Newsletter
for week ending 29 April 2016
PTA – Organised school clean-up weekend
A huge ‘thank you’ to all
who gave up their time during last weekend to help spruce up the school and
grounds. Parents, governors, staff and other volunteers all contributed to a
range of spring-cleaning jobs which has made an obvious impact on the look of
the school and for which we are very grateful.
Particular thanks go to Mr
Khan and his team for the fantastic work they did transforming the area surrounding
the swimming pool which included; replacing the changing area fencing sections,
laying non-slip matting for accessing the changing areas, constructing a
covered seating area (to protect children, who are not swimming, from the sun)
and painting preservative on the inside of the fence panels. The pool is an
area most parents and carers don’t see but the children do and they will be
amazed!
Thank you to the PTA for organising
this event, we do appreciate your commitment.
“Parenting Is An Interesting Journey” talk by Susie Mullin –
06.07.16
Parenting can be a very
complex and challenging role in today’s world and we are delighted to be able
to offer all parents and carers the opportunity to listen to Susie Mullin’s
talk “Parenting Is An Interesting Journey”. Susie is well known to us at
Stadhampton School and runs her own business, Red Balloon Training, which you
can find out more about on www.rbtraining.org.
Susie is a trained nurse, qualified primary school teacher and behaviour
support specialist and brings a wealth of professional experience as well as an
engaging personality to her talks.
Her talk will shed some
light on this important topic and will take place in the Hall between 3.15 and
4.15 on Wednesday 6th July. We will be offering a crèche for
Stadhampton School pupils. We do hope you will be able to come and, nearer the
time, we will be sending out invitations and a reply slip to gain an idea of
approximate numbers.
Reporting your child’s absence
If you need to notify
school with regards to your child’s absence, either e-mail the school on office.2455@stadhampton.oxon.sch.uk
or follow the new link on the school website under the Parent’s Section. Thank
you.
UNICEF Day for Change
Thank you to everone who
donated to the UNICEF Day for Change. So far we have collected £91.22 for
UNICEF.
PTA NEWS
Clean
up weekend- thank
you to everyone who attended the clean up weekend, we completely transformed the
swimming pool area in just 1 day. There were people there from 8am until 6pm
and everything in between. A special thank you to Zia Khan who really took this
project on and who donated materials, man power and ideas, we couldn't have
done it without him. I hope everyone is pleased with the end result. Thank you
to everyone who came on Sunday helping improve other parts of the school areas.
Bingo
night- A
great evening was had by all although I think some of the committee had a
headache afterwards! Thank you again for supporting this popular evening and a
special mention to Mel Gravett for organising.
Cake
Club- After
setting up and running cake club for a number of years Rowena is flying the
nest. We can’t thank Rowena enough for all her hard work in making cake club
such a success and the amount of money it has raised over the years. We are
looking for someone to take over cake club, you don't have to be on the
committee you would just need to be available on Friday mornings. Rowena is
very happy to show whoever takes it over the ropes and to fully support them. Unless
we get a volunteer to take it on we will unfortunately have to stop cake club,
which none of us want to do. Please speak to a committee member if you are
interested.
Clothes
recycling- please
keep filling those bags ready for Tuesday
10th May 9am, we accept clothes, shoes, good condition cuddly
toys, hats, bags. All money raised goes towards the PTA and Little Bears.
Family
Quiz Night- Friday 20th May 6pm- tickets are on sale for this fun evening, a
family ticket is £10, there is a fully stocked bar, pizza and hotdogs for sale
and a fantastic quiz for all the family to enjoy. Please see Georgina Wiggins
for tickets.
Queen’s
celebration- Saturday 18th June- the PTA are supporting the Queen’s birthday
celebrations by holding a raffle on the day of the village fete. We are asking
for donations from parents for hampers that we hope to raffle off. All the
money raised from the raffle will go to the PTA. We have cancelled our summer
fete so that we can support this event. Please start putting donations in
the PTA box in the hall. Thank you.
Our
next PTA meeting is Tuesday 10th May 8pm at The Crown in Stadhampton.
Thank
you for your continued support of the PTA.
Friday Cake Club
Congratulations to Leo Burnell, the lucky winner of last week’s
cake, kindly donated by Mrs Payne. A reminder to Mrs Holmes that she is
on the rota for 6th May. We still have 2 gaps in the rota (see
attached). Please let Rowena know if you can fill one of them – dates
are: 24th June and 1st July. Thank you.
DIARY DATES:
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Monday 2
May
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Bank Holiday
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Monday 9
May
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Start of SATs week
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Wednesday
11 May
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Mobile Library visit
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Monday 16
May
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Book Fair in school
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Tuesday 17
May
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Class 2 Trip
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Friday 20
May
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PTA Family Quiz Evening
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Friday 27
May
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School finishes at 3.15pm for May Holiday
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Monday 6
June
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Start of Term 6 for staff and pupils
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Friday 10
June (rearranged date)
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Forest School fundraising supper event at the Church – please see Mrs
Hopkins to book.
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SAVE THE DATE - Queen's 90th Birthday - Saturday 18 June 2016, 2pm
onwards
We will be
holding a village tea party in June to celebrate the Queen's 90th Birthday, as
well as those of members of the local community also reaching
their 90th year - we'd like include anyone 80+, (please contact Sue White if
you'd like to include someone at the birthday table 01865 890880).
The Brook Race
will go ahead - thank you to the Hopkins family for returning one of the
shields for this event - there will be three races; men, ladies and 11-16 year
olds with medals for 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the latter race.
More information
will follow in these newsletters, the Village Voice and on the
village website stadhampton.org - and if you'd like to be involved then please
contact Sue on the number above. Thank you. We'll keep updating you
over the new few weeks but for now please make a note in
your diaries.