15 March 2019

The Leys Primary and Nursery School

2019

Accelerating progress Enriching wellbeing Promoting partnerships

Thought of the week next week

I follow the school rules to make the

school a better place to be in.

Class of the Week

Year 1 Sendak, Carle

The friendship cup is

presented to:

Ella-Mae M Y5

The best attendance award

is presented to

Kipling, Donaldson

The best punctuality award

is presented to:

Tolkien Wilson Kipling

Gold Awards for excellent

presentation

Y2 Jeremiah AS

Headteacher Awards

Year 5 Sophia W

Year 4 Brooke S Emily C

Riley S

Year 3 Kai SH

Year 2 Leo SH

Maths Challenge Awards

Year 5 Tom L, Evelyn C Co-

rey L, Dylan

Excellence Respect Equality Determination

Resilience Courage Inspiration Friendship

The Leys Primary and Nursery School, Ripon Road, Stevenage, Herts SG1 4QZ

Tel: 01438 314148 Fax: 01438 721364 admin@leys.herts.sch.uk

website: https://leys-herts.frogprimary.com

Headteacher: Ms Leigh Humphries Deputy Headteachers: Mrs Nikki Etienne and Mrs Davinder Khangura

Zephaniah Harlene

Anderson Finley

Sendak Jessica

Carle Layla

Hargreaves Christina

Donaldson Rylan

Ahlberg Lola

Wilson Salman

Dahl Jack

Freedman William

Strong Joshua

Pratchett Leigh

Morpurgo Chris

Tolkien Dylan

Lewis Ali

Shakespeare Poppy

Kipling Patrick

Dickens Iain

Star of the Week

THE LEYS LEARNING VALUE Spring 2

inspiration Recently we carried out a BIG

DEBATE where our pupils in the

Juniors were invited to take part.

The QUESTION was hotly debat-

ed among our pupils!!!! Dr Chris-

tie, who is leading this project,

announced the winners recently,

and I have included part of their

responses below. WELL DONE to

Grace and Eloise in Year 6!

SHOULD THE AGE

LIMIT OF FORTNITE

BE RAISED?

I don’t think it should be raised because

it is not a harmful game. My reasons

behind this are: even if you see messag-

es or hear them you could disconnect

your headset or just exit the game. It

does help you with your teamwork and

strategy, as most of the games you play

in groups. Overall in my opinion I be-

lieve that Fortnite is a harmless games,

even though it may have faults!

I think it should be raised as pupils of 12

or below will get ideas about harmful

activities towards themselves or others.

So I think it should be raised to 15+. Also

another reason is that you have a right

to privacy which you don’t get on Fort-

nite!

NO

YES

SPORTING FUTURES Activity Event

This week our Reception

and Year 1 classes have

really enjoyed an activity

event led by Sporting Fu-

tures in the town. It was

fantastic to see them all

having such fun!!!!

The Leys Primary and Nursery School, Ripon Road, Stevenage, Herts SG1 4QZ

Tel: 01438 314148 Fax: 01438 721364 admin@leys.herts.sch.uk

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CLASSES: SENDAK and CARLE

On Monday Year 1 had a big surprise when they arrived to school. A large egg had been laid in their library area!!!! What a shock! They are helping their teachers by being de-tectives to solve this very strange mystery. Ideas so far are that: the Leys has been visit-ed by a dragon, or even a large hen! I am looking forward to reading their incident re-ports!! Let’s hope we didn’t have a visit from a dinosaur or we will really be in trouble!

Today was a brutal day. This morning I woke up to a gunshot! I jumped out of bed and put on my army uniform. The German soldiers were attacking us like normal but I had a feeling this was going to be a bad day. I told my dear wife to go to the sewers so they would be safe. I kissed her goodbye and gave my son the biggest hug ever. Every day I prayed to God that I would ever see those gorgeous faces again! I ran outside. I smelt the dead bodies that were laying around. I saw a German soldier pointing a gun at me. I ran only because I needed to be alive for my lovely wife and the best son I could ever wish for. When I was running I fell over a rock. A strong pain hit my leg—I thought to myself ‘Is this the end of me?’ I was lying patiently fighting my pain in silence. A nurse ran over to me. I was re-lieved. She bandaged me up and moved me to a safe place...

The Leys Leaflet

Social Moral Spiritual Cultural (SMSC) and British Values

Wilson class have recently been looking after a very important vis-itor.... Ginger the guinea pig! Gin-ger has come to stay in Wilson class for a while and the children have been absolutely fantastic around her. They are learning how to care for an animal, show-ing responsibility and kindness, and have even got stuck in with

helping to clean her cage!

IMPORTANT DATES

22 March Friday Family Reading

8—22

April

Easter Holidays

23rd April Inset Day

24th April Children return to school

27th May to

31st May

Half term holidays

3rd June Inset Day

21st June Summer Fair

23rd July Last day of term children

finish at 2.30pm

Well done Wilson class, it seems that Ginger is very

much enjoying her stay!

Our writer of the week is

Sophia in Year 5 who was

inspired to write this ac-

count in first person after

she visited Uprise in War-

saw last weekend. So-

phia said that there were

very sad parts but she

learnt a lot. I am so im-

pressed Sophia. Inspira-

tional!!! Well done!