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The weekly blog - keeping you up-to-date with school life; Stars of the Week; Housepoint winners and much more..
Fri 31 Mar 2023If you would prefer to listen to the Blog, you can do that by clicking HERE
We have made it to the end of the term! Well done everyone for being in school and helping ensure our children get the best education. This week has been manic and I really enjoyed seeing so many of you at the Easter Bonnet Parade yesterday. The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves.
Today, we say goodbye to our cook, Miss Harris - thank you so much for all your hard work and dedication to creating such wonderful school meals over the last few years. We wish you all the very best in the future.
I would also like to say a big thank you to all the staff who always go above and beyond to ensure that our children receive the best, even during the turbulent times of the strikes.
Some of our Y5 pupils went to Haydonleigh Primary School this week and took part in a debating competition with our collaborative schools - well done to the four of you; you represented the school brilliantly 🥰
Stars of the Week
Nursery Braydon HF & Terrance-James S 🤩 Reception Ocean-May W & Samuel T 🤩 Year 1 Eva D & Molly B 🤩 Year 2 Enhar T & Niamh C 🤩 Year 3 Naveena C & Eva G 🤩 Year 4 Leo B & Beatrice WT 🤩 Year 5 Lyla A & Teddy C 🤩 Year 6 Olivia J & Scarlett O 🤩 Well done to all of you for working so hard. You can see some of their work HERE
Housepoint Winners
EYFS Kolby L 🥳 Key Stage 1 William S 🥳 Lower Key Stage 2 Courtney R 🥳 Upper Key Stage 2 Esther BM 🥳 Well done for earning so many housepoints for your house.
The winning house this week, with 398 housepoints, is St. Patrick 🇮🇪 well done.
2nd St David
3rd St Andrew
4th St George.
The terms winners with 1974 housepoints, is St Patrick 🇮🇪
Excellent job, you get to select your gift after the Easter break.
Attendance
The winning class this week, with 98.6% is Year 5 🏆! Well done to all of you for being in school regularly.
The whole school attendance is 94.22%, which means that we are still improving each week - let us keep this up after Easter.
Top Doodlers
This week we have two children on a 250-day streak and three children on a 200-day streak. Well done.
250 Day Streak
Ewan C - Spell
Jack T - Maths
200 Day Streak
Zachary M - Maths
Esther BM - Maths & Spell
William S - Maths & Spell
Maths - Y3 🧮
Spell - Y3 📝. Well done Y3 for being double winners this week 😊
In other news...
That is it for the term, thank you for your support and for working with us to help give all our children the very best. We return to school on Monday 17th April.
Y5 will be off to their residential with Mr Davis and Miss Dickson to Call of the Wild
Until then, have a wonderful Easter 🐣
Mr A
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The weekly blog - keeping you up-to-date with school life; Stars of the Week; Housepoint winners and much more..
Fri 24 Mar 2023If you would rather listen to this week's newsletter, please click HERE
Wow! What an action-packed week. With our Shakespeare week, we have been having loads of fun and learning in school this week. We absolutely love this week and well done to everyone for such wonderful costumes. Thank you to all the staff that have made sure that this week, along with plenty of learning about Shakespeare, they learned this in a fun and interactive way.
I wanted to say thank you very much for helping with parking, it is much better and safer for all our pupils.
If you haven't listened to my podcasts on reading, you can listen to them by following the link Here
Stars of the Week
Nursery Terrance-James S & Teddy S 🤩 Reception Travis F & Tymon J 🤩 Year 1 Arthur WT & Grace W 🤩 Year 2 Numa L & Jasper M 🤩 Year 3 Jack P & Robert M 🤩 Year 4 Harley S & Thomas C 🤩 Year 5 Esmae D & Logan C 🤩 Year 6 Ava TA & Ray G 🤩 Well done to you all for such a wonderful job and some great work, which you can see HERE
Housepoint Winners
EYFS Tymon J 🥳 Key Stage One Grace W 🥳 Lower Key Stage Two Imogen D 🥳 Upper Key Stage Two Ewan C & Sidney M 🥳 Super job on earning plenty of housepoints for your house.
The winning house this week with 413 housepoints is St. Patrick's 🇮🇪
2nd St Andrew
3rd St David
4th St George
Top Doodlers
This week we have a super doodler who has managed a 250-day streak with Doodle Maths - well done to Sebastian P
Imogen D has completed a 250-day streak with the doodle spell - such fantastic work both of you.
Doodle Maths: Year 5 🧮
Doodle Spell: Year 2 📝
Attendance
The winning class with 98.8% is Year 6 🏆, well done to everyone in the class for being in school every day.
Whole school attendance is 94.13% we are still creeping upward, well done everyone - keep it going.
In other news...
Next week is our last week of term. We end the term next Friday but before then we have plenty of things that are happening around the school.
Our chicks have hatched and are living in the EYFS
Tuesday
We have our behaviour workshop in the school hall, if you haven't booked there are still spaces available from 09:00 - 11:00
Our PCSO is in the EYFS
Wednesday
Some of our Y5s are off for a debating competition with our collaboration schools - come on Y5!
We are off to a church service for Easter, hosted by Father Roger
Thursday
Our end of Term Reports emailed to parents
Easter Bonnet Parade
Easter Disco 15:30 - 17:00
What an action-packed week we have for our pupils.
Have a great weekend and I'll see you on Monday.
Mr A
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The weekly blog - keeping you up-to-date with school life; Stars of the Week; Housepoint winners and much more..
Fri 17 Mar 2023You can listen to the blog rather than reading by clicking HERE
Happy St. Patrick's Day 🇮🇪 I wonder if they have won the house points this week?
Another amazing week here at Chiseldon - we had Creative Hut in school working with our children across Key Stage 2, where they were coding Lego Robotics. The children had plenty of fun.
After I sent the email out about parking on the corner, it seemed more people parked there than normal. Can I please ask that you do not park on the corner, on double yellow lines, across from the large gates we come through as this is where the vast majority of our children cross to come to school. It makes crossing that part of the road extremely dangerous - thank you for listening.
Please may I also remind you that we have a one-way system to make entering and exiting the school easier. Can you please come in via the large gates, where I stand, and exit through the small gate during drop off and pick up - again, thank you for listening.
Stars of the Week
Nursery Colby D & Arabella C 🤩 Reception Olivia M & Lyla DS 🤩 Year 1 Alex W & Frankie B 🤩 Year 2 Charlie A & Bella M 🤩 Year 3 Mbalenhle M & Lucas L 🤩 Year 4 Kanyenna N & Regina R 🤩 Year 5 Sidney M & Ellie D 🤩 Year 6 Steven J & Harvey D 🤩 Computing Phoebe D 🤩 Congratulations to all of you for impressing your teacher this week. You can see some of their work HERE
Housepoint Winners
EYFS Roman E 🥳 Key Stage One Enhar T 🥳 Lower Key Stage Two Imogen D 🥳 Upper Key Stage Two Jamie L 🥳
Fantastic work earning points for your house. The winning house this week is St. George 🇬🇬 Congratulations and the house captain has changed the flag at the front of the school.
2nd St. Patrick
3rd St. Andrew
4th St. David
Top Doodlers
This week we have some super doodlers to celebrate.
Esmae D for achieving a 200-day streak in Doodle Spell
Imogen D for achieving a 250-day streak in Doodle English
Ewan Clark for achieving a 250-day streak in Doodle Maths
Maths: Year 5 🧮
Spell: Year 5 📝 Well done to Y5, achieving both.
Attendance
The winning class this week with 98% is Year 1 🏆 Well done on a high attendance and for winning this two weeks on the trot.
The whole school's attendance is 94%. I am sure that we can make it to 95% by Easter if we all try and be in school every day - come on let's do this.
In other news...
Next week the children look at Shakespeare across the school as it is Shakespeare week - I am really looking forward to the dress-up day on Friday.
Living eggs are delivered to the EYFS as they watch the chicks hatch and grow.
We begin to look at Ramadan as this starts on Wednesday.
Also on Wednesday, there is the sleep workshop for parents - if you haven't signed up there is still time, so make sure that you let us know.
And finally, on Thursday is our topic celebration where you can come into school and work with your children - from 14:30 onwards.
I hope you have a super weekend
Mr A
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The weekly blog - keeping you up-to-date with school life; Stars of the Week; Housepoint winners and much more..
Fri 10 Mar 2023If you would rather listen to this Blog, please click HERE
The weeks are just flying by. This week we have seen snow arrive in Chiseldon and the children thoroughly enjoyed playing in the snow, which is vital for them to experience. This will help them grow in language skills and be able to write about the experiences they have encountered. Deciding to make 200 hot chocolates, however, was more of a challenge and sometimes, maybe I need things to filter through my mind 😂
This week we are working on our behaviour principles further so that our pupils are very clear about the behaviour we expect, from using their manners to walking down the corridor. Once we have updated this, we will send it out to you so that you know how we are doing this at school.
Stars of the Week
Nursery Tommy C & Alex S 🤩 Reception Oliver L & Elena F-K 🤩 Year 1 Freddie C & Imogen L 🤩 Year 2 Sophie K-P & Molly M 🤩 Year 3 Darian S & Alfie R 🤩 Year 4 Elisey G & Cledwyn M 🤩 Year 5 Beau D & Ewan C 🤩 Year 6 Thor T & Laila H 🤩 Computing Eymen T 🤩 Well done to all of you for your hard work. You can see some of it here
Housepoint Winners
EYFS Natalia L 🥳 Key Stage One Jack T 🥳 Lower Key Stage Two Navam C 🥳 Upper Key Stage Two George G 🥳 Well done for earning lots of points for your house.
The winning house this week with 335 housepoints is St. David 🏴
2nd St. Patrick
3rd. St. Andrew
4th. St. George
Top Doodlers
Maths: Year 5
Spelling: Year 2
Well done to George G for achieving a 150-day streak in both Maths and Spell - super work.
Attendance
The winning class with 100% attendance this week, is Year 1 🏆 well done to everyone for being in school every day.
Whole school attendance is 94%; 1% to meet our lower target this year of 95%, come on everyone we can do this.
In other news...
Next week, I am excited to say that we have Creative Hut working with Key Stage Two - this is looking at lego robotics as part of our STEM work.
Year 2 is off on a trip to the Black Country Living Museum - how exciting! And on Friday it is St. Patrick's Day, so anyone in this house can come to school in something green.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend and I will see you on Monday
Mr A
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The weekly blog - keeping you up-to-date with school life; Stars of the Week; Housepoint winners and much more..
Fri 03 Mar 2023Welcome to this week's blog. Have you listened to my podcast on reading for fluency? During the podcast, you can listen to the head boy and head girl talk about their reading experience. Listen to it here
If you would rather listen to the blog than read it, you can do so here. In the recorded blog, you will be able to listen to the school choir sing one of the songs that we have been learning.
Our deputy head boy and deputy head girl, went live on Facebook as they interviewed two secondary school pupils about starting out and how they felt, you can see this on our Facebook page, or by clicking here
Thank you to every parent that came into school and shared stories with the classes. This was very kind of you and I know that the children really enjoyed themselves. One pupil told me that listening to the story had inspired him to write his own story - so thank you.
Stars of the Week
Nursery Ronnie F & Edie R 🤩 Reception Natalia L & Zayne S 🤩 Year 1 Poppy M & Hugh R 🤩 Year 2 Louis F & Tristan B 🤩 Year 3 Charlie S & Romeo H 🤩 Year 4 George H & Navam C 🤩 Year 5 Teddy C & Alfie C 🤩 Year 6 Charlie F & Jack T 🤩 You can see a selection of their work here
Well done to all of you, it was lovely to see such great work.
Housepoint Winners
EYFS Charlie C 🥳 Key Stage One Jack T 🥳 Lower Key Stage Two Mollie C 🥳 Upper Key Stage Two Hannah LL 🥳 Congratulations on earning plenty of housepoints for your house.
The winning house this week with 368 housepoints is St George 🇬🇬
2nd St Patrick
3rd St Andrew
4th St David
Keep up the excellent work.
Top Doodlers
Maths: Year 2 🧮
Spell: Year 5 📝
Attendance
The winning class this week with 99.6%, is Year 5 🏆 super stuff! In school every day.
Whole school attendance is 93.89%
I think that you will agree, an amazing week with everything happening. I hope that you have a wonderful weekend and we will see you on Monday.
Mr A
