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• Year 4 Roman Learning

  Thu 15 Oct 2015 Year 4 team

  Year 4 have gone back to Roman times

  Year 4 have been thoroughly enjoying their new learning challenge: ‘Why were the Romans so powerful and what did we learn from them?’ There is much excitement around our creative homework, “It’s better doing our homework this way as we get to choose what we want to do and we don’t have to rush our work,” commented Ebba, 4F. Peter from 4H was especially happy with the freedom to choose what projects to do, “You can learn more things by yourself and I’m even making a Roman musical piece of my own.” We are now beginning to deepen the children’s learning from year 3 by Reading ‘Roman Invasion’ which looks at the events from the perspective of British tribes.

• Improving starting school arrangements

  Wed 14 Oct 2015

  Reception parents please complete short questionnaire

  Ealing's Extended Services team is collecting information from current Reception parents about their experience of joining a school.

  The 'Starting School in Ealing Parents & Carers Survey' is an anonymous online questionnaire that takes approximately 5 minutes to complete. The survey is designed to gather information from as many schools as possible helping to inform the extended services team to develop a new Starting School Resources Toolkit, training and support package.

  Fielding will benefit from your responses because we receive a report giving us the opportunity to review our current joining arrangements.

  Complete the survey by Friday 23rd October:

  Starting School in Ealing Survey

• Year 2 Creative Home Learning

  Tue 13 Oct 2015

  Pupil’s showcase their fantastic work

  As part of our Fielding Learning Challenge Curriculum ‘What would Paddington Bear find exciting about London?’  Year 2 pupils were set a piece of creative home learning this half term. Every pupil has been busily building, researching, drawing and baking; they finally got the chance to showcase their creations on Tuesday. They were able to demonstrate their knowledge of London through information books, soundscapes, models of London landmarks and even edible goods. Every child in the year has shown extraordinary effort and persistence with their work. “I really enjoyed the new creative home learning, it was fun,” explained Lia, class 2S. 
  “There was great variety within the home learning and it was exciting to see the children’s creative interpretation. I was very impressed with the quality and pride the children showed in their work.” added Mr Theobald, 2S class teacher. 

• Get out and about during half-term

  Tue 13 Oct 2015

  Quick and handy guide to local activities

  Ealing's Extended Services team have released 'Let’s Get Out & About' ready for the October half-term holiday break.

  Take the stress out of school holidays with this quick and handy guide to what’s on in Ealing and the surrounding areas.

  The action packed newsletter contains useful ideas, suggestions and activities for the whole family to enjoy during the school holidays.

  • Let's Get Out & About newsletter

• Year 5 Antarctica Topic

  Tue 13 Oct 2015

  A Fantastic end to our Antarctica topic, sledging in the (fake) snow!

  Our Antarctic adventure came to an exciting close with the testing of our handmade wooden sledges. Since the beginning of term, the children have evaluated a range of sledge designs, noting the best features, and used their research to plan their own super-fast sledge. Jasleen 5S stated, “My sledge will be the best because it is small and light!” The children worked safely with saws and glue guns to construct their sledges, exploring using triangles to strengthen the joints. It was a perfect opportunity to extend our understanding of friction and test the sledges on a range of surfaces to discover which created the least friction. Miss O’Brien, Year 5 teacher, said, “It was fantastic to see accurate measuring with force meters and children thinking about why different surfaces/sledges had different results”. We even made fake snow and tried the sledges on that too.

• Keeping our pupils safe

  Mon 12 Oct 2015

  Review highlights key strengths

  A review by school leaders of safeguarding arrangements against Ofsted's inspection criteria has highlighted key strengths in the school's work.  Schools are responsible for safeguarding pupils in a wide range of different ways.

  Analysis of documents and records, interviews with key members of staff and discussion with groups of pupils from all age groups were used to evaluate the impact of the school's routines, systems and teaching to help keep our children safe from harm.

  "An overwhelming number of pupils told us that they felt safe in school because adults were trusted by them to listen and act on any concerns.  Teachers were described as being calm, kind but strict when needed.  School systems, including 'worry boxes', Playground Friends, and the chance to drop-in to see Learning Mentor, Mrs. Reehal, were highlighted by children.

  "Children reported consistent use of our new behaviour management routines by teachers.  Older pupils in Years 5 & 6 described how their peers now make the right choices resulting in even fewer 'red letters' going home and lesson rarely being disrupted by poor behaviour.

  "Feeling safe on the inside was highlighted by other children because they know we are a Values-based school which uses MindUp techniques to help children manage their emotions.  Children felt that the school had become even happier and safer since the introduction of values because they had learned how to kinder to others.

  "E-safety was explained confidently by children who remembered a range of different scenarios from teaching in class and assemblies.  Preparation for off-site trips has been used as a meaningful way to teach children about road safety. 

  "Bullying is extremely rare, if at all, although children spoke confidently about different types of bullying and what to do if they were being bullied.  Children distinguished between ad hoc name calling and persistent bullying as a result of the school's teaching and approach to bullying, " explained Peter Dunmall, Head teacher.

  "Some older children described the use of derogatory homophobic language by older children, especially boys while playing football which is something the school now needs to address, " added Clare Haines, Deputy Head.

  An evaluation report will be scrutinised by the Governing Body at the next Pupils & Achievement Committee meeting and validated by a first-hand visit to school in November.  

• October Holiday Club- Creepy, Crawly, Wild Fun, all week long

  Fri 09 Oct 2015 Tessa Bertram

  Book Now

  “Does your child need something fun to do over the Holidays? Or do you need fun, affordable childcare? If so, why not use our Play based Holiday Club,” asked Tessa Bertram, Club Manager. All fielding children, Reception-Year 6 are invited to attend the October holiday club. We are open all week, 26th - 30th October, 8am-6pm for £35 per day. The club is run on-site by our experienced and enthusiastic Playworkers. “Our holiday club is packed full of autumnal and spooky activities suitable for all ages. You can use our simple booking sheet to secure your place today,” explained Muhubo Sharmake, Playworker.

  • Pick up a booking pack from the school office or childcare club

  • Return your booking form by Monday 19^th October

• Year 6 are very persuasive!

  Thu 08 Oct 2015

  Pupils convince Mr Dunmall for a year off school...

  This week Year 6 pupils have worked diligently to identify the features of persuasive writing. Furthermore they have analysed a high level WAGOLL (exemplar letter - 'what a good one looks like'); created a features list and then developed their own individual plans. Children have excelled in their ideas, hardly surprising when you hear what they would like Mr Dunmall to do! It is based on our text, Kensuke’s Kingdom. The main character, Michael, wants to leave his school for one year to sail around the world with his parents and faithful dog. As you can imagine, the children have thought of fantastic ideas to persuade their head-teacher. Owen, 6S commented, "These memories will be cherished."

  "Learning is a journey, what better journey than a round the world trip?" added Ineesh.

  "The children were very enthusiastic and shared their ideas collaboratively. They enjoyed evaluating their speaking and listening using the school’s new IRIS technology," explained Miss Calver, Year 6 teacher.

• Nursery children settle in

  Thu 08 Oct 2015

  Fun learning outdoors

  Children in Nursery are settling in well and have lots of exciting experiences to access straight away when they come in. “It’s great to see the children exploring all the areas in Nursery,” explained Mr McEvoy. The large outdoor space is very popular too and the children love being outdoors. 

  There are a lot of new resources for the children to access indoors and it is lovely to see so many children enjoying the role play area. “The new home corner is really popular and the children love cooking in the little kitchen,” said Mrs Bodman.

• Reception children enjoy learning

  Thu 08 Oct 2015

  Space

  Children in Reception have settled in well at school and are getting used to new routines quickly. “It’s lovely to see the children making new friends and having fun in our fantastic new space,” said Mrs Kashif, Assistant Head teacher.

  The children are also thoroughly enjoying their new learning challenge “Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are?” They have loved learning about Space using the book “On the moon” and have even created a class fact file about Space.

  “This topic has caught the imagination of the children,” explained Mr Webb.  Caeden, from Red class, added “It takes four days to get to the moon because it’s so far away”.

  The children have also had a visit from the Year 6 Star Leaders who told them all about the four constellation groups that are used in school – Cygnus, Hercules, Orion and Pegasus. “The children were amazed to hear about star patterns and the star leaders did a fantastic presentation in each class,” said Mrs Woolley.