Queensway Community Junior School Newsletter Friday 23rd March 2012 School Attendance Actual: 95% School Target: 96% Ofsted Update Box: 23rd March • We had a visit from some Department of Education Advisors this week. They were impressed by our children’s work and behaviour. They loved the quadrangle. • Home work celebration! Homework has been particularly good recently with excellent contributions from Venus, Pluto and Jupiter’s children. Special mentions for Gabrielle Paulauskaite and Marcos Viera from Pluto, Chloe Hall and Callum Gray from Venus and Levi Whittred and Tobiasz Szczerbicki from Jupiter. • Governors have been monitoring the school last week. They were impressed with Art Day. They also talked to children about their literacy and maths lessons, the Governors were very pleased with how confident our children are about what they have to do next in their learning. WEEKLY CLASS AWARDS: Attendance - EARTH Most Hard Working - SATURN Best Behaved - JUPITER FANTASTIC WORK: Please see the 2 fantastic pieces of work attached to the newsletter - a poignant short story by Courtney Hubbard in year 6 and a lovely thank you letter to Banham Zoo from Ellie Paremain. Well done to both of you. EASTER HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES: Reading Café at Thetford Library Monday 2nd April 10.45am-12.00 Tuesday 3rd April 2.15-3.30pm (See attached flier for more details) Chewits Premier Sports Football & Street Dance Day Thursday 5th April Multi sports Activity Days Thursday 12th and Friday 13th April - 09.30-15.30 (Leaflet sent home last week, copies in office) Camp Adventure at Breckland Leisure Centre Monday 2nd, Wednesday 4th, Wednesday 11th, Friday 13th April - 9.30-11.30am (See attached flier for details) Thank you to everyone who took part in the Queensway Sport Relief Mile and donated money. It was a fantastic turn out and everyone did very well, look out for pictures in next weeks Bury Free Press. We will let you know next week how much we raised. Calling all willing and able volunteers for your ideas! Staff are busy planning a Grounds Activities week for June 28th. We would like your ideas about developing garden areas as well as future plans for play areas. Please chat with any member of staff or put ideas in the parents box in the front entrance. If you want to help out please see class teachers. QUEENSWAY’S GOT TALENT! Well done and thank you to everyone who took part and helped out in Queensway’s Got Talent on Tuesday it was a fantastic event. Congratulations to: 1st place - CHARLIE WILSON for singing a song from the musical Hairspray 2nd place - Alice Holloway, Courtney Hubbard, Isla Dear, Shannon Southgate and Leigh Mortimer for singing the song Perfect 3rd place - Leon Racey for singing a song by Lincoln Park Prizes: 1st place £30, 2nd place £10, 3rd place £5 Certificates for everyone. YEAR 4 THEATRE VISIT: This was a great success the children had a fantastic morning and were captivated by the performance. It was a very informative show and they have learnt lots about Ancient Eygpt, Louise Cole was even Mummified!!! Luckily she’s back to normal now though. YEAR 3 BANHAM ZOO TRIP: A great time was had by all and the Snow Leopards seem to be very popular with the children. The children’s behaviour was impeccable and they really enjoyed getting up close and being able to touch the Creepy Crawlies! EAST ANGLIAN DANCE COMPETITION Congratulations and well done to some of our children who took part in a regional dance competition in Peterborough on Sunday. They are part of the Streetvibe Dance Crew. Both the under 10’s and under 14’s groups came 4th out of 40 teams which is fantastic. WELL DONE - KAILEM HAMILTON, FAITH DAVIDGE and TIA ELLIOTT! Attendance Award The class with the best attendance last week was Earth, WELL DONE. In second place was Jupiter and in third place was Venus. Last week Year to Date Last Week Year to Date JUPITER 98.1% 95.8% ↑ SATURN 92.4% 94.2% ↓ MERCURY - 94.3% 94.0% NEPTUNE 92.6% 95.9% ↓ EARTH 98.3% 95.8% ↑ PLUTO 94.7% 94.6% MARS 94.0% 95.6% VENUS 94.4% 94.7% Do keep your children coming to school so that each class hits at least 96% for the year! Well done Jupiter and Earth you’re very close to target now, keep up the good work. Unfortunately Neptune have just slipped under this week, don’t let it go any further! (↑ up on last week, ↓ down on last week, - stayed the same as last week) The following children have excelled themselves in class this week: Mercury Michael Anns Jupiter Harry Quick Mars Summer Eccles Earth Ronaldo Martins Neptune George Carter Saturn Amy Bohn Pluto William Whur Venus Callum Gray Very well done to you all. School Holiday Dates: Easter Holidays - 2-13 April 2012 Summer Half Term - 4-8 June 2012 Summer End of Term - 20 July 2012 Autumn Start of Term - Thurs 6th September 2012 Autumn Half Term - 29 October-2November 2012 End of Autumn Term - 21st December 2012 Please ensure holidays are not taken outside of these dates. Dates for your Diary: Celebration Assembly - EVERY Friday 2.30pm (unless special events occur) Easter Disco - Wednesday 28th March Year 5 Easter Production - Thurs 29th March 2pm Staff Development Day - Monday 16th April (school closed to children) DON’T FORGET: Reading Café - Year 3 Thursday 2-3pm Year 4 Thursday 3.30-4.30pm Maths Whizz - All years Mon & Tues 3.15-4.15pm We wish a very Happy Birthday to the following children: Reece Garrett is 11 on 27th March Marcos Viera is 11 on 28th March Katy Winters is 9 on 28th March Queensway Community Junior School does not endorse any of the organisations featured in our newsletter