Happy half term Clockhouse!

From all of us at Clockhouse we hope that you have a lovely half term.

Please stay safe and look after yourselves.
Thank you for all your support this half term.
 We look forward to seeing you all and welcoming you back on Monday 7th June!

Clockhouse Weekly Wow

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

Dojo League Winners Key Stage 2

 The Dojo League half term winners!

A big well done to

Brazil, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, India and New Zealand

who are this half terms Dojo League winners for Key Stage 2

Well done also to China, Australia and Fiji who finished in second place and Peru and Japan who finished in third!

A big well done to everybody for all the positive Dojos that were awarded last half term, there have certainly been a lot! There have also been lots of Dojo stars earned by those children who scored 100% on their Dojo for the half term - well done everyone!

Dojo League Winners Reception and Key Stage 1

 The Dojo League half term winners!

A big well done to

Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland, France, Italy, Spain, USA, Mexico and Canada

who are this half terms Dojo League winners for Reception and Key Stage 1

A big well done to everybody for all the positive Dojos that were awarded last half term, there have certainly been a lot! There have also been lots of Dojo stars earned by those children who scored 100% on their Dojo for the half term - well done everyone!

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 week's winners who are:

Italy and Spain - 99.3%

Brazil - 100%
India - 99.7%

A huge well done to all 3 classes above for being the attendance winners for this week. Well done to all three classes above, who will get prizes in Achievement Assembly next week for having attendance above 99%. A further well done to Brazil who will get a non-uniform day when we are back at school for having 100% attendance - amazing!

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

A further well done to Nursery AM and PM, Northern Ireland, Wales, USA, Brazil and Uganda 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:

95.4%

Whole school attendance for the year currently stands at:

 96.3%

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%.

Hot Chocolate with the Head

As we all know, Hot Chocolate with the Head is an important part of Clockhouse. Obviously due to the current situation we find ourselves in, sadly it is not possible for us to come together to celebrate which is such a shame. However, we do not want the children to miss out and therefore the chosen children will get a special Hot Chocolate pack to enjoy at home! 

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

This year we are all 'Going the extra mile' 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! We hope all the children enjoy their hot chocolate pack - send us a picture of you enjoying your special celebration drink!

This week the following Clockhouse Citizens have been seen to be 'Going the extra mile':

Nursery - Oscar M for brilliant Maths and improving so much with his number formation.

Reception - Theo B (Scotland) for making a wonderful start to Clockhouse.

Year 1 - Penny D (Spain) for being a super role model in class and outside the classroom.  She is always ready and eager to learn.
Year 2 - Ava-May B (Mexico) for trying extremely hard with her reading, writing and maths this year and showing resilience in all aspect of her learning.

Year 3 - Ben A (Brazil) for making a huge effort all areas of the curriculum and improving his spelling.
Year 4 - Hasan J (Uganda) for working really hard to improve his writing and listening to the feedback given to him by his teacher.

Year 5 - Alfie S (India) for such a positive attitude to learning and being helpful in the class.

Year 6 - Ruby Y (Australia) for exceptional behaviour and attitude towards learning.

Miss Ward - Farhan F (Nursery) for setting a good example in following the 3R's.

Mrs Reinecke - Jai C (South Africa) for showing resilience with his maths learning and wanting to do more.
Mrs Savidge - Aivah W (France) for showing the 3Rs and the secret 4th R in all of her learning.

Well done to all these children and all the other children who have been seen to be 'Going the extra mile' this week!

Our treats are ready to go and we are looking forward to Hot Chocolate Friday next week to celebrate with more fantastic Clockhouse people! 

Reading Raffle Winners

As you may already know, once again, this year we are holding a weekly Reading Raffle. Each time the children read at home and a message gets sent to their teacher on Class Dojo 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:

Key Stage 1

Blake

Daniel

Malachi

Tommy-Lee

Maxim

Ella

Victoria

Lavinia

Asvigan

Key Stage 2

Dolly

Aaron

Rosie

Amelia

Harry

Faith

Kyran

Lenny

Courtney

Balazs

Jack F

Tierney

Ben

KEEP READING - 

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE IN IT TO WIN IT!

Our 3 R's winners

As you know, each half term the children choose a Core Award winner for their class. This is an award which was devised by the children to recognise those children who consistently demonstrate meeting the 3 R's of Ready, Respectful and Responsible.

All the children below were chosen by their class this half term for continually demonstrating that they are 

Ready, Respectful and Responsible

Nursery – Rose S

Wales – Blake B

Scotland – Poppy H

Northern Ireland – Mandy S

France – Jasmina C

Italy – Naila A and Stanley T

Spain – Olive H

USA – Tyler M

Canada – Lois M

Mexico – Lexi-Leigh G 

Peru – Annabelle L

Argentina – Frankie B

Brazil – Hawra M and Oscar H

Uganda – Olly A

South Africa – Anne-Marie N

Kenya – Ria A and Jax P

China – Jacob L

Japan – Harriet H

India – Taya H

Australia – Jamie S

New Zealand – Emily C

Fiji – Joseph T

Greenland – Bobby M-J

Well done everyone, a great achievement for great Clockhouse citizens!

May Newsletter

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

May Newsletter

Meeting Queen Victoria

Year 5 have been learning all about The Victorians.

They thoroughly enjoyed 'meeting' Queen Victoria. They found out lots of interesting and important information and got to ask lots of questions to help them with their learning.

Life Still Art

During their art learning the children from Year 4 have been learning different drawing techniques.

They used these to create the life stills of a rainforest animals.

What animals can you see?

Weekly reminders for week beginning 24th May 2021

We hope you all had a good week last week and are ready for the last week of the term. Thank you to all those who joined the Parent Council Zoom session, we hope you found this useful and thank you for your input.

Clockhose goes live on Instagram!

As you know we love sharing with you all and the wider community what we do! Therefore we are very excited to let you know that our brand new Instagram Page has gone live.

Please follow us on Instagram at Clockhouse_Primary

We will be using this platform in a slightly different way to our other platforms - do take a look and let us know what you think!

Science Week

This week sees our annual Science Week. Although a little different to normal, we are still sure that the children will get lots out of this. Do not forget poster competition entries need to be in by Thursday (27th May).

Celebration Assemblies
Well done to USA and Japan for their Celebration Assemblies last week. We hope you enjoyed them from a far.

Good luck to South Africa and Spain who continue our programme of Celebration Assemblies. Teachers will post these on Class Story / Google Classroom for you to see!

Virtual Experiences

Following the success of the Virtual Experiences earlier this term, it is the turn of Year 1 on Wednesday when they will be learning all about plastic pollutions.

Year 6 will also be Zooming with Bower Park on Wednesday as part of the children's transistion to their secondary education.

Coming out this week

Look out for our next episode of 'A week in life of...' coming out this week as well as the May Newsletter.

Letters that went out last week:

The following letters went out last week:

Science Poster Competition

Local Authority letter - Roadmap out of Lockdown

Supporting our community - S.M.I.L.E campaign

Please remember that we finish school on Friday (normal time) for a week. We all hope you have a great half term and we look forward to seeing you all when ee return to school on Monday 7th June. 

Have a good week everyone!

Stay safe team Clockhouse!

#ourclockhousefamily

Mrs Savidge

For more information about our school please visit our school website using the following link:

Clockhouse Primary School website

Levers and Linkages in Year 4

Year 4 really got into their Design and Technology learning all about levers and linkages. 

The children had to follow instructions to create either a waving hand, a moving dragon or a snapping crocodile. 

Aren't they fabulous!

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, Italy, Spain, USA, Mexico and Canada who lead the Reception and Key Stage 1 Dojo League.

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

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

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 week's winners who are:

Northern Ireland 95.1%

Uganda - 92.7%
Australia - 96.3%

A huge well done to all 3 classes above for being the attendance winners for this week. Well done to Uganda who win for the third week in a row!

We only had 1 class in the Green Zone this week with an attendance above 96% - well done to those classes! 

We know this will improve next week!

A further well done to Nursery AM and PM, Northern Ireland, Italy and Uganda 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:

94.3%

Whole school attendance for the year currently stands at:

 96.3%

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%.

Hot Chocolate with the Head

As we all know, Hot Chocolate with the Head is an important part of Clockhouse. Obviously due to the current situation we find ourselves in, sadly it is not possible for us to come together to celebrate which is such a shame. However, we do not want the children to miss out and therefore the chosen children will get a special Hot Chocolate pack to enjoy at home! 

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

This year we are all 'Going the extra mile' 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! We hope all the children enjoy their hot chocolate pack - send us a picture of you enjoying your special celebration drink!

This week the following Clockhouse Citizens have been seen to be 'Going the extra mile':

Nursery - Elora D for fantastic reading and retell of the story The Three little pigs.

Reception -  Abdel B (Wales) for wonderfully neat writing this week.

Year 1 - Belle C (Italy) for improving and working hard in all her lessons.
Year 2 - Oliver B (USA) for trying his hardest in all areas of learning and looking out for others. 

Year 3 - Jake W (Peru) for asking for help and persevering with his maths work when he found it challenging.
Year 4 - Kirstie G (Kenya) for stepping out of her comfort zone and working really hard on her last few pieces of English work.

Year 5 - Taya H (India) for always setting herself high challenges and showing super resilience.

Year 6 - Jack W (New Zealand) for an amazing recount on climbing Half Dome in Yosemite National Park in Geography.

Miss Ward - Lily M (Brazil) for trying really hard with her work.

Mrs Reinecke - Aleesa M (Fiji) for going out of her way to always be Ready, Respectful and Responsible.
Mrs Savidge - Amelia F (Uganda) for fabulous manners and care for adults and children.

Well done to all these children and all the other children who have been seen to be 'Going the extra mile' this week!

Our treats are ready to go and we are looking forward to Hot Chocolate Friday next week to celebrate with more fantastic Clockhouse people!