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IMPORTANT DIARY DATES
Wed 25th—Fri 27th April—Y5 Residential
Fri 27th April Year 4 Swimming (to make up for cancelled session)
Tues 1st May—Year 4 L’pool Museum
Week beginning
Mon 14th May Y6 SATS
Fri 18th May—Y6 1st Aid training
Thurs 24th May—Author Visit
Thurs 24th May—School Discos
Fri 25th May—Cake Sale Yrs2 & 3 to bake please
Fri 25th May—school closes for half term
Thurs 7th June—Hindu Assembly /workshop
Mon 18th & Tues 19th June Chester Zoo Project Exhibition
Fri 8th June- Sat 9th June Y2 Residential
Mon 25th June –pm
Sports Day
Tues 26th June—Oak Class trip to Manchester Airport
Wed 27th June—Y5 trip to Holly Brook Farm
Wed 27th—Fri 29th June Y6 Residential
Mon 2nd July—Fri 6th July Y5 Bikeability
Thurs 5th July—Whole school transition day
Fri 6th July Summer
Fayre
Tues 17th & Wed 18th July Y6 End of Year Performance
Thurs 19th July Y6 Bowling
Fri 20th July—Leavers Assembly @ 9.30am

CHILDER THORNTON PRIMARY SCHOOL

20th April 2018

CLUBS
After school clubs will start for the summer term on Monday 23rd April. You should have received notification of whether your child has been allocated a place or not—please contact the office if you’re unsure.
We know that there will be some children who are disappointed—we have had an incredibly high number of applications and unfortunately we can not accommodate everyone. Please be assured that we have allocated places fairly—splitting the term into 2 groups or using a random number generator for clubs that have been over subscribed.

CROSS COUNTRY FINALS
The Ellesmere Port & Neston schools Cross-country final is this Saturday! The event will be at Our Lady, Star of the Sea Primary School in Ellesmere Port. The first race starts at 10am. Please feel free to arrive from 9.30am. There will be a race briefing at 09:55. The event is FREE to all those taking part; just turn up and race! As usual there will be four races (year 3&4 girls, year 3&4 boys, year 5&6 girls, year 5&6 boys) followed by a much shorter 'fun dash' for younger children who have come along to support their brothers and sisters. As this is the Grand Final there is also a team prize for the schools. In each race the top three finishers for each school will be recorded. The school with the top 3 finishers in each race will get the team prize. All children are welcome to come and race. You do not have to have raced in a previous race to take part this weekend. Good luck!

FRIDAY 20th JULY
We will be holding our Y6 Leavers Assembly at 9.30 am on Friday 20th July. School will be closing for the summer break at 3pm.
WISE OWLS WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE AFTER SCHOOL ON THIS DATE—PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE NOTIFIED GRANDPARENTS, CHILDMINDERS ETC. Thank you

CONTACT DETAILS
We would like to remind parents to ensure that the school office is kept informed of any changes to contact details: email, home/work/mobile numbers and home address. School needs to ensure that we can contact parents at all times and that you are receiving text messages, emails to keep you informed of school events etc.

20th April 2018

ACORN CLASS (Nursery)

Welcome back everyone! We have had such an exciting week! The children have really enjoyed our work all about the rainforests and orang-utans. On Monday a Safari Ranger came in to tell us all about the different creatures that live in the rainforest and even brought some of the creatures for us to see! We have also been drawing and labelling pictures of orang-utans and some of us have started making a big modroc orang-utan.

OAK CLASS (Reception)

Oak Class had a wonderful time at Chester Zoo this week. They have written some brilliant descriptions of the orangutans that they saw. They have also been discussing symmetrical patterns and found out that a butterfly has symmetrical wings. They then painted their own butterflies.

20th April 2018

MAPLE CLASS (Year 1)

Year 1 thoroughly enjoyed their trip to the zoo and finding out why orangutans are endangered in Borneo and Sumatra. They learned that rainforests are being destroyed to make way for palm oil plantations. This week we have begun writing “The Story of Palm Oil”, finding out why it is in high demand and then writing an information leaflet. Ask your child how palm fruit is turned into palm oil and how it ends up in lots of items in our grocery shopping bags!

WILLOW CLASS (Year 2)

This week, we have been really inspired to become young conservationists.
We were shocked and saddened to hear about what was happening to the orangutans because of the palm oil plantations and it has made us determined to help. We have written some thoughtful questions and poetry and are excited to continue this journey. In maths, we have been working on learning and describing the properties of different 2D shapes.

20th April 2018

SYCAMORE CLASS (Year 3)

All children in Year 3 have been so passionate about the issues that palm oil plantations can create and the impact this has on orangutans. Since our inspiring trip to the zoo, we have had many in-depth and interesting conversations and debates about the issue. Lots of children have even completed extra work after school to raise awareness of this problem! We can’t wait to spread awareness even more!
Well done Year 3!

BEECH CLASS (Year 4)

What an exciting first week back we've had! We have started looking at David Attenborough's choice of language to help inspire our non-fiction writing which the children will then use to create videos about orangutans and the palm oil crisis. They have also been busy researching and adding information to their own journals. The children have all been absolute stars and I am so pleased with how enthusiastic they have been about our new topic. Lots of children have told me that they will be going away this weekend to make youtube videos, create websites and posters to help spread the world and make a difference. Well done!

20th April 2018

HOLLY CLASS (Year 5)

We have had a fabulous week beginning to learn about endangered animals and palm oil. We have been writing poetry using prepositional phrases, personification and alliteration to describe the feelings of a lone orangutan. I have been really impressed with the level of interest from the class and the fact some children continued this learning at home. Well done!

CHESTNUT CLASS (Year 6)

This has been a very exciting week for Chestnut Class! As well as the enthusiastic start to our whole school project and some lovely buddy time at the zoo, the children experienced two successes. The first was learning that they had won the national LitFilmFest competition for the month of March with their scary trailers.
The second was that Paul Pomroy (CEO of McDonald’s UK) sent each child a letter telling them how he planned to make changes to the company’s straw distribution after reading the letters they sent last month. We are so excited about the response - it really shows our children can make a difference!
(Copy of the letter from MacDonald’s attached to the newsletter)

20th April 2018

CELEBRATION ASSEMBLY

The following children shared their achievements in Celebration Assembly today:
Lilly Chesters—Cheshire Hike
Joseph Singer—Football
Tom Auld—Football
Arthur Palmer—Football
Daisy Farrell—Gymnastics
Adam Davies—Swimming
Elsie Lynch—Horse Riding
Rhys Williams—Football
Maisy Rogers—Swimming
Ella Hims—Cross Country
We look forward to seeing more certificates and medals next term.
This week 3 classes will share the Owl trophy—great start to the term!
Well done to Oak, Sycamore and Holly classes.

ATTACHMENTS:
Letter received from MacDonalds
West Cheshire Athletic Club details
Children & Young Peoples Out of Hours Advice Line