Today we celebrated Chinese New Year. A lady from the Chinese Arts Centre in Manchester came to visit and took classes in Ribbon dancing, mask making and origami.
What did your class do?
Here is a video of the ribbon dancing
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To see the January newsletter click here : January 2012 (1)
If you would like to receive a copy of this Newsletter by email please send an email to:
deans.primaryschool@salford.gov.uk and mark it Newsletter.
Some of the children in Y3 have just started taking part in the 100WC. each week there is a writing ‘prompt’ to that you have to include in your piece of writing. For further details have a look at the website (100wc.net)
Why not have a look at the Y3 blog to see what they have been doing and if you would like to take part just let me know.
Mr Harris
Here are some photos from our Christmas assembly
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Here is a video form the foundation stage Christmas performance of Whoops-a-Daisy-Angel
Here is a higher quality version of the video
Here are some photos and a video of Y1 & Y2′s production of Penguin Pete, taken at the dress rehearsal.
Here is a higher quality version of the video
Click here to see the December Newsletter December 2011
This afternoon the children in KS2 held their Christmas market. Over the last few days the children have been busy making things to sell at the market as part of a unit of work on business enterprise. The children will be deciding what they want to spend the profits on.
Have a look at the photos to see what was on sale.
Hopefully, we won’t have a repeat of the extreme weather conditions experienced in the past two years. In the event of snow, our main aim is to ensure the safety and well being of all children, parents, carers and staff. This may result in the possibility that the school may have to close for all children or for certain classes, but I must stress only under extreme circumstances.
The reason for this is that most teachers live a distance from school, and travel may be very difficult and indeed dangerous for them. We will of course make every effort to remain open. Closure is based on careful risk assessment and decision making with the Chair of Governors and Local Authority.
The school should be regarded as open until you hear via one of the following that it is closed:
Text message
Text messaging is our primary contact method and so it is essential that your contact details are up to date. Please inform the office of new numbers etc. We will also inform parents through the answer phone and the school website.
Any decision to close the school will be made as early as possible.
If a decision is made to close the school before the normal end of the school day, we will text message parents and supervise children until the earliest opportunity you are able to collect them. Therefore, parents who are at work or unlikely to be at home will need to make ‘emergency arrangements’ in advance, for child care.
The school website will be updated regularly as a primary mode of communication for instances of severe weather. Please check for regular updates at www.thedeansprimary.co.uk
If the school remains open some areas of the school grounds may be closed. We will grit a distinct path at the main entrance to the school on Vicarage Road. Children should enter school via the main entrance and then proceed to the hall through the KS2 entrance (similar arrangements are in place for wet mornings). The children in the Nursery and YR will come into school through the door up the ramp nearest to Y2 classroom. The doors will be opened at 8.45 a.m.
It may be possible that paths become unsafe during the day when there is no caretaking cover available to regrit the paths. It is, therefore, very important that extreme care is taken when coming onto the school premises later in the day. Paths outside the school are outside the school’s area of responsibility. If they are dangerous we will alert the Highways Department of the situation and request their attention.
Please note that this will only apply in extreme weather conditions. These are very rare occurrences.
Please be assured that we will try our best to keep the school open.
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All the children have been busy today walking 2012 steps for our main fund raising event of the year. The children also got a turn carrying the Olympic flame
Would you like to hear a story? There’s 1001 of them on this fantastic website! Have a listen
Today we once again welcomed Andy Tooze to The Deans. Andy visited each class and read them some of his poems. He also encouraged the children to write their own poems and read out some of his favourites.
Here are Andy’s top tips for writing poems
Andy’s top ten tips for writing poetry
1. Find a comfortable place where you can write.
2. Get yourself an attractive jotter to write in.
3. Find something to write about that interests you, friends, family, football, feelings or even something not beginning with an ‘F’.
4. Don’t worry whether your poems are long or short, funny or serious, rhyming or non rhyming, just have a go and you’ll soon develop your own style.
5. Don’t compare them to other peoples poems. Only you can write about how you see the world.
6. Always read your poems back to yourself and edit them if they need it [if you’re anything like me your poems will need lots of editing.]
7. Don’t worry if you have an off day, week or month. It happens to everyone.
8. Read as much as you can. The more you read the better your writing will become.
9. Ask people whom you trust to give you their opinions about your poems. You could even enter competitions if you want to.
10. Have fun! If you’re not enjoying it you won’t write good poetry! (probably).
Here are three of his poems
Dinner ladies Spiders in the cloak room Lunch time Got to go
If you missed out buying one of his poetry books you can buy them from his website here. The poet from the Peaks
For nearly two weeks now Daniel has been working on an art project at The Deans. Groups of children have been working along side Daniel to produce an enormous mosaic which will be displayed in thd playground when it is finished.
There will be a meeting for all parents and children about the visit to Winmarleigh Hall on Friday 9th September at 3.40pm in the school hall.
During the visit we hope to keep you updated with photos on a new blog which can be found by clicking here – The Deans at Winmarliegh Hall blog
Welcome back to a new school year. We hope you’ve had a good holiday and rest and are ready for a new term. We’ve got lots of exciting events planned this year which we hope to give you a flavour of on the school blog
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All the children got a chance to have a go at fencing today
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Earlier this evening we held The Deans Musical Evening at The Globe theatre in The Swinton High School. All the children in Key Stage Two took part. The children in Year 3 sang some songs that they had been learning with Mrs Whitehead on the theme of music in Europe. We listened to the woodwind and brass orchestras in Years 4 and 5. We were also entertained by the Samba drumming in Year 6.
Well done to everyone who took part. The Deans has Musical talent!
