Newsletter No 6 / 26th February 2010

PTA NEWS
Bingo Night – the event due this Friday has been cancelled due to low demand. This is very disappointing as it is a lost opportunity to raise funds for PTA, however we tried and learnt. Anyone who donated prizes will have them returned or can donate them to the spring raffle if they prefer.
Clothes Recycling – the next date for clothes recycling is 30 April so please start to dig out those unwanted clothes ready for the school collection.
Easter Chocolate Raffle – 1 April. Raffle tickets will be sent out in the next couple of weeks to parents. Whilst out shopping please would you look out for those buy one get one free offers as we will need plenty of chocolate related goodies for the raffle.
Next PTA Meeting – Tuesday 16th March @ 8pm at School. All welcome again.

New Waiting Area
Welcome to our new on-site waiting and collecting area! We are very pleased to be able to provide a waiting area within the school grounds. This area has been designed and developed to improve pupil safety. Parents and carers of pupils in Classes 1, 2 and 3 are requested to wait inside the waiting area to collect pupils at the end of the school day. Parents and carers of pupils in our Foundation Stage class should continue to collect their children directly from the portacabin. We are awaiting delivery of a tree seat which should further enhance this area.

“World Book Day”
A reminder that we shall be holding a Book Fair in school next week in association with “World Book Day”.
Each child will have be given today a £1 World Book Day token which may be spent at the Book Fair towards the purchase of a book priced at £2.99 or more, or for the purchase of one of six specially produced books priced at £1. The voucher is attached to an explanatory letter from Children’s Laureate Anthony Browne.

Next Friday, 5th March, we will be celebrating “World Book Day” in school. Children are invited to bring a favourite book to school, and come dressed as one of the characters. There will be an opportunity for older children to read an extract from their chosen book to their class, and for younger children to tell their class about their character/story. There will be lots of fun activities on the day, based around books the children have chosen to bring in. if any parents would like to join in by reading a story to a class or small group of children, you would be very welcome. Please contact the class teacher to arrange a convenient time.

Sainsburys and Tesco Vouchers
Please collect these vouchers again and send them into school. We are able to improve the school’s resources significantly by collecting these vouchers each year.

Jian-Zi Competition 2010
This year we held our annual jian-zi (Chinese “keepy-uppy”) competition on Friday 12th February, just before Chinese New Year. The competition was keenly contested, especially by pupils in Class 3, and our ultimate winner was Robbie Scragg (Year 6) with a score of 28. Winners in the other year groups were Benedict Diment (Y5) 21, Ella Mae White (Y4) 5, Hannah Tombling (Y3) 3, Owen Cove (Y2) 3, Oliver Lowman (Y1) 2, and Ollie Stewart (R) 2. Congratulations to all!

Once again, we held the competition in conjunction with our partner school in Hazlach, Poland. Last year we drew with them, but this year they were clear international winners with Dominik Mendrok’s score of 101 and Szymon Szajter their runner-up with 38. We look forward to challenging them again next year and hopefully regaining the trophy!

Uncollected plates and tins
Following your generous support of the School Council’s recent cake sale to raise money for UNICEF’s Haiti Earthquake Appeal, we still have a number of unclaimed plates and tins! Please reclaim them – they are usually accessible from the Hall or the Library. Thank you.


Little Bears News
Well, we hoped Spring would be in the air on our return from the half term break.
It may not be outside, but the Little Bears are “willing on” spring indoors by making beautiful paintings of daffodils and crafting other spring flowers. We are looking forward to another singing session with FS pupils on Thursday morning. All who attend have a very positive approach to this session, and are very keen to take a turn choosing songs on the interactive white board.

DIARY DATES:
Wednesday 3rd March Maths Master Class at ICC for participating pupils
Thursday 4th March BOOK FAIR in school in association with World Book Day.
Friday 5th March Parents receive Mid-Year Summary Reports
World Book Day activities
Monday 8th March School Governors’ Meeting at 7pm
Monday 15th March Work viewing evening 3.30 – 6pm
Tuesday 16th March PTA Meeting at 8pm at school. All welcome.