Playground Developments
As you may be aware, for several years it has been our intention to replace our well-used but tired old climbing frame and, finally, it has happened! The children have been very excited watching the new equipment being installed and it looks fantastic! They have also been very patient waiting for the concrete “footings” to set but we have had the “all-clear” for Friday 24th June and each class will have their opportunity to explore the new equipment then. The children can’t wait and I notice a little look of envy from the adults.... I would like to say a big “thank you” to the PTA for their interest in, and generous financial support of, this development.
Spring Concert – Report by Amber and Pola
“The Spring Concert was very enjoyable for both children and adults. Everyone had lots of fun listening to children playing clarinets, recorders, piano and guitar, as well as singing “Mr Miller!” We raised £200.14 for the “Smiles and Dreams:Tohoku Children’s Project” in Japan and £46.85 for Save the Children Emergency Fund.
Premier Sports Holiday Course at Stadhampton School
Booking forms have been distributed this week for the sports course being held at Stadhampton School from 25th – 29th July. More forms are available from the school office. Please note that the cost of the course is now £6 a day for 9-3pm which equates to £1 an hour!
Coat left at the Concert
A rather nice coat was left at school by someone who watched the concert.
School Car Park
Thank you to those families who have relieved the congestion in the car park by walking or parking further away and walking down to school this week. It has made a noticeable difference and it is appreciated.
P.T.A. News
Just to remind you that The Great Stadhampton Bake Off is being held this Saturday 25th June in the school hall – our specially selected panel of judges will be judging in secret at 1.45 and the doors will open at 2.30pm when there will be refreshments for all including tea, coffee, homemade lemonade, your chance to place your vote for the People’s Choice and of course, most importantly CAKES!!!!!
We have been donated some wonderful prizes by Gatineau in Summertown, Steamer Trading in Thame, Little Cooks, Bonne Maman and Gu so do please enter a cake for your chance to win one of them.
If you have any questions or if you want to enter a cake to the competition but are unable to attend, please contact Diana and Eimer to arrange this (numbers below).Thank you and we look forward to seeing you!
The P.T.A. is gearing up for the last few weeks of the school year and we are hoping for the weather to improve (drastically!) in time for the school sports evening on Friday 15th July from 6.00pm. This event is a great chance for families to come together and watch the children compete in both running and fun filled obstacle races.
The P.T.A. will be providing a bar, generously run by Mrs Hopkins and Mr Manzie, with beer, wine, cider, Pimms, coke and squash for the children.
This year we have managed to source some locally made sausages and beef burgers courtesy of Mr Gerring who lives in the village and Mrs Shortman, Nikki Howlett and Shirley Bateman have very kindly offered to come along and cook the B.B.Q. for us. So that we have an indication of how many sausages and burgers we will need to order, we are selling tickets in advance and would like to request that families pay for hot dogs and burgers before the night. Food tickets are available from the school office via Joy Hopkins and are on sale from Monday 27th June till Friday 8th July. Please note: We will not be able to offer any tickets for sale after Friday the 8th July. You can purchase a Hot dog or a burger for the very reasonable price of £2.00 each and there is no limit as to how many you may wish to buy. This is the perfect way to end the school year – so order your food now and don’t miss out!
The P.T.A. is hoping that you will be able to support our last fundraising venture of the school year by donating any unwanted CDs and DVDs you may have. We have signed up with a company called ”musicMagpie” who will pay the P.T.A. 50p per item. They in turn, recondition each disc and resell them to other countries around the world. You can find out more about them by visiting their website on www.musicMagpie.co.uk. There is also an added bonus for us - If we can manage to collect a minimum of 250 discs, we can claim a free five-a-side football kit for the school! The P.T.A. has worked out if each family donates just five CDs or DVDs we will reach our goal easily and also raise £150.00 towards P.T.A. funds. If we exceed this amount the P.T.A. will obviously receive more money – plus the free kit!
To receive payment we need to collect CDs and DVDs that have their original notes and sleeves as well as a bar code on the reverse. Unfortunately we can’t send CDs or DVDs that have been given free in newspapers or magazines as these do not have a barcode. Also musicMagpie will only take CD albums, not singles. The company are happy to accept computer games discs but they can only be donated if they are compatible with Playstation3, Xbox and Xbox360 consoles.
This is such a wonderfully easy way to raise extra funds for the children and to get a brand new football kit for the school too! Please look through your CD and DVD collection, ask relatives, neighbours and friends as well and bring any unwanted films or music into school and place in the red P.T.A. box in the hall. Many thanks for your support and let’s see if we can get the free football kit!
Little Bears News
Little Bears Pre-school will be holding their hugely popular Strawberry Fair once again on THURSDAY 7 JULY from 3pm onwards. There will be lots to do - tombola, lucky dip, craft stalls and more, plus lots to eat and drink as well as goodies to win.
Please join us and support Little Bears in the process - we're fundraising towards improvements for our garden area too!
DIARY DATES:
Tuesday 28th June Cycling Safety Test – Year 6 pupils
Thursday 30th June Reception and Class 1 pupil visit to Outdoor Discovery Post
Wednesday 6th July, Thursday 7th July, Friday 8th July Transition days for all pupils. Reception Class mini-topic will be “All About Me”, Class 1 mini-topic will be “The Seaside”, Class 2 mini-topic will be “Cats” and Class 3 mini-topic will be “Pinocchio.”
Wednesday 13th June Class 3 visit to Banbury Museum
Friday 15th July Sports evening (weather permitting)
Wednesday 20th July Mobile Library
Friday 22nd July End of school year assembly at 9.05am in hall. All welcome.
Term 6 ends at 1.30pm
25th – 29th July Holiday course run by Premier Sports Group
Monday 5th & Tuesday 6th September Teacher INSET Days
Wednesday 7th September Pupils return to school
Wednesday 21st September School photographs
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
Newsletter No 2 - 17th June 2011
Industrial Action by Teachers
You may be aware that teachers in some schools are planning to strike on Thursday 30th June. We would like to inform you that, on this occasion, teachers at Stadhampton School will not be taking industrial action and school will function as normal.
Drumming Workshop and Parent Presentation – Friday 24th June
As part of the international activities carried out in the primary schools within the Watlington Partnership, Extended Services are funding a Samba Drumming Workshop for each school. This ‘Latin American’ theme links with our partnership connection with schools in Buenos Aires. Each class will have their own workshop and from 2.45 to 3.00pm there will be a short presentation in the Hall for parents and carers. We do hope you will be able to join us!
Partnership Tennis Tournament – Wednesday 22nd June at Watlington Tennis Club
The annual Icknield Partnership Tennis Tournament is an open tournament. This means that anyone in Year 4, 5 or 6 can enter. They do not need to go with a partner as these will be sorted on arrival. If they would like to play with a certain partner, then they can arrange this beforehand and let Mrs Manzie know. To enter, please would parents see Mrs Manzie by Monday 20th June, so that she can send the names to the Icknield PE Department. There is no transport for this event, parents must arrange this for themselves and I would encourage you to share where possible. The pupils will need to leave our school a little early and have permission to leave at 3pm.
Parking in the School Car Park
We encourage parents to walk with their children to/from school whenever possible but realise that this is not an option for some families. Increased use of the school car park has led to an increase in potential hazards and frequent congestion, and we ask all parents to show consideration to others, as well as be mindful of safety when using the car park and parking in Cratlands Close.
Please could parents only use the designated parking bays and NOT PARK in front of the large gate which leads onto the netball court. Not only is this the access point for grounds maintenance and emergency vehicles but it is also causing a significant problem for pedestrians with pushchairs entering and exiting Little Bears. It would be acceptable for one car to park briefly on the left hand side nearest to the school but the main problem arises when two cars park in that area as parents with pushchairs are being forced onto the muddy grassed area rather than being able to use the path or dropped-kerb access point.
Please do not park alongside the kerb directly outside school at the end of the school day as this is the area where taxis wait to collect children. We must ensure that the right children go into the right taxis and that children being transported are wearing their seatbelts; this is very difficult to monitor if the taxi drivers are not able to park right outside school and are forced to wait further up in Cratlands Close.
Some families may be able to alleviate this congestion by parking elsewhere in the village and walking the rest of the way to school.
We would be grateful for all parents’ assistance in this matter and thank you, in advance, for your co-operation.
Little Bears News
Next week we are going down to the jungle and we will be making monkeys and parrots.
We are continuing with our good behaviour reward chart, Elmer elephant is starting to get lots of patches!
Little Bears Pre-school will be holding their hugely popular Strawberry Fair once again on THURSDAY 7 JULY from 3pm onwards. There will be lots to do - tombola, lucky dip, craft stalls and more, plus lots to eat and drink as well as goodies to win.
Please join us and support Little Bears in the process - we're fundraising towards improvements for our garden area too!
Sainsbury Vouchers
Thank you so much for collecting these for us. The last opportunity for bringing in your Sainsbury vouchers is on Monday morning. We will be sending off our order for Sports Equipment at lunchtime on Monday.
P.T.A. News
The P.T.A. would like to ask if anybody has any cake knives, cake stands or table cloths that they would be willing to lend for the Great Stadhampton Bake Off on Saturday 25th June, 2.30pm.
Little Bears News
Next week we are going down to the jungle and we will be making monkeys and parrots. We are continuing with our good behaviour reward chart, Elmer elephant is starting to get lots of patches!
Little Bears Pre-school will be holding their hugely popular Strawberry Fair once again on THURSDAY 7 JULY from 3pm onwards. There will be lots to do - tombola, lucky dip, craft stalls and more, plus lots to eat and drink as well as goodies to win.
Please join us and support Little Bears in the process - we're fundraising towards improvements for our garden area too!
Extended Services Opportunities
Please find attached the summer activity programme for 10 years + being hosted at Icknield this summer.
DIARY DATES:
Tuesday 21st June Class 2 visit to Sulgrave Manor
Wednesday 22nd June Y5 Students visiting ICC – Creative Arts lesson
Mobile library visit
Saturday 25th June PTA Bake off at 2.30pm
Tuesday 28th June Cycling Safety Test – Year 6 pupils
Thursday 30th June Reception and Class 1 pupil visit to Outdoor Discovery Post
Wednesday6th July, Thursday 7th July, Friday 8th July Transition days for all pupils
Wednesday 13th June Class 3 visit to Banbury Museum
Friday 15th July Sports evening (weather permitting)
Wednesday 20th July Mobile Library
Friday 22nd July End of school year assembly at 9.05am in hall. All welcome.
Term 6 ends at 1.30pm
25th – 29th July Holiday course run by Premier Sports Group
Monday 5th & Tuesday 6th September Teacher INSET Days
Wednesday 7th September Pupils return to school
Wednesday 21st September School photographs
You may be aware that teachers in some schools are planning to strike on Thursday 30th June. We would like to inform you that, on this occasion, teachers at Stadhampton School will not be taking industrial action and school will function as normal.
Drumming Workshop and Parent Presentation – Friday 24th June
As part of the international activities carried out in the primary schools within the Watlington Partnership, Extended Services are funding a Samba Drumming Workshop for each school. This ‘Latin American’ theme links with our partnership connection with schools in Buenos Aires. Each class will have their own workshop and from 2.45 to 3.00pm there will be a short presentation in the Hall for parents and carers. We do hope you will be able to join us!
Partnership Tennis Tournament – Wednesday 22nd June at Watlington Tennis Club
The annual Icknield Partnership Tennis Tournament is an open tournament. This means that anyone in Year 4, 5 or 6 can enter. They do not need to go with a partner as these will be sorted on arrival. If they would like to play with a certain partner, then they can arrange this beforehand and let Mrs Manzie know. To enter, please would parents see Mrs Manzie by Monday 20th June, so that she can send the names to the Icknield PE Department. There is no transport for this event, parents must arrange this for themselves and I would encourage you to share where possible. The pupils will need to leave our school a little early and have permission to leave at 3pm.
Parking in the School Car Park
We encourage parents to walk with their children to/from school whenever possible but realise that this is not an option for some families. Increased use of the school car park has led to an increase in potential hazards and frequent congestion, and we ask all parents to show consideration to others, as well as be mindful of safety when using the car park and parking in Cratlands Close.
Please could parents only use the designated parking bays and NOT PARK in front of the large gate which leads onto the netball court. Not only is this the access point for grounds maintenance and emergency vehicles but it is also causing a significant problem for pedestrians with pushchairs entering and exiting Little Bears. It would be acceptable for one car to park briefly on the left hand side nearest to the school but the main problem arises when two cars park in that area as parents with pushchairs are being forced onto the muddy grassed area rather than being able to use the path or dropped-kerb access point.
Please do not park alongside the kerb directly outside school at the end of the school day as this is the area where taxis wait to collect children. We must ensure that the right children go into the right taxis and that children being transported are wearing their seatbelts; this is very difficult to monitor if the taxi drivers are not able to park right outside school and are forced to wait further up in Cratlands Close.
Some families may be able to alleviate this congestion by parking elsewhere in the village and walking the rest of the way to school.
We would be grateful for all parents’ assistance in this matter and thank you, in advance, for your co-operation.
Little Bears News
Next week we are going down to the jungle and we will be making monkeys and parrots.
We are continuing with our good behaviour reward chart, Elmer elephant is starting to get lots of patches!
Little Bears Pre-school will be holding their hugely popular Strawberry Fair once again on THURSDAY 7 JULY from 3pm onwards. There will be lots to do - tombola, lucky dip, craft stalls and more, plus lots to eat and drink as well as goodies to win.
Please join us and support Little Bears in the process - we're fundraising towards improvements for our garden area too!
Sainsbury Vouchers
Thank you so much for collecting these for us. The last opportunity for bringing in your Sainsbury vouchers is on Monday morning. We will be sending off our order for Sports Equipment at lunchtime on Monday.
P.T.A. News
The P.T.A. would like to ask if anybody has any cake knives, cake stands or table cloths that they would be willing to lend for the Great Stadhampton Bake Off on Saturday 25th June, 2.30pm.
Little Bears News
Next week we are going down to the jungle and we will be making monkeys and parrots. We are continuing with our good behaviour reward chart, Elmer elephant is starting to get lots of patches!
Little Bears Pre-school will be holding their hugely popular Strawberry Fair once again on THURSDAY 7 JULY from 3pm onwards. There will be lots to do - tombola, lucky dip, craft stalls and more, plus lots to eat and drink as well as goodies to win.
Please join us and support Little Bears in the process - we're fundraising towards improvements for our garden area too!
Extended Services Opportunities
Please find attached the summer activity programme for 10 years + being hosted at Icknield this summer.
DIARY DATES:
Tuesday 21st June Class 2 visit to Sulgrave Manor
Wednesday 22nd June Y5 Students visiting ICC – Creative Arts lesson
Mobile library visit
Saturday 25th June PTA Bake off at 2.30pm
Tuesday 28th June Cycling Safety Test – Year 6 pupils
Thursday 30th June Reception and Class 1 pupil visit to Outdoor Discovery Post
Wednesday6th July, Thursday 7th July, Friday 8th July Transition days for all pupils
Wednesday 13th June Class 3 visit to Banbury Museum
Friday 15th July Sports evening (weather permitting)
Wednesday 20th July Mobile Library
Friday 22nd July End of school year assembly at 9.05am in hall. All welcome.
Term 6 ends at 1.30pm
25th – 29th July Holiday course run by Premier Sports Group
Monday 5th & Tuesday 6th September Teacher INSET Days
Wednesday 7th September Pupils return to school
Wednesday 21st September School photographs
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Newsletter No 1 - 10th June 2011
Welcome back!
Happy June Birthday to: Megan Barber, Olivia Dallimore, Betsy Elliott, Ella Gravett, Chloe Hindmarch, Zara Hopkins, James Lowman, Josh Matthews and Georgia Valentine.
During JUNE we are focusing on the core value of HONESTY
Transition Days
In order for pupils to experience, and become more familiar with, classroom arrangements for September, we have planned a series of ‘moving up’ days in July. These will take place on Wednesday 6th, Thursday 7th and Friday 8th July. During these three days Year 6 pupils will be visiting Icknield Community College for their transition days and the Foundation Stage pupils due to start Stadhampton School in September will be in our Reception class with Miss Mould. Therefore, for all three days, current Foundation Stage pupils and Year 1 pupils will be in Class 1 with Mrs Manzie, current Year 2 and Year 3 will be in Class 2 with Mrs Garrard and Mrs Turner and current Year 4 and Year 5 pupils with be in Class 3 with Miss Shah. During these three days pupils in each class will carry out a mini project, details of which will be announced nearer the time.
Swimming in the School Pool
We have received a clean bill of health for the school pool and it is now ready for use. We shall begin using it when the weather warms up a bit! Please send your child into school with swimming kit from next week.
Swimming at Berinsfield Pool
A reminder that Class 2 pupils will have their final swimming session at Berinsfield on 13th June. We would be pleased to receive any outstanding “voluntary donations” towards the transport costs from those families who have not contributed as yet. Swimming will then begin for Class 3 pupils on Monday 20th June – they will have 5 sessions finishing on 18th July.
Premier Sports Holiday Course
Michael Hopkins, will be leading another holiday course at Stadhampton School on behalf of the Premier Sports Group, for 5 days beginning Monday 25th July. Booking forms are not available as yet, but we thought parents would find it helpful to know in advance, that this course will be running again for that one week.
Tesco Vouchers
Many thanks for collecting these for us – we have now posted our order off. We have chosen to exchange our vouchers for literacy, numeracy and music resources. We are still collecting Sainsbury vouchers and we intend to exchange those vouchers for sports equipment, so please keep sending them in!
P.T.A. News
Many thanks to everyone who donated clothes for the clothes recycling collection. The bags weighed a whopping 582 kilos and resulted in us receiving a total of £291.00 from Bags2School towards P.T.A. funds. We will be organising another clothes collection for the autumn, so start bagging and saving any clean, good quality children’s and adults clothing, shoes, bags, bedding, towels, curtains and soft toys. We will let you know the collection date in the new school year.
Come and join us on Saturday June 25th for The Great Stadhampton Bake Off!
We are running two baking competitions on the day; one for adults and one for children, entrants can enter as many cakes as they like and if you simply wish to sample and enjoy the entries we will be offering tea, coffee and other delicacies too.
There will be prizes for the best entries and entry is £3 per person or £5 per family. Doors open from 2.30pm but cakes for the competition will need to be with us by 1.30pm.
Charity Spring Concert in the Hall on Friday 17th June
At 6.30pm pupils in Classes 2 and 3 are presenting a Spring Concert to raise funds for a charity providing short-term and long-term support for children affected by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. There is much musical talent at Stadhampton School which we would like to celebrate and pupils will be playing clarinets, guitars, piano and recorders. Parents and families of pupils in Classes 2 and 3 have had priority seating but we would like to extend the invitation to all interested families. We are not selling tickets as we will be making a collection during the event, however, to ensure we provide enough seating please inform the school if you would like to attend. We expect the concert to last about an hour and light refreshments will be available afterwards.
Working with the University of Oxford
Once again we are pleased to be working with a doctoral student at the University of Oxford who is undertaking research into how children process words when reading. Only pupils in Class 3 are involved in this current study but, hopefully, eventually we will all benefit from the findings of this research!
International links with Tomas Guido School, Buenos Aires
Along with other primary schools in the Watlington Partnership of Schools, we are developing a link with a group of primary schools in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Our partner school is called Tomas Guido School which is in central Buenos Aires. The link is part of a “connecting classrooms” programme administered by the British Council. The main purpose of the link is for us to develop an understanding of each other’s cultures by exchanging information about national and local festivals and customs. At this stage Class 3 have been closely involved by sending information about April Fools Day and the Royal Wedding and receiving letters from pupils at Tomas Guido School outlining their hobbies and favourite food – it’s amazing how popular football is! Two representatives of our School Council, along with their counterparts from the other schools in the Watlington Partnership recently attended an “Argentina” meeting held in Watlington Town Hall and some members of Class 3 have taken part in a skype link which was very exciting.
Little Bears News
Little Bears Pre-school will be holding their hugely popular Strawberry Fair once again on THURSDAY 7 JULY from 3pm onwards. There will be lots to do - tombola, lucky dip, craft stalls and more, plus lots to eat and drink as well as goodies to win.
Please join us and support Little Bears in the process - we're fundraising towards improvements for our garden area too!
Chalgrove & Watlington Children’s Centre
Chalgrove & Watlington Children’s Centre are looking for ‘bank staff’ for the Childrens Centre. Please contact centre manager Helen Rints 07504 958334 or Helen.Rints@Oxfordshire.gov.uk for further details.
DIARY DATES:
Friday 17th June Spring Concert (in aid of Japan Appeal)
Wednesday 22nd June Y5 Students visiting ICC – Creative Arts lesson
Mobile library visit
Tuesday 28th June Cycling Safety Test – Year 6 pupils
Wednesday6th July, Thursday 7th July, Friday 8th July Transition days for all pupils
Friday 15th July Sports evening (weather permitting)
Wednesday 20th July Mobile Library
Friday 22nd July End of school year assembly at 9.05am in hall. All welcome.
Term 6 ends at 1.30pm
Monday 5th & Tuesday 6th September Teacher INSET Days
Wednesday 7th September Pupils return to school
Wednesday 21st September School photographs
Happy June Birthday to: Megan Barber, Olivia Dallimore, Betsy Elliott, Ella Gravett, Chloe Hindmarch, Zara Hopkins, James Lowman, Josh Matthews and Georgia Valentine.
During JUNE we are focusing on the core value of HONESTY
Transition Days
In order for pupils to experience, and become more familiar with, classroom arrangements for September, we have planned a series of ‘moving up’ days in July. These will take place on Wednesday 6th, Thursday 7th and Friday 8th July. During these three days Year 6 pupils will be visiting Icknield Community College for their transition days and the Foundation Stage pupils due to start Stadhampton School in September will be in our Reception class with Miss Mould. Therefore, for all three days, current Foundation Stage pupils and Year 1 pupils will be in Class 1 with Mrs Manzie, current Year 2 and Year 3 will be in Class 2 with Mrs Garrard and Mrs Turner and current Year 4 and Year 5 pupils with be in Class 3 with Miss Shah. During these three days pupils in each class will carry out a mini project, details of which will be announced nearer the time.
Swimming in the School Pool
We have received a clean bill of health for the school pool and it is now ready for use. We shall begin using it when the weather warms up a bit! Please send your child into school with swimming kit from next week.
Swimming at Berinsfield Pool
A reminder that Class 2 pupils will have their final swimming session at Berinsfield on 13th June. We would be pleased to receive any outstanding “voluntary donations” towards the transport costs from those families who have not contributed as yet. Swimming will then begin for Class 3 pupils on Monday 20th June – they will have 5 sessions finishing on 18th July.
Premier Sports Holiday Course
Michael Hopkins, will be leading another holiday course at Stadhampton School on behalf of the Premier Sports Group, for 5 days beginning Monday 25th July. Booking forms are not available as yet, but we thought parents would find it helpful to know in advance, that this course will be running again for that one week.
Tesco Vouchers
Many thanks for collecting these for us – we have now posted our order off. We have chosen to exchange our vouchers for literacy, numeracy and music resources. We are still collecting Sainsbury vouchers and we intend to exchange those vouchers for sports equipment, so please keep sending them in!
P.T.A. News
Many thanks to everyone who donated clothes for the clothes recycling collection. The bags weighed a whopping 582 kilos and resulted in us receiving a total of £291.00 from Bags2School towards P.T.A. funds. We will be organising another clothes collection for the autumn, so start bagging and saving any clean, good quality children’s and adults clothing, shoes, bags, bedding, towels, curtains and soft toys. We will let you know the collection date in the new school year.
Come and join us on Saturday June 25th for The Great Stadhampton Bake Off!
We are running two baking competitions on the day; one for adults and one for children, entrants can enter as many cakes as they like and if you simply wish to sample and enjoy the entries we will be offering tea, coffee and other delicacies too.
There will be prizes for the best entries and entry is £3 per person or £5 per family. Doors open from 2.30pm but cakes for the competition will need to be with us by 1.30pm.
Charity Spring Concert in the Hall on Friday 17th June
At 6.30pm pupils in Classes 2 and 3 are presenting a Spring Concert to raise funds for a charity providing short-term and long-term support for children affected by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan. There is much musical talent at Stadhampton School which we would like to celebrate and pupils will be playing clarinets, guitars, piano and recorders. Parents and families of pupils in Classes 2 and 3 have had priority seating but we would like to extend the invitation to all interested families. We are not selling tickets as we will be making a collection during the event, however, to ensure we provide enough seating please inform the school if you would like to attend. We expect the concert to last about an hour and light refreshments will be available afterwards.
Working with the University of Oxford
Once again we are pleased to be working with a doctoral student at the University of Oxford who is undertaking research into how children process words when reading. Only pupils in Class 3 are involved in this current study but, hopefully, eventually we will all benefit from the findings of this research!
International links with Tomas Guido School, Buenos Aires
Along with other primary schools in the Watlington Partnership of Schools, we are developing a link with a group of primary schools in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Our partner school is called Tomas Guido School which is in central Buenos Aires. The link is part of a “connecting classrooms” programme administered by the British Council. The main purpose of the link is for us to develop an understanding of each other’s cultures by exchanging information about national and local festivals and customs. At this stage Class 3 have been closely involved by sending information about April Fools Day and the Royal Wedding and receiving letters from pupils at Tomas Guido School outlining their hobbies and favourite food – it’s amazing how popular football is! Two representatives of our School Council, along with their counterparts from the other schools in the Watlington Partnership recently attended an “Argentina” meeting held in Watlington Town Hall and some members of Class 3 have taken part in a skype link which was very exciting.
Little Bears News
Little Bears Pre-school will be holding their hugely popular Strawberry Fair once again on THURSDAY 7 JULY from 3pm onwards. There will be lots to do - tombola, lucky dip, craft stalls and more, plus lots to eat and drink as well as goodies to win.
Please join us and support Little Bears in the process - we're fundraising towards improvements for our garden area too!
Chalgrove & Watlington Children’s Centre
Chalgrove & Watlington Children’s Centre are looking for ‘bank staff’ for the Childrens Centre. Please contact centre manager Helen Rints 07504 958334 or Helen.Rints@Oxfordshire.gov.uk for further details.
DIARY DATES:
Friday 17th June Spring Concert (in aid of Japan Appeal)
Wednesday 22nd June Y5 Students visiting ICC – Creative Arts lesson
Mobile library visit
Tuesday 28th June Cycling Safety Test – Year 6 pupils
Wednesday6th July, Thursday 7th July, Friday 8th July Transition days for all pupils
Friday 15th July Sports evening (weather permitting)
Wednesday 20th July Mobile Library
Friday 22nd July End of school year assembly at 9.05am in hall. All welcome.
Term 6 ends at 1.30pm
Monday 5th & Tuesday 6th September Teacher INSET Days
Wednesday 7th September Pupils return to school
Wednesday 21st September School photographs
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