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Below you’ll find the news items that featured in last week’s email newsletter.
Newsletter sent Friday 16th of October 2020
2D shape investigations
Class 1 have enjoyed investigating the properties of different 2D shapes, including hexagons and pentagons.
Reflection Time and Prayer of the Day
Good morning Brown Clee!
Welcome to our virtual Friday Well Done Assembly! This week we have been thinking about how we need to take more responsibility for our learning and ensure that we are always trying our best. We also talked about the different learning skills we need to develop to help us with our learning.
Here are the recipients of this week’s Well Done Certificates!
Class 1: Rupert Bennett
Class 1: Isla Moore
Class 2: George Boxall
Class 2: Ida McMorine
Class 3: Joel Robinson
Class 3: Lola Gale
Class 4: Ruby Perrin
Class 4: Kiera James
Well done everyone for all your achievements this week!
Prayer of the Day
If we could now have a quiet moment of reflection and join in with the School prayer…
Dear God
Thank you for our wonderful school.
Help us to be good learners.
Help us to look after each other.
Help us be respectful and kind and to make everyone welcome.
May our school be a happy, safe place where learning is fun.
Where we all work together to be the best we can be.
Amen
Stencil and Splatter Painting – Class 4
Following on from our northern lights artwork, Class 4 have been combing splatter painting (similar to that of the abstract expressionist, Jackson Pollock) with stencils to create artwork around the theme of arctic animals. We first created our stencils using outline images – which we then flicked poster paint onto using paintbrushes.
Check out the amazing results below:
School Lunch Menu – Autumn Second Half Term
Pippa has been working hard on the school lunch menu to ensure that we can provide a hot meal at lunchtime for the children to eat in their classrooms. You can see the 3 week rotating menus below. Please place your orders for the coming week by midday on the Thursday of the week before – so please order by next Thursday for the first week back after half term.
Sandwiches are still available, but do need to be booked as per the hot lunches.
Reflection Time and Prayer of the Day
Good Morning Brown Clee!
Today we had our ‘live’ whole school assembly using Microsoft Teams – we normally hold them on Wednesdays but we had internet issues yesterday which meant it couldn’t take place. The children really enjoy these assemblies as it is the only time at the moment that we can all ‘come together’ and see each other – it is so lovely to see the classes waving and smiling at each other!
I thought it might be interesting for parents to see what we were talking and thinking about – which was our school SMART learning behaviours, and also what learning skills children need to be able to apply in order to learn. With so many children having not been in school between March and September we have been finding that they have lost some learning stamina, and some of these skills and we are working together to help them return!
Here is the presentation that we started to think about, to try and help develop the children’s learning skills…
Prayer of the Day
Dear God
Thank you for our wonderful school.
Help us to be good learners.
Help us to look after each other.
Help us be respectful and kind and to make everyone welcome.
May our school be a happy, safe place where learning is fun.
Where we all work together to be the best we can be.
Amen
Keeping Safe Online
In computing, Class 4 have been looking at the importance of keeping safe online.
We looked at three important aspects of this: Content, Contact and Conduct.
Our discussion on content involved looking at how social media accounts, games and films have age limits/ratings – and that the reasons for this is to avoid being exposed to inappropriate content/themes and to protect personal data. We also looked at what we should do if we see/hear something which may make someone feel uncomfortable.
We talked about how the internet allows us to contact a huge range of people and that, although this can be great, we cannot ever guarantee that the who we “talking” to is who we think they are. We discussed how what people post on the internet is often not completely true or honest.
We finally looked at how we are all responsible for our own conduct on the internet – including what we share and how we behave. We also talked about when using a game, accessing a website or signing up for an account, we are accountable for following the rules of whatever it is we are using – and that certain behaviour online can actually be deemed illegal.
Here are a small collection of posters (from National Online Safety®) with tips on staying safe online (more can be found on the E-Safety section of our website – including larger versions of those below)
For more information on how to keep children safe online, have a look at our E-Safety section on our website.
Any questions or queries on this, please don’t hesitate to contact me (class4@brownclee.shropshire.sch.uk)
