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• Winning Music Council are finalists

  Tue 13 Jun 2017

   

  Primary and nursery schools in Kent, Medway, Bexley and Bromley have had the chance to become music superstars with the KM Walk to School Song Contest.  We were thrilled to find out that our school is a finalist and the children, led by Mrs Seemann, have been invited to record their song professionally at a leading recording studio in Canterbury on the 22nd June.  Only 6 schools across Kent are finalists.

   

  The competition is organised by the Walk to School division of the KM Charity Team in association with Independent Music Productions (IMP) and supported by 3Rs teacher recruitment.  The prize includes up to six groups of finalists being invited into the recording studio to professionally record their track.

   

  Congratulations to the Music Council, superbly supported by Mrs Seemann, for becoming finalists!

  

• Online safety news

  Mon 12 Jun 2017

  Live.ly is a live video streaming app that allows people to broadcast videos in real time to friends or other Live.ly users.  The minimum age to use this is 13 according to Live.ly  Children of primary age should not be using this app.

   

  https://www.net-aware.org.uk/networks/lively/

   

  Children’s views

   

   

  What do children and young people say to look out for:

  46% of the children and young people who reviewed Live.ly thought that it can be risky. The main reasons they gave were:

   

  • The fact that anyone can see your content if you don’t change your settings or if you add people you don’t know
  • The fact it allows live streaming. Young people thought this was risky if people find out your location, you say inappropriate things or you share personal information.

   

   

  Why young people like it:

  The main things that young people told us they liked about this site were: 

   

  • It’s fun
  • Talking to friends

• School wins prestigious Kent award!

  Sun 21 May 2017

   

  We were excited and very proud to learn that not only did we win the Thanet 'School Team of the Year' award but we were also overall Kent winners in this prestigious category.  Five members of the senior leadership team attended an evening celebrating the best of Kent schools.  The award was presented by Geraldine Allinson, Chairman of the KM Group, and Anton Francic, Director of School Improvement for KCC.

  

• Year 3 maths workshop

  Fri 19 May 2017

   

  Thank you to all the year 3 parents who came for the maths workshop this morning. It was great to see such a long queue of people waiting for a maths session to begin. Your children loved seeing you and playing the games. We hope you enjoyed it and feel you have a greater understanding of how we teach maths at Cliftonville! Please follow this link to the resources:

   

  http://www.cliftonvilleprimary.co.uk/mathematics/

  

• School wins Thanet award

  Fri 19 May 2017

   

  Following nominations from a number of people, including parents, we have won the '2017 School Team of the Year' award for Thanet.  Staff are attending a presentation event in Maidstone tonight.   This is in recognition of the huge team effort from everyone involved in our school: children, parents & carers, staff, governors and the wider community.  Thank you for your part in our amazing achievements!

  

• Springtime maths home learning

  Mon 15 May 2017

   

  Well done to all those children who entered the Springtime maths competition. We had lots of lovely Spring themed entries, from hatching chicks to jumping rabbits and many more. My particular favourite was from Ashley, a year 6 pupil who calculated the weight of Easter eggs if all the people who live in Thanet had 3 Easter eggs each! Especially well done to the reception children who entered, it was lovely that they joined in the fun over their Easter holidays. 

   

  Mrs Weitzel

  

• Congratulations to Year 6

  Fri 12 May 2017

   

  Well done to all the amazing Year 6 children who have responded to the demands of SATs this week in such a mature and responsible way.  The careful preparation by class teachers and teaching assistants has played such an important part in helping the children do their very best.  We are so proud of you all!

  

• 5* Food Hygiene Rating re-instated

  Fri 12 May 2017

   

  As anticipated, our previously awarded 5 Hygiene Rating has been given again following an inspection last week.  You may remember that due to a very temporary problem with hot water supply to the new kitchen, we lost the rating.  The company repairing the faulty boiler was actually here, in the boiler house, when Thanet District Council (TDC) visited in May 2016 and there was never a question of not being able to serve meals with the temporary measures we had already put in place.  Frustratingly, the rules of inspection by TDC, meant that we could not be re-inspected for nearly a year and we have carried the 0 rating for all this time as a consequence.  Good news tends to spread slower than bad news, so we are keen to make sure that the school and wider community hear that the 5 rating has been re-instated again.

  

• School is world finalist in maths competition

  Fri 12 May 2017

   

  Mrs Weitzel and our Maths in Motion team were very excited to learn that we are WORLD FINALISTS this year.  A group of children will be travelling to Warwickshire next month to compete against some of the toughest teams from across the world. It is such an amazing and much-deserved reward for such a talented team of children.  We are extremely proud of them.  Mrs Weitzel is also very grateful for the support from Mr Hedges.

  

• Poet of the term: Pre-School to Year 6

  Fri 12 May 2017

   

  http://www.cliftonvilleprimary.co.uk/poetry-friendly-school/

   

  Please follow the link for the Poet of the term: KS2 and Action Rhymes for Early Years and KS1

   

  We are encouraging children to build up their repertoire of poems they can recite 'off by heart'.  Please help you child learn these at home.

   

  Mrs Wilson