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• 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’.

  

• October half term poetry competition

  Wed 12 Oct 2022

  Over the half-term holiday we are challenging all our children to take part in our autumn poetry competition.  We would love you to write a poem on the theme of autumn. 

   

  It could be about: 

  • harvest
  • leaves falling from the trees
  • conkers, acorns and pinecones
  • animals we see in autumn
  • the evenings getting darker
  • Halloween
  • pumpkins
  • Bonfire night
  • fireworks

  It could be in any style:

  • a rhyming poem
  • an acrostic
  • a shape poem
  • a Haiku
  • a limerick
  • a Kenning

  You could have a look at https://childrens.poetryarchive.org/ to get some inspiration or ideas about how to layout your poem.  Think about the senses and try to be descriptive.

   

  Entries need to have your name and class on and be handed in to your class teacher by Friday 4^th November 2022.  There will be a special prize for each key stage.

   

  Happy writing. 

  We can’t wait to see your poems!

• PE kit reminders

  Fri 30 Sep 2022

  Just to clarify, PE kit for all children is as follows:

  • black shorts or joggers
  • white t-shirt
  • school jumper 
  • school shoes or trainers (we are not insisting on black trainers)
  • no earrings or taped earrings

   

  Thank you

• Free 30 minute phone/video consultation with an Educational Psychologist for parents

  Wed 28 Sep 2022
  

• Everyones loving Maths Whizz!

  Sun 25 Sep 2022

  https://primarysite-prod-sorted.s3.amazonaws.com/cliftonvilleprimaryschool/UploadedDocument/ec617424-39e5-4ee9-8b36-9d9a0dbe1c3a/maths-whizz.pdf

   

  We have been holding a series of parent workshops to highlight the power of Maths whizz- they have been really successful and it has been lovely to see so many parents attend and learn with their children. Thank you for your time and enthusiasm!