Newsletter week ending 18th March 2016

 

 

New School Website

As notified to parents by e-mail on Tuesday, we are pleased to report that our brand new school website was launched this week. Thank you to everyone who has provided feedback about the new website. The address of the school website remains unchanged and can be found at  www.stadhampton.oxon.sch.uk

You will find a copy of the Newsletter, School Meals Menu, Forest School dates, After School Club information and much, much more so it is definitely worth a look! We have also added a ‘Kids’ Zone’ with some fun activities and games to play (Classes Section). We hope you like it!

 

Rocket Science

We are very pleased to let you know that we are one of the schools that successfully applied to take part in the UK Space Agency and Royal Horticultural Society ‘Rocket Science’ project. This involves growing rocket seeds that have been up in space with Tim Peake, along with seeds that haven’t been in space, in controlled conditions to investigate any effect that microgravity might have on seed germination and growth. The seeds will be with us in April and we look forward to taking part in such an exciting and high profile national science investigation. There will be enough seeds for every child in school to take part and we are very excited about taking part. As you can imagine, we are under the strict orders of mission control!

 

Abacus Maths

We apologise for the glitch in the system which meant that some pupils were unable to access their Abacus Active Learning account. The situation has now been rectified and we hope everyone has had a chance to logon and access the site. We have had a number of very favourable reports from pupils and parents about the new facility, thank you.

 

Gardening Club

We are pleased to let you know that Gardening Club led by Mrs Burnell will recommence on Friday lunchtimes after the Easter break. The club is open to pupils in Years 3-6. Please ask your child to put their name down with Mrs Hopkins if they would like to attend this popular Club.

 

School Lunch Menu Change for Easter

On Wednesday 23^rd March there will be a slight change to our normal school lunch for Easter. Instead of pork there will be chicken and instead of the shortbread, there will be a chocolate mini egg birds nest.

 

Class 3 Greek Feast!

It was lovely to see the effort children had made to prepare the Greek Cuisine menus in C lass 3. As some of the menus and recipes were so interesting we have decided to have our own Greek Feast! This will take place the first Wednesday back after the Easter holidays 13^th April. I would be very grateful if parents would help us to make this happen by providing small contributions of Greek style food.

There will be a tick sheet in the Class 3 cloakroom during next week to ensure that there is a variety of food. Of course, if children would like to make the recipe of their Greek choice that would be even better! 

As we do have children with allergies please may I request that any recipes containing dairy are clearly labelled and that recipes must be NUT FREE.

Thanking you in advance for your support.

Miss Raval

 

Update on After School Clubs beginning after the Easter Holiday

Archery – 2 spaces available for pupils aged 8 or over

Multisports Club is now full

Ball Games – spaces available

Singing Club – spaces available.

 

PTA NEWS

 

Earth Hour- on Saturday 19th March earth hour is held worldwide encouraging individuals, communities, households and businesses to turn their non essential lights for 1 hour, from 8.30-9.30

(this can be done earlier for younger children) as a symbol for their commitment to the planet. It can be celebrated any way you like;  maybe have a dinner party in candle light or go for a walk with lanterns. On Friday 18th March we will be putting envelopes into book-bags (1 per family) for your child or your family to be sponsored to turn all lights off for an hour, however your child/family may wish to make it longer then an hour or maybe turn off televisions, consoles or mobile phones. 10% of all sponsor money will be donated to WWF with all other sponsor money going towards the PTA. All envelopes to be handed into a box in the office from Monday 21st March.

 

Kids bingo evening-Friday 22nd April- 5.30-7pm- you should have received a consent form for the bingo evening in book-bags earlier in the week We have sent them out in plenty of time so please make sure you circle which food choice your child/children would like. All forms to be handed to Melanie Gravett or a committee member.

 

Easter Chocolate raffle- thank you to everyone who has already donated Easter eggs. We still need lots more!!!! If you could donate an Easter egg or chocolates then that would be hugely appreciated, we had 28 Easter eggs last year, it would be great if we could have even more this year. Please put all donations into the PTA box in the hall or give to a committee member. A list of all committee members is on the notice board outside Class 1.

Raffle tickets are 50p each, with one ticket per child to make it fairer. Please get your raffle tickets from Georgina Wiggins outside Class 1 from Friday morning until Tuesday morning. Easter raffle will be drawn in the school hall after school.

 

School clean up day- we are going to hold a clean up day at the school the weekend of  23rd April. We are hoping to improve the swimming pool area ready for the summer term, I am looking for volunteers from every family to help out as it is going to be a big project. I will be contacting every family to see if anyone could spare a few hours to help paint, weed etc. tea/coffee and bacon sandwiches will be provided.

 

Friday Cake Club

Congratulations to Phoebe Hindmarch, the lucky winner of last week’s cake, kindly donated by Mrs Lansley.  A reminder to Debbie Purchon that she is on the rota for THURSDAY 24th March.  We are doing Cake Club on Thursday because Friday is Good Friday and there is no school.

 

DIARY DATES:
Monday 21 March	Work Viewing Evening 3.15 to 6pm.
Wednesday 23 March	Vision checks for Reception pupils
Thursday 24 March	End of term assembly at 9.05am. Parents welcome to attend. School finishes for pupils at 1.30pm. No after school clubs.
Monday 11 April	Start of Term 5 for pupils and staff
Friday 6 May	Forest School fundraising supper event at the Church – please see Mrs Hopkins to book.

 

Easter Holiday Sports Course at Stadhampton School

Michael Hopkins, a qualified PE teacher, will be leading an Easter Sports Course on Wednesday 30^th March, Thursday 31^st March and Friday 1^st April at Stadhampton Primary School. The course runs from 9-3pm each day and is open to all pupils (not necessarily just Stadhampton School) aged 4-11. The cost is £10 for the day and bookings can be made directly by e-mailing m.hopkins07@hotmail.com or via Mrs Hopkins in the school office. Early booking is advised as the Christmas Sports Course was very popular!