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Dates for your Diary

 

NOVEMBER

 

30th         Year 5 Tudor Ball

 

DECEMBER

 

3rd          Reception Hearing tests a.m.

               School Choir - Carol Singing at Two Rivers

               with the Salvation Army Band. 6:30 - 7:30 pm

4th          Year 5 Christmas Bazaar after school

7th          Year 3 Roman Day

8th          Christingles - 10.30

9th          Infant Nativity

10th        Panto Day

11th        Infant Nativity

14th        Christmas Concert 7 pm - Choir & Orchestra

16th        Junior Class Parties

17th        Infant Class Parties

18th        Break-Up 2 pm

 

JANUARY 2010

 

4th          Visiting Panto - "Aladdin"

27th        Latin Competition at Sir. W. Perkins's School

28th        School Choir sings in the Voice In a Million concert at the O2 Arena.

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29th           INSET Day - School Closed

 

FEBRUARY

 

5th            School Council visits Houses of Parliament

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sports News and Results

 

District Sports

 

Echelford Primary School are this years Champions of the 2009 District Sports which, they won in some style. A tasty blend of effortless achievements in a variety of events brought victory to Echelford when the half time scores were announced. With just 2 points ahead Echelford were beginning to claim the lead. Despite two bad baton changeovers in the lower schools relay, huge cheers were heard when the upper school stormed back with their marginal winning relay defeat. The sweltering heat did not stop long distance runners brutally claiming their gold medals. An astonishing Year 5 long jumper broke new marks in the sand by clearing the furthest point of the day, sharing the joy of her gold medal with the furthest thrower of the day! Echelford raised the roof at Stompond Lane Arena when the final scores were announced. With a strong squad of 43 children an overall total of 18 gold medals were won. This contributed to the 171 final point score with a marginal clearance ahead of the 147 points for the second position place holders that brought the winning shield home to Echelford School.

 

National Sports Week

 

This year, for the first time, Echelford Primary school took part in a week of organised sporting activities during National Sports Week along with 10,000 other schools and 3 million children. Lloyds TSB National School Sport Week is integral to the delivery of the Government's PE and Sport Strategy for Young People and contributing towards the target of offering young people up to five hours of high quality PE and sport a week by 2012. An exciting and overloaded curriculum was planned for children to participate in sports never attempted before enabling all children to access a variety of challenging sports and activities at all levels. The weeks planned events ranged from:

• Rock climbing

• Obstacle courses

• Mini triathlons

• Whole year group marathons

• Writing autobiographies

• History of sporting events

• Writing healthy menus and recipes

• Preparing fruit kebabs

• Tug-of-war

• Inter class sports competitions

• World record breaking attempts

 

Not only were the children inspired but this also rubbed off onto the teachers. This week raised the profile of the place of P.E in school and also its importance out of school. Despite the roaring heat conditions play still continued at Echelford School and a great memorable time was had by all!

 

Click here to see some photographs.

 

7-a-Side Soccer Success

 

Our school once again hosted the annual Spelthorne Schools' Soccer Tournaments for boys and girls in October.

 

On Thursday the girls (last year's winners) easily won their qualifying group and were highly fancied until they lost to Chennestone School on penalties at the semi-final stage after a goalless draw.

 

The boys started off on a slow burn and drew their first two matches. They didn't find the goal until their third group match. However, they did enough to qualify for the knockout stage of the competition. They met St. Ignatius School in an action-packed final which ended 2-2 after extra time. Echelford lifted the trophy after winning a tense penalty shoot-out.

 

 

Useful Links

  

BBC.co.uk   This site provides a wealth of information for children and adults of all ages.

 

cbeebies

A very good site for pre-school and early years children provided by the BBC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Department for Children, Schools & Families  

  

Eduplace.com 

Suggestions for teachers, parents and families as to how you can help your children.

 

Ancient Greeks 

Learn all about the Ancient Greeks and their gods.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Learn.co.uk

A website for teachers with lots of free resources for homework and revision.

  

Maths: Coolmath 4 Kids      

Lots of maths games for kids.

 

Maths Is Fun

A simple-to-use site that covers calculation skills.

 

Maths: Funbrain  

Lots of games and puzzles covering many key areas of learning.

 

Maths: Mr Nussbaum

Lots of good maths games. Especially entertaining is "Genius Boxing". Games relating to  other areas of the National Curriculum too!

 

National Strategies / Standards

This is not for the children, but will be useful for parents as it contains information on standards in all the core subjects taught in our school.

 

Teaching Tables

Lots of tables games, often against the clock.

 

Links to Schools 

 

Bishop Wand Church of England Secondary School, (Age 11-18)           

Laytons Lane, Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex TW16 6LT
Tel: 01932 787537

 

Halliford School, (Boys Age 11-18)

Russell Road, Shepperton, Middlesex TW17 9HX

Tel: 01932 223593

 

The Matthew Arnold School (Age 11-16)

Kingston Road, Staines, Middlesex TW18 1PF,

Tel: 01784 457275 

 

Sunbury Manor School, (Age 11-16)

Nursery Road, Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex TW16 6LG

Tel: 01932 784258

 

Thamesmead School (Age 11-16)

Manygate Lane, Shepperton, Middlesex TW17 9EE

Tel: 01932 227078

 

Sir William Perkins's School, (Girls age 11-18) 

Guildford Road, Chertsey, Surrey

Tel: 01932 562161

 

 

School Trips and Residential Journeys

 

Birdworld             

Find out about Bird World, near Farnham in Surrey .

 

Bocketts Farm        

Our Reception Year children visit Bocketts Farm on the edge of the North Downs.

 

Carroty Wood

Year 6 visits this activity centre near Tonbridge in Kent.

 

Gaveston Hall          

Year 4 visits this environmental centre situated in the heart of the secluded countryside in West Sussex.

 

Isle of Arran

Year 6 visits this field study centre situated in Scotland .

 

Click here for the Isle of Arran and Carroty Wood