Hello everyone and welcome to another week at Copthorne. This week there will be lots of exciting activities taking place as we launch Copthorne’s Big Book Off. Please read the information below to find out more.
This week at Copthorne
Year 1 Multi-Skills Activity Afternoon
We are delighted that some of our Year 1 pupils have been chosen to participate in a multi-skills activity at Grange Technology College on Monday 2nd March. Mr H Khan will accompany the children and they will join up with other local primary school children. We hope that our children enjoy the games and have a fun time as well as getting lots of exercise.
Key Stage 2 SAT Test Meeting
The Year 6 Key Stage 2 SAT tests will very soon be upon us. I know that the staff are working extremely hard to make sure that our children will be able to achieve great results. There are a number of ways in which you too can help to support your child in attaining the best possible results. These include:
- Listening to him/her read each day and asking him/her questions about what they are reading
- Encouraging him/her, if possible, to go on Mathletics daily and complete the tasks set by his/her teacher
- Practising the times tables daily with him/her – just 5 to 10 minutes daily can be very effective.
- Ensuring that he/she goes to sleep at a reasonable time each night
In order to provide you with more information about the tests and discuss our current concerns about Year 6 pupils’ work and attitude, we are holding a very important meeting for parents on Tuesday 3rd March. Year 6 teachers and the Senior Leadership Team will be delivering the meeting. There will be two meetings, one will take place at 8.50am and one at 2.30pm. It is vital that Year 6 Parents’ attend either one of these meetings.
Year 5 Visit to Cartwright Hall
On Tuesday 3rd March, 5 Willow will visit Cartwright Hall as part of their current Copthorne curriculum topic ‘Arabian Nights’. The children will be taking part in workshops and will be involved in lots of interesting activities. 5 Cedar will have their visit on Friday 6th March 2015. I am sure the children will have a fantastic day!
Exceed Football Cup Game
Our school football team will be taking part in a cup game on Wednesday 4th March at Grange Technology College. They will be competing against Farnham Primary School. It is always lovely to see the team setting off for their games as they are so excited. Good luck Copthorne!!
Copthorne’s Big Book Off
As part of Copthorne’s Big Book Off which is taking place this week and next week, children will be involved in lots of activities designed to engage them in reading more widely and more often.The weeks include a visit from the author Andrew Newbound,who wrote the all action book ‘Demon Strike’. There will be quizzes based around children’s favourite books, a Readathon reading challenge, a book swap event,competitions and lessons which will promote your child’s love of reading. Thursday 6th March 2015 is World Book Day and we are asking all children and staff to dress up as their favourite book character and where possible bring the relevant book into school to share with children in their class. We are asking for a small donation of £2.00 towards the charity ‘Book Aid International’ which provides books to libraries, hospitals, refugee camps and schools in order to support literacy, education, training and publishing in over 40 countries predominantly in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. Please help your child to choose their favourite book character rather than film character in order to help them celebrate World Book Day.
I hope you have a fabulous week – it certainly looks as though we will!
Mrs Shepherd