Term 4 – Week 5

10:

Astrid

40:

Aurora

50:

Lottie

100:

Jasper

• Laila-Beth – Mr Cosmo the Conjuror

Well done to the following children who have achieved Mathletics certificates this week:

Class 1

Bronze: George, Grace

Class 2

Bronze: Ryan, Jack

Class 3

Silver: Otto

Bronze: Jasper, Otto, Ollie

(3 house points for Gold, 2 for Silver and 1 for Bronze)

Special Mention

Congratulations to us – Tetsworth Primary School – Oxfordshire School Games South Oxfordshire Season 2 CHAMPIONS! ‘With a whopping 23,132,615 points’.

Brilliant – well done to everyone who took part.

Term 4 – Week 5

40:

Cody

50:

Ava / Clementine / Henry / Harvey

75:

Jessica / Louie / Iona

100:

Summer / Sarah

150:

Emil

Class 3:

• Sarah – for great fluidity, a great page turner
• Lucy – for a carefully crafted story that meets the readers’ needs at every level
• Iona – well organised writing, carefully written and detailed
• Oliver BR – a well imagined story that captures the essence of dreams

• Kian – Funnybones
• Jack – The Accidental Prime Minister
• Sam – The Otter who liked to hold hands / Barry the fish with fingers
• Ollie – The Diary of a Wimpy Kid – The Ugly Truth
• Jack – To wee or not to wee!
• Grace – The Fizz Buzz
• George – Wet Feet

Well done to the following children who have achieved Mathletics certificates this week:

Class 1

Bronze: George, Grace

Class 2

Bronze: Ryan, Jack

Class 3

Bronze: Jasper

(3 house points for Gold, 2 for Silver and 1 for Bronze)

Special Mention

Aurora hasn’t been very well recently and hasn’t been playing like normal at home. However, when mum was tidying up her dresses she decided to get dressed up. At the moment, that is a big deal as she has not been feeling up to it. Mum is feeling very happy about this.

Term 4 – Week 4

40:

• Llywelyn / Toby Simpson / Riley

75:

• Jude

Class 3:

Franklyn – The Book of Butterflies

A well observed piece of writing using parenthesis to describe. The dialogue in the story really captured the mood.

Well done to the following children who have achieved Mathletics certificates this week:

Class 1

• Silver: George, Grace
• Bronze: George, Grace

Class 2

• Silver: Jack
• Bronze: Ryan, Jack

Class 3

• GOLD: Emil
• Silver: Emil
• Bronze: Jasper, Emil

(3 house points for Gold, 2 for Silver and 1 for Bronze)

Special Mention

Munch and Crunch are now out of hibernation. We’d like to say a huge thank you to Pippa who is kindly supervising their antics. She tells me that they are looking forward to some nice weather so they can come back to school to play with their human friends.

Well done to everyone for raising over £94 for Red Nose Day

Term 4 – Week 3

40:

• Lottie / James / Teddy

50:

• Oscar

75:

• Kian / Davi

100 – Gold Star:

• Ollie

125 – Rainbow certificate:

• Jack

• Martin learnt the 3x table in the car, on the journey to school
  this week. Amazing!

Class 3:

• Ruby – her retelling of the Petit Cordonnier was so lively and full of a
  strong authorial voice! A well-considered piece of writing.
• Astrid – great word choices and a detailed explanation o f the Petit
  Cordonnier. What a fabulous start to life at Tetsworth.

• Ollie – for producing a model of a scene from your favourite
  book. Well done.
• Emil – for producing a model of a scene from Death on the Nile –
  good work.

• Millie – Mouseton Abbey – the missing diamond
• Grace – Moon Zoom
• George – Trapped
• Lottie – Little Monkey
• James – Winnie and Wilbur meet Santa
• Llywelyn – Tails

Well done to the following children who have achieved Mathletics certificates this week.

Class 1

• Bronze: Nancy, George, Grace, Llywelyn

Class 2

• GOLD: Kian
• Silver: Kian, Ryan
• Bronze: Kian, Ryan, Jack, Evelyn, Harvey, Tony, Jude

Class 3

• Silver: Jasper
• Bronze: Jasper, Summer, Sarah, Sophie

(3 house points for Gold, 2 for Silver and 1 for Bronze)

Special Mention

The Covid Rap

I don’t want no Covid

I don’t want no Covid!

Can’t play football!

Can’t do friends!

Can’t see famly!

Wash your hands! Don’t wanna die!

Just not fair

Can’t see the sea!

Can’t do parties!

No friends-stuck wiv bros!

Don’t want the shops to close!

Staycation, staycation, staycation!

No jobs – they need money to pay

No jabs in your arm – in to stay!

Don’t want to home – school!

Getting germs is not so cool!

N.H.S. keep it up!

1% you’re out of luck!

Rainbows- clapping to boost morale,

Vaccines given after trial.

I don’t want no – covid!

I don’t want no – covid!

by Year 3 and 4

The Covid Rap

We don’t want no Covid – No battery!

We don’t want no Covid – No Zoom!

We’re bored of the house!

Bored of Street Tag!

Child labour in the garden – my hearts gonna harden! This is annoying!

I don’t want no home school (I’m smarta than mi’ mum)

No books left on the table too!

I just wanna play outside!

Pride hav to hide?

I wanna see ma friends!

I wanna see ma friends!

Home schools boring! (Lockdowns STRESSFUL!)

I wanna go in the world again!

I wanna go in the world again!

YOU’RE ON MUTE

by Year 5 and 6

Term 4 – Week 2

10:

20:

30:

• Cody / Aurora

40:

• Bethany

50:

• Antonella / Samuel / Clara / Ryan / Woody / Ava / Harvey

75:

• Oliver B-R / Casey

100 – Gold Star:

• Millie

125 – Rainbow certificate:

• Sophie

• The Ives family got their bikes out – 12.68 KM achieved – Well done to you all
• Well done to the following children, who helped with the village
  litter pick : Thomas, Llywelyn, the Barber girls, the LazarouWest boys, Jonah, Jack, Woody, Jude and Eliza. Your parents and Pippa are very proud of you all. I think it is an amazing effort. Well done to you all.
• Bethany – for using paint sticks to recreate several London attractions, including the London Eye.

 

• Evelyn – for finding and following a step by step guide and drawing Big Ben – independently
• Aurora – Mum is very proud of you for the way you were super happy when having all of your scans. Being prodded and poked is not fun but you were a star.

• Jude – Horrid Henry (Haunted House)
• Jack – Just Kidding
• Grace – The Raft Race / The Queen makes a scene
• George – Husky Adventure / Run Rabbit Run
• Llywelyn – Meg’s new car
• Ruby – The girl who stole an elephant / Secrets and Spies – New World
• Ryan – The problem with dragons

Well done to the following children who have achieved Mathletics certificates this week. Let’s see a few more from Class 3 next week…

Class 1

• Bronze: Nancy, Alfie, George, Grace, Llywelyn, Beth

Class 2

• GOLD: Evelyn
• Silver: Evelyn, Harvey
• Bronze: Evelyn, Ryan, Oliver F, Riley, James, Lottie, Jack, Bethany, Harvey, Jude, Woody

Class 3

• GOLD: Sophie
• Silver: Sophie
• Bronze: Sophie, Summer, Emil, Eliza, Jasper

(3 house points for Gold, 2 for Silver and 1 for Bronze)

Special Mention

• Cody – well done for carrying on the family bike ride, even when you fell and hurt your knee
• Eliza made a delicious chocolate cake (with hidden sweets in the middle) for Woody and Jude’s birthdays – well done.
• Ollie, Summer and Emil – for spelling DINKEE over the course of the Class 3 Zooms and earning 5 stamps
  each.
• Year 6 – for being the only year group to consistently complete the grammar test online. Excellent effort.

Term 4 – Week 1

10:

• Owen / Mikey

20:

• Rory / Thomas / Christopher / Jonah / Rowan / Ethan / Rhys / Malone / Martin

30:

• Ailbe / Ellis / Nancy / George / Llywellyn / Toby S

40:

• Alfie / Grace / Beth / Kian

50:

• Oliver Fincham / Toby L W / Kian / Lana

75:

• Otto / Eloise / Oliver F

100 – Gold Star:

• Eliza / Natasha

125 – Rainbow certificate:

• Lucy

• Everyone involved with Street Tag – what an awesome team we are. Small school – Big ideas
• Ollie – for making both himself and Sam toast as a snack and then for tidying up and putting the plates in the dishwasher – well done
• Jasper – for helping your daddy in the garden by putting compost onto the new flower beds.

 

• Ollie – you re-sat a grammar test and scored 100%. Well done for perseverance.
• Toby – you set a quiz for your school friends on the Premier League. What a superb quiz master you were. Brilliant.

• Summer – My naughty little sister
• Evelyn – Mr Dog / The Rabbit habit
• Llywelyn – The Red Man and the Green Man / Tim’s bad mood
• Jasper – Beast Quest: Sepron the sea serpent
• Sarah – The White Giraffe
• Ryan – Wake up do, Lydia Lou! / Charlie Cook’s favourite book

Well done to the following children who have achieved Mathletics certificates this week. Let’s see a few more from Class 3 next week…

Class 1

• Bronze: Alfie, George, Grace, Beth

Class 2

• Silver: James, Toby
• Bronze: Oliver, Ryan2, Riley, James2, Lottie, Jack2, Harvey, Kian, Toby, Woody, Jude

Class 3

• Bronze: Jasper, Summer, Sophie, Eliza

(3 house points for Gold, 2 for Silver and 1 for Bronze)

Special Mention

• Eliza – your mum is super impressed with your independent work. Well done
• Llywelyn – well done on finishing your first reading book. May it be the first of many

Term 3 – week 6

30:

• Teddy
• Riley
• Lottie

40:

• Clementine
• Antonella
• Ryan
• Oscar
• Clara

50:

• Chaice
• Harrison
• Laila-Beth
• Jude

75:

• Jasper
• Evelyn
• Toby

100 – Gold Star:

• Sophie
• Jack

125 – Rainbow certificate:

• Emil

• Ryan – for running 10k.
• Toby – for completing Mr Surman’s challenge of running 50k in January.
• Ollie – your mum is so delighted with your thoughtfulness. On Sunday morning, whilst she was reading in bed, you started vacuuming the house.
• Harvey W – for making a delicious pear crumble.

 

• Jasper – who has been learning about Stop Motion. He build a film set, filmed, edited and added a sound track – wow!
• Sarah – she’s been super helpful to Helen this past week; getting herself up and dressed for school and taking Helen breakfast in bed
• Emil and Otto – using the WW2 ration cookbook, they baked an eggless chocolate cake. It looked delicious but Emil wasn’t sure about the taste. Otto liked it however
• Millie – what an awesome beach sunset painting. You used oil paint on canvas and the result is stunning

• Jack – my friend the alien / Star Wars the Jedi Academy
• George – The spaceship / The moon jet / Dragon Danger
• Grace – I can trick a tiger / The sing song
• Summer – Sylvia’s seahorse / Charlie and the chocolate factory/ plus one other
• Eliza – Emily Windsnap and the castle in the sky / The boy in the dress
• Woody – Bilal’s brilliant bee
• Sarah – Love Frankie
• Toby – The boy who flew with dragons
• Jude – Horrid Henry
• Riley – Ricky Rocket – A present from Earth

Well done to the following children who have achieved Mathletics certificates this week. Let’s see a few more from Class 3 next week…

Class 1

• Bronze: Alfie

Class 2

• Gold: Jack, Jude
• Silver: Oliver, Jack, Jude
• Bronze: Oliver, Jack, Jude, Ryan, Riley, James, Laila-Beth, Kian, Harrison

Class 3

• Silver: Summer
• Bronze: Jasper, Summer, Sophie

(3 house points for Gold, 2 for Silver and 1 for Bronze)

Special Mention

• Eliza and Woody – your parents are very proud that you read poems at your Grandfather’s funeral. What a lovely thing to do.
• Casey – We are all very proud of you for settling down and completing a writing task independently. Well done.
• Millie – you were able to draft a letter, edit it with help from mum and then copy it up in your best handwriting. Super.

Term 3 – week 5

50:

• Jasper

75:

• Ruby
  Summer

100 – Gold Star:

• Lucy

• Oscar – Miss Goldsmith was very impressed with your pirate story
• Ruby – your mum was impressed with your Big Bird Watch hour

 

• Millie – for an amazing 100 miles walked in January – and a special mention to her support team – mum Christine
• Ollie – for building a stream in his mum’s garden – to support his topic work
• Otto – for being busy as an apprentice builder, gathering materials and resources for his dad’s work the next morning.
• Jasper – wow! Your mum is so proud of you for cooking lunch from scratch. You prepped, wrote a menu, cooked, got napkins and welcomed your family to his restaurant. Pork meatballs in a tomato and basil sauce – yummy

• Bethany – Dog at school
• Clara – I will never, ever eat a tomato
• Jude – stories of pirates
• Millie – Toto the Ninja cat / The great snake escape / The further adventures of the Queen Mum / The boy in the dress / Mr Stink
• Ollie – Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Dog days
• Otto – Football Academy

Well done to the following children who have achieved Mathletics certificates this week:

Class 2

• Silver – Riley
• Bronze – Riley, Ryan, Oliver F. Jack, Bethany, Kian, Harrison, Toby, Jude, Woody

Class 3

• Jasper, Summer, Eliza

(3 house points for Gold, 2 for Silver and 1 for Bronze)

SPECIAL MENTIONS

For Tetsworth School – children, staff, parents, friends, relatives and villagers –

Street Tag stats (5/2/21):

• Total miles covered -1118.22
• Earned points – 69,040
• Steps points – 123,310
• P.E. code points – 58,000

Term 3 – week 3

Class 2:

• 30 – Grace / Bethany
• 40 – Harvey / Harrison
• 50 – Leo

Class 3:

• Emil – 100 – Gold star

• Last week Eloise completed her karate grading successfully on Zoom and has been awarded a green belt. Congratulations Eloise
• Emil, Sarah, Eloise, Sophie and Harvey scored highly in the grammar tests – well done
• Jack and Grace completed the Reading Scavenger Hunt – and found an amazing list of books – brilliant
• Oscar – you had your first ever karate grading and have been awarded an orange belt. Mum, dad and Eloise think you’re a star!
• Millie has been discovering that you can power a digital clock with a potato – takes her mum back to her younger days. Excellent Millie
• Jasper painted a fox in a snowy wood, following a tutorial – amazing
• Christopher has been practising writing his name – lovely
• Davi cooked prezels for his family – yummy!
• Class 1 bubble planned and ‘put on a show’ – what fun
• Ollie made his mum proud by powering through 4 hours of Zoom calls and home learning without making a fuss – what a star
• Natasha – a shout out from Mrs Denham for helping her to deliver maths booklets around the village – that’s so helpful.

 

• Eliza – for perseverance with her landscape painting
• Ava – Mr Surman is impressed with your litter picking efforts
• Harrison – you’ve agreed to learn the trombone

• Sophie – A cake for the Gestapo, Murder most unladylike
• Natasha – Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix, The apprentice witch, Lightning chase me home, Gymnastic jitters
• Sarah – The Ladies No 1 Detective Agency, The Longest whale song
• Woody – Don’t forget Tiggs
• Evelyn – The snow sisters
• Jude – The Great picture atlas for children, The cat in the hat
• Jasper – Beast Quest – Ferno the Fire Dragon
• Grace – The Snowman, Such a fuss, Dad’s Birthday, Grizzly Bear Rock, Don’t let the pigeons drive the bus, There is a bird on my head

Well done to the following children who have achieved Mathletics certificates this week:

Class 2

• Kian (Silver)
• Ryan, Oliver, Riley, Jack, Millie, Evelyn, Kian, Toby, Harrison, Jude, Woody (Bronze)

Class 3

• Henry, Japser, Summer, Emil, Sophie, Eliza (Bronze)

(3 house points for Gold, 2 for Silver and 1 for Bronze)

Term 3 – week 2

• Jasper – your mum is super impressed with your reading – she is pleased you are so excited to read (and that you are loving) the Beast Quest series.
• Sarah – for a very informative and well presented Power Point presentation on the birds in Stoke Talmage.

 

• Millie has challenged herself to cover 100 miles walking and biking throughout January. Amazing! Good luck.
• Harrison – normally wary of anything with wheels – went over two miles on his scooter. That’s fantastic
• Ava – for continued brilliant reading and just devouring books. That’s so good to hear
• Casey – for engaging really well with home learning and putting the hours in
• Team Fincham – for lots and lots and lots of reading

• Franklyn – The Silver Chair
• Ava – Zak goes to the vet / A fright in the Night / Bob Bug / The monster hunt / Top Spot / A cool summer / The Princess and the Dragon / Gran is cross / The shopping list / The trunk and the skunk / The scrap rocket / The big match / A cat in the tree / Crab gets mad / Arf! Arf! / A present for mum / Dear Zoo / Nan / The super squirrel badge / The secret room / Lucky the goat / Pig gets stuck
• Kian read There’s a snake in my school to Ailbe
• Alfie – Run rabbit, run
• Riley – Diving dinosaurs
• Oliver F – Ricky Rocker Vorg world
• Eliza – Emily Windsnap and the monster of the deep
• Woody – Fluff the farting fish
• Sam – Into the woods / The really, really, really big dinosaur
• Ollie – The Ninjargo book
• Jude – Green eggs and ham
• Summer – All about me
• Natasha – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Jack – The Creakers
• Grace – Less mess / The snowman / I am Kipper / Tip Top
• George – Cat in a bag / The Fizz-Buzz / The Red Hen / The snowman
• Toby – The boy who grew dragons
• Ryan – The trouble with dragons
• Oliver F – Ricky Rocket – weekend in orbit / RR sweet disaster
• Riley – Where do you live? / Felix the dogbot / A knock at the door / The rollercoaster / Pirates party time
• Alfie – Dog on a mat / A rat runs / Sad dad / Bug in a bed / A cat in a jet

Well done to the following children who have earned Mathletics Certificates this week:

• Class 2 – Ryan, Evelyn, Laila-Beth, Kian, Toby, Jude (Bronze)
• Class 3 – Jasper, Sophie (Silver), Summer, Sophie (Bronze)

Special Mentions

• Ava – for building such a fantastic replica of the boat sailed by Christopher Columbus – and for thinking of some questions his sailors might have asked.
• Eliza and Millie – for working together on the topic work over Zoom. It was such a success, that they have decided to choose one lesson a week to pair up and complete.
• Ollie – for persevering with home learning this week, even when the going got tough. I’m glad you are enjoying the topic work.

Term 3 – week 1

• WOW! Chaice has made several different circuit boards using lights, alarms, fans, music and doorbells.
• WOW! Everyone has made such a good start to home learning and we’ve seen some super photos so far – well done.

• Sophie – for her 12 days of Lockdown song (which was really cool ). It’s on the school FB page if you want to sing it

• Ryan – Mr Grumpygroo’s Hat
• Oliver F – Ricky Rocket – a present from Earth
• Sam – Matt the crab
• Ollie – Genius
• Davi – County Cup
• Sarah – In the company of cheerful women / Mistletoe and Murder
• Evelyn – Ava the sunset fairy