Newsletter No 5 / 3rd December 2010

December Events

Tuesday 7th 2pm
Dress Rehearsal for KS2 Performance. Everyone welcome. No tickets required. Babies and pre-school aged children very welcome
Wednesday 7th 2pm
6.30pm
KS2 Performance. Entry by ticket only. No babies or toddlers please.
KS2 Performance. Entry by ticket only. No babies or toddlers please
Thursday 9th
10am
KS1 Dress Rehearsal. Everyone welcome. No tickets required. Babies and pre-school aged children very welcome.
Friday 10th
2pm
KS1 Performance. Entry by ticket only. No babies or toddlers please.
Tuesday 14th
12 noon
Whole school Christmas Lunch. We hope that all pupils will have a festive school lunch with crackers, etc. Cost £2.05. The menu will be: Turkey and chipolata, or Quorn sausages, stuffing, roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables, ice-cream star or strawberry jelly.
Wednesday 15th
2pm
Carol Service & Nativity in Church. Everyone welcome to join us in Church for this event.
Thursday 16th
10am
School Christmas Party. Pupils may bring clothes to change into at morning break if they wish. The PTA have kindly agreed to provide a small budget for chocolate biscuits and drinks, so there is no need for parents to provide anything and pupils will have their lunch as normal at 12 noon (either packed lunches or school meals.)
Final after school football club for this year.
Friday 17th
9am
End of term assembly. Everyone welcome to join us for this.
School finishes at 1.30pm.

Partnership Hockey Tournament – Report by Maisie and Chloe S
“Some Year 4 and 5 pupils went to a hockey tournament in Wallingford. We came 3rd out of 6 teams. It was great fun and we thought we did well. We would enjoy doing it again and think we would do even better! We would like to thank everyone that took part. We would also like to thank Mrs Scragg and Mr Day for transporting us to the tournament and Miss Cornwell (from ICC) who organised the tournament. Thanks especially to Mrs Scragg for teaching us to play hockey.”

Partnership Swimming Gala – Report by Ben D and Amber
“On Monday 29th November, seven pupils from Class 3 went to the Watlington Partnership of Schools annual Swimming Gala. Six teams were meant to turn up but two didn’t make it. All the races were very close and most of them were only won by a few strokes. In the end we came a close fourth. Afterwards there were some novelty races and we came first! Special thanks to Mrs Green for helping to transport and support us and to Mrs White for her support and team snacks!”

Outdoor Performance Area
We are very pleased to inform you that, this week, wooden bench seating was installed around the outdoor mosaic in our school grounds. This exciting development now creates a mini outdoor performance area for all our pupils to access. It is intended that this area will be used (weather permitting!) formally for drama during literacy lessons and, less formally, for “performing arts” activities during playtimes. You are most welcome to look at this feature –
you will find it behind the school swimming pool. Many thanks to the PTA for funding this project which forms the first stage of several planned developments to improve our outdoor facilities and opportunities.


Very many thanks to the PTA for organising such a wonderful Winter Fair last Friday and thank you all for your generous support. There was a very warm atmosphere despite the actual outdoor temperature! Further details of this event are presented under PTA News below.

PTA News
The P.T.A. won’t be asking for any donations this week! - We would instead like to say a HUGE THANK YOU! to parents, carers, staff, governors, members of the community and all P.T.A. members and everyone’s families who contributed in any way, towards the most wonderful evening on Friday. The Winter Fair was an amazing success and it is all down to the support that you gave. We managed to take over £1,000 and once Matt, our treasurer, has deducted expenses we will be able to confirm the grand total raised. Watch this space!

A “very special thank you” goes to Santa for stopping by on his way to the North Pole-it was great to see you!

The P.T.A. would like to thank Charlotte Hector for organising the beautiful Christmas cards this year. Well done to all the children who did some lovely art work - the cards looked great! We raised over £120 so thank you for all your hard work.

Little Bears News
Christmas is well under way at Little Bears. We have a tree up, many decorations made and the children are getting better and better at the Christmas songs for the Nativity. We welcome Bella Jones to Little Bears this week, she seems to have made a very positive start. We hope she continues to enjoy her time with us.

DIARY DATES for January 2011

Tuesday 4th & Wednesday 5th January

Staff INSET Training Days
Thursday 6th January
Pupils return to school. No after school football club.