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Year 2 Learning Together afternoon

Thu 30 Jun 2016

Year 2 held a Learning Together afternoon today when parents came to school to help children create a scene from the Great Fire of London.

Everybody was helping and supporting each other to create a scene of London from 1666, with some fantastic houses being built.

Much fun was had by all and many parents commented on the excellent behaviour and teamwork being shown by our year 2 children.

Thank you to all parents who attended, all the children for working so hard and to the year 2 staff for arranging such an exciting event.

Potato Harvest

Wed 29 Jun 2016

It is time to harvest the potatoes that each year group has been growing.

Over the next week, each year group will be digging up their potatoes and weighing each variety. The year group with the heaviest crop will be the winners.

There is another prize for the year group who has grown a potato that looks most like Mr Apps or Mr Manclark.

Who will win?

Year 2 Road Safety

Tue 28 Jun 2016

Children in year 2 were visited by some kind people from GIST Ltd as part of their Child Road Safety Programme.

One of their lorries was brought onto the school field to deliver the road safety message to give children a practical demonstration of stopping distances and driver ‘blind spots’. The children were given an opportunity to explore inside the cab of the vehicle and get to see first hand the view from the driver’s seat.

A huge thank you to the presenters from GIST.

National Smile Afternoon

Mon 27 Jun 2016

Drapers Mills Primary Academy celebrated National Smile Month with a National Smile Afternoon which took place on the field on 15^th June.

Huge thanks go to the Margate Task Force, the Lighthouse Project, Tesco, the Mobile Dental Van, Margate Football Club and many more community projects for making the afternoon fun and informative.

Key Stage 1 Sports Day

Fri 24 Jun 2016

Having being rained off yesterday, Key Stage 1 finally managed to have their sports day this morning. The sky was blue, the sun was shining and many parents turned up to watch their children take part in a number of running, throwing and jumping events.

All children put in a lot of effort and showed many of our school values whilst trying to win the Key Stage 1 Sports Day shield. Everybody deserved to win for the effort they put in and many stickers were handed out to all participants. However, there can be only one winner of the shield, which was won this year by Northern Ireland.

Thank you to all parents who came along to watch their children - they really did enjoy their mini-Olympics.

Key Stage 2 Sports Day

Thu 23 Jun 2016

The rain thankfully stayed away and Key Stage 2 were able to take part in their Sports Day this afternoon. Organised brilliantly by our own Mr Stacey and the wonderful sports coaches from Premier Sports, the children took part in many running, jumping and throwing events - their own little Rio Olympics (without the Copacabana!)

Special thanks must go to the amazing Sports Ambassadors from Chatham & Clarendon Granmar School, who helped run many of the events.

Eventually winners, England, edged out Scotland by only 8 points in a hotly contested afternoon of competition.

So many parents came to watch their children, which is always lovely to see.

Much fun was had by all.

TKAT Olympics - Crystal Palace LIVE FEED

Tue 21 Jun 2016

7.30am - We're on our way. 😀

10am - Ready for the Opening Ceremony

10.30am - Opening Ceremony

12.00 - The competition is in full flow.

12.15pm - We think Ruslans may have come first in the year 6 javelin with a throw of 16.7m.

2.00pm - CONFIRMED. Ruslans has come first in the year 6 javelin.

3.30pm - Relay Races (the staff came second)

Year 5 Music Workshops at Chatham House & Clarendon Grammar School

Fri 17 Jun 2016

On Friday some of our Year 5 children were given the fantastic opportunity to visit Chatham House Grammar School in Ramsgate for a music workshop. The children were able to learn how to play a variety of unusual instruments, such as Djembe drums, xylophones and the steel pans (this also involved a little bit of dancing which caused much hilarity!). We also used a computer programme called MAGIX to compose our own tunes.

The children displayed all our school values, especially Endeavour, Enjoyment and Respect and were amazing ambassadors for our school.

Huge thanks go to the staff at Chatham & Clarendon for inviting us to their school and arranging these fantastic workshops.

Attendance Award winners

Fri 17 Jun 2016

Congratulations to our Attendance Award winners this week.

1st Robins (year 5) 98.4%

2nd Elephants (year 4) 96.9%

3rd Flamingos (year 1) 96.3%

House Point Winners

Fri 17 Jun 2016

Congratulations to all of our children in Scotland who won the House Point Trophy this week.

1st - Scotland 1384 points

2nd - Engalnd 1297 points

3rd - Wales 1193 points

4th - Northern Ireland 1164 points