Hello everyone.
Welcome back! I hope you had a good half term break.
Spring 2 has started with the feeling of excitement as new Learning Journeys begin and children engage in a range of different opportunities.
It has been particularly lovely seeing all of the children engaged in different DT activities as part of our DT Week. Each class had a problem to solve and each pupil had a chance to design and make something to solve the problem. These were the themes: Making Soup, Fruit Salads, Buzzer Activities, Puppets, Bridges, Flavoured Tea, Homes for Eggs.
CAPTURED
More learning moments captured by Mrs Noble (including DT Week):
FUNKY FRIDAY
Thank you to the many parents and grandparents who attended this week’s Funky Friday Assembly. It is always lovely to share the achievements of the children. What a way to end the week and start the weekend!
OSCAR
Congratulations to Alana-Mai (Year 4) on being presented with an Oscar. She is simply full of kindness. This is the description given by Mrs Barnes and it fits perfectly. Alana is always polite and cheerful. She tries so hard with her learning and really is a lovely Shoreham Beach pupil. Well done Alana-Mai.
GOLDEN TICKETERS
Golden Ticketers this week are Zachary and Talina (Minnows), Jenson and Dominion (Seashells), Wilf and Ella (Starfish), Alfie and Ivy (Dolphins), Juliette and Rosa (Lighthouse), Iris and Theo (Coral), Demi and Beatrix (Ocean). Well done to you all.
GOLD AWARDS
Congratulations to Ronnie (Year 1), Rosa, Orla, Bodhi, Mira (all Year 4) and Lily (Year 5) on receiving Gold Awards for five mentions in the log book.
ATTENDANCE MATTERS
Congratulations to Seashells Class who had the best attendance with 94.6%. The Attendance Randomiser selected Geri for them to have for the week.
PYROBAN
Year 5 were visited by Marco Holt from Pyroban. They had a great time racing car down the track.
ART & CRAFT CLUB
This week the children were making their own scratch art.
GOAL!!
Our Year 3 & 4 girls football team played well in the locality tournament this week. They played seven matches, won three, drew one and lost three. Well done girls and thank you to the parents who came and supported and to Mr Strudwick and Mrs Noble for ensuring the girls enjoyed themselves representing the school.
HARLEY’S CORNER
“Hello everyone. Smells like swimming success to me! Here I am sniffing Lily and Theo’s medals and rosettes.
Grandma….here’s a swimming joke for you: What do elephants wear to go swimming? Trunks.”
REVEREND JANE’S VISIT
Reverend Jane Bartlett from Church of the Good Shepherd came to visit Year 2 this week to tell the children the Creation story. The children were very interested and asked her lots of questions. This follows her visit to Year 4 a few weeks ago.
REMY GOES SKIING
Remy is becoming quite the skier. Here he is demonstrating a back flip.
https://shorehambeachprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/VIDEO-2025-02-28-19-02-34.mp4
LET’S GO SURFIN’
Check out Lola (Year 5) in her surfing video. Wow!
https://shorehambeachprimary.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Video-6.mov
YOUNG ARTISTS COMPETITION
Now in its seventh year, the Royal Academy Young Artists’ Summer Show is a free, open submission exhibition for students aged 4–18 studying in the UK. Artworks are judged by a panel of artists and arts professionals, with selected artworks displayed online and on-site at the Royal Academy of Arts.
We have already registered as a school so:
- Start working on your masterpiece
- Send your artwork to me as an image
- For each submission we will need one image of the artwork plus details including a title, medium and a short description
- The deadline to submit artwork to the Royal Academy is 5 March 2025 at 5pm
Here’s the website link and the flyer link for further details.
https://youngartists.royalacademy.org.uk/
https://youngartists.royalacademy.org.uk/get-involved
YEAR 4 ART WITH ELARA’S MUM
Year 4 had a visit from local artist (and Elara’s mum) Amy Newell-Smith. She ran a watercolour workshop and here are some examples of what they produced:
COMING UP
Thursday 6th March – World Book Day and Year 5 trip to the Fort
Friday 7th March – Cake Sale after school
May I finish by saying “Happy Birthday Nik Kershaw”. A great musician, a brilliant songwriter and a lovely man. Here he is with Tom (Cassidy’s dad) who is also a fabulous musician:
Here’s a reminder of one of Nik’s songs (live of course):
Have a lovely weekend everyone.
Mr Vallier