Clockhouse Weekly Wow

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

Time to CELEBRATE - Value Champion Alert!

We are very excited and pleased to share with you that we have more Clockhouse Value Champions of 2022-2023!

A huge congratulations to

Amelia S (Australia)

who has earned the Learning Champion Award for 2022-2023!

She has really impressed me with how dedicated she has been towards her learning this half term! During our effective feedback day, we looked at her previous targets one of which was to become a more independent learner. She couldn't believe how much progress she had made in such a short space of time and said she was proud of herself for what she has achieved. I'm extremely proud of her too, she is a lovely and hardworking member of the class!

Amara S (Australia)

who has earned the Learning Champion Award for 2022-2023!

She has definitely found Maths challenging in Year 6 but through sheer hard work and dedication to her learning, she is starting to make real progress. She is regularly the last one in the room, often working into her own time, striving to answer more questions or asking for support is an area she has found tricky. Her recent SATs Mock scores were a real boost and with a few more months work, I am confident she will get the scores her hard word deserves. 

Finn N (New Zealand)

who has earned the Learning Champion Award for 2022-2023!

 I have been really impressed with how amazing Finn has been in all his lesson in regards to his enthusiasm in improving his learning. He always tackles any challenge with a positive attitude and is therefore also a great role model for others in the class in how to persevere in overcoming any challenge. He has made wonderful progress so far this year and I know he will continue to do so with his dedicated attitude and love of learning. 

Emmie P (New Zealand)

who has earned the Excellence Champion Award for 2022-2023!

Since the start of the year, Emmie has shown true dedication to improving her maths - a dedication that is truly paying off. Despite not always feeling confident in this area or how difficult she might be finding this particular area in maths, she always gives 110% to her learning in order to improve. Her attitude is amazing and a role model to her peers of what perseverance and self belief can achieve.

Amelia F (New Zealand)

who has earned the Excellence Champion Award for 2022-2023!

Amelia is an outstanding artist. The care and dedication she shows when completing a task during her Art and Design lessons is inspiring. There have been many WOW moments when looking at the artwork she has completed and it is wonderful to see the pride and pleasure she takes in completing the tasks set before her. 

Andrew G (India)

who has earned the Learning Champion Award for 2022-2023!

We are so proud of Andrew in India, he has been working hard towards his targets. Last week he achieved 3 stars every day for his independent tray work. What a superstar. Keep up the good work.

Altay G (Argentina)

who has earned the Learning Champion Award for 2022-2023!

He is working so hard to develop his confidence in class and is trying to answer some challenging questions. Ensuring his learning does not stop in the classroom, he has created his own learning diary at home, filled with amazing facts about a range of different topics, his weekly spellings and several stories that he has made up with his favorite characters. We are so proud of his progress and his desire to learn. 

Tessa B (Argentina)

who has earned the Learning Champion Award for 2022-2023!

Throughout this year Tessa has slowly built her confidence with her own ability of what she can do. This has enabled her to develop a true excitement from the moment she steps through the school gates until the moment she leaves. She is always ready to learn the next thing, has built strategies of what to do if she is stuck and still ends each day with a huge smile on her face (even the tough days). We are all so proud of the progress she has made this year! Well done Tessa! 

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 

Thea

Elsie

Foley

Mikhaeel

Alex

Freya

Key Stage 2

Andrew

Amalie

James

Aimee

Isla

Elsie

Emily T

Aviela

Blake

Harrison

Fabian

Kirstie

Khloe

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 - Kimora E-A

Reception - Ali A-A (Wales)

Year 1 - Ariyan A (Spain)

Year 2 - Yusef A (USA)

Year 3 - Skyler S (Brazil)

Year 4 - Isa I (Uganda) 

Year 5 - Scarlett S (India)
Year 6 - Aaron W (Fiji)

Greenland - Grace P

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

Well done everyone!

Fabulous Fundraising - Turkey Earthquake Appeal

Fabulous Fundraising

A huge thank you to our whole community for the overwhelming amount of money raised for Turkey.

We are so proud to tell you that last week we sent a cheque for an incredible £1606.77  to The British Red Cross Earthquake Appeal. 

Thank you for your generosity - well done everyone!

Talented Tag Rugby Team in the making!

On 2nd February, Clockhouse took part in a Year 5 and 6 Tag Rugby competition at Noak Hill Sports Complex. They experienced an afternoon full of opportunities to play several games against different schools.

Taking part was a great opportunity for the school as it allowed the two teams to compete, build confidence and grow as a team.

Once arrived, Clockhouse got stuck in straight away with Team A and B both doing a fantastic job. Both teams grew in confidence in terms of game strategies, tagging their opponents and getting that ball over their opponents goal line. Amazingly, they did all of this whilst showing great sportsmanship after each game!

Throughout the afternoon, the teams carried on progressing in each game by looking for clear opportunities to get to the line and executed some brilliant passes and tagging!

After a long tiring afternoon of playing a total of 11 games, the Clockhouse A team had a excellent result of coming 3rd overall out of the 8 schools taking part! Very impressive!

Miss Macdonald said “Both Teams put in 100% effort at all times and it was excellent to stand and observe how the team’s came together to score those points! I was over the moon with how Clockhouse played and extremely proud to witness the school coming 3rd overall ! Well done!” 

Players of the Day -

Team A - Millie

Team B - Tristan

Team - Lily - New Zealand, Millie - Fiji, Olivia - New Zealand, Finn- New Zealand, Marco- Australia, Bella- Fiji, Ronnie- Fiji, Freddy- New Zealand, Charlie- New Zealand, Alfie F- Fiji, Billy-Fiji, Oscar- China, Olly - China, Racim- Fiji, Riley- Fiji, Tristan - Australia, Cruz - Australia, Vlad- Australia, Frankie - New Zealand and Cerys- New Zealand

Fantastic Football for Year 3 and 4

Clockhouse were delighted to take up the opportunity to play in a Year 3 and 4 girls football tournament on 8th February. The girls arrived ready to progress as a team and try their best!

Upon arrival, the team was filled with nerves. They were a new team but excited to play. The girls warmed up and took to the pitch to play 4 games.

In every 12 minute match, the girls got stuck in and tried their very best. They made clear progress throughout all matches, working super hard to mark their opponents, look for opportunities and work as a team!

Some amazing saves were made throughout the game and excellent passing was shown within the team!

At the end of the day, the hard decision had to be made for which of the girls would receive the player of the day certificate. With a lot thought, I awarded Poppy for her excellent determination throughout all games and for giving 100% effort and never giving up! Well done Poppy.

Miss Macdonald said “As I stood watching the girls, who have never played as a team, work so well together. I was so proud of how far they progressed from match 1 to 4, with better outcomes in each match! Well done girls you have made me and the school really proud and set a great path for more girls in the school getting involved in football!”

Team - Poppy - Uganda, Dena - Uganda, Azra - Uganda, Lois - South Africa, Lavinia - South Africa and Amelia - Uganda

Weekly reminders for week beginning 27th February 2023

It was lovely to welcome the community back to school last week and to hear about everyone's holiday.

Thank you for your responses to the questionnaire as well as your positive feedback from Parents' Evening. We hope you found the meetings with your child's teachers useful and were proud to hear what the teachers had to say. We also hope the children enjoyed 'We are...' Week and they came home inspired. Finally thank you for the support you showed for Amazing Attendance and Perfect Punctuality Week - well done everyone!

We have another busy week ahead.

Year 1 

We are very excited to be welcoming a Theatre company to Year 1 on Monday. The Drama Club will be working with Year 1 to complement their learning about London. If you have not sent in the contribution yet, we really would be most grateful if you could do so by the end of the day on Monday.

Year 4

We look forward to welcoming our Year 4 parents / carers for their next Learn with my Child session on Tuesday at 9.10am - 11.45am. 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.

China

Following the postponement of China's Learn with my Child session before half term, we are looking forward to welcoming China parent's on Wednesday (9.10am - 11.45am). 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.

World Book Day

Next Thursday is World Book Day. In order to celebrate this, we are inviting the children to take part in an exciting competition. We would like the children to design a new book cover for their favourite book. Once they have completed their book cover, we ask that the children give these to their class teacher and they will then be passed onto the judging panel! All entries need to be submitted by Friday 3rd March. Winners will be announced after this and prizes given.

During the day, an author will also visit us.

On Friday, should your child wish to come dressed as a book character to celebrate World Book Day this will be optional. If you child does not want to dress up they will need to come to school in uniform. 

 

Strike Action

As I am sure you are aware NEU members are being asked to strike again on Thursday 2nd March. A letter regarding this will be coming out tomorrow (Monday). Please bear with me.

Things to be aware of
World Book Day £1 Vouchers
We have received World Book Day vouchers for all the children at school. These vouchers give children £1 off a book and are accepted at all participating book shops. They may also be used at the book fair at school in March. The Book Fair will be in school from 14th March. More information to follow.

Letters that went out week before half term:

The following letters went out the week before half term:

February Newsletter

Reading Volunteers

Spelling support ideas

World Book Day / Book Fair

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

The Dojo League

The Dojo League!

The Dojo League started again 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, Fiji and New Zealand in second place and Argentina in third.

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

Amazing Attendance and Perfect Punctuality Week - The Winners!

Great attendance leads to 
great learning and progress!

Well done to everyone for showing great commitment during out Attendance and Punctuality Week. The results are in and they have been analysed.

A huge WELL DONE to

SOUTH AFRICA

who are the overall winners of the week with an attendance of  99.7%! Your reward will be revealed next week!

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

Italy - 98.0%

South Africa - 99.7%
Fiji - 99.0%

Wow - 12 classes were in the Green Zone this week with an attendance above 96% - keep going next week!

A further well done to Nursery AM, Wales, Canada, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Kenya, South Africa, India and Fiji have all had no children arriving late to school this week!

Whole school attendance for this week is:

 95.6%

Whole school attendance currently stands at

 93.4%

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%.

February Newsletter

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

February Newsletter

Amazing Attendance and Perfect Punctuality Week - one more day to go! Keep going Clockhouse!

Do not forget that this week is our focus attendance week where we are looking for Amazing Attendance and Perfect Punctuality. We have one more day to go.

Well done to South Africa who are in the lead with Fiji and New Zealand closely behind them. Keep going everyone!

Well done also to Nursery AM, Scotland, Wales, France, Italy, Canada, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, India, Fiji and New Zealand who have no lates for this week so far - great job! 

One more day to go, keep going! 

Thank you all for your ongoing support.

Amazing Attendance and Perfect Punctuality Week - the update for today, two more days to go! Keep going Clockhouse!

By now you know this week is our focus attendance week where we are looking for Amazing Attendance and Perfect Punctuality.

Well done to South Africa who still have 100% attendance for the week - keep going! 

Well done Nursery AM, Northern Ireland, Italy, Brazil, Argentina, China, Australia and Fiji who have 100% attendance today.

Well done also to Nursery AM and PM, Scotland, Canada, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Kenya, South Africa, Uganda, China, India, Fiji and Australia who have no lates for this week so far - great job! 

Keep going!

Thank you all for your ongoing support.

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 - Ianis L for coming into school exceptionally happy.

Reception - Ollie M (Northern Ireland) for making exceptionally good progress with this writing.

Year 1 - Aleena H (France) for following the 3R's and being an exceptional role model when learning. 

Year 2 - Abdulrasheed B (Mexico) for showing an exceptional, proactive attitude to improving his reading.

Year 3 - Sophie B (Brazil) for making an exceptional effort to learn both her spellings and timetables at home and her scores have been improving massively! I am very impressed with her effort.

Year 4 - Safae B (Kenya) for working exceptionally hard and independently to write a fantastic balanced argument. 

Year 5 - Bogdan B (India) for having an exceptionally positive term so far. His improvement in his presentation and for his effort to improve his learning have been impressive to see.
Year 6 - Ronnie C (Fiji) for his impressive interest in our topic of WWII and his exceptional approach to inspiring others to be as interested as he is. 

Greenland - Grace P for her exceptionally positive attitude to learning about fractions in Maths.

Miss Ward - Elsie E (Italy) for being exceptionally helpful to others in the canteen.  Mrs Mann and the other staff members were really proud of her!

Mrs Reinecke - Ivan A (Fiji) for trying to be an exceptionally mature and responsible Clockhouse person.

Mrs Savidge - Connie S-W (Japan) for being an all round exceptional Clockhouse person.

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

Amazing Attendance and Perfect Punctuality Week - the update for today! Keep going Clockhouse!

Do not forget that this week is our focus attendance week where we are looking for Amazing Attendance and Perfect Punctuality.

The week has continued very well! Well done to Mexico and South Africa who still have 100% attendance for the week so far. Well done also to USA , China and Fiji who had 100% attendance today.

Well done to Nursery AM, PM and All Day, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Spain, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Uganda, Kenya, South Africa, China, India, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji who all arrived on time today.

Keep going everyone!

Thank you all for your ongoing support.

Amazing Attendance and Perfect Punctuality Week got off the a good start!

Do not forget that this week is our focus attendance week where we are looking for Amazing Attendance and Perfect Punctuality.

The week has got off to a good start! Well done to Mexico and South Africa who have started the week with 100% attendance.

Well done to Nursery AM and PM, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, France, Canada, Spain, USA, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Uganda, Kenya, South Africa, China, Japan, India, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji who all arrived on time today.

A good start everyone, keep going!

Thank you all for your ongoing support.

Clockhouse Weekly Wow

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

Time to CELEBRATE - Value Champion Alert!

We are very excited and pleased to share with you that we have more Clockhouse Value Champions of 2022-2023!

A huge congratulations to

Billy B (Fiji)

who has earned the Learning Champion Award for 2022-2023!

I am so impressed with Billy and his learning. He is really trying hard to apply himself in all lessons and loves to be challenged. Even when it’s a subject he finds more challenging, he will work so hard to compete the task to the best of his ability. He loves to apply feedback and is making good progress due to this. So proud of him.

Kirstie G (Fiji)

who has earned the Learning Champion Award for 2022-2023!

Over the last 18 months she has come a very long way, not just in learning but in other areas as well. She has put herself into situations that make her uncomfortable in order to build her confidence. She puts 100% in everything she does and is making fantastic progress across her learning as a result. I am sure she will not like being centre of attention now, but this is fully deserved. 

Macey C (Australia)

who has earned the Excellence Champion Award for 2022-2023!

Since the start of the year, she has been coming out of class regularly for Maths interventions. No matter the area of Maths, how difficult she finds it or what else is going on, she has the biggest smile on her face. Her attitude to learning is infectious and creates such a positive mood to learning in the room. (I believe this is Macey's second badge). 

Hallee V (Brazil)

who has earned the Excellence Champion Award for 2022-2023!

This student is always trying to do her best both inside and outside the classroom and her aspiration to be a fantastic role model is clear. I am particularly impressed with all of the effort she puts in to her dancing work outside of school (as well as in our PE lessons). During show and tell, she has told the whole class all about the competitions she has taken part in, and won, as a group and she even has a solo dance coming up soon. She has definitely been showing excellence and thoroughly deserves the award.

Kiki KG (Brazil)

who has earned the Nurture Champion Award for 2022-2023!

This student is incredibly kind, thoughtful and caring at all times throughout the school day. She truly understands the idea of nurture and shows it in everything she does. She will often give up her own time to help others in the class and is always keen to support myself and any other adult she sees. Her confidence has come on so much since starting Year 3 and I am really proud of the kind, caring and nurturing girl she is. She definitely deserves to be recognised for everything she does to help everyone else.

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 

Lenny

David

Azaan

Daniel

Liam

Albina

Key Stage 2

Theo

Harrison

Kuba

Amelia

Sienna

David

Holly

Hassan

Blake

Harry

Freddy

Roman

Bobby

KEEP READING - 

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE IN IT TO WIN IT!