Hunters Hall Primary School

Issue: 15
Snippets December 2017

Dates for the Diary “"I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!" Scrooge repeated, as
Autumn Term he scrambled out of bed.”
(Extract from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.)
Wednesday 20th December – Last
day of Autumn Term This last edition of Snippets for 2017, gives me an opportunity to
reflect upon the past term. So much has happened across the school.
Thursday 21st December –
Monday 1st January 2018 – Our Nursery children have really settled in and are proving to be
Christmas Holiday inquisitive, enthusiastic and a joy to teach. This was definitely apparent
Tuesday 2nd January 2018 – during their recent Christmas concert. Within Reception, the children have
INSET (school closed to pupils) been refining their writing skills and the progress since September has
been phenomenal. Our Years 1 and 4 have demonstrated their singing,
Wednesday 3rd January 2018 – dancing, acting and oracy talents during the recent Productions. Year 2 &
Children return to school 3 have perfected their abilities with writing based upon traditional tales.
This culminated in watching a visiting theatre company performing. Year
5 have brought together all of their knowledge and skills concluding with a
Spanish Day. Our brilliant Year 6, have demonstrated teamwork during
Attendance the residential/outdoor experience as well as more recently performing at
a range of different music events (Senior Citizens’ concert & Carols by
Our attendance is beginning to show Candlelight to name a couple) Follow our Twitter feed for more exciting
some improvement. 13 out of 18 escapades https://twitter.com/Huntershallps
classes in Key Stage 1 and Key
If we add in the fact that 213 children from Nursery to Year 6 have
Stage 2 have achieved over 96%!
100% attendance since the start of the Autumn Term which is an increase
Please keep up the good work.
of 42 pupils compared with last year. We can see that our varied
Congratulations to all 213 children curriculum is appealing to our school community.
who achieved 100% for the Autumn
term 2017! Thank you to those It was great seeing so many of our school community at our
parents who are helping Hunters “Carols by Candlelight” yesterday. Once again, the force of music and
Hall raise our attendance levels, singing was used to promote peace, harmony and togetherness.
which helps our children to get the Unfortunately as we approach the end of this term we also say
most out of their educational goodbye and good luck to some of our much loved members of staff. Mrs
experience. Sue Richardson will be retiring, whilst Mrs Ashworth and Miss Sharpe will
On Monday 18th December we be moving on to new schools in January. We wish them all the very best
celebrated the 100% attendance for the future and hope that they will all keep in touch. Once a member of
achievement with a ‘Film Night’. The the Hunters Hall family, always a member.
children had a great time with their Let me finish by wishing you all a very happy Christmas and a
peers, although Reception and Year fantastic New Year. See you in January.
1 had a greater time playing with
teddies! Michael Kaitell
Headteacher (Acting)
Next term all children will have the
opportunity to celebrate 100% Attendance
attendance at the end of the Spring
term with our ‘Big Breakfast.’
Hunters Hall needs to meet the Attendance Attendance Attendance
target of 96. 3% by the end of the Class Class Class
% % %
Summer Term (July 2018). We RL 95.53 2AC 93.65 4S 97.40
can only do this if parents support us RM 94.41 2G 96.21 5M 96.71
fully and we all understand the RMc 94.75 3F 97.08 5R 97.07
importance of NOT taking term time 1A 95.16 3K 96.10 5T 97.34
holidays or absences from school. 1E 95.19 3S 96.03 6A 95.75
1HV 95.92 4B 97.58 6N 97.17
2A 96.63 4P 96.38 6T 96.63
 After School Sports Club Sign Up
Pupils can now sign up for After School Sports Clubs, reply slips need to be handed into the school post box no
later than Monday, 8th January.
Your child will receive a confirmation slip if they have been given space in a club. Clubs are based on a first
come first served basis. Clubs will restart on the Tuesday, 9th January 2018.
You can also download the letter from the school website.

Year 5 - Spanish Day

On Tuesday, Year 5 held a Spanish Day to round off our topic on Spain. We had a Spanish lesson, learnt about
Spanish football players, made Spanish food and drink and held a party in the hall. From all of Year 5, we wish
you a ‘Merry Christmas’ or ‘Feliz Navidad!’

Nursery
On Friday 15th December, AM & PM
Nursery held their annual Christmas
performance for their families. All children
took part and had a fantastic time. They
were able to showcase their singing,
movement and memory skills.

Times Table Rock Stars ESOL Classes

Carols by Candlelight
Another very successful Carols by Candlelight concert took place yesterday evening. Mrs Bright, our fantastic
music teacher, conducted our very talented choir as well as an extremely enthusiastic audience in a repertoire of
festive favourites. Thank you to everybody who attended.