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Newsletter Issue 8 — 4th November 2016  

WE STILL HAVE A PARENT GOVERNOR SPACE TO FILL

If you are interested in joining our Governing Body, we would be delighted to work with you. A Parent Governor adds an incredibly valuable dimension to our team. If you have any queries or would simply like to find out more, please do not hesitate to contact James Kenyon, Sheena Smith or Colette Whittle: by phone on 020 8527 6876; via the school email address — [email protected] or in person in the playground before or after school. We would be more than happy to talk through the role with you and to give you an idea of the sort of time commitment it would require. Many thanks in advance. THE CEJA FAMILY WELCOMES A NEW MEMBER! We are delighted to announce that Mrs Crowther-Smith and her husband (along with new big brother, Rowan) welcomed their second son, Rahul Sebastian (earlier than planned and weighing 5lb and 10oz), on Thursday 20th October at 9.54am. The family are all doing well and are very much enjoying this special time together. We wish them lots of love. BAGS OF HELP REMINDER The voting window is now open at local Tesco stores. You only have until Sunday 13th November to help secure us the top prize of £12,000 which we will use to improve our playground for the children. Thank you in advance for your support. We will keep you updated. YEAR 6 RESIDENTIAL AUTUMN 2017  As I'm sure you've heard, the Year 6 children returned from their residential trip, full of exciting stories about staying away from home and completing amazing outdoor challenges. Well, now it's time for the Year 5 children to start looking ahead to their turn. Next year's Year 6 residential will take place during the first half term of the year, so we will need to start booking places before the end of this term. Mr. Henson will be hosting a meeting next week about the trip with all the information you will need. There will be two meeting times to try to make it as easy as possible for you to attend with your children so that you can get excited together.  Thursday 10th November at 8:30am in the school hall Thursday 10th November at 5:30pm in the school hall.

PLEASE LEND US YOUR VIEW I would like to ask parents who have not yet completed Parent View in this academic year, 2016/2017, to support us by logging onto Parent View and completing the electronic questionnaire. Parent View gives you the chance to tell us and Ofsted what you think about our school. It asks for your opinion on 12 aspects of your child’s school, from the quality of teaching to dealing with bullying and poor behaviour. If you have completed Parent View in previous years, please complete it again to reflect your current feelings. Help completing Parent View You can complete the survey by logging on to: http://parentview.ofsted.gov.uk/ or by clicking on the icon on our website http://www.chapelendacademy.org/ A screencast/short video demonstrating how to register and complete a survey on Parent View is available if you click on ‘How to use Parent View’. Alternatively; please ask a member of staff to help you. The more parents who complete it, the more helpful the survey will be. Thank you in advance for your time. Yours truly, James Kenyon Headteacher

YEAR 3 FLU VACCINE Year 3 vaccination consent forms need to be handed back to school by Monday 7th November at the latest. Thank you in advance. TUPPERWARE AND DISHES TO BE CLAIMED If you kindly donated a dish for the International Evening and are still waiting to be reunited with your Tupperware or dish, please do pop into the office by Tuesday 8th November to collect it. If you unable to drop by, please call us and give us a description of your item and we will ensure that it goes home with your child. Many thanks again for all your delicious food donations. Without them, we wouldn’t have had the wonderful evening we did. We are very grateful. OUR COMPOSER OF THE MONTH Our composer of the month is Schubert. The children will be listening to his music and learning about his life during November.

REMEMBER, REMEMBER THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER We would like to wish everyone participating in local or home firework displays this weekend an enjoyable and, most importantly, safe celebration.

MRS WHITTLE’S FABULOUS FLAG QUIZ ANSWERS

 

This year, community members were invited not only to identify the flag, but also the capital city in our epic International Evening Quiz. We proudly announce that the winner is: Alex (6LJ) There were, however, three runners-up who deserve a mention as they were only one point behind: Amelia (6LJ), Aaryan (4TA) and Mazin (3CT). Thank you to all those who participated in this colossal quiz! Country 

Number and Capital 

Country 

Number 

Venezuela 

5 Caracas 

Cyprus 

17 Nicosia 

Dominican Republic 

6 Santa Domingo 

India 

20 New Delhi 

Panama 

21 Panama City 

Ireland 

4 Dublin 

USA 

18 Washington D C 

Portugal 

29 Lisbon 

Spain 

48 Madrid 

Poland 

59 Warsaw 

Switzerland 

54 Bern 

Japan 

56 Tokyo 

Turkey 

55 Ankara 

Seychelles 

50 Victoria 

Angola 

25 Luanda 

Kenya 

42 Nairobi 

Philippines 

27 Manila 

Kuwait 

34 Kuwait City 

Colombia 

28 Bogota 

Lithuania 

7 Vilnius 

Ghana 

60 Accra 

Estonia 

23 Tallinn 

Tonga 

44 Nuku’alofa 

Afghanistan 

58 Kabul 

Vietnam 

36 Hanoi 

New Zealand 

35 Wellington 

Wales 

32 Cardiff 

Pakistan 

62 Islamabad 

Nepal 

1 Kathmandu 

Belarus 

52 Minsk 

Greenland 

3 Nuuk 

South Africa 

19 Pretoria/ Cape Town 

Barbados 

`12 Bridgetown 

France 

51 Paris 

Albania 

14 Tirana 

Denmark 

16 Copenhagen 

Guyana 

15 Georgetown 

Mauritius 

40 Port Louis 

Italy 

26 Rome 

American Samoa 

10 Apia 

Jamaica 

30 Kingston 

Trinidad & Tobago 

41 Port of Spain 

Holland 

53 Amsterdam 

China 

9 Beijing 

Hungary 

57 Budapest 

Bulgaria 

38 Sofia 

St Vincent & The Grenadines 

61 Kingstown 

Saudi Arabia 

43 Riyadh 

United Kingdom 

47 London 

Eritrea 

45 Asmara 

Antigua 

39 St Johns 

Surinam 

46 Paramaribo 

Somalia 

33 Mogadishu 

Indonesia 

13 Jakarta 

Fiji 

37 Suva 

Argentina 

22 Buenos Aires 

Australia 

31 Canberra 

Lebanon 

24 Beirut 

Tanzania 

2 Dodoma 

Algeria 

49 Algeria 

Sri Lanka 

8 Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte 

Vatican City 

11 Vatican City 

MR TRUCKFIELD’S GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUIZ ANSWERS The winners were Alfie in 3CT and Bob/Derek in 5OA. Please see Mr Trunkfield for your prize! Mr Trunkfield would like to make a special mention for Joshua (and Carol) who provided some of the funniest answers he had ever seen in a quiz! Thank you for being such good sports and helping to entertain the Quiz Master! 1 

Where would you find the Sea of Tranquility? 

The Moon

2 

Which word goes before vest, beans and quartet? 

  String

3 

Name the world's biggest island. 

  Greenland

4 

What is the capital city of Spain? 

  Madrid 

5 

Which four British cities have underground rail systems?  

Liverpool, Glasgow, Newcastle and London  

6 

Where would you find the world's most ancient forest?  

Daintree Forest, north of Cairns, Australia  

7 

Which is the world's longest river? 

Amazon  

8 

Who played Neo in The Matrix?  

Keanu Reeves  

9 

What colour jersey is worn by the winner of each stage of the Tour De France?  

Yellow 

10 

Name the only footballer to have played for Liverpool, Everton, Manchester City and Manchester United.  

Peter Beardsley 

11 

Name all of Homer Simpson’s children. 

Bart, Lisa and Maggie 

12 

Who was Henry VIII's first wife? 

Catherine of Aragon 

13 

Complete the song title from Disney’s Frozen:

go 

14 

“Let it……………..”  Which BBC music programme was broadcast weekly between 1964 and 2006? 

Top of the Pops 

15 

Who had an encounter with the three bears? 

Goldilocks 

16 

Who painted the Mona Lisa? 

Leonardo Da Vinci  

17 

In which town do the Flintstones live? 

Bedrock 

18 

Name the last four actors to play the Doctor in Doctor Who. 

Peter Calpaldi, Matt Smith, David Tennant and Christopher Eccleston 

19 

Sculptures of which animals lie at the base of Nelson’s column? 

Lions 

20 

Complete this riddle: Mary’s mother has five children. They are called Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and……….? 

Mary 

YEAR 3 NEWS   This week in Year 3, we have started exploring legends in our English work. A legend usually includes an element of truth, or is based on historic facts, but with ‘mythical qualities’. Legends usually involved heroic characters or fantastic places and often represent the beliefs of the culture from which they originate. We read the legend of George and the Dragon and one of the Robin Hood stories. We then looked at the features of a legend so that we could write our own version of a legend in a couple of weeks’ time. Year 3 has also been sent home with flu jab letters. Please read the letter, complete and return it by Monday 7th November. Many thanks. YEAR 4 NEWS This week, we have been writing haiku, which are traditional Japanese poems with a very special structure based on the number of syllables in each line. This poem is an example of a haiku, written by a famous poet Japanese poet named Natsume Soseki. A haiku consists of three lines with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern. The first line of the haiku has five syllables, the second, seven syllables and the third, Cats eyes shine so bright five. Following this structure, In the dark they look creepy we wrote our own haiku based Yet still they are cute!  on summer and other themes such as pets and sweets!

Over the wintry forest, winds howl in rage with no leaves to blow. 

Here is an example by Maram Amraoui, 4TA. YEAR 5 NEWS Year 5 has had a fantastic first week back at school. We have started our brand new IPC topic Mission to Mars which links in perfectly with our Science topic Earth and Space. The teachers have been so impressed with the children’s knowledge – we have some budding astronomers in Year 5 already! We kicked off our topic with a lovely art activity where the children used different art materials to depict their understanding of our solar system. The children and teachers alike cannot wait to get stuck into the topic, and we are all particularly excited about our trip to the Planetarium. YEAR 6 NEWS In Year 6 this week, we have started reading our new novel for this half term, Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian. The story is set during World War II and features a boy who is evacuated from Blitz-hit London to the countryside. The children have been learning a little bit about the lives of evacuees and practising their reading skills. We have concluded our Murder Mystery Investigation in Science and used the Explain Everything app on the iPads to describe some of the key scientific processes we used to solve the mystery. Unfortunately, the finger of suspicion has pointed towards several members of the Year 6 teaching staff! The jury is still out...

STARS OF THE WEEK Demari and Edward (3MT), Christina (3SI), Dylan (3CT) Nidah (4TA), Mason (4RG), Josh (4CA) Gaia (5DP), Desire (5OA), Zara (5TN), Grace (5DJ), Mustapha (5CD) Myrelle (6MH), Roseanna (6LJ), Melanie (6SC) NEXT WEEK, THE GRAMMAR FOCUS WILL BE CONJUNCTIONS Please talk about conjunctions with your children this week. http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Flash.aspx?b=english/ language_structure http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/english/spelling_grammar/ sentences/play/ http://www.stmgtmry.bham.sch.uk/index.php/shpag/216connective-blockbuster-game IMPORTANT DATES Thursday 10th November - 3MT Class Assembly Wednesday 16th November - Year 3 Science Museum Trip Thursday 17th November – 5DP Class Assembly Thursday 24th November – 4TA Class Assembly

TIMES TABLE OF THE WEEK - 9x

Monday 5th December, 9.00am – Music Concert Thursday 8th December - 5OA Planetarium Trip Wednesday 14th December - Dick Whittington pantomime Thursday 15th December – 5DP Planetarium Trip Friday 16th December – 5CD Planetarium Trip Monday 19th December – 5TN and 5DJ Planetarium Trip Tuesday 20th December, 9.30am – Year 3 Nativity (Parents and Carers invited) Tuesday 20th December, 2.30pm – Carol Concert (Parents and Carers invited) Wednesday 21st December, 2.30pm – Last Day of Autumn Term Wednesday 4th January 2017 – School Resumes

OUR LIFE VALUE FOCUS NEXT WEEK WILL BE

ATTENDANCE CONGRATULATIONS

FORGIVENESS

Third place with 98.8% is 3CT

First place with 100% is 5TN Second place with 99.3% is 6SC Overall attendance is 96.6% The class with the fewest late marks is also 6SC.

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