Saxon Way Primary School

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🌟End of Term key info🌟

🌟 An overdue thank you to Piknikground who provided our GAF Festival with candy floss, popcorn, slushies and music entertainment!
They worked hard in the heat and raised money for the school
Thank you so much!🌟

You can find them on Instagram 👉👉 https://instagram.com/piknikground?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

🎶🎾Year 6 Gradfest!🍔🎶
An awesome day celebrating our year 6's in their final week at Saxon Way! Today there was bingo, festival glitter, bouncy castle, tug-o-war, football tournaments, tennis, badminton, music, BBQ and lots of laughter! Roll on tomorrow for PROM! 🕺💃

🌟1 week to go!🌟

🚜⭐Diggerland 2023⭐🚜

Another proud tradition for year 6 today at our end of year trip! A fantastic day was had by all, and the children represented Saxon Way with their excellent behaviour and responsibility. Thank you Diggerland for hosting us again! Most of year 6 survived the curse of the 'Spin Dizzy', a few did not...🤮

🌟Here is some useful information for our Saxon Way Families for over the Summer holidays🌟

🌟🏃🏽‍♀️MYG ATHLETICS 🏃🏽‍♀️🌟

GO TEAM SAXON WAY!

More photos to follow

⭐️🎭 LONDON GAF - DAY 3 🎭⭐️
Our year 5 pupils were up and out early today in their way to St Paul’s Cathedral! They have visited the globe and other sites in London.

This afternoon, pupils enjoyed a Macbeth workshop and a visit to the state Modern! Lastly, they took part in a stomp workshop learning the rhythm needed for body percussion!

⭐️🎭GAF LONDON DAY 2 - PART 2🎭⭐️
Our children are having a wonderful time in London! They travelled to Covent Garden and had McDonald’s for lunch and enjoyed the wonderful theatre show - The Lion King!

⭐️🎭 GAF LONDON DAY 2 🎭⭐️

Our year 5 pupils have enjoyed a scrumptious breakfast this morning ready for their poetry and drumming workshop. More photos to follow later!

🏅⭐Griffin Sport Athletics Competition⭐🏅

An excellent day today at Medway Park for the athletics competition.

Everyone tried exceptionally hard, and were fantastic supporters of each other. An extra well done to Alperen, Carlos, Kyler, Diamond, Emmy-Shai, Raihana, Darci and Alfie R who all got a top 3 spot on the podium for their efforts!

⭐️🖼️ GAF LONDON DAY 1 🖼️⭐️
Our Year 5 pupils have had an amazing first day in London! They have been to the national gallery and been amazing at the beautiful artwork. They then travelled to China town and took part in art workshops making leaves with foil sculpting and making angel feathers!

⭐️🎭🎨GAF 2023 🎨🎭⭐️

This year’s theme is ‘Family’ with the strapline, ‘Connections’. We will share everything arts related over the next two weeks.

🌟🎨YEAR 2 GAF 🎨🌟

With GAF kicking off this week, everyone has lots of Art, Drama and Musical activities to do 🎨🎭

Year 2 started the week by recreating part of Ernest Shackleton’s ship “Endurance” using charcoal!

They also created their own board games to share with eachother and their families. Well done Year 2!

👏🏻⚽️ SPORTS DAY 2023 ⚽️👏🏻
Thank you to all of our families who attended our sports events today in the sunshine. The children tried so hard to apply the skills they have learnt in their PE lessons and they managed to work amazingly well in their teams!

We even had time for a parent’s race in our event this morning which was so lovely for the children to see their parents getting just as competitive as them!

We look forward to sharing some photos in our newsletter later this term.

🌟⚽️FS sports day⚽️🌟
Information regarding FS sports day. Please ask your class teacher if you have any questions.

🎇 🎆 GRIFFIN ARTS FESTIVAL 2023 🎆 🎇
We are on countdown to our Griffin Art Festival activities that start on Monday 26th June.

We are so excited to invite you all to our GAF Parade and Family Festival on Friday 7th July starting at 2pm until 3.30pm.
More information has been emailed out to you all this afternoon.

We will have face painting, glitter tattoos, ice poles, silent disco on offer as well as other activities provided by Year 6 and their enterprise projects.
We will be taking donations for the activities as we are fundraising for outside play equipment!
We will also have unicorn pony rides charged at £2.50 per child.
We can't wait to see you all there!

⭐🖌Year 6 Non- Residential Activities🖌⭐

Not forgetting our amazing Year 6 children who stayed at Saxon Way!

Activities included bowling, decorating (and eating) biscuits and learning and creating pop art and marble art.

🌟💤 Some extremely tired children on their way back to you 💤🌟

⭐Year 6 Residential 2023⭐

This evening, our activity was a true test of courage- The Leap of Faith.

Just a sneak peak today, the remaining photos to follow tomorrow!

We are so proud of our Year 6 children. They have not only been excellent role models for our school, but have gone above and beyond to push themselves to reach their potential.

⭐Year 6 Residential 2023⭐

This morning we built shelters in bush craft sessions, and played our own mini Olympics.

🌟⚽️YEAR 4 MYG FOOTBALL⚽️🌟

⚽️⚽️GO TEAM SAXON WAY ⚽️⚽️

🌟🧴Taking sun protection seriously☝️😎🌟

🌟An early breakfast this morning! Everyone dressed and fed by 7.30🌟

⭐🏀Year 6 Residential 2023🎯⭐
A great start to the Kingswood trip!
Today the children have played Aeroball, competed in Archery, completed problem-solving activities, played bingo and most importantly, eaten dinner!

Everyone is in bed now ready for a fun- filled day 2.

🌟🛶🤺Year 6 have arrived at Kingswood and are ready and raring to go! 🧗‍♂️🏕🌟

🌟Here’s the menu for next week’s Healthy Living Week!🌟

🥔 Baguettes and Jacket potatoes will be available also 🥖
🥗 Pre order on School Food United 🥗

✉️ MAY NEWSLETTER ✉️
Please see our May newsletter, that was emailed out before half term, which includes all key dates for Term 6.

🌟Appreciation Post!🌟

✨️One of the many things that our Caretaker Mr Neil, has created for us in our Woodland Walk✨️

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🌟🦁Year 1 visit to wingham wildlife park🦁🌟 Year one had a brilliant day exploring wingham wildlife park. They were particularly fascinated with the meerkats, flamingos and penguins! We worked together to identify which animals we could see and whether they were carnivores, herbivores or omnivores.

Here is just a few pictures from our day!

⭐🐶Visitor from The Dogs Trust🐶⭐

Years 5 and 6 were fortunate enough to have Phil, from The Dogs Trust centre in Canterbury, visiting today to deliver workshops on safety around dogs, and what it takes to be a fantastic dog owner.

They turned their workshops into opportunities to practice maths skills- they created a budget for all the things a dog needs , used their comprehension skills in reading, and completed PSHE tasks about taking responsibility for animals.

The children had a brilliant time, especially with the audience participation. Thank you for visiting us Dogs Trust!

⭐✏Year 6 SATs ✏⭐

Well done to our amazing year 6 children. Each and every child was amazing throughout the week demonstrating resilience, perseverance, and positive attitudes daily. We are extremely proud of them all!

⭐✏Year 6 SATs Week 9-12 May ✏⭐

As we go into SATs week, all the staff at Saxon Way Primary want to wish our Year 6's the very best for the upcoming week. We can't wait to see them tomorrow, and we know they are going to be fantastic!

SATs don't measure sports, SATs don't measure art,
SATs don't measure music, or the kindness in your heart.
SATs don't see your beauty, SATs don't know your worth,
SATs don't see the reasons you were put upon this earth.

SATs don't see your magic, how you make others smile,
SATs don't time how quickly you can run a mile.
SATs don't hear your laughter, or see you've come this far,
SATs are just a tiny glimpse of who you really are.

So sitting at your table, with a pencil and your test,
Remember SATs aren't who you are- remember you're the best!

🌟🇬🇧Coronation Celebrations🇬🇧🌟
Year 1 had a great day celebrating The Kings coronation! They dressed in blue, white and red and we made bunting to decorate our classroom. We finished the day with a picnic, eating popcorn and crisps!

Have a lovely bank holiday weekend!