Brownlee Foundation Triathlon 28 Y6 children + 1 Y4 travelled to York Sport Village this week to take part in the junior triathlon event. I joined them there and got to see them in the transition from swimming onto bikes, then the run to the finish. It was a really well-organised event with goody bags and lots of support and we will certainly be going again if we are invited! Many thanks to the PTA for supporting with the travel costs: it was so worth it to have our first journey out of school in such a long time.

Class Dojo Remember to sign up for Dojo using the code that has been sent out this week...and there will be a very informal after-school session if anyone needs any help with signing in our would like to see what it looks like. Please also make sure you have completed the Google Form to let us know about use of your child's photo. Dojo is completely secure and can only be accessed by people who are part of the school.

STARMAT vacancy We are looking for a Trust Executive Chef who will oversee the school meals service across the STAR schools Advert-for-Trust-Exec-Chef-May-2022.pdf (starmat.uk)

Free school meals: save up to £450 a year With so much in the news about the cost of living and now energy prices going up, you can check whether your child could be eligible for a free school meal, whatever school year they are in. All the information is on the NYCC website at https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/free-school-meals

If you would like any advice or support with this, please contact the school office. We treat these matters with complete confidentiality and are always happy to help if needed.

The year 6 staff and children would like to thank the PTA for supporting us through SATs week as they provided the breakfasts for the whole year group during the week. It was very much appreciated and really got the children’s brains ready for the tests.

13/05/22

Following a successful away fixture the previous week, Brayton Primary FC entertained their local rivals, Longman’s Hill this past Friday, at fortress Brayton Lane.

On a warm, slightly overcast and breezy afternoon, the Blue Boys, wearing their alternative strip, would seek to complete the double over Longman’s after the previous fixture resulted in a 9 – 0 whitewash. The groundsmen had listened to the feedback from Coach Pooley, and provided a snooker table-like surface for the game, perfect for the pass and move tactics employed by the management team. Unfortunately, this would be to the detriment of Brayton, as previous games played on pitches resembling Coach Pooley’s chin, would result in over-hit passes throughout the first half. Although never troubling the goal of Harry Longhurst, the Longman’s team provided much more of a challenge with their tight marking and long ball football. Midway through the first half, the deadlock would be broken, with that man again, Oliver Spooner, netting after good work from Arthur Richardson in midfield, led to a cut back from Thomas Summerton, to provide Spooner with a chance he would not miss. A tactical substitution by Pooley, saw the introduction of Oliver Short, who took little time to pounce on a rebounded shot, to slot home from close range.

The second half saw Brayton playing into the wind, something which could have helped their quick passing football. This resulted in Spooner adding his second of the game following a neat assist by Short in the opponent’s area. The man of the moment, Spooner, would complete his second hat-trick in as many games, a feat not often replicated, when another pass into the box was expertly dispatched following a piece of sublime control and finishing whilst surrounded by defenders. Longman’s would continue to make a game of it and their hard work paid off when a good save from a distant shot was parried by Longhurst, only for the Brayton defence to be caught napping, and the Longmans striker to nip in and bag his team a consolation goal. Brayton would continue to press until the very last moments with weaving runs from Summerton and Richardson, with the latter disappointed not to receive a freekick at the edge of the opposing penalty area in injury time, much to the chagrin of Coach Fash-Hill, whose remonstrations were ignored by the excellent referee, Mr Osborne.

Man of the Match: Oliver Spooner.

Whole school attendance last week was a strong 94.7%, just below the national figure. Please keep supporting us in improving school attendance by making sure your child is at school on time and ready to learn with everything they need, and that they miss as little school as possible.

The graph below shows our school attendance since the start of the school year up to the end of last week (we are the pink line).

An amazing 323 children have had 100% attendance this week: a great start to this term!

Wednesday 25th May 2022: Class Dojo parent workshop after school in main hall

Thursday 26th May 2022: Jubilee Celebration Picnic and competitions. Dress in red, white and blue or as a member of the royal family

Thursday 26th May 2022: School closes for half term break (3:15pm)

Friday 27th May 2022: Training day (school closed to children)

Monday 6th June 2022: School opens

Monday 6th June & Friday 10th June 2022: Open evenings for Reception September 2022 (info to follow)

Saturday 25th June 2022: PTA Summer Fair (TBC)

Tuesday 28th June 2022: Year 2/3 trip to Bridlington

Wednesday 13th & Thursday 14th July 2022: Whole school transition days

Callum Hanley
Libby Fielder

Taylor Hatton

Ciara Chamberlain

Violet Durnin

Everly Dos Santos

Finlay Smith

Jasmine Whitby

Sienna Craft

These are Compassion, Thankfulness, Fellowship, Hope, Humility, Justice and Service. We don't just believe in these values, we live by them every day in school. This week's class work is positively brimming with examples of all our school values - well done everyone!

This week in Stars we have enjoyed sharing some stories involving boats and then acting them out in our boat outside. We have listened to the stories of ‘Jesus Calming the Storm’ and ‘Noah’s Ark’ and have painted rainbows and made and floated boats out of recycled materials. The children have enjoyed searching for minibeasts so following their interests we have also looked at minibeasts, in particular ladybirds. We have looked at ‘Mad About Minibeasts’ and ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ by Julia Donaldson. The children have enjoyed painting ladybirds, used tweezers to catch the wooden ladybirds, counted the spots on ladybirds and made playdough ladybirds. We have also been on a minibeast hunt around the school field.

In phonics we have looked at oral blending and segmenting of sounds in words. In maths the children have made comparisons between objects according to their size and length and linked numerals to amounts.

Star of the Week : Jude Cooper

Ahoy Mateys!

We have all needed our sea legs this week! We shared the story of ‘Mr Gumpy's Outing’ by John Burningham and created a story map as a visual aid which depicted the setting, the sequence of events and actions of the story characters. We then wrote a list of all the characters who joined Mr Gumpy on his adventure and we couldn’t believe how many animals and people could fit in a boat safely or could they? We also used a range of different materials to make our own models of Mr Gumpy’s boat. We couldn't have done it without the very generous gift of a real boat! Thank you so much to our extremely supportive families.

Wednesday was a really exciting day for us. In the morning we had our first ‘Open the Book’ which is always a lovely opportunity for the children to hear key Bible stories told by a fantastic team of Christians from St Wilfrid’s Church. They retold the story of Jesus calming the storm and were thrilled they could use our boat!

In the afternoon Mr Peel, our new school crossing patrol officer came to speak to us. He explained how to cross the road safely and answered lots of questions from the children. We thanked him for the pencils, stickers, information sheet and the loan of a real uniform and lollipop stick.

In Maths the children listened to first, then and now stories. identifying how many characters

got on the boat and how many characters were on the boat now. They had to work out how many characters there were on the boat at first.

Mercury - Isla Sheldon

Moon - George Bramhald

We have had another exciting week in Year 1, exploring the continent of Australia, and investigating the Great Barrier Reef. The children have studied ‘Boo! A Fishy Mystery’ by Kate Read in English, developing their vocabulary, retrieval and inference skills, and in their writing they have written emotive and persuasive letters to our Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, documenting the dangers of plastic pollution on an aquatic habitat. In maths, the children have enjoyed finding halves of shapes, objects and amounts. Through art and design, we have replicated aboriginal art, whilst in science we have investigated fish and amphibians. The children continue to impress us with their phonetic awareness and number skills, thank you for your phonic home study and NumberBots play, it really does help consolidate the children’s learning. We are very excited for our school trip on Monday, and being able to immerse them in a first hand experience of a range of animals.

Star of the week:

Venus- Jemma Richmond

Galaxy- Roan Catton

We are so proud of the children this week. The Year 2 children have worked with maturity, resilience and perseverance in their SATs tests and the Year 3 children have worked equally hard at consolidating their reading comprehension and calculation skills. We have also enjoyed finishing our Savage Stone Age topic by learning about the prehistoric animals which were around; we used our measuring skills to realise just how big they were! The children then produced beautiful pastel pictures of the animals. In science, we have carried on learning about forces and magnets. The children have shown themselves to be real scientists by enthusiastically investigating as well as carefully recording their findings. In RE, we have found out how Jewish families celebrate the festival of Passover.

Stars of the week -

Jupiter- The whole class

Saturn- The whole class

Neptune- The whole class

We’ve had the ‘time of our lives’ in maths this week in Year 4. We are busy getting to grips with learning to tell the time to the nearest minute using an analogue clock, it’s proving tricky but everyone is keen to improve their skills. Our highlight during maths this week though must be seeing our Times Tables Rock Star hero, Baz Wynter on the National Numeracy Day live stream as we joined in to help TTRS break a Guinness World Record of the biggest Rolling Numbers live stream event, we were one of the 5362 viewing live on Wednesday morning. In English, we have been putting our persuasive writing skills to the test by developing our own holiday complex in Glorious Greece - I think we are all now in the mood for a holiday in the sun. Once these are completed, the travel companies could be hiring our writers to help with their websites next year.

Stars

Mars - Eliana Cartwright

Earth - Ava Wells

What another great week we’ve had in year 5! We have continued to write our own version of the poem, The Malfeasance. Our teachers have been blown away by the sophisticated language we have generated in class discussions and then used in our writing. Our poems are starting to take shape now and we can’t wait to finish them next week and perform them for each other. Continuing with the theme of poetry, we have been developing our reading comprehension skills from retrieval to vocabulary to summarising this week in guided reading. In science, we used practical, hands-on learning to identify the male and female parts of a flower. We will build on this learning next week when we discover the role of those parts work in the process of pollination and fertilisation. I wonder how cheesy puffs and hair gel fit into this! Year 5 are looking forward to parents and carers joining class dojos, where you will be able to see the photos we share of all the brilliant learning that’s happening in year 5.

Stars

Asteroid - Lucas Richardson

Pluto- Connie Marshall

This week the year 6 children have not been given any respite from working hard! The focus - writing. Our narratives for the ‘final challenge’ are complete and… wow! Even Mr. Close was impressed by the amount of grammar conventions included. On Wednesday, some of our children represented the school at the York Schools Triathlon event in conjunction with the Brownlee foundation. All of the children participated brilliantly in the events. Our topic week has been focussing on Music. The children wrote religious chants, fitting for an Ancient God and put their own compositions to it too. With Mrs Davies, the children became Global Citizens and created ways of sharing methods that society can look after the planet. 4 more days everyone, and you can have a week off, but until then - let’s keep going!

Stars:

Constellation: Lucy Anderson

Nebular: Amber Lloyd-Cave

Best attendance this week: Red with a fantastic 97.41%!

Yellow Hive: well done!

Blue Hive: keep it up!

Millie Rowan from Constellation and Green Hive is the child with the most hive points so far this year.

Evie-Mae Hanson from Mars and Green Hive is the top Bee Points scorer this week.