Keep up to date with all the latest Sunny Bank news!

• Year 6 - Dates for your diary

  Fri 23 Jun 2023
  

• Business as Usual at Sunny Bank Primary School Following Temporary Closure

  Thu 22 Jun 2023

   

  Sunny Bank Primary School is pleased to announce that it is back to business as usual following a temporary closure on Friday, June 16th. The school experienced an unexpected closure but was able to reopen its doors to all children on Tuesday, after a mere two days. 

   

  Thanks to the remarkable efforts of the Island Learning Trust and dedicated school staff, supported by Kent Property Team, the necessary adjustments were swiftly made to minimise disruption to the children's learning. Offices, the library, and several classrooms were relocated to the new buildings on site, ensuring a seamless continuation of scheduled lessons and exciting learning activities planned for the Summer term. 

   

  "We are thrilled to be back in action and to provide our students with the high-quality education they deserve," said Jack Allen, Head of School at Sunny Bank Primary School. "Our dedicated team rallied together to ensure that the disruption to our students' education was minimised and we even managed to deliver our planned Bikeability course on the Tuesday of reopening." 

   

  Sunny Bank Primary School emphasises the importance of learning to ride a bike safely for all its students. Recognising this vital life skill, the school has utilised its sports premium legacy funding to invest in brand new bicycles. Every child at Sunny Bank is provided with the opportunity to learn to ride a bike, promoting a healthy lifestyle, environmental consciousness, and responsible citizenship. 

   

  The school is eagerly looking forward to upcoming events, including Sports Week, a whole school art project with Murston Church, scootability, Summer fayre and the highly anticipated end-of-year activities for Year 6, such as the prom and end-of-year performance. The children at Sunny Bank have taken these recent challenges in their stride, demonstrating their resilience and determination to thrive. 

   

  While future plans for the original building are being explored in collaboration with Kent County Council (KCC), Sunny Bank Primary School is fortunate to have ample space and an excellent team dedicated to ensuring that every child receives the best education possible and realises their full potential. 

   

  Sunny Bank Primary School remains committed to its mission to ensuring that the staff, parents and children be the best they can be, and this recent experience serves as a shining example of the school's dedication to this goal. 

  

• Year 6 - important dates

  Tue 20 Jun 2023

   

  A letter with all the key Year 6 dates can be read HERE

  

• Important information for tomorrow - video

  Mon 19 Jun 2023

   

  Please watch the video HERE

  

• Re-opening tomorrow - letter

  Mon 19 Jun 2023

   

  Please read our letter HERE

• Urgent Notice

  Thu 15 Jun 2023
  

• Forest School Event for Birch Class

  Tue 13 Jun 2023 Mrs Lougheed

   

  Dear Parent/Carers of Birch Class pupils 

   

  FOREST SCHOOL EVENT – THURSDAY 22ND JUNE AT 1:45PM 

   

  We are excited to invite one parent/or significant person per child, to participate in some forest school activities with their child at Forest school. This will be a great experience to share with your child and the children will be delighted to show off their forest school skills. 
   

  The session will start at 1:45pm and end at 2:45pm on Thursday 22nd June.   

   

  There will be a selection of exciting forest school themed activities available to try; den/shelter building and nature crafts etc. 

   
  Parents should enter via the main school entrance. 

   

  I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued support and we look forward to seeing you. 

   

  Kind Regards 

   

   

  Maria Lougheed 

  Forest School Lead 
   

  

• Wear Yellow Day

  Fri 09 Jun 2023

   

  To support the Cystic Fibrosis Trust, we will be having a wear yellow day on Friday 16th June.

   

  Pupils can wear a yellow item of clothing along side their normal uniform. This could be yellow socks, yellow shirt or yellow hairband for example. We are asking for a small donation only if you are able to to support the charity.

  

• Video - Our Nursery

  Thu 08 Jun 2023

   

  Hey Mums and Dads, have you heard the news?

   

  We have places available at our amazing nursery! Come along for a tour and see how we can help your little one take their first steps into school.

   

  Give us a call on 01795 473891 and don't miss out on this amazing opportunity - we can't wait to show you what we have to offer!

   

  Watch our promotional video HERE

   

   

  

• Times Tables Recall Rhyme

  Mon 05 Jun 2023

  In order to raise the profile of times tables, we will be introducing ‘Times Tables Recall Rhymes’. These are sets of rhymes to learn the tricky times tables that are often hard to remember.

   

  18 have be selected along with the reverse fact in order to embed the commutative nature of the multiplication calculations. These 18 have been picked from extensive research carried out and were found to be the ones that the highest percentage of children would get incorrect.

   

  Please click HERE to access the data from this research – 

   

  How will this be implemented?  

   

  This will be a school wide initiative where all pupils from Y3 to Y6 will have the same three rhymes to learn on a weekly basis on a half termly rotation. Research suggests that in order for something to be committed to long term memory, it must be repeated and revisited regularly with gaps in between. This is the rationale behind the half termly rotation.  

   

  • The three rhymes for the week will be shared with teachers and saved in the curriculum folder 

  • In each edition of the newsletter, and on the website and face book, the rhymes for the following week will be shared with parents 

  • At the start of each Monday and Friday assembly, the person leading will go over the rhymes of the week? 

  • The rhymes of the week should be chanted in class multiple times a day. Find any opportunity to do so… after morning register, the start of main maths, the start of skills, after afternoon register, just before the children go home etc.  

  • Where possible, staff should stop pupils/classes in the corridor to ask them the rhymes of the week 

  • Pupils can call out rhymes when answering the register 

  • The rhymes of the week should be displayed on the maths working wall and should be printed in a font and size that all children can see and read. 

   

  This is something that will work in conjunction with our weekly times tables learning, interventions and TTRS to raise the profile of times tables and build confidence in children in recalling them rapidly. 

   

  More info can be found HERE