Brunswick Park Staff Changes & Upcoming Dates.pdf

This month's Focus Value is Gratitude.
Upcoming Dates:
Children return to school: 23 April 08:45
Daily Mile Begins: 24 April 08:40-08:55
Cricket Club: 24 April 15:45-16:45
Over Parents' Evenings on 1 and 2 April more than 60 of you completed our latest survey for parents and carers; the most ever.
This means we have a representative sample to help us plan effectively for the school's future.
To show our gratitude, every parent/carer completing the survey was entered into a prize draw for Amazon Vouchers.
Thank you for completing our survey!
FIRST PRIZE = £50 goes to Syprinne's (3B) Mum;
SECOND PRIZE = £25 goes to Leon's (4A) Mum;
THIRD PRIZE = £10 goes to Tyler's (1A) Mum
You will probably be aware of recent concerns around physical inactivity and childhood obesity.
As they go through primary school, many children put on weight and, across the UK, around 35% of pupils in Year 6 are categorised as overweight or obese.
In addition, many 10-year olds lack basic fitness.
The Daily Mile is an initiative which was started in February 2012 by Elaine Wyllie, who was then Head Teacher of a large Scottish primary school.
She was concerned by the children’s obvious lack of fitness and went on to prove The Daily Mile to be both sustainable and effective in combating inactivity and obesity in her school.
The result was that, in November 2015, the Scottish Government wrote to every Scottish primary school to recommend that they implement the scheme too.
In addition, in August 2016 the UK government’s Childhood Obesity strategy identified and supported The Daily Mile’s contribution towards the recommended hour that children should spend taking daily exercise in school.
The Daily Mile is very simple to start in a school.
Every child in a school or nursery goes out in the fresh air to run or jog at their own pace for 15 minutes.
It is not competitive though some will compete and that is fine.
Most children will average a mile in the 15 minutes, with some doing more and some doing less.
It is not PE, sport or cross-country but physical activity in a social setting that is aimed at improving the children’s physical, social, emotional and mental health and well being.
The children run in their ordinary school clothes with trainers being ideal but not essential.
It can help children to focus and concentrate in the classroom and raise their attainment.
And most importantly, the children really enjoy it.
Since 2015, The Daily Mile has been adopted by almost 3,000 schools in the UK alone, proving extraordinarily popular with thousands of children, parents and teachers.
The initiative is also attracting strong overseas interest, and schools have signed up in over 40 different countries.
Globally, it has been adopted by over 5,000 schools.
Southwark Council has pledged to support the introduction of The Daily Mile to all its schools over the next 4 years.
We will be introducing The Daily Mile to Brunswick Park after Easter starting on 24 April.
Initially our Daily Mile will be on Wednesday mornings before School in the Key Stage 2 playground starting at exactly 8.40 am.
Pupils from Years 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 can take part.
They should come to school as normal in their uniform but with suitable footwear.
If it is raining then the Daily Mile will be cancelled.
After the 15 minutes pupils will then go straight to class.
If you have any questions please get in touch.
Kind regards Andrew Payne
The Daily Mile Comes to Brunswick
Children fit for life
Spring Holiday Maths Challenge Y2-Y6
The Maths Challenge for the Spring Holiday for pupils from Year 2 to Year 6 is to design a ‘Figure Me Out’ poster based on information about you.
Instead of giving away the answers, can you think of a challenging number sentence for people to solve?
How creative will you be?
How tricky can you make your clues?
Here are some examples:
This challenge should be tailored to your child's age and stage of development.
The Challenge is not suitable for children in Nursery, Reception or Year 1, as they are not given maths work to do at home; their homework is daily reading.
Our Maths Leaders Edel Fallon and Gwen Adebiyi and the children's teachers will model each Year Group's approach from Year 2-6 so the children know what to do.
Maths Morning 29 March 2019
Investigating Triangles, from Reception to Year 6