tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872303644190283262Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:13:14 +0000A huge resource for both teachers and pupils, with 117,000 pages of information, ideas and games. A large part of this site is devoted to British customs which makes it a favourite for anyone researching life in Britain.http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/index.htmnoreply@blogger.com (M. Barrow)Blogger157125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872303644190283262.post-468955339644073175Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:02:00 +00002010-04-23T16:13:14.610+01:00datesspecial daysnewsletterApril 2010Newsletter 27, published on 23 April 2010, is now available to view.Features this week include St George's Day, a Sponsored Haircut, an International Day and the Summer Term Headteacher Question.Also important dates for your diary have been added to the newsletter.http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/2010/04/newsletter-27.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Wagstaff)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872303644190283262.post-3334831196720588943Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:06:00 +00002010-04-21T15:10:16.503+01:00April 2010e-safetyFurther to our successful E-Safety Evening which we held in March, the Parents' Handout is now available as a download. Click on the header above to be directed to the page.http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/2010/04/e-safety-handouts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Wagstaff)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872303644190283262.post-3332244055889985261Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:06:00 +00002010-04-01T17:21:35.626+01:00datesFriendsnewsletterApril 2010charitiesNewsletter 26, published on 1 April 2010, is now available to view.Features this week include news from the Senior and Junior Choirs, a report on the E-Safety Workshop and a message from The Contract Dining Company about next term's school lunches.Also a school uniform request and a date for your diary, the ever popular Quiz Night organised by the Friends' Association.http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/2010/04/newsletter-26.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Wagstaff)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872303644190283262.post-7203283718023288164Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:03:00 +00002010-03-26T15:10:24.447ZICTe-safetyA reminder that our E-Safety Meeting organised by Mrs Easto, will be held in school next Tuesday 30th March. The Kent E-Safety Officer, Rebecca Avery, will be running a workshop for parents which aims to help them understand how to keep children safe when using the internet.If you have not returned your form, there is still time to send it in on Monday. Please contact the School Office if you http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/2010/03/e-safety-meeting-on-tuesday-30th-march.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Wagstaff)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872303644190283262.post-4139237429827328017Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:47:00 +00002010-03-26T14:54:04.653ZsportsnewsletterMarch 2010assemblyNewsletter 25, published on 24 March 2010, is now available to view.Features this week include more sporting news, information for all year groups about the Year 6 Residential Trip, Class 4RW's Assembly and more.Also a reminder that it is the School Disco tonight. The Years 3/4 Disco starts at 6 p.m. and for Years 5/6 it starts at 7.45 p.m.http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/2010/03/newsletter-25school-disco.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Wagstaff)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872303644190283262.post-8625451885651766398Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:38:00 +00002010-03-24T19:40:35.632ZBoth of our football teams competed in the CSLA Football tournament held at Weald this Monday. The boys were all fired up and hoping for a win. Our ‘B’ team played some exceptional matches, particular thanks to Ruben and his great defending. Sadly, despite their great results (shown below), the ‘B’ team did not get thorough but the boys are to be congratulated on their fantastic football and http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/2010/03/what-end-to-season.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (K Ridger)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872303644190283262.post-6142561293301468451Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:38:00 +00002010-03-22T13:41:16.170ZOn Friday 19th March most of the children of Woodlands came into school dressed up as their Olympic hero. To do this pupils bought in £1 for sport relief. There were many bright colours that filled the school hall in assembly in the afternoon. In class children took it in turns to stand up and introduce their Olympic hero in front of everyone else. Throughout the day class by class did the mile http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/2010/03/sports-relief.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (K Ridger)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872303644190283262.post-1101074036130566734Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:43:00 +00002010-03-22T13:42:59.289ZOn 15th March children had the opportunity to browse our school book fair in the lower hub. There were picture books, joke books, chapter books and many other interesting styles. The children then wrote down the names of any books they were interested in. Then on 16th March anyone that had brought in money purchased their books while others helped their teachers to choose books for the class. It http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/2010/03/book-fair.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (K Ridger)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872303644190283262.post-7399503239048513177Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:24:00 +00002010-03-19T16:43:57.710ZsportsnewsletterheadteacherMarch 2010Newsletter 24, published on 19 March 2010, is now available to view.Features this week include the Year 5 Trip to Knole, information on Charity Stalls including the Haiti Earthquake Appeal. There are also netball and football reports as well as Sports Relief. Guess how much we raised at our Book Fair? Thanks to all who came to support us.Also there is still time to join ParentMail to get the http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/2010/03/newsletter-24.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Wagstaff)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872303644190283262.post-438803964068889266Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:03:00 +00002010-03-18T12:04:25.416Z Woodlands ‘B’ Team played St. Stephens last night and they have done it again! This time our winning score was 5 – 1. The first half saw both teams playing a steady game; they were each determined to stop goals as well as score. In the second half with the starting score on 1 – 0 the game really got underway with both teams playing some fantastic football. Woodlands got the edge though taking http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/2010/03/more-football-success.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (K Ridger)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872303644190283262.post-962850810777087369Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:28:00 +00002010-03-18T08:01:39.643ZThis week we visited Knole House, to learn more about the Tudors. The class was split into two groups in the morning, the first activity was to dress up as different Tudor people and go around the house learning about their roles, we were the wife of a craftsman and the house keeper.Next we looked at different artefacts from Tudor times and sorted them in to who would use them and why. Our http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/2010/03/year-5-trip-to-knole-house.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Woodlands Staff)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872303644190283262.post-4666135006770774184Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:45:00 +00002010-03-17T08:26:24.332ZwebsiteI was very pleased to read this week that, according to Hitwise, the Woodlands website is again the biggest recipient of traffic from the search term ‘mothers day’. Our website received a third of all clicks on the term – more than three times as much as Wikipedia (the second biggest). The title of this post comes from one of the many blog posts that are written about our website and its high http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/2010/03/woodlands-junior-school-kings-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M Barrow)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872303644190283262.post-8944768715869331342Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:59:00 +00002010-03-12T18:13:08.268ZWe are thrilled to announce that our Year 4 Team who took part in the National Schools Quiz against 380 other schools across the nation came away with a Gold Medal.http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/2010/03/gold-medal-winners.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Wagstaff)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872303644190283262.post-8243235340253807742Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:42:00 +00002010-03-12T17:55:54.880ZsportsnewsletterbooksMarch 2010Newsletter 23, published on 12 March 2010, is now available to view.Features this week include news on Eco Green Flag and French Language Awards, our football and cross country news.Also, ParentMail is "live" so you can now get the newsletter via email. If you have not signed up already, please contact the School Office.Finally, don't forget our Book Fair on Monday and Tuesday of next week.http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/2010/03/newsletter-23.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Wagstaff)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872303644190283262.post-1602296415533228466Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:57:00 +00002010-03-12T12:01:36.165ZWoodlands Junior School has been awarded the Kent Silver Language Accreditation for French. Mrs Anacleto has worked extremely hard teaching a new language to all the children throughout the school in fun and exciting ways.Woodlands Junior School has also had their Eco Green Flag status renewed once again.Mrs Brown has ensured the school continues to be involved in running activities to improve http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/2010/03/kent-silver-language-accreditation-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (K Ridger)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872303644190283262.post-8995029876179273465Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:15:00 +00002010-03-11T08:20:22.613Z In the words of that well known song – we are! The final results are listed below; suffice to say that Woodlands ‘A’ Team won their league as did Woodlands ‘B’ Team! What a fantastic finish to weeks of dedicated hard work by the boys. They have regularly turned up for their matches’; no team member has ever missed a game. Their teamwork and commitment to their sport has been phenomenal!Mrs http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/2010/03/we-are-champions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (K Ridger)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872303644190283262.post-3608370940107244855Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:55:00 +00002010-03-05T14:59:28.151ZsportsnewsletterbooksMarch 2010Newsletter 22, published on 5 March 2010, is now available to view.Features this week include World Book Day, Football news, a reminder of the Headteacher's Question of the Term and a reminder to sign up to ParentMail if you have not already done so.Also, we would like to have some helpers for our Book Fair. Please contact the School Office if you can help us with this. Thank you.http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/2010/03/newsletter-22.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Wagstaff)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872303644190283262.post-8160281129554939386Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:55:00 +00002010-03-04T10:55:53.714Z Woodlands ‘A’ Team have done it again, three matches and three wins! Our first match was a friendly against Long Mead and the score was 4 -1. We then played a very tight game against Hildenborough, the final score being 3 -1. Our final game last night was against Capel and the score was 7 -2. Parent supporters were impressed by the boys continued demonstration of teamwork and their commitment tohttp://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/2010/03/football-news.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (K Ridger)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872303644190283262.post-586012355888424544Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:48:00 +00002010-03-01T19:05:04.041Z This afternoon the Year 6 children were visited by the ADAD Theatre group who performed their play 'Wasted'. It was a hugely engaging way for the children to learn about the issues surrounding drugs and ways of dealing with peer pressure.The children were thoroughly engrossed in the action, answering questions about their understanding of the issue and challenging the characters about the http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/2010/03/adad-theatre-group-visits-year-6.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Woodlands Staff)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872303644190283262.post-1726139779656743182Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:06:00 +00002010-03-01T16:20:35.508ZYear 4 were treated to a recorder extravaganza at Hillview Last Friday. We all hopped on the coach, amongst much excitement, and arrived at Hillview ready to put our recorder playing into practice.We warmed up with a fun song all about bananas and then worked our way through all the songs we have learned to play since September. Some of our children were even selected to stand at the front and http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/2010/03/recorder-festival.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Woodlands Staff)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872303644190283262.post-2256101257765190597Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:27:00 +00002010-02-26T14:47:38.940ZFebruary 2010sportsnewsletterbooksNewsletter 21, published on 26 February 2010, is now available to view.Features this week include Science Day, Netball news, a reminder of the Headteacher's Question of the Term and details of an exciting competition.Also information on our forthcoming Book Fair and a request for helpers. Please contact the School Office if you can help us with this. Thank you.http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/2010/02/newsletter-21.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Wagstaff)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872303644190283262.post-6647233156137381410Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:57:00 +00002010-02-23T13:58:21.802Zwww.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk ranked is a Hitwise Top 10 Award winner for the period July - December 2009. During this period, www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk ranked No. 2 based on market share of visits among all United Kingdom websites in the Hitwise Education - Institutions industry. For more information, please visit www.hitwise.co.uk/http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/2010/02/hitwise-top-10-award-winner.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (M Barrow)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872303644190283262.post-921728178852460440Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:36:00 +00002010-02-12T18:43:19.493ZFebruary 2010Year 5sportsYear 6newslettervisitsNewsletter 20, published on 12th February 2010, is now available to view.Features include sports reports, information regarding our Eco, Computer and Chess Clubs and various visits and much more.http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/2010/02/newsletter-20.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Wagstaff)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872303644190283262.post-3624535543399670963Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:49:00 +00002010-02-23T09:49:09.486ZSwimming GalaWoodlands Junior School were invited to take part in an inter-district swimming gala last Saturday. It was a great night and the children swam really well in each of their races. Chris had particular success as he was awarded a trophy for outstanding individual effort, congratulations Chris. Thank you to the children and their parents for giving up their precious Saturday evening!http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/2010/02/sporting-news.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (K Ridger)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872303644190283262.post-3163304258949922706Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:57:00 +00002010-02-05T19:05:51.739ZFebruary 2010sportsnewslettere-safetyNewsletter 19, published on 5th February 2010, is now available to view.Features this week include more sporting successes, a report on our charity appeals, the 5B Class Assembly and requests for help in a new Lunchtime Library Session and our Chess Club.Also some important dates for your diary and information on our Internet Safety Week next week.http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/2010/02/newsletter-19.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (A Wagstaff)