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

Weekly reminders for the week beginning 31st January 2022

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 at all times but especially at this difficult time!

Special Dinner Day

On Tuesday (1st February) we have another special dinner day. This will be to celebrate Chinese New Year. The menu was posted on School Story last week.

Year 1

The Year 1 children are off to the Church on Thursday. Please ensure that consent forms are returned by Wednesday at the latest.

School Office

Please be aware that the office in the Reception and Key Stage 1 building is now closed on a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. If you need to come into school at any time, please come to the main school office in the Key Stage 2 building.

OCA (Our Clockhouse Association)
OCA are busy planning their Spring and Summer events. Look out for the next Sweet Stall coming very soon. If you would like to join the OCA Team at any point, please speak to Mr Koten or let the office know who will pass a message to him.

Letters that went out last week:
The following letters went out last week:
Year 1 trip to Church

Half term holiday Sports Club

Keep an eye out for the January Newsletter!

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

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, Italy, Spain, USA, Canada and Mexico who lead the Reception and Key Stage 1 Dojo League with France in second place.

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

Italy - 99.3%

Uganda - 95.7%
China - 96.6%

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

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

A further well done to Nurery AM and All Day, Northern Ireland, Scotland, France, Italy, Mexico, USA, Fiji and New Zealand who had no lates this week.

Whole school attendance for this week is:

89.3%

Whole school attendance for the year currently stands at:

 93.4%

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%.

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 still 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 'Making the Ordinary Extraordinary' to ensure our school is a fabulous place to be and the children 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! 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 'Making the Ordinary Extraordinary':

Nursery - Hasnain R for excellent work on rhyme during circle time.
Reception - Noah C (Scotland) for trying so hard to complete his work independently.

Year 1 - Truvine B (Spain) for writing a fantastic story about Paddington Bear and applying her learning about adjectives so well.

Year 2 - Jack O (USA) for staying focussed during learning and attempting all tasks with such a positive attitude.

Year 3 - Shaney L (Peru) for overcoming her fear of jumping off the agility table in PE.  She also encouraged her friend who was also hesitant.  

Year 4 -  Bella W (Uganda) for being creative with her writing and producing a brilliant story. 

Year 5 - Olly F (China) for making amazing improvements in his presentation.

Year 6 - George G (Fiji) for his amazing efforts in the tag rugby win and for using creativity in his History work.

Greenland - Jah-Kai L for trying so hard to improve his approach to learning.

Miss Ward - Jayden A-B (Uganda) for showing great progress and determination with his writing.

Mrs Reinecke - Omar I (Italy) for fabulous independent writing and improved spellings.

Mrs Savidge - Asvigan S (Peru) for being a very responsible citizen and helping to keep our environment rubbish free and tidy.

Well done to all these children and all the other children who have been seen to be 'Making the Ordinary Extraordinary' 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

Grace

Nadine

Elijah

Jayden

Oscar

Olivia

Key Stage 2

Anita

Tobi

Armandas

Daniel

Katie

Annabelle

Hasan

Kristina

Aania

Jacob

Charlotte

Henry

Jah-Kai

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 - Jacob S

Reception - Harry I (Northern Ireland)

Year 1 - Alex G (France)

Year 2 - Frankie S (USA)

Year 3 - Victoria C (Argentina)

Year 4 - Matthew B (South Africa)

Year 5 - Ria A (Japan)
Year 6 - Swaley R (Australia)

Greenland - Khloe F

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

Well done everyone!

Weekly reminders for week beginning 24th January 2022

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! 

Thank you for all those who supported us and had the special dinner on Thusday. We hope the children enjoyed it, we served over 400 dinners - a record for these days! We have another special dinner coming up very soon - watch this space!

Sport

Good luck to the Tag Rugby team who take part in a borough competition on Tuesday.

Covid (the below was sent last week also)

I know for us all this continues to be an anxious and difficult time. Please can I ask that should your child test positive for Covid that you alert the school straight away so that we can alert the families in the class and they can make informed decisions about advice to take.

The current rules for isolation are as follows:

All people – including pupils, parents and teachers - have to isolate for a minimum of five full days after the day of a positive test before then going back to school if they have tested negative twice.

The first full day of isolation is considered to be the day following the positive test. Following the fifth full day of isolation – on the sixth day - it will be possible for people who have received two negative LFD tests on consecutive days to go back to school. People who have tested positive can now take two LFD tests on day 5 and day 6, and if both are negative and they do not have a temperature, they can end their self-isolation on day 6 and return to their education setting immediately. If either test is positive, they should continue to self-isolate until they get negative results from two LFD tests on consecutive days or until they have completed 10 full days of self-isolation, whichever is earliest

In practice it means that if a child or teacher tests positive on a Saturday, that would be considered day 0. They could then take tests on the morning of Thursday (day 5) and Friday (day 6). If they tested negative on both days and did not have a temperature they would be then able to return to school on the Friday.

I know we have shared this before and if you need help calculating days, I am more than happy to help with this.

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

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

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

Scotland and France - 99.3%

Uganda - 96.7%
New Zealand - 96.0%

A huge well done to all 3 classes above for being the attendance winners for this week. Well done to France and New Zealand who win for a second week in a row. 

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

A further well done to Northern Ireland, Italy, Spain, Mexico and New Zealand who had no lates this week.

Whole school attendance for this week is:

89.5%

Whole school attendance for the year currently stands at:

 93.6%

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%.

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 still 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 'Making the Ordinary Extraordinary' to ensure our school is a fabulous place to be and the children 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! 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 'Making the Ordinary Extraordinary':

Nursery - Kai Y for settling in really well this term.
Reception - Nyah C (Scotland) for trying so very hard with all her learning.

Year 1 - Piper S (Italy) for her extraordinary writing.

Year 2 - Savana R (Mexico) for being a fantastic role model in the class and outside of the classroom.  She has also been a fabulous Class Ambassador and listens very hard in all her lessons.

Year 3 - Tobi L (Argentina) for continuously using his 3 R's, being a super role model and ensuring the other children in the class are on track.

Year 4 - Connie S-W (Kenya) for working extra hard in her history lessons and putting 100% effort into all her learning this week.

Year 5 - Keziah F (India) for having such a positive outlook on her learning this week.

Year 6 -  Ollie C (Australia) for showing such an improved attitude towards his learning and presentation. 

Miss Ward - Poppy S-R (Canada) for really pushing herself out of her comfort zone.  

Mrs Reinecke - Zoya H (Japan) for consistently doing her best in all aspects of school life.

Mrs Savidge - Lusian K (India) for showing extraordinary resilience this week.

Well done to all these children and all the other children who have been seen to be 'Making the Ordinary Extraordinary' 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!

Time to CELEBRATE - Value Champion Alert!

We are very excited and pleased to share with you that we have our next Clockhouse Value Champion!

A huge congratulations to

Charlotte T (New Zealand)

who has earned the Learning Champion Award for 2021-2022!

Every minute of every day Charlotte always gives 110% to all of her learning. No matter the challenge she will not allow herself to give up and perseveres until she is confident that she knows how to complete the challenge that she has been set. The effort and determination that she has demonstrated throughout her Mocks this week is another example of her work ethic and strength of mind in facing challenges and trying her best at all times. 

Macey C (India)

who has earned the Nurture Champion Award for 2021-2022!

Macey really is the kindest child you could ever wish to meet, she cares so much about the other children and making sure they are all happy. On her table, she will help her peers whenever they are faced with a challenge and just wants the best for everybody. Sometimes she may even forget about herself because she cares about other people so much.

Alfie G (Fiji)

who has earned the Community Champion Award for 2021-2022!

Alfie has been talking to his Nan about WW2 and she has got some of the residents from her nursing home to write Alfie a letter about their time during the war and the Blitz. We have the letters here and a photo of the residents. In response, Alfie is going to write them a letter back and give them a piece of art he has done inspired by the Blitz. Alfie is taking Clockhouse into the community!

A huge well done from everyone at Clockhouse - wear your Values Champion Badge with pride!

#clockhousevaluesinaction

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

Max

Lily-Ann

Riley

Penny

Zaynah

Ruslan

Key Stage 2

Anita

Archie

Lois

Rosie

Connie

Sophia

Olly A

Jessica W

Macey

Lewis

Jayda

Andrei

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 - Tommy H

Reception - Siyam H (Wales)

Year 1 - Truvine B (Spain)

Year 2 - Hugo C (Canada)

Year 3 - Elsie P (Brazil)

Year 4 - Emily S (Uganda)

Year 5 - William R (China)
Year 6 - Liam T (New Zealand)

Greenland - Jah-Kai L

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

Well done everyone!

Weekly reminders for week beginning 17th January 2022

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.

Year 6
From Monday and throughout the week, the Year 6 children will be sitting Mock SATs tests. Please speak to your child's class teacher after the tests if you wish to know how they got on do that you can further support them at home - every bit really does help!

Governor Day
Our Governors will be in school on Tuesday and will be in the playground at the start and end of the day, please do take the time to speak to them should you wish to.

Is your child, or a child you know due to start Nursery in September 2022

We are looking forward to welcoming prospective parents / carers into school on Tuesday10.00am and 4.00pm. Please call the school to book this or a tour later in the term. 

Special Dinner for all
On Thursday we have the first special dinner day of the year. It would be really good to get as many people as possible having dinner on Thursday as this determines some of our schools funding. We really do appreciate your help in this matter.

Covid

I know for us all this continues to be an anxious and difficult time. Please can I ask that should your child test positive for Covid that you alert the school straight away so that we can alert the families in the class and they can make informed decisions about advice to take.

As you many know, on Monday rules for isolation changes again. The new rules are as follows:

All people – including pupils, parents and teachers - have to isolate for a minimum of five full days after the day of a positive test before then going back to school if they have tested negative twice.

The first full day of isolation is considered to be the day following the positive test. Following the fifth full day of isolation – on the sixth day - it will be possible for people who have received two negative LFD tests on consecutive days to go back to school. People who have tested positive can now take two LFD tests on day 5 and day 6, and if both are negative and they do not have a temperature, they can end their self-isolation on day 6 and return to their education setting immediately. If either test is positive, they should continue to self-isolate until they get negative results from two LFD tests on consecutive days or until they have completed 10 full days of self-isolation, whichever is earliest

In practice it means that if a child or teacher tests positive on a Saturday, that would be considered day 0. They could then take tests on the morning of Thursday (day 5) and Friday (day 6). If they tested negative on both days and did not have a temperature they would be then able to return to school on the Friday.

I hope this helps and makes things clear as from tomorrow. If you need help calculating days, I am more than happy to help with this.

All other rules remain the same.

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

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

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

France - 97.0%

Peru - 97.7%
New Zealand - 98.7%

A huge well done to all 3 classes above for being the attendance winners for this week. 

Sadly 3 classes were in the Green Zone this week with an attendance above 96% - well done to those classes but we certainly need this to improve after half term!

A further well done to Nursery AM, All Day, France, Italy, Brazil, Uganda and New Zealand who had no lates this week.

Whole school attendance for this week is:

91.7%

Whole school attendance for the year currently stands at:

 93.9%

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%.

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 still 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 'Making the Ordinary Extraordinary' to ensure our school is a fabulous place to be and the children 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! 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 'Making the Ordinary Extraordinary':

Nursery - Luis M for listening to questions on the carpet and giving sensible answers.
Reception - Raya L (Wales) for extraordinary reading.

Year 1 - Rose M (France) for always being a kind and considerate member of the class.

Year 2 - David C (Canada) for showing perseverance and resilience completing his maths challenges.

Year 3 - Zahra M (Brazil) for her fantastic focus and effort with writing a newspaper report all about how the Grinch stole Christmas before the holiday.

Year 4 - Lola S-E (South Africa) for writing a fantastic diary entry. 

Year 5 - Lainey S (Japan) for an amazing piece of English work which was used as a good example to other classes.

Year 6 - Mason M (New Zealand) for amazing work and perseverance in multiplying decimals in maths this week. 

Miss Ward - Henry G (Fiji) for being polite and showing good manners to our community. 

Mrs Reinecke - Molly J (China) for working very hard to learn her times tables fluently.

Mrs Savidge - Martin S (USA) for showing great manners and kindness around the school.

Well done to all these children and all the other children who have been seen to be 'Making the Ordinary Extraordinary' 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!

Time to CELEBRATE - Value Champion Alert!

We are very excited and pleased to share with you that we have our next Clockhouse Value Champion!

A huge congratulations to

Molly C (Australia)

who has earned the Nurture Champion Award for 2021-2022!

Molly always putting others before herself. She always gives up her lunch time to help others and make everyone's jobs easier. If anyone is hurt or upset she goes out of her way to make sure they are well and gets them the help or support they need. She is an excellent role model for not only her class but the whole year group and her nurturing nature shines through making her stand out and be an exemplary pupil that all staff members of the year group have praised. 

Mujtaba W (Kenya)

who has earned the Respect Champion Award for 2021-2022!

Mujtaba is ALWAYS showing the three R's even when he is outside or in the corridors and thinks no one is watching.  He sets a good example to the other children in class and encourages them to complete their learning or make sure they are listening when they need to be.  This week he sat with a child who was unable to complete their computing work on their own and taught them how to use the programme.  He has such a positive impact on children in the class. 

A huge well done from everyone at Clockhouse - wear your Values Champion Badge with pride!

#clockhousevaluesinaction

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

Rose

Roy

Riley

Taylah

Hudson

Jessica R

Key Stage 2

Leo

Dina

Hussain

Lana

Mia

Kevin

Finn

Abigail

Harry

Jaya

Hamza

Maya

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 - Matteo V

Reception - Lenny D (Northern Ireland)

Year 1 - Naba H (Italy)

Year 2 - Bobby E (USA)

Year 3 - Oliver M (Peru)

Year 4 - Haris A (Kenya)

Year 5 - Damian R (India)
Year 6 - Zak D (Fiji)

Greenland - Bobby M-J

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

Well done everyone!

Reception hunt for animals!

Reception had a great time developing their writing skills whilst on an animal hunt last week. 

They found lots of different animals around the environment and had to write down the names of the animals.

Weekly reminders for week beginning 10th January 2021

It was lovely to welcome everyone back to school last week and we were pleased to hear about everyone's Christmas Holidays. Thank you for the very positive start we have made to the new term - the children certainly returned ready and eager for learning. Thank you also for your continued understanding during this tricky time. We can only hope that things will get easier.

Some children still do not have the necessary equipment they require - water bottles, coats, home learning, reading books and diaries and anything else they need. Please can we also remind you of the importance of full school uniform and full school PE kit and that this along with coats are clearly named.

Please remember that clubs restart this week unless you have been advised otherwise.

Is your child, or a child you know due to start Nursery or Reception in September 2022

We are looking forward to welcoming prospective parents / carers into school on Thursday 13th January at 10.00am. We can accomodate those looking for Nursery or Reception places on all three tours. Please call the school to book this or a tour later in the term. Places on each tour are limited and are filling up quickly.

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