South Milford Moments
Weekly news Friday 22.11.19
PTA
:: Christmas Fair and Raffle Tickets:
Please don’t forget to return any completed raffle ticket stubs and money to the school before 8pm today (Friday) in order to be entered into our fantastic prize draw.
The Christmas Fair is 6pm-8pm and we have some brilliant stalls this year so please come along and start your Christmas shopping with us.
We also have a number of stalls where all proceeds will go towards our fundraising drive to buy new Chromebooks for the children, including pre-loved books and Christmas jumpers; lovely handmade Christmas decorations and gifts; Christmas plate decorating; a cosmetics tombola with top-brand make-up; and a café.
:: KS2 Christmas Film Night – Monday 16th December:
KS2 children are invited to our festive film and pizza night, where we will be showing Home Alone in the hall after school.
Tickets on sale soon.
:: EYFS and KS1 Christmas Disco and Party – Tuesday 17th December:
DJ Field will return to host our fantastic after-school party for the younger children. All children attending will be provided with a hot dog and a drink.
Tickets on sale soon.
:: Dates for your diary:
Friday 22nd November, 6-8pm – Christmas Fair – join us at school for an evening of shopping, Santa and festive refreshments;
Friday 13th December - Christmas Pound Shop - please donate any unused gifts;
Monday 16th December – KS2 Christmas Film and Pizza Night;
Tuesday 17th December – EYFS and KS1 Christmas Disco and Party.
Contact the PTA at southmilfordpta@outlook.com or on Facebook @SouthMilfordPTA
Year 2 Class Assembly
Maths Homework - Year 1 and 2
I’m delighted to inform you about a new online platform that we’re using to support your child in Maths. The creators of Times Tables Rock Stars have produced a platform for boosting addition and subtraction skills, called NumBots.
NumBots is an online game which is playable at play.numbots.com. We would encourage your child to play regularly, five times a week, as playing little and often will significantly improve their recall and understanding. The game will help to develop the critical foundations of number bonds, addition and subtraction facts.
The children have been shown how to login and have a username label in the front of their homework book. They might need some help navigating to the website and entering the details but once they’re in, they just need some quiet space to get on with the games for 5 minutes each day. Please don’t allow siblings, friends or family to answer questions for them, as the programme adjusts for each child but do support your child if they’re stuck. This is currently only available online, however an app will be released shortly.
Please ask your child’s teacher if they are struggling to login. There are two game types:
1. Story Mode – where the emphasis is on learning the ideas and concepts behind addition and subtraction so it features more diagrams, shapes and question styles.
2. Challenge Mode – the emphasis is more on speed of recall of key facts, like number bonds to 10, doubling small numbers or adding & taking away in your head.
Please let your child’s teacher know if you have any questions or comments.
WW1 Visitor
Swimming Gala
A big congratulations to our team of 8 year 5/6 swimmers (Dylan, Thom, Jakub, Charlie, Gracie, Ava, Maisie and Scarlett).
Overall the children won four out of eight races and they showed incredible support when cheering on their team mates.
The scores are as follows:
Athelstan: 6th
Kirk Fenton: 5th
Sherburn Hungate: 4th
Saxton: 3rd
Barkston Ash: 2nd
South Milford: 1st
Reception Trip into the Woods
Year 4 Trip
Christmas Lights Switch On
This Sunday, 24th November, the Young Voices choir are excited to be performing at South Milford’s Christmas Light Switch On. Please come and support us from 4pm at the British Legion and wrap up warm as it is very likely we will be performing outside.
Young Voices Practise
Although the event is after Christmas, Young Voices is quickly approaching and there are lots of words to learn, as well as the dances! The children can access all the videos and lyric videos on the ‘Children’s Music Room’ on the Young Voices website so please keep practising at home! The password is:
YV2020
School Meals
On Thursday 28th November we are having a Yorkshire Burger Day at lunchtime. The menu will be: beef burger - made from the highest quality beef from our North Yorkshire farms OR homemade sweet potato and chickpea burger. All served with a homemade bun, fries and veggie sticks. A homemade warm chocolate crinkle cookie with ice cream will be served for dessert.
Dates for your diary
Winning Team
This week's Shining Stars
We celebrated the following children this week in Celebration Assembly:
YR - Georgia
Y1 - Nathaniel
Y2 - Class 2
Y3 - Emilia
Y4 - Olivia
Y5 - Seth
Y6 - Lydia
South Milford Primary School
Mrs Lawrence
Email: admin@sm.starmat.uk
Website: http://www.southmilfordprimary.co.uk
Location: South Milford Community Primary School, Sand Lane, South Milford, Leeds, UK
Phone: 01977 682359
Twitter: @southmilfordcp