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Clanfield CE Primary School
Fortnightly Newsletter 5th Mar 2021
Address: Main Street, Clanfield, Oxon, OX18 2SP Tel: 01367 810257
General Email: Office.3100@clanfield.oxon.sch.uk
Extended Services/ School meal bookings: alexcastle@clanfield.oxon.sch.uk
Website: www.clanfieldprimary.co.uk
Message from Mrs Rogers
A little moan.....
It really annoys me when people refer to 2020 / 21 as a "year of lost learning." I think it is an insult
to parents.
You - mums, dads, grandparents, older siblings etc etc - have done an AMAZING job, and as well
as getting your heads around "fronted adverbials" and ordering fractions, in the strangest and
scariest of situations, you have - undoubtedly - taught your children skills that no school could
ever hope to provide and develop...
Over the year, I have noticed that not only have you carried out the above you have also helped
your children learn to:
- weigh out ingredients for a cake
- build a bonfire
- remove a splinter from a dog's paw
- identify stick insect eggs
- prune a tree
- drill a hole in the wall with dad
- play chess
- help child ride a bike without stabilisers
-build a bird box
-make soup
the list goes on....
These are life skills. They are essential. They help develop a child's character and their broader
interests. This is not "lost learning", this is joyous learning.
Teachers can't wait to welcome your child back into the classroom next week, but at the same
time we applaud you. You've been brilliant
Mrs Rogers and the Clanfield Team.
Mother’s Day Colouring Competition
To celebrate all the amazing things our Mums do for us, Perry Bishop and Chambers are holding
a colouring competition for Mothers’ Day. If you don’t have a Mum, you can do something special
for the person who does look after you, whether that is your Dad, Grandma, Grandpa or
guardian.
To celebrate Mothers’ Day, we would like to fill the office windows of Perry Bishop in Faringdon
with colourful pictures of your mother or the very special person who looks after you.
We would like your picture to be no bigger than A4 and to be in portrait not landscape. You can
use coloured crayons, felt tip pens or paint and entries must be received by Thursday 11th March,
5pm latest. We would like these to be handed in to our offices at 16 Market Place, Faringdon or
they can be scanned and e-mailed to faringdon@perrybishop.co.uk if more convenient.
There will be prizes for the best in each of the three age categories (Reception to Year 2, Years 3-
4 and Years 5-6) and we will donate £1 to the Faringdon Foodbank for each entry received.
Please don’t forget to include your name, year group and school on the back of the picture.
Good luck and we look forward to receiving your entries.
Tom Mellor
Branch Manager
My name is Charis and I’m a Casting
Researcher at Love Productions; the
company behind The Great British Bake Off,
The Great British Sewing Bee and The Great
Pottery Throw Down.
We are delighted to say, that we have
recently opened applications for the 7th series
of Junior Bake Off; a Channel 4 programme
that celebrates the culinary talent and
ambition of the younger generation in Britain.
With this in mind, we are contacting schools
in hope that they can help us spread the word
regarding this exciting opportunity.
If you could share our casting flyer with the
children, parents & staff at your school that
would be really appreciated.
We are looking for young budding bakers
between 9 -15 years old.
Filming would take place from July 2021, but
our applications close on Sunday
28th March 2021.
Absence from FOCS News
school.
Having had a bit of a false start to the New Year, the generous
collection of bottles from last year are still waiting to be won!! Details of
Please can we remind our ‘Covid Secure Bottle Bonanza’ will be announced very soon.
you that we are not able Sadly our Rags2Riches4Schools collection was also postponed and will
to offer Google now take place on Monday 26th April. Please keep hold of those bags
Classroom lessons if of clothes until then so they can make some money for your children.
your child is off with a Our next FOCS Zoom meeting will be on Thursday 11th March at 7pm.
cold or tummy bug. The log in details will be sent on the day to all parents via e-mail and
Google Classroom will parent message. All parents, staff and friends are welcome to join
be for those families who (visibly or with their cameras off) and any ideas or suggestions can
are unable to send their always be e-mailed to FOCS@clanfield.oxon.sch.uk.
child to school due to
COVID. Let’s get 2021 started!!
Lucy Roberts & FOCS Committee.
Ruby Class
Well, where should I begin? What a couple of months it’s been….
Ruby class What can I say… You’ve been amazing! I would like to say a huge
thank you for your cooperation and excitement for learning, each and every day!
You have kept me going!
Parents You have been amazing! I know it has seemed frustrating and difficult at times, but you
have risen to the task and I would happily write you all reference for a TA post!!!
We have had some challenges and wonderful moments over the last few months… To name but a
few, Martha testing me with Buried Treasure / Parents raising their eyebrows at the suggestion of
an additional activity! I’ve met Lyra’s animals; Adalin’s dressing up outfits (which I have my eye on
for school!) Ezra has found his voice and I have loved seeing what he has learnt and how well he
reads!
Matilda (Toby’s sister) is ready for school after joining us for a lot of our lessons and having Toby to
teach her!
I have been lucky to meet (virtually) two Ruby class babies… Congratulations to Reuben’s family
on the arrival of Ava and Jakes family on the arrival of Poppy!
Kitty’s family have had a flood, but Kitty managed to use this experience and make this into a
sentence in phonics “the house is very damp!” When we were learning about CVCC words and
Elsie’s Dad come home early, much to Elsie's delight! Welcome back! Matilda has ridden her bike
for 5k with her family and Flo walked a ridiculously long way on Sunday and found a burnt-out car!
Freddie worked really hard and got a pair of big boy trousers (just like his Daddies). Joe has
discovered the ability to turn on captions, so my speech becomes subtitles, and he has started
calling me Emma Williams! And Alec… Well, he has been the most supportive friend to Freddie
when he joined the School key worker group… but in addition to this he announced on Monday that
the toilets are too small in Ruby class! Wow who knew so much could happen in a couple of
months?!
I can wait to have Ruby class back in school and in Toby’s words only 3 more sleeps before we are
back in school… Feels a little like Christmas!
Thanks again Ruby children and families you’ve been amazing!
World Book Day Ruby class
The children in Ruby Class were given three challenges to complete throughout the day.
1. World book day reading challenge
How many unusual and crazy places can you read a story in?
2. Make your favourite book character
Can you make a 3D character from a book – Mrs Rogers will be judging and the results will be
announced on Monday 8th March.
3. Are you a read a book reading star?
Reading stars – can you complete these activities? https://www.worldbookday.com/reading-stars/
Here are our outfits and unusual and crazy places to read a book!
Miss Williams
Matilda on
a bike
Jake in the Toby in the
windowsill bin
Reuben in
the bath
Kitty in the
washing Adalin in a
machine swing
Florence in
the linen
basket
Alec in
the
gazebo
Elsie in
Lyra up a
the
tree
gazebo
Martha in
the
cupboard
Ezra on Joe
the toilet reading to
his Teddy
World Book Day 2021
Adalin - Maleficent from Alec - Questions and answers
Elsie - Rapunzel
Sleeping Beauty about Dinosaurs
Martha - Winnie the Witch Jake - The Gruffalo Joe - Harry Potter
Reuben - Harry and the
Lyra - Harry Potter Kitty - Mrs Twit
Dinosaurs
Matilda - The wolf from Little
Flo - Elsa Toby - Freddie the Fire Engine
Red Riding hood
Diamond Class
What a fantastic World Book Day 2021! Even though we
were not altogether at school, the children all made such
an effort with their ‘World Book Day’ costumes. We had
a Fantastic Mr and Mrs Fox, Princesses, Harry Potter
and many more book characters! We interviewed two of
the book characters and then wrote our own character
profiles. Can you guess which book character lives in
the jungle, has lots of teeth, is green and is known as
Alan?
The children enjoyed meeting the author of Look up
and Clean up - Nathan Bryon and the Illustrator
Dapo Adeola. They listened to the stories and
completed a draw along activity of one of the
characters (Luna the cat). I was very impressed
with the children’s drawings!
The afternoon was filled with creative activities,
giving the children the opportunity to use their
fantastic imaginations. We did some story
writing, we created imaginary characters, we
used art materials to create a story setting and
most importantly we had a great deal of fun!
Miss Thomas
Sapphire Class
Hello Sapphire,
What a great few weeks we have had. We are all so
excited to be back in school on Monday and all ready
for 'A day in London'. This week has been world book
day and we had lots of fun activities based around
reading. It started with dressing up as and or talking
about our favourite book characters, we then did a
book scavenger hunt where we had list of things to
look for such as a bear, a plane, a word we didn’t
know the meaning of, a simile and much more. We
listened to and were inspired by authors, wrote a book review of our favourite book, and had a fun
packed afternoon of activities all related to reading and writing our own amazing books. Another
brilliant week of enthusiastic learners, well done Sapphire.
See you on Monday, I can’t wait!
Miss Davies
Topaz Class
We have had a great day for
World Book Day- switching on
all the cameras to see a screen
full of book characters was the
best way to start our morning,
thank you! A huge well done to
so many of you who had
managed to put together
costumes from existing items,
lovely to see some homemade
masks and props too.
We started the morning with an
online session with Katherine
Rundell, exploring magical rooftops settings and the journeys
her characters take through them. The artwork we then created
has been outstanding and we are looking forward to seeing the
writing it inspires in us all tomorrow.
Earlier in the week we enjoyed two further online sessions, the first with Liz Pichon looking at her
Tom Gates work and then with author Struan Murray.
Dr Wallis and Mrs Tuach
Term Dates 2021-2022
Autumn Term
2nd September – 21st October
October half term
25th October – 29th October
Autumn Term
2nd November – 17th December
Christmas holiday
20 December - 31 December
Spring Term
5th January – 18th February
Spring half term
21st February – 25th February
Spring Term
28th February – 8th April
Easter Holiday
11th April - 22nd April
Summer Term
25th April - 27th May
Late Spring half term
30th May – 3rd June
Summer Term
7th June - 21st July
INSET DAYS Wednesday 1st September 2021
Friday 22nd October 2021
Monday 1st November 2021
Tuesday 4th January 2022
Monday 6th June 2022
Dates for your diary
Easter service 29th March 2021 TBC
Sports Day 2nd July 2021 TBC
Celebrations/Awareness Days
National Awareness day - Autism + National
April Earth Day
International Space Day
May
World Ocean’s Day + Forces Day
June
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