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Leopard: Jack H For being so enthusiastic about his Pirate writing! Well done Jack, the sentence describing your pirate was a super piece of independent writing! |
Zebra: Halle C For her enthusiasm. Halle has been pattern hunting in the environment and has stretched her learning to create multiple patterns using a variety of equipment independently. Well done superstar! |
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Bear: Iris W For excellent sportsmanship and team work in PE sessions, playing fairly and being a great role model. |
Otter: Willow J For remembering your finger spaces when writing an impressive suspense story around the Great Fire of London and for being a very well behaved member of Otter Class! Well done! |
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Lion: Mason O For creating a fantastic piece of artwork based on the work of Piet Mondrian. You made great use of your stamped lines and primary colours to create a masterpiece. Well done Mason! |
Dolphin: Teddy C For showing more determination and resilience when working on activities. For striving to achieve more in each lesson. Well done Teddy, keep up the good work. |
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Panda: James M-L For completing excellent work in maths when learning how to read scales for measurement. Good work James! |
Tiger: Grayson H For enthusiastically working on all his assessments this week and for being a kind and helpful member of Tiger Class. Well done Grayson! |
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Giraffe: Evie A For always applying a consistent, enthusiastic and superb effort to everything she does |
Turtle: Miller R For being an all-rounder. He has been working extra hard to improve his handwriting, he has been challenging himself in his lessons by picking the harder task and he is polite to the adults and his peers. Well done! |
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Monkey: Florence C For excellent work in English. Flo has meticulously crafted a captivating biography that truly shines. |
Kangaroo: Megan C For working really hard on your sports personality biography. Well done Megan, your writing is really improving! |
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Koala: Noah D For his improvement in his control of the tennis ball in our PE lessons over this half term and for his well chosen vocabulary in his writing – trying to select more powerful verbs and adjectives. |
W/E: 22/03/24
If your child takes too much time off school they will become categorised as PA or persistently absent. Missing school will make your child fall behind in lessons and will impact on their academic progress and achievement.
Below is the percentage of children per year group who currently fall into this category. If you are worried about your child’s school attendance, please do not hesitate to contact the school where we can work with you to improve this.
| Year Group | % of Persistent Absences |
|---|---|
| R | 10% |
| 1 | 10% |
| 2 | 7% |
| 3 | 18% |
| 4 | 11% |
| 5 | 14% |
| 6 | 6% |
| Overall | 11% |
Reading AwardsWell done to the following children who have received their Bronze award for reading 50 times.
Year 1/2
Year 5/6
Well done to the following children who have received their Silver award for reading 100 times.
EYFS
Year 1/2
Year 3/4
Year 5/6
Below are a list of letters, leaflets and posters uploaded to the website this week.
Half-Term Holiday Camps – Easter
Letters sent this week
Previous letters, leaflets and posters can be found on the school website Parents > Letters to Parents
You can find out all about what your child will be learning over the coming weeks. Additionally, it contains some ideas and suggestions for how you could support your child’s learning at home, including: books to read together, ideas for activities, days out and programmes/videos to watch that link in with the theme. We hope you find it useful.
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Each week, we will be sharing with you which KS2 class has read the most words. We will find this out by using data from the Accelerated Quizzes.
Children must score over 70% in their quiz for the book to count towards their class word count.
Below is this weeks results
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Class Name |
Total Word count |
Rank |
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Monkey |
6,651,554 |
1 |
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Kangaroo |
5,649,337 |
2 |
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Koala |
3,995,852 |
3 |
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Turtle |
2,774,267 |
4 |
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Panda |
1,925,632 |
5 |
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Giraffe |
1,163,010 |
6 |
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Tiger |
790,602 |
7 |
Congratulations to the top 2 children in each class, based on the amount of words read.
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Class |
1st |
2nd |
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Giraffe |
Evie A-B |
George N |
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Turtle |
Sophie H |
Benjamin H |
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Panda |
Samuel S |
Finley T-W |
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Tiger |
Lydia T |
Mia B |
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Monkey |
Prathyush R |
Noah H |
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Kangaroo |
Warwick B |
Harley L |
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Koala |
Freya S |
Isla B |
Each term, class teachers will award a child with:
“The Writer of the Term”
The child is chosen for producing a piece of writing during the school term that is felt to be worthy of this high praise. A copy of the work is sent home with the child.
This half-terms Writers of the Term are:-
EYFS
Adalyn T (Leopard)
Naomi L (Zebra)
KS1
Oliver O (Lion)
Hudson B (Bear)
Rechard C (Otter)
Michelle D (Dolphin)
LKS2
Freddie H (Giraffe)
Miller R (Turtle)
Ronnie M (Panda)
Joshua C (Tiger)
UKS2
Prathyush R (Monkey)
Grace W (Kangaroo)
Vienna C (Koala)
Times TablesCongratulations to the following Year 3/4 children who have earned their;
Silver award as they can fluently and rapidly recall the 3,4,6 and 11 times tables.
Year 3 and 4 were entered in a ‘Battle of the Bands’ from 18th – 27th March.
| Position | Class | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Giraffe | 1678 |
| 2 | Tiger | 770 |
| 3 | Turtle | 620 |
| 4 | Panda | 58 |
Congratulations to Giraffe class on winning this competition, against the rest of Year 3 and 4.
Below are the top 5 per class;
Giraffe
Turtle
Panda
Tiger
Congratulations to Green team for earning the most team points this week.
This weeks team points were counted by Rashford team captains.
Congratulations to Rashford team, who have earned the most amount of team points this half-term. As a reward you will have extra play on Friday 19th April.
On Monday 25th March, the High Five team played against Grove Wood Primary school. The standard of play was really high and although our team did not take the win, they tried really hard and never gave up until the final whistle was blown. Everyone worked together and we saw some great interceptions and brilliant teamwork. The final score didn’t show how hard they tried and all the girls should be proud of how they played against a very tall, experienced year six team. You all demonstrated great resilience and sportsmanship so well done! The player of the match was Scarlett who read the game very well and made some excellent interceptions. We will keep practicing and next year we will be ready!
We are thrilled to announce that the Year 5/6 Riverside football team has emerged triumphant in the Rayleigh Schools football league! After months of dedication, teamwork, and perseverance, our players have something to show for all of their hard work.
To see more posters swipe your screen. Further posters for events can be found by clicking here.
14 May 2024 — GSSE online registration link opens at 9am. Parents can register for the 11+ tests through the CSSE website: www.csse.org.uk or by completing the postal form in the Information Guide.
28 June 2024 — Deadline date for receipt of evidence supporting requests for special arrangements.
28 June 2024 — GSSE Registration closes at 5pm
17 July 2024 — Test centre letters should be received by parents.
AUTUMN TERM — LOCAL AUTHORITIES DISTRIBUTE INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR APPLICATION PROCESS
21 September 2024 — SATURDAY MAIN 11+ DAY
1 October 2024 — TUESDAY TEST DAY for applicants that have a religious objection to sitting on a Saturday or are ill on the main day.
14 October 2024 — Results will be emailed to all candidates.
31 October 2024 — Published closing date for the receipt of applications to Local Authorities.
1 March 2025 — NATIONAL OFFER DATE
Please email admin@riversideprimary.co.uk with a brief description along with any photos of their achievement. We’ll be thrilled to showcase their success in our weekly newsletters.
Below is a timetable of when your child will have PE, after Easter half-term.
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
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Panda Otter Bear |
Kangaroo Koala |
Tiger Leopard Zebra |
Monkey Lion Dolphin |
Turtle Giraffe |
Please note: Panda, Tiger, Turtle and Giraffe classes will require their Swimming kits on their PE day.
We are operating a two week rolling menu. The menus, ingredients and allergen lists can be viewed on our website by clicking here.
School Dinners cost £2.60 per day.
We are pleased to announce that Riverside Primary School is a United Against Bullying Bronze School. It has been recognised that we have demonstrated our commitment to stopping bullying and improving the wellbeing of our pupils. We have worked very hard to put in place a wide variety of strategies to prevent bullying or on the rare occasions that it does occur, to support children.
We will be proudly displaying our official certificate in school and continuing to work hard to prevent bullying in our school.
Miss Marshall and Mrs Chandler
ComputerXplorers Easter holiday clubs are coming to Essex. Booking for our Easter holiday clubs is open this week! Our holiday clubs are STEM focused and supported by the Department for Education and local authorities. We would like to support the families and their children living in south Essex.
We have FREE spaces available for children receiving free meals. Parents can just use the voucher code received from the school to book these FREE spaces. A hot nutritious meal will be provided to each free space every day. For secondary school children, we can request a voucher code for them. Spaces are very limited! In addition, we plan to launch Jamie Oliver Ministry of Food training programme this year, which is funded by Essex county council.
Please see below the booking links of our Easter holiday clubs:
EASTER FUN TECH HOLIDAY CLUB (HOCKLEY) – Venue: Greensward Academy
EASTER FUN TECH HOLIDAY CLUB (SOUTHEND) – Venue: King’s Road United Reformed Church
Tax free childcare vouchers can be used to pay for Breakfast and Twilight sessions.
Breakfast club cost £6 per session.
Please arrive in between 7.30 – 8.15am. Your child will be walked back to their class by a member of staff when the school day begins.
Included in this cost will be a drink and a breakfast of toast and cereal.
The children can take part in many different activities including board games, laptops, painting etc.
Twilight club cost £7.50 per session.
Twilight Club runs from 3:15pm to 5pm. Your child will be taken to Twilight club by their class teacher at the end of the school day.
Included in this cost children are provided with a drink and healthy snack
The children can take part in many different activities including board games, laptops, film/CBBC/Cbeebies, painting etc.
Bookings must be booked 24 hours in advance via ParentPay.
Twilight Mobile: 07597 007571
Dates not shown on previous issues are added in RED!
Easter Break
Monday 1st April 2024 – Friday 12th April 2024
15/04/24 — Children return to school
15/04/24 — All clubs begin this week
18/04/24 — Year 2 SATS Parent Meeting at 9am
19/04/24 — Winning Team Extra Play
19/04/24 — PTA Egg-citing Easter Event – RESCHEDULED
22/04/24 — Year 6 Mersea Island Parent Meeting at 3.30pm
29/04/24 — Year 4 leave for Kingswood
29/04/24 — Year 3 Skreens Park Parent Meeting at 3.30pm
29/04/24 — Deadline to order Year 6 School Leaver’s Hoodie
01/05/24 — Year 4 return from Kingswood
02/05/24 — SEN Coffee Morning
08/05/24 — Year 2 Postal Museum Trip
13-16/05/24 — Year 6 SATS Week
17/05/24 — PTA: National Children’s Day – Non uniform
17-23/05/24 — Years 2, 5 & 6 Sumdog East of England Maths Contest
18/05/24 — PTA: Colour Run
23/05/24 — EYFS Parent Drop-in
24/05/24 — NON-PUPIL DAY
Half-Term
Monday 27th May – Friday 31st May 2024
03/05/24 — Children return to school
04/06/24 — PTA Father’s Day Sale
05/06/24 — Class Photographs
10/06/24 — Andy Turner (Olympian) Meeting
12/06/24 — EYFS new parents meeting at 5pm
13/06/24 — EYFS trip to Thorndon Country Park
15/06/24 — PTA Summer fete
18/06/24 — Year 6 leave for Mersea Island
21/06/24 — Year 6 return from Mersea Island
27/06/24 — Sweyne Park Year 7 (current Year 6’s) Parent Induction Meeting at 7pm
28/06/24 — Sweyne Park Year 7 (current Year 6’s) Induction Day at 8.45am
28/06/24 — Jump Up Day
28/06/24 — New EYFS Stay & Play Session 1
01/07/24 — Year 3 to Skreens (1st Class Leave)
02/07/24 — Year 3 to Skreens (1st Class Return, 2nd class leaves)
03/07/24 — Year 3 to Skreens (2nd Class Return)
04/07/24 — SEN Coffee Morning
05/07/24 — Year 6 Performance to school
08/07/24 — District Sports
09/07/24 — Year 6 Performance to parents (more information will be sent nearer the time)
10/07/24 — Sports Day
11/07/24 — PTA: EYFS & KS1 Summer Disco – PM
12/07/24 — All clubs end by today
12-18/07/24 — Years 2, 5 & 6 Sumdog East of England Maths Contest
12/07/24 — New EYFS Stay & Play Session 2
12/07/24 — PTA KS2 Summer Disco
17/07/24 — Sports Day (Reserve)
18/07/24 — PTA: Year 6 Leavers Party
19/07/24 — EYFS Parent Drop-in
23/07/24 — Year 6 Graduation (more information will be sent nearer the time)
23/07/24 — Children break up for the Summer