January Newsletter

Please be aware of the January Newsletter which can be found below as well as a link to a PDF version.

January Newsletter

Following feedback from parents this will not come home in a paper version from now on. Should you require a paper version, please come into the school office.

Weekly reminders for week beginning 27th January 2020

Another good week was had a Clockhouse last week and as always we thank you for the support you give us with all that we do! We have another busy week ahead.

Nursery and Reception
We are looking forward to welcoming Nursery and Reception parents in throughout the week to work with their children. Please speak to your child's class teacher if you are not sure which day you are meant to come in.

Flu Immunisations
The flu immunisation team will be back in school on Monday to catch up with any flu imminisations they missed when they were here before Chirstmas.

Year 2 and 6
The children from Year 2 and Year 6 will be taking part in an online safety workshop on Wendnesday. This is a very important topic, please do take sometime to talk to the children about the day when they come home.

OCA (Our Clockhouse Association)
Our brand new Parent's Association (OCA) will be holding thier first event after school on Friday. Look out for the sweets stalls around the site on Friday after school. Sweet bags are 50p. Please do support them.

Letters that went out last week:
The following letters went out last week:
OCA Sweet Stall
Launch of School App
Trip to Thordon Country Park (Year 1)
Learn with my Child (Year 1 and Year 5)

Have a good week everyone!

For more information about our school please visit our school website using the following link:
Clockhouse Primary School Website

Look what we found

Year 3 are having a great time learning about Dinosaurs and you can imagine their excitement when they went digging and found some dinosaur bones on the school field!!

They have also been busy making their own salf dough bones, using printing techniques to recreate dinosaur footprints and comparing their own feet to the size of dinosaurs! What fun!

Year 1 get creative with Computing

The children in Year 1 are really enjoying their woodland theme and recreated some fabulous pictures of the Gruffalo during their computing lesson.

Fabulous Fund Raising

We were delighted to receive these certificates and letters this week for the money raised at Christmas.

Thank you to our wonderful community for your generosity!

What a gesture!

We were delighted to be remembered by the Grandad of a former pupil this week.

Having collected book tokens from The Sun Newspaper in 2002, for his grandson to bring into school, we were delighted and touched to receive this in ths post this week.

How kind and thoughtful.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr Levy for his kindness.

Clockhouse Weekly Wow

Here is this week's Weekly Wow and as usual there are a lot of things to 'wow' about this week.

The Dojo League

The Dojo League!

The Dojo League continued this week - well done everyone for helping your class!

The dojo scores have been analysed and the results are in!

Reception and Key Stage 1:

A big well done to Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, France, Spain, USA and Canada who lead the Reception and Key Stage 1 Dojo league, with USA and Mexico just behind them in second place and Italy in third.

Key Stage 2:
A big well done to Peru, Brazil, Uganda and Australia who are all in the overall lead of the Key Stage 2 league with Argentina, South Africa, China, India and Fiji in second place and Kenya and Japan just behind them in third place.

Well done to everyone for really trying to earn Dojos for their class.

Great attendance continues - well done all! The attendance winners this week are...

Great attendance leads to 

great learning and progress!

Congratulations to the three classes below who are our winners for this week - keep it up!

A big well done to this weeks winners who are:

Mexico - 97.3%

Peru - 99.0%
China - 99.7%

A huge well done to all 3 classes above. An even bigger well done to Peru and China who will receive prizes in Achievement Assembly next week for thier fantastic attendace.

11 classes were in the Green Zone this week with an attendance above 96% - a huge well done to those classes!

A further well done to Nursery and India who were the only classes who had no lates this week. We are certainly hoping for a few more classes next time!

Whole school attendance for this week is:

95.9%

Whole school attendance for the year currently stands at:

 96.2%

Well done everyone and thank you all for your continued support in ensuring that the
children come to school everyday and on time!

It is still important that we all work to improve our attendance. 
Please remember that our school target is 96%.

Dream It, Believe It, Achieve It Celebration

Hot Chocolate with the Head!

As you all know we are constantly striving to improve Clockhouse for your children.

This year we are all working to 'Dream It, Believe It, Achieve It' to ensure our school is a fabulous place to be. Each week, the Heads of Year as well as Miss Ward, Mrs Reinecke and Mrs Savidge choose a person (child or adult) who has been seen to do this!

This week the following Clockhouse Citizens have been seen to 'Dream It, Believe It, Achieve It':

Reception - Oliver L for always being polite and kind and for trying so hard with his writing.
Year 1 - Isla S for trying really hard to be independent and working extra hard in class.
Year 2 - Harry A for working really hard and showing great resilience when he has found things difficult.
Year 3 - Ronnie C for showing great resilience and perseverance.
Year 4 - Harry M for always trying hard and showing the 3 R's throughout the day.
Year 5 - Balazs P-H for an amazing interpretation of Van Gogh's Starry Night.
Year 6 - Aleysha M for producing some fantastic creative work inspired by Gustav Klimt.
Mrs Mortimer - Mrs Moore for working so hard on a very tricky piece of work and having great feedback about it.
Miss Ward - Jack D-F for trying really hard with all aspects of school.
Mrs Reinecke - Ronnie D for a very kind and caring child to others.
Mrs Savidge - Evan F for showing great resilience and determination.

Well done to all these children and all the other children who have been seen to 'Dream It, Believe It, Achieve It' this week!

We are looking forward to Hot Chocolate Friday next week to celebrate with more fantastic Clockhouse people!

OCA Launch

Please be aware of this letter which is coming home today.

School App

Please be aware of this letter which is coming home today.

Reading Raffle Winners!

As you may already know, this year we are holding a weekly Reading Raffle. Each time the children read at home and get their Reading Diary signed they get a raffle ticket which gets entered into the Reading Raffle draw. This takes place in Celebration Assembly on a Friday.

This week we were overwhelmed with the number of people who entered. Well done to the following children who were this week's winners and are busy deciding on their prizes:

Reception and Key Stage 1

Noah J

Aaron P-P

Ava B

Key Stage 2

Cerys H

Alanya H

Lacey S

KEEP READING - 

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE IN IT TO WIN IT!

Citizen of the Week

Citizen of the Week!

Well done to the following children who are this weeks Clockhouse Citizen of the Week:

Reception - Frankie S

Year 1 - Isabelle H
Year 2 - Elissa D
Year 3 - Olivia W

Year 4 - Liyana S
Year 5 - Jack W
Year 6 - Macey S

We have many fantastic citizens at Clockhouse and look forward to rewarding them!

Well done everyone!

Clockhouse Click to win Havering Netball League!

Netball has been a rollercoaster ride so far this academic year. With ups and downs in every game / tournament.

Today Clockhouse played in the Havering Netball League at Noak Hill Sports Complex. Clocks have been successful in previous years & the children looked excited for the opportunity to get out and play following the Christmas break.

In the first game Clockhouse met Branfil. Things seemed to click quickly for Clockhouse who looked refreshed after the christmas holidays. A one sided game finished with Clockhouse winning 6-0. Mia C and Kayleigh S having an eye for the net & looking clinical.

Confidence was high after the first result & the link up play between attack and defence was really refreshing to watch. Next up Clockhouse faced a strong Engayne side. Charlie B was everywhere working tirelessly around the court with Emma S and Oliver K marking the Engayne attackers out of the game to keep the Clockhouse 100% record with a 7-2 victory.

After a rest game Clockhouse battled James Oglethorpe (JOPS). The break came at the wrong time for Clockhouse who despite going 3-0 up got caught out with the pace of the JOPS counter attack eventually losing 5-4. Credit to Frankie R and Taylor H for battling to the end!

This meant Clockhouse went into the last game against La Salette knowing that a big win would put the team in contention for a league title. Ben C had great positioning from the outset openning the scoring. From there Clockhhouse didn't look back. Mia C and Kayleigh M joining Ben C on the scoreboard in a performance that was flawless. Final Score Clockhouse 11 - La Salette 0.

So it all came down to goal difference between Clockhouse, Engayne, & JOPS who all lost one game only. Clockhouse took the Havering League victory with an impressive goal difference.

Mr Yarrow commented on the success saying 'These children deserve so much priase for this achievement! After a hard cup result before Christmas, the children showed just how tenacious they can be with the never give up attitude. They were honestly a pleasure to watch in every game.

It just seemed like things clicked today. Defence battled for every ball & every rebound. Attackers were firing with their shooting & movement. While the wings and center didnt stop moving the whole tournament. 

The squad has done both me and the whole school proud. 2020 has been a great sporting year for us so far with 2 sports successes in 2 borough competitons in a row, long may this mentality continue!!! 

The children just looked in cruise control at times, having fun with every pass I hope the squad can keep this up when they meet the other league winners in the league cup!

Thanks to all the parents who stayed to support, I hope you are as proud as i am!'

WELL DONE TEAM CLOCKHOUSE!!!

SQUAD: Emma S (c), Oliver K, Frankie R, Charlie B, Taylor H, Kayleigh S, Mia C and Ben C.

PLAYER OF THE TOURNAMENT: Charlie B

Getting muddy at Forest School

On Friday afternoon, some of the children get to take part in Forest School with Miss Burrell and Mrs Montague.

They enjoy numerous activities which promote team building, communication skills and self-esteem. Activities include art work in the forest, science work, design and technology and above all getting muddy!