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• COVID-19: Plan B and looking ahead to January

  Fri 10 Dec 2021 Peter Dunmall

  Following the government’s announcement to implement Plan B, for school this means:

  • Face to face education remains a priority. All pupils should continue to attend school unless they have symptoms of COVID-19 and/or a positive PCR test result.
  • Isolation. Any pupils or staff who have been identified as a close contact of a suspected or confirmed case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 are required to self-isolate and take a PCR test. We switch to remote learning for pupils by Microsoft Teams if they are unwell or are required to self-isolate.
  • Face coverings. Primary age pupils do not need to wear a face covering. Staff and adults in school continue to wear a face covering in communal areas.
  • Childcare and clubs continue. These activities provide necessary childcare for working parents and promote the well-being of pupils.
  • Music tuition, sports, trips and visits continue. These activities enrich our curriculum and give extra opportunities for our pupils. We may make small changes to reduce risk of infection transmission.
  • Special needs provision. Therapists and wider children’s services professionals continue to be welcome in school. We may make small changes to reduce the risk of infection transmission.
  • Testing. We continue to encourage as many pupils and members of staff as possible to test daily using a lateral flow device. This helps show any asymptomatic infection and reduces risk of infection transmission in school.

   

  Looking ahead to January and beyond, the government has told us to review our contingency arrangements.

   

  Face to face education in school remains the priority with a full offer (as above) to our pupils. There is uncertainty about the impact of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.

   

  We may be advised by public health experts to close part or all of the school. This could be a class, an age group or the whole school.

   

  We face risks and challenges to remain open to all pupils because members of staff may be ill, show symptoms of COVID-19 or be forced to self-isolate as a result of being a close contact of someone who has the Omicron variant of COVID-19, including their own children. Already, this term, we have reached times where every available member of staff has been teaching to keep classes in school. We appreciate parents’ understanding and flexibility of our staff as our arrangements change rapidly.

   

  We will use all available staff and agency staff to keep classes open. We are not able to move teaching assistants who work with pupils with special educational needs and an Education, Health and Care Plan to cover classes. This limits our flexibility.

   

  We will switch to remote education using Microsoft Teams for individual classes, age groups or the whole school, only as a result of government or public health instruction; or if we are unable to cover a teacher’s absence. This will be for as short amount of time as possible.

   

  Parents might want to be prepared for any disruption to face to face education of pupils in school by:

  • checking log on and access to Microsoft Teams;
  • being ready to care for children during the school week, including at short notice.

• New texts for Whole Class Reading in January, Years 3-6

  Fri 10 Dec 2021 P. Whaley

  Whole Class Reading books- preparation for January

  Since September, pupils in Years 3-6 have been taught whole class reading in a similar format to English and maths lessons. Lessons are engaging and challenging with the inclusion of explicit pre-teaching of vocabulary and reading skills such as prediction and inference. There are opportunities for pupils to practise each skill before applying it directly in the context of the class text.

   

  As previously stated, this approach to the teaching of reading works best if each child has their own personal copy of the book. We have found that children take more care of their own book, are more motivated to learn and it build up their own personal library. 

   

  In preparation for January, we would like you to purchase a copy of the new class book. Please see details below of which book your child's year group will be studying: 

  •  Year 3 - Ancient Egypt, DK Eyewitness ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1409343783. 
  • Year 4 - Ancient Greece, DK Eyewitness  ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1409343653
  • Year 5 - Ecosystems of Planet Earth, written and illustrated by Rachel Ignotovsky ISBN-13: 978-1526361745
  • Year 6 - New and collected poems for children, Carol Ann Duffy  ISBN 13: 9780571337309 

   

  If your child has a pupil premium passport we will provide your child with a copy of the class text free of charge. Please speak to your child's class teacher if you do not receive a grant but will be unable to provide the book due to financial reasons.

• PTFA: Reindeer Poop Bingo is 50% sold

  Wed 08 Dec 2021 PTFA

  With Christmas just around the corner, what better way to entertain the children during their last week of term with a visit from two beautiful Reindeer!

   

  We'll be playing Reindeer Poop Bingo on Wednesday 15 December with live streaming available via the school Facebook page to those that want to watch from home.  The PTFA Chair, Nolan, will be providing his usual running commentary with reindeer jokes, facts and impressions. 

   

  We have already sold 50% of the Poop Squares, but ideally we need to get them all sold - it would be awful if the Reindeer pooped in an unsold square!

   

  Poop Square Tip:  From the previous Poop Bingo's that we have run (Reindeer and Chicken) we have found that the animals are 30% more likely to poop in squares towards the edges rather than in the middle. However we have only run this game a couple of times and that could be luck!

   

  Our plan is to open the selling of squares to the local community, so if you want to secure a square then please visit:  

  • https://buytickets.at/fieldingptfa/607108 
  • Poop Squares cost £5 plus a 50p transaction fee.

   

  Thank you to Sargents Estate Agents for their sponsorship of this event.

  

• Nursery applications for September 2022 now open

  Tue 07 Dec 2021 Clare Haines

  👀Looking for a Nursery place for September? Our online application is now open. Apply today:

  • Nursery admissions

  Find out more about our Nursery education and childcare offer here:

  • Nursery

• Christmas Chickens

  Tue 07 Dec 2021 Ellie Lock

  If you would like to look after the chickens over Christmas, please sign up at the garden gate. The list will be up every morning at drop off.

  Don't worry if you haven't done it before - full instructions will be provided and you can keep any eggs laid while you are chicken-sitting.

  

• Exceptional phonics learning

  Tue 07 Dec 2021 Peter Dunmall

  Nearly every pupil in Year 2 has met the standard for the phonics screening check, usually taken at the end of Year 1:

  • 98% pupils reached the pass mark* of 32+ out of 40 marks;
  • 90% pupils achieved very highly with 37+ out of 40 marks;
  • 68 pupils gained full marks, decoding and matching letters to sounds for every real and 'alien' word in the test.

  We are delighted with these results for our pupils. This reflects the work of every adult in school who has worked with this group of pupils from Reception, through Year 1 and into Year 2. It is also a credit to children and their parents for all of the practice at home, including during two periods of school closure.

   

  Phonics is very important to us. Learning to read by matching letters to sounds is a key milestone in a child's learning at primary school. Rightly, our ambition and expectations for our pupils is very high. We aim for our pupils to achieve high marks, not just meeting but smashing the threshold pass of 32 marks. 

   

  The phonics screening check is a government test for children usually at the end of Year 1. Pupils take the test one-to-one, usually with their class teacher. Whilst children learn phonics to help them with both word reading and spelling, the Phonics Screening Check only tests their skills at word reading. This is sometimes called decoding. During the Phonics Screening Check, children are asked to read (decode) 40 words. Most of these words are real words but some are pseudo-words. Pseudo-words are included to ensure that children are using their decoding skills and not just relying on their memory of words they have read before. Some children may misread these pseudo-words based on their similarity to words in their existing vocabulary, so each pseudo-word is clearly identified with an image of an alien. This means most teachers and children, refer to pseudo-words as 'alien' words.

   

  Our results mean that our pupils can access the whole curriculum, especially from Year 3 onwards. For the 2 pupils who are yet to pass, we will work intensively with them so that they are ready for Year 3.

   

  Year 2 parents, we will share your child's individual  results with you once the pass mark has been confirmed.

   

  *threshold pass mark of 32 is yet to be confirmed by the government but has been at 32 for years.

• Spring term assessments and save the date for parent consultation meetings

  Tue 07 Dec 2021

  At the start of the spring term, your child’s class teacher will be assessing your child’s attainment and progress in reading, writing and mathematics against the national curriculum for their age group. Pupils in Years 1 - 6 will take a test for mathematics and reading. 

  In Nursery and Reception your child's class teacher will be checking your child's progress against the prime areas of learning for the Early Years.

  • Early Years Curriculum

  Sharing your child's progress

  Assessment results will be available on MCAS (My Child at School) from 24th January. They will not be available on the app version of MCAS. 

  Parent consultations for Reception to Year 6:

  You will be able to discuss your child's progress at one of our remote parent consultation meetings. These will take place on:

  • Monday 31st January
  • Monday 7th February.

  Parent consultation meetings for children in Nursery:

  • 1st ,2nd, 3rd February (Tues, Wed, Thurs ) for Dragonflies 
  • 8th & 9th February (Tues Wed ) for Ladybirds

  Booking

  Booking for all appointments will open on MCAS on Friday 14th January at 12noon. The parent consultation meetings will take place on Microsoft Teams.

  More information

  Please read the inked assessment updates for more information.

  • Assessment point 1, 21-22, update for Years 1 - 6
  • Assessment point 1, 21-22, update for Nursery and Reception

  Relevant links:

  • Parent guide to MCAS
  • Assessment at Fielding

• Starting Primary School in 2022

  Mon 06 Dec 2021 Office

  Applications for children starting Primary and High School next year are still open. Submissions should be made online through eAdmissions.
   

  Children born between 1st September 2017 and 31st August 2018 are due to start the first year of primary school (reception class) in September 2022.
   

  You must apply directly to the council that you are living in at the time of application, regardless of the borough which the school is in.
  
  The deadline for applying for primary school is 15th January 2022. Applications received after this date are deemed  late and will not be considered until after national offer day.

  The national offer day for on time applicants is 16th April 2022. If you apply online you will receive an email in the evening on 16th April confirming the school that has been offered.
   

  You can view the Ealing borough prospectus here.

  Any parents/carers who need additional help completing the application, should come to the school office where a member of the Admin team can assist them.

• Year 4 and 5 mixed football team win Featherstone competition

  Fri 03 Dec 2021 D Thomas

  Last week the Year 4 and 5 Mixed football team went to Featherstone High School to compete in this years SEND Mixed Football Competition. We competed across 5 different footballing disciplines - passing, dribbling, shooting, throwing and then game play. 

  We started off with passing where we had to demonstrate our passing accuracy and scored points based on the number of accurate passes we completed as a team. All 8 children were excellent, but 2 boys in particular stood out as they made 110 consecutive accurate passes!

  Our next event was dribbling where children had to keep the ball under control as they slalomed through a course of cones. We scored points based on the number of complete dribbles and scored a total of 56 completed dribbles in 3 minutes - one of the highest scored of the day.

  We then moved onto the big event of the day - game play. We were drawn to play against Little Ealing and from the whistle the both schools were playing to win. The girls played 1st and it after a some great saves from our goalkeeper the score ended 0-0. The boys were on next which saw the ball flying from end to end with both teams coming close to scoring. Ultimately though the game too ended 0-0.

  Next we were on the throwing event where children had to practise their throw ins by throwing accurately to each other. We scored points based on the highest number of consecutive throws and were blown away by 2 of the boys scoring an incredible 86 throws and catches!

  Our final event was shooting were we had to take penalties and try to score as many times as possible in 3 minutes in a very small goal. When our time finished on this event, the girls had scored 5 penalties and the boys scored 7.

  At the end of the competition all the scores were added up and we were delighted to find out that we scored a massive 317 points and that was more than every other school! The children were over the moon to finish the day as champions and are now looking forward to receiving their winners medals in the Sport Assembly at the end of term.

  A huge congratulations to all of our footballers and thank you for representing the school so well.

   

  

• and the winner is.... Hercules! Constellation treat will be on 15 December

  Fri 03 Dec 2021 Clare Haines

  This term's constellations winners are Hercules!

  Congratulations!  The treat will take place on Wednesday 15 December in the afternoon. This will include outside (COVID safe) activities: Christmas Craft, Christmas playground disco, and sports. 

  The children in the Hercules constellation can wear non-school uniform on that day.