Mini Moo

Willen lake at 10:30am on August 7th

Run, walk or scoot, or do all three!

Entry: £10 per child (3 - 11 years)

Join the moovement and help Willen Hospice reach their target!

www.willen-hospice.org.uk/moo

2022 Summer Reading Challenge starts Wednesday 13^th July 2022 in Deanshanger Village Library. Partner: Science Museum Group.

Illustrator: Julian Beresford.

Looks at the science and innovation behind everyday objects.

This is a national incentive sponsored by the Reading Agency aimed at keeping children reading over the school break. The aim is to read 6 books. Books can be non-fiction, fiction, poem books, comics, manga, graphic novels, adventure stories, audiobooks, fantasy, sci-fi and shared books that you read with someone else. Sign up for a GADGETEERS! log to record the books you read.

• Collect stickers along the way.
• Get login information for countless online games, quizzes and information linked to the challenge.
• Complete the challenge to read six books and get a certificate.
• Visit the library for more details. Or watch out for a special school assembly soon.

Library Open Hours:-

Wednesdays and Fridays 10am-1pm, 2pm -5pm

Six characters, use their skills, gadgets and interests/hobbies to put on a great party to celebrate ‘reading over the summer'. Their skills include communication, teamwork, imagination, problem solving, experimentation and perseverance.

Leo mad about music and learning to play the drums. 

Aisha loves sport especially skateboarding and football. Uses non-Newtonian fluid for protective gear when on her skateboard.  

James (in a wheelchair) likes fashion and drawing, owns a holographic generator!

Eddie (she) likes games and dance, tries out kinetic tiles on the dance floor.

Ajay loves gardening and the environment.

Maggie (wears sensory earphones when things get too noisy), loves cooking and stopping food waste...

Also at Deanshanger Library ...

Friends of Deanshanger Library (FoDL) supports GADGETEERS!

These activity and craft sessions will make signing up for

GADGETEERS! even more fun!

Linking into the SRC theme discover a micro-world of patterns, fingerprints, microscopes and magnifying glasses. Use junk modelling to build moon buggies, satellite stations and rockets. Join in our Mad Scientist fancy dress day, become Inspector Gadget and design you own crazy invention and have fun thinking about the intriguing area of communication! Create paper planes, coke bottle rockets… so many things to explore!

Dates (please note change of day from Friday’s regular term-time craft sessions)

Wednesday 27^th July 2pm-4.30pm

Wednesday 3^rd August 2pm- 4.30pm

Wednesday 10^th August 2pm-4.30pm

Wednesday 17^th August 2pm-4.30pm

Wednesday 24^th August 2pm-4.30pm

Wednesday 31^st August 2 pm - 4.30 pm

All sessions are free, drop-in, no need to book. Under 8’s must be accompanied by an adult. You can join SRC without attending the craft sessions they simply offer more fun and are unique to Deanshanger.

A huge thank you to all of our wonderful parents and children who joined us for our parents' meeting on Monday evening (4th July). It was lovely to all be together and share lots of information about the years ahead. The team are all so excited to get started in September and they have been busy spending time with the parents this week, to discuss individual needs!

Our wonderful Reception team will be, Mrs. Neville (Elmer Class) and Mrs. Jacobs (Paddington Class), supported by Mrs. Kelsey and Mrs.Tapp. Amongst the names of our dedicated Reception Team with a combined time teaching at our school for over 40 years! We have a lovely new addition - Mrs. Jacobs! Mrs. Jacobs will be joining us in September, and we are very lucky to gain such an incredible member of staff! Mrs. Jacobs is starting her teaching career and we can't wait to support Mrs. Jacobs with our experienced team! We are all very much looking forward to September!

As Reception and Year 1 Phase Leader, I am excited to get to know you and support the team and you all too.

 If you have a child who will be starting school in September 2023, please feel free to contact the office to arrange a tour of our school, including our amazing outdoor learning spaces and our fantastic forest school! 

Miss Steph Forward 

Sforward@deanshanger.northants.sch.uk

The Year 6 children will be sitting their Statutory Assessment Tests (SATs) next week on Monday 9th, Tuesday 10th, Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th May. It is essential that the children attend school every day and that they are in school on time.  The Y6 classes will be invited into class from the regular time of 8.50am, to enjoy healthy snacks and help prepare and relax them. The Year 6 team will be there to make sure that the children feel ready for the day ahead.

This weekend, please support your child to relax as much as possible. Make sure that they have an early night and feel fully rested for the week ahead. Please remind them that they are well-prepared for the tests and that all we want is for them to try their hardest.

The SATs are a snapshot of what your child has learned in primary school and the results depend on how well they perform on the day.  As the team that works with your children, we can honestly say that each and every child has made fantastic progress this academic year in multiple ways, and not just academically. We are very proud of the hard work and resilience they have shown in preparing for the tests despite the challenges of the last couple of years and lockdown etc. The SATs are important and are almost a 'rite of passage into secondary education, but they do not define your children; we know the plethora of additional skills and talents that they hold and the personal attributes and school values that they consistently display. 

Monday 9th May  English grammar, punctuation and spelling Paper 1: questions English grammar, punctuation and spelling Paper 2: spelling

Tuesday 10th May  English reading

Wednesday 11th May  Mathematics Paper 1: arithmetic Mathematics Paper 2: reasoning

Thursday 12th May   Mathematics Paper 3: reasoning

On Friday 13th May, we will have a trip out to the Pocket Park. 

Test Results
You will receive test results for your child in English reading, English grammar, punctuation and spelling (SPaG), and mathematics. There is no test for English writing; this will be reported using teacher assessment. You will be given your child’s scaled score and whether they have reached the expected standard set by the Department for Education (‘NS’ means that the expected standard was not achieved and ‘AS’ means the expected standard was achieved).

The range of scaled scores available for each KS2 test is 80 (the lowest scaled score that can be awarded) and 120 (the highest scaled score). 

• 80 (the lowest scaled score that can be awarded)
• 80-99- working below the national expected standard
• 100- 110 working at the expected standard
• 111-120 suggests working at a greater depth

The expected standard for each test is a scaled score of 100 or more. If a child is awarded a scaled score of 99 or less they won't have achieved the expected standard in the test.