NEXT WEEK’S DIARY:

Mon Y3 Netball—lunchtime

Y2 Tennis, Y3 Basketball, Y1

Speech & Drama

Tues

CHOIR

Y2 visit to the Assembly

Rooms

No Chess, Y3 Swim Squad,

Y2/3 Chess, Y3 Making

Games, Y2 Hockey, Y2 Story

Club, Y1 Football, Reception

Speech & Drama

Wed 1G Orienteering Day

Y3 Science Club, Y2/3 Animation Club, Y2/3 Sewing, Y2/3 Chess, Y2 Art, Y2 Football, Y1 Karate, Y1 K’nex

Thurs

RS Assembly

1B Orienteering Day

Y3 Tag Rugby, Y3 Street

Dance, Y2 Nature Club, Y2

Athletics, Y2 Speech &

Drama, Y1/2 Ballet, Y1 Lego

Fri

Clifton School Friends

meeting at 2.15pm,

venue tbc.

Y3 Football, Y2/3 Maths

Challenge, Y1/2/3 Music

Box,Y1 Sports Club

What a wonderful sight at school today with all of the children and staff dressed in onesies and

pyjamas—this has all been for Children in Need! There have been various activities and parties

all day and even an art auction in Nursery! Thank you for your generous contributions, we will

let you know the total raised next week.

On Monday, we held our Remembrance Assembly and we were delighted to be joined by Nick

Shepherd, our Chair of Governors. During the assembly we challenged him to a competition to

see if he had a better memory than one of our pupils. He was beaten by Alex B in Year 3, but

he took his defeat gracefully! We discussed why we remember our fallen soldiers in November

and the significance of the poppy. The children impeccably observed a two minute silence at

11.00 am which was followed by the Last Post, beautifully played by Ellie Richardson, a 4th form

pupil at St Peter’s – thank you Ellie for coming over to Clifton—the children were in awe of

your playing and well done children for your lovely behaviour.

Our Library opened for business on Monday with huge excitement! Children have the

opportunity to loan and return a book once a week. Thanks again to Mrs Hall and Mrs

Headlam-Morley for setting up this fantastic facility, I know it will be widely used.

Year 1 had an exciting afternoon on Wednesday, when they enjoyed wonderful weather for

their open top bus tour of York. Thank you Miss Beadle, Mrs Griffiths, staff and parents for

accompanying them—I am sure you had a great time!

It was lovely to welcome parents to the Forum sessions on Wednesday. It gives us an

opportunity to inform you of the work we are doing at school. Items discussed included building works, curriculum developments, car parking, dining experience and there were also

discussions in the open forum. We do find these sessions useful and any feedback of how we

can improve/encourage a larger attendance at these events will be most welcomed.

Year 2 went for a cookery session to the STO Cookery room on Wednesday. They baked

some bread buns and learned about the dynamics of yeast—memories of Home Economics

lessons came flooding back from my school days! Great fun—thank you to both Mrs Hall and

Mrs Spencer, Lipfon Tang from St Peter’s and all of the parent helpers. On the cookery front,

we have now advertised for a new Chef at Clifton, to commence in January. If you know of

anyone who may be interested, please pass on the information. Follow the link: Advert for

Chef.

Also on Wednesday, the Nursery visited the STP Art Gallery and Studio. This inspired them to

produce their paintings of Pudsey Bear. Thank you to Mr Darmody, Head of Art, for arranging

the visit.

On Thursday, 3M performed an excellent assembly all about The Titanic. The children acted

superbly, providing the audience with a glimpse at what happened on the voyage and what the

entertainment would have been like in 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class. I thought the ballroom and Irish

dancing were simply fantastic! Well done to the whole cast and Miss Morgan for preparing the

children.

Whilst walking around the school today, I could hear the wonderful sounds of Christmas songs.

This is the start of such a wonderful time of year for the children in school and it is very busy.

Please keep an eye on the school calendar and diary, website and emails for up to date

information and events! Further in the newsletter, the Clifton School Friends (CSF) committee

are asking for volunteers to help on the Christmas Activity day, we always appreciate your

support.

The St Peter’s School Drama Department are performing a production of ‘Alice’.

Two of our pupils, Nell and Tess are sharing the part of young Alice in this

adaptation of the famous story. If you would like tickets please find full details

on the website, click here.

The school building looks stunning, the children and staff have put so much work into the

vibrant displays celebrating their work. Please take the opportunity to look around the school

and classrooms to admire the standard - you will not fail to be impressed. Thank you to all the

staff for creating such a wonderful learning environment for our children to work in!

Have a lovely weekend!

Best wishes,

CoMPasS You can follow us ...….. Newsletter No: 9 Friday, 15th November 2013

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Year 1 were set a challenge to build a house for their class animal (owl and wonky donkey). This house had to be strong enough to stand being huffed and puffed and had to try to keep out the rain. The children could choose from a wide variety of materials and think about their properties. Is the roof waterproof? What would make a strong wall? Mrs Griffiths and Miss Beadle were very impressed with the children’s creations! Well done Year 1. 3C thoroughly

enjoyed

exploring our

new library.

We browsed all the books,

made our choices and then

carefully scanned the

barcodes and our library

cards to

borrow the

books. We

can’t wait

for next

week’s

session!

This week Nursery visited the Whitestone

Gallery at St Peter's. Mrs Darmody kindly gave

us a tour of the gallery and we

looked at the fabulous art work

produced by the older

students. The

children

showed great

interest in

what they were

shown and

behaved

beautifully, the staff were very

proud! We all returned to

Nursery truly inspired by what

we had seen

and have some

great new art

projects

planned.

Beatrice, Callum and Tilly

This week School Council interviewed Mrs Calvert and Mrs Robertshaw from the School’s Catering Department. The children asked the

visitors some super, very grown up questions and gave us lots of ‘food for thought’(!) Mrs Calvert and Mrs Robertshaw are going to look in

to some of the suggestions that the children made. Thank you very much to both of them for giving up their time to come and be ‘grilled’(!)

by our School Council!

We are so lucky in Year 2! 2H and 2S took delivery of

another riddle on Tuesday and we are all very excited

about finding out about

Georgian York! The first thing

that we have discovered is that

there was a very famous

highwayman called Dick Turpin

imprisoned in the Castle Prison,

now the Castle Museum. We

have been singing Stand and

Deliver…which Mrs Hall loves…

and writing stories about

highwaymen!

The world

record for the

number of elves

in one place at

one time was

held at Stockeld

Park at the

weekend in aid

of Martin House

Hospice.

Total 1,110

elves! Well

done.

Participants from Clifton: Florence, Ivo, Dora

and Callum

We have had a very busy week and so have our teddy bears! Our teddies

came to school and enjoyed listening to stories, playing in our super loft and

planning our picnic. Although we didn’t take our teddies to Forest School (it was too muddy), we

made dens and houses for them and had an exciting time.

2S teamed up with 2H this week to use the cookery room at St Olave’s.

They had a very busy afternoon of mixing, kneading and decorating

recipes whilst waiting for the rolls to bake. One batch of rolls was

made without yeast to see what difference yeast makes.

All agreed that the yeast does make bread much lighter

and easier to chew.

Following their visit to The Deep in Hull,

3ST have written stories about shipwrecks

and underwater archaeology and created

acrostic poems about sea creatures. They

used water colour crayons and stencils to

create sea life pictures.

CLIFTON SCHOOL FRIENDS

CHRISTMAS ACTIVITY

DAY

Friday, 6th December

As in previous years The Clifton School Friends are assisting the teaching staff with the forthcoming activity day and invite parents to volunteer to help in school on the day. A form will be available in the foyer from Monday for you to sign up. You can choose to help for the whole day or for either the morning or afternoon sessions. Your support is very much appreciated!

Monty, Katie, Samuel, Tara, Nell,

Shaurya, James, Rithika, Leila and

Rory

CAMERON WAKERLEY’S

JUMPER HAS BEEN LOST

FOR A FEW WEEKS—

PLEASE CHECK AT HOME

AND IN

YOUR

CAR!

Clifton library opened for business

this week! Here are some pictures of

the children enjoying all our

wonderful books!

St Peter’s Community Action at Christmas

Special events

This year, the Community Action Team at St

Peter’s have taken on two new projects, to run

alongside our usual Christmas events.

Firstly we are hosting a pre Christmas Fair on Saturday, 16th November from 1pm to

4pm in the Memorial Hall. This is to help raise funds for the Island Charity, which provides mentoring

support for local children. The event is well worth a visit as there will be lots of stalls for children and

their families, with competitions, crafts etc so please come along and support it if you can.

Secondly, we are appealing to your generosity over the Christmas period by asking for donations of gifts

such as chocolates, sweets and biscuits which would be suitable as prizes and presents at the parties

which we host for children and the elderly in the local community. We are not doing grocery parcels this

year, so we are hoping for donations of Christmas gifts instead. There are boxes for your donations in

the Monkey Cage at St Peter’s and in the entrances at St Olave’s and Clifton.

Thank you very much for your support.

This week in 3M we were so excited to put on our

class assembly all about the Titanic! Thank you so

much to all the parents who came to support and

watch! Here are a few

photos:

In Reception we have been preparing for

Children in Need by bringing our bears into

school for the

week. The

children have

drawn their

bears using

pencils and

watercolours

and designed

outfits for

them, giving them a ‘Pudsey Makeover’. We will finish the

week with a party which the children have planned and

have been busy

making preparations

for. They have been

wrapping pass the

parcels, making

jellies and

constructing piñatas.

Florence,

Edward, Ben,

Billy, Lily,

Collin, Callum,

Aleena and

William