Learn Together, Grow Together, Succeed Together

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September 2024

Issue 38

This week we had a musical Woodwind Demonstration from Bromley Youth Music Trust (BYMT) this week. BYMT teach most of the children how to play musical instruments at Poverest and many children have individual lessons during school time. This includes the Woodwind family of instruments but also includes stringed instruments such as the guitar and even the drums! Carl from BYMT played a range of musical pieces on different Woodwind instruments and was certainly an inspiration to us all. If you would like your child to have individual lessons, you can explore the options on the BYMT website (https://www.bymt.co.uk/groups/)

Swimming lessons have started again for years 5 and 6 this week. Learning to swim is a vital life skill and we want all our children to be confident swimmers by the time they leave for secondary school. The sessions at the Walnuts are all grouped so that they are able to support complete non-swimmers as well as extend those already confident.

Also this week I have met with all the teachers to discuss targets for every child in their new classes. Attainment expectations are high but the children will not achieve them in school time alone. Spending time away from the school reading, learning tables and spellings are all crucial to meeting these high expectations. Children often need encouragement to do this away from school and little and often is much better than a significant amount of time on one day.

I enjoyed my new club with a group of year 4 children this week. It's always nice to be back in a classroom with children and I was impressed with the knowledge and skills they had connected to problem solving and puzzles.

Next week we have our rearranged Bouncy Castle Day courtesy of the Friends of Poverest. All the children will have the opportunity to have a bounce with their classmates and I know from talking to the children they are looking forward to it. Let's hope for a dry and windless day.

Enjoy the weekend.

Focus week- Year 1 

This week in Holly and Hazel the children have been delving into their new topics. In Science we have been learning about the different body parts and their senses. They enjoyed drawing round each other's bodies and labelling each part. In Computing we have been exploring art using the programme Purple Mash. In English we have been studying the book 'Beegu' by Alexis Deacon. Since an alien crash landed into our outdoor area, the children have been really excited to write about who Beegu is and have developed their own alien character which we will be using when we write our own narratives next week. In Maths we have been developing our knowledge of place value by looking at finding one more and one less than any given number. We have been working on using different mathematical equipment to achieve this and using vocabulary to explain our thinking. We had our first Forest School lesson this week! We had great fun using our senses to explore the nature we'd find in Forest School.

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Awards Assembly 

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Friends of Poverest

We’ve got some exciting news to share with you.

Parentkind – a charity that supports school PTAs - have teamed up with Asda, who is making millions of pounds available to donate to primary schools across the UK through their ‘Cashpot for Schools’ initiative. To support our school, all you have to do is opt-in through the Asda Rewards app, shop and scan in store or shop online at Asda.com.

Between 2nd September and 30th November 2024 – every time you shop with Asda using your Asda Rewards app, Asda will donate 0.5% of the value of your shop to your chosen Primary school. Also, every time somebody opts-in to support our Primary school, Asda will give an additional £1 to the school Cashpot. Plus, it doesn’t stop there – Asda are also giving £50 to every school to get them started.

The supermarket has joined forces with Joe Wicks to support the initiative – look out for the TV advert, radio ads and social media coverage!

It’s as easy as 1,2,3

1. Download the Asda Rewards app, register and opt-in to Cashpot for Schools (make sure you have the latest version of the app installed)

2. Choose our Primary School – either searching by name or postcode

3. Shop instore across Asda and George, or online at Asda.com and start filling your Cashpot as you shop

Asda does the rest, all money raised will be donated to schools to spend on the things they need the most. We are aiming to spend our donations on xxxx

Remember, anyone can sign up – so start spreading the news and raising funds for our school.

This initiative is on top of the existing Asda Rewards benefits you get as a shopper – so you won’t lose out on any of your own earnings or Cashpot, so everyone is a winner!

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The Friends of Poverest will be having a Bouncy Castle Day on Wednesday 18th September. This event will be run during the school day and will be free of charge.
If you do not want your child to take part please let your class teacher know.
If you would like to volunteer to help, please email volunteers@friendsofpoverest.co.uk. Any help is much appreciated.

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Class Attendance
Walnut  91.33%
Willow 91.61%
Holly 97.93%
Hazel 96.3%
Cedar 95.0%
Chestnut  93.1%
Beech 94.0%
Birch 93.33%
Fig 96.3%
Fir 97.93%
Elm 96.67%
Elder 99.33%
Oak 91.33%
Olive 88.28%
The Orchard 92.38%
Whole School 94.54%
Meet the teacher - Year 3
2:45pm – 3:00pm
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September