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

Term 2 – week 7

• 20: Aurora / Riley / Clara / James
• 30: Jasper / Henry / Kian / Harvey / Oscar / Laila-Beth / Harrison / Ava / Bethany
• 40: Evelyn / Lana / Antonella
• 50: Davi / Otto / Evelyn / Oliver F
• 75: Lucy / Sarah / Natasha
• Gold Star: Emil

Class 3 photography competition

Winners of the competition that was organised by Sarah – thank you very much. It has raised £27 for school funds

• Overall winner – Ollie K for his autumn landscape
• Landscape: Natasha and Jasper
• Animals: Eloise and Harvey
• Water: Sophie and Emil
• Household objects: Lucy and Louie
• Plants: Eliza and Mrs Mann (who we must thank for helping to organise)

Tetsworth Bake Off 2020

Wow! What difficult decisions to have to make. Thank you all for your entries. In no particular order:

• Otto and Laila-Beth for their spectacular Christmas pudding cake.
• Jonah for his festive jam tarts – such precision for one so young.
• Eliza for her melted snowman pavlova cake – not an easy bake.
• Nancy for her snow globe biscuits – I’ve never seen those before.
• Chaice for delicious looking scotch eggs.
• Ava for a wow! Christmas tree cake.

Highly commended:

• Sophie for a chocolate and orange cake worthy of a Paul Hollywood handshake.
• Johnny for persevering with a beautifully decorated gingerbread house.
• Iona for producing more than one tasty looking bake.
• George and Grace for their florentines which look as if they’ve just arrived from F & M.

 

• Congratulations to Evelyn, who persevered with the book she chose from the school library at the beginning of term – she has now finished it (and enjoyed it). Well done

• Jasper – Starry-Eyed Stan
• Evelyn – A Winter’s Tale
• Johnny – 117 Storey Tree House
• Sam – The Bear Snores On
• Jack – Planet Omar – Incredible Rescue Mission / A Christmas Carol / After the War
• Sarah – My Friend Flicka / Tamarind and the Star of Ishta

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

• Class 2 – Toby (Gold, Silver and Bronze) / Ryan, Jack, Evelyn, (Bronze)
• Class 3 – Jasper and Emil (Bronze)

Special mentions

• Class 2: Worker of the week – Teddy Simpson
• Class 3: Jasper – mum is very proud of how hard you are working on your handwriting. She tells me you have a good letter size and shape. Well done!