The deadline to order the Year 6 Leavers Hoodie is Monday 29th April.
Please ensure payment has been made, and the Google Form has been completed by the 29th April. Further details can be found on the letter dated 18th March.
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Leopard: Megan F For trying so hard with all of your learning and always challenging yourself during independent learning time. We are so proud of you Megan! |
Zebra: Hallie G For her perseverance in PE. In gymnastics, Hallie performed a standing tall pose and a tuck pose held her balance for beyond 5 seconds, excellent work Hallie! |
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Bear: Lucie S For always striving to achieve her best and for fantastic presentation skills and beautiful handwriting across the curriculum. Amazing work Lucie! |
Otter: Alexander S For working hard in all your lessons and for creating a wonderful story map of ‘Jasper’s Beanstalk’! Keep up the good work! |
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Lion: Oliver O For having an excellent attitude towards his learning all week. Oliver has enjoyed sharing thoughtful answers with the class, completed his independent work brilliantly and has been a fantastic role model to his peers. What a superstar! |
Dolphin: Sophie D For being such a kind and caring member of the class and for supporting others with their learning. Thank you, Sophie. |
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Panda: Ruby M For demonstrating a fantastic attitude to learning in all subjects since returning from the Easter break. Excellent effort Ruby! |
Tiger: Lydia T For writing some excellent sentences using speech punctuation and for always striving to do her best. Amazing effort Lydia! |
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Giraffe: Freddie H For being passionate about learning, his enthusiasm, working hard, contributing in class and being an all-round superstar! |
Turtle: Abigail S For taking part in a discussion about the sugar tax. She was very articulate in her arguments for and against, keeping it balanced. |
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Monkey: Jayson A For excellent work when measuring angles. |
Kangaroo: Logan S-S For working consistently hard in English, creating a detailed story map and writing a lovely description of a meadow. |
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Koala: Brandon M For his amazing writing this week! He has produced some wonderfully descriptive sentences using the success criteria to really support him. This show how much he is concentrating in our English lessons well done Brandon! |
W/E: 29/03/24
This week we held a meeting for Year 2 parents to attend regarding the KS1 SATs. This involved discussing the layout of the test papers, further information about the tests, useful dates and ways to help at home. Please find attached the slides that were used to support this meeting as well as a document containing further parent guidance.
If you have any questions regarding the SATs, please feel free to contact me or your child’s class teacher via the class email address.
Kindest regards,
Miss Smith
Information for parents: national curriculum tests at the end of key stage 1 from 2024
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 | 11% |
| 2 | 9% |
| 3 | 20% |
| 4 | 13% |
| 5 | 16% |
| 6 | 6% |
| Overall | 12% |
Reading AwardsWell done to the following children who have received their Bronze award for reading 50 times.
Year 1/2
Year 3/4
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
Well done to the following children who have received their Gold award for reading 200 times.
Year 1/2
Year 3/4
Below are a list of letters, leaflets and posters uploaded to the website this week.
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.
L played with his team Hadleigh Youth U11’s yesterday in a very important match V’s Bowers and Pitsea at the Southend Junior League Cup Final. It was held at Hullbridge F.C. Its been a long and hard season and they have battled each week. 80 different teams entered the league and Leo and the team did an amazing job getting to the final 2 teams yesterday, Amazingly after a 3-1 win, they came away well deserved champions yesterday morning with the trophy. A day to remember and be proud of for sure.
N was given a challenge in January by Hullbridge library, who felt that the summer reading challenge wasn’t enough of a challenge for him. The challenge is Bookopoly. It looks like monopoly, and every space has a suggestion for the type of book to read. He recently completed the challenge and after a chat about the books he read, N was given a certificate by the lovely Sarah, at the library.
Please do not allow children to play on the equipment either before/after school. At the end of the day, parents and children should leave the site promptly . This enables us to open up the playground for our other clubs. Thank you.
Please note that the day in KS2 does not start until 8:40am when the doors open. Children should not be left unsupervised on the playground before this time. Children should not play on the equipment. Thank you
Blake H and Lydia H who both perform at the Mushroom Theatre Companies in a show called “I found a place”, were both helpful, responsible and very considerate to other performers with Special Needs.
Several times this was commented on and it made me feel very proud to say they were both pupils at Riverside Primary. Well done and keep up the good work.
Mrs Rust
Times TablesCongratulations to the following Year 3/4 children who have earned their;
Bronze award as they can fluently and rapidly recall the 2,5 and 10 times tables.
Silver award as they can fluently and rapidly recall the 3, 4, 6 and 11 times tables.
Gold award as they can fluently and rapidly recall the 7,8,9 and 12 times tables.
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 |
7,064,570 |
1 |
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Kangaroo |
6,450,217 |
2 |
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Koala |
4,104,317 |
3 |
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Turtle |
3,208,611 |
4 |
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Panda |
1,985,980 |
5 |
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Giraffe |
1,205,098 |
6 |
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Tiger |
1,063,450 |
7 |
Congratulations to Green team for earning the most team points this week.
This weeks team points were counted by Parks team captains.
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.
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.
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!
22/04/24 — Year 6 Mersea Island Parent Meeting at 3.30pm – Blue Hall
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
01/05/24 — PTA Meeting at 1pm
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
23/05/24 — PTA Krispy Kreme Sale
24/05/24 — NON-PUPIL DAY
Half-Term
Monday 27th May – Friday 31st May 2024
03/05/24 — Children return to school
03/06/24 — Year 6 Leavers Party Fundraising begins
03/06/24 — PTA Meeting at 1pm
04/06/24 — PTA Father’s Day Sale
05/06/24 — Class Photographs
07/06/24 — PTA Paint & Prosecco Evening – 7pm
10/06/24 — Andy Turner (Olympian) Meeting
10/06/24 — Race to Paris with Andy Turner
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
04/07/24 — PTA Meeting at 1pm
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
10/07/24 — PTA Sports Day Breakfast Bar
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
15/07/24 — Year 6 Leavers Party Fundraising ends
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