Ark Byron Primary Academy

Today is ‘Dress to Express’ day at Ark Byron.
Non-uniform encouraged! 👗👚🩳

Science Week 2022 🔭🧪✅ One of our busiest weeks of the year and we couldn’t be prouder of the children for their scientific passion. Hundreds of STEM Fair Projects were entered, assemblies from a Civil Engineer and Biologist plus plenty of experiments and investigations! 👩‍🔬 Thank you to Miss Drake for putting it all together.

Ark Byron STEM Fair Projects - British Science Week 2022 🔭🧪👩‍🔬

Today - Red Nose Day fundraising. 🔴

This year for Red Nose we will have some Hair-raising fun! Accessories, hair bands, hair styles, flowers, sweatbands - let's take our fundraising to Hair-raising heights.

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/rednoseday22-ark-byron-primary

PARENT WORKSHOP: The information from this evening's Year 4 'Multiplication Test Check' workshop is now available on the schoo website: https://arkbyron.org/life-school/parent-workshops

Seesaw Tutorial 💻 Miss Drake gives a tour of Seesaw as both a child and parent. We aim to move as much of our communication over to this platform, so it’s worth downloading the app and signing in:

Drop-ins with Miss Drake- Seesaw A short video about navigating Seesaw.

Another week means another Drop-in with Miss Drake. This week’s video is a tutorial on SPArk! This is Ark’s learning platform which provides an extensive amount of learning opportunities in all curriculum subjects - take a look! 🖥 https://youtu.be/Z4_V6qqFcKo

TT Rockstars is an engaging, independent way to get children to learn their times tables - key knowledge needed in life. Miss Drake has made another useful video to show pupils how to play, challenge and make their learning on the game more difficult:

Drop-ins with Miss Drake- TT Rockstars part 2 A short video about navigating TT Rockstars- part 2

INSET DAY: SCHOOL CLOSED - Friday 19th November ✨

Reminder: ‘Odd Socks Day’ tomorrow (Monday 15th November) 🧦
We are launching our ‘Right To Be Safe Week’ (Anti-bullying Week) by wearing odd socks to show how we are all different but equal. Bright colours and patterns encouraged! 🔴🔵⚪️🟡🟢🟠

Do you want to learn more about using TT Rockstars?
Watch Miss Drake’s tutorial to help you with your weekly Home Learning practice:

Drop-ins with Miss Drake- TT Rockstars A short video about navigating TT Rockstars

Children In Need 2021 🙌🏻

One of our favourites: ‘Pyjama day’! A great effort from everyone today to raise awareness for Children in Need.
Any donations can be made using the Ark Byron link below: https://app.parentpay.com/ParentPayShop/Foc/Default.aspx?shopid=5246

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