THE QUAINTON HERALD Issue 109 – 21st January 2022
HEADMASTER'S MESSAGE Dear Parents, We continue to monitor the cases of Covid within the School and take advice from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). Year 5 has had a minor outbreak and we have taken precautions to limit the spread. I request that any child showing symptoms does not come into school prior to taking a PCR test with a negative result. The advice from UKHSA is to continue to offer face-to-face education unless the child is required to isolate. Schoolwork will be provided to those children isolating due to Covid, but completion of the work will not be compulsory if the child is feeling unwell. Please accept that the work may take the staff a short time to collate due to their daily teaching commitments. Sport continues and we have had mixed fortune this week with the girls’ football. Radlett proved too strong for us last Friday, but we fared better against St Christopher’s with two out of the three teams winning. I look forward to the Swimming Gala and other events taking place next week. Miss Theodore-Elliott (Evie) will be leaving the Nursery at the end of the month as she starts her new career as an English teacher in South Korea. This is an exciting move for Evie and we wish her all the best for the future. Evie’s infectious smile and bubbly personality will be missed; all the best.
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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT News from the English Department: This week we are delighted to share the work some of the Year 5 children have completed as part of their Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ studies. As well as using rhyming couplets, as part of a storyboard, detailing the main events in The Bard’s life, the children have been examining Shakespearean sonnets. Working in small groups, they have written their own modern day sonnets using the same fourteen line and iambic pentameter form used by the playwright. Iambic pentameter is a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (stressed syllable) eg ‘Two households, both alike in dignity’. (Romeo and Juliet)
Aadam, Siddarth and Ethan's sonnet
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Anoushka, Arushi and Zynah's sonnet
Aida and Aditi's sonnet
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CONTINUED
Aida's storyboard
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Zayd's storyboard
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CONTINUED In addition, in Year 5, the children have written poems about WWII and the experience of children evacuated from their homes during The Blitz. Congratulations to Charan and Aymen, who both received Wizard Writer Awards for their work. We look forward to sharing more of the children’s poems with you in next week’s edition.
Amirah's poem
Caylan's poem
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Aymen's poem
Charan's poem
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CONTINUED Year 4 have completed their ‘fantastical stories’ about why they were late for school! The children used the work of Neil Gaiman in their class reader, ‘Fortunately, the Milk’ as inspiration to write strange and imaginative ‘silly stories’.
Riyan's silly story
Krish's silly story
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Ottilie's silly story
Saif's silly story
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT CONTINUED A reminder of our upcoming online author event that will take place next week. On Wednesday 26th January, Years 3 to 6 will be joining other schools for an online event with AMY SPARKES, hosted by Chiltern Bookshops. Amy will talk about her two children’s books THE HOUSE AT THE EDGE OF MAGIC AND THE TOWER AT THE END OF TIME.
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MATHS DEPARTMENT Pupils worked in pairs on comparing numbers to the hundreds place. They rolled a dice to determine place values and then compared the numbers with each other.
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SCIENCE DEPARTMENT In Year 6, we learnt about the Human Life-Cycle. The lesson covered stages of development in the foetus, fertilisation and the effects of drugs and alcohol on the foetus. Pupils learnt key words, understood timelines for foetal development and watched an engaging video clip on the stages of pregnancy. We finished our lesson with an educational board game where pupils reinforced their learning of embryo development, pregnancy and birth in an engaging way.
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ART AND DT DEPARTMENT Year 3 DT Year 3 ZS have completed their Roman pouches today. Filled with golden coins…they are off shopping this weekend.
Rehan’s Roman pouch.
Divyata’s Roman coin pouch.
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Tiffany’s Roman pouch. I can spot the big silver coin!
Nieve’s creative Roman pouch
ART AND DT DEPARTMENT CONTINUED Year 4 DT Year 4 were introduced to one of the most important elements of art- Value (tints and shades). They have learnt to mix tints by using white and shades by adding a darker colour.
Ottilie’s brilliant tints and shades.
Lara’s finished tints and shades.
Rian Par...’s blue tints and shades.
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ART AND DT DEPARTMENT CONTINUED Year 5 DT Year 5 learnt the importance of packaging last term. They have designed cereal boxes with a new logo, design and have looked at nutrition. We have a healthy variety here!
Aida’s finished cereal box filled with lots of creativity. She even has challenging crosswords to solve!
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ART AND DT DEPARTMENT CONTINUED Hobby Art
Guru’s creative Cherry Blossom tree. He used a bubble wrap to paint the Cherry Blossoms.
Yug’s 3D glasses made from using a 3D pen. Looks cool Yug! Superman might want to borrow these.
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Walter’s amazing treasure map. Who would like to help find the treasure?
Meher is experimenting with a 3D pen too! Looks like we need one here in the school.
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Ishaan T’s outstanding drawing of Wolverine!
Inara’s sketch of herself as a baby! Wow Inara…outstanding work!
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Aida’s calming landscape shaded with a graphite pencil. Beautiful work Aida.
Can you guess who this is? Siddharth’s creative Harry Potter with his superfast broomstick. He used an old rubber to carve and draw.
REASONING It can often prove very challenging as pupils often require 3D spatial imagination to tackle NonVerbal questions, which some may find conceptually difficult. Using The Magnetic Cube Net allows pupils, when answering questions, to appreciate how the net folds and makes it easier to visualise the various adjacent patterns.
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RECEPTION This week in Reception, we have been learning about plastic pollution in our seas and oceans. We have been exploring what happens to sea creatures if there is plastic in the water and learning about what we can do to help. We decided to reuse plastic and made different models of sea creatures and submarines. Layla made a jellyfish and said, "I used plastic so it doesn’t go in the sea so the sea creatures don’t get sick because they’re eating it." We also made sea creatures out of playdough. Serenity created a picture of a turtle and explained, "The turtle got stuck in a net and I saved it. There was a naughty boy and he threw a net inside the water and I cut it off the turtle or it would die."
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RECEPTION CONTINUED In our Literacy books, we wrote speech bubbles pretending we were sea creatures. Here are some examples. Reception have decided that it is really important that we cut down on our plastic use and always try to reuse or recycle any plastic so that it doesn't end up in our seas and oceans. We are also going to work hard to make sure that any plastic we see goes into the dustbin so it can be thrown away properly.
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Tomás's speech bubble
Eeshan's speech bubble
Matteo's speech bubble
Naiara's speech bubble
HOMEWORK TIMETABLE
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QUIZ - WHO AM I? This week's Quiz Huge congratulations to all the pupils who successfully guessed Blaise Pascal as the answer to last week’s quiz. Special congratulations to Zaydan (3ZS) who was the first to email me with the correct answer and a certificate will be awarded to him.
One of his famous quotes is “Change is the law of life." He was born on 29th May, 1917 in Massachusetts, USA. He graduated from Harvard University in 1940. He played the role of movie producer. He was an experienced politician at a young age.
Please send your answer by Monday via email to Mrs Alwaheidi at arwa.alwaheidi@edu.quaintonhall.org.uk
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UPCOMING EVENTS Familiarisation Day - Years 5 & 6
Monday 24th January 2022
12:00-16:00
QH Parent Forum Meeting
Tuesday 25th January 2022
19:30-21:00
Themed Assembly - Holocaust Memorial Day
Wednesday 26th January 2022
08:40-09:00
English - Virtual Author Event - Amy Sparkes Years 3 to 6
Wednesday 26th January 2022
10:00-11:00
LAMDA Examinations - Years 1 to 6
Thursday 27th January 2022
09:00-16:00
Football: U11 Girls v Reddiford
Thursday 27th January 2022
13:30-16:00
Drama - Under the Sea - Nursery & Reception
Friday 28th January 2022
09:00-12:30
Swimming: Inter-School Gala
Friday 28th January 2022
13:30-16:00
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BIRTHDAYS
We wish the following children, who will be celebrating their birthday in the coming week, a very Happy Birthday! Rehan R Year 3 Navya P Year 3 Aditi S Year 5 Rian P Year 5 Amirah H Year 5 Arushi G Year 5 Abdullah M Year 5
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