Newsletter for week ending 1st June 2012

Swimming at the Abbey Sports Centre
Swimming begins for Class 3 pupils on Monday 11th June. They will have 6 swimming sessions and, as always, we hope that parents are willing to contribute to the cost of the transport to the pool by paying £1 per pupil per week.

Swimming in our school pool
We are grateful to Mrs Leiper for looking after our swimming pool and for making sure it is ready for the children to swim in. We hope to have a replacement part fitted during this week to the heater but the water temperature is already 26 degrees! A bacterialogical sample has been taken for analysis and as long as the result comes back clear, we shall be able to start using the pool, weather permitting, from Monday 11th June.
ALL PUPILS, including Reception, should have swimming kit available in school each day in readiness for swimming. This should include for girls a one-piece swimming costume (no bikinis or tankinis please) and for boys a pair of tight fitting (not baggy) swimming trunks. All pupils (boys and girls) need to have their own swimming hat and, of course, a towel. Anyone with earrings must either be able to remove them for swimming (and any other form of PE) or have their own roll of micropore tape in their swimming bag to cover them. It is helpful if clothing is marked with the pupils name in case of any queries when pupils get dressed again!
Goggles are not necessary in our school pool and discouraged due to them being a possible health and safety hazard in a small pool. Chlorine levels are generally lower in our pool than in a public swimming pool and pupils will be doing very little underwater swimming.

Help Required!
Mr Freeth, our ICT governor who has also kindly looked after the school website for the last couple of years, has recently resigned from the Governing Body due to pressure of work and we would really appreciate some help in updating our school website (www.stadhampton.oxon.sch.uk) in readiness for the new academic year beginning in September. It already contains lots of useful information and we do our best to keep it up to date but we would like to see what could be done to make it even better. Does anyone know of someone with the necessary web-design skills to take this on as a project for us? We would be willing to pay a small fee for someone to do the initial setting up of the website and then would need to discuss how best to continue to update it. Please e-mail Mrs Hopkins at office.2455@stadhampton.oxon.sch.uk if you think you have the appropriate skills and the time available to be actively involved in this exciting project.

Sports Evening- Friday 13th July
This year our annual Sports Evening will be closely linked with the Olympics. During National Sports Week pupils will be taking part in a number of Olympic-related events in school and on Monday 25th June we will be putting the children into 5 teams for the 5 colours of the rings on the Olympic flag. These colours are red, blue, green, yellow and black. Teams will score points for the activities carried out during sports week. Pupils will remain in the same 5 teams for our Sports Evening on Friday 13th July and, for this Olympic year, the scores collected during Sports Week will be added to the scores collected during Sports Evening.

Sports Evening is one of the highlights of the school year. Most pupils attend this event and are keen to represent their team. Families will be able to buy refreshments and BBQ food as in previous years.

Families are welcome to support the event and, as in previous years, refreshments and BBQ food will be available to buy. Please let us know by Monday 18th June if your child will not be attending Sports Evening (6.15pm for 6.30 start, finishing between 7.30 and 7.45pm) through your child’s class teacher.

Your child will bring home a slip on Monday 25th June with details of their team colour. We encourage parents to borrow and lend, rather than go to the extra expense of buying a new top for one occasion. It is our tradition to keep families together in the same colour team.

Any queries please do not hesitate to contact Mrs Turner or Mrs Manzie,

Little Bears News
We return on Monday the 11th June to the theme "The Circus.” We will be learning some circus skills and making lots of circus themed artwork to go up in Little Bears. Have a great half term week and enjoy the Jubilee celebrations.



PTA News
Pampered Chef Evening - Thursday 28th June

Tickets are now available from the School Office. For just £2, which includes a glass of Pimms or wine, nibbles and food sampling, you can have a fun evening with friends.

DIARY DATES:
Monday 11th June Return to school for the start of Term 6
Wednesday 13th June Last day for completed quiz sheets to be returned to school
Wednesday 20th June Year 5 visit to ICC for Creative Arts lesson
Monday 25th June Last afterschool hockey club
Wednesday 27th June Last afterschool multisports and netball club
Friday 29th June Year 6 cycle test
Monday 9th July Olympic Torch in Oxon
Tuesday 10th July Olympic Torch in Oxon
Wednesay 11th,Thursday 12th, Friday 13th July Year 6 transition days to Icknield Community College
New Reception pupils into Foundation Stage for three taster days
Friday 13th July Provisional date for Sports evening
Friday 20th July 9.05 - Leavers assembly
1.30pm school ends
Wednesday 5th September Pupils return to school

Please find attached a flyer outlining events at the Children’s Centre in June and July.