THE QUAINTON HERALD Issue 105 – 26th November 2021
HEADMASTER'S MESSAGE Dear Parents, It is so enjoyable that parents are now once again able to come into school to celebrate their children’s achievements and progress. There are only thirteen working days between now and the end of term and there is much to do and see! We very much look forward to welcoming you all to the various events that are taking place in the coming weeks and ask you to keep a keen eye on the Herald for details of timings and arrangements for the many events we have planned. On Monday, the Chamber Choir travelled to John Lyon to record their pieces for the Barnardo’s National Choir Competition 2022. By all accounts, they sang exceptionally well and we keep our fingers firmly crossed in the hope of making the final cut! On the theme of music, the School was thoroughly entertained on Tuesday morning with a superb violin performance by Karun K who is in the lower sixth at John Lyon. He captivated the audience with Tchaikovsky’s Chanson Triste. Following his performance, the School sang ‘Try Everything’ and we all felt collectively ‘lifted’ by the wonderful performances. Thursday brought the whole school together for the M&M production of Snow White. The children enjoy these productions and they provide a little light relief during what is a very busy term. I would like to thank Fr Mike for organising this event for the children and for helping us all get into the pantomime spirit. We ended the week with a super assembly from Year 3JC. Their performance was a wonderful insight in to the history of ‘Thanksgiving’. The assemblies take a lot of time to both plan and prepare and I thank 3JC and Ms Campion for making the end of the week so entertaining and informative. It provided us all with the opportunity to pause and reflect on all the things for which we should be thankful. Our Advent Concert will take place at Trinity Church on the evening of 10th December. This is an important date in our school calendar and I would like to remind parents that it is a compulsory event, which we expect all children in Year 3 to Year 6 to attend.
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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT News from the English Department: Huge congratulations to the following children who have been awarded Wizard Writer Certificates for their work in English and whose work can be seen displayed in the main school corridor: William, Isabelle, Rishita – Year 6 Aditi, Krish – Year 5 Lara, Zalaan – Year 4
Year 3 have written poems based on their class reader, ‘George's Marvellous Medicine’ by Roald Dahl. They needed to tap into their creative imagination to come up with a suitably disgusting potion for George's grandma to drink. The children were tasked with including interesting adjectives and verbs, onomatopoeia, alliteration and rhyming couplets in their poems. Both classes worked fantastically hard and came up with some wonderfully wacky ideas for their potion poems! Have a read of the sample we’ve included below and see if you would be brave enough to try their perilous potions!
Nieve's poem
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Tara's poem
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Aryav's poem
Tiffany's poem
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Gurtek's poem
Annabelle's poem
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CONTINUED This week, Year 4 have been busy writing descriptions of their imaginary spaceships, in response to their work on the class reader ‘Fortunately, the Milk’, by Neil Gaiman. The children explored a range of figurative language, powerful adjectives, adverbs and verbs to create some truly imaginative descriptions of their super space machines. Here are some photos of the children at work and we look forward to sharing samples of the descriptions written by the children across Year 4 in next week’s Herald.
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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CONTINUED Members of Year 5 and 6 have been studying ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ this past week. Year 6 had fun re-writing and performing some of Shakespeare’s words for a modern audience.
As part of their studies, the children also examined the story of ‘Theseus and the Minotaur’ and created story boards summarizing the key moments of this mythical tale. Here are two examples from Rishita and Isabelle, for which they were awarded their Wizard Writer Certificates.
Rishita's story board
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Isabelle's story board
STUDY SKILLS Throughout the term, Year 6 have been developing their public speaking and interview skills as part of the Study Skills syllabus. The children have really impressed the staff with both their indepth research and excellent presentation skills when delivering speeches on current affairs and key world issues. The topics we have explored include COP 26, the threat to our oceans and seas and the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic on children and young people. We are delighted to share with you a sample of the children’s work, along with photographs of some of our Year 6 delivering their speeches to the class.
Threat to our Oceans and Seas:
Veera's poster
Clara's poster
Thashini's poster Finn's poster Page 6
STUDY SKILLS CONTINUED
Rishita's poster Sanskruti's poster
Shreya's poster
Srushti's poster
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Shyam's poster
Elisa's poster
STUDY SKILLS CONTINUED COP 26:
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STUDY SKILLS CONTINUED
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STUDY SKILLS CONTINUED
We look forward to sharing additional photographs of the children ‘in action’ in next week’s Herald. Huge congratulations to Shyam, Veera, Thashini, Sanskruti, Srushti, Finn, Clara and Shreya who have been awarded Wizard Writer Certificates for their ‘Save Our Oceans’ posters.
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MATHS DEPARTMENT Year 3JC have worked on multiplication and division by 10 and 100 through a variety of independent and group activities. They have been introduced to the topic through the place value chart, which has helped them to visualise how a number's digits change value, when multiplied or divided by 10 and 100. They have practised their reasoning and communication skills using the correct mathematical vocabulary through short presentations in class and eventually have been able to write the rules for multiplication and division in their books by themselves.
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SCIENCE DEPARTMENT In Year 6, the pupils are learning about the respiratory system and the effects of smoking on our health. Smoking can cause lung disease, heart disease, certain cancers, and around 114,000 people die every year as a result of smoking-related illnesses. It was a good opportunity for our Year 6 to conduct a practical experiment and work out the human lung capacity in one minute, one day and finally, in one year.
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Sanskruti's work
ART AND DT DEPARTMENT Year 3 A huge thank you to all the parents and pupils for their kind donations for our upcoming Art competition at the RCA. If you have not yet sent the £2 donation, please would you send it in by 1st December. We are all excited and looking forward to designing our artworks in class.
Year 2 Art Year 2 drew different types of transport and coloured them in.
Aadya’s amazing drawing of land, air and sea transport
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Naavya’s colourful representation of land, sea and air transport
ART AND DT DEPARTMENT CONTINUED Year 3 DT Year 3 have looked at the Romans and have used clay to make spear heads. They used metallic paints to add some colour to their spearheads
Divyata’s, Eissa’s and Ameer’s spearheads
Zahra’s and Annabelle’s Roman spearheads
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ART AND DT DEPARTMENT CONTINUED Year 4 Year 4 have learnt to use paper cut-outs and create a Desert landscape. They cut cloud, mountain and plateau shapes and using oil pastels, they have learnt to layer.
Shivani’s colourful desert landscape
Hiya’s beautiful desert landscape filled with details
Year 5 Year 5 have designed a Tornado collage using a variety of different materials. They have used foam, felt, paper, yarn and other recycled materials.
Rian P’s amazing collage with twin tornados
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Dharsha’s Tornado collage filled with lots of details
ART AND DT DEPARTMENT CONTINUED Year 6 Year 6 have completed their STEAM toothpaste packaging project. In science, they looked at the chemicals that go into making a toothpaste and in DT they have designed the packaging.
Clara’s fruity flavoured toothpaste packaging
Lian’s lemon flavoured toothpaste carton design
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ART AND DT DEPARTMENT CONTINUED Hobby art Many pupils enjoy some quiet time during the weekends drawing and designing.
Jena’s stunning peacock
Meher enjoys spending time working with a variety of different materials during the weekend. Meher’s Clay cottage with a dog
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Jena’s Christmas inspired artwork
Aditi’s brilliant sketch
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Srushti’s beautiful pencil sketch of a rose
Zynah’s creative Origami
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Aadam A (Year 5) pencil shading of a bird.
MUSIC DEPARTMENT The music department celebrated two wonderful Autumn performances last week, where Years 3 & 4 and Years 5 & 6 showcased their learning from the first Autumn term. We also had special performances from our Chamber Choir and School Orchestra, which were supported by pupils from John Lyon School. We also had some solo and ensemble instrumental performances on violin and trumpet. They were two very special evenings, filled with excitement, energy and musical talent. Here are some images from this special event.
Years 5 & 6 performance of “Seize the Day” from the musical Newsies.
Year 6 performing “Can’t stop the feeling”
Zayd playing La “Rejouissance” on the violin
Year 5 performing “My Way”
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MUSIC DEPARTMENT CONTINUED
Aida playing “Contredanse” on the violin
Our School Orchestra playing “Can you feel the love tonight”, from The Lion King with our Director of Music Mr Huw Jones
Year 5 singing their hearts out
Adam playing “Sicilienne” on the trumpet
Our Chamber Choir
Our Chamber Choir
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MUSIC DEPARTMENT CONTINUED
Our finale for the Autumn Music Show
Karun Kapoor playing violin with Mr Huw Jones on piano
We would also like to say a big thank you to our Director of Music, Mr Huw Jones who came into school on Tuesday morning to lead on our music assembly. He brought Karun K, a pupil from John Lyon School to talk about his passion for music and the violin and they played a lovely piece of music by Tchaikovsky. It was very inspirational for our pupils from Year 3 – 6.
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YEAR 1 This week in our English lessons we have been learning about how to write instructions. The children in 1K and 1R had lots of fun using time adverbs and imperative verbs to instruct each other on how to make a jam sandwich! The best part of the lesson was definitely right at the end, when the children got to eat their tasty sandwiches!
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QUIZ - WHO AM I? This week's Quiz Huge congratulations to all the pupils who successfully guessed Angelina Jolie as the answer to last week’s quiz. Special congratulations to Ariana (3ZS) who was the first to email me with the correct answer and a certificate will be awarded to her.
One of his famous quotes “I believe that everything in life happens for a reason” .
He was born in Leimen, Germany.
He was called the youngest male who had won the Grand Slam singles champion.
He was ranked in the 11th best player in the Tennis Magazine.
He is now becoming the coach for Novak Djokovic.
Please send your answer by Monday via email to Mrs Alwaheidi at arwa.alwaheidi@edu.quaintonhall.org.uk
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UPCOMING EVENTS Year 4 Parents' Evening Year 3JC Parents' Evening U9 Football v Aldenham (Away) U9 Netball v Aldenham (Away) Year 3ZS Parents' Meeting U11 Football v Aldenham (Away) U11 Netball v Aldenham (Away) Chamber Choir Rehearsal (St George's, Headstone) John Lyon Christmas Concert (St George's, Headstone) Pantomime Trip (Dick Whittington) (Reception to Year 2) Christmas Performance (EYFS) Christmas Performance (Year 1 and Year 2) Year 5 Parents' Evening (in Old Chapel) Christmas Performance (EYFS) Christmas Performance (Year 1 and Year 2) Advent Concert (Year 3 to Year 6) (Trinity Church) FQHS Set up Secrets Room Class Parties FQHS Secret Gifts Room Christmas Fun Lunch Christmas Jumper Day Last Day of Term Half Day NO AFTERNOON MINIBUS SERVICE
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BIRTHDAYS
We wish the following children, who celebrate their birthday in the coming week, a very Happy Birthday!
Tariq E-T Nursery
Lily N Nursery
Param S Year 6
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