All the latest news from School!

• Summer Maths Challenge

  Fri 20 Jul 2018
  Holtspur School has taken advantage of an opportunity to be one of the schools participating in the Summer Maths Challenge, which we hope will help develop our pupils’ maths skills - without eating into their well-deserved break!

   

  Just like learning a musical instrument or playing a sport, maths is a subject children must practice to build the strong foundations they need to become fluent and move forward with confidence. This summer challenge, with its colourful progress chart and certificates, will help encourage pupils to put in that practice and make practice fun!

   

  The challenge is to complete 15 short maths practice sessions which are based on the National Curriculum for the school year your child has just completed. These ‘little and often’ sessions are perfectly crafted to sharpen maths skills without getting in the way of summer relaxation - and without keeping children at the screen for too long.

   

  Our school has been given a unique code to enter onto komodomath.com/summer so that you can access these practice sessions completely free of charge. Ours is

   

  SLHOLTSPUR

   

  All you have to do is visit komodomath.com/summer and enter this code in the ‘voucher code’ field when you sign up on the page.

   

  It’s quick, it’s free, it won’t take too much time and we really believe that participating in this initiative will have tangible benefits for our pupils.

   

  We look forward to hearing how you all got on!

   

  Good luck and enjoy the challenge,

   

  

• Summer Reading Challenge

  Fri 13 Jul 2018

  Penny from Beaconsfield Library came into assembly this morning to explain to the children about the summer reading challenge. The aim is to read 6 books over the summer from the library.

  This year’s theme is The Beano. Children will receive a pack with a treasure map and choose a character. Once they have read two books, they receive stickers for their chart giving them clues to where to find the treasure. After their 4^th book, they receive more sticker clues and glasses . Once they have read their 6^th book they will receive a certificate and medal. In the Autumn term we will have an assembly for those children who managed the reading challenge. Penny also told us about other free events at the library to sign up for – including lego club, a talk about photography tips and hints and a dinosaur expert giving a talk! We hope as many of our children as possible can join this challenge – there was certainly a big buzz about it in assembly this morning!

  

• Keeping Your Children Safe online

  Fri 06 Jul 2018

  Please see the letter we have emailed/sent via the school app to all parents regarding our work with National Online Safety. You will be able to register online so that you can access a brief course for parents to help you understand how to protect your children in the online world as well as giving you access to numerous online guides for parents for platforms as varied as YouTube to Fortnite, you can also find most of these on our website. This is a really valuable set of resources and I would urge you strongly to register and take a look at what is available to you. Registration details are in the letter emailed out.