Upcoming Changes to After School Clubs 

Please be aware we have some upcoming changes to our After School Club provision due to staff training: 

Monday 16th & Tuesday 17th June 2025 - NO CHILL TIME KLUB or CHOIR 

All children must be collected at the usual time of 3.20pm

Ball Skills and Gardening Club will continue to run on Tuesday 17th, however all children must be collected at 4pm. 

CTK Buddy Bench 

In a recent meeting our school councillors proposed the idea of a 'buddy bench.' 

They decided that it would be a good idea to have a bench in our playground that children can sit on if they ever feel lonely or have no-one to play with - it shows the adults and all of the other children that a child is in need of a friend or a 'buddy'.  

The school councillors will be on hand daily to help anyone sitting on the bench to find a friend to talk to or play with. 

Buddy benches are instrumental in teaching children valuable social skills; promoting understanding, patience and the ability to recognise and respond to the needs of others. We are grateful to the school council for coming up with this great initiative. 

School Carpark 

As you know, children in Years 3, 4 & 5 leave the building through our car park at the end of the school day. 

We would like to take this opportunity to politely ask parents to ensure younger children, who may be waiting with them in the car park, are supervised and not being allowed to run in between the parked cars, or ride scooter and bikes around near vehicles. 

We have recently had reports of damage to cars caused by this, which as you can imagine is upsetting for our staff and visitors. 

We look forward to seeing this issue resolved and thank parents for their support with this. 

Family Hub Navigators 

At next Friday's Coffee Morning (Friday 20th June) we will be joined by members of the Bristol Family Hubs Team. 

The team will be in to offer signposting support to families across a range of areas including debt advice, food support, school applications, SEN support and more! 

If you would like to pop along and see them, Coffee Morning will be running from 9.00 - 9.30am as usual - please come along! 

Welcome to the 'Pods' 

You may have heard from your children recently that there's been lots of building work going on around school over the last few terms. 

The works are very nearly complete, but our brand new 'pods' are now up and running! 

Our Room 4 pod is a new work space that will be used for learning and meetings throughout the school day. Some children have already had chance to use the space, for their Times Table and Phonics Checks...

Our Room 7 Pod is a more relaxed space. 

As well as being a great extention to Chill Time Klub space, the room will also be used to support pupil wellbeing, as a space for them to use should they need to calm down, have some breathing space, or seek support from adults. 

Awards & celebrations

If your child has received a Head Teachers award this week, you are welcome to join us for Celebration Assesmbly on Monday to help them celebrate as they are awarded their certificate. Please arrive at school at 2.40pm ready for assembly to start at 2.45pm 

Reception 

Tendai - for joining in and trying hard with body percussion activities.

Ayda B - for trying her first school dinner. We are proud of you for trying new things - well done!

Year 1

Jesse - For making a fantastic start at CTK.  You are polite, well-behaved and have already made lots of new friends. You are a superstar, well done! 

Year 2

Esme  - for consistently doing her best in lessons and thinking about how she can improve her work 

Year 3

Karson - for making such a fantastic start at CTK. You’ve made lots of new friends and are already setting a great example. Well done! 

Daniella - for being such an excellent role model across the board. Well done for your fantastic attitude towards learning, curiosity, kindness and hard work.

Year 4

Evie - for swimming without armbands for the first time at this week’s lesson! What an amazing achievement Evie! Well done! 

Year 5

Tyrone - for being a fantastic role model. You always try your best with your learning and are kind and helpful to your classmates and teachers. 

Frankie - for writing a fantastic poem based on Talking Turkeys. You thought carefully about how to make it about plastic waste, whilst including the rhythm and structure of the original poem.  

Year 6

Ralf & Ivan - for writing effective formal letters using the appropriate tone and vocabulary 

NURSERY CLASS NEWS

Week two of the final term and all our children have certainly found their feet. If you walk past the nursery during the day, you'll probably hear lots of happy screams and giggles from all of our children. Their combined noise is something that cannot be missed. 

Monday saw the children doing a pinwheel craft, that challenged their fine motor skills and gave them huge senses of accomplishment afterwards. Their beaming faces were wonderful to see. 

They have been doing lots of maths and investigation work this week. Outside the children have had bottles and cardboard tubes attached to string. All week they have been pushing and pulling the items along the string to see how fast they can move. Each time they challenged themselves to make the items go faster, or race others. 

Pre-nursery have been looking at numbers 1 and 2. They organised lots of manipulatives into the correct numberblock buckets and have been showing Mrs Sofia lots of versions of one and two in their small group work. 

Wednesday's PE lessons saw two groups. One used their hand-eye coordination to shoot balls into different hoops, some on the floor, some were basketball hoops. The other group went onto the grass in the big playground and learned how to play tag. By the end of the session, they grasped the concept of the 'it' person changing with each tag.

In between all this work, the children have been exploring different crafts, the bible story of Paul and learning new songs. Their current song to learn is 'My Lighthouse'. Miss Dale is teaching them the simpler actions to the song in class. 

With only five weeks left of the school year, lots of changes and transition work is happening within the nursery to prepare the children. Our nursery children who are moving into various reception classes have had information packs go home this week and will start having transition sessions over the coming weeks too. They have also had phase 1 reading books to take home to help them learn responsibility for school books and reading at home, but also lessen the transition into reception for September too. More information will follow as to any upcoming transitions too.

It was Nathan's birthday this week and despite the rain, it was a lovely day. Everyone appreciated the cake he brought in to share, and they all sand him happy birthday before he blew out the candles. 

We hope you have a lovely weekend, 

Miss Dale and The Nursery Team