Parent Newsletter 7 June 2019 Part of the CMAT family of Academies

Year 4: Ancient Egyptians Topic

Year 4 are thoroughly enjoying this term’s topic all about life in Ancient Egyptian times. In class, Year 4 are creating a display which shows the evolution of the topic to date. Thus far, we have learnt about:

How did the Egyptians communicate?

Where is Egypt?

What does Egypt’s landscape tell us about what life might have been like?

What are pyramids and what were they used for?

Who were the Pharaohs and why were they important?

How did the Egyptians grow food? (Farming)

How was society organised in ancient Egypt?

Where did the Ancient Egyptians live? (Houses, clothing, jewellery)

The children have also worked hard with their different homework projects, finding out further information about each area of our studies and presenting their findings in numerous ways. For example: creating maps, drawing labelled diagrams, creating models of pyramids, printing pictures and writing facts and paragraphs about areas of interest.

The photographs portray work completed both in class during lessons, and at home for homework. Well done Year 4.

Collaborative Playtime Art Activity

The children have had a wonderful time working collaboratively to create a castle with a farm and out-house from natural materials which they found through foraging around the school field. The children used dried grass, bark chippings, leaves and petals to create their masterpiece.

The Midday Supervisors were most impressed with the children’s idea, teamwork, creativeness and enjoyment in their activity. It has been a focal talking point around our school community. Well done to all involved.

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Year 3: CMAT Inter-School Primary Performance Poetry Competition

On Friday 24th May, eight Year 3 students were invited to take

part in the CMAT Inter-School Primary Performance Poetry

competition at The Lantern. All children performed to a fantastic

standard, we were up against some tough competition. One

DFPA group performed especially well, they came 2nd in the

competition against nine other groups. The children and staff

were very proud of their performances and rightly so.

The children showed great dedication with

learning their poems and working as a group

to create some fantastic performances.

Well done all.

EYFS: Caterpillars

Year 1: Tadpoles

Year 1 returned to school on Monday to find tadpoles

in their classroom! They spent some of our morning

observing the tadpoles. They noticed they had long tails

and were breathing in the water. They found out that

this is because tadpoles have gills.

When the tadpoles turn into frogs, which is called

metamorphosis, the frogs lose their gills and need to

breathe air. On Wednesday, the children were amazed

to notice that some of the tadpoles have grown back

legs, and some now have front legs too. The

tadpoles have caused great excitement in Year 1; the

children are very excited to see some frogs very soon.

Last term, Foundation learnt about the story ‘Dear Zoo’ and wrote letters

to the zoo to send them a pet. This week we were delighted, the zoo sent

us something to look after. We have been sent five caterpillars.

The children were very excited and quickly began naming them. Our

caterpillars are called: Rosalie, Utdoo, Pearl, Mrs and Gold.

We are sure you will agree that these names are perfect. Over the next

few weeks we will watch them grow and record what happens to them.

Foundation will become caterpillar experts, so please feel free to ask

them what they have found out. We will let you know how they get on.

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Pyjamarama Day

FODA School Disco

Our FODA school disco took place at the end of last term. Thank you to FODA and all helpers. The children had a great time.

The children really enjoyed wearing their pyjamas to school today in order to help raise money for the Booktrust; the UK’s largest children’s reading charity.

Each year, the Booktrust reaches 3.4 million children across the UK with books, resources and support to help develop a love of reading.

The amount raised will be disclosed during next week’s newsletter. Well done everyone.

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DFPA’s Weekly Awards

Every Friday

afternoon,

during our

Celebration

Assembly, awards are handed out to students for

their achievements and / or progress displayed in

various areas during that week.

This week, well done to:

Reading: George, Emma, William, Heidi, Aiden,

Abbey-Rose, Caitlin, Trinity

Handwriting: Bella, Kayden, Tate, Jaxon, Alice, Katie,

Cillian

Maths: Caelan, Luna, Amelia, Lilly-Ann, Odhran, Jaz, Erin Science / Topic: Sadie-Grace, Chhaya, Dangiras, Faith, Daniel, Riley, Lewis Writing: Markas, Sasha, Lexi, Lottie, Huw, Evie, Logan

Character Strength,: Respect: Lewis, Rosalie, Poppy, Xanthe, Luke, Sophie, Billy, Jessica

Attendance 3 June 2019 - 7 June 2019

Lates

Whole school target 96%

Whole School 97.06% 0

EYFS 95% 0

Year 1 97.74% 0

Year 2 98.43% 0

Year 3 97.6% 0

Year 4 96.21% 0

Year 5 99.66% 0

Year 6 94.78% 0

Thank You

Thank you to Mr Laver for the kind donation of

plastic folders to use in school.

All4Sports Breakfast Club Bookings

Could we politely remind parents that before attendance at All4Sports Breakfast Club at Downham Feoffees Primary Academy, a booking should be made via: https://all4sports.magicbooking.co.uk/Account/Login Bookings can be made 7 days a week 24 hours a day. In the last two weeks of the last half term we had 18 children attend who were not booked on. This makes it difficult to plan for the purchase of food etc. in advance if we are not aware of numbers attending on the day. Not booking on also means that a payment is not added to your account on the day of attendance but a week later when we manually input late bookings. If you are unable to make the booking online for whatever reason, please email us at all4sports1@gmail.com in order that we can make the booking for you. All accounts should now be made up to date with payments made for any sessions attended in the last half term. We appreciate your support in this matter. Thank you, Mrs Sam Cross All4Sports Customer Liaison Manager

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Diary Dates

June 2019

Friday, 7th June Pyjamarama Day £1 donation to raise money for BookTrust Tuesday, 11th June NSPCC Workshops 9:00am—10:00 am for Parents and Carers in the school hall Tuesday, 11th June Year 3 Class Assembly, 2:40pm Wednesday, 12th June New Reception Intake Evening: 6:00pm—7:00pm Thursday, 20th June KS2 Sports Day 1:30pm—3:00pm Friday, 21st June KS1 Sports Day 1:30pm—3:00pm

July 2019

Monday 1st July, Tuesday 2nd July Bikeability, Year 6 Tuesday 2nd July EVOLVE! Peterborough, 6pm Wednesday, 3rd July EYFS Class Assembly, 2.40pm Wednesday 3rd, Thursday 4th July Bikeability, Year 5 Wednesday 10th, Thursday 11th, Friday 12th July Year 6 Residential Trip to Edale Tuesday, 23rd July Last day of the Summer Term for students and staff Year 6 Production for parents / carers, 2:00pm

Academic Year 2019 / 2020

September 2019

Monday, 2nd September Staff Training Day Tuesday, 3rd September Start of Term for pupils

Safeguarding Safety and Welfare

Thank you to all parents and carers for ensuring

your child arrives safely to school each day, as we

move towards the last half term of the 2018-19

academic year we would like to remind you of our

policies and our procedures on the following

areas.

Weekly Attendance Letters

Application for Leave of Absence

Absence due to Illness

If your child is absent but you have not

notified the school of their absence

Children Late to School

Non-emergency doctor and dental

appointments, we politely ask these are made

outside of the school day.

You will have received a letter by email this week,

containing more information about each of the

above areas.

Our policies for attendance can be found on the

CMAT Trust website:

https://www.cmatrust.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/CMAT-Attendance-Policy-2019-2020.pdf

Emails to Teachers Should you need to email one of the class teachers, please send it via the school office: office@downhamfeoffees.org and it will be passed directly to the teacher. Thank you.

Reminders: Tuesday 11th June NSPCC Workshop for Parents and Carers:

9.00am—10.00am in the School Hall, please let the office know if you will be attending. Please note, it would not be suitable to bring younger children along.

Year 3 Class Assembly: 2.40pm in the School Hall