NURSERY
TRIP
We are planning an exciting trip to Cotswold
Wildlife Park in July. We will be writing to you soon
with more details.
Thursday 4th July—AM children
Thursday 11th July—PM children
Y3 PARENTS MEETING—
RESIDENTIAL IN YEAR 4
We will be holding a meeting for all our year
3 parents and children regarding our
planned residential trip in year 4. The
meeting will take place on Tuesday 21st May
at 3.15pm in Brunel Hall. Due to a change in
venue we invite all parents to come along and
find out more about the new location.
YEAR 1 ASSEMBLY REMINDER
Year1 would like to remind parents and carers that
their class assembly will take place on Wednesday
22nd May in Hawksworth Hall at 9.15am.
We hope you will be able to join us.
YEAR 5
Some of our year 5 children attended three
sessions at Commonweal school. They took part
in art, science, maths, ICT and English lessons
based on the GCSE text Frankenstein. We are
very proud of how well they represented Even
Swindon, even winning one of the teamwork
awards on the final day. Well done to Atharv,
Mahasin, Yashica, Tai Shi, Connor, Maisey, Zach,
Alicia, Lola and Rudra.
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CURRICULUM CORNER
STEM
Over the last two years, Even Swindon has been working hard to embed a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) focus into the curriculum. We have recognised that STEM is growing so important because it increasingly encompasses every part of our lives. Science is everywhere in the world around us. Technology is continuously expanding into every aspect of our lives. Engineering is the basic designs of roads and bridges, but also tackles the challenges of changing global weather and environmentally-friendly changes to our home. Mathematics is in every occupation, every activity we do in our lives. By exposing the children to STEM and giving them opportunities to explore STEM-related concepts, they will hopefully develop a passion for it and may choose to pursue it further in the future, building our next generation of Scientists and Engineers. STEM activities provide hands-on and minds-on lessons for the student. This year, we have had LEGO STEM focus, with the children being able to design and code machines using Lego. Thanks to the multi-talented Mr Rouse, we are also the proud owners of a lovely Lego wall next to the first aid room. The children have been exploring this during break times and lunch times.
Next week (20th-24th May) is STEM week, this year we have a technologies focus and each year group will be trying out some of the new technology we have in school, including BeeBots, Dataloggers, InoBots and WeDO LEGO. The children will also be filming some 'how-to' videos to explain how the technology works- keep your eyes peeled for this on the website.
If you would like to explore some STEM activities at home with your child, there are some great websites with activity ideas;
https://codecombat.com/ A brilliant site to learn coding while playing an adventure game.
https://www.lego.com/en-gb/products/categories/stem Designs and activities for STEM using LEGO.