Learn Together, Grow Together, Succeed Together

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May 2025

Issue 58

Many children have been on external visits this week as part of their active and engaging curriculum they receive at Poverest. Our reception classes had a wonderful time at the farm, whilst Year 3 explored real-life art at the Tate Modern in London. Both year groups were again a credit to the school with their good behaviour, and I am sure they all enjoyed their experiences. 

On Thursday, we celebrated the 80th anniversary of VE Day. During our assemblies, we explored the theme of peace and how important and nice peace is and how we must all learn to get on with other people - whatever our differences are.

It is lovely to see so many children in a school club. Almost 70% of our children are now in at least one club this term. There are spaces in our Sportacus Clubs, so use this link if you would like your child to have a go. https://www.sportacus.co.uk/book Our Sports Days are on the school calendar and Class Dojo Events. We hope for good weather on these days. Parents are very welcome to come and share the experience with their children. Children take part in a mix of competitive and non-competitive events.

I'm pleased to share that Poverest Primary School was ranked 36 out of more than 500 large Primary Schools in England who took part in the Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel challenge. Our daily average was 86.68%. We didn't quite finish high enough for a prize but for so many children not using a vehicle to get to school is fantastic for their own health and, of course, our impact on the environment in our local area. A big thank you to Mrs Thakur and the Junior Travel Ambassadors for organising all the data and promoting the challenge.

Finally, a huge best of luck message to all of our Year 6 children who will be sitting their standard attainment tests (SATS) next week. They, and all their teachers, have worked incredibly hard on their revision these past few weeks. Assessments are part of education, the children should just do their best and try to show off everything they know. All children have talents and interests that they excel in but most of these will never be assessed. So, Good Luck Year 6, do your best, everyone at Poverest is very proud of every one of you.

Focus Week - Year 2 

Year 2 have been looking at the story, Leon and the Place Between. We have been writing setting descriptions using our senses and these have been fantastic! We also took part in a conscience alley activity. We had to make an ally with our hands and tell the person walking through the middle why or not they should go into a magicians box. In Computing we have been learning to use Scratch Jr. We created our own musical sprites this week and programmed the sprites to make noises when they were clicked on. 

In Geography, we have explored the hottest places on Earth, after exploring the coldest places last week. We will be using this information to decide if we would prefer to live somewhere hot or somewhere cold. In Science we have checked our sunflower experiment. We have planted 4 sunflower seeds, each growing in different conditions. One plant has got water, sunlight and heat and this is our control plant, the others are all missing one element. We have observed how much the plants have grown and made plant diaries to keep track of their progress. 

We are really enjoying our clay unit in art. Last week we made pinch pots and we used the score and slip method to attach decorations to them. Next, we will be designing and making a clay tile using the different techniques we have learnt so far. 

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Winners of the week 

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Attendance

Class Attendance 
Walnut  96.55%
Willow 97.41%
Hazel  95.83%
Holly 94.35%
Cedar  96.55%
Chestnut 97.41%
Beech 98.28%
Birch  96.12%
Fig 96.88%
Fir 93.3%
Elm  95.37%
Elder 97.92%
Oak  99.17%
Olive  93.97%
The Orchard 90.87%
Whole School  96.05%
KS2 SATs Week
All Day
from 12 May until 15 May
12
May