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May 2025

Issue 57

With the warmer weather arriving in style this week, it is a good time to remind parents to ensure their children have a water bottle each day as well as a sun cap of some description. School caps are available to purchase from the school office, however, these are not compulsory to buy. We do ask that children take off their hats and caps when inside the building, so please ensure the caps are named so they can be returned to their rightful owners if they should be misplaced. 
This week Buddy and I had the pleasure of attending Fir class on their River Dipping trip on the River Cray. Both year 4 classes spent an afternoon with Jess from the South East Rivers Trust, exploring life on the river banks as well as life in the river itself. The children were once again a credit to our school and I was very impressed with the knowledge they could recall from their Geography and Science lessons. Well done Year 4, and thank you to the teachers for arranging a couple of fantastic afternoons with the South East Rivers Trust.
Y1 had a fantastic school trip to London to see the Cutty Sark in Greenwich. The children went on the old tea clipper to experience what life would have been like in the 17th century with lots of interactive activities. The children were amazing and represented our school perfectly. Thank you to the staff and parents for supporting the children on the visit.
The sporting success continues as a group of Y5 children came first and second at the Sportacus Sports Competition at the North West Kent College. Thank you to Mr Duffin and Mrs Senft for taking the teams there on the mini-bus and guiding them through the day to success.
After the bank holiday weekend, we will return to school on Tuesday, 6th May. The senior leadership team will be changing their gate duty locations. Mrs Wilson will be on the KS1 entrance with Mrs Arnold and Mrs Mills alternating on the EYFS gate. Mr Haylock and Buddy will be at the KS2 gate. This will be the case until the end of the summer term.
Enjoy the long weekend and hopefully we will hold onto the nicer weather for a bit longer.
Many thanks,
Mr Haylock 

Focus Week -Year 1  

Year one has had a lovely week! We have been learning our 2, 5 and 10 times tables in maths. We have also been enjoying reading the book ‘I want my hat back’ by Jon Klassen. We are getting ready to write our own versions of the story next week. We enjoyed going to London to visit The Cutty Sark and looking at the type of transport explorers had a long time ago. 

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Year 4 Trip to the River Cray

This week, the Year 4 children visited the River Cray. They identified human and physical features around the river, took part in a scavenger hunt and found out about different animals that live near or in rivers. Finally, they also had the amazing opportunity to stand in the river and scoop up some creatures using nets! They absolutely loved identifying and sorting everything they found, and they learned so much about rivers. What a fantastic trip!

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Attendance update

One of our attendance winners chose to spend their £100 voucher on a family day out at Port Lympne Animal Reserve and Safari over the Half-Term break. The family had a wonderful time exploring and seeing lots of different animals. Every child who attends school for at least 97% of the term goes into the draw at the end of term. For this Summer Term, that means all children who have less than 3 days off school from the Easter Break to the end of the school year in July will be entered into the next draw. We have two separate £100 vouchers - one for EYFS and KS1 and another for all those children in KS2. 

Stars of the week

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Attendance

Class Attendance 
Walnut  94%
Willow 97.24%
Hazel  98.62%
Holly 98%
Cedar  98.62%
Chestnut 99.31%
Beech 98.33%
Birch  97.93%
Fig 92.86%
Fir 97.14%
Elm  94.81%
Elder 97.67%
Oak  98.33%
Olive  95.52%
The Orchard  93.46%
Whole School  97.01%
EYFS farm trip - Willow
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