Uniform Collection

Thanks to everyone who bought clothing in today. It was a great start to recycling any no longer needed uniform. Many people asked about other times to donate. Alison will be collecting on Thursday 8th and Friday 9th September 8.30-9am when we are back at school. Thanks everyone and have a great summer.


Have a fantastic summer.

Alison

Year 3 and 4 Sports Day!

Congratulations to Elm House who have won this year's Sports Day for Y34. In a closely fought contest they were able to rum faster, jump higher and throw further than the other teams.

I was really nervous performing in front of the other children and parents. However my team mates cheered me on which really helped!

Jessica

We believe that it is important our pupils have the chance to compete and apply the skills they have developed in PE lessons. These days are also valuable opportunities for our pupils to improve their leadership and teamwork skills.

Houses:
1st Elm 57 Points
2nd Willow 41 Points
3rd Ash 28 Points
4th Oak 23 Points

If a child won a Gold medal their House accumulated 3 points, Silver medal 2 points and Bronze medal 1 point.

Australia's Mad for Science!

Today the children from Australia class were rewarded for their outstanding attendance with a workshop from Mad Science.

Galactic Grace taught the children about polymers (ask the children about Olly Murs) and gave them the exciting opportunity to make their own slime!

The children discovered what a "chemical reaction" was and they were introduced to a range of different science equipment.

Don't they look great! The children had a fantastic time and were able to take their pots of slime home (watch out for the green troll bogey slime parents).

Now that we have had the workshop I'd love to win again. I'm going to make sure that I will be here every day on time!

Michael
What has the impact of the Science Workshops?

• Since the introduction of the reward we have seen a 1.4% increase in overall attendance
• Classes who win the award typically maintain improved attendance for the next half term
• 100% of pupils who have won the award say that it was a great reward and they would like to achieve it again

Reading Rewards!

READING REWARDS!
Each term, the class with the most reading trophies in each phase wins a prize.

This is £20 to spend on books for their class!

The winners this term were as follows:

Reception = St. Lucia

Year 1 = New Zealand

Year 2 = Kenya

LKS2 = Greece

UKS2 = Brazil

Well done and keep reading!

I am really excited to help my class choose their new books. We all worked really hard to keep our reading record books up to date.

Lisa - Kenya

What has been the impact?

• 27% increase in number of Reading Record entries
• 85% of pupils agree that the competition helps to encourage them to read regularly
• 78% of pupils agree that there is a wide range of books available for them to choose from in their classroom

Slippery Slime!

Did you ever want to be a mad scientist and make disgustingly gooey slime?

As a reward for their fabulous attendance over the year, Kenya had the opportunity to learn about polymers and putty with a Mad Science workshop. They learned that polymers are somewhere between solids and liquids and could be made by adding chemicals together and watching the reaction! They each took a pot of slime home with them.

Watch out for the furniture!

"It was great fun to make troll bogey slime. I want to be a scientist when I grow up!"

Hannah.

"It was definitely worth coming to school every day for this reward!"

Chloe.

Graduation Success!

Well done to all nursery children for an excellent graduation ceremony. Even in this heat the children gave it their best and a great day was had by all, even a few happy tears! We wish everyone the best of luck next year in their new classes. Thank you to all the parents who came for their continued support at Mead.

‘What a fantastic graduation ceremony; the children should all be very proud of themselves. I would like to say a big thank you to all the nursery staff for giving these children such a good start to their school career. We get our best results further up the school from those pupils who started with us here in our nursery. We hope to see most of you back here in September, all ready to start Reception,’
Mrs Coop AHT

Year 2, Ready Steady GO!

The children had great fun participating in this year's sports day.

Reciprocity
We helped each other by cheering loudly. On the obstacle course, some of the older children helped us by putting the equipment back if we tripped over.
Sammy

Resilience
In our PE lessons we practised the events so that we knew what to do. The javelin was hard, but in the end I was able to throw it 10m!
Michaela

Here are the results:

1st       Oak      781

2nd     Ash       691

3rd      Elm       640

4th      Willow  618

Well done everyone!

Amelia said, "I loved going under and over the hurdles the best!" 

All the children said they can't wait for next year's sports day because it was such great fun.