Mini-Beast
Sculptures
Year 2 have been learning all about Andy Goldsworthy and
how he creates sculptures in the natural environment.
After experimenting with his techniques the children
created some exquisite sculptures.
Year 2
Trip to the Zoo
Year 2 ventured to Bristol Zoo this term to get
hands on experience of mini-beasts! We had a great
day. We handled meal worms (who were very wriggly!)
and visited the butterfly garden, among lots of
other things. Best of all the sun shone!
Y6 Production - Pirates of the Curry
Bean
What a wonderful show our talented Year 6
children performed last night.
see
link to images
Worlebury's Royal Birthday Picnic - 11th June
What a huge success this was.
Not only did it raise £430.92 for the school, but it was a
day enjoyed by the whole community. It was lovely to see
Worlebury staff, governors, parents and children, Worlebury
residents and members of the parishes of St Paul’s and St
Peter’s taking part and enjoying the many activities of the
day.
A big thank you must be said to all the staff, parents,
governors, residents and church community for all their help
and a very special thank you to Mrs Pincott for all her hard
work in organising this fantastic and memorable event!
See a few
photos from day - click here
Outdoor Play Area
Parents are reminded that the use of the adventure
playground after school, including weekend events, is done
so at their own risk and that parent/carers are solely
responsible for supervising the safe use of the areas at
this time.
The equipment is recommended for primary aged children
only.
Hooke Court 2016
We're having a great time!
Kayaking was awesome! We got very wet and played lots of
games.
Here we are on our 'forest orienteering'. We touched the
magic tree and made a wish; it was very peaceful.
Last night we sang songs around the campfire. Some of us
were still singing this morning!
English Curriculum
At Worlebury St. Paul’s Primary School we pride ourselves on
a creative English curriculum which aims to inspire all
children. We will help children develop the skills and
knowledge that will enable them to communicate effectively
and creatively through spoken and written language and equip
them with the skills to become lifelong learners
See our English Curriculum
page for new English resources that will help you to support
your child.
English
Curriculum Page
Weston Arts Festival
Congratulations to our Key Stage Two Choir who came first
in their category at Weston Arts Festival on Friday. They
were awarded a distinction and received positive comments
from the judges.
Worlebury Choir
Thank you to members of Worlebury's choir who were able
to come along and sing at St Paul's Church fete.
The sun shone, the cakes were delicious and the singing
was lovely.
Lunchtime Club - Guest Presenter!
Hi, I'm Matthew in Year Five and I was invited to
Mrs Matthews' lunchtime club on two occasions to share my
love of baking.
The first time we decorated cupcakes and the second time
we made Rocky Road - Mrs Crocker had a piece and said it was
delicious!
After School Provision
We are pleased to say that our Breakfast Club providers
(Sport to Schools) are able to run an after school club
provision from Term Five. See letter below. All
bookings need to made directly with Sport to Schools.
Sport to School After School Club Letter
Safeguarding Training Update
All staff have undertaken general awareness training around
the Government’s Prevent Duty.
Prevent is a government strategy designed to stop people
becoming terrorists or supporting terrorist or extremist
causes. The Prevent strategy covers all types of terrorism
and extremism, including political and religious extremism.
See below a guidance leaflet which helps parents/carers to
understand what the Prevent Duty is about.
If you have any questions, feel free to come and speak to
our head, Mrs Bamford.
Prevent strategy - leaflet for parents
Worlebury Conference – A Real
Success!
On behalf of all the staff and governors, thank you to all
who were able to come along to Worlebury Conference!
During the evening we listened to Dr. Tom Robson discuss
growth mindset and how we can encourage our children to be
problem-solvers and to consider how the language we use can
impact our children. As a group we considered how we can
enable our children to aim to keep their learning in the
‘challenge zone’ as opposed to the ‘comfort zone’ and
therefore develop the children’s resilience, collaboration,
perseverance, motivation and resourcefulness.
To finish the evening we revisited the school’s vision…
“A school community where everyone participates excels and
has a love of learning; where we respect ourselves, one
another and live life to the full, helping others to do the
same”.
Click here for more information
2016 Book Week
Wow! What
an incredible week we had had celebrating reading. Our non-fiction theme captured
our imagination and created a real buzz of adventure, excitement and discovery.
Thank you to our special visitors – adventurer Finn McCann and Nikki from Worle Library, Waterstones for donating book prizes and to all the children, parents and staff who have taken part so enthusiastically.
New Year, New Name
'Friends' are now 'Friends PTA'. This is to
emphasise the different roles that Friends carry
out.
Phonics Evening Thursday 28th January 2016
Miss Porter gave a Phonics presentation to Year R parents last
Thursday to help them, as a parent/carer, understand what they can do
to support their child in their phonic development.
Please see link below to see the slides of the presentation.
It can give you
ideas of activities, remind you of sounds and help you with the
language used in phonic lessons.
Phonics powerpoint (Jan 2016)
Whisper Reporting Tool
Clicking on the Whisper button above will take
you to an online form where you can leave your
message. You can choose to send it anonymously or,
if you want us to get back to you, you can leave
your contact details. Whisper does not collect any
information to identify a sender unless they choose
to leave it.
Pupils can anonymously report issues to school
via SMS by texting:
WOR3 +
message
to
078600 21584
Facebook Safety Workshop
The children from the E-safety committee,
together with one of our Governors Mr Jeffs, ran a
very interesting and informative Facebook Safety
Workshop for parents .
Please see the document below for:
Advice from Facebook's Safety Centre
Scenarios from online safety
workshop
Quiz on Facebook
12 useful rules for Facebook Group
Administrators
Facebook
Safety Workshop document
Anti-bullying/E-Safety Launch
Week
Anti-Bullying/E-Safety Launch
Week will take place next week (16th - 20th
November). The theme this year is ‘Make a Noise
about bullying’.
The key aim of the week is to
allow children to make a noise about bullying. We
want to encourage children to identify the signs of
bullying and to be able to seek help for themselves
or others.
Key Stage 2 Harvest
On Friday 16th October, Key Stage 2 attended St
Paul's Church in Kewstoke for their Harvest
Festival. It was a lovely service led by
Reverend Geoff Eales which reminded us all of the
importance of sharing at Harvest time.
The generous donations from the children will be
split between Food Bank and Somewhere to Go.
Well done to all the children for such wonderful
singing and thank you to the Governors and Parents
who helped make the trip happen.
Year 3 and 4 Egyptologists
On Monday 28th
September Years 3 and 4 visited Bristol Museum and
Art Gallery to discover more about the Ancient
Egyptians as part of their Learning Theme.
We were treated to a fantastic
workshop where we investigated real and replica
artefacts from ancient Egypt. By asking questions
and making careful observations we were able to work
out which people in Egyptian society would have
owned the objects. We also explored the Egyptology
area and became experts on Egyptian belief, life,
death and afterlife.
Thank you to all the adult
volunteers who helped and made our trip possible.
Poetry Workshops by James
Carter
On
Tuesday 29th September, Worlebury St Paul’s was
visited by poet and guitarist James Carter. James
believes that “poems are the most fun you can have
with words” and he certainly proved this with his
wonderfully entertaining assemblies for Key Stage 1
and Key Stage 2, and his workshops for every class
in the school. The children were inspired to write
fabulous poems, some of which will be sent to James
for him to read and comment on. He has a number of
excellent books for children which can be found at
the following website:
http://www.jamescarterpoet.co.uk/booksforchildren.html
Comments from the children:
“He was very inspiring and extremely funny.”
“It was an amazing experience and it really helped
me to develop my writing.”
“It was fun and I enjoyed it a lot. I learnt that
you can get ideas from everywhere and you always
need to keep your mind open.”
Governor Vacancies
A successful school is one where everyone works
together as a team to provide the children with the
opportunity to receive motivational and relevant
learning and encouragement to develop their
potential.
We have vacancies on our Governing Body for two
Parent Governor. A Parent Governor must be:
·
a parent or carer of a registered pupil at the time
of their appointment or election,
·
appointed by the Governing Body or elected by their
fellow parents or carers of registered pupils at the
school, by a secret ballot if we have more
candidates than vacancies.
See link
to documents below for more information:
Letter seeking new Governors
PG1A Eligibility form
PG2 Nomination form
Foundation Governor form
Sponsored Walk - Bench Shelter
Kiearna and Lauren organised a sponsored walk that
all the children took part in and raised money to
buy a bench shelter (with a little help from their
Friends!).
Summer Fayre
What a fantastic day!
Thank you to everyone involved in such a wonderful
afternoon.
Year 2 - North Somerset Music
Festival
24th June 2015
Year 2 attended the annual North Somerset music
festival this week. They look fabulous dressed up as
characters from the songs we sang!
What a lovely morning thanks to the North
Somerset Music Service and our wonderful host
school, Locking.
‘Spirit of Wells’ - Year 6 Church School Leavers’
Day 2015
Our
Year 6 children attended the ‘Spirit of Wells’
leavers’ day where they spent the day in the
beautiful grounds of Wells Cathedral.
They
took part in a range of workshops centred around
transition from Primary to Secondary School. Church
primary schools from across the region attended this
event.
Y5 trip Science Trip to Worle
On Tuesday 9th June Year 5 experienced Science
which, quite literally, made their hair stand on
end! They visited Worle Secondary school where
one of their science teachers led an hour
workshop about 'static electricity'.
There were lots of fun activities involving
balloons, water and even giving each other an
electric shock. It certainly put the spark into
Science!
Mrs Manning
Hooke Court 2015
Raft building in the sun at Hooke Court
Our children at Hooke Court this morning. (9 June
2015)
Book Sale - Year R
the
story continues.....
Following on from
the book sale article below, as you know we
raised £32 and are now sending it to a Children's
Hospice (Charlton Farm) in Weston.
We are so proud of
our youngest children.
Greatwood 2015
Beautiful morning at camp....
Book Sale - Year R
Year R were set the challenge of becoming authors.
We had to base our stories on a theme being loyalty
or power. We planned our stories and then set about
designing a front cover, title page, blurb and
actual story.
We then re-drafted our stories and then we became
publishers and wrote the stories out in pen.
We decided how much we should sell our stories for
(£1) and then set about inviting our parents in to
buy our books.
They were all very impressed with how hard we had
worked. In total we raised £32 and are planning on
sending it to a Children's Hospice (Charlton Farm)
in Weston.
