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• Easter hat parade!

  Fri 30 Mar 2018

   

  On Wednesday the children at Cliftonville Primary School celebrated Easter by having an Easter hat parade. All the children in Reception and Key stage 1 had made fantastic hats, some of them lit up, others contained a multitude of different animals, mostly chicks, but they were all colourful and beautifully made. The children loved wearing them and enjoyed showing them to our friends from Holy Trinity Church and from the road outside our school. This year we challenged our guests to come with their Easter hat too, and we were amazed at how many did. We are very grateful for the support and interest our friends and neighbours show in the work of the school, and even more so for this event as unfortunately the Easter hat parade for the parents had to be cancelled due to the rain.

   

  Despite the disappointment of not being able to show their hats off to their parents the children enjoyed seeing what their friends had made and gave the teachers a very difficult job in judging who were the winners. It is so nice to see the school hall ablaze with colour and our Easter hats this year certainly did just that.

  

• Sport Relief raises £1039

  Wed 28 Mar 2018

  
  Children at Cliftonville Primary School had lots of fun raising money for Sport Relief on Friday.  Members of the School Council sold Sport Relief wristbands for the children to wear and the children dressed up in their best sporty gear.  Key Stage 1 children paid 50p to take part in a number of activities in the “Lunchtime Fun Hour” and Key Stage 2 classes competed in the “Shoot the hoop” competition of which class could score the most basketball goals.  The competition was very close but was won by class 3P.  The School Council also hosted a special Sport Relief themed “Bake Off” which saw an amazing 36 decorated cakes entered by children and their parents.  All the cakes were absolutely fantastic and incredibly creative meaning the School Council had a very tough job to judge the winners.  There were football, rugby, basketball and tennis ball shaped cakes; swimming pools; football pitches and many more!  School Council chose the top 3 cakes which were given as raffle prizes and the remaining cakes were sold on the playground after school as whole cakes or slices.  The cake stall was very busy and everyone was very impressed by the quality of the cakes and effort that had gone into making them.  The winning cake was made by Hope in Year 1 with Elliot and Antonina in Year 4 coming second and third.  The children’s efforts raised an incredible £1039.50 for the charity.  

  

• Pirate day in Pre-School!

  Wed 28 Mar 2018

  
  It was a fantastic day; the children enjoyed looking at pirate maps, completing a treasure hunt, making pirate cakes and playing "sharks!" The highlight was going to the main school to get our treasure back when naughty pirates Captain Blackbeard and Captain Clayson stole it! They were made to walk the plank when we brought them back to Pre-School! The sessions ended with pirate party food, before the children walked the plank to their parents at home time!

  

• Club sign up

  Thu 15 Mar 2018

   

  Please find below the link to the google form sign up for clubs.  It will be live until midday on the 21st March.  If you need any further help, please speak to Mrs Blake.

   

  https://goo.gl/forms/Q9tIssvkttmRfH552

   

• Sport Relief w/c 19th March

  Wed 07 Mar 2018

   

  Sport Relief is on Friday 23rd March this year and there will be lots of fun fundraising things happening in Cliftonville Primary School that you can get involved in.

   

  Members of the School Council will be visiting classes every afternoon during the week of Monday 19th to Friday 23rd March to sell special Sport Relief wristbands for £1 which the children will be allowed to wear in school that week.

   

  This year there will be a special Bake-Off Competition with a sporty theme where staff, parents and children can enter a decorated cake. These exciting creations will be judged by the School Council and the winning cake will be raffled off. The other entries will be on sale after school on the KS1 playground. Please bring your labelled entry to the office on the morning of Friday 23rd.

   

  There will a choice of activities for KS1 children to take part in during lunchtime on Friday 23rd including watching a film, Just Dance and colouring. They will need 50p to take part.

   

  There will also be a KS2 class “Shoot the hoop” competition on the playground that children will need 20ps if they want to take part.

   

  It will also be a non-school uniform day on Friday 23rd for a donation of £1. School Council have decided on a sporty theme.

   

  Thank you in advance for all your support.

  KS1 and KS2 School Council

• Parents' Forum minutes

  Mon 26 Feb 2018

   

  The minutes of the meeting, held last week, are now available on the website on the Parents' Forum page.   Thank you to members of the Forum and Mrs Weitzel for their continued commitment to this important group.

• £735.67 raised for NSPCC

  Mon 19 Feb 2018

   

  Following a fabulous Number Week and with your generous donations we were able to send £735.67 to the NSPCC.  Children and staffed dressed up in costumes with a number theme.  Thank you to parents, as ever, for such amazing support.

• Margate's Marble Mete-Out!

  Mon 05 Feb 2018

  Ten lucky Year 6 children from Cliftonville Primary School recently took part in an exciting joint project with Discovery Planet and Resort Studios called “Margate’s Marble Mete-Out!”.  Before Christmas, the children attended a workshop at Resort Studios where they explored the concept of regeneration and some of the politics involved.  They discussed who has the power to make decisions about Margate and who controls what money is spent on.  They then considered what they think the most important things Margate should have are and what money should be spent on.  To illustrate their decisions, they worked collaboratively to build a giant marble run with the marbles representing the money.  The marbles went through a range of exciting tubes and bowls representing aspects such as healthcare, transport and services.  Some marbles collected in a pot at the bottom and the children built a pulley system to bring the marbles back to the top and put this “money” back into the system representing taxes.  During the day, the children were visited by a STEM engineer from Kent University who helped them understand the science involved in building a marble run and also an architect from Resort Studios who specialises in town planning to give them more information about the processes involved in designing a town.  The children had a very fun day and learnt lots.  Last week, they were very proud to present their work and demonstrate the giant marble run to the rest of Key Stage 2 in a special assembly attended by Nikki and Xanthe from Discovery Planet and Dan from Resort Studios

  

• Gold award

  Tue 09 Jan 2018
  We are delighted to announce that Cliftonville Primary and Pre-School has achieved the School Games Mark GOLD Award for the 2016/17 academic year.

   

  The School Games Mark is a Government led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.

   

  Our sporting achievements this year include getting more children active than ever before in a wider range of activities. With a total of 223 children from Cliftonville Primary School competing in local inter-school competitions this year, we are extremely proud of our pupils for their dedication to all aspects of school sport, including those young volunteers, leaders and officials who made our competitions possible.

   

  As part of our application, we were asked to fulfil criteria in the areas of participation, competition, workforce and clubs, and we are pleased that the hard work of everyone at our school has been rewarded this year.

   

  A special thanks to all family, friends, staff and of course the children for an amazing year.  We look forward to applying once again in 2018! 

  

• Carol Concert

  Wed 20 Dec 2017

   

  Thank you to everyone who joined the signing choir and the pop choir at Holy Trinity Church on Monday evening.  It was a perfect mix of traditional Carols and more modern arrangements.  Thank you to the children, parents, Mrs Seemann and Mr Dunn for an amazing evening.