Weekly reminders for the week beginning 9th November 2026

It was lovely to welcome the children back to school last week and to hear about their holiday. As is always the case, we have a busy week ahead.

Thank you also for your overwhelmingly positive feedback your gave to us in the questionnaire we sent out. 

Best of British Week

This week we will be celebrating Britain and the British Culture with our annual Best of British Week. This year we will be focussing on the five Fundamaental British Values. I am sure the children will love to tell you all about what they have learnt, please do ask them.

Remembrance Day

As part of Best of British Week, on Wednesday we will be holding our annual Remembrance Day Service. This has now become some what of a Clockhouse Tradition and an important date in our school calendar. Look out for the displays on the school fence as always. The children always work hard to complete these.

School Photographs

Please remember that individual school photographs will be taken on Tuesday 10th November. If you do want siblings photographed please come before school, this can also include siblings who do not come to Clockhouse. 

Year 4

We look forward to welcoming our Year 4 (Wednesday - 9.10-10.30) parents for Learn with my Child. Please come for as little or as much as you can. As with the other year groups, regrettably we are unable to accommodate younger siblings at these events.

Greenland

We look forward to welcoming our Greenland parents / carers for Learn with my Child on Friday morning at 2.30pm. As with the other year groups, regrettably we are unable to accommodate younger siblings at these events.

Is your child, or a child you know due to start Nursery in September 2027

We are looking forward to welcoming prospective parents / carers into school on Thursday 10.00am. Please call the school to book this or a tour later in the term. 

Things to be aware of

Christmas is fast approaching, please keep an eye out for relevant letters coming your way soon.

Letters that went out last week:
The following letters went out last week:

School Photographs

OCA - Christmas Disco

OCA - OCAdvent

DT Newsletter

Colchester Zoo (Year 2)

Learn with my Child (Year 4)

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

The Dojo League

The Dojo League!

The Dojo League started 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 Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, France, Italy, Spain, USA, Canada and Mexico who lead the Reception and Key Stage 2 Dojo League.

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

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

The attendance 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:

Spain - 99.3%

Uganda - 98.3%

New Zealand - 98.0%

Well done to all three classes above.

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

A further well done to Nursery All Day and AM, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Spain, Canada, Mexico, USA, Uganda, India, Australia and New Zealand who had no lates this week. 

Whole school attendance for this week is:

95.8%

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 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%.

Clockhouse Weekly Wow

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

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 or a message is put in their Reading Diary they get a raffle ticket which gets entered into the Reading Raffle draw. This takes place in Celebration Assembly on a Monday. 

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 

France - Roseann

Italy - Robert

Spain - Saoirse

USA - Samad

Canada - Arella

Mexico - Edward

Key Stage 2

Peru - Sohpia

Argentina - Ishaan

Brazil - Sahib

Uganda - Kai

Kenya - Zayd

South Africa - Alaya

China - Umaiza

Japan - Eore

India - Alex H

Australia - Jaiden

New Zealand - Ava

Fiji - Rayan

KEEP READING - 

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE IN IT TO WIN IT!

Our 3Rs Winners

As you know, each half term the children choose a 3 Rs aware winner for their class. This is an award which was devised by the children to recognise those children who consistently demonstrate meeting the 3 Rs 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

England – Savannah-Sena B
Wales – Bella G
Scotland – Shayan I
Northern Ireland – Freya W
France – Musa M
Italy – Ariella O
Spain – Aria P

USA – Matteo S
Canada – Roma I
Mexico – Lily T
Peru – Esma I
Argentina – Kira B
Brazil – Millie M
Uganda – Ali M and Maham M
South Africa – Sebastian B
Kenya – Rosemarie D-S
China – Rosie T
Japan - Nyah C
India – Alex H
Australia – Spencer W
New Zealand – Yaqub A
Fiji – Naba H

Greenland – Vinnie Y

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

Weekly reminders for the week beginning 2nd November 2026

 Welcome back to the new half term everyone!

We look forward to welcoming everyone back to school Monday (2nd November). By the time you read this we hope that you all had a lovely holiday and are ready and raring to go for the new term ahead!

Year 1 and Year 3
We look forward to welcoming our Year 3 (Wednesday - 9.10-10.30) and Year 1 (Thursday - 9.10-10.30 parents for Learn with my Child. Please come for as little or as much as you can. As with the other year groups, regrettably we are unable to accommodate younger siblings at these events.

Year 4

Year 4 have their annual Egyptian Day on Monday. 

Special Dinner Day

On Thursday we have another Special Dinner - the menu was sent out last week.

Sport

Good luck to the Year 2, 5 and 6 football teams who will all be taking part in Borough competitions this weeek.

Things to be aware of

Our annual Remembrance Service will take place on Wednesday 11th November. This will be included on out annual Best of British Week which begins on 9th November.

Letters that went out last week:

The following letters went out last week:

Donation Requests

October Newsletter

New Menu

Kent Life Trip (Year 3)

Egyptian Day (Year 4)

What will we be learning this half term (Nursery and Reception) - all other year groups shared previously

Learn with my Child (Year 1 and Year 3)

As always we thank you for your continued support in all we do.

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