Week ending 20 January 2017

 

Sainsburys Active Kids 2017

We are pleased to be participating once again in the Sainsburys Active Kids voucher scheme starting on 25 January 2017. If you shop at Sainsburys please collect vouchers for us (and ask your friends and family to collect too!) and put them in the box on top of the piano. At the end of the scheme we are able to exchange the vouchers for wonderful new cooking and sports equipment which the children get very excited about. Thank you.

 

Sports Hall Athletics Tournament

“On Friday 13^th January all of Class 3 competed in the annual Sports Hall Athletics Tournament at Icknield Community College. We were up against five other schools which were Chalgrove, Watlington, RAF Benson, Ewelme and Nettlebed. Nettlebed won but they aren’t really in the partnership. We came third, so just missed out on qualifying for the next round. Watlington and Nettlebed qualified but we all tried extremely hard. We finished with 107 points, 5 points behind Watlington! We really enjoyed it and we will be ready for next year.”

By Ben and Thomas

Well done to you all, we have some fine young athletes in Class 3!

 

MEERKAT Champion of the Week

We are delighted to share the names of our "MEERKAT Champion of the Week" award in each class last week as follows;

Reception – William W

Class 1 – Harry P

Class 2 – Emily H

Class 3 – Juliana B

 

Well done to you all!

 

Guitar Tuition

Spaces are now available for new students to join the guitar tuition groups run by Mr Payne on Friday lunchtimes. Mr Payne also teaches guitars at Icknield Community College so if students wished to continue with their tuition at secondary school this could be possible. An enrolment form is attached to this newsletter so that parents may contact Mr Payne directly for further details of the tuition and the costs involved.

 

PTA News

Thank you to everyone who came to the PTA meeting last week.

 

We have started to plan some events, so dates for diaries so far are as follows:

 

Thursday 9^th February – Valentines and Villains Children’s Disco, 5.30pm – 7pm

We will be holding a Valentines and Villains disco for Stadhampton pupils in the school hall on 9^th February (just before half term).  Cost will be £3 per child to include drinks and a snack.  More details with consent form to follow in book bags shortly.

 

Saturday 1^st April – Easter Fayre

We will be organising an Easter Fayre in the afternoon of Saturday 1^st April.  More details to follow but for now, please keep the date free if you can.

 

Cake Club

As you may know, Helen Payne will no longer be running Cake Club for us as her children have now moved on to a different school.  Thank you to Helen for all her efforts in keeping Cake Club going over the last term.

 

Lindsay Jenkins (Harry Thomson’s Gran) will be taking over from Helen and will be available on Friday mornings for anyone who wishes to join in with Cake Club or pay for the forthcoming term in advance.  Thank you to Lindsay for volunteering to take over.

 

Easyfundraising – FREE money for the PTA!

If you haven’t already registered for Easyfundraising, it is very easy to do and raises money for the PTA, just by doing your normal online shopping.

 

Easyfundraising.org.uk provides a FREE service where you can shop with your favourite online stores and at no extra cost raise funds for the PTA. Simply access your chosen websites by using the links from the Easyfundraising.org.uk site or use the ‘Find and Remind’ toolbar on the website. There are over 3,000 retailers and online sites registered with Easyfundraising and each purchase you make will generate a cashback donation to the PTA.

 

All you need to do is register at Easyfundraising.org.uk. You only need to register once and it only takes a couple of minutes.

 

Our next PTA meeting is on Tuesday 7^th March, The Crown at 8pm.  Please come along if you can.

 

Cake Club
Congratulations to Casey Price the lucky winner of last week's cake, kindly donated by Mrs Thompson. A reminder to Lindsay Jenkins that she is on the rota for Friday 27^th January.

 

Diary Dates:

Monday 23 January	Governing Body meeting at 7pm
Thursday 26 January	Y2 Forest School
Friday 27 January	Jian-zi tournament annual event linking with Chinese New Year
Tuesday 7 February	Safer Internet Day – more information to follow next week
Monday 13-Friday 17 January	Half Term
Monday 20 March	Work Viewing Evening

 

LITTLE BEARS NEWS:

Little Bears will be continuing with their ‘Transport’ theme and learning all about transport on and under the sea. We will be experimenting with sink or float activities and making our own boats. 

 

Community News:

Stadhampton Youth Club has applied to win one of seventy £300 donations via the Galaxy Hot Chocolate fund.

Five donations will be awarded each week, four by their panel of judges and one through the People’s Choice award - to the organisation with the most weekly votes.

That's where YOU can help us!

One vote, once a week until February 26th 2017 - are you with us? bit.ly/GalaxyHCFundSYC

 

Please share far and wide with your families and friends to increase our chances of winning.