Learn Together, Grow Together, Succeed Together

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November 2023

Issue 11

This week has been anti-bullying week and we started it with an odd socks day - something I found very tricky on Monday morning looking at a selection of black socks! Mrs Wilson and Mrs Rautenbach led assemblies on being a good friend to all of our children and linked this to our school values of being polite, respectful and ultimately being united as a team of children at Poverest. Disagreements between children do happen and these disagreements are an important part of growing up. Learning how to solve conflict is an important life skill we will all need in the future. Our restorative approach is based on successful research and it does help to change behaviours. We do have a parent workshop on this on the 28th of November and you can book a place on it by contacting the main school office. It is an excellent workshop and one I have attended previously but gained a lot of help and knowledge in solving conflict between my children when they were younger. Many children often believe that bullying is when someone is unkind to you once or twice, but this isn't the case.

The trips to support our curriculum continued again this week with more cinema trips and the year 3 and Maple class trip to the Science Museum. One highlight for me was being invited to the EYFS wedding in the hall, the best man did a great job at not losing the rings and the floor was completely covered in confetti at the end! The children showed some brilliant writing in their invitations and I was pleased to receive a couple of invites. Buddy, of course, beat me on the invite count - he had over ten invites in the end but wasn't very happy when we left just before the cakes were issued!

We held our second open morning which again was very well attended and I was delighted to receive so many positive comments from our visitors about our wonderful school, staff and children who showed them around.

Best of luck to the Year 5 Girls in the cross country tomorrow at Crystal Palace - it's a super event and one I have really enjoyed as a teacher and parent in the past. Thank you to Mr Duffin for giving up his Saturday morning to lead the team - I'm sure he wishes there was a teacher race!

Finally, we have our Christmas Fair next Friday which will be held in the main school hall and surrounding areas. Please do pop in and enjoy the activities, supporting the Friends of Poverest and raising some much-needed funding to enhance the learning experiences of all our children.

Have a lovely weekend.

Focus Week -Year 5 

Year 5 have taken part in some amazing learning recently, including a fantastic Ancient Greek workshop, where they experienced life in Ancient Greece and Greek mythology.  Later in the week, they were testing the hardness and transparency of materials in science and designed their own shadow puppet theatre based on their research. In history, we have been learning about the Ancient Egyptians and have been mummifying tomatoes! We are looking forward to checking the results in 30 days! 

For Anti-Bullying Week, we joined the whole school celebrating our uniqueness, as we wore odd socks for Odd Socks Day.  After a discussion about the importance of our words, we wrote a whole-class poem celebrating the message ‘Make a Noise about Bullying’.  Our newly qualified Peer Mediators visited the classrooms to explain to KS1 about their role at playtime and did a little role play based on a squabble between two friends - which they sorted out!

Our STEM Day was excellent!  We completed the giant tetrahedron challenge and discovered the importance of teamwork as we competed Elm vs Elder.  We learned about design challenges and creating giant 3D shapes using our knowledge of engineering and creativity.  Our trips have been fabulous so far this term and have included our trip to Westminster Abbey for Remembrance and to the cinema to see ‘The Little Mermaid’.

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Safeguarding News

If you feel your child is entitled to free school meals, please complete the application on the Bromley website as soon as possible. 

Reminder: If your child has an appointment, please have proof either in the form of a letter, email or text message to show the office when informing them of the appointment.  

Friends of Poverest 

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Stars of the Week

Well done to all our stars of the week!

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Attendance

Class Attendance 
Walnut  96.0%
Willow 99.0%
Hazel  96.0%
Holly 95.0%
Cedar  91.33%
Chestnut 88.335
Beech 98.57%
Birch  96.55%
Fig 92.0%
Fir 95.86%
Elm  89.0%
Elder 85.0%
Oak  94.33%
Olive  90.34%
Ash 78.18%
Maple 90.91%
Whole School  92.91%
Christmas Fair
3:00pm – 5:00pm
24
November