Stanmore Post - 29 November 2019
Dear Parents,
It was good to see so many parents attending Parents Evening this week. Working in partnership with you is really important to us. We are aiming for 100% of parents attending a Parents Evening Meeting this half term. If you were unable to attend, then the class teacher will contact you for an appointment at a mutually convenient time.
As part of Anti Bullying week, children across the school have been thinking about similarities and differences and how these can be celebrated. Through assemblies and activities this week, children have learned how recognising and accepting similarities and differences can contribute to a sense of belonging. Today children have worked in their House Teams to reflect on this theme. During the afternoon our new ‘House Ambassadors’ had the opportunity to notice children in their house using our Keys for Success. House Ambassadors is an idea that came from our House Captains, who thought it would be a good way to promote the weekly Key for Success. The ambassadors will report back to the House Captains on a weekly basis, with additional house points added to the totals.
Finally, the school has been filled with the Christmas spirit today, thanks to the hard work of the Friends of Stanmore and all of the extra volunteers. Belonging to our school includes being part of lovely community events like our Christmas Fair. I am really grateful for all of the time, energy and effort that has gone into the planning. I hope that everyone enjoys the event and I look forward to the other exciting Christmas Events that we have planned this term.
Best Wishes
Sharon Taylor
Practising Politeness in Ready to Learn
This week’s target in R2L has been to demonstrate politeness to all people – children and adults!
The team were able to practise these skills in a variety of ways throughout the week starting with a visit from Silas Brown, child and youth worker at Level 10 church, on Tuesday.
The team warmly welcomed Silas and particularly demonstrated the RESPECT key to success as they enjoyed some playtime activities with him in the rain. In spite of the bad weather, the team continued to show politeness towards Silas and each other as well as showing excellent team skills.
The team were challenged to put their polite skills into action on Tuesday when they held a tea party and invited Mrs Taylor, Mrs Fenton and Mandy Dodds (our wonderful kitchen supervisor). Of course, the team had to work co-operatively to make jam tarts, mince pies and fruit kebabs for the party as well as serve their guests. The tea party was a huge success and the team were noticed for displaying polite manners to all guests and each other.
The week ended with the team becoming “Politeness Detectives” whereby they visited different classrooms throughout the school to discover how polite the school community were to each other. The team decided that Stanmore School is a fantastic school to be part of!
Special thanks must go to Mandy Dodds for making extra time to bake the jam tarts and mince pies. You are certainly now part of Team R2L!
By Mrs Mason, Miss Shuff, Mrs Petts, Mrs Griffiths and Team R2L
Friends of Stanmore - a cracker of a Christmas Fair
The FOS would like to say a huge thank you, to all the parent volunteers, year 6 pupils and the wonderful staff who donated their time with the preparations, setting up, manning stalls and of course clearing up, and especially to the weather which also came up trumps!!!
Without all the generosity from the Stanmore School community, our events would not be the huge success they have been, so again, we really appreciate all of your support. Well done to Rowan, Catkins and Birch classes who excelled in raffle ticket sales and won the cash prizes toward their class party.
A special thank you to Mrs Vincent for organising this year’s raffle and for all those parents who helped gather a fab selection of raffle prizes. Another special thank you to Santa for stopping off at Stanmore for an early visit, we know he is incredibly busy with the run up to the big day!
We truly hope every one of you had an absolutely magical time! We know we did! It was lovely to see so many of you supporting our event, and we hope you are now in the festive spirit, ready for the next four weeks ahead!
We will update you very soon with how much money was raised.
Our next events will be our refreshment stall at the Carols in the Courtyard on Thursday 19th December and our participation in The Winchester Round Table, Santa's sleigh on Friday 13th December, more information to follow, but we hope to see you there!
Happy Weekend,
Rachel, Hayley, Jen and Amy.
Stanmore Post - 22 November 2019
Dear Parents,
A school that is in the middle of a city like Winchester, gives us so many opportunities to be part of our wider community. This week our children have been involved in a range of community based learning activities.
On Wednesday, the school participated in some community outreach provided by the boys from Winchester College. The CS Jazz group played a ‘Big Band’ set which all of our children enjoyed. They found out about the instruments, and how they harmonise to create the jazz sound. Meanwhile, children from Birch Class were learning all about wildlife in a talk organised at the College. Today, all of Birch Class were awarded a ‘Co-operation’ Certificate in recognition of their teamwork and outstanding behaviour at the event.
Yesterday, children from across KS2 visited Colden Common Primary School where they became ‘Cyber Ambassadors,’ finding out about staying safe on line. This event was run by the Police and Crime Commissioner and the programme will roll out across the school this year.
Today, Year 6 took part in ‘Arts Award in a Day’ focused on health and well-being led by the CAMHs team and local artists – https://www.stanmore.hants.sch.uk/news/2019/11/22/year-6-health-and-wellbeing-day
We are continuing to build a rich curriculum where children:
Have the vocabulary to contribute to and appreciate new learning,
Actively participate in a learning experience
Add to that experience with their own ideas - innovate.
On Monday, we have an INSET day and the focus for the teaching and support staff is Curriculum Planning and Assessment.
I look forward to seeing you at Parents Evening next week. Well done to Rowan Class Parents who are currently in the lead with 89.3% of parents booking an appointment online!
Best Wishes
Sharon Taylor
Hazel discover Queen Victoria
This week in Hazel class we have been enjoying delving into history to find out more about Queen Victoria and some of the other previous Kings and Queen of Britain. The children have enjoyed learning the facts and have remembered a huge amount. They then showed great co-operation to put together a group poster on different aspects of Queen Victoria's life including her childhood, family, marriage, coronation and interesting facts. One of which involves Christmas, see if your children can tell you.
We have also been learning to tell the time this week, one of those tricky aspects of maths which just takes quite a bit of practice. The year twos have been learning to tell the time to quarter to and past the hour as well as o'clock and half past while the year ones have all learnt to tell o'clock times. Please continue to talk to your children about time and help them learn the time, it is such an important skill.
Today we had a great afternoon making some crafts for the Christmas fair next week. Please come with you money ready to buy some of the things that the children have made, they are really proud of what they have done. See you all there!
Stanmore and Winchester College working together - music and nature
On Monday 50 children from Stanmore School were invited to enjoy a fabulous Jazz Combo perform at Winchester College. The rest of the school were fortunate enough to also listen to this talented group of musicians when they performed at the school on Wednesday afternoon.
Later in the week, Birch class attended a wildlife talk by Dr Tim Mackrill who has been part of the Rutland Water Osprey team since 1997.
The children learnt that these incredible birds of prey have been saved from extinction and several pairs are now breeding in Poole. They were amazed to learn that only 6 short weeks after hatching, the young Ospreys can migrate 3000 miles in 12 days to Africa and return to their nesting sites the following year.
Year 6 Health and Wellbeing day
Today Year 6 have had a really fantastic day thanks to the team from CAMHS and local artists. We started the day with an inspiring talk from Laura an artist who specialises in printing and film making.
All the children in Year 6 learnt how to use collagraph and block printing to make friendship works of art. We have all had a wonderful day of creation and fun and our wellbeing by the end of the day was great! Art is a superb way to feel good about yourself and others.
Stanmore Post - 15 November 2019
Dear Parents,
The whole school was able to use our Key for Success ‘Respect’ in observing the two minutes silence on Monday for Remembrance Day. The children have been learning about why we have Remembrance Day in lessons, and during assembly, and we were all proud of the respectful way in which they concentrated their thoughts.
https://www.stanmore.hants.sch.sch.uk/news/2019/11/15/remembering-and-respect
https://www.stanmore.hants.sch.uk/news/2019/11/11/ready-to-learn-remembering
We are looking forward to seeing you for Parents Evening on Tuesday November 26th and Thursday November 28th. If you haven’t signed up yet, then please go to www.scopay.com. It should be straight forward to book an appointment on line, but if you experience any problems then ask Mrs Eagle in the office, as she will be able to help you. As part of our school improvement strategy, we have set ourselves a target of 100% of parents attending Parents’ Evening. Your support in helping us achieve this target is greatly appreciated. It is one of the most important ways in which you can find out about what your child will learn during the year. The books that you can see prior to the appointment show the range of subjects that your child is covering. We would expect to discuss:
· The high expectations that we have for your child
· How well your child is doing
· Their attendance and punctuality at school
· Whether your child participates in any clubs and activities
· Any other ways that you believe that the school can support your child’s wider personal development.
In order to continue to track your child’s progress and be able to give you increasingly accurate information about whether your child is currently on track to meet age related expectations (ARE) we are adding English and Maths testing in the Autumn Term to our school assessment calendar. Your child’s class teacher will be able to share more information with you about this.
Best Wishes
Sharon Taylor
Why did they try and kill King James?
Year 6 had a visit from ‘John Johnson’, who told us all about the story of Guy Fawkes and how The Plotters conspired to kill King James.
With name tags and clues, we were able to bring the story to life and understand how Guy Fawkes was caught in the act! Listening to how they were punished was rather gruesome.
To add to our knowledge, we were then able to discover real-artefacts from the 1600’s, ones which Guy Fawkes himself may have used. We sketched the objects, described them and made links to different time periods. Our favourites were: the croft keys, the pottery purse and the table urinal.
Ready to Learn - Den Building
Every week, the R2L team try really hard to make good choices and follow the school rules. For each good choice, the children put a marble in the jar hoping that by Friday, the marble jar will be full. A full marble jar of good choices equals a marble jar treat.
This week, the team made SO many good choices, that we had an extra special marble jar treat – den building outside!
The team had to use all of their keys to success to work together to build a den. This was achieved in spite of the rain.
Well done Team R2L
By Mrs Mason, Miss Shuff and team R2L