Keep up to date with all the news happening in the school at the moment. Articles are added during the week. Parents are encouraged to check regularly. Our weekly bulletin, emailed directly to parents, summarises content for the week.

• WWF/Earth Hour run

  Fri 29 Mar 2019 Eco Committee

  We are pleased to announce that the total raised during our WWF/Earth run was £1416.93.  We would like to thank all the pupils, parents and staff involved that made the event such a success. 

   

  WWF is one of the three charities that the children choose to support during this academic year. The charity raises awareness of global issues that our threatening our planet. 

   

  In school we recognised Earth Hour by not using electricity for an hour - Earth Hour 2019 is Saturday 30th March at 8.30pm - 9.30pm if you wish to recognise the world event as a family and switch off. 

  

• Are you still looking for a specialist club?

  Fri 29 Mar 2019

  Summer term uptake of specialist clubs has been fantastic. The children are delighted to be taking part in the outdoor sports clubs again. If your child would like to try something new a few places are still available in the following clubs, log on to Laser to make a booking. *Please be reminded, specialist clubs must be paid for in full at the point of booking.

  KS1

  Day	Club	Start	End	Year
  Monday	La Jolie Ronde French	3.30pm	4.30pm	R
  Monday	Mad Science	4.35pm	5.35pm	1 2
  Monday	Cricket Club	3.30pm	4.30pm	1 2
  Tuesday	Judo	4.35pm	5.35pm	1 2
  Tuesday	Golf	3.30pm	4.30pm	1 2
  Tuesday	Building Blocks	4.35pm	5.35pm	1 2
  Tuesday	La Jolie Ronde French	3.30pm	4.30pm	1 2
  Wednesday	Olmo Spanish Club	3.30pm	4.30pm	1 2
  Wednesday	Playground Tennis Project	3.30pm	4.30pm	1 2
  Thursday	Olmo Spanish Club	3.30pm	4.30pm	R 1
  Thursday	Art Club	4.35pm	5.35pm	0 1 2
  Friday	Mindful Chess Club	3.30pm	4.30pm	1 2

   

  KS2

  Day	Club	Start	End	Year
  Monday	Olmo Spanish Club	3.30pm	4.30pm	3 4 5 6
  Monday	Avenue Street Dance	4.35pm	5.35pm	3 4 5 6
  Monday	Cricket Club	4.35pm	5.35pm	3 4 5 6
  Tuesday	Mad Science	4.35pm	5.35pm	3 4
  Tuesday	Golf	4.35pm	5.35pm	3 4 5 6
  Wednesday	La Jolie Ronde French	3.30pm	4.30pm	3 4
  Wednesday	Energise Education Drama	4.35pm	5.35pm	3 4 5 6
  Wednesday	Circuit Training	4.35pm	5.35pm	5 6
  Wednesday	Playground Tennis Project	4.35pm	5.35pm	3 4 5 6
  Thursday	Whats for tea? Cooking Club	4.35pm	5.35pm	5 6
  Thursday	Musical Theatre Chorus Club	3.30pm	4.30pm	3 4 5 6
  Thursday	QPR Football	4.35pm	5.35pm	3 4 5 6
  Friday	QPR football (Girls Only)	4.35pm	5.35pm	3 4 5 6
  Friday	QPR football	3.30pm	4.30pm	3 4
  Friday	Mindful Chess Club	4.35pm	5.35pm	3 4 5 6
  Friday	Muddy Hands Gardening Club	3.30pm	4.30pm	3 4 5 6
  Thursday	En Pointe Ballet Grade 2	7.45am	8.45am	5 6
  Friday	En Pointe Ballet Grade 1	7.45am	8.45am	3 4
  Friday	Athletics	7.45am	8.45am	4 5 6

   

• Reminder, parent consultation booking live today

  Fri 29 Mar 2019 Clare Haines

  Booking for parent consultations will go live today on Laser at 12 noon.

   

  See our news article on assessment for more information

  • Your child's progress, Spring term

• Changes to behaviour and values approach

  Fri 29 Mar 2019 Miss L Stabler

  Refreshing approach to values and behaviour at Fielding Primary school 

  At the start of summer term, we will be piloting an adapted behaviour policy and launching a new approach to our current Values system. This refresh is needed to deepen children’s understanding of what values look like in action so they can think about what values they should be using before making negative choices and to also make the behaviour approach more consistent and supportive of all children. The changes have come after analysing behaviour information, observations of lesson and playground behaviour and after some detailed pupil voice work. Children currently understand the purpose of values but are not always independently using them or considering them before acting.  

  Changes to behaviour policy:

  • Moving from the existing way of collecting constellation stars to a more physical collection system of collecting tokens. The tokens have been designed for the school from potato starch and are fully biodegradable. New token system.
  • More detail added regarding expectations for supporting pupils with SEND.
  • The introduction of a behaviour hierarchy diagram that demonstrates our levels of rewards  and which behaviours will result in what sanction.
  • The reintroduction of the use of pupil lead conflict resolution to help children solve minor disagreements and issues independently.
  • The addition of scripts to recognise positive actions made by children especially when showing our new school core values.
  • Children in Reception will be placed into star constellations.

  See more details on Behaviour page

   

  Changes to Values approach:

  In order to create a deepened understanding of values, we have chosen a set of core values that will underpin our teaching and approach to behaviour. The new core values will be:

  • Respect
  • Resilience
  • Empathy
  • Reflection

  The reasoning behind these chosen values is that they will result in a balance of developing the children both morally and academically. How these will be taught will be now be differentiated based on the age of the child. The focus in Early years will be an initial introduction to the four core values. Lower phase will continue to focus on the four core values with a different focus each month with the introduction of some synonyms to go with the core values. Key stage two will build on this further by focusing on a different value each month that will link back to one of the core values. There will also be a strong focus on lessons on both what the value looks like in action but also what actions are not showing the value.  More details about which Values are taught and when are on values page.

  Both of these key changes are very exciting and should lead to the children’s behavioural and emotional development being further supported. There will be monthly updates on the focus core value and connected values.

• Constellation treat winners announced- well done Hercules

  Fri 29 Mar 2019 L.. Stabler

  Constellation treat winners

  A massive congratulations to the children in the constellation of Hercules! They have won this term’s constellation treat by collecting 473 points. This is their first victory since autumn 2016!

  Their reward will take place on the afternoon of Monday 1st April from 1.45 until 3.15 pm.

  Their star leaders have selected the constellation treat of:

  • non-uniform for the day

  • dancing in the hall with some mindful colouring if they just want to chill and listen to the music

  • playing on climbing stacks in playground

   

  Congratulations Hercules. We hope you enjoy your reward for consistently behaving well and demonstrating values.

• Easter Chickens

  Thu 28 Mar 2019 Ellie Lock

  Is this the world's most pampered chicken? If you'd like to look after the chickens and water the plants over the Easter Holiday, keep an eye out for the sign-up sheet on the garden gate. You can help yourself to eggs and fresh garden produce, and watch the tadpoles developing in the pond. It should be fun!

  Latest garden news here.

  

• Do you want the PTFA Picnic to be cancelled?

  Thu 28 Mar 2019

  The PTFA has been running the Summer Picnic with great success over the last few years.  However a lack of support to help organise the event this June means that the event is unlikely to take place unless we find five or six parents to get involved in the organisation.

  The event has traditionally raised around £2,000 for the PTFA and is a wonderful opportunity for pupils and their families to relax on a summers afternoon on the school field.

  It would be great if a year group or class group could get together to ensure we don't lose this event from the calendar.  Planning is pretty straightforward and includes organisation of the BBQ, bar and pre-promotion, alongside planning for a couple of activities - e.g. the fire brigade's attendance or face painting.  The event is planned for Saturday 8 June, however we will cancel the event if we don't get support by Friday 5 April.

  If you think you can help, chat to your class reps or email fieldingPTFA@gmail.com. There is a planning document to help guide you through the organisation process and plenty of parents who can pass on advice. Why not get involved!

• PTFA's first Silent Disco raises £400

  Thu 28 Mar 2019

  The PTFA ran its first Silent Disco last Saturday evening.  The event took place upstairs at The Foresters Pub & Restaurant at the top of Northfield Avenue and attracted over 60 people.

  The event was the brainchild of Bally Badesha, a parent with children across multiple year groups.  She pulled together the headphone supplier and the six  DJ's that mixed tunes from a variety of genre including 80's, disco, house, indie and electronica.

  There were three different channels to listen to, ensuring there was a variety of music on offer.  A big thank you to The Forester for allowing us to use their venue for free.

  The event made a profit of £400 - a great effort for its first outing!

• Open Garden

  Wed 27 Mar 2019 Ellie Lock
  Parents - you are cordially invited to come and have a nose around the Kitchen Garden next week, and see what your children have been up to. From Monday 1st April until Friday 5th, please feel free to come in at morning drop off - and visit the chickens and tadpoles. Why should the kids have all the fun? Latest Garden News here.

  

• Maths@Fielding Update 2019 - A letter to parents

  Tue 26 Mar 2019 Mr McConnachie

  Just over two years ago, as newly appointed Maths Leader I had a vision of what an immersive and engaging Maths learning journey could be. I had one overriding hope for what a new approach to teaching Maths would achieve: a shift in pupils’ attitudes to their Maths lessons through fun and engaging experiences of the subject.

   

  Many aspects of what we do at Fielding Primary school have combined to make our approach to Maths a unique experience for the children. Now into our second year of transition to a mastery approach to teaching Maths, the Maths@Fielding curriculum continues to evolve and improve through new, innovative teaching pedagogy and by adapting to what best suits the needs of our children.

  This is why we don’t follow a set scheme but instead choose to utilise the most effective elements of mastery to maximise the impact it has on our children in each phase of their learning. When we teach for mastery we ‘work towards a fuller understanding’ rather than a complete one, because there are always layers of complexity that feed into our learning. The Maths journey is never complete. If there is one thing we have learned so far from the ‘mastery way’, it is that mastery is an ill-defined approach with many levels of interpretation as to what depth looks like. What we do know however, is that all lessons are deep lessons if we push the boundaries for every pupil.

   

  Our ‘Visible Learning’ approach to teaching and learning promotes metacognition and a growth (or mathematical) mindset which enables the children to self-regulate their thinking. This level of higher order thinking allows them to take control of their own learning from the start of every learning journey to the end, creating an experience that starts for every child at their own individual starting point and progressing at a pace best suited to them.

  Crucially, this allows all children to access a basic level of National Curriculum skill expectation whilst providing rapid graspers opportunities to deepen their understanding on mathematical concepts and ‘big ideas’ through creative approaches to fluency, reasoning and problem solving.

  As a result of the direction we have taken, excellent progress and outcomes across the school are already evident.

  I am very pleased to see of the progress we have made, which was witnessed and recognised over the past two weeks of maths subject evaluations. Some of the highlights can be found through the link below but for me personally, as Maths Leader, the most heart-warming and rewarding feedback has come from the children themselves.

   

  Overwhelmingly, from speaking to children over the last two weeks – and indeed children from all year groups just passing through the corridors – the message is clear and consistent: they truly love their maths lessons because they are fun, engaging and promote an optimistic sense of exploration through interactive investigations in a consequence free environment. Marvellous mistakes are welcome as an opportunity to extend each child beyond their edge of understanding, through ‘light bulb’ moments, in order to extend their ‘Zone of Proximal Development’.

  Together with our MindUp programme and the teaching of brain function, the children learn to understand how brain synapses are created through making mistakes and realising connections to prior knowledge. New neuropathways are then created and in order for learning to be retained long term, or made ‘sticky’ and well-travelled pathways need to be solidified through depth of understanding. Contextual and Procedural variation through the CPA (Concrete – Pictorial – Abstract) approach help to create ‘Brain crossing’ which helps learning maths more powerfully. Each child sees Maths in different ways. This is why we encourage freedom in their thinking and for each child to draw, visualise and represent mathematical concepts in various ways.

   

  The development of a positive appreciation for the subject by the children - along with transferable life skills and promotion of an inquisitive, growth mindset towards Maths - is what was originally intended and to see that vision coming to life this early in the transition is more than I could have hoped for when the idea of a Fielding Maths learning journey was first conceived back two years ago.

  Please follow this link below to the Maths Curriculum page for more information about why we have chosen this direction, a pdf. on how we teach Maths and some of the recent comments celebrating our early successes from our latest subject evaluation.

  http://www.fieldingprimary.com/mathematics/

  Mr McConnachie

  Maths Leader