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Fox Primary School weekly newsletter 09/11/18

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This week in pictures

Year 6 Book Club loved discussing 'Cloudbusting' by Malorie Blackman. They particularly enjoyed how the book was written and even had a go at writing their own Haikus.

Year 5 exploring the river Thames as part of their geography topic.

Reception enjoying listening to Year 6 readers

Dates for your diary
12th - 16th November

Mon 12th Nov	Anti Bullying week - Odd Socks Day
Tues 13th Nov
Wed 14th Nov	Think workshop for Years 5 and 6 Year 2 pedestrian training
Thurs 15th Nov	Sleep workshop @ 8.50am
Fri 16th Nov	Year 5 visit Gudwara

Great Fox Ride - training ride 2

This Saturday we are heading out to Surrey. This will be a 110 km ride from Notting Hill and 90km ride from Hampton Court. We may shorten this by 20 km depending on the weather. If you have not joined the Strava Great Fox Ride group please create a Strava account and then go to clubs.(Great Fox Ride club)

All information about rides, including maps, are posted on the club page. Hope to see you Saturday morning.

www.strava.com

The official sox of the Great Fox Ride have arrived. For non participants, these and other non cycling Monkey Sox will be available to buy at the Fox Winter Fair.

Keep It Fox

The good news is that we now have 57 regular monthly donors! Their contributions will make a real difference when we are setting next years budget. However, we have over 200 families at Fox and it would be great if we had at least 100 families donating on a regular basis.

Remember the money raised will go directly into the 2019-2020 school budget.

If you are able to make a donation please use one of the following options:

1. Online: one off or regular monthly payments can be set up with BT my donate. https://mydonate.bt.com/charities/keepitfoxfund
This will be gift aided automatically.

2. Set up a recurring monthly Standing Order and fill in the Gift Aid Declaration form, see www.fox.rbkc.sch.uk/keep-it-fox/

Children in Need - Friday 16^th November
Next Friday we will be celebrating the BBC Children in Need day by asking pupils and staff to come to school wearing their pyjamas for a voluntary donation of £1. Pudsy accessories warmly welcomed too!

Author review by Emma Madden - Anthony Browne

Anthony Browne is one of our focus authors at Fox. In Year 3, we look at a selection of his picture books, focusing on the interplay of text and illustration to reveal hidden meaning 'Willy the Dreamer' is one of my favourite books by him, and not one that we currently read in school. It stars the eponymous hero - Willy, the monkey. The book is a sequence of intricately executed illustrations, representing Willy's dreams - be they of exploring, painting, flying, growing older or being young. The often surreal illustrations pay homage to many famous painters, including Dali, Picasso and Rousseau, as well as film characters and much more. Readers, both children and parents, will love to study these illustrations, pointing out the links to famous paintings and stories that they can find, as well as spotting Browne's famous hidden bananas. Another great book of his is 'Willy's Stories', in which each double page spread jumps through a section of story from a classic narrative. Like all the best picture books, Anthony Browne's can be read again and again and again and again.... Charity shops and libraries are full of Anthony Browne titles.

Anti-bullying week 2018

Next week (11^th-16^th November) is anti-bullying week at Fox. This week provides us with an occasion to particularly focus on anti- bullying to complement our ongoing curriculum, class and whole school coverage in this area.

Anti-Bullying Week shines a spotlight on bullying and encourages all to take action against bullying throughout the year. The theme this year is ‘Choose Respect’.

Each class will be spending some time to discuss bullying and will be completing work and carrying out different activities related to anti-bullying. We will be sharing our Anti- Bullying work in Friday’s assembly.

To celebrate what makes us ‘all different, all equal’ on Monday 11^th November, we will ask all children (and staff!) to come in with odd socks on. This is a fun opportunity for children to express themselves and appreciate individuality and uniqueness!
If you would like to sing the Choose Respect song by Andy and the Odd Socks at home, click the link.

Sleep workshop - Thursday 15th November 8.50am.

Did you know that a 2011 study showed that English children are the most sleep deprived in Europe?

Vicki Evans, RBKC Educational Psychologist will talk about the importance of sleep and present strategies on how to help children get more of it.

Please let the office know if you plan to attend.

Poppy Day Poem Competition

Congratulations and thank you to all poets. School Council and I were so honoured to read your poppy poems.

Your words captured the significance of WWI and of the centenary of the armistice in a poignant and charming way. We felt both proud and humble while reading them. Together, you have created a true message of Remembrance and gratitude.

It was a really hard decision to choose our winners. We will be creating a WWI centenary display where your poems will be up for us all to enjoy all year.

Winner – Malu, Year 6
Runner up – Nicolien, Year 6
Runner up – Victoire, Year 2
Runner up – Esme, Year 4

Miss James (Year 1)
History Coordinator

KS1 & KS2 Tea Towels

ON SALE NOW
£5.00 each or 5 for £20

Online safety update - parental controls

The website https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/ is full of lots of good articles about online safety. In particular, there is a great article all about using parental controls - click here .

FSA NEWS

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Your Winter Fair Needs You!
We need:
Volunteers to join the silent auction and raffle team (its raises £10k and we only have 4 people at the moment)
Donations & links to donations for silent auction and raffle.
Toys (gently used, small pieces in bags)., Books, Jewellery, Cakes, Dishes/ bread for Cafe (homemade or shop bought) , Bottles for Tombola, prizes for children's tombola, people to be Father Christmas for Santa's Grotto, Prosecco,
Please sign up to volunteer on a stall, it doesn't have to just be your classes stall. Thank you!

Here is a list of all the Silent Auction donors we have previously contacted:

Let us know if you have any others, feel free contact them first and let us know when they've said yes! email foxschoolfair@gmail.com "

The attached FSA budget was discussed during the FSA meeting.

We will consider input from the FSA meetings, Winter Fair results and any other suggestions in presenting the next draft of the budget for approval in January 2019.
If you have any questions or comments on the budget, please contact Anthony Marraccino- amarraccino@gmail.com.

In keeping with our promise to provide more transparency on the Keep It Fox Fund (KIFF), we have included a summary of monthly donations for the past year. You can see that KIFF donations really took off in October. Please keep the donations coming!

We will consider input from the FSA meetings, Winter Fair results and any other suggestions in presenting the next draft of the budget for approval in January 2019.

If you have any questions or comments on the budget, please contact Anthony Marraccino at 07789553699 or amarraccino@gmail.com.

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Whole School Attendance 98.24%

Class	Student
RC	Nikita
RP	Almira
1C	Xander
1J	Henry
2J	Erin
2S	Rio
3F	Isar
3M	Louis
4GT	Filip
4B	Joel
5B	Monty
5C	Gherado
6J	Yoshi
6M	Elgiz