Monday, 6 March 2023

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 
Harlie
Ayyub
Colby
Poppy
Agnes
Artiom

Key Stage 2
Mya
Mahi
Ella
James B
Lola
Lavina
Dan
Jack
Caitlin
Vlad
Iffa 
Kristina
Harlie

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 Clockhouse Citizen of the Week for this week:

Nursery - Zahraa H
Reception - George S (Scotland)
Year 1 - Antonio G (France)
Year 2 - Georgia S (Mexico)
Year 3 - Olly L (Brazil)
Year 4 - Jacob W (Kenya)
Year 5 - Jayden A-B (China)
Year 6 - Olly A (New Zealand)
Greenland - Katriel P

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

Well done everyone!

Sunday, 5 March 2023

Weekly reminders for week beginning 6th March 2023

Well done and thank you for your support last week! It was a busy week. We hope the children enjoyed  World Book Day and everything else they experienced last week - we certainly did! 

Year 3
Year 3 are off to the Natural History Museum on Tuesday. Please ensure consent forms and contributions are returned on Monday if you have not done so already.

Year 5
The final meeting for the Condover Hall residential visit is taking place on Wednesday at 5pm. This will be in the Key Stage 2 hall.

Year 4, 5 and 6
The children from Year 4, 5 and 6 will be taking part in an Air Pollution Workshop on Thursday, please do talk to the children about this and what they have learned. 

Sport
Good luck to the Year 2 Indoor Athletics team who compete on Thursday.

Things to be aware of
The Book Fair will be in school from 14th March. Information will be coming out soon, please be aware that this book fair is cashless.

Letters that went out last week:
The following letters went out last week:
Mother's Day Sale OCA
Let's Go To China visitor in - Year 2
Visit to Docklands - Year 6
Winners! Treat - Canada, Uganda

Have a good week everyone!
#ourclockhousefamily
Mrs Savidge

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


Friday, 3 March 2023

The Dojo League

The Dojo League!

The Dojo League continued this week - well done everyone for helping your class and for being fabulous Clockhouse Citizens!

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

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

Canada - 98.8%
Peru - 100%
Australia - 98.3%

A huge well done to all three classes above. A huge well done to Peru for their 100% attendance, a non-uniform day in on its way to you very soon!

8 classes were in the Green Zone this week with an attendance above 96% - well done to those classes.

A further well done to Nursery AM, PM and All Day, Wales, Italy, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Kenya, Uganada and Australia who had no lates this week.

Whole school attendance for this week is:

94.1
%

Whole school attendance for the year currently stands at:

93.5%

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

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

Wednesday, 1 March 2023

Hot Chocolate with the Head


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

This year we are all trying our best to 'Be Exceptional' in everything to ensure that our school is a fabulous place to be and the children get the best all round experience possible. 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 and then they get to have Hot Chocolate with Mrs Savidge!

This week the following Clockhouse Citizens have been seen to 'Be Exceptional':

Nursery - Anthony T for being exceptionally well behaved at all times.
Reception - Ellison R (Scotland) for making exceptional progress with his reading and writing.
Year 1 -  Aleyna N (Italy) for her exceptional attitude towards learning. She is always excited about her learning, as well as offering to help others and pass on her knowledge.
Year 2 - Payton B (Canada) for working exceptionally hard to improve in all areas of his learning.
Year 3 - Affan R (Argentina) for his exceptional effort to try his best and encouraging others to do the same.
Year 4 -  Loli K (South Africa) for always trying exceptionally hard and coming back to school with a positive attitude towards her learning.
Year 5 - Tilly C (China) for always being exceptionally positive and having a resilient attitude to all areas of her learning.
Year 6 - Erin Y (New Zealand) for her exceptional participation and enthusiasm during our first Golf PE lesson. 
Greenland - Khloe F for her exceptional resilience in in Maths.
Miss Ward -  Kai Y (Scotland) for exceptional all round good behaviour and progress.
Mrs Reinecke - Amelia F (New Zealand) for being an exceptional team player who works hard despite the challenge.
Mrs Savidge - Kristina P (Fiji) for being an exceptionally well-mannered and polite member of the Clockhouse team.

Well done to all these children and all the other children who have been seen to 'Be Exceptional' this week!



Governor Attendance Award - the battle of the classes!

As you may already know, some of our Governors link to specific year groups.

This year, these Governors have decided to recognise the class with the highest attendance for the half term.

Although it was close, they are pleased to award the following classes with the Governor Attendance Award for the 1st half of the Springt Term:

Mrs Nicholls (Reception) - Scotland
Mr Koten (Year 1) - France
Mrs Polackova (Year 2) - Mexico
Mr Leaper (Year 3) - Peru
Mrs Johns (Year 4) - Uganda
Mr Giddy (Year 5) - China
Mr McLaughlin (Year 6) - Australia

The battle has started again! 

Help your class win the award this term by making sure your child has excellent attendance!