Transcription of Goonhavern Primary School Matters
1 Goonhavern Primary School Matters Have a lovely summer holiday. We re back to School on Monday 5th September. A note from Mr Hayes ATTENDANCE Our target is to reach whole School attendance for the 2010-2011 academic year. Our attendance figures for the Summer 2nd half term were; Reception Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Whole School Well done to Year 2, 3, 4 and 5 for achieving our target of We missed our whole School target by ! Well done everyone for trying so hard, let's try and beat it next year. GOODBYE AND GOODLUCK It is with sadness that we say goodbye to two members of staff at the end of this term. Mrs Cuthell has been teaching at Goonhavern Primary School for 27 years and Mrs Wallace has been a teaching assistant at Goonhavern Primary School for over 10 years.
2 We are going to miss them around School hugely and we appreciate all the time and commitment they have dedicated to the School . We wish Mrs Cuthell and Mrs Wallace a successful and happy future. To Miss Alex Morton and Mrs Becky Nugent on their appointments at Goonhavern Primary School . They will both be starting in September; Miss Morton will be our new HLTA in Key Stage 1 and the Foundation Stage and Mrs Nugent will be our new secretary. We wish them both the very best in their new roles. THANK YOU I would like to say thank you to the staff for their hard work this year. It has been an excellent year and what a way to end it with our production of Alice in Wonderland. I know that all of those parents who came to see it will agree that it really was a marvellous performance.
3 Thank you to Helen Tellam for the hard work and commitment she has shown in her role as Chair of FROGS. Helen s children have now done their time at Goonhavern Primary School and Helen will be handing the role over to a new chair in October. Thank you also to Shirley Roberts for compiling all of the information and producing our newsletters each half term. And finally thank you to all of the parents for their support this year. We appreciate the things you do for us and we look forward to working with you next year. END OF ANOTHER School YEAR! I can t believe another School year has gone by! Have a wonderful summer break and we look forward to seeing you on Monday 5th September Mr Hayes MINI-FETE - Although the weather spoiled our plans and we had to cancel the outdoor events and vintage vehicle display, the afternoon went really well.
4 The grand sum of 950 was raised. Thanks once again to everyone who contributed in any way. Well done to everyone on making such a colourful and varied selection of bunting flags which are now displayed in the corridor outside the library. Please come in and have a look at the display. Thanks very much to Emma Manley for all her help with this project. Hopefully by now all outstanding sponsor money from the Fun Run has been handed to the School secretaries or your class teacher. If you have any more money to hand in please do so as soon as possible. Thank you. Finally, thanks very much to all the FROGS committee for all their help and support over the last few years. Diary date-FROGS AGM Tues 4th October 2011 at 7pm - new committee members needed.
5 Please come along and give your support. By Helen Tellam, Chair FROGS Nurture the seed and together we will grow Nurture the seed and together we will N e w s l e t t e r : July 2011 P a g e 1 H e a d t e a c h e r : M r C H a y e s Goonhavern Primary School Matters Have a lovely summer holiday. We re back to School on Monday 5th September. Class R What a wonderful year we have had! We have had many adventures, in the jungle, underwater, on the moon and in our boats. Class R have enjoyed setting up their Bed and Breakfast this half term, we have been taking bookings and room service orders. We also set up a car wash and made posters to advertise our business. We have spent a lot of time story telling.
6 We have retold traditional tales and then made our own versions up. This has led to some wonderful role play and creative writing! Class 1 We have had a really busy half term continuing the study of 'The Sea'. During 'Pirate Week' we dressed as Pirates and learnt some pirate sayings. We designed a pirate's treasure island and wrote instructions to the treasure . We made pirate hats and 'walked the plank'. We visited the Blue Reef Aquarium and learnt lots about things that live in the sea. We also opened our own cafe called 'The Seashell Beach Cafe,' which proved to be a great success. Thank you to all the parents who came to eat hotdogs, pizza and fruit kebabs all made by the children. The children worked really hard to run the cafe themselves, taking orders, serving food and drinks, and working out how much things cost and giving change.
7 Here are some of the things the children remembered:- 'We saw Mr Tickle the giant octopus. It was really cool when it crawled out of its tank!' Finley. 'We went to the beach and made sand sculptures'. Kimi. 'We wrote and did the actions to the story 'The Lighthouse Keeper's Tea.' Jack. 'We made fish shape poems and did an under the sea collage.' Maya. 'We made our 'Memories of Class 1' books.' Daniel. I hope you all have a lovely summer. See you in September! Class 2 In Class 2 we have done lots of work about islands and the sea. We ve found out a lot about different sea creatures and plants. We went to the Blue Reef Aquarium and had a great time. We had a guided tour and then we had a seashore safari.
8 We found lots of different sea creatures like crabs and fish and shrimps. Then we had a picnic on the beach and had a sand sculpture competition. The mermaid won! It was very sunny and hot. Class 3 Class 3 have had a very busy month. On the 27th June we went on a trip to Pendennis castle. When we arrived at the castle we first of all took part in a workshop which was all about being a soldier in World War II. We had to work out names of places around Falmouth in Morse Code. Then it was time for drill practice with the Royal Artillery which was great fun! We had to line up smartly in our groups and practise standing at ease and then to attention. After that we had to march in single file across the castle grounds which was quite tricky!
9 Then we went to the Magazine where we listened to a re-enactment of a bombing raid - some of us found it quite scary but it made us realise what it would of been like during the war. Next we all had a go at firing up a pretend cannon and timing how long it took to load and fire it - the quickest group took only 33 seconds! Then it was time for lunch. After that we had time to do some sketching, explore the castle and dress up in different clothes from World War II. Finally we had to leave Pendennis and return to School . It was a brilliant trip, we had learnt so much about the life of a soldier and about castles. We have also been looking at myths and have created our own myhthical creatures which we then put into our own myths that we have written.
10 This term we have been lucky to have Miss Prescott teaching us. She has been a great teacher and we thank her very much for organising our trip to Pendennis Castle and helping us to make our learning interesting and fun! Nurture the seed and together we will grow Nurture the seed and together we will N e w s l e t t e r : J u l y 2011 P a g e 2 H e a d t e a c h e r : M r C H a y e s Goonhavern Primary School Matters Have a lovely summer holiday. We re back to School on Monday 5th September. Class 4 SCRAP ATTACK - This year class 4 have been working on a project called Scrap Attack. We had to find as much litter as possible and put it into different colours. Afterwards we put all the litter colours on a board to create a person by throwing a piece of litter in the bin and we came 3rd out of 24 other schools.
