Raglan Primary School
Newsletter Friday March 11th 2016
Dear Parents, Carers, Governors and Friends, This has been another very productive week at Raglan. In order to prepare the children in Year 2 and Year 6 for their end of year assessments, they have been taking practice tests this week. Every child tried their very best and we are very proud of them. Next week is the last full week before the Easter break. Friday will be a particularly busy day with a sponsored run for Sport Relief, followed by the Easter Disco! Thank you to all the parents who are able to spend some time in school supporting the children in all sorts of ways – if you are able to commit to a regular time in school, please do let us know – you’re help is really appreciated. Hope to see lots of you at the Crystal Palace Run tomorrow and also at the Scholastic Book Fair next week (details sent separately). Enjoy your weekend, Kath Margetts and Staff
Year 4 Horton Kirby Educational Visit Year 4 went to Horton Kirby as part of their Geography learning, they talked about the water cycle and then investigated the depth of the water, how fast it flowed and the size of the rocks across the riverbed. Amazing learning and great fun was had by all!
Year 6 Natural History Educational Visit As part of their learning about evolution, Year 6 recently took part in two workshops at the Natural History Museum. The children became palaeontologists for the morning, learning how to excavate and identify dinosaur fossils. The children then discovered how fossils from different periods can tell us how species adapt and evolve over time.
Bromley Mentoring
1R Family Assembly
Can you
Motivate
Can you
Encourage?
1R shared their learning about Plant Earth and Space and
Can you be
Non-judgemental?
performed their very own ‘Under
Have you
Time?
Can you be
Objective?
the Sea’ dance followed by sharing their space junk creations. Well done 1R!
Can you see yourself as a Role Model? Bromley Mentoring Initiative, part of the London Borough of Bromley, are looking for mentors. Could you give up some of your spare time to mentor a young person who attends a school in the Borough of Bromley?
Upcoming dates…
The young people range from around 9 to 16 years old and really need some extra support to help them to cope with the challenges that life throws at them.
11th March – Closing date
We would be asking you to commit to an hour a week, during the school day, attend some training we offer and complete a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
11th March – 1R Family Assembly
Young people that we help find this support very valuable and tell us how important it is to them – but we need more of you!
12th March – Crystal Palace Run, children to arrive at 9am.
If you feel you can help, have a little spare time and want to help make a difference, please contact us.
for R-Factor entries
Jane Belding
w/c 14th March – Scholastic Book Fair in
Programme Leader, Mentoring
school – middle hall
[email protected]
R-Factor heats in individual classrooms
Tel:
020 8461 6240
BYMT Bromley Youth Music Trust will be participating in this year’s NATIONAL LEARN TO PLAY DAY on Saturday 12th March 2016. This is an opportunity for pupils and parents to come in to the Music Centre, try all the instruments, talk to the music teachers and see all the music opportunities that Bromley children can partake in. BYMT will be open on Saturday 12th March, from 10.00am – 1.00pm and everyone is welcome to come by at any time.
16th March – School Photographs (class, individual and siblings) 18th March –
Easter Disco Sport Relief Year 4K Family Assembly
24th March – 9th Annual RFactor Last day of term 26th March – Friends of Whitehall Rec – Easter
Donation of good quality books! If you do have any unwanted books, in good condition, for our library, please send them in! Thank you for all of your donations so far.
Egg Hunt 2-4pm 4TH April – Green Gym Launch at Whitehall Rec 11am-2pm
Sport Relief On Friday March 18th Raglan will be holding a sponsored run in the playground. A separate letter will follow with more information about this.
24th March Please be aware that the school will close at the normal time on
Banners With so many exciting things happening last week we judged the banner competition earlier than advertised. Therefore, we have re-judged and have two additional winners. Emily Sojka-Lewis in RS and Amelia Turner in 1MR.
Thursday 24th March. This is the last day before the Easter break.
Amelia Turner
Emily Sojka-Lewis
Football Results
Crystal Palace Run Mrs Dumper hopes to see you at the Crystal Palace Run on Saturday at 9am. Look out for the Raglan Flag and good luck to everyone competing.
The boys’ team played St Mary’s Beckenham. The score was 2-0 in favour of St Mary’s. The girls’ team played against Edgebury and it was a draw, 0-0. The girls’ next match is Friday 11th March against Southborough and the boys’ next match is on Wednesday 16th March.
Walk on Wednesday This scheme aims to reduce traffic congestion at peak times and help improve the health and fitness of pupils within Bromley. WoW encourages children and their parents not to use their cars for one day of the week as part of their school's travel plan. We encourage children to walk once a week - or more. Where the child lives too far from the school to walk the whole way, we would encourage pupils to park a distance away from the school and stride the rest of the way. Every year the scheme chooses a theme for the badges, this year the badges are all to do with Nature. Every month the children can collect a badge if they have walked to school at least one day. This month the badge is… a Badger! The children that walk with Mr Rob are able to collect their badges early but all children who walk to school can ask their class teacher for a badge. Mr Rob is in Whitehall Rec every Wednesday morning at 8.30.
