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Website Address: www.nelsonschool.org Telephone Number: 020 8894 9899 School Email Address: info@nelsonschool.org Summer Term Issue No: 1

Important Message If the school receives the pupil premium funding for your child and they have free school meals, you will have received an email from the school . Please contact the office if you would like to sign up for a weekly packed lunch food package or the FSM vouchers if you have not yet done so.

Sweet Shop

Times Table RockStars

Amelie (Y2) and Edie (Reception) have set up their own sweet shop. They have had great fun serving customers and being customers them-selves! They also wrote a letter to Mrs Steels inviting her to come and open the shop.

Well done Amelie and Edie—it looks yummy!

Band Nelson will be taking on Band Chase Bridge in a Times Table Rockstar challenge.

The rules are simple. Earn points in whichever game mode you want. The school that earns the most points wins.

The battle will commence on 4th May at 9am and end on 10th May at 4pm and is suitable for Y2 to Y6 children.

The battle will be tough… EVERY point will make a difference… so start practising Nelson!

Staff have continued to work hard to create home learning packs. Thank you for the contin-ued support and lovely feedback about the packs and continuing to share all the fantastic learning you are doing at home. We have now launched our online learning on Microsoft 365. You should have now received an email with your child's username and password, please check your junk folder if you have not yet re-ceived the email. We are very excited to move to online learning and hearing how you are all getting on. However, we know having access to a computer throughout the whole day can be a challenge so please use it as and when you can.

Home/Online Learning Update

Nelson School is committed to safeguarding – a shared responsibility

LOD and Reflection Videos

All year groups have now uploaded their first weekly video on LOD. They have had lots of views already and we are already looking for-ward to the next videos. These will be upload-ed on LOD and Microsoft 365 on Mondays.

You can also watch the Spring reflection vide-os under classes on the school website.

Salt Dough Present

Alexia (Y4) has created her own Aztec mask. Excellent work—Well done Alexia!

Troy and Kane (Y3) have been working on their baking skills. They made their own pizzas, banana bread and ‘pupcakes’ for their dog River. They are very busy working on various chal-lenges for Cubs which will help them to achieve their badges. This included planting potatoes, carrots, leeks peas and rocket and building dens! They have also been learning about Pompeii, Anglo Saxons and Vikings. Well done Troy and Kane!

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Aztec Mask

Sophia (Y5) and Arthur (Reception) have been busy making a salt dough present for their nan-ny's 70th birthday. They made the salt dough by measuring out flour, salt and water. They then mixed it into a dough, rolled it out and pressed their hands into it. When it was dry, they painted it. It looks fantastic—well done Sophia and Ar-thur!

Safeguarding

Given the recent school closures, we have up-dated our safeguarding policy in line with govern-ment guidance. The policy can be accessed via our school website under general info and poli-cies .

With children off school for an indefinite peri-od, Professor Cartwright-Hatton, professor of clinical child psychology at the University of Sussex spoke to the BBC to give a number of tips on how parents can help their children cope. Her tips are likely to be of help to both children and adults. Find the full article here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51959957

Tips to help Children Cope

Home Learning Fun

NCETM

Streamline Boat

Reuben (Y3) and Freya (Squirrels) have been getting creative at home. They have used card-board and paint to create ‘Bruncina’ below. They have also looked at where different foods come from and located them on a map and created their own Jurassic world. Well done Reuben and Freya!

Getting Creative

The NCETM (National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics) are offering sup-port to parents/carers throughout the period of school closures. Parents/ carers of primary and secondary school children can vis-it www.ncetm.org.uk to find two new areas of the website. All the resources are free to ac-cess and do not require a login.

Eloise (Y5) has made her own streamline boat with a superb Nelson sail. Well done Eloise!

Easter Challenge Winners!

Well done to all the children who entered our Easter Challenge! The challenge was to de-sign and make an Easter bonnet or draw a pic-ture that shows what Spring means to you!

Our winners are:

Reuben(Y3) and Freya Freya (Y2)

Well for your creative and interesting designs!

We will be sending your prize through the post so keep an eye out!

Maths Learning

Arthur (Reception) has completed his home learning maths book which he started when the school closed. Super work Arthur—Well done!

Online Safety There is a lot of support available to keep your child safe online. Below are some useful links to help parents and carers:

Thinkyouknow (advice from the National Crime Agency to stay safe online) Internet matters (support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online) Parent info (support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online) Net-aware (support for parents and careers from the NSPCC.

Easter Excitement

Rayaan (Reception) has drawn a fantastic rain-bow out of chalk for the NHS. We are very im-pressed—Well done Rayaan!

Getting Creative Star Wars Sewing

Keeping Fit

Joseph (Y4) has been missing his football games and training, so he has been keeping himself fit in the garden or on the treadmill. He also made a poster about keeping fit. Keep it up! Well done Joseph!

Mitchell (Y4) has had his first lesson using a sewing machine. He has converted an old t-shirt into a cushion. It looks fantastic—Well done Mitchell!

Gabriel (Y2) has been super excited about Easter and has made an excellent Easter card.

Hugo (Reception) has also made a super chick for Easter. Well done Hugo!

Parachute Power

"In February I spent a day filming for the new Lidl Spring advert which is on TV at the mo-ment. To get this part I had to audition twice. I loved watching the chefs making the food but we weren't allowed to eat any. We had to film each part over and over but it was really fun and filming lasted the whole day. It's amazing how much work and how many people it takes to make an advert which is just 20 seconds long" Florence 4D

You can check out the advert here:

h ps://youtu.be/Scn27pOEAMs

We are very proud of you Florence– Well done!

Amazing Acting Wartime Baking

I have made an eggless sponge cake from the wartime recipe book with my family. Measuring in ounces was very difficult as our scales was an old manual machine. We didn’t put the sultanas in because I don’t like them. After we made them we ate them with large helpings of butter.—Ishaq (Y6).

It looks tasty! Well done Ishaq!

I have been working on my parachute. I used a plastic bag, ice cream tub, tissue, string and a egg pot. After making it we tested it out and guess what egg didn’t crash—Sara (Y2). Well done Sara!

Family Fun

This week, I helped my Mum and sister with their cooking like scraping the carrots and cut-ting other vegetables. I also went on a run with my Dad near to the Rugby stadium. I also did my TT Rockstars because I wanted to get to my next level.– Riyan (Y3) Well done Riyan!

Foodbank

We have been approached by a local Richmond church who are delivering food parcels to schools in the borough who have expressed a need for them on behalf of some of their families. The parcels are available to families who are struggling financially at this difficult time and would like to receive a supply of every day food essentials. If you would like to receive this offer of support, please contact the school office with your name and the number of people in your household as soon as possible. We will then be able to have the parcel delivered to you. This will not affect any other support that you currently receive (benefits, free school meal vouchers etc)

News of our two Whole School Learning Challenges! We are pleased to announce two whole school learning challenges for children to enjoy while school is closed. Some year groups have already been given details of these challenges with their learning packs, while other year groups will be providing details when their new pack is

sent out since there will be slightly different expectations for each age group. Meanwhile, please read on to find out more about the general idea behind the challenges.

1 Map Making and Story Writing

JK Rowling said, There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.”

Never has this statement been more relevant than now, at a time when so many restrictions have

been placed on our everyday lives, and we can’t travel more than a few hundred metres from our

own homes.

With this in mind, we are asking all children in the school to write a story which will transport readers to another time, another place, and a new adventure whilst respecting social distancing rules and without even having to leave their sofas!

Huw Lewis-Jones, the author of a lovely book called The Writer;s

Map said, “For some writers mak-ing a map is absolutely central to

the craft of shaping and telling their tale.”

2 Creating a Time Capsule To mark this unique time in history, we are asking every child in the school to make a record of this time in their life to help future historians understand just what it was like to be a child in 2020, a year which may well go down in history as one of the most remarkable of our lifetimes.

You will find in your learning pack a time capsule template which you can either print and complete as it is, or, if you pre-fer, use for ideas for creating a unique time capsule of your own design. We know that many of you will relish the oppor-tunity to showcase your creativity and imagination!

Some of you may even want to take it a step further and choose artefacts to stash away in a box, the contents only re-vealed in years to come. Think of the memories this will evoke, and how fascinated your children or grandchildren will be!

If you have not yet received details of these challenges, please look out for further instructions from your child’s class teacher. We do hope that as many children as possi-ble will take part, and very much look forward to reading your stories, looking at your maps and finding out what might be in your time capsules!