Keep up to date with all the news happening in school at the moment.

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• Pre School readers

  Tue 29 Nov 2022

  On Friday, Pre-School were very excited to welcome their grown-ups into their classroom to share reading with them.  Mrs Mayhew talked to the adults about the importance of reading with your children at home and gave some tips before sharing some of her favourite children’s authors.  She then read “Flip Flop The Penguin Who Wanted To Fly” to the children who really enjoyed it.  Even more excitingly, Mrs Mayhew then presented each child with their new Cliftonville Reading Record and their Book Trust pack which contained 2 free books and some fun activities.  Parents then read with their children.  Everyone had a lovely time and it has been great to see adults using the reading records at home with their children.   

  

• Open Day 2022

  Thu 24 Nov 2022

  We were so proud of all the children and staff today as we opened our doors to over 100 prospective families looking for a place in year R next September. They really did give our visitors a real Cliftonville welcome!

  

• Cliftonville Cultural Space- Winter festival

  Wed 23 Nov 2022

  We are delighted to be part of this amazing event. 

  Work from Cliftonville children will feature in the Christmas light show on one of the evenings - specific date to follow.

   

  Please see details below.

   

  

• Children in Need -Friday 18th November

  Wed 16 Nov 2022

  Our amazingly talented School council have organised our Children in Need Day this year

  which includes the for just (£1, that includes non-school uniform and ALL activities/competitions etc):

   

  • Non-school uniform, theme: spots (not essential, just if the children would like to) Otherwise, just normal non-school uniform.
  • ‘Scavenger hunt’ around the school playground to find all the Pudsey Bear faces scattered all over the playground (KS1 and KS2 – two different scavenger hunts!) There will be things to do once they have found the faces!
  • How many bears in the jar? – prize for the closest.
  • Design the bandana for Pudsey – There will be a large cut out of Pudsey, bandanaless...children to design a new bandana – mini prizes for each year group – judged by School Council
  • Children in Need quiz (KS1) – PowerPoint created by school council, just for fun in class
  • Children in Need quiz (KS2) - PowerPoint created by school council, just for fun in class

   

  It's going to be a great day raising lots of money and understanding how we are helping others in the process!

   

  Thank you for your support!

   

  

• Vikings come to Cliftonville

  Tue 15 Nov 2022

  Year 4 had great fun finding out what Vikings ate for breakfast. They were brave warriors eating porridge and honey while they waited for Beowulf to arrive and save them from the ferocious monster Grendel.

  

• Autumn Poetry Competition

  Fri 04 Nov 2022

  Mrs Mayhew was blown away by the number of entries to the autumn poetry competition.  She and the other members of SLT had a busy afternoon reading the brilliant entries and making the difficult decision of the winners. There were poems about hedgehogs, leaves, Halloween, fireworks and more!  There were rhyming poems, acrostic poems, short poems and long poems.  Many of them were beautifully illustrated too.  Well done to everyone who took part!  There were prizes for the winners in each key stage and all participants got a special certificate.  Keep up the super writing and look out for the next writing competition!

   

  Here are just a few of the amazing poems from children from Reception to Year 6:

  

• Performance poetry in Year 2

  Tue 01 Nov 2022

  Mrs Mayhew was very excited to be invited to 2J this afternoon to see their performance poetry. The children carved pumpkins and learnt the poem ‘5 little pumpkins’ off by heart. Well done 2J! 

  

• Thankyou Tesco!

  Tue 01 Nov 2022

  We were very excited to receive the amount of £249.48 from Tesco Extra which was raised by their generous customers via their book swap scheme this summer. Mrs Mayhew had lots of fun choosing new books to spend it on and was very excited when the 44 new books arrived. This afternoon, 2P enjoyed reading Gustavo the Shy Ghost and talked about what makes them ‘glow’.