Swalecliffe Community Primary School

Today has been our Positive Noticing Day at school. Miss Garton emailed about this last week and you can find this letter on our website. Again, there has been a wonderful atmosphere in school today and Wellbeing Champions have been superb helping all day. At the end of the day, your children left school with another label for you to use at home. See the letter in the photos for how this could be done. Your child can bring their home label in to show their teacher tomorrow. What a fantastic day with your brilliant children!

Our Year 3 classes are looking forward to meeting our Stone Age visitors. The camp is set up and our visitors are just warming up with a hot chocolate!

Don't forget your odd socks today!

A reminder for our Year 6 families that secondary school applications close at midnight tonight.

Why don't you do something amazing today? Our governing body is jam packed full of volunteers who want to improve their community by improving the schools within it. We are looking for two extra governors with experience in business, health and safety or finance to join our team. Check out our governor prospectus for more details https://tinyurl.com/bwtu7dr6 or email chair@swalecliffe.kent.sch.uk for a informal chat.

Skulls and mushrooms: a suitably spooky October for Forest School sessions this week Year 3 used their scientific learning about teeth to identify the skull as a carnivore. Wonderful to see skills learnt used in real life situations.

Wow, our Year 1 artists are so talented! Here are just some of their self-portraits on display at The Horsebridge Arts Centre in Whitstable. Their exhibition is on now and all through half term. Well done Year 1!

Celebrating our brilliant mathematicians in the Infants... Year R are using items from around their classroom to match sort and compare, colour, shapes and numbers. Year 2 are using tens frames and counters to add two numbers together. Using the tens frame helps them to see the number bond to 10 therefore making the addition easier to solve. Well done to our amazing children!

Back in the summer term, we were very lucky to have been offered the opportunity to take part in a workshop, here at Swalecliffe, with poet Charlotte Cornell as part of the Canterbury Festival's work with local schools. Some of our then Year 4 children attended and Isabelle submitted her poem for entry into the Canterbury Festival's Poetry Competition. Her poem received a special mention. Here's our lovely Isabelle at the showcase to celebrate her achievement.

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Our Year 6 Ambassadors were absolutely brilliant today! We are so proud!!!

Come along to our Open Day - our lovely staff and Year 6 ambassadors can't wait to meet you! Open today from 1 - 4. Shindigs and Dos, thank you for our wonderful balloons!