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Autumn crowns

Fri 21 Oct 2022

We had our first session in Paul's Garden on Wednesday. It was great fun! We made leaf crowns, we looked for autumn colours, we sang autumn songs and we looked for creatures in the pond.

Weekly roundup Juniors

Fri 21 Oct 2022

Dear Parents and Carers,

Weekly Roundup – Junior School

Black History Month

This week has been another great week at the Juniors. We have been thinking about Black History Month in class, looking at important figures and discussing them. Year 5 learnt about Chris Ofili, a British painter who is best known for including elephant dung in his paintings! Year 5 created some paintings in the style of his work (no dung included!) – click here to see them.

Fantastic academic results

We have received some published results from the Government about our KS2 results last year. Progress and attainment in Reading, and progress in Writing was significantly above national and in the highest 20% in 2022. Also, the attainment of Greater Depth writing was significantly above national and in the highest 20% in 2022. For Maths, progress and attainment was in line with national. Click here to see a summary of these results (the Infant KS1 results were also fantastic too)

Our assemblies

Miss Drake led our Monday assembly this week, and we talked about our assembly structure and why we have assemblies. The children reflected brilliantly on this, linking the four parts of our assembly (candle, window, mirror and door) to sections in previous assemblies this term. Click here to find out more about the structure and what the children said. (The new song mentioned in the article is called ‘My Lighthouse’ by Rend Collective – have a listen on YouTube, it’s very catchy).

Links with the Holburne Museum

Saviour's Junior School has just become a Holburne Partner School. As one of a few selected schools, we are excited to be involved in this partnership and to explore the various opportunities this will create for the children.

As part of this partnership we have been offered

FREE museum entry THIS October half term! Available to claim from 22nd-30th October.

Each pupil can bring up to 2 adults to the museum, completely free (just give the name of your school at the front desk)! See the collection and new exhibitions - Degas/Rodin sculptures, a room of hand-drawn animations and enjoy the surrounding park and new children’s play area.

Coming up:

Parent’s Evening: Next term, we will be holding parent’s evening on Monday 14th November and Thursday 17th November, from 3.45 – 6.30. Information about how to book a space will come out after the half term.

Don’t forget to subscribe to our online school calendar. Our calendar is the place where you can check for events, term dates and INSET days.

For a window into our school please follow us on social media. We regularly update our Twitter page and Facebook page.

I hope you all have a relaxing half term and enjoy the break.

Best wishes,

Mrs Simmons

Weekly roundup Infants

Fri 21 Oct 2022

Dear Parents and Carers,

Weekly roundup – Infants

Well, what a fantastic term it’s been, lots of fun, laughter and learning. One of the best parts of my job is walking around the school, in and out of classes, and it never ceases to surprise me how eager and confident the children are to come and share their knowledge and learning.

We have selected the school councillors and they have been busy with their first meeting discussing their roles and thinking about which charities they would like to support this year. Well done to Toby Brazil class, Frances Chile class, Jennifer France class, Ivy Morocco class and Zac Japan class.

Next term Louise will be organising the Green team so watch this space for the introduction of class Power Savers and Recycling Champions.

Fun with science.

An email is being sent with information about the Ogden Trust project and a photograph competition. This project has a focus on Physics and more information will follow regarding the project next term. Our children do love science! Click here and here for photos of Year 2 and Year 1

Important dates for your calendar and other news

Next term is a busy one but a term that we all love. There are some important dates coming up.

Parents and Carers evening Week 3 Monday 14th and Thursday 17th November (Joanna’s class will be Monday and Wednesday). The booking system will go live after half term and we will let you know when this happens.

Bedtime story is Monday 21st November Children are invited back to school 6:00 Pm to 6:45 PM wearing their pj’s for a story with their teachers, hot chocolate and a biscuit. Teachers are also in their pj’s! – again more information will follow after half term.

Christmas performances – Nursery Thursday 1st December 9:30

Reception Thursday 8th and Friday 9th 9:30

Years 1 and 2 Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th 9:30

Open days Reception 2023 15th and 22nd November click here

Fun, Laughter and Learning

Celebrating that our approach to learning has a positive impact on all of our children with the first National data since 2019. More evidence that children are at the heart of all we do! Click here

Don’t forget to subscribe to our online school calendar. Our calendar is the place where you can check for events, term dates and INSET days.

For a window into our school please follow us on social media. We regularly update our Twitter page and Facebook page.

We hope you have a lovely half term break and Happy Diwali to those families celebrating on Monday.

Best wishes,

Sophie

It's all in the taste!

Fri 21 Oct 2022

Year 1 scientists have been exploring their senses. Exploring taste made for some great expressions.

Year 2 Scientists

Fri 21 Oct 2022

In year 2 we have been learning about materials. We have been looking at cycle helmets and how they use different materials to keep our heads safe. We then made a helmet for an egg cyclist! We wrapped up an egg in different materials to see if we could protect our eggs. We dropped them to see if they cracked. We found paper, bubble wrap, polystyrene and tissue we all good materials to keep our egg cyclist safe.

Top academic results!

Wed 19 Oct 2022

We laugh
We play
We have fun
We get top academic results!

We were in line or significantly above all national benchmarks in every statutory assessment taken at our Infant School and Junior School this year!

Check these out... 😎

Year 5 - Chris Ofili

Tue 18 Oct 2022

Year 5s have been inspired by learning about Chris Ofili as part of celebrating Black History Month. They learnt about his work and the mixed media he used to create his images. Year 5 then explored patterns inspired by African artwork before adding them to their own self portraits. Here are some of their designs.

Weekly roundup Juniors

Fri 14 Oct 2022

Dear Parents and Carers

Weekly Roundup – Junior School

We’re starting off this week’s roundup by reflecting on the Tag Rugby tournament children from Years 4, 5 and 6 took part in last week, which was held at Avon Rugby. Supported by Mrs Merrett, the children did a FANTASTIC job of representing the school, and we were so proud to see that the Cobra’s team were awarded a special trophy for sportsmanship 😊 Huge well done to everyone who took part. We would like to say a massive thank you to all the parents and carers who drove the children to the event, and parents and carers who stayed and cheered the children on. Thank you also to Mrs Merrett for arranging this, and to Andie Parry who came into school and helped the children practice prior to the event.

Mr Beament has been busy recently working with the ‘Made by Dyslexia’ charity. He has recorded a video for them to share as part of World Dyslexia Day (which was on October 8th), and has also hosted an online radio show discussing dyslexia and supporting children with dyslexia. Click here to find the links to Mr Beament’s video and radio show.

Year 6 feature in the online ‘Bath and Wilshire Parent’ – you can hear more about their fantastic residential to the Cumulus Centre in Dorset. Click here to read the article.

Also this week:

Thank you for joining us for our Harvest festival on Monday, and to everyone who has made a contribution which will be shared with Julian House.

Don’t forget to subscribe to our online school calendar. Our calendar is the place where you can check for events, term dates and INSET days. 

For a window into our school please follow us on social media. We regularly update our Twitter page and Facebook page.   

I hope you all have a lovely weekend,

Best wishes,

Mrs Simmons

Weekly roundup Infants

Fri 14 Oct 2022

Dear Parents and Carers

Weekly roundup – Infants

The week got off to a great start with the Year 1 and 2 Harvest Celebration at St Saviours Church.

The children led the celebration with harvest poems, some harvest prayers or reflections and filled the church with joyous singing and actions in true St Saviours style!

We had explored with the children feelings of thankfulness. Sophie said, ‘I am thankful for my friends and the teachers.’ Molly said, ‘I am grateful for my brother sharing things.’ Elliot said, ‘I am thankful for smooth and shiny conkers.’

The children then explored the concept of sharing and sharing with others who may not have as much as us. We explored the word charity and talked about collecting for Julian House. Kamal said, ‘This is like our Caring Code, we show we care!’

Reception have had great fun learning outdoors, looking for signs of Autumn and thinking about hedgehogs and how they hibernate. They took two hot water bottles to represent hedgehogs. They then left one out in the air and wrapped one up and covered it in leaves. Otto said, 'The one left out got cold very quickly'. Francis said, 'The one we covered up is still nice and warm!' Leo said, 'Hedgehogs want to stay warm in the winter'. Click here for outdoor learning.

In other news

Made by Dyslexia

Mr Beament has been busy working with the ‘Made by Dyslexia’ charity. He has recorded a video for them to share as part of World Dyslexia Day (which was on October 8^th) and has also hosted an online radio show discussing dyslexia and supporting children with dyslexia. Click here to find the links to Mr Beament’s video and radio show.

OPAL play at its best in the sunshine. Click here

Polite reminder

Can I please remind you not to park on the yellow zigzag lines outside of school. We know it can get very busy at drop off and pick up and that it may sometimes feel frustrating, but the zigzag lines are there to keep everyone safe. Thank you for your support.

Don’t forget to subscribe to our online school calendar. Our calendar is the place where you can check for events, term dates and INSET days. 

For a window into our school please follow us on social media. We regularly update our Twitter page and Facebook page.   

We hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Best wishes

Sophie