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25th May 2017
Term 5, Issue 6
Contact Information
The Shorne Star
Shorne Church of England Primary School
Cob Drive
Shorne
Nr Gravesend
Kent DA12 3DU
Fax:
01474 822312
Email: [email protected]
Telephone:
01474 822312
www.shorne.kent.sch.uk
YR R R Pearl Campbell A Zachary Martin P Alfie Edwards
YR 1 R Domininc Pamphlett A Lucinda Stiling P Malcah Clarkson
YR 2 R Ellie Howard A Penelope Taylor P Reiss Gill
YR 3 R Charlie Bateman-Solly A Jemima Kilgour P Harry Bance
YR 4 R Olivia Bell A Harry Steggles P Franki Watts
YR 5 R Summer Vickers A Tallulah Barham P Connor Sherress
YR 6 R Hannah Wilson A Harry Absalom P Rhys Hussey
Respect Achievement Perseverance
Term 4 RAP Awards
Message from Miss Hewett
Dear Parents/carers
Welcome to our May edition of The Shorne Star. The first half of our summer term has been very busy so far especially with Classes 2 and 6 having sat their annual statutory tests, the SATs. As a school we are extremely proud of how hard the children in Class 6 in particular have worked towards these. Of course they will con-tinue to focus on the curriculum for the rest of the academic year as well as looking ahead to starting secondary school. However, they can also now enjoy the exciting things that will be happening during their remaining weeks at Shorne which include the annual residential trip to Avon Tyrrell and the end of year production “Porridge”. This week we have held a lot of sporting activities for the whole school as part of our Sports Week, including Sports Day which was slightly earlier this year.
As previously advised, from September 2017 we will be extending
the school day by 15 minutes and our new finishing time will be
3.20pm. If you have any issues or would like to discuss this further
please make an appointment to see me.
Thank you to everyone for your continued support. I hope that you all have a very enjoyable and relaxing
half term holiday and look forward to seeing you all back safe and well again on Monday 5th June.
With best regards
Miss T Hewett
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Netball
On Tuesday 28th March a
team of children from Classes
5 & 6 played in a netball match
against Cobham Primary
School. After a very fast moving match
the end score was 15-15. Well done to the
whole team.
On Thursday 30th March a netball match
took place after school with two teams
made up of a mix of teachers and girls
from Classes 5 & 6. After a very quick
moving and exciting match the end score
was 11-11. Thanks to everyone who took
part, teachers and pupils and Mrs Barham
for umpiring on the day!
Football
On Saturday 25th March a
team of boys from Classes 5 &
6 took part in the Easter 7’s
Football Tournament at River-
view Park School. We are ab-
solutely thrilled to announce that Shorne
won the trophy, which is their third trophy
of the year so far, beating Higham 1:0 in
the final. Well done boys.
Sports Hall Athletics
On Wednesday 17th May a
team of boys and girls from
Classes 3 and 4 attended Leg-
ends Sports Centre at Cas-
cades to take part in a Sports
Hall Athletics Competition. The children
each took part in three track and three
field events. The track events were a vari-
ety of obstacle relay races and the field
events varied from standing long jump to a
chest push (chest pass with a medicine
ball) to see who could get it the furthest.
We scored a very respectable 220 points
which put us 9th on the leader board. The
children represented the school impecca-
bly and a massive thank you goes to the
parents who stayed and supported. Great
effort all round.
Sports News
Infant Agility
On Thursday 18th May a team of
Class 2 boys and girls attended Leg-
ends Sports Centre at Cascades to
take part in an Infant Agility competition. The
children took part in a number of physical chal-
lenges which targeted various aspects of their
physical ability from taking part in a speed
bounce to running over mini hurdles. All the
children that took part put in a fantastic
amount of effort and took part in every activ-
ity with a smile on their face. After the chil-
dren had finished the rotations, they also took
part in an obstacle relay which was great fun.
The team finished 8th in the competition. Mr
Edwards was incredibly proud of the children
and for many of them it was their first time
representing the school.
Sports Week
During the week beginning Monday 22nd May we held
Sports Week.
On Monday 22nd May we had Coaches Day. We in-
vited coaches of football, cricket, tennis, golf, dance
and basketball into school. Special thanks to Mr
Clayden, Mrs Amos and Mrs Hunt, parents at our
school, who came in to run sessions.
Tuesday 23rd May was Inter House Olympics Day
where the whole school took part in a variety of ac-
tivities including shot put, hurdles, archery and dis-
cus.
On Wednesday 24th May Kevin Horlock, another par-
ent at our school and ex professional footballer,
came in to visit each class. He gave an inspirational
talk to the children about the importance of working
hard at school as well as following your dreams.
Thursday 25th May we held sports day for KS1 and
KS2.
Finally to conclude Sports Week on Friday 26th May
all the children have been invited to come into school
dressed in sporting attire or as their sporting hero.
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KS2 Visit by Blunderbus
Theatre Company
E-Safety Tip from the
Digital Leaders
The E-Safety Tip from the Digi-
tal Leaders for this newsletter
is:
“Tell an adult straight away if you
come across anything that upsets you
or makes you feel uncomfortable.”
On Tuesday 23rd May KS2
were visited at school by
Blunderbus Theatre Com-
pany where they took part
in a theatre workshop based on the Vi-
kings.
Class 5
Swattenden Residential Trip
During the week beginning Monday 24th April Class 5 went on a three day residential trip to
Swattenden, an outdoor education and residential centre located near the historic town of Cran-
brook. The location and facilities combine to provide quality learning opportunities through
working, playing and living together and the children are able to develop as individuals whilst in-
creasing their team spirit.
Whilst there, the children enjoyed many different activities such as orienteering, nightline, zip
line and high all aboard. Miss Chantry was incredibly proud of all of the children during this
year’s trip as they developed their independence and showed fantastic support for one another.
Class 4 Church Service
On Sunday 21st May
Class 4 led the Sunday
morning Church service
in the village of
Shorne. They spoke
about Moses and told
the story of the 10
commandments. Well
done to the class rep-
resentatives who did a
fantastic job.
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Class R
Our topic this term
has been 'Why do
ladybirds have
spots?" The chil-
dren have read,
enjoyed and retold
many exciting sto-
ries including; Mad About Mini
Beasts by Giles Andreae and The
Bad Tempered Ladybird by Eric
Carle. Rabbit class have adven-
tured on a Mini Beast Hunt and
discovered many of the bugs
they have been learning about in
class.
There has been great excite-
ment learning about a butter-
fly's life cycle and a particular
favourite mini beast amongst the
children has been the centipede!
The children carefully recorded
mini beasts they discovered on
their Hunt and some were in-
spired to create their own bug
books full of sto-
ries, facts and
wonderful draw-
ings.
Cornerstones Curriculum
Following on from the successful introduction of the Cornerstones Cur-
riculum last term, each class would like to update you on what they have
been finding out about and inform you about the new topics for next
term.
Class 1
Year 1 have been look-
ing at the Splendid
Skies Cornerstones
topic. We've been
writing postcards to
Teddy the bear, look-
ing at the clouds and
the sky, discussing
the changes that hap-
pen between Spring
and Summer and look-
ing at weather poems.
We have also been
going to forest
schools every week
and we have been
looking at the changes
to the trees, making
pictures out of natu-
ral resources, identi-
fying different trees
and talking about the
animals we have seen
there.
Class 2
This term in Badger Class we have
been busy working very hard to-
wards our SATS, which
we have now completed.
We have also had lots
of fun learning about
different mini beasts
and their habitats. Mini
beast hunting and ex-
ploring our school grounds, as well
as at Warren Farm has been great
fun and we have found some very
interesting creatures. We have
researched what different mini
beasts like to eat and have learnt
about the life cycle of a honey bee.
We now have our own caterpillars
which we are watching transform
into butterflies and
have learnt about
this process. We
have also had lots of
fun making our own
mini beast hand pup-
pets, learning how to
design and sew, and
created our own special mini beast
using our skills on the computer.
Class 3
This term Eagles class have been learning a lot about rivers and water in our topic
"Flow". We have made models of river systems, analysed samples of
polluted water and even become junior newspaper reporters! We
have created art work based upon rivers and streams and also
wrote an amazing setting description of a waterfall racing through a forest.
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Cornerstones Curriculum
Class 5
Our topic this term has been 'Time
Traveller'. We started the topic by tak-
ing photos of ourselves and aging them
to see what we might look like in fifty
years! We have also been completing
lots of creative writing focusing on dif-
ferent people's journeys through life.
The children produced some particularly
brilliant pieces of writing based on a
dance by a shadow theatre group called
Attraction (the winners of Britain's Got
Talent in 2013). Some of this writing is
on display in our classroom.
As part of our science unit looking at
the growth and development of humans,
we had a very special visitor! Mrs Nich-
ols, who used to teach at Shorne,
brought her 8-month-old baby girl,
Amelia, into our classroom. We had the
opportunity to look at photographs of
Amelia from birth until now and ask Mrs
Nichols questions about how Amelia has
changed and developed.
Class 4
This term class 4’s topic has
been Potions. We have had
lots of fun writing our own
spells with the help of Shake-
speare’s Macbeth and we have
written an alternative ending
for Romeo and Juliet. We have
also worked extremely hard
creating our own fantasy story
which included a magic potion.
In science we have investi-
gated the changing state of
chocolate to create our own
antidotes for our home made
potions and we have investi-
gated the viscosity of differ-
ent liquids. In history we
heard a gruesome recount of
an operation performed in
1811, before anaesthetic was
discovered, the lady fainted
because of the pain!
Class 6
The topic this term for
Class 6 has been ID. The
children have been work-
ing extremely hard on re-
searching their charac-
teristics and traits. The
children edited family
photos, merging them to-
gether to find resem-
blances between them-
selves and family mem-
bers at the same age.
These can be found on the
ID display in the school
hall.
They also received a visit
from Mrs Thomas who
talked about her career
as a Crime Scene Investi-
gator, an inspirational
learning opportunity which
engaged the whole class.
For your information the new topics for each class next
term in the Cornerstones Curriculum are:
Class Topic
Class R Will you read me a story?
Class 1 Paws, claws and whiskers
Class 2 Towers, tunnels and turrets
Class 3 Predator
Class 4 Blue Abyss
Class 5 Scream machine
Class 6 Gallery rebels
New topics next term
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Easter Egg Competition Winners 2017
This year there was a huge response
to the Easter Egg competition. This
year the entries were linked to each
child's Cornerstones topic. We are very pleased to an-
nounce the following winners:
Class R Mia Lawrence
Class 1 Lily Smith
Class 2 Toby Scott
Class 3 Jacie Wilders
Class 4 Libby Ray
Class 5 Connor Sherress
Class 6 Chloe Gaymer
Overall Winner—Darcy Smith
FOSS fundraising events
FOSS have been very busy recently organising lots of fund raising
events for the children to enjoy.
A special thank you to organisers of the Shorne Disco Night (in
aid of the Ellenor Hospice) who have donated £100 to the school.
Also thank you for kind donations for equipment for Logan’s Den
and fans for the school.
On the last day of term, Friday 31st March, they organised a cake
sale after school together with an Easter Egg Hunt for the chil-
dren. The cake sale raised £109.00 and the Easter Egg Hunt
raised £120.00.
A Mothering Sunday stall was set up in Logan’s Den selling lots of
beautiful gifts for the children to purchase which raised the
amount of £155.00.
Thank you so much to all those parents who have been involved
with these events and raising valuable extra funds to benefit our
children at school.
Mothering Sunday purchases
Reminder
Now that summer is on the
way please ensure your chil-
dren are appropriately
dressed for school. We ask
that you apply sunscreen before they
come to school in the morning, any sun-
hats must be named and a water bottle
provided. Thankyou.
Sainsbury’s Active
Kids Vouchers
Thank you to every-
one who sent in the
Sainsbury’s Active
Kids Vouchers again this year. We use these
vouchers to gain valuable sports and other
equipment at school and they are much appre-
ciated.
Shorne School is looking for a voluntary
gardener from September 2017 to help
maintain some of our planted troughs lo-
cated outside the school office and class-
rooms and also in the school ECO garden. If anyone is
interested, or knows anyone who may be interested,
please see Miss Mansfield in the school office.
Voluntary gardener required
Chalk Village Fete
On Saturday 8th July, there will be a village fete
at Chalk Church. Time 11.30am to 3pm. Adult
entry £1.00, children free. Come and see live
musical drama by the Juke Box Theatre.
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In our October newsletter we wrote to advise
you of the school’s involvement in fundraising
for The Jack Howard Appeal. As many of you
will be aware Jack sadly passed away shortly
after this time. The Howard family have now
asked us to pass on a message to everyone who
helped fundraise for Jack.
“We would like to thank you all from the bottom of our hearts. We have felt overwhelmed by your support for our darling Jack and the in-credible fundraising in so many fantastic ways. Jack knew he was truly loved by our community, we will never forget the smile on his face when he was in hospital looking at all the fundraising pictures. If love could have saved Jack he would be here today. We are heartbroken to lose our darling Jack, your continuous support and generosity has given us some strength. The money that re-mains in the “Jack Howard Fund” will be put di-rectly towards research. Jack was so inspired by his consultant (who is working on a pioneering treatment) we will donate the money raised to this cause. We would like to continue to do a few fundraising events each year to remember Jack and donate the funds towards research. Jack’s amazing attitude, smile and positivity will live on forever and our aim is to cure other chil-dren from this cruel disease. A great big THANK YOU from us all, especially Jack.”
Message from the
Howard Family
Forthcoming Events
May 2017 26th—Dress up as your favourite sporting hero in return
for unwanted gifts for the Summer Fayre raffle prizes
and any toys/teddies for the white elephant stall
26th—Last day of term, school finishes 3.05pm
29th May—2nd June—Half term
June 2017 5th—First day back to school
5th—Zoo Lab visiting Classes 3 & 4
6th—Class 6 Avon Tyrrell meeting, 3.30pm
15th—Father’s Day gift shop also known as the “Super
Hero” gift shop
16th—Non school uniform day in return for sweets for
KS1 and bottles for the adult bottle raffle for KS2
18th—Family church service led by Class R
19th—23rd—Class 6 residential trip to Avon Tyrrell
19th—7.30-8.30pm—Wrapping of hampers for the raf-
fle stall, all help from parents greatly appreciated
21st—Class 2 trip to Wingham Wildlife Park
24th—Shorne Church of England Primary School Summer
Fayre,
July 2017 2nd—Civic Service and Patronal Festival, Church of St
Peter & St Paul, 10.00am, attended by representatives
of Shorne Parish Council and Gravesham Council , fol-
lowed by reception in Shorne village hall
3rd— New Reception Class Parents Meeting, 9.30am
5th—Class 5 visit to St George’s for Forensics Day
10th—Class 6, Safety in Action
10th—Schooltime, selling school uniform, 1.30pm
11th—E-Safety meeting, all welcome, school hall, 6.00pm
18th & 19th, KS2 Production of “Porridge”, afternoon &
evening performances both days
19th—Leavers’ Church Service, 10.00am, Church of St
Peter & St Paul, all welcome
21st—Last day of term, school finishes 2.20pm
September 2017 4th & 5th—Staff Development Day, school closed to
children
6th—First day back to school
As reported in our last newsletter the school are working to improving communication from
school. On Thursday 18 May Miss Hewett held an E-Safety Workshop in the school hall that
was open to all parents/carers. However due to a disappointing response it has been decided to
hold another workshop on Tuesday 11th July at 6.00pm. We hope to see more of you at this meeting as,
whatever their age, we can help you to find out more about what your children might be doing online and
give you some simple, practical and easy advice on the steps you can take as a parent to keep them as safe
as possible.
E-Safety Workshop for Parents