Newsletter for week ending 25th May 2012

A Right Royal Quiz
As part of our Queen’s Diamond Jubilee festivities, Mrs Wilkins has kindly put together a Right
Royal Quiz. This is available from the school office for £1. Pupils, together with Mrs Wilkin, have
requested that any profits made from the quiz should be used to support Lunch4Learning, a local
charity that works with Ugandan primary schools to help these schools set up sustainable ways of
providing a regular midday meal and thus improve children’s attendance. Further details of
Lunch4Learning are available from the school office.
Completed quizzes need to be submitted to the school office by 3.15pm on Wednesday 13th June.
In the event of a tie, all correct entries will be put into a hat and the winner chosen at our school
assembly on Friday 15th June. There will be just one prize.

Bookfeast
Visit on 22nd May – Years 1-3 – Report by Cora and Oliver L
“At Bookfeast we saw Tony Mitten. He told us rhymes and poems and that he loves writing books.
He told us a story about Dinosaurs. After that we wrote poems about the colourful objects that we
found in the museum. This was because a naughty wizard had cast a spell over all the objects and
they disappeared! Then we wrote a poem about all the objects coming back to the museum.”
Visit on 24th May – Years 4-6 – Report by Maisie
“I really enjoyed the experience of being told all about Sally Grindley and her books. It was really
interesting and I am sure I will read some of her books and thoroughly enjoy them! I didn’t know
who Sally Grindley was before and I knew nothing about her books but now I definitely know who
she is. I think the “Canopy and Compost” exhibition looked beautiful and as I looked at it I felt
really proud of our school.”

Thank you
Many thanks to our very active PTA for organising last weekend’s Family Fun Day. The PTA works
hard to provide social events and raise money to enhance the facilties we are able to offer at
Stadhampton School. All pupils benefit from the support of the PTA and your continued support of
their events is much appreciated.

PTA NEWS
Family Fun Day
A huge thank you to everyone who donated items, helped, had fun on the puzzle trail and
supported us by attending the event - we raised £410.02. This will be put towards the cost of the
French lessons which the PTA helps to pay for.
The Junk Heap challenge was won by Buddy Halliday - watch out for his winning design on the
front cover of the June Parish Magazine. Daniel Burns, visiting his grandparents in the village,
came second, and Julian Fouquet-Burns came third. Well done to everyone - there were some
fantastic models and thanks to Reverend David Cleugh for taking on the tough task of judging the
entries.

Matthew Ellis won 9 games in the very popular Connect 4 challenge, a clear champion! Mrs
Turner picked the winners for the Puzzle Trail draw. Daniel & Matthew Ellis and Charlotte Hector
were the lucky winners.

Pampered Chef evening – Thursday 28th June
Fancy an evening of fun, food and wine - then come along to our fund raising Pampered Chef
evening. Tickets will be £2, and will include a glass of Pimms or wine, nibbles and sampling the
yummy food made. There will also be a raffle. Tickets available soon from Tracey Valentine, the
School Office or from a PTA committee member.

Olympic Torch Relay
As the Olympic Torch passes its way around the country, families may be considering when and
where to see it. The route brings the torch to Oxford during the late afternoon of Monday 9th July
and on Tuesday 10th July the torch leaves Oxford at 07.05 and travels along the Iffley Road before
moving to Abingdon (07.41), Wallingford (08.25) and Crowmarsh (08.43) and then on to Henley.
School will be open as usual both days, however we do recognise that a number of families would
like to see the torch relay for themselves. In order to provide an opportunity for this without the
need for pupils to be absent from school, we will keep our registers open until 10am on Tuesday
10th July. Further details of the relay route are available on the Olympic website.

Little Bears News
Next week at Little Bears we will be getting ready for the Jubilee celebrations by making bunting
and flags. We will also be unveiling our unique one of a kind diamond Jubilee quilt made by all of
our Little Bears on Friday.

DIARY DATES:
Friday 1st June Jubilee celebrations at school – please wear red, white and
blue!
Olympic Tickets Draw at 3.20pm
School finishes at 3.15pm
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 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