Food to Share

25^th February, 2010

A sociable and relaxing evening was had by everyone who attended the Food to Share evening on Thursday, 25^th February.

The evening began with the beautiful Indian dancing from Perveen. She entertained us with a dance routine of four different styles of Indian dance. The children were eager to learn and demonstrate their Indian dancing skills after Perveen showed them the movements – this was very much enjoyed by the parents.

The rest of the evening was spent enjoying the delicious dishes made by parents – the tastes and smell were tantalising! Everyone was given a chance to sample food that they may never have tasted before and parents were able to share their knowledge of cooking!

Many different countries were represented during the evening from:

India, Taiwan, Poland, United Kingdom, Turkey, Nepal, Thailand and Germany. This is just a sample of the diversity within out school and demonstrates how this contributes to the success of our pupils to socialise with each other.

Many parents have expressed an interest in gathering recipes from the evening to put into a book – I will endeavour to pursue this – watch this space!

Mental Maths Challenge

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WINNERS

Our annual Maths challenge was held this week. Lots of competitions took place in classes and the finalists calculated it out in the hall this afternoon! There were exciting prizes for all the finalists and winners. Photos of the winners attached.

Year 1

Finalists :- Ellis Grassby, Jamie Scrowson, Matthew Barker, James Ellerby, Connor Heath, Joseph Greaves, Su York Rai, Aj Fearn, Sadil Kaya, Tegan Caunt, Ryan Finch, Ruby Bragan.

The Overall Winner was Ellis Grassby

Year 2

Finalists :- Callum Reeson, Roja Sahoo, Luke Franks, Kelsey Pateman, Christopher Prophet, Jabu Rankwe,

The Overall winner was Callum Reeson

Years 3 and 4

Finalists :- John Tuffen, Edward O’Brien, James Green, Jason Greaves, Louis Blyth Bristow, Krista Joseph

Overall winner Year 3 – John Tuffen

Overall Winner Year 4 – James Green

Years 5 and 6

Finalists :- Georgia Gardner, Athula, Meggie Storey, David Strickland, Danmiel Hesford, Owen Sandles.

Overall Winner Year 5 – David Strickland

Overall Winner Year 6 – Daniel Hesford.

Well done to all the Mathematicians!

Venturefest 2010

Venturefest Yorkshire is a one-day business conference and exhibition event which took place in the Knavesmire Stand at York Racecourse. The event focuses on encouraging enterprise, science, technology and IT and is an expo of Yorkshire’s most inspiring science, technology and knowledge entrepreneurs.

The spirit of Venturefest is all about encouraging innovation and potential entrepreneurs. It is important that creativity is identified and nurtured at the earliest possible age.

Year 6 Clifton Green Primary School got the opportunity to participate in this event through NYBEP. At the beginning of last term they took part in an animation project – to put into pictures (and then into motion) their vision of the poem written by W H Auden, The Night Mail.

As a reward for putting together a talk to present to the Year 1’s in the school (about the above project), Kelsey Finney, Grace Hobson and Jessica Taylor put up an exhibition and manned it at Venturefest. They spoke eloquently and with enthusiasm to everyone that approached their stand – explaining how the project began, how it developed and what they had learnt from the whole process.

During the day all three girls had the opportunity to interview a member of STEM (a national scheme aimed at raising awareness and creating excitement about Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths). This gave them an insight into how their interviewee got into their job, what they wanted to do when they were younger - as part of the schools ongoing aspirations work.

All three girls thoroughly enjoyed their day out, were encouraged by the things that they saw at other exhibits and enthused when talking to other delegates – a very productive day!

Games Night - 2010

A fun evening was had by all that attended the Games Night on 4th February, 2010. The evening kicked off with the fast and furious game of Beetle – the noise of the rolling dice and laugher reverberated around the hall!

This was quickly followed by a warm-up game of bingo – which then lead us to a breather for refreshments. However, our brains were still to be tested with the children’s and adult’s picture quizzes. Then it was down to the serious business of a final game of bingo – the atmosphere was very tense as children and adults focused on the winning numbers!

Congratulations to all – everyone was a winner!

Thank you to all who supported this evening – our next family evening is to be held on 25th February with our Food To Share evening – an event which celebrates the diversities within our community.

Reach for the Stars!

The picture is of the table decoration that Miss Holdsworth and her Year 4 children did for the National Education Conference held in York recently – schools were invited to enter a table decoration and most of them did.

This was a competition and our entry came 2nd winning the school £50 worth of Art materials.

The decoration was brought back to school and can be seen in the Library.

Everyone will agree it’s motto of "Reach for the Stars" sums up pupil attitudes at Clifton Green!

School Library Artwork.

This week children will have noticed some artwork appearing in the Library. This time it is not our own work but some wonderful imaginative illustrations by local artist Sue Wallis. Sue came to visit the school and talked about our ideas for the library and got a feel for how we felt about our library. Then she created these lovely, imaginative pieces for us. There are panels on the door saying “Welcome to our Library” and a picture with a quote from Dr Seuss saying;-

“The more that you read, the more things that you know, The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go!”

There are lots of little things to find in the pictures and there are a number of fictional characters portrayed that we can weave our own stories around.

Parents and friends that have not seen the new artwork are very welcome to pop in and have a look.

Lord Mayor of York
Visits Our School

January 2010

On a very snowy Friday morning we were honoured by the visit of The Lord Mayor of York.

He spoke to the whole school in the hall and had a cup of tea and a scone. He has been trying to loose weight so the picture shows him resisting a scone and choosing instead a carrot and an apple!

The Lord Mayor, Lady Mayoress and The Sherriff and her Consort then went round all the classes meeting the children.

They stopped to talk to Year 6 children in the library about their dreams and aspirations when they were young.

It was wonderful for the children to hear some of York’s civic history and get to meet the civic party .

Handwriting competition

December 2009

We are very proud of our excellent handwriting
and the examples below show winning joined writing
from Year 1 to Year 6.

Winners of the 2009 Christmas Handwriting competition:-

Rhiannon Smith (1H/B)
Pinto Anandaraj ( 1W)
Hamza Salaman (2M)
Joshua Joseph (2CR)
Chloe Bean (3H)

Joshua Jackson) (3/4H)
Krista Joseph (4H)
Ellie Allan (5N)
Connor Glenwright (5B)
Jap Ruenprach (6R)

These are the winners of the Handwriting competition.

The pictures below are little but can be enlarged by clicking on them

Poetry Competition.

December 2009

At Clifton Green we have some excellent poets.
The children who won this competition wrote in a variety of styles and produced some really good work.
We’ve scanned in some of the best which we hope you will enjoy!

Winners of the Poetry Competition.

Joseph Greaves (1H/B)
Piotr Jaworski (1W)
Cara Leigh Jones(1SW)
Aaron Rennison (2M)
Megan Long (2CR)
Louis Cotton (3TR)

Taylor Philpott (3H)
Harry Meek (4M)
Tyler Noble (5N)
Mulenga Bwalsa (5B)
Alice Tuffen (6R)
Bailey Pollock (6R)

The pictures below are little but can be enlarged by clicking on them

CLIFTON GREEN SCHOOL

CHRISTMAS FAYRE

FRIDAY 4 DECEMBER

2.00 – 4.00 pm

Dear Friends of the School

We hope you will be joining us at the school’s annual Christmas Fayre which is aimed to be a lot of fun and excitement for the children

Rudolph says:

“To make the Fayre a BIG SUCCESS please can you donate cakes, or tombola/raffle prizes. Christmassy items would be really appreciated! Thanks.”

Yep that’s right! There’s lots of fun things to do at the Fayre - Adult and Children’s Tombolas, Christmas Hamper Raffle,

Christmas Cake Raffle,

Children’s Stalls, Cake Stall,

Children’s games, Refreshments

And, of course, VISIT ME!

MINI BIZ BARGAINS

Over the past few months Year 5 have been involved in a MiniBiz project, making high quality gifts at reasonable prices for the school Christmas Fayre. Why not visit our stalls and pick up a present for all members of the family?

The time and place:

Clifton Green Primary School at 2 p.m. on Friday 4^th. December.

Don’t be square- make sure you are there!

Gifts include:

· Greetings cards

· Diaries

· Dinner Mats

· Colour/Puzzle books

Go on! Treat yourself, these gifts are worth it!!!

Anti Bullying
at Clifton Green School

We held a competition for Anti – Bullying Week.

KS1 concentrated on Friendships and KS2 on Anti Cyber Bullying.

The winners received prizes at special assemblies held in school.

KS 1 assembly was about friendships and tolerance and included the story “Something Else” by Kathryn Cave.

The class winners were :- SuYork Rai, Pinto Anandaraj, Ellis Grassby, Gordon Barker, Kelsey Barber and Willow Pollock

The overall winner was Pinto.

KS2 Assembly discussed Cyber Bullying and how to avoid it!

The class winners were Willow Pollock, Abbie Harris, Chelsea Foster, Katie Thackery, Georgia Wright, Megan Heels.

The overall winner was Georgia Wright.


Abbie Harris	Chelsea Foster	Ellis Grassby	Georgia Wright	Kate Thackery

Megan Heels	Pinto Anandaraj	SuYork Rai	Kelsey Barber	Willow Polock

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Supporting
Children in Need
at Clifton Green.

We held a BAD HAIR DAY
where children and some staff came to school with outrageous hair dos and paid 50p to do so!

We also had cakes for 20 p with all proceeds going to Children in Need. So far (by 3.30 on Friday) we have raised about £200

We held 2 assemblies about where the money raised goes and attached are some hairstyles seen at the assemblies.

Take Over Day!

Friday 6th November 2009

Clifton Green Pupils

Lord Mayor for the Morning !

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What is 11 MILLION TAKEOVER DAY?

11 MILLION TAKEOVER DAY gives children and young people a chance to get involved in decision making, have their say and show adults what they can do.

This happens through children and young people going into places like schools, youth clubs, organisations, companies, shops and other places to ‘takeover’ and show adults what they can do! All children and young people can take part, and you can choose how you do it. Just make sure an adult knows what you’re up to.

Last year, 11 MILLION TAKEOVER DAY was a huge success across the country. Over 700 organisations took part, and least 17,000 children and young people had their say through 11 MILLION TAKEOVER DAY!

Last year in YORK young people were involved in designing a poster campaign to promote positive images of young people, children from primary schools worked with the police to audit their local environment, young people worked with trading standards to test purchase cigarettes, children from a primary school were involved in working with elected members.

HARVEST FESTIVAL

16 October 2009

One world, one family.

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Programme

Mrs Audsley

Welcome – thank you for coming, thank you for the gifts. Why we have Harvest?

Hymn

All things bright and beautiful

Miss Wilkinson, Mrs Bewley and Mr White classes

Honey Biscuits

Hymn

Think of a World without any flowers

Mrs Calverley, Miss Ravalia and Miss Mould classes

Harvest in England and Japan

Mrs Taylor

Sound the trumpet

Hymn

Water of Life – have you heard the raindrops

Miss Holdsworth and Mr Murray classes

Sow in Peace

Miss Neville and Mr Binns classes

Thanksgiving – how the Pilgrim Fathers and the Indians shared their gifts and food

Hymn

Lord of the Harvest

Mr Reed classes

Working Together

Mrs Audsley

Feeding of the 5000

Sharing Prayer

Hymn

The sharing bread

Harvest Prayer

Dear God

Thank you for all the people we depend on who make our lives richer by their work.

Thank you that we can depend on you and you will never let us down.

Help us, dear Lord, to produce good with our lives and to reject all that is wrong and false.

As we share the food that harvest brings may we also share our time, our money and ourselves with others, even though at times this may be hard for us to remember and hard for us to do.

Amen.

ARTS AWARD PRESENTATION
23 SEPTEMBER 2009

The children, who have just transferred to their secondary school, arrived to a special evening event with their parents and carers to celebrate and receive certificates for passing a national qualification given by the Arts Council and Trinity Guildhall London for their achievement in the arts.
The aim of the Arts Award (which is open to young people aged 11-25) is to enable them to develop skills in leadership, communication and planning all of which will help when the children transfer to secondary school and/or onto further education or work. Every child was presented with their own certificate and enjoyed sandwiches and buns which were laid on as part of the celebration.

Postman Pat and The New Library opening…..

Every Child a Reader at Clifton Green School

Clifton Green School is really determined to make every child a reader during this new school year. To support the school’s belief that every child should be able to read by the age of 11 the school has made a huge investment in books and a brand new “state of the art” library.

Our new library is evidence of how much we want to promote reading throughout the school. All the children from Nursery to Year 6 use it. We employ teacher librarians to run it and have pupil librarians to help with the book borrowing. Our library is at the heart of children’s learning at Clifton Green School and now it has been completely redecorated and refurbished to make it an even more special place.

As part of a special treat a children’s author, John Cunliffe (Postman Pat books) officially opened the new library and talked to the children in Year 6 and Year 2 about his favourite books.

So far, the school has had a fantastic year in 2009. Our national test results were excellent, we were judged outstanding by Ofsted, we were awarded a Gold (the highest) standard of Artsmark and now we have what is probably the best Primary School Library in York!

John Cunliffe –the author who opened our library.

John Cunliffe has been involved with children's books as a parent, reader, reviewer, librarian, teacher and author for most of his life. He was a librarian for over thirty years, including two years as British Council Librarian in Yugoslavia. John then moved on to teaching, and eventually became an Advisory Teacher on educational computing. He has had over 200 books published since 1964 and in 1988 began to write full-time. He has written extensively for television, and also presented fifty episodes of "Rosie and Jim", as well as broadcasting on local radio and television for many years.

http://www.postmanpat.com/

End of the School Year

Everyone at Clifton Green wishes our Year 6 leavers every success as they continue their education in other schools. They enjoyed lots of end of term activities and performed a fantastic comedy play about a Pirate Adventure.

They had a leaving assembly on the last day when Mrs Audsley presented the 2008-2009 school awards.

Annual Awards 2009

Annual Trophies

Lee Rhodes Trophy (presented to a child who has overcome a difficulty)
Luke Pateman Regan Barker

Sport (The Wilf trophy)
David Feetenby/Yaren Kaya

Excellence
Edward Cotton/Robyn Stephenson

Literacy
Olivia Bullivant/Jake Flintoft

Numeracy
Brianna Bratley/Harry Atkin

Citizenship
Freya Molinaux/Sam Judge

Performing Arts/Drama
Regan Barker

Dance
Bethany Ellerby

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Plaques – 2009

Music
Simone Stubbs/Woody Wang

Art and design
Zahirah Chowdhury

Football
Nathan Allan/Brandon Jackson

Swimming
Rebecca Wrigglesworth

Netball
Vicky Franks/Mollie-Jo Carlton

Mastermind
Brianna Brately

Services to the School
Hannah Brooks Dylan Philpott

Dance
Bethany Ellerby
Vicky Franks
Lydia Dixon

Music update

After our successful Pop Connection concerts we are keen for existing and new members to join the Clifton Green Choir led by Helen Warry in September. Watch out for audition details in the Autumn term.

We also need children to take up peripatetic instrumental lessons in September. Classes available are strings-violins/keyboard/guitar. We are also hoping to start a brass group. Forms are available from Mrs Illing.

The other music clubs will continue as normal

Recorder for Y4 to Y6

Ocarina for Y2 and Y3

Little Singers for Y1 and Y2

Choir for Y3/4/5 and 6

THE YOSCARS

Last month, (June 2009) Y2, Y3 and Y6 children entered the YOSCARS.

The Yoscars (York Oscars) are to promote the ongoing development and creative use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in our schools and are open to budding young film-makers aged between three and 16 years of age from schools across the city.

This month, we received the news that the Y3 children were amongst the finalists for their short digital animation film and were invited to a glitzy 'Oscar'-style event at York Racecourse. To mark the occasion, we hired a huge stretched white limousine but we didn’t tell the children! You can imagine their reaction when the vehicle drove onto the playground to take them to the event! Even more surprises when the panel of independent judges announced that Clifton Green were the winners in the Y3/Y4 category!

The whole school celebrated the wonderful success of these young seven year olds!

POP CONNECTIONS

Perhaps a very moving occasion this month (June 2009) was a POP CONNECTIONS Concert which was performed in another local church. Mrs Illing, the school’s Music Leader, organised the project with Dave Caswell and the POP Connections Director, Andy Silver.

The children had a great time experiencing how to work as part of a choir, dancing along with choreographed movements and taking part in their own big choir show, all singing Christian songs with positive, life affirming lyrics which were recorded on our own special Clifton Green CD!

The two evening concerts were really momentous occasions with parents, friends of the school and staff very touched to see the children thoroughly enjoying their singing and the lovely confidence which shone from all of them!

Chess

animated chess

Chess is becoming increasingly popular a the school.

It is a wonderful challenging game which is played and enjoyed all over the world.

Freya Molyneux, Alice Tuffen, Owen Sandles and Jenita Punoose represented us at Oaklands School last Monday in the British Land Challenge and did well against tough competition. A number of younger children are coming to chess club on Mondays and are enthusiastic.

For more information or if you would like to join the club contact Mr Cloudsdale who runs the chess club

Beningbrough Hall

Clifton Green
visits
Beningbrough Hall and Gardens

Children and staff from years 1 and 2 had a great time at Beningbrough. We sowed peas and beans in the potting shed and tasted vegetables and herbs in the kitchen garden. We explored the park and woodland and took bark rubbings from the trees. The gardeners helped us to plant the first of more than1000 sunflowers that will grow in the garden of Beningbrough Hall this summer. We think they will look beautiful and hope to get back to see them growing in the summer.

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EASTER EGGS AND HATS

Once again there was a terrific turnout for the Easter Egg competition, with some fantastic entries in each year group. It has been great to see the amount of effort that has gone into all the designs. Thanks to our local police officers Wayne and Mel for judging the entries.

EGGS

HATS

We saw a cracking amount of egg-cellent entries for the Easter Hat competition this year. It was great to see so many pupils taking part and making such a fantastic effort.

World book day winners

We celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as book characters. Nearly everyone was dressed up so well done children and parents, carers or helpers!

There were winners in every class and these are pictures of them receiving the book prizes! Thanks to everyone who helped run this super competition especially the Year 2 teaching assistants!

Nursery am pines Joseph Parker Harry Potter

Perry Dixon The cat in the hat

Pm Emelia Carlton Little match girl

Jorge Hardy D’Artagnon

Elms Amy Leeper cat in puss in boots

Jamie Scrouston incy wincy spider

Oaks Tyler Coombs Mr Bump

Ryan Nelson Funny bones

1W George Blake Gingerbread man

1H/B Lucas Greaves Dalmation

Ebony Hattersley White Rabbit

M1 Alicia Gardner Dinasaur

M2 Sami Ahmed Elmer

1C/R Jessica Flannery Little Red Riding Hood

2C/R Louis Cotton Aslam Lion, Witch and the wardrobe

Madeline Ward Angelina Ballerina

3w Millie Addy Cinderella’s fairy godmother

Jason Greaves Shrek

3TR Natalie Gowland Phoebe fashion fairy

Sophie Scott Horrid Henry

4M Holly Rawcliffe Mr Strong

Eliza Carlton Oompa loompa

4H Courtney Taylor Elf

Alex Moorby Mrs Tiggywinkle

N5 Owen Sandles Hercules Poirot

Grace Hobson White witch

B6 Lydia Dixon Wishy Washy

Olivia Bullivant White witch

R6 Shaun Gardner Captain Underpants

Mollie-Jo Carlton Willy Wonka

Mental Maths Challenge

On Friday 13^th February we held a Mental Maths Challenge. All classes took parts, heats were held in the classrooms then the finalists competed in the hall. There were super Mathematical prizes for the winners.

MENTAL MATHS CHALLENGE

Mental Maths - one of the most important aspects of numeracy – was highlighted throughout the school during the first part of the Spring term – culminating in a mental maths challenge which took place in the school hall on Friday 13th February.

In the days prior to the event – children practised the various skills required, including their ever important multiplication tables.

During the week of the challenge – two finalists were selected from each class to go forward to the final – held in the school hall – in front of their classmates. These children had to answer numerous questions on all aspects of mental maths – with a winner being produced after some very close contests indeed.

At the end of the afternoon – the whole school gathered for a special assembly, to say “well done” to all those involved. Each of the finalists was presented with a calculator as a runners-up prize – while the outright winner in each age group received a numeracy based game.

The event was a complete success, giving the children the opportunity to develop their mental maths strategies – and realise that these skills are relevant not only in school, but for the rest of their lives.

Year 1 Finalists