Monteney Mail February 2

Monteney Mail Self-Esteem Our Skill for Learning this half-term is SelfEsteem.

Throughout the halfterm the children will be focussing on developing their self-esteem. This also links to our SEAL (Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning) which is “It’s Good to be Me”.

Within our Skills framework, there are several strands within Self-esteem, these include:  I can tell people who I

am  I can show how I feel using pictures and/or words.  I can deal with my feelings in a positive way  I can communicate about the groups I belong to.  I can tell someone what I am good at.  I know what makes me feel safe and secure.  I can explain what makes me special.  I can discuss my beliefs and can explain

why I have them.  I can accept advice.  I can try new activities  I can recognise that I can learn from making a mistake; I can try again Talk with your child about these skills and support them in developing any of them.

RE and Arts Week We had a very creative week celebrating RE and the Arts in final week of last half term. All of the children had the chance to explore a world faith through literacy, dance, music, art and drama. Some of the highlights included an assembly from John O'Brien at the start of the week

where he brought the Christian story of 'The Prodigal Son' to life, a visit to the local Sikh temple (Gurdwara) by the Y3s followed by delicious food kindly cooked by Dilan's mum, magical tessellating Islamic art and beautiful stained glass windows inspired by the Rose Window at York Minster! Staff

and pupils always love asking questions, having conversations and being creative in RE and the Arts week; we had a wonderful time!

Y3 visit to Sikh Temple

Monteney Primary School

Volume 6 Issue 10 Newsletter Date 26.2.2013

Congratulations to the Year 6 children who took part in the Athletics Event held at Yewlands before half-term. Not only did they win the event, but they showed great effort, determination and teamwork.

Inside this issue: Self-esteem

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RE and Arts Week

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Dates

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Maths Workshops

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Help our PlayPod!

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Whizzy Writing

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Dinner Money

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Contact Details

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Lost Property

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Monteney Primary School Monteney Primary School Monteney Crescent Parson Cross Sheffield S5 9DN Phone: 0114 2467916 Fax: 0114 2467965 Email: enquiries@monteney.sheffield.sch. uk Website: www.monteney.sheffield.sch.uk Through the broad and well-enriched curriculum, and its promotion of pupils’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development, pupils’ academic and personal development is well-promoted.

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Help our PlayPod! We have now had our PlayPod since September and the children are really enjoying using it.

The PlayPod gets refilled regularly with new contents to interest and engage the children in their play. However, we are keen to keep adding items and would like to ask you for any donations. Items which would be useful include old suitcases, handbags, rucksacks, clothes for dressing up, old curtains and bedding,

1.98 oney is £ Dinner M eek. w a £9.90 per day,

telephones and computer keyboards.

Please bring any items to Mrs Vigrass or Mr Reilly.

Whizzy Writing Competition

Lost Property

We were absolutely blown away by the story entries for our ‘Paws and Claws’ competition last Half Term. Children not only wrote fabulous stories but the illustrations and presentation was outstanding! Mrs Shearn and Miss Faraday had a really tricky job deciding the winners but managed to make a decision in the end. The winners were:

Please can we ask that all children’s clothing is clearly labelled. We are having increasing amounts of lost property and are unable to store items indefinitely. Please help us and you by clearly labelling all items with your child’s name so any items can easily be returned. Thank you

KS1 winner: Rowan Blagburn Highly Commended: Charlie Jones, Harvey-Lee Shore, Lewis Blore KS2 Joint winners: Lydia Holland, Holly Grist Highly Commended: Abbie Buckler, Erin Barrass, Daniel Asman In this Half term’s competition, children will be asked to make their stories on ‘Storybird’ and win the chance to have their book published! We

Maths Workshops Following on from the success earlier this year we will be holding some more workshops during maths lessons.

These sessions are designed to enable you to support your children at home so that they can enjoy and achieve in mathematics. It is also an opportunity for you to become more involved with their learning during school time. We are inviting parents in so that you can see how we teach certain calculations and so that you can see that maths is fun, it’s not just texts books and worksheets!!!

Please come along to one of the workshops.