Dear
Parents/Carers,
What
a truly fan-tab-lous first week back we’ve had! I’m gutted it’s Friday already!
It’s all been going on…
Books,
glorious books!
What
a fantastic start book week has been to the half term! Children across
school have been buzzing this week as they've explored their focus book through
exciting reading, writing, drama, science and art activities. Reception
children have been writing their own endings to Oliver Jeffers' book, Lost and
Found which even included the main penguin meeting One Direction to make him
more happy! Key Stage 1 have been captivated by the beautiful pictures and
story of the Whales Song and wrote some stunning letters and prepared
gorgeous gifts that they would send to the whale. Children in years 3 and
4 let their imagination's go wild when they created their own weird and
wonderful medicines using a bizzare cocktail of ingredients inspired by Roald
Dahl's, George's Marvellous Medicine. They followed this up with some
incredibly written diary entries describing the day they gave the medicine to
their evil relative with explosive effects! Finally, years 5 and 6
enjoyed a magical picture book called FaRther producing some first class
writing and art work inspired by the stunning artwork in the book! It all
culminated today with a fantastic show by West End Musicals in
Schools which brought together characters and themes from the books we've
been working on! What a week! But it doesn't stop there as we
have an author visiting school on Monday. Simon Higgins will
be sharing some of his books and experiences as an author in
an assembly and then working with a group of children from local
schools on a creative writing project. Simon will be selling his books for
£2.99 after school on Monday in the hall so please come and meet him. You
can look up his latest book Moon Shadow, Eye of the Beast! Watch this
space for details of our forthcoming Book Fair event too.......we just love
books at Cookridge!
Friends
Our
fantastic Friends PTA group met last night to make plans for the half term
ahead. There are plenty of events to add to your calendar this half term, with
a Mother’s Day sale planned for the week leading up to 30th March, the
Easter disco on Thursday 3rd April and our annual Easter Egg
competition which will be happening during the final week of the half term… So
get thinking! More news, soon! So far this year, Friends have raised over £5000
and we are near to our £8000 target for new playground equipment. That is
simply incredible AND we’ve had some fun along the way! The next Friends
meeting is scheduled for 6.30pm on Thursday 27th March and we will
be planning an exciting new event, coming in May – mysteriously titled “The
Cookridge Challenge Night”. If you want to get involved in planning a fun,
family event please come along.
Sports News
The
KS2 Ultimate Dodgeball Tournament on Tuesday was a huge success with the drama
rumbling throughout school! We had some fantastic games and a great atmosphere
was created by all pupils - the noise from people cheering was deafening at
times! Huge congratulations to Class 5's Yellow Team who were the winners of
the LKS2 competition. They played a 4 game thriller against Class 6's Yellow
Team who gained 2nd place. In UKS2 the winning team were Class 9's Yellow team
and they played Class 8's Blue team in a tense final.
The sponsorship money raised so far has been outstanding; with one pupil in UKS2 managing to raise over £100 for the British Heart Foundation and school sports equipment! Thank you to all parents/carers who have supported their children through this event. A reminder that all sponsorship forms & monies collected should be put in an envelope with your child's name and event name by Friday 7th March and handed in to the class teacher or school office.
The sponsorship money raised so far has been outstanding; with one pupil in UKS2 managing to raise over £100 for the British Heart Foundation and school sports equipment! Thank you to all parents/carers who have supported their children through this event. A reminder that all sponsorship forms & monies collected should be put in an envelope with your child's name and event name by Friday 7th March and handed in to the class teacher or school office.
On
Wednesday, 10 children from Year 5/6 went to St Marys to compete in a Y5/6 Tri
Golf competition against other local schools. The event was split into
different activities which included putting and chipping and on each activity
there were points to be scored. After over an hour of shot making and point
scoring, Cookridge managed to come third in the final standings which is an
incredible achievement for our first time entering this competition. Well done
to Jake Smithson, Essay Belay, Liam Jones, Nathan Brown, Mackenzie Turner,
Millie Lucey, Sophie Russell, Willow Driscoll-Duke, Kaceylee Reynolds and Lily
Coultas. Special mentions must go to Lily who stepped in at very short notice
and to Mrs Turner for her excellent photography skills. The pictures are
available to view online on the school sports blog, www.cookridgeschoolsport.blogspot.co.uk/
Y5/6 Football- The school football team continue their league campaign next Tuesday on the school field with matches against Adel St John and Holy Trinity. If you can spare some time, please go and cheer on the boys!
A
final PE note re: kit. Please can ALL children have a suitable pair of trainers
for their PE lessons (white soles if possible) and please don't forget socks!
This has proved a problem this week with girls who come to school in tights. We
don't want anyone getting blisters!
Attendance
We keep on coming to school at the minute and
we are perilously close to our 96% target! Next week, the local cluster of
schools is once again running it’s “Give it 100%” event, with all pupils who
attend school every day during the month of March being entered into a prize
draw which includes movie tickets for the whole family. With attendance like
that below, I have a feeling a good number of our pupils will be in with a
chance of winning! It’s an exciting Class 5-6 draw again this week…. Well done,
guys and keep it up!
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National Minimum ‘Good’ Expectation
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Target
2013-2014
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Attendance this week
13/02/2014-26/02/2014
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Year to date
04/09/2013- 26/02/2014
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95%
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96%
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96.7%
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95.9%
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Class attendance figures for the W/E 26/02/2014
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Rec A
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Rec B
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Class 1
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Class 2
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Class 3
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Class 4
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Class 5
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Class 6
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Class 7
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Class 8
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Class 9
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92.3%
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92.7%
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96.3%
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96.7%
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98.0%
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95.5%
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99.3%
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99.3 %
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97.2%
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98.2 %
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97.0%
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Have
a wonderful weekend,
Mrs
Bailey
