Our Maths in Motion club have had yet another impressive result. The club met together on Wednesday afternoon to take part in a special Maths in Motion World Maths Day competition. The children had to set up a car to run the quickest practice lap of a grand prix track. All caution was thrown to the wind as the children calculated safe speeds, then pushed up those numbers to get the car around the track as fast as possible. There were crashes and everyone had to use trial and improvement methods, but by using all the possible bits of information available they completed some very fast laps. I am pleased to say that of the 100,000 practice laps completed for this track on World Maths Day our team was placed 100th.

Mrs Weitzel: Assistant Headteacher and mathematics leader

World Book Day challenge!

Where is the wackiest place you can read?

 This term, to celebrate World Book Day, I am looking for the craziest place you can be found reading.

Get someone to take a photo and bring it into school or email to the school office

office@cliftonville.kent.sch.uk

P.S.  You have to be reading and safe!

InspiRecipes is a programme providing schools with a collection of recipes that introduce healthy foods and cooking to children and young people. Inspired by South American cuisine and the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic athletes, the InspiRecipes programme forms the basis for inspiration in the classroom, for individual, group and whole-class activities.

The Year 3 and 4 cooking club, run by Miss Powell, were lucky enough to have a visit from one of the trainers.  They made some very delicious food!

For more recipes go to....http://kentschoolsinspired.org.uk/targeted-inspired-ways/inspirecipes/

Dear Parents and Carers,

Thursday 3rd March is World Book Day. To mark the event we will be celebrating our love of books by holding some exciting book activities around the school so don’t forget to look at our website for lots of pictures of the children taking part (www.cliftonvilleprimary.co.uk).  

After the huge success of our last Scholastic Book Fair, we will be holding another; opening in the LRC from 8.20am until 8.40am on Monday 29th February until Friday 4th March and 3.10pm until 3.30pm Monday to Thursday. Thanks to National Book Tokens and lots of lovely book publishers and booksellers, each child will receive a £1 book token. When you get your book token, you can either take it to your local bookshop and swap it for one of the ten (exclusive, new and completely free) £1 World Book Day books! Or, if you’d prefer, you can use your book token to get £1 off any full price book instead (this includes the books at our Book Fair!)

This year, we have decided to give every child in the school a book voucher to spend at our Book Fair worth up to £6.00. Your child’s teacher will take them down to the fair to choose a book during school time. We will then order this at the end of the week and it should be back with us in school in no time for your child to take home.

Having asked the children at Cliftonville if they would like to dress up as their favourite book character, there was a resounding YES! Children can choose any book character they like. We would ask for a 50p donation that will be put towards new books for the school. This will also allow them entry into the school’s biggest fun run on our school field to be held over the course of the day. There are lots of wonderful activities planned to celebrate World Book Day at school this year. I am sure the children will come home telling you all about the book activities they took part in throughout the day. There will be an opportunity for them to listen to stories read by other teachers as well as share their favourite tales with children from a different class as well as our yearly World Book Day Quiz!

Yours Sincerely

Mrs Louise Wilson

(Assistant Head teacher and Literacy Leader)

Thank you to everyone who supported the NSPCC 'Number Day' fundraising.  We have sent an amazing £488.80 to the charity.

We would like to congratulate the brave families who came along to our fraction family fun challenge after school on Friday at the end of maths week. They persevered despite the rain and cold to answer nearly one hundred fraction questions about pictures in the playground. Here are some of the photos - well done to everyone who attended.

The theme for this year’s Number Day was fractions. Throughout the week leading up to Number Day the children at Cliftonville Primary School had been learning about fractions. Some had completed number investigations involving Lego, while others had used chocolate bars and pizzas to understand parts of a whole.  A fraction orienteering course challenged our older pupils to think about how we need fractions to work out amounts in everyday life.  In year 1 the children had a ½ party on Friday where everything they had was halved to share with a partner, this was really fun, with lots of laughs and smiles. As well as all the learning that went on a large amount of money was raised for the NSPCC, who organise National Number Day.

This year we were especially pleased that so many of our families got involved alongside their children using maths. We had a large group of parents playing maths games with their children and a few brave families battled it out on Friday after school to find the “Family Fraction Orienteering Champions”. The support from families is also really seen in the dressing up day where we had some amazing costumes and even a “ ½” plaited into one child’s hair.

It has been a very special week with so much learning going on – fractions are certainly fun at Cliftonville Primary School!

Thank you to everyone who brought in clothes, shoes and bags recently which raised £89.95 for school funds.

These are photos of the KS2 Christmas maths competition winners. For this competition the children had to find examples of where Roman numerals were seen in the local environment and write about them. The children found Roman numerals all over the place, including on street names,  on the clock tower, on coins, and Charlotte found some tattooed onto her dad's knuckles (they gave her birth date)! Well done to all those children who entered - the standard as usual was very high!

Well done also to the KS1 winners. The children had to spot patterns and shapes in Christmas wrapping paper and then try to design their own.