Newsletter 4th November

World Kindness Day

Kindness is one of Brookfield's core values and we are excited to celebrate World Kindness Day on Friday, 11th November, ahead of Anti-Bullying Week the following week. Follow this link to sign your child up to The Kids' Kindness Club to inspire them to continue their journey of kindness and to think creatively about what kindness means. https://schoolofkindness.org/kids-club

Supporting Children's Mental Health

Thank you to the parents and carers who could join yesterday's mental health coffee morning. Please find attached the slides for your interest. The next mental health workshop is on Wednesday, 16th November at 9am and is about Positive Body Image.  

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing Pt 2

Ten minutes Peace Parent Workshop

Works at St Albans Road

Works are being done to the St Albans Road junction to reduce the crossing distance and provide an easier turning space for people turning left. This means that the Healthy School Street restriction is suspended at this point (the other end is still active). There may be increased levels of traffic while the works are going on, there has not been a completion date given, hopefully it shouldn't be too long.

Coat Donations

Every year, Calling London collects winter coats and jackets and then distributes them to over 30 charitable organisations - helping the homeless, victims of domestic abuse, those living in poverty, the elderly, refugees and children. We’ve been collecting coats on behalf of Calling London since 2014 and now more than ever they need our help.

Until 22^nd November all of the Chestertons London branches become donation points for the public to drop off their unwanted coats and jackets. You can read more here: http://www.chestertons.com/chestertons-coat-drive

World Kindness Day

Christmas lunch is on Wednesday 14^th December. See menu

Sayers Croft

This week, our year 6's have been enjoying their residential trip to Sayers Croft in Surrey. The classes have been absolutely brilliant and shown so much enthusiasm, kindness and resilience throughout the week. They have tried lots of new activities during the day such as caving, axe throwing and archery. In addition to that, they also enjoyed their evening actives including: a night walk, camp fire and the disco!

A huge thank you to all staff who went and contributed to organizing this trip, to the parents and carers for their support and preparation and lastly for the children for being absolute superstars!

Year 5 Shaolin Temple visit and Choral workshop

Year 5's Willow and Ash class have had two fantastic experiences recently. One was for R.E. Day on the last day of the half term when we visited the Shaolin Temple in Tufnell Park and one on the first day back this week when we had a choral music workshop with an amazing group of professional choristers led by Daniel Gethin.

At the Shaolin temple, the Grand Master gave generously of his time to educate the children on many aspects of Buddhist thought, symbolism and practice, linking to the fundaments of Kung Fu which is taught and practised there. This was a truly inspiring visit and we thank the temple for sharing their time with us.

The choral music workshop this week brought a group of professional singers to us of incredible talent and engaged, entertained and taught the children the power of rhythm and voice. They were able to seamlessly lead the children to perform some complex and powerful rounds within even a brief amount of time. We thank Daniel and his group for so generously sharing their time and talents with us.

National Gallery

This week year 4 had a fantastic trip to the National Gallery to look at paintings by the artist JMW Turner. This introduced our Art topic this half term, seascapes. We then had a go at sketching some seascapes in a similar style.

British Values

At Brookfield Primary School, we develop and promote British Values throughout our school and within our curriculum.

A key part of our plan for education is to ensure children become valuable and fully rounded members of society who treat others with respect and leave school fully prepared for life in modern Britain.

The 5 British Values that we promote are:

• The Rule of Law
• Democracy
• Individual Liberty
• Mutual Respect
• Tolerance for those of different faiths and beliefs

Music News

The Year 5s are making great progress on their ukuleles. Here is a link to some backing tracks they can use for the pieces they are learning:

https://www.learntoplaymusic.com/blog/music-lessons-for-kids/ukulele/progressive-ukulele-method-for-young-beginners-book-1/progressive-ukulele-method-for-young-beginners-book-1-exercise-media/

Wanted - Recorder players to perform at the Royal Albert Hall!

All families of musicians in Year 5 who might possibly have a recorder player at home!

Camden Youth Recorder Group is performing in a concert next April at the Royal Albert Hall, and we'd like to include as many of Camden's young recorder players as possible in this performance.

CYRG meets every Thursday from 4.30 - 5.45 at Regent High School, Chalton Street (near Mornington Crescent tube), during the school term.

Simply email rachel.barnes@camden.gov.uk to let her know your child would like to come, or for more information.

Nasal Flu Vaccination Update

We are still waiting to hear from the flu vaccination team to tell us if they are able to come back and see the children that they missed on their last visit. In the meanwhile you can book your child's vaccination at Kentish Town by calling 020 3317 5076.

Afterschool Club Booking

The latest afterschool club form is now available for Autumn 2 here. We are now accepting bookings and are welcoming the children from Reception class, children are allowed to bring a healthy snack to eat.

Bake sale update: we raised £348! Thanks to everyone that came and bought, donated goodies and generally made it fun.

Fun Run

The Fun Run will be this Sunday- 6th November. As we are fundraising for the Forest school the dress-up theme is... nature.

The sponsorship form is downloadable here.

Please use this link for donations.

Community Breakfast

Next Friday - 11th November there is a Brookfield community breakfast in the junior playground from 8am.

Winter Fair

The Winter Fair will be on December 3rd, 12-3 as usual.

Also on Friday 11th there will be a Winter Fair planning meeting at 9am in the bottom hall. Open to everyone, come & give your ideas or suggestions on how we can make this a fantastic event for everyone!

Xmas cards

Not too late to pay for your Xmas cards online here. Any problems please let us know.

Class reps

We know you all have busy lives, but it really is important that some of you step up and becomes the class reps for Blossom, Heather, and Ivy Classes. Your classes may miss out on important information or events without someone to help us communicate with them. Please don’t ignore this message! Email us to get started brookfieldschoolpta@gmail.com

Quiz date to follow shortly - it looks like we may have to schedule this for Spring term.

From the PTA Team (Sophie, Nicolai & Rob/Graeme)