2nd November 2007

Up and Running
After the welcome half term break we are up and running with a very busy half term in the lead up to Christmas. As well as the usual Christmas events there is the concert, the theatre visit and a spate of fixtures. This week has been very busy, with the Rambert Dance Workshop yesterday and the Halloween Party tonight.

Thanks to Leeds Carnegie
We were lucky to be given free tickets for the Super League netball match between Leeds Carnegie and Northern Thunder last Saturday. Leeds were fantastic, having signed up the ex-England attack force of Tracey Neville and Karen Grieg, and won the match 54-27. I highly recommend watching the team in their next home match on the 24th November at Leeds Met. Many thanks to Gerry Plant for inviting us and mentioning the school in the match program!

Next Week
Our first heavyweight contest of the season is on Tuesday at Gateways (4pm). This is a league match so a full strength team is needed!
We also have an Under 10 match at home to Bronte House on Friday (2pm).

On Friday morning the local police will be visiting to talk to the children about
road safety. In my opinion you can’t have enough of that.

Displays
There is now some excellent display work up around the school. Please do come in and have a look at it. Please feel free to visit the Year 5 and 6 classroom (Room 1) where there are some great Autumn poems on display. The work was inspired by Keats’ ‘Ode to Autumn’ and by collecting leaves and berries on an Autumnal walk in the park. Here are two poems from that display.

Designing Autumn
I chose Autumn to be the crossroads
In Time between Summer and Winter,
The rainy season, the misty season.
I chose Autumn
I chose Autumn as the time that fills
All fruit with sweet juice and softens
The skin and flesh of apples and reddens them
I chose Autumn
I chose Autumn to brown the leaves
And drop them from the trees
So winter doesn’t freeze them
I chose Autumn
Holly Thornber (Year 5)

Autumn
Smooth brown conkers lying on the ground
Twittering birds as the sun sets, what a sound,
Golden leaves fall down from the trees,
Listen to the melody of the honey bees,
All the leaves change colour, yellow, orange, red
On a Saturday morning get out of bed,
For the red breast feeds in the golden light of the sun,
Watching him fly can be heap loads of fun,
Listen to the crunching leaves under your feet,
And taste the juicy apples all for you to eat.
Callum Hylton (Year 6)

Parents’ Handbook
The new version of the Parents’ handbook will be published very soon. As you may know we are having some printing problems in the office so please bear with us. All new parents will automatically receive a copy. If any other parents wish to have an updated version please could they let Liz know and we will print one for you. There are some considerable updates which you may wish to make yourself aware of.


Friends Meeting
There will be a Friends Meeting on Thursday at 7.30 at school. All parents welcome.
Isola Blair

Nativity Play – Change of Date
The Nativity Play and carol service has been changed from Monday 10th December to Wednesday 12th December at 9.00 am.
Rambert Dance Workshop
This was terrific!
Since I went to The Grand to see the company perform last night, the article will be in next week’s newsletter.
By the way, the performance was memorable. How do they do what they do??
Judith Watkins

Summary Box
Monday:
Art Club 3.30-4.30pm
Tuesday:
Swimming, Beginners Chess Lunchtime
Drama Club 3.30pm-4.30pm
U11 Netball v Gateways (4pm)
Wednesday:
Chess Club Lunchtime
Story Club 3.30-4.30pm
Thursday:
Chess Squad Lunchtime
Netball Practice 3.30-4.30pm
Friday:
Road Safety Talk (am)
Orchestra Lunchtime
U10 Netball v Bronte House (2pm home)