“Learning, loving and encouraging through Christ.”
We are looking forward to seeing as many families as possible at our Mother’s Day service later at church.
The children have written some heartfelt prayers and have worked hard to create cards and pictures for you all.
Thank you mums, grans, nans and aunties for all your hard work in supporting your gorgeous children.
Here’s just a glimpse of some of the work they’ve been creating.
This year each year group chose a non-fiction book from the Little People Big Dreams series. Year Two chose to learn about Sir David Attenborough as we’ve been learning about animals and habitats this term, we knew that some of our pupils were huge Attenborough fans!
We have read about him, watched films and then invented a new animal for him to discover.
We wrote descriptions of our new animals and then the children used these descriptions to design a picture of what they looked like. We wrote letters to Sir David Attenborough and will post these next week – we are keeping our fingers crossed that we get a reply from the man himself!
Find our animals here:
Our school curriculum is driven and shaped by our school vision, which informs everything that we do.
St Nicholas provides a welcoming, inclusive and aspirational learning environment at the heart of its community. We nurture, encourage and support all children, adults and their families to be the best as God intended. Following God’s example of love and trust, we develop resilience and creativity in all we do.
Learning, loving and encouraging through Christ.
An uncompromising focus on pupils’ personal development has made St Nicholas Church of England Primary Academy a place where pupils always come first. Ofsted 2019
We love music here at St Nicholas whether that be music lessons, singing practice, choir or choosing our celebration song in Friday’s celebration assembly and value its place as an important part of our school life.
We all feel the enjoyment that listening or dancing to our favourite music can create, singing our favourite songs, and understand the power that a great soundtrack has to build drama or add tension to a film.
At St Nicholas we aim to give every child the opportunity to experience the power of music to enhance our lives, as well as capitalizing on the benefits it gives in other areas of the curriculum. We follow the Kapow scheme of work throughout the school in order to provide clear progression.
Singing, playing instruments, performing, and composing are enjoyable, creative and fulfilling learning experiences in their own right, but research shows that this learning extends beyond the musical curriculum.
At St Nicholas, we are lucky to be a part of Sing Up Education, where years 2-6 have a specialist teacher come in once a week to teach them music building on the skills learnt alongside the Kapow scheme. We will also be welcoming iRock into school to teach children rock & pop band lessons.
Listening – an important skill in music allowing pupils to respond to music they hear and perform.
Creativity – singing or playing music is an excellent way to express yourself as we all interpret and approach music differently.
Communication and collaboration – working as part of a team discussing ideas and supporting each other.
Perseverance – learning a new song or an instrument can be frustrating. It can take real perseverance and resilience to not give up, even though at times it can be hard.
Singing is an important part of our school life as a Church school – “To sing, is to pray twice,” St Augustine – and alongside weekly whole school singing practice, we run an after school choir which sings at all of our church services. At Christmas, we invite in the community for carols and cakes and each class sings a mixture of traditional and contemporary songs and this is an occasion enjoyed by both the children and the wider community. As well, we regularly take part in ‘Jam on the Marsh’ where the children perform as a group in the church.
Please find attached the Year 2 SATs presentation regarding the end of KS1 assessments.
The children enj0yed the snow in our outside area during break time and had hot chocolates to warm themselves up after.
We have had a fantastic week in Year 2. There has been lots of learning taking place.
We have attached a curriculum letter with an overview of the learning for this half term. We have also attached the Year 2 timetable.
We will update you regularly with the fantastic learning taking place.
EmailFor all queries please email
office@st-nicholas-newromney.kent.sch.uk or
headteacher@st-nicholas-newromney.kent.sch.uk
TelephoneFor all queries please ring and speak to a member of the school office on 01797 361906, option 3
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