The Courier

This week sees the start of children beginning to achieve full Junior da Vinci student awards. This is when a child has been awarded a mastery, practice and creativity strand in one subject.

It is a real achievement which they should be exceptionally proud of, particularly this early in the school year.

This week's students are:

• Felicity and Ria in 3SS in Mathematics
• Sam B in 6W in Music

Great work everyone!

Mrs Symons
JdV Lead

So far 100,000 words have been achieved by:

• Kiki, Jahnavi and Uma in 3LS
• Henry, Alice and now Felicity in 3SS

A great achievement.

Congratulations to all our fabulous readers:

Top Quizzers are:

• 3LS - Fernami
• 3SS - Klara
• 4C - Mithun
• 5F - Nora
• 6W - Leela

Word Wizards are:

• 3LS - Kiki
• 3SS - Eve
• 4C - Theo Mc
• 5F - Toni
• 6W - Alex T

Mrs Nelson
Teaching Assistant

Reading certificates have, this week, been awarded to:

• Alex K
• Hannah
• Jed
• Kiaan
• Mikael
• Oscar 

Well done to you all.

It is always an exciting time for the children when they gain their pen licence, enabling them to make the move from writing in pencil to pen.

For this rite of passage, the children have to show that they can write neatly and consistently in cursive, joined handwriting in all of their work, not just handwriting tasks.

The following children have shown pride in their presentation of all of their learning tasks and have been awarded a Pen Licence and their first handwriting pen.

• Anaya
• Elliott
• Florence
• Gwen 

Well done!

Well done to this week's Artistand Scientists of the Week:

Artists

• Grace 6W - Excellent observational sketches

• James 6W - Excellent understanding of proportions

• Darius 6W - A carefully observed life study of a figure in action

• Dudley 3LS - A beautifully sketched bird drawing

• Dare 3LS - A fun design idea for a print

• Thomas 4C - Excellent painting skills and lovely choice of colour

• Aryaan 5F - Effective use of complementary colours

• Barnaby 5F - Beautifully painted and lovely range of colours

Mrs Thackway
Head of Art

• Darius
• Shayla
• Oliver
• Maggie
• Sam O 

Most improved speedsters in the studio are:

5F - Matthew - Rock Hero - average speed per question- 0.95 seconds!

England Rocks closed at 19.30 Thursday 16 November - Results will follow next week. Thank you to all those who added some points to the Crescent pot.

Please note only the children should play on their account or it influences the level appropriate to them.

Stay Calm and Rock on!!