Weekly Bulletin:Friday 2nd May 2025
Headteacher’s message to parents/carers
Dear Parents/Carers,
What a wonderful week of warm sunny weather! It’s been the perfect week for our lunchtimes to move into ‘summer mode’, with children on the field every lunchtime, as well as in the Glade and on the lower playground. Along with the lunchtime opening of our new sandpit, we’ve also had music playing so that children (and staff!) can dance, cricket games on the field and creative work with children making daisy chains and grass cities. We are so lucky to have so much lovely outside space!
Just a reminder: although there is shade available around the field, in the Gazebo and in the Glade, on sunny days please do remember to send your child in with a hat to wear outside and sun cream already applied in the morning.
Also this week, I’d like to welcome Mrs Abdullah to Team Tunbury. Mrs Abdullah is our new Assistant Headteacher and Senco, who will be working full-time with us in September but is joining us for 2 days per week in the summer term. At the same time, we currently still have our Interim Senco Mrs Harris still working with us 1 day per week, so we are lucky enough to have two qualified and experienced Sencos working with us at the same time. Mrs Abdullah is looking forward to getting to know everyone over the coming weeks and months.
One of my highlights of this week has been children’s enthusiasm for learning and sense of fun. For example, I have visited Pink class (in Year 2) a few times recently and it’s a real delight to see how much progress they are making as we approach the summer term. We often find that children’s learning is at ‘top speed’ at this time of year, and our super-learners in Pink class are no exception. Well done and keep up the hard work!
Have a lovely (long) weekend everyone – back to school on Tuesday next week.
Best wishes
Ruth Austin
Headteacher
Netball Mini Youth Games
Last Thursday our Tunbury netball team took part in the Mini Youth Games at Medway Park. Miss Landa-Arrese and Mrs Gladdish took 9 children from year 4 and year 6 who all did a magnificent job of representing Tunbury Primary School. Across the day the team played 9 matches with 4 minutes halves and were required to play in all of the different hi-five netball positions. We are extremely proud of how the children conducted themselves throughout the day, showing each other support and encouragement and nothing but respect for other teams, umpires and other adults at the centre. The team also enjoyed spending time watching some of the other matches throughout the day and it was wonderful to see the team put into action the skills they have been working hard on this year at our netball club, and some super goal scoring moments too!
The scores for the day were
0-1 to Halling Primary School
0-0 against Gordon Primary School
4-1 win against Fairview Primary School
1-0 win against Deanwood Primary School
0-0 against Napier Primary School
1-4 to Brookfield Junior School
2-2 draw against Balfour School
3-0 win against Cliffe Woods
Well done Tunbury netball team, we are all very proud of the effort and dedication that you have displayed towards our club and our school.
Our Learning: Year 3
This term our topic is Anglo-Saxons. We have been reading Beowulf and have been enjoying learning about his exciting triumphs! In our writing, we have been focusing on speech. We used role-play to act out an interview with Beowulf and then wrote an article detailing this. Here are some examples.
In RE we have been looking at different people’s beliefs about God. After exploring the beliefs in Christianity, Hinduism and Islam, we discussed our own differing ideas. We then designed our own picture of what we think God would be like. Here are some examples.
Our science topic this term is Forces and Magnets. So far, we have been learning about contact forces. We investigated how a contact force occurs when two objects physically touch. We looked at different items and identified whether they use a push force, a pull force or both. We have also been investigating how to change the shape of some objects by exerting a force on them, such as twisting, squeezing or squashing. During the investigation, we thought about which contact force we were using (either push or pull).
To begin our Anglo-Saxon topic, we looked at Anglo-Saxon runes. We explored why they are called runes and what they look like. The children then practiced writing their name using runes. Here are some examples.
The first example says “Isaac” and the second example says “Oliver”. The third example says “Maggie. I have two pets. A cat and a hamster. I have an older brother.”
We are looking forward to learning more about Anglo Saxons during our themed day today!
Notices
Tunbury’s Got Talent: Do you have a talent?! Tunbury's Got Talent is back by popular demand and we would love to hear from you if you would like to take part. Can you sing, dance, do gymnastics, tell jokes, play an instrument or anything else you would like to share? Please get in touch to register your interest, email to chair@thetunburyschoolassociation.com
Online Safety: We’re sharing Online Safety information, using resources from the National College’s #WakeUpWednesday program. This week’s guide is safety on the road. Please see the Parents>Letters and forms section of our website.
Sandpit donations: Children would love to have some more buckets and spades for our new sandpit, so please do dig these out if you have any that you could donate. Thank you.
Weekly Class Attendance: This is a weekly feature on our bulletin to highlight and celebrate good levels of attendance. In KS1 this week, we had two classes who managed 100% attendance. Brilliant effort from Red, and Orange Class! Azure Class are our KS2 with a fantastic 98.81% attendance. Well done everyone and keep up the good work!
|
Class |
Weekly Attendance Percentage |
|
Red |
☆100%☆ |
|
Orange |
☆100%☆ |
|
Yellow |
98.81% |
|
Azure |
☆98.81%☆ |
|
Pink |
98.61% |
|
Magenta |
97.92% |
|
Violet |
97.79% |
|
Sapphire |
97.50% |
|
Emerald |
97.50% |
|
Indigo |
97.41% |
|
Scarlet |
97.32% |
|
Owls |
96.98% |
|
Bears |
96.98% |
|
Ruby |
96.55% |
|
Amber |
96.15% |
|
Turquoise |
95.83% |
|
Crimson |
95.54% |
|
Lavender |
95.37% |
|
Blue |
94.27% |
|
Lilac |
89.66 |
Tunbury Primary School Facebook: This week on Facebook, we have posts on Opal, Coding Club and today’s Anglo Saxon day in Year 3. Please take a look at Tunbury Primary School | Chatham | Facebook
Team Points: The first totals of the term are as follows – congratulations to Attenborough team, who are the only team to reach 1000 points already! Today in assembly, children chose the team point reward for the end of Term 5, which will be extra playtime outside on the field/glade/forest school area/sandpit.
|
Rowling |
Attenborough |
Holmes |
Hawking |
|
952 |
1003 |
851 |
971 |
Dates for your Diary
Term dates for 2024/25: www.tunbury.kent.sch.uk/Parents/Term-Dates-24-25/
Term dates for 2025/26: www.tunbury.kent.sch.uk/Parents/Term-Dates-25-26/
Monday 5th May – BANK HOLIDAY – School Closed
Monday 12th-Thursday 15th May – KS2 SATS Week - Year 6
Wednesday 14th May – Open Afternoon, Year 1 – Moon buggy making, 2-3pm
Thursday 22nd May – TSA Tunbury's Got Talent
Thursday 22nd May – Open Afternoon, Year R – Fruit kebabs, Handas Surprise, 2-3pm
Friday 23rd May – Outdoor Learning Day
Friday 23rd May – Last day of term for pupils
Term 6
Monday 2nd June – School closed for pupils– INSET Day
Tuesday 3rd June – Start of Term 6 for pupils
Tuesday 3rd - 6th June – STEAM Week
Monday 9th June-13th June – Multiplication Times Tables Check Year 4
Monday 9th June – Open Afternoon, Year 1 - Coral collage in the style of Courtney Mattison, 2-3pm
Monday 9th June-13th June – Phonics Screening – Year 1
Tuesday 10th & Wednesday 11th June – TSA Gifts for Him
Monday 16th June – New Entrants meeting for 2025 Reception intake – 3.30-4.30 in school or 5.00-5.30 online
Wednesday 18th June – Open Afternoon, Year 4 – Art, 2-3pm
Thursday 19th June – Open Afternoon, Year 2 – African Art, 2-3pm
Friday 20th June – Open Afternoon, Year 3 – Flight investigation, 2-3pm
Monday 23rd June – Open Afternoon, Year R – Junk Modelling Art, 2-3pm
Wednesday 25th June – Class group photos – Tempest photographers
Friday 27th June – Sports Day
Thursday 3rd July – TSA Summer Disco
Friday 4th July – Reserve Sports Day
Monday 7th July – Open Afternoon, Year 5- Rainforest art, 2-3pm
Thursday 10th July – Transition Day (all classes move up to new teachers), with Open Classroom session for parents/carers 3.15-3.45
Saturday 12th July – TSA GlasTUNBURY Summer Festival
Thursday 17th July – Year 6 Production 14.00 and 18.00
Friday 18th July – TSA “Dare to be different day”
Friday 18th July – Year 6 prom
Monday 21st July – Open Afternoon, Year 6 – End of term event, 2-3 pm
Tuesday 22nd July – Year 6 Leavers’ assemblies – Violet 9.00, Crimson 9.45, Emerald 10.30
Tuesday 22nd July – Last day of term
Class assemblies
Class assemblies will be held in the school hall on Friday afternoons. Parents/carers and family members from each class are warmly invited to join us in school for these events, as our children love to share their learning with you. Please come to the front of the school and wait outside the hall entrance doors. You will be invited in just after 2.45pm. The assembly will begin at 2.50pm and last for about 10 minutes, finishing in time for you to collect your children at the end of the school day, as normal.
Friday 2nd May Red Class Assembly
Friday 9th May Yellow Class Assembly
Friday 23rd May Blue Class Assembly
Friday 13th June Sapphire Class Assembly
Friday 20th June Owls Class Assembly
Friday 4th July Bears Class Assembly
