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Neston Netballers introduce new summer team tops while competing in Wiltshire Swindon School Games!
School Choir Tracks & Lyrics
Here are the audio tracks and lyrics if you need them. Happy singing!
Newsletter - Issue 7
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Neston's Tag-rugby team come 2nd in their group and win the fair play trophy!
A huge well done to Captain Tom and his team: James, Kian, Kate, Zoe, Ben, Gen, Lily, Will and Thomas!
A super well done to our hockey team for making it to the Mid Wilts Primary School play offs!
Congratulations to Captain Kian and his team: Rachel, Zoe, Isabelle, Martha, James, Maddy, Genevieve, Ben and Olivia!
MDSA Post
We are looking to recruit an MDSA to join our friendly and valued team to help supervise the children during lunchtimes. Please click here to see the full advert
Newsletter Issue 6
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Aquathon Runners-Up
Congratulations to four of our year 6 pupils who finished runners-up in the Corsham Regional Schools Aquathon, in which they had to swim AND run! Another Neston sporting success - well done!
FONS Easter Egg Hunt - Rearranged to Fri 18th March
Please note that the FONS Easter Egg Hunt will now take place after school on Friday 18th March to avoid any clashes with extra-curricular clubs.
More details will be announced by FONS soon.
Parent Questionnaire Results 2016
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Orienteering Teams Finish in 1st and 2nd
Congratulations to four of our Year 6's who represented Neston in two teams of two, at the Corsham competition. The teams came in first and second and received these certificates in the whole school Celebration Assembly on Friday morning. Well done!
Talking Head
Dear Parents
As you are all aware, reading is at the heart of children’s success in school and we want children to read regularly and as widely as possible. Our library is constantly being stocked with a wide range of reading material suitable for all ages and abilities; please come in and take a look.
During our TD day, we received some training from the renowned author and government advisor Jean Gross who gave us some very useful guidance on supporting children with their reading.
As a team, we are working very hard to support children with phonics, decoding (reading individual words) and with inference and deduction. This skill enables children to read between the lines and answer more complex questions about a text. We need to ensure that the children can decode and understand what they have read, before we move them on to more complex texts. I’ll give you an example of what it is like to decode.
Corandric is an emurient grof with many fibs; it granks with corite, an olg which cargs like lange.
Question 1. What is corandric?
Question 2. What does corandric grank with?
You will probably find that you can read it and answer the simple questions (decode) but if you were to be asked more complex questions which tested how well you can read between the lines and fully understand what you have read, you may struggle!
Ms Patrick, who leads English at Neston, is working with the team to develop some questions which support children’s decoding skills and their deeper understanding of texts. You can use these at home and we aim to publish these very soon.
Happy reading!
With warmest wishes
Pam Evans
Head Teacher
Corsham Youth Council Photography Competition
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FONS Quiz 2016
Tickets can be bought from Class Reps
Willow - Lisa Blackman
Oak - Natalie Brett
Silver Birch - Sam Spruels
Hazel - Morven Lamont
Chestnut - Sally Dellar
Maple - Jacqui Wilmshurst
Beech - Tracy-An Walpole
We really need to kick-start the fundraising and need all of your support to achieve our goals. This year we are running a Pay Bar on the night and we will be stocked up with reasonably priced drinks and snacks to help keep those brains ticking over during the quiz.
There are also some great prizes up for grabs for the winning team. FONS Chairman Martin Punter will again be Quizmaster, although we cannot guarantee a whole round on Strictly Come Dancing this time out!
We look forward to seeing you there.
Thank you,
FONS