Nov 2011 Issue No. 6 CavTell

Head | Simon Wakeman | head@cavell.norfolk.sch.uk

Duckett Close| Norwich| Norfolk | NR1 2LR

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Inside…

50/50 Club

School Library

Harvest Gifts

Cakes for Coaches

Dates for your Diary

From the Head’s head …….

Well, it’s been a busy half-term so far and it looks set to continue with the advent of advent and all that comes with it…. Although there is a lot planned for Chr*****s (can’t say it yet) we are trying to limit the impact of over excited children to the

final week of term – please check the dates in the diary at the back of CavTell.

We are working harder than ever this year to improve your child’s mathematics and reading and writing. We are about to launch MyMaths which is an online teaching and homework package. Mr Hopkins and Mrs Adams have organised some parents drop-ins to help with this – those dates can be found in the diary. What I really like, as a parent, is how easy to use the system is – it even does the checking and marking for you, so you can really

give your child the support that they need.

Our Cakes for Coaches has so far raised £321, of which every penny goes back to your children to help subsidise the coach cost of our exciting Educational Visits programme. Please can I remind you that we do have a payment system in operation which many of you are already taking advantage of – a little bit each week soon adds up and really helps to spread the payments. I am really looking forward to hearing from the Year 2, 3 and 4 children when they get back from their visits to London in a few weeks

time – they are so excited !!

A little reminder about uniform and coats… Now it’s getting chilly please ensure that your child comes to school in a warm, waterproof coat – we do send them out to play in light rain, as it’s so important for them to get fresh air and exercise. Please also be reminded that trainers (with contrasting markings) are NOT allowed in school. FULLY black trainers are acceptable –

if unsure, please check with your child’s teacher.

I look forward to seeing you at a number of our events this term, especially at our upcoming Mathmagician Morning on 30th (if this is postponed due to potential strike action

I will organise another date in December)

A big thank you to all the parents who came to this years Harvest Festival, and enjoyed soup and bread on the allotment. We had a beautiful warm and sunny Autumn day for the occasion.

Many children brought donations of food which have been given to Norwich Foodbank. Cavell School donated 104kgs of food, which will be enough to feed more than 20 local people in need for three days.

Norwich Foodbank provides three days of emergency food to individuals or families who have unexpected difficulties in life, such as bereavement, redundancy, illness or benefits delay. People are issued a voucher for a food box by care professionals.

The nearest distribution centre is New Hope Christian Centre on Martineau Lane.

Harvest Gifts for Norwich Foodbank

Winter Shoes and Art Aprons

Allotment News

We have been having trouble with crows on the allotment and in the polytunnel, so we need to make scarecrows to keep them away from our crops.

Donations of clean, old clothes, such as hats, gloves, jumpers and trousers, in as bright colours as possible, would be useful, to allow us to start making these.

Please could children bring a spare pair of shoes to school if they wish to play on the field at lunch time. The field can be muddy, and if they can change back into a clean pair after lunch, this will help to keep the school and classrooms clean.

If parents have any old, long-sleeved men’s shirts which could be used during art classes, could they bring them to the school office. Thank you.

School Library

Mrs Kennard is opening the library every Tuesday from 3.20—3.40pm. Parents and Children have the opportunity after school to change or borrow library books.

We would love to see more of you using this opportunity!

Cavell Friends PTA Group

We have recently relaunched the Cavell Friends Group, and had several new parents come to the meeting with lots of new ideas. We are holding our next meeting on Monday 21st November at 9am and would love to see more parents getting involved.

We have held our first draw at the end of October, and congratulations go to Heather Bird who won £20.

We have 44 members, but are always looking for more.

More Members=Higher Prize Money!

If you are interested in joining, please leave your name at the school office and Julie Foster will be in touch.

50/50 Club

Cakes for Coaches

We have been selling raffle tickets every Friday to win a cake which can be seen outside the main reception. We think you would agree that our school chef makes the most fabulous cakes!

Tickets are ONLY 50p

ALL the money raised each week goes into the Coach Fund, to be evenly split amongst all classes to help fund this years exciting school trips.

Some of our lucky winners with their superb cakes!!!

Christmas Tree Decoration Competition

A lovely big Christmas tree will be arriving in the hall in December.

We need plenty of decorations for the tree, and will be having a competition for the children to create a decoration at home. There will be a small prize for the winners.

Look out for further details on our posters, and the children will hear more in assembly.

On Thursday 17th November, 19 children took part in a 5-a-side football tournament at Goals, on the Hewett School site.

We had one boys team and one girls team, and congratulations go to all who took part as Cavell were named as winners!!!

Congratulations Team!!

We have had a great start in the Nursery, and the children have settled happily into our routines. We have had lots of visitors, a librarian who read stories, a nurse who talked about hospital visits, and a baby who had a bath! Thank you for all your visits too, we shared a Harvest Festival on a beautiful sunny day, reading times, and of course parent’s evening.

This term we continue our theme of family and friends and will focus on celebrations like Divali, fireworks and of

course Christmas. Lots of singing, stories and Christmas activities with our party at the end of term. Outdoor learning and play is an important part of our day; so wrap up warm, we will visit the wonderful wildlife area and continue to explore the allotment. A visitor is coming to talk about road safety as it becomes darker and we will explore dark and light with torches.

As part of SEAL (social, emotional aspects of learning) we will be exploring friendships, relationships and learning how to be kind to each other.

Family and Friends — Celebrations and Christmas

2 of the best …

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/eyfs

/www.bbc Links to BBC websites

www.ictgames.co.uk Maths and English games to play

Mrs Smith | Mrs Talbot | Nursery

Talk about these photos of our nursery. What did you do?

Who can you see?

3 of the best …

www.kented/games.co.uk Simple maths games

www.ict.games.co.uk Simple games

www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc.co.uk Stories, songs, games

This term we are learning all about toys! We will be describing a variety of toys and thinking about what they are made of and how we play with them. We will be comparing old and new toys and finding out about “moving” toys. We will be making our own “pop-up” toy or puppet.

We are very excited about our forthcoming visit from the Lego Workshop team. They will be joining us on the

22nd November along with hundreds of pieces of lego! We will be learning how to build houses together and then we will make a huge lego village which parents will be able to come in to see.

All the children have continued to benefit from their outdoor learning sessions and time working on the allotment. They have learnt new skills and gained a

knowledge and respect for nature and the natural world.

Toys

Mrs Kelly | Mrs Frary | R/1KF

Atlanta

(USA)

Olympic Year

1996

How many small words can you make from the word:

caterpillar

It’s not as easy as you think …

3 of the best …

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bite

size/science/materials/material_prope

rties/read1.shtml

This website introduces the children to the properties of materials (including fabric) and is a fun, interactive program which supports

our theme

http://library.thinkquest.org/

C004179/climate.htm

This website provides children with the oppor-tunity to explore different clothes worn around the world and how climate affects

what is worn.

www.wordle.net/create

This is a fun site which allows you to make ‘word clouds’. The children will be using this website in our science to display words to

describe the properties of fabrics.

All Dressed Up (Clothes)… This half term we are learning all about clothes. Clothes are an important part of our lives. They can keep us warm (or cool). We can wear different colours and designs and change them for different occasions, we can follow the latest fashions – and even make them ourselves! In Geography, the children will be finding out what people wear in different countries and how the weather affects what people wear and, in Science, they will be investigating which materials keep us warm or dry. As part of our technology work we will be looking at how wool is made and the children will try their hand at weaving. We will also be comparing clothes of today with clothes worn in the past. As part of our topic work, the children will be visiting The Victoria and Albert Museum in London on Thursday December 8th. In literacy, we continue to work hard reinforcing the basics. The weekly spellings are made up of the High Frequency Words which every child should know by the end of Year 2. Supporting your child in learning and practising these spellings will hopefully translate into improved reading and writing ability. Similarly, encouraging your child to learn their times tables will help their maths work considerably. Look out for the new online maths homework, which will be available soon…

It’s not as easy as you think …

Mrs Penton | Mrs Adams | 2PA

Barcelona

(Spain)

Olympic

Year

1992

Snow White is doing the washing. Each Dwarf needs 3 shirts and 2 pairs of trousers washed. How many things will she have to wash?

Cinderella lost her glass slipper. The Prince searched the town for her. There are 30 houses in the town, 20 houses have 2 girls in them and 10 houses have 3 girls. He found Cinderella in the last house.

1. How many girls live in the town? 2. How many feet had tried on the slipper? 3. How many toes had been in the slipper?

Cavell Photo Gallery Cavell Photo Gallery Cavell Photo Gallery Cavell Photo Gallery

3 of the best …

http://www.havefunteaching.com/

alphabet-videos Super videos that teach us the sounds of

the letters of the alphabet.

http://www.active-maths.co.uk/ Maths website full of worksheets, games

and interactive tools.

http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/

pirates/mmap.html How to make a treasure map!

Treasure This half term we are learning all about treasure! We will learn how to become archeologists and dig to make our own amazing discoveries. We will be looking at what treasure means to us and explore different types of treasure such as paintings and artefacts. In December we will be visiting London’s Natural History Museum.

We are also implementing the ‘back to basics’ program where we are focusing on our phonic work, reading, mental math, grammar, investigative skills and handwriting. We are going to be very busy!

This term we are also lucky enough to continue having Mrs Mills in to teach us how to play the Djembe drums.

It’s not as easy as you think …

Miss Lawn | 3/4L

Athens

(Greece)

Olympic Year

2004

Winnie the Witch needs to make a new potion. She can only have 10 animal legs in her potion.

She has these ingredients in stock:

Spider – 8 legs

Lizard – 4 legs

Bat – 2 legs

Which ingredients could she have used in her potion?

3 of the best …

http://www.storymuseum.org.uk

http://www.bbc.co.uk/DrWho/S4

This website has a bank of stories that can be read with children including audio clips with

storytellers.

A site with story writing tips and a chance to create your own comic strip story – great fun!

http://www.active-maths.co.uk/ Maths website full of worksheets, games

and interactive tools.

http://www.dltk-

kids.com/crafts/pirates/mmap.html How to make a treasure map!

Treasure, adventure and mystery … This half term we are learning all about treasure! We will learn how to become archeologists and dig to make our own amazing discoveries. We will be looking at what treasure means to us and explore different types of treasure such as paintings and artefacts.

In December we will be visiting London’s Natural History Museum.

The Treasure topic will also be combined with our story writing topic of Adventure and Mystery. We will be thinking about exciting settings, adventurous heroes and heroines and mysterious things that happen!

Mr Edwards | Year 3/4E

London

(England)

Olympic Year

1948

2012

It’s not as easy as you think …

3 of the best …

www.mymaths.co.uk

Our online math’s homework system – starts 21st November (Children will have been issued with a username and pass-

word by this date)

http://www.chiddingstone.kent.sch.uk

/homework/saxons/houses.htm This website has lots of information about

the Anglo-Saxons

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primar

yhistory/anglo_saxons/

This website has lots of information and

games related to Anglo-Saxons.

Settlements

This term Year 5 are studying the topic of Settlements. We are going to be looking specifically at the Anglo-Saxons. As part of our topic work, we visited the Anglo-Saxon village at West Stow on Wednesday 16th November. In our Literacy, we are writing non-chronological reports about daily life and settlements in Anglo-Saxon England. In Science we are investigating the properties of different materials in relation to buildings and their uses. In Maths our targets focus on time including telling the time on a digital and analogue clock in both 12 and 24 hour formats.

Our P.E. sessions will still take place on Tuesday and Friday afternoons. English homework is set on Wednesdays and due in by Monday.

Maths homework is set on Fridays and due in by Wednesday – although in two weeks time we will begin to use www.mymaths.co.uk and tasks may be set more regularly.

Mrs Burchell | Mr Hopkins | 5BH

Moscow

(Russia)

Olympic Year

1980

Time Crazy – Real Life Time Telling

Use your time telling skills to calculate how long the lamb and chicken must be cooked for.

Lamb must be cooked for 60 minutes for each kg

Chicken must be cooked for 40 minutes for each kg

It’s not as easy as you think …

Kilograms 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5

Lamb

Cooking time

in minutes

Chicken

Cooking time

in minutes

3 of the best …

http://www.pastexplorers.org.uk/

village/

A virtual tour of an Anglo-Saxon village – really good for exploring daily life

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/

ks2literacy.html

Great games to help improve literacy skills and understanding

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/

primaryhistory/anglo_saxons/

Really good for providing key information about events that happened in the Anglo-

Saxon period

Settlements

This half term Year 5/6 are looking at settlements and what makes a good one! We will be focusing our attention towards Anglo-Saxon settlements and paying particular attention to the life of an Anglo-Saxon person. Our school trip to West Stow in November, really helped us in exploring exactly what life was like in Anglo-Saxon times.

In our Literacy lessons we will be looking at writing non-chronological reports and use our growing knowledge of Anglo-Saxons to write

about their lifestyles. Our Science this half term is focusing on different materials and what their properties are.

It’s not as easy as you think …

Mrs Hinings | 5/6HP

Sydney

(Australia)

Olympic Year

2000

The Anglo-Saxons loved riddles – have a look at this riddle and see if you can solve it!

(The year 5/6 team know the answers, so come and see us once you’ve worked it out and we’ll see if you’re correct!)

3 of the best …

www.bbc.co.uk/revisewise Helpful hints to support your child’s

forthcoming SATs tests

http://

www.chiddingstone.kent.sch.uk/

homework/saxons/houses.htm

This website has lots of information about the Anglo-Saxons

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/

primaryhistory/anglo_saxons/ This website has lots of information and

games related to Anglo-Saxons.

Settlements

This term Year 6 are studying the topic of Settlements. We are going to be looking specifically at the Anglo-Saxons. As part of our topic work, we will be visiting the Anglo-Saxon village at West Stow. In our Literacy, we are writing non-chronological reports about daily life and settlements in Anglo-Saxon England. In Science we are investigating the properties of different materials in relation to buildings and their uses.

Our P.E. sessions will still take place on a Monday afternoon and a Thursday morning. Homework will be set on a Friday to be in by the following Wednesday.

It’s not as easy as you think …

Head over tails. Money on my mind again!

Put four coins on a table, in a row, all tails up, like this: Turn any three coins over: this counts as one move. You must turn three different coins to complete one move!

How many moves will it take to get all the coins on heads?

Remember: you have to turn three coins over each move.

Mrs Bird | 6B

Rome

(Italy)

Olympic Year

1960

Tails Tails

Tails

Tails

Cavell Primary & Nursery & School

Date Event

Mon 21 Nov Cavell Friends Meeting

Fri 25 Nov Quiz and Chips Evening

Wed 30 Nov Parents Maths Magician Café

Fri 9 Dec 2.30pm Christmas Fayre

Tues 13 Dec Christmas Performance Nursery—Year 1

6.00pm Carol Concert Year 2-6

Tue 29 Nov School Disco 4.30-6pm Y2-Y6

Fri 16 Dec Class Christmas Parties

Last Day before Christmas holiday

Thurs 15 Dec Christmas Dinner

Dates for the Diary

We would like to hear from you..

If you have any suggestions, questions or concerns, please let us know in order for us to deal with it.

We have a Parents’ Suggestion box in the main entrance foyer, or alternatively email us at office@cavell.norfolk.sch.uk

Term Dates 2011- 2012

Autumn Term

Wed 7th Sept - Fri 16th Dec

Half Term

24th - 28th Oct

Spring Term

Wed 4th Jan - Fri 30th March

Half Term

13th - 17th Feb

Summer Term

Mon 16th April - Fri 20th July

Half Term

4th - 8th June

May Day 7th May

Inset Day 27th June

Please note that booking holidays during term time will result in days of lost learning and this is strongly discouraged by the school.