Newsletter no 4 / 25th September 2009

Harvest Gifts
This year our Harvest Festival Service will be held in school at 9.00am on Friday 2nd October. Everyone is welcome to attend. Please bring any non-perishable Harvest gifts, eg dried pasta, tinned beans, tinned vegetables, soups, biscuits, chocolate, etc you may have to offer into school on the day. These will be then taken to St John the Baptist Church, where they will form part of the Harvest Service on Sunday 4th October. After the village service, Reverend Nigel will arrange for our gifts to be taken to The Porch, the centre in Oxford for homeless people.

Year 6 Assembly
We look forward to welcoming Richard Hudson, Headteacher of Icknield Community College into school on Wednesday 30th September at 2.30pm. Mr Hudson will lead an assembly for Year 6 pupils and their parents and will be pleased to answer any questions that parents and pupils may have about moving up to secondary school.

Privacy Notice
In previous years in order to meet the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998, we needed to issue a Fair Processing Notice summarising the information held about pupils, why it is held, and the third parties to whom it may be passed on. The notice has been renamed and is now called a Privacy Notice and a copy is attached to this newsletter.

New French Book Available
Madame Brookes had a new book “Berthe Va au Supermarche” published last week. An order form is attached to this newsletter should anyone wish to purchase a copy (priced at £4.50).

Little Bears News
This week Little Bears had fun making fruit salad – chopping fruit up and choosing their favourites. They also enjoyed going on a nature hunt to find leaves, sticks and seeds to make pictures out of. They have also been practising their “cutting” skills.

DIARY DATES:
Friday 2nd October Harvest Festival in school – 9.05am – All welcome!
Wednesday 14th October Open Morning in School and at Little Bears – All welcome – 9.00-11.30am
Wednesday 21st October School finishes at 3.15pm for the October Holiday. After school sports clubs and after school fun club still operate as normal today.
Monday 2nd November Return to school after the October Holiday. Swimming starts for Class 3 pupils.
Wednesday 25th November Family Poetry Workshop 3.15-.4.15pm. No after school SPORTS Clubs, - After School Fun Club in the portacabin will run as normal with Mrs Howlett and Mrs Hopkins bringing pupils over to/from school for the poetry workshop.