Newsletter for week ending 16th March 2012

Holiday Course at Stadhampton School
Michael Hopkins will once again be leading a Holiday Course at Stadhampton School in the second week of the Easter Holidays, i.e from Tuesday 10th April to Friday 13th April inclusive. The course will run from 9am-3pm each day and the cost will be £6 a day. Flyers and booking forms are awaited from the Premier Sports Group and should arrive shortly. Any pupil who attends primary school (not necessarily Stadhampton School) is eligible to attend.

Sports Relief Activities on Friday 23rd March
All pupils will be taking part in our Sports Relief afternoon. We will all aim to walk or run the “Sports Relief Mile” and pupils may bring clothes to change into after lunch for dressing up as a sports personality. We hope that pupils who choose to dress up will be willing to donate at least 50p towards Sports Relief. Other fun activities, based on the Sports Relief idea of a “one minute mayhem” which pupils have thoroughly enjoyed in the past, will take place either inside or outside depending on the weather.

School Council Competition
The School Council will be running an Easter-themed competition on Friday 30th March. Your task is to make a Springtime-themed egg character! For example you could decorate an egg with paints and fabric to make an “Easter bunny” egg – complete with a cotton wool tail! You could even make a “backdrop” scene for your character to be placed in. A prize will be awarded to one child from each of the four classes based on the attractiveness of the egg and the originality of the design/approach. Please bring your egg in on Thursday 29th March so that they can be displayed in the hall and judged on Friday.

PTA News

Children's Bingo – 23rd March

We will be serving hotdogs to the children, if there are any vegetarian or other dietary requirements please let Rowena Dobson or Diana Woodwards know as soon as possible.

We would still be grateful for any new, small items that would be suitable as children's prizes for the bingo next week. Thank you for the items we have already received in our red PTA box.

Easter Themed Cake Sale - Thursday 29th March

Following the success and popularity of the Halloween/Bonfire cake sale we are going to have another cake sale, this time with an Easter theme, on Thursday 29th March from 3.15pm.

Watch out for more details next week, and in the meantime get your thinking caps on - we're really looking forward to seeing the results of everyone’s creativity and imagination.

School Coach Crash in Switzerland
Although we have no direct link with the recent catastrophic coach crash in Switzerland, we can all empathise with this tragic event and our thoughts are with the families and school communities of those involved.


Little Bears News
Next week we are learning all about the fire and rescue services; we are hopefully going to have a real fire engine visit Little Bears too. We are going to start our fire engine shoe boxes, so any more donations of shoe boxes would be very much appreciated.
Reminder about our Easter Bonnet Parade on 30th March from 11.00am, followed by a cake sale. All donations will be going towards our outside patio area.


DIARY DATES:
Thursday 22nd March Year 3-6 after school football tournament at RAF Benson. Letters were sent home in book bags on 14th March.
Friday 23rd March Sports Relief activities
Children’s Bingo and Hot Dog Evening
Tuesday 27th March Chess Club Final
Wednesday 28th March Maths Masterclass for participating pupils at ICC
Friday 30th March End of term assembly at 9.05am. All parents/carers welcome to attend.
School finishes at 1.30pm.
Monday 16th April Pupils and staff return to school for the start of Term 5