We are pleased to welcome Jordan Lafford into Class 3 this term as a new Year 5 pupil.
World Book Day Token
All pupils should come home with a £1 book token in their book bag today. This can be used towards the purchase of a book or audio book (please see the details on the token) between 2nd and 29th March 2009.
This year World Book Day is Thursday 5th March and we will be recognising the occasion by each pupil designing a book cover and holding additional story-telling events in each class.
International Jian-zi competition
We now know the results of the competition at our partner school in Hazlach, Poland and this year the score couldn’t have been closer!
Stadhampton Champion Joshua Drake 61
Hazlach Champion Dominik Mandrek 61
Congratulations Joshua!
Sainsbury’s and Tesco Vouchers
We are collecting both Sainsbury and Tesco vouchers.
Marie Curie Cancer Care Great Daffodil Appeal
We have a supply of daffodils and a collection box for this charity in the hall. Donations help nurse people with terminal cancer. Thank you.
Little Bears News
This week Little Bears enjoyed making pancakes and then eating them! They have also been playing with the traffic lights lent by the Footsteps Programme to help pupils learn about road safety. Little Bears would be pleased to receive a few more shoe-boxes for our treasure hunt which will take place at the end of March.
DIARY DATES:
Monday 2nd March Reception & Year 6 pupils participate in NCMP
Wednesday 4th March English lesson for participating Year 5 pupils at ICC
Class 2 visit to Oxfordshire Museum. All pupils need a packed lunch please.
Thursday 5th March World Book Day
Monday 16th March Governors’ Meeting at 7pm
Tuesday 17th March Maths Evening for Parents 6.30-8pm (multiplication and division)
Wednesday 18th March Mid-year summary report sheets issued
Monday 23rd March After-school work viewing opportunity for parents 3.30-6pm
Thursday 4th June School closed for Parliamentary and County Council Elections
Friday, February 27, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Newsletter No 6 / 13th February 2009
UNICEF Day for Change
Thank you to everyone who brought in change for this fundraising event for families in Papua New Guinea.
£60 was collected which will be paid into the UNICEF collection account in the next few days.
Measuring height and weight of Reception and Year 6 Pupils
The Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Department of Health have a shared programme of work to improve children’s health and wellbeing. Promoting healthy weight in children is a high priority with the National Child Measurement Programme playing an important part in the overall strategy. Under this programme as many Reception and Year 6 pupils as possible are measured. Reception and Year 6 pupils should have a letter and a leaflet giving further details of this programme attached to this newsletter.
School Meals
A reminder that school meals cost £1.95 per day and that orders and money to pay for school meals need to be sent into the school office on MONDAY morning please. School meals income has to be banked and accounted for separately from any other income; please keep payments for school trips, etc separate from payments for school meals. Thank you for your co-operation in this matter.
Swimming at Berinsfield
Swimming will begin for Class 3 pupils on Monday 23rd February. They will have 6 sessions. We are grateful to receive a “voluntary contribution” of £1 per pupil for each swimming session towards the transport costs.
Red Nose Day (Comic Relief) – Friday 13th March 2009
In order to support this charity event we are planning to have a supply of red noses available for sale at school after the February Holiday.
In addition Food with Thought are supporting Red Nose Day through a special promotion school dinner on the day. Further details are provided on the attached flyer. Please note that Food with Thought request that you indicate your intention to order this meal by returning the reply slip to school by Thursday 2nd March. Thank you.
PTA Calendar of Events for 2009 is attached to this newsletter.
School Council Dress as a Monarch Event
Many thanks to all who supported this event. We enjoyed a very “regal” day and the School Council raised £41 towards frames for the monarch portraits.
Little Bears News
This week Little Bears made bird cake as they hadn’t done it last week because of the snow. They also had fun making a picture book of how the snowman melted. They would be pleased to receive any unwanted shoeboxes and newspapers and are still looking for an upright fridge.
DIARY DATES:
Monday 23rd February Return to school for the start of Term 4
Swimming sessions begin for Class 3 pupils
Wednesday 25th February Mobile Library visit
Monday 2nd March Reception & Year 6 pupils participate in NCMP
Wednesday 4th March English lesson for participating Year 5 pupils at ICC
Thursday 5th March World Book Day
Tuesday 17th March Maths Evening for Parents 6.30-8pm
Wednesday 18th March Mid-year summary report sheets issued
Monday 23rd March After-school work viewing opportunity for parents
Thursday 4th June School closed for Parliamentary and County Council Elections
Thank you to everyone who brought in change for this fundraising event for families in Papua New Guinea.
£60 was collected which will be paid into the UNICEF collection account in the next few days.
Measuring height and weight of Reception and Year 6 Pupils
The Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Department of Health have a shared programme of work to improve children’s health and wellbeing. Promoting healthy weight in children is a high priority with the National Child Measurement Programme playing an important part in the overall strategy. Under this programme as many Reception and Year 6 pupils as possible are measured. Reception and Year 6 pupils should have a letter and a leaflet giving further details of this programme attached to this newsletter.
School Meals
A reminder that school meals cost £1.95 per day and that orders and money to pay for school meals need to be sent into the school office on MONDAY morning please. School meals income has to be banked and accounted for separately from any other income; please keep payments for school trips, etc separate from payments for school meals. Thank you for your co-operation in this matter.
Swimming at Berinsfield
Swimming will begin for Class 3 pupils on Monday 23rd February. They will have 6 sessions. We are grateful to receive a “voluntary contribution” of £1 per pupil for each swimming session towards the transport costs.
Red Nose Day (Comic Relief) – Friday 13th March 2009
In order to support this charity event we are planning to have a supply of red noses available for sale at school after the February Holiday.
In addition Food with Thought are supporting Red Nose Day through a special promotion school dinner on the day. Further details are provided on the attached flyer. Please note that Food with Thought request that you indicate your intention to order this meal by returning the reply slip to school by Thursday 2nd March. Thank you.
PTA Calendar of Events for 2009 is attached to this newsletter.
School Council Dress as a Monarch Event
Many thanks to all who supported this event. We enjoyed a very “regal” day and the School Council raised £41 towards frames for the monarch portraits.
Little Bears News
This week Little Bears made bird cake as they hadn’t done it last week because of the snow. They also had fun making a picture book of how the snowman melted. They would be pleased to receive any unwanted shoeboxes and newspapers and are still looking for an upright fridge.
DIARY DATES:
Monday 23rd February Return to school for the start of Term 4
Swimming sessions begin for Class 3 pupils
Wednesday 25th February Mobile Library visit
Monday 2nd March Reception & Year 6 pupils participate in NCMP
Wednesday 4th March English lesson for participating Year 5 pupils at ICC
Thursday 5th March World Book Day
Tuesday 17th March Maths Evening for Parents 6.30-8pm
Wednesday 18th March Mid-year summary report sheets issued
Monday 23rd March After-school work viewing opportunity for parents
Thursday 4th June School closed for Parliamentary and County Council Elections
Monday, February 9, 2009
Newsletter No 5 / 6th February 2009
Happy FEBRUARY Birthday to: Florence Amery, Rhiannon Amery, Chloe Brown, Joshua Drake, Matthew Green, Tom Leighfield, Evelyn Mannering, Jessica Tombling, Cameron Vale and Ella Mae White.
During FEBRUARY we are focusing on the core value of SIMPLICITY
Parking in the School Car Park
Thank you to all drivers who have responded to our request to avoid blocking the entrance to Little Bears Pre-School. The school car park is currently available to parents/carers to park in to help prevent traffic congestion in Cratlands Close but children and traffic are not an ideal mix.
In the interest of the safety of all children, we would like to remind parents/carers that children should be collected in person from the school gate and be closely supervised at all times. Additionally, drivers are reminded to be extra vigilant and to observe the 5mph speed limit both within the car park and the approaches to/from it. Thank you.
Pupil Progress Information for Parents
Please find attached to this newsletter a letter outlining our new mid-year procedure to update parents on key aspects of their child/ren’s progress.
UNICEF Day for Change
As we were unable to hold this event on Friday 6th February we have re-scheduled this for Wednesday 11th February. All change gratefully received!
Laptop Trolley
Our new laptop trolley is now up and running! Our laptops are currently being used by Class 3 on a daily basis and are proving to be an indispensable addition to our ICT teaching and learning resources. Each laptop is linked to the Internet and to the class printer; this enables pupils to create presentations in many applications using downloaded images. These presentations can be printed out for displays and for workbooks. As an example of use, this week, Class 3 have been using the laptops for subjects across the curriculum including “Word” documents about Cheltenham for geography and “The Water Cycle” for science topic work. Pupils in Classes 1 and 2 will have opportunities to access the laptop trolley in the near future.
Annual “Jian-Zi” Competition
Every year for the last few years our Chinese New Year celebrations have included a “jian-zi” competition. This is a type of colourful shuttlecock which children in China often play with, usually to practice football “keepy – uppy” skills. Our school champion is, again, Joshua Drake who scored a magnificent 61! Robbie Scragg with 17 and Benedict Diment with 7 are also showing potential for the future! We hold this competition as an international event with our partner school in Hazlach, Poland, but we are still waiting for their result as they are currently closed for their winter holiday.
Annual Chess Tournament
Our annual chess tournament for pupils in Classes 2 and 3 started this week. This was an introductory round before the chess matches start “for real” next week. All contenders have a weekly match and gain points which vary depending on whether the match was won, lost or a draw. There are various incentives along the way for all participants but the individual with the most points at the end of the tournament is, of course, our chess champion for the year!
Little Bears News
This week Little Bears have had great fun playing in the snow and building a snowman. We have also been making binoculars so that we can look at the birds on our bird table, and then we record which birds we have seen in our garden. We enjoyed icing biscuits and making some bird cake for our birds. We have also this week begun our “ Footsteps” training” which is part of OCC’s Road Safety training programme for Early Years pupils. This week we have been reading “Teddy Takes a Tumble” stories which help us to understand why it is so important to wear a seat-belt when we travel in a car. If anyone has any shoe boxes that are no longer required, we would appreciate them being given to us for our treasure hunt, which will take place in March.
DIARY DATES:
Tuesday 10th February Year 3 Dance Festival at Icknield Community College
Friday 13th February School Council “Monarch Dressing-Up Day” - £1 to particpate
School finishes at 3.15pm at the end of Term 3
Monday 23rd February Return to school for the start of Term 4
Swimming sessions begin for Class 3 pupils
Wednesday 25th February Mobile Library visit
Tuesday 17th March Maths Evening for Parents 6.30-8pm
Thursday 4th June School closed for Parliamentary and County Council Elections
During FEBRUARY we are focusing on the core value of SIMPLICITY
Parking in the School Car Park
Thank you to all drivers who have responded to our request to avoid blocking the entrance to Little Bears Pre-School. The school car park is currently available to parents/carers to park in to help prevent traffic congestion in Cratlands Close but children and traffic are not an ideal mix.
In the interest of the safety of all children, we would like to remind parents/carers that children should be collected in person from the school gate and be closely supervised at all times. Additionally, drivers are reminded to be extra vigilant and to observe the 5mph speed limit both within the car park and the approaches to/from it. Thank you.
Pupil Progress Information for Parents
Please find attached to this newsletter a letter outlining our new mid-year procedure to update parents on key aspects of their child/ren’s progress.
UNICEF Day for Change
As we were unable to hold this event on Friday 6th February we have re-scheduled this for Wednesday 11th February. All change gratefully received!
Laptop Trolley
Our new laptop trolley is now up and running! Our laptops are currently being used by Class 3 on a daily basis and are proving to be an indispensable addition to our ICT teaching and learning resources. Each laptop is linked to the Internet and to the class printer; this enables pupils to create presentations in many applications using downloaded images. These presentations can be printed out for displays and for workbooks. As an example of use, this week, Class 3 have been using the laptops for subjects across the curriculum including “Word” documents about Cheltenham for geography and “The Water Cycle” for science topic work. Pupils in Classes 1 and 2 will have opportunities to access the laptop trolley in the near future.
Annual “Jian-Zi” Competition
Every year for the last few years our Chinese New Year celebrations have included a “jian-zi” competition. This is a type of colourful shuttlecock which children in China often play with, usually to practice football “keepy – uppy” skills. Our school champion is, again, Joshua Drake who scored a magnificent 61! Robbie Scragg with 17 and Benedict Diment with 7 are also showing potential for the future! We hold this competition as an international event with our partner school in Hazlach, Poland, but we are still waiting for their result as they are currently closed for their winter holiday.
Annual Chess Tournament
Our annual chess tournament for pupils in Classes 2 and 3 started this week. This was an introductory round before the chess matches start “for real” next week. All contenders have a weekly match and gain points which vary depending on whether the match was won, lost or a draw. There are various incentives along the way for all participants but the individual with the most points at the end of the tournament is, of course, our chess champion for the year!
Little Bears News
This week Little Bears have had great fun playing in the snow and building a snowman. We have also been making binoculars so that we can look at the birds on our bird table, and then we record which birds we have seen in our garden. We enjoyed icing biscuits and making some bird cake for our birds. We have also this week begun our “ Footsteps” training” which is part of OCC’s Road Safety training programme for Early Years pupils. This week we have been reading “Teddy Takes a Tumble” stories which help us to understand why it is so important to wear a seat-belt when we travel in a car. If anyone has any shoe boxes that are no longer required, we would appreciate them being given to us for our treasure hunt, which will take place in March.
DIARY DATES:
Tuesday 10th February Year 3 Dance Festival at Icknield Community College
Friday 13th February School Council “Monarch Dressing-Up Day” - £1 to particpate
School finishes at 3.15pm at the end of Term 3
Monday 23rd February Return to school for the start of Term 4
Swimming sessions begin for Class 3 pupils
Wednesday 25th February Mobile Library visit
Tuesday 17th March Maths Evening for Parents 6.30-8pm
Thursday 4th June School closed for Parliamentary and County Council Elections
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