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St Leonard’s RC Primary School Newsletter

We shine in the light of Jesus.

St Leonard’s is a GOOD school!

27.05.2016

Liturgies Spring Term 2016

09.06.16 Yr2

16.06.16 Recep�on

23.06.16 Yr3

30.06.16 No Liturgy

04.06.16 Yr1

11.07.16 Mass

Class of the Week

A(endance

Rec 95.33% Yr3 96.98%

Yr1 97.27% Yr4 94%

Yr2 93.10% Yr5 98.33%

Yr6 90.34%

Whole school a(endance for the week

94.99% (our target is 97%+)

Smileys

Well done to ……………….

Erin Stronach and Kris�an Sco( who

received their Bronze Smileys.

Kadi Hopper received her Gold

Smiley.

The children should be trying to get

approximately 50 Smileys each half

term.

They are awarded

for effort,

showing good

learning

behaviours,

manners and living

the school

values.

Statement of the Week

I try to accept forgiveness from others

Golden Rule Focus

We work hard

Skill Focus

Thinking and Concentra�ng

School APP

If you haven’t

already done so,

please download

the School App as

this will keep you

updated with

school

informa�on, news and calendar events.

If you have a smartphone (Android or

iPhone) you can download Our-

SchoolsApp from Google Play Android or

the Apple Store for FREE. The new app is

available for anyone with a smartphone

to download so grandparents will also

be able to keep up to date with school

events.

School Sports Day

Our parents ,who run the

Friends of St Leonard’s,

are looking for dona�ons

of tombola prizes for the

Sports Day stall . Your

contribu�ons will be gratefully received.

Thank you in an�cipa�on.

Book Looks Thank you to all the parents

and or rela�ves who a(ended the Book

Looks this week. The children appreciate

your support.

RED TED Well done to Luke Hills who

received his RED TED this week.

Don’t forget the

KS1 RED TED

Challenge and

the Rainbow

Reading

Challenge for

KS2.

The Blogs are Live!

Please have a look at

the Class Blogs. They

are accessed via the

website under the tab

WHAT’S HAPPENING.

The blogs are full of magic moments and

interes�ng informa�on about the week’s

learning.

There is a bit of a compe��on going on to

see who can get the most hits.

Totals to date

Recep�on 5,823

Yr1 1,231

Yr2 3,409

Yr3 2,164

Yr4 563

Yr5 1,836

Yr6 760

Golden Assembly

Congratula�ons to all the children

who received an award this week.

Recep�on Isabel Knight & James Duggan

Year 1 Lily Rose Usher & Luke Murphy

Year 2 Emma Herring & Charlo�e Taylor

Year 3 Ava Fiddes & Frankie Murray

Year 4 Aaron Douthwaite & Chloe Gibb

Year 5 Callum Thompson & Robyn Arkley

Year 6 Isabelle Moan & Freya Dickman

Have a lovely half term break. Thank you

to staff, parents and governors for all

your support.

Children,

thank you for

learning well

and making

progress

this term.

Bullying is….. ‘A persistent, deliberate

a(empt to hurt or humiliate’

Punctuality

Please ensure your child is in

their class line for 8.50am.

Late arrivals this week

Recep�on - 4

Yr1 - 6

Yr2 - 12

Yr3 -6

Yr4 - 5

Yr5 - 4

Yr6 - 7

This week’s Total: 44

Last week’s Total: 36

Last week the number of ‘lates’ was very high and this

week’s even higher. Yr 2 is by far the worst class for

punctuality at the moment. Everyone has to do

be(er. Reducing the number of lates is one of our

post OFSTED Targets. Punctuality really must im-

prove. Do ensure the children are ready and in the

class lines for 8.50. If parents would like to offer any

sugges�ons how we can eradicate poor punctuality

please let me know. There is a sugges�on box in the

recep�on area. It is a huge worry that week aGer

week we have high levels of lates. We cannot begin

our journey to outstanding if we do not have be(er

punctuality and a(endance which is consistently

Snowdog comes to St Leonard’s

St Oswald’s Children’s Hospice has teamed up with Wild in Art to stage

Tyne and Wear’s biggest ever mass-par�cipa�on, public art event – Great

North Snowdogs!

The interac�ve trail will feature more than 50 large scale Snowdog

sculptures, inspired by the much loved animated short film, The

Snowman™ and The Snowdog. During Autumn and Winter 2016 you will be

able to follow the trail, collect points with a dedicated app and to try to see

as many of the sculptures as possible.

St Oswald’s Snowdogs, beau�fully decorated by ar�sts and generously

sponsored by local businesses, will be on show for 10 weeks from

September 2016, in loca�ons across Tyne and Wear. They will be joined by

a pack of li(le Snowdog sculptures designed by local school children. The

St Leonard’s Snowdog has been sponsored by Gentoo.

AGer everyone has enjoyed Great North Snowdogs during its 10-week

extravaganza, the large sculptures will be auc�oned to raise funds for St

Oswald’s Hospice. Our Snowdog will come home to St Leonard’s!

AGer half term we will be working, as a school, to come up with a design

for our li(le friend. A lot of our learning will be linked to

this exci�ng project.

The Snowdogs have their own twi(er and Facebook

accounts.

h(ps://twi(er.com/great_snowdogs

www.facebook.com/GreatNorthSnowdogs

h(p://www.stoswaldsuk.org/great-snowdogs/news/

everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-great-north-snowdogs.aspx

The class blogs will keep parents up to date with all the Snowdog related

ac�vi�es we will be involved in.

Walkwise

Every year our Year 2 children take part in the Walk Wise programme

which teaches them the basics of road awareness and road safety.

The children take part in a combina�on of classroom based tasks and

actual walks where they can put what they have learned into prac�ce.

Pupil Voice

Miss McViOe and Mrs Doherty spent some

�me with groups of KS2 boys talking about

learning.

RED TED

Congratula�ons to Henry

Wallbank who received his

RED TED this week.

Pobble

Our published writers this week

are

Aidan Thompson, Luke Murphy &

Orla McKernan in Yr 1

Harry Woods and Charlo(e Taylor in Yr 2

Madison Elmy and Nieve Chandler in Yr 3

Natasha Wardropper, Ruby Stewart, Coy McCor-

mick, Amy Wardropper, Molly Swansbury & Sebas-

�en Morito-Hall in Yr 5

Olivia Eggleston and Freddie Murray in Yr 6

Staff Professional Development

This week all staff par�cipated in training which

was linked to how the brain develops

for learning. There is a lovely clip on Youtube

h(ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgLYkV689s4

6 Facts about the Brain

1. We take in informa�on be(er when it’s visual

2. We remember the big picture be(er than the

details

3. Sleep largely affects learning and memory

4. Sleep depriva�on significantly reduces your

ability to learn new informa�on

5. We learn best by teaching others

6. We learn new informa�on be(er when it’s

linked