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.

• Childcare Update

  Tue 18 Oct 2016 Karen Esprit

  Help us to help you

  It’s been a great start to the Autumn Term with after school club and breakfast club bookings at their highest levels ever.  Remember, there are no waiting lists for childcare at Fielding.  We adjust the number of staff to match your needs.  

  Children have settled in extremely well and are enjoying playing with friends and excited to try out new activities.

  To ensure all continues to run smoothly please be reminded of the following important points.

  • Childcare bookings continue to rollover each term.
    • If you no longer require childcare you must log on to Laser to cancel. This will then generate the 4 week notice period.
  • Are your child's medical and collection details up to date?
    • These are printed on the clubs registers so it’s important they are current and correct, please log in to Laser to check.
  • If your child is booked into a specialist club, please also ensure that childcare is also booked where needed to coincide for the duration of the evening. i.e. the hour before or after a specialist club.
  • Finally, please be reminded after school club closes at 6pm.
    • All children must be collected by this time or a late collection charge will be issued.

• Hooray for Hercules

  Tue 18 Oct 2016

  Pupils enjoy half term treat

  Pupils from Hercules constellation in Years 1 to 6 were celebrating today after winning this half term’s treat for collecting the most stars for their team by displaying excellent attitudes and behaviour in and around school. They enjoyed an afternoon of cupcake decorating and fruit kebab making whilst being the only pupils in school allowed to wear non-school uniform. Our older and younger pupils mixed together, sharing, co-operating, showing friendship and respect for one another; and siblings had fun spending the afternoon together. Pupils look forward to their half term treat and we are seeing behaviour and attitudes improve as a result of this much anticipated reward.

  

• Intra-school sport constellation competition

  Fri 14 Oct 2016

  Tag rugby competition next week

  Next week is our first constellation tournament of the year and it sees our children competing against each other in rugby.

  At the end of every half-term, pupils across all year groups compete in constellation teams, earning points towards the end of year constellation sports cup.  Results for this half-terms tag rugby competition will be announced next half-term with the cup presentation during assembly.

  As always, parents are very welcome to come and support their children to see how they have been getting on. If you would like to come, check the timings below to see when your child's class is playing, wrap up warm and come down!

  Year 6 – Tuesday 18th October

          6P + 6S: 9.10am-10.20am

          6H + 6F: 10.50am-12.00pm

  Year 5- Wednesday 19th October

          5P + 5S: 9.10am-10.20am

          5H + 5F: 10.50am-12.00pm

  Year 4 –Thursday 20th October

          4P + 4S: 9.10am-10.20am

          4H + 4F: 10.50am-12.00pm

  Year 3 – Friday 21st October

          3P + 3S: 9.10am-10.20am

          3H + 3F: 10.50am-12.00pm

• Calling all French enthusiasts

  Fri 14 Oct 2016

  French web resources to help learning at home

  Did you know that there are hours of French animations, games and songs waiting for your children on the school's French page? These engaging and motivating resources are an excellent way for young language learners to become familiar with the new language.

  Find out more:

  • Learning & Teaching, Curriculum, French

• Orchestra Congratulations

  Fri 14 Oct 2016 Michael Mappin

  New members join Fielding Orchestra

  Congratulations to the following musicians who have successfully gained a place in our orchestra following their auditions:

  • Charlotte & Chloe (clarinet);
  • Amy, Ara, Dijan & Lucy (flute);
  • Daisy (trumpet);
  • Nancy (violin).

  Orchestra meets at 8am in the Sports Hall on the first Wednesday after half-term.

• Year 6 Natural History Museum

  Fri 14 Oct 2016 Miss N Jones

  Science learning exploring our body

  On Thursday Year 6 pupils made their way to South Kesington and into the Natural History Museum to explore our learning driver this term: 'What would a journey through our body look like?' in real life! We explored the different exhibitions to widen understanding of our Science topic. See pictures below that captured the excitement of the day.

  

• Sport competitions

  Fri 14 Oct 2016 Mr Thomas

  Netball, Triathlon & Football

  This week has been jam packed with sport with children going out to represent the school in 3 different sports. Our girls netball team went to Pitshanger Park on Monday for a High 5 tournament, 18 lucky children went to the Park Club in Acton for the Brownlee Foundation Mini Triathlon on Wednesday, and the boys football team went to Spike Bridge on Thursday for day 1 of 2 in the Featherstone Football tournament. It has been a fantastic week which you can read all about on the PE page. Check it out to see how we have been getting on.

  http://www.fieldingprimary.com/inter-school-sport-level-2/

  

• Creative Home Learning Show cases

  Thu 13 Oct 2016 L Stabler

  Creative Home Learning Show cases

  Towards the end of every half term we celebrate the wonderful pieces of home learning the children produce linked to their Fielding Learning Challenge Curriculum topics. These showcase events were very popular last year with the children being able to share their work with the other children and teachers across their year group. They can explore what others have produced and receive both peer and adult feedback on their work.

  This Year, each year group will open up one of their showcases so parents can come along and join in the celebrations. The dates are already on the year group calendar on Laser but are also listed below. The first showcase is for Year Six parents on the Thursday 20th October from 3.15 to 3.30pm 

  Looking forward to seeing you at one of our showcase events across the year.

  Thursday 20th October  3.15- Year 6

  Thursday 15th December  3.15pm - Year 5

  Thursday 9th February 3.15pm - Year 4

  Thursday 30th March 3.15pm - Year 3

  Thursday 25th May 3.15pm - Year 2

  Thursday 13th July 3.15pm - Year 1

   

   

• What makes a good learner at Fielding Primary School?

  Thu 13 Oct 2016 L Stabler

  Visible Learning project continues

  Last year as part of our Visible learning project, we spent a lot of time discussing with children, staff and parents the qualities that make a good learner. After making children aware of their learning process and planning dedicated lessons on being a good learner, we asked children in our parliament assemblies to define the key elements of what makes a good learner at our school. The views of the children across the school were compiled and we created a shared vocabulary of twelve features (shown below). These consist of things we use in lessons such as success criteria and the Rubrics grid which explain what needs to be included in a successful piece of work. This language has been shared with all children and used daily to ensure children are thinking about how they are approaching their work and how they could be better learners.

  This will be discussed further, alongside some of our other exciting teaching and learning approaches in our parent workshop: Accelerating your child’s progress through Visible learning. This will be on November 23^rd at 9.00 am and 6.30 pm.

  Looking forward to seeing you there and to share more of what we do

  

• Year 4 - The Fall of the Romans

  Thu 13 Oct 2016 Mr McConnachie

  With half term approaching, Year 4 are now reflecting on all the progress they have made already across all subjects, social settings and personal emotional development. Becoming better people through tolerance and empathy has been our focus to start the year and all of the children have shown consistent improvement on their understanding of these values. 

  Our Topic of, ‘Why were the Romans so powerful and what did we learn from them’, has come to an end with an epic day of fun and discovery of all things Roman!  Warrior Queen Boudicca’s legacy was explored, counting in Roman Numerals and marvellous mosaics were made!  

  Finally, home learning projects are flooding in already and our displays are filling up with wonderful pieces that clearly show how the kids have immersed themselves and are furthering their depth of understanding outside of the school setting.  This is the last weekend to complete any projects as the Home Learning Showcase will be on Wednesday the 19^th of October.