LITTLE SUTTON PRIMARY SCHOOL FRIDAY 15TH NOVEMBER 2019 DESIGNATED NATIONAL LEAD SCHOOL & ENGLISH HUB

Head Teacher Mrs R Davis BEd Hons

National Leader of Education

DeputyHead Teacher Mrs N Arkinstall BA Hons

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Worcester Lane Sutton Coldfield B75 5NL

Closures 12th December Elections 6th Jan Training Day 7th May Elections 8th May Bank Holiday

Dates for your Diary November

19th Y4 Maths Workshop 25th Y1 Maths Workshop 28th Y5 Literacy Workshop

December 5th Christmas Fayre 9th Cluster Carol Service Lichfield Cathedral 10th KS1 Performance 9am 11th KS1 Performance 9am 13th YR to Birches Valley 17th Y4 Concert 2pm 18th Y3 Concert 9am 19th Y5&Y6 Concert 2pm FoLSS Disco 20th Party Day Break up for Xmas

January 6th School Closed 7th School re-opens 24th Y2 Literacy and SATS Workshop for Parents 31st Y6 Workshop for parents

February 6th Parents evening 11th Parents evening 12th Y4 Class Assembly 14th Break up for half term 24th School re-opens

March 20th YR Mothering Sunday Assembly 25th Y5 Assembly 9am

April 3rd Break up for Easter 20th School re-opens

May 11th KS2 Sats week 22nd Break up for half term

June 1st School re-opens 12th Y6 Residential 24th Y1 Assembly 9am 26th Sports Day

Anti Bullying Week This week is National Anti-Bullying Week, the theme of which is ‘Change Starts With Us’. All our children have participated in assemblies and PSHE lessons with this as the key focus. Some children came to school in odd socks on Tuesday to celebrate the fact that everyone is different and unique. We have been encouraging the children to ask each other how they are and to include others who may be on their own at lunch and break times, making sure we look after each other.

This Week’s Headlines

Children in Need—Today the children came into school resplendent in their Pudsey clothes! It was lovely to see them really engaging with this excellent cause for which we raised £293. Thank you to everyone who sent in donations and to parents for their efforts with the children's outfits. The total raised was £347.87. Also a big thank you to parents for sending in cakes for the cake sale, which increased the total by £157.60. Grand Total £505.47!

Remembrance Service—On Monday we held a remembrance service which included observing two minutes silence and singing one of our school anthems ‘Ten Not Out’. The service closed with prayers and the National Anthem.

Coats— Due to the weather becoming more wintery, please ensure that your child comes to school wearing a coat. Thank you.

Christmas Fayre– FOLSS are organising a Christmas Fayre on Thursday 5th December. If you are able to take part and help out, please do get in touch. We would also appreciate any donations or raffle prizes to support the event.

Open Evening—Last night we held our Open Evening for prospective Reception 2020 parents. This was well attended and we had so many lovely compliments about our school. Thank you to our pupils and staff who came back for the evening.

Reception Admissions– September 2020 —The online application process is now live to register your child for reception 2020. Please visit the website at; www.birmingham.gov.uk/school admissions for further information.

Road safety Week— This Year, Road Safety Week runs from 18-24 November 2019 with the theme ‘step up for safe streets’. We will be discussing road safety within school.

Musician of the Month Johannes Brahms

Artist of the Month Wassily Kandinsky

Word of the Month- Arduous

Synonym-Gruelling

Antonym-Effortless

Inspirational Person of the Month

Greta Thunberg Environmental Activist

Year 1 Friendship Workshop On Monday, Year 1 took part in a workshop about friendship. The session was led by Andi Markham and his colleague Helen and focused on how the children can show empathy and kind-ness to others. The pupils learnt a dance routine to Toy Story’s ‘You’ve Got a Friend in Me’ and thoroughly enjoyed the session. This was a fantastic way to start Anti-Bullying week and the chil-dren gained some excellent skills to widen their friendship group.

Year 5 Trip to Space Centre On Monday, Year Five visited the National Space Centre in Leicester. They explored many exhibits including; Space Travel, The Moon, The Planets, Stars and many more, where they collected a great deal of information and facts for their homework projects. Amongst all the attractions, particular highlights were; climbing the tower to view a real-life rocket, seeing the spacesuits worn by many famous astronauts, steering an air-propelled-hover-chair and creating their own weather forecast. After lunch, the children had the opportunity to visit the spec-

tacular Sir Patrick Moore Planetarium Cinema. They watched a film all about the life of astronauts and there were many whoops and cheers as a result of the special effects! The children showed exemplary behaviour throughout the trip and we were incredibly proud of them. Well done Y5!

Reception Activity Session Reception welcomed lots of very special visitors last Thursday afternoon for their Family Phonics Activity Session. The children were very proud to share their learning with family members and completed a variety of different phonics based activities (both inside and outdoors), showing off their fantastic decoding, blending and segmenting skills! Many thanks to all who attended.

Menu For Next Week In addition, there is a salad / fruit bar and a crusty bread basket. Please note, choices may vary slightly due to circumstances beyond our control. Every week we add additional items to encourage children to try different foods.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Chicken Curry

Fish Crunch Pizza Jacket

Potatoes *

Sweetcorn Peas

* Rice New

Potatoes *

Iced Sponge Custard

Chicken Pie Chicken Fil-

lets Fish Fingers Cheese Pas-

ta Jacket potato

* Carrots

Sweetcorn *

Pasta New Pota-

toes *

Iced Sponge Custard

Chicken/ veg lasagne

Chicken Fil-lets

Fish Fingers jacket potato

* Sweetcorn

Mixed vege-tables

* Spaghetti

Garlic Bread *

Carrot Cake

Roast Chicken

Fish Fingers Cheese Flan Baguettes/

wraps Jacket potato

* Carrots Broccoli

* Roast pota-

toes Mashed pota-

to *

Cookies

Cottage/ veg Pie

Chicken fillets

Jacket potato

Lemon sole grill

* Sweetcorn

Broccoli *

New Pota-toes

pasta *

Rice Pudding

This Weeks Awards This week the following awards were present-ed in Celebration Assembly;

Lunchtime Behaviour Award— 1JS& 3NJ Classroom Awards— 2CH & 4TV Winning House— Cook with 213 points Attendance— RKS &IJF with 100% Overall Attendance— 98.63% Annual Attendance Target— 97%

Congratulations to the following children who received awards in Celebration Assembly— Olivia 1JS, Megan 2CH, Kavvi 3NJ, Aaliya 4TV, Daisy 5AL& Amber 6EW

Sun Reading Tokens The Sun newspaper is promoting a reading book scheme and are asking parents/guardians to collect 3,500 tokens between November 2019 and February 2020, in return for which the Sun newspaper will give us £600 worth of books. If you are able to collect any of these tokens, please hand them into the school office or to your child's class teacher. Hopefully we will be able to collect enough for us to convert them into a variety of reading materials for our library and classrooms. Thank you in anticipation.

YR Hedgehog Visit On Tuesday a representative from Snuffles Hedgehog Rescue visited Reception. Marilyn gave the children a very informative interactive talk on hedgehogs, which they really enjoyed!

Year 3 Reading Workshop On Tuesday, a reading workshop was held for our Y3 children and parents. It began with a brief E-Safety talk from Mrs Hawkes, our IT Leader, about the importance of keeping our children safe along with information, ideas and strategies on how to do this. After this, Mrs Whittaker then explained the Y3 English curriculum with particular focus on reading. She emphasised the importance of placing real value on reading and the various ways parents can support with this at home. The children then joined their parents to read the fable “ The Fox and the Crow”. Using a variety of different question stems, the children answered questions and discussed their thoughts with their parents. Mrs Johnston and Mrs Byrne followed this by looking at some of the grammatical features of the text. The session ended with the parents and children working together to answer an APE (Answer, Prove, Explain) style question. There was a lot of really lovely, positive feedback from the morning and many thanks for all the support from our families, which made the event such a success.

E-Safety Tip of the Week This week is Anti Bullying Week. The theme is “ Change Starts With Us”. There is always someone that can help and someone you can talk to if you are being bullied;- parents, carers, teachers, they will always listen. You can also look at these useful websites for support; www.childline.org.uk / www.bullying.co.uk/ www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/ #antibullyingweek

Year 6 Gang Prevention Workshop This week, Y6 participated in a fun, informative workshop which taught the children to differentiate between healthy friendship choices and those which may be unwise. The children worked together to recognise ‘ red flag’ situations and how they could protect themselves from potentially dangerous activities or harmful influences. As they move towards greater independence, the children were encouraged always to share information about their whereabouts, activities and friendship groups with their parents in order to maintain relationships built on mutual trust. The children are to be commended for sharing their thoughts and feelings with such maturity.

Junior PCSOS On Tuesday, we welcomed PCSO Duncan Long and Superintendent Sarah Burton into school to carry out a presentation assembly for all of our junior PCSOs. The Junior PCSOs have all successfully completed a seven week course in order to carry out the role. During the assembly they took the pledge and were presented with a certificate and badge. Well done to all of the pupils, we are very proud of you. We look forward to seeing you make a difference to our school and the local community.