NEWSLETTER Week ending 12th December 2014 Dear Parents and Carers, We are delighted that children from Year 4 feature on the cover of the latest edition of the Brent Magazine. Class 4N will be performing this year’s Nativity during the last week of term and were thrilled when Brent Magazine telephoned to say they were coming in to photograph the children in their costumes. We are all looking forward to seeing 4N’s Nativity. The magazine also features an interview with Ms Giles about our school and its recent expansion and plans for the future. ATTENDANCE AWARDS Class with highest attendance last week Upper school— 6U 99% Lower school— 2G 98% The cups were awarded to classes during Celebration assemblies this week. Whole school attendance 93.8% This is lower than our usual attendance rate. Please help us to improve by ensuring our child is in school every day HELPING YOUR CHILD WITH LEARNING Music ♫♫ ♪♪♪ ♫♫♫ We're really excited to announce that an exciting short film about classical music for children called "Ten Pieces" is going to be broadcast on Boxing Day at 09:50 on BBC Two. Please make every effort to watch this programme as a family, as the children have been learning about these pieces in assembly and their music lessons. Yours musically, Mr Brown YOU ARE WELCOME IN THE NURSERY… In the new year, Nursery will be opening it's doors EVERY Friday to parents who wish to drop in. The aim is for parents to learn the routines we have established in the Autumn term and to do activities with their child. It is also an opportunity for parents to look through and contribute to their child's Learning Journey. Parents will be able to drop in on Fridays at any time during the morning or afternoon sessions. ROAD SAFETY WEEK NEWS Road Safety Week has been a great success here at Barham with children from Year 5 becoming Junior Road Safety Officers (JRSO) and helping other children learn to be safe on the roads. JRSO's led two assemblies in KS1 and KS2,they were Yesha 5S, Praval 5S, Luqhman 5S, Shreya 5R, Samira 5R, Atharva 5R, Abisha 5T and Kavini 5T. A message from the Headteacher YEAR 1 The first topic in the spring for year 1 is superheroes. There will be a dress up day near the end of the half term, superhero dances, reading superhero books and writing superhero stories independently. The children will benefit from reading comics and books about superheroes. D.T. will be all about designing and making super healthy superhero salads both fruity and savoury. Check out the fruit and vegetables available near school. They will also be learning about the geography of Wembley so visiting and learning about places of interest would be useful. The children should know where they live and the country they live in. We will developing their geographical vocabulary. YEAR 4 In the Spring term, our theme will be 'The Olympic Legacy'. We will be looking at the impact the Ancient Greeks have had on our lives today including within Science, medicine and the Olympic games. It would be great Yr 4 children could find out about the Greek legacy by borrowing some books from the library about the Olympics or famous people from Ancient Greece. In addition to this, we will be looking at living things in our Science unit. This will include identifying birds and flowers with the help of keys and decision trees. Children in year 4 could look at the living things around them during the Christmas break and draw some labelled diagrams showing features of these living things. Throughout our literacy unit, we will be reading the first of the Narnia stories: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. It would be useful for children to borrow this book from the library to support them in their lessons. Finally, all children will be given a target home learning pack which will support them in practising skills that they have found difficult so far. Please assist them where necessary so that these packs are completed by the first week back. Thank you for all of your help and support so far this year, Miss Hunter (Year 4 Year Group Leader) Please help us to ensure that children achieve their best next term, make use of this Winter break to practise some reading, times tables and preparing for new learning. COMPETITION—design a reward sticker and see your winning entry being used around the Help us to strive for excellence! Ms Giles Headteacher school... Children are invited to take part in a competition to DESIGN A REWARD STICKER based on the Barham 5Rs. Your entry should feature one of the following Rs— Risk-Taking, Resilience, Reflective, Resourceful or Relationships and include a drawing or word/phrase which illustrates the reward being given. Entries should be on white A4 paper and the design can be round or square but must have a clear outline. Please hand your entries to your class teacher on Tuesday 6th January for Follow us on Twitter judging. Good luck! @Barham Primary www.barhamprimary.co.uk School entrances are supervised by members of staff between 8.35-8.45am. NO children should be left at the gates before this time as it is also used as a car park. s ip T nt re Festive Fun and Learning a P at Ealing Road and Wembley Libraries A MESSAGE FROM THE LUNCH HALL… In association with the Food For Life Partnership, our school kitchen is now using Look out for free festive events at the local libraries. only fresh vegetables and fresh organic fruit There are stories for children and visits from a very in our school lunches. Food is freshly special guest! There is a children's Winter Festival cooked in our kitchens every day and the Crafts event on 20 December 2.30-3.30pm, at Wembley children and staff enjoy the meals very Library where children will be making Christmas cards much. and party hats. Look on the Brent.Gov website for more details of events taking place over the holidays. This is our new parents tips corner. Please look out for more hints and tips. Our wonderful Barham children Sophie Stuart 4O received a Children in Care Award from Brent. Here Sophie describes her exciting experience… “On Friday 6th Nov I went to a hotel in Hillingdon. The reason I got this award is because I am in care and the other reason why I got it is because I am excellent in education. I went to school to show everyone my award. SCHOOLS CHESS CLASSIC TOURNAMENT Ms Khatri, Ms Joyce and Ms Arioti took 22 of our chess enthusiasts to a big tournament at Olympia. The children enjoyed taking part in lots of matches against other schools and Mayun Varsani 6V even got to give Mayor Boris Johnson a little coaching! Barham Primary School received a special award for pioneering chess in primary schools. We are very proud of our chess players! Diary Dates: Term ends on Friday 19th December 2014 and School re-opens for pupils on Tuesday 6th January 2015 Remember children should be in school EVERY DAY. Please do not take children on holiday during Term Time ***** Parents with children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 You are invited to… READ WITH YOUR CHILD IN THE SCHOOL LIBRARY Story sessions and support with reading at home With Ms Cirillo every Tuesday 2.30pm ***** Do you have young children ages 0-4? Come along to our Toddler Group At Barham Primary School Wednesday mornings from 9am Learning English New classes will be starting in the New Year. Please ask the school office for information. This term’s cohort graduated this week and received their certificates Goodbye, good luck and thank you… To 4 members of staff who are leaving Barham for pastures new. Mrs McIntosh 1A, Ms Shabaan 5T, Ms Winstrom Rec 2, Mr Bennett (Mr Isaac) Activities Leader and Mrs Pravincumer Dining Assistant. Please join us in wishing them all the very best for the future. We will miss them at Barham! YEAR 6 STEM WORKSHOPS Ms Sharma took six children to William Perkin academy to work with Exsitec; affiliated with imperial college London to take part in four STEM Workshops. Workshop 1 was Robotic Engineering, workshop 2 was making Geodesic Domes for maths (Eden project) . Children were Khadija & Deevya 6V, Kye & Laraib 6Y and Wakhile & Hadi 6U. We have two more workshops, one in January (CSI) and one in March (Astronomy) which the children can't wait to attend! The children will soon be STEM experts who will be teaching the rest of year 6 what they have learnt! YEAR 4 TRIP TO THE WELSH HARP Classes from Year 4 braved the cold weather to travel to the Welsh Harp as part of their learning in Geography. The children did a rivers workshop that related to their geography topic. They got to see a local stream and carry out various investigations, and even made their own rivers and learnt geographical terms to label them. The children enjoying seeing the Brent reservoir and learning about its importance when creating the local canals . PANTOMIME CAME TO BARHAM (Oh no it didn’t!) The Wizard Theatre came to Barham and the Children enjoyed a Christmas treat—an exciting performance of Robin Hood. Everyone had a Fun time and enjoyed the show very much! Danethorpe Road, Wembley Middlesex HA0 4RQ Tel: 020 8902 3706 Fax: 020 8903 5098
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