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St Faithian Summer Term: w/e 19 June 2020

Head’s Corner

Who’d have thought we could have had such a lovely day based around pumpkins. Mr Andrews however, achieved this and with his inimitable humour and enthusiasm. Sadly, we have no pumpkins in our vegetable patch but the children and I are munching our way through some delicious broad beans and it won’t be long before the strawberries ripen ready for eating. How fantastic it is that that the Year 5s join us on Monday!

Nursery News

The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a favourite story for our Nursery children. Inspired by this lovely book, they busily created their own caterpillars and painted colourful butterflies. Tremendous fun was had exploring mini-beasts in ice which was a popular activity on a hot day. Everyone loved the outdoor activity, moving like butterflies with streamers in the garden.

STEAM ACTIVITY DAY

It was full STEAM ahead on Wednesday as the pupils at St Faith’s took part in another creative cross curricular STEAM day. They travelled to Bangladesh where they met Jui, a six-year-old child from the Rajasthan region of the country. They learnt about Jui’s life and she showed us the difference that growing pumpkins can make to the lives of people living in flood affected regions of Bangladesh. Practical Action helped Jui’s family learn how to grow pumpkins on the sandbar left behind once the flooded rivers subsided. Her family are now able to grow food to feed their family and any income generated from the excess pumpkins will be used to tutor their children.

Our St Faithian’s spent the morning learning more about Bangladesh; the country, people and its geography. The children were set mathematical and scientific challenges within this real-life context, which gave them the opportunity to display the impressive skills they have acquired from the core subjects. For their final challenge the children were required to take part in a Design and Technology activity which tasked them to create packaging for Jui’s family’s pumpkin seeds. Their finished product required a recipe, based on pumpkins to be presented on their package design. They were also assessed on their ability to link the Bangladesh concept learnt in the morning sessions to their products design.

The creativity of our children always impresses me and with each STEAM task they raise the bar higher and higher. Just look at the range of packaging from across the school. The future is bright with such a hard-working and considerate group of St Faithian’s!

BIRTHDAYS Poppy Spicer

Accelerated reader

Target 1 Zara Van Ritbergen, Julie Oprchal,

Charlie Broun, Edward Dove, Sophia Baker

Target 2 Freddie Heffer, Noah McCann,

Safiya Van Ritbergen, Safiya Dubignon,

Target 4 Francesca Savin

Target 5

Anna Woodhead

Target 7 Anaïs Andrews

RB Luca Barnes For amazing writing about ‘Elmer the Elephant’

RR Quinn Hewett For embracing home learning

1CP Hannah Robinson For adapting to the change from home learning to school learning

1T Eshan Pal For his impressive work this week in English and Maths

2L April Snow For a lovely online performance during assembly

2R Safiya Dubignon For her high standard of work during our home learning

3B Lily Read For her beautiful still life painting of her dance shoes

3F Gurveena Dhaliwal For her positive attitude towards learning at home

4A Fraser Bunyan For excellent effort in his Maths this week

4M Arabella Porter For her amazing creative writing

5A Skye McGarry For a fantastic week with excellent work

5M Elena Carmichael For an excellent start to life at St Faith’s

6G Rafi Brennan Ray For working incredibly hard in all subjects

6W Jamie Coombes For taking life back in school like a duck to water

STAR OF THE WEEK

MUSIC STAR OF THE WEEK Cleo Parkinson for her wonderful letter from

the composer John Williams

STAR AWARDS SILVER (200+)

Madeleine Taylor

GOLD (300+) Harleena Dhaliwal, Julie Oprchal,

Poppy Andrews, Sienna Hirst, Cobi Booth, Leo Alexander, Roy Benayahu, Roxi Booth,

Kishore Chandrasegaran, James Evans, Emilio Lockhart, Clara Montgomery,

April Snow, Imogen Norman, Connie Reppin, Zara Van Ritbergen, Eva Wyon,

Alice Thomlinson, Flora Bunyan, Harry Daw, Sienna Drury, Safiya Dubignon, Harry Evans,

Leo Harrison-Verrion, William Lee, Matyas Oprchal, Ashmitha Palanisamy,

James Quinn, Daisy Robinson, Arnav Siddappa, Francesca Savin, Jamie Coombes, Jude Leberl,

Jack Manser, George Overy, Filipe Papadopoulos, Jeea Hothi,

Charlie Farquhar, Romy Todd, Harpriya Dhaliwal, Maddie Ward, Holly Rooke, Caspian Finlay, Gideon Wade, Anaïs Andrews,

Krishna Patel, Teddy Ridings

PLATINUM (400+) Sami Ur-Rehman, Charlie Broun, Martha Rang,

Louis Hunt, Rosie Hudsmith

HEADTEACHERS AWARD

Matilda Ford for her brilliant Maths work

Penny Ford for the most amazing

presentation of her Magic Box poem

Anna Woodhead, Dexter Stavri and Noah McCann for creating superb information posters on Viking life