December 2023 Edition

• To ensure our children are happy and we explain things well
• To ensure no child leaves our school unable to read
• To ensure children learn a broad vocabulary to access the world around them
• To enhance the educational experiences of diagnosed and undiagnosed children with SEND

Performed by, Amelia, Kael, Artie, Isaiah, Iris, Sofia, Coen, Joash, Zadie, Frida, Jasmine and Eddie

As we enter the final month of the Autumn Term, I would like to say a big thank you to all the children for all their hard work. Having settled into their new year groups, the children have not stopped working and trying their very best. This term, we have seen children perform in class assemblies, at the Winter Fair and our Winter Concert. However, the performances do not stop there! We still have the much awaited Navity plays by Key Stage 1 and Early Years happening next week.

I would also like to say a big thank you to all of our parents who have attended workshops, parent consultations, come in to hear children read, attended events, escorted trips or supported us in any way with our curricullum enagagement. This support has helped us to secure our children's educational outcomes and broaden their learning experiences.

We have already had two major events so far this season. An incredible Winter Fair that took place on 26th November, and our Winter Concert that happened this morning. Thank you to Reverend Ruth and the team for hosting our annual concert at the church. Well done to all of the children for the rienactment of the Navity story through readings and song. The Infant and Junior Choirs truly sounded like angels, making the event even more special.

My final thanks is to our staff, who have worked incredibly hard to support our children. Making learning fun and inspiring. Your hard work is appreciated!

Wishing you all wellness and the most enjoyable holiday break with your family and friends.

Keep an eye out for the December SEND Newsletter out tomorrow!

Well done to all of our year 6 readers Noah, Ella, Marie, Iiylah-Rose Owen, Hunter, Jamaica, Evania, Clarice, Bruk, Matilda and Arthur

Bonneville Primary School has had the pleasure this term of ‘Eating the Rainbow’.
Eat The Rainbow is a new programme that has been created exclusively for Lambeth. The council has supplied funds for 10 schools and have asked to focus on schools in the Brixton Hill area-, which includes us! Through an integrated primary school and families programme, it encourages children to eat a greater volume and variety of vegetables by adding one new vegetable at a time until they have a rainbow of different vegetables in their diet. We started with red peppers, where the children spent some time cutting up, smelling, feeling and tasting peppers, and were sent home with a bag of peppers for the family to enjoy. Every child also went home with the Eat the Rainbow “manual” which we hope has supported you in to getting your children to eat more veg. This has been created by the UK’s leading nutritionists, chefs and child psychologists and is supported by greater depth and video content online! We hope your children enjoyed this term’s vegetable of choice, any guesses what the next one will be?

Early Reading Development

At Bonneville we use the essential letters and sounds program for reading. In EYFS and KS1, children do 20 minutes of phonics everyday. Ask your child what sound they are currently learning?

We enourage children to continue applying their phonics learning to support their spelling in KS2, particularly for those tricky words. You are never too old to use phonics!

At Bonneville we teach reading discreetly, this means it is taught as a single subject. Each day we have a different focus.

On Mondays it is ‘Text and Talk,’ the children are introduced to their new text for the week. Children are exposed to a variety of different text types and genres. The children hear the text being read to them and identify new vocabulary and meaning of words.

On Tuesday, the children become ‘Word Detectives’. The children answer retrieval questions. This is where they can find the answer in the text. Children use their skimming and scanning skills to find their answers.

On Wednesday, children use their ‘Thinking Caps’. They answer a variety of inference questions. They are taught the skills that help them use your prior knowledge and textual information to draw conclusions, make critical judgments, and form interpretations of a text.

Thursday are our ‘Building Blocks’ lesson. This is where children look at the grammar and structures of the text they have been reading.

On Fridays, children answer opinion questions. We call this our ‘Points of View’ lessons. Children are encouraged to express their opinions and make links to the text and their own experiences in the world.

The children revisit the text daily reading it aloud, independently and with their peers.

Try rienforcing the day's learning with focussed questionning during home reading time!

Friends Association Bonneville

Thank you FAB for organising such an amazing Winter Fair. The smiles on the children's faces show what a fantastic time we all had.

Please help support your child with their spellings by looking at the spelling rules, sounds and patterns in each word. Practicing spellings daily (or as much as possible) will help your children to learn and remember each word.

In KS1, children will need to choose five spelling words to put into sentences.

In KS2, children will need to write a sentence for each word, using neat, joined handwriting.

This will give the children the opportunity to understand the meaning of each word, put the word into context and allow them to practice their handwriting.

All spelling books must be given the Class Teacher every Wednesday. This will ensure that your teacher has enough time to get the new spellings stuck in. Children will be doing a weekly spelling test in the back of their homework books so you will be able to see how well they are doing.

Please remember, there is a 'Word of the Week' for every subject.

In this Buzz, we cast a spotlight on some of the vocabularly learnt in Science last week.

What science word of the week has your child been learning?

Year 1- material Year 4- vibration

Year 2- evidence Year 5- approximated

Year 3- attract Year 6- predominant

Please rienforce the learning by asking them what it means.

In these difficult times any of us can find ourselves in challenging situations. Should you need support, please contact Mr Connelly who can support with food vouchers discretely.

Friday 1st- Enterprise Marketpalce @3.15pm

Monday 4th- Carol Concert @9.30am

Wednesday 6th - Christmas Jumper Day/ Christmas Lunch/ Open Morning @ 9.30am

Friday 8th - Topic Dress-Up day

Monday 11th-Wednesday 13th - Year 4 Residential Trip to Ufton Court

Tuesday 12th - EYFS Nativity Play @ 9.30am

Wednesday 13th - Club performances @ 3.45pm Yr1 & 2 Ballet and Yrs 2& 3 Street Dance

Thursday 14th - KS1 Christmas Play @ 1.45pm

Friday 15th - Topic and Science Exhibition @ 2.45pm KS1 infant hall, KS2 Top Hall/ Yr3 British Museum Trip/ Yrs 1 & 2 Street Dance performance @ 3.45pm/ last day of clubs

Tuesday 19th - Last of term 1.30pm pick up

Thank you for supporting our Autumn Term Enterprise event. The children take much learning from developing a concept, pitching for investment and creating pop up businesses. We are so proud of their creativity.

The winning business will be annouced in the 2nd December edition of the Buzz, so watch this space!

Central to raising standards in all schools and ensuring all pupils can fulfil their potential, is the need for children to attend school regularly to benefit from their education.

There is a strong link between good learning, high achievement, rapid progress and developing good social skills with excellent attendance.

We want to take this opportunity to outline our expectations for school attendance this academic year.

If your child arrives at school from 9.01am they will be marked as LATE, if they arrive after 9.30am they will be classed as “late after the register is closed” and their attendance is classed as absent for the morning session. As the registers would have already been returned to the Department for Education.

Regular poor punctuality can also have a negative effect on your child’s attendance as well as their academic learning. Being 6 minutes late each day equals 30 minutes of missed learning every week.

If your child’s attendance drops below 90%, we will need to share our concerns with the Local Authority Education Welfare Officer at Lambeth Council.

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/is-my-child-too-ill-for-school/

https://assets.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/wpuploads/2022/12/aaa-guide-for-parents-on-school-attendance.pdf

Below is the Summer 2023 year 6 SATs pass rate amongst children whose attendance was 90% and below:

Reading 25%

Maths 75%

Writing 50%

Congratulations to our latest attendance winners.

Key Stage One

Key Stage Two

FAB stands for Friends Association Bonneville.

Many, many parents are involved in enabling fundraising for our school. Thanks again to the FAB Office Team, for galvanising the community and keeping everyone updated through their wonderful Newsletters.

It is great to see new faces getting involved. A donation of 1 hour per term (that’s only 3 hours per year), of your time, is all that we ask. Whether it be class rep, planning/hosting an event or standing on a stall. Some parents very generously agree to host an event like our amazing wreath making workshop, or the gathering of donations for our incredible raffles. We always need more help and support. Every parent is a member of FAB. I ask that everyone gets involved.

bonnevillefab@gmail.com

www.bonneville-primary.lambeth.sch.uk/scholl/fab/

When we need particular support from our parent community, we post for help on our 'Call to Action' page on the schools website, and send the direct page link in an email to our parent community. So signing up is really easy!

Perhaps you would like to be a secret reader (reading a story to your child’s class), or would like to support us in maximising children’s opportunity to practice their reading skills, we need you.

Press the title to find out more.

It is important to us that any concerns or questions you may have are dealt with as efficiently as possible. The structure we have in place is designed to do just that.

The structure

1) Your first port of call is -Your child’s class teacher

(email via the admin team to request a meeting)

2) You may contact the leader of your child’s phase (see below)

This includes issues regarding communication and organisation

(email via the admin team to request a meeting)

Should you be dissatisfied with the handling or outcome...

3) You may raise your concerns with Ms Parker

(email via the admin team to request a meeting outlining the nature for the purpose of the meeting)

Leaders are required to share items (as appropriate) with Ms Parker on a weekly basis, even if the matter is being handled by them.

We request that you do not field your concerns to FAB but instead work directly with the school staff as outlined above.

Christmas Lunch and Jumper day Wednesday 6th December.

Rooms and spaces are available for hire at Bonneville. Use the link to check out our website and find out more.

On site at Bonneville.

Tuesdays 6pm -7.15pm

Tuesdays 7.15pm - 8.45pm

Use this link to connect to the website and access community resources.

Please find a letter from Cllr Hashi, Lambeth’s Cabinet Member for Safer Communities, and Cllr Kind, Cabinet Member for Children and Families, announcing the launch of our 2023 Winter of Food and Fun Programme, which is designed to give local families on free school meals, access to free, healthy food and fun activities over the winter holidays.

This will run from 27 to 29 December 2023 and 2 to 5 January 2024.

Weekly- News Summary Video

Bi weekly- Year group learning updates on the school website

Monthly- Newsletter 'The Bonneville Buzz'

Monthly- Federation SEND Newsletter: https://www.smore.com/3ahfv

Termly- Annual Calendar of dates

Termly- Federation Newsletter

For more information on any of the above and more, press below to visit the schools website and follow us on Twitter!