MESSAGE FROM MRS COLLINS

Sandfield Sports Offer 2022-2023

 I am delighted to welcome Coach Mohammed as our new Sandfield Sports Coach for this year.  Mohammed is responsible for training and leading our sports squads.  The timetable above shows all the squads available at lunchtime for your children.  All of these are coached sessions that are led by trained professionals.  The big idea is that every child across the school participates in at least one squad session a week.

For the first time, we have organised to have two squads that will be off-site.  These will be based at Allen House Grounds, just opposite the school.  This provides our children with a larger area to practice athletics and football.  On Thursday we took our Year 5 & 6 Cross Country team for a training session, ahead of their first competition next week!

Our wonderful new reception class also had their first PE lesson at Sandfield this week.  Learning to skip and complete the agility stepping stones were the key objectives to achieve.   It was great to see all the children giving new things a go!  Well done.

Phase Group Curriculum Meetings Wednesday 21^st September 2022 between 3:30 – 4:00pm

 Thank you to those parents who have already signed up. A gentle reminder of our phase group curriculum meetings next Wednesday. This is a great opportunity to meet your child’s class teacher and find out more about Sandfield’s vision and ethos, items your children will need, exciting curriculum highlights for the year and to know the expectations for reading, spelling, maths and home learning.

During this time, your children will be looked after on the playground by Mrs Kennedy and Mrs Lidstrom.   We will only be able to look after children attending Sandfield.

To register your interest, which will aid our planning of the event, please click here>>

Jewellery Reminder at Sandfield 

In the interests of health and safety children must not wear jewellery to school, with the exception of medical alert bands.  If pierced earrings are worn they must be studs only, no piercing may be worn in any other area than up to one in each ear.

All watches and medical bands and earrings must be removed independently by the child for PE and swimming lessons and remain the child’s responsibility.  If a child cannot take out their earrings the child needs to come to school with their ears taped, or be able to apply their own tape.

For further information please see Physcial Education Health and Safety Update May 2020:  https://www.afpe.org.uk/physical-education/wp-content/uploads/HealthSafety-Update-May-2020.pdf

Footwear Reminder

All shoes must be black and have a safe and sensible design, additional details and lights are not permitted. Shoes must be flat and have no heel to ensure the safety of the wearer.  Black ankle boots for winter are allowed.  Please see our uniform policy for further details

https://sandfield.surrey.sch.uk/uniform-at-sandfield-school/

Wishing you a good long weekend and we will see you on Tuesday 20^th September.

Mrs Collins and the Sandfield staff team

ATTENDANCE THIS WEEK

The school target for the year set by the Surrey County Council Inclusion Team is 93.4%

This week the whole school achieved 95.9%

NEWS FROM THE INCLUSION TEAM 

Secondary School Applications: We have produced a useful handout regarding Open Days and Evenings for applying for a place in a Secondary school. Please click here>>

REMINDER: Sandfiedl Padlet:  Please remember to have a look at The Sandfield Padlet.  This is a resource for all parents which is regularly updated by The Inclusion Team with information on courses, wellbeing information, learning resources as well as activities and resources in our local community please click here>>

COMMUNITY NEWS 

BREAKFAST CLUB

NEWS FROM THE CLASSROOMS

RECEPTION CLASS

We’ve had a very busy first full week in Reception!
This week, we’ve been exploring our classrooms and outdoor spaces. We are making new friends and learning more about sharing each day. We’ve also been working hard on our super tidying up skills. Outside, some of us worked together to build a giant dinosaur house, equipped with outdoor slides for cars to race on! We went fishing to feed the dinosaurs in their outdoor palace! If the dinosaurs or any of our other pets get ill, we had many wonderful vets on hand to help fix anything from bruises, broken legs and even broken hearts!

In maths, we explored resources, practised some number formations and measuring in our indoor water tray. Many of us made weird and wonderful potions once we measured out the ingredients.

We have also shared lots about our families and ourselves. We made family drawings to display, which helps us have a piece of home with us in ‘Big School’.

Reception have had a brilliant and exciting start- we are very proud!

REMINDER: P.E days for Reception Class is Friday.

YEAR 1 & YEAR 2

YEAR 3 & YEAR 4

This week, as part of our India topic, Year 3 and Year 4 have been creating their own artwork inspired by the Indian artist, S.H Raza. Year 3 used wax crayons and watercolours to highlight their geometrical patterns and Year 4 used oil pastels to great effect! They learnt about the importance of ‘bindhu’ (the dot, origin of life) and how many of the shapes and colours represented the natural elements of earth, wind, fire and water. They produced some amazingly creative pieces of art – well done Year 3 and 4!

We have also been busy learning about the importance of seeds in a plant’s life cycle and how scientists collect seeds from all over the world to carry out research and conserve plant species. We looked at the work carried out in the Millennium Seed Bank at Kew Botanical Gardens and discovered that it houses over 2.4 billion seeds! The children enjoyed exploring where seeds can be found in different fruit and vegetables and observing the shapes and sizes of the seeds. Super scientific work everyone!

YEAR 5 & YEAR 6

USEFUL INFORMATION