Week ending 31 March 2017

 

 

Assembly Visitors

We are delighted to be having two special assemblies next week; one from the author Tim Bradley and the other from a representative of the Stoke Mandeville ‘Wheels at Work’ charity.

 

April 3^rd - Tim Bradley is a local author and television producer. On Monday 3^rd April, he will be talking to the children about his book “Arnie Jenks and the House of Strangers”, including what inspired him to write the book and the processes he goes through to be a published author.

 

April 4^th – “Wheels at Work” is an awareness-raising and fundraising campaign to support spinal research at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. A letter giving further details of the assembly and opportunities for children to spend some time in an appropriately-sized wheelchair, will be sent home separately tomorrow. Attached to the letter is a permission slip which must be signed and returned to school by Monday 3^rd April please, in order for children to use the wheelchairs.

 

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 – Jake M

Class 1 – Jude B

Class 2 – Harvey S

Class 3 – Albie C

 

Well done to you all!

 

Comic Relief

Thank you to everyone who paid £1 (or more) to wear their school uniform back to front for Comic Relief last Friday. This raised £93.45. Ella, Tillie and Juliana took it upon themselves on Saturday to make a load of cakes and then take them around the village (to people they know) asking if they would like to buy them to raise money for Comic Relief.  This very kind and enterprising thought raised a magnificent £60. Well done girls! We have therefore sent a total of £153.45 to Comic Relief from Stadhampton Primary School. A huge thank you to everyone.

 

After School Clubs

Next week brings us to the end of all this term’s After School Clubs (Chess club has already finished) and we would especially like to thank Brian Goddard (Aisulu’s dad) and all the Duke of Edinburgh students from Icknield Community College for their hard work and dedication. We know that the children who have attended these sessions have really enjoyed them!  It has been wonderful to see so many former pupils returning to school to carry out voluntary work here. We wish them all well in the successful completion of their D of E Award.

 

Next term we continue to offer Multisports for pupils in Year 1-6 with a sports coach from Oxford Active. We are also offering a drama club run by Mrs Hutchence, a qualified drama teacher; the initial series of sessions are for Key Stage 2 children and this will be followed by a series of sessions for Key Stage 1 children. Information about Multisports club and the first session of Drama club were sent home, via book bags, earlier this week.

We are currently waiting to hear from our other club providers for confirmation of an art club and will inform you as soon as we know more.

 

QuadKids

On Wednesday afternoon Stadhampton hosted the CLOSER partnership QuadKids event. Quadkids is an athletics based competition and each competitor has to throw a vortex howler, do a standing long jump, a 75m sprint and 600m long distance run. Including Stadhampton there were four schools taking part. Teams of 5 boys and 5 girls from each school competed. Despite a rather cloudy afternoon, luckily the rain held off. The overall winners were Chalgrove with Stadhampton School coming second. Thomas Cove came 2^nd overall within the boys and four of the girls came 4^th, 5^th, 6^th and 7^th. Thank you very much to all members of staff who helped the event run smoothly and well done to all who took part.

 

PTA News

Easter Fayre – THIS Saturday 1 April – 2pm until 4pm

Any last minute donations of Easter sweets and chocolate would be very much appreciated.

 

Don’t forget competition entries should be brought to the hall by 2.15pm on Saturday (or at the end of the school day on Friday).

 

The competitions are as follows and all cost £1 to enter or £3 to enter all five.

 

Easter Cupcake and Biscuits – any Easter themed cupcakes and biscuits (please note all entries will go to the cake stall for sale after judging).

Easter Shoebox – decorate a shoebox with an Easter theme

Decorate an umbrella – decorate an umbrella with a spring theme

Decorate a vegetable – decorate a vegetable in any way you like

Junk Modelling – make a model from junk.  Children can do this in advance or will be able to do this on the day during the Fayre.

 

We look forward to your support on the day!

 

Cake Club

Well done to Sam Sundberg and his family who were the lucky winners of the Cake Club draw on Friday 24th March. Thank you to Rowena Dobson for providing the lovely cake! Faye Hamlet will be providing the cake for us on Friday 31st and Debbie Purchon has volunteered for the last week of this term. As term finishes on April 6th, the Cake Club draw will be held during the final assembly for the term on Thursday.

 

Diary Dates:

 

Saturday 1 April	PTA Easter Fayre (pm)
Monday 3 April	Governing Body meeting at 7pm
Thursday 6 April	End of term assembly at 9.05am School finishes at 1.30pm for the Easter Holiday
Friday 7 April	INSET Day for teaching staff only
Monday 24 April	Return to school for the start of Term 3

 

 

LITTLE BEARS NEWS:

The Little Bears are learning all about Easter this week. We are enjoying lots of arts and crafts and enjoying some baking days. 

Little Bears will be having a cake sale on 6th April from 1.30pm. Everyone welcome.

 

Easter Sports Club:

Michael Hopkins, who is well-known to the school as a PE teacher will be leading an Easter Sports Course on Monday 10^, Tuesday 11 and Wednesday 12 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.

 

Community News:

• Safari Supper on Saturday 20 May
• Children’s Centre Newsletter & April Timetable attached
• SHN March Newsletter

 

 

Week ending 24 March 2017

 

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 – Jamie W

Class 1 – Alana H

Class 2 – Oliver B

Class 3 – Gene G

 

Well done to you all!

 

Mother’s Day Daffodils

We are once again, very grateful to Mr and Mrs Birtles for their generosity in continuing to provide us with bunches of flowers for Mother’s Day, even though it is a long time since their children were at Stadhampton School! On behalf of all parents, thank you!

 

Parent Survey Results

The numerical Parent Survey results were e-mailed to parents on Friday last week and have also been uploaded to the school website (Parents/Survey section). The Governing Body use these results as a data source, along with lots of other data points, to assess the school, providing guidance and to support action planning. The results will be discussed at the Governing Body meeting on 3 April. Thank you again to everyone who completed the questionnaire.

 

Work-Viewing Evening

It was wonderful to see so many parents and pupils at our annual Work Viewing Evening last Monday. We had many positive comments from parents and we hope we were able to answer any questions raised. It was lovely to hear the pride in children's voices when they were sharing their work and experiences with their parents and we hope parents also enjoyed the opportunity.

 

Parent Volunteers Documentation

Thank you to the parent volunteers who have already completed the Declaration Form recently sent to them. We would be grateful to receive any further completed forms please as soon as possible so that our records are kept up to date. Thank you.

 

Red Nose Day Reminder- TOMORROW!

We would like to support Comic Relief by inviting children to come to school wearing their school uniform (or at least the top part of it!) “back to front” tomorrow! They can also wear a Red Nose or other red Comic Relief “accessory,” including a Comic Relief Red Nose T-shirt, and we suggest £1 donation per child – all of which will go to Comic Relief.

 

 

 

 

Atom Festival of Science

Families who are interested in Science may like to know about the Atom Festival of Science which has a number of family science events going on this weekend. Further details can be found on their website: www.atomfestival.org.uk

 

PTA News

Easter Fayre – Saturday 1^st April – 2pm until 4pm

 

The Easter Fayre is approaching!  We still need:

 

Easter chocolate or sweets, these would be gratefully received in the PTA box in the hall.

 

Clean recycling items for the junk modelling – cardboard boxes, egg boxes, clean milk containers, kitchen rolls etc. Please leave anything suitable in the hall.

 

Helpers wanted – if anyone can spare half an hour to help with a stall on the day, then please let Melanie Gravett know.

 

Raffle Tickets - you should now have received raffle tickets via bookbags.  Thank you to everyone who has already returned their tickets and money.  If you are planning to buy tickets, please return these to the office as soon as possible.

 

Competitions - if your children would like to enter any of the competitions below, they will need to bring their entries to the hall on 1^st April by 2.15pm, or alternatively if they are not able to come on the day itself, by the end of the school day on Friday 31^st March.

 

The competitions are as follows and all cost £1 to enter or £3 to enter all five.

 

Easter Cupcake and Biscuits – any Easter themed cupcakes and biscuits (please note all entries will go to the cake stall for sale after judging).

Easter Shoebox – decorate a shoebox with an Easter theme

Decorate an umbrella – decorate an umbrella with a spring theme

Decorate a vegetable – decorate a vegetable in any way you like

Junk Modelling – make a model from junk.  Children can do this in advance or will be able to do this on the day during the Fayre.

 

We look forward to your support on the day!

 

Cake Club

Many congratulations to Jack Smith and his family who won the Cake Club draw last week. Many thanks to Leanne Kenny for providing such a splendid cake. Rowena Dobson is on the rota for this Friday 24th March and Faye Hamlet has volunteered for Friday 31st March. 

 

Diary Dates:

 

Thursday 30 March	Year 6 Forest School
Saturday 1 April	PTA Easter Fayre (pm)
Monday 3 April	Governing Body meeting at 7pm
Thursday 6 April	End of term assembly at 9.05am School finishes at 1.30pm for the Easter Holiday
Friday 7 April	INSET Day for teaching staff only
Monday 24 April	Return to school for the start of Term 3

 

LITTLE BEARS NEWS:

The Little Bears team would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who supported our ladies supper night. 

We are continuing to enjoy our topic this term and also enjoyed making a surprise for you mummy's. 

Little Bears will be having a cake sale on 6th April from 1.30pm. Everyone welcome .

 

Easter Sports Club:

Michael Hopkins, who is well-known to the school as a PE teacher will be leading an Easter Sports Course on Monday 10^, Tuesday 11 and Wednesday 12 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.

 

Community News:

• Safari Supper on Saturday 20 May

 

• Family Worship for Mother’s Day at St John the Baptist Stadhampton on Sunday 26 March 2017 at 9.30am. Refreshments will follow the service.

 

Week ending 17 March 2017

 

 

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 – Imogen H

Class 1 – Maya J

Class 2 – Thomas W

Class 3 – Beau B

 

Well done to you all!

 

Cycling Safety Training

Will P has taken the final place on the cycle safety training course, which means that the course is now fully booked. Thank you all for your interest.

 

Communications

In order to improve communication links between school and parents we thought that it might be useful to clarify the ways we communicate in case not all parents are aware of all of the different ways there are to access information. We hope that you will find this useful:

 

School Newsletter	E-mailed out on a weekly basis to parents. Please let us know if you are not receiving this	Uploaded to the school website using this link http://stadhamptonprimaryschool.blogspot.co.uk/ Path to follow on the website: Parents/Newsletter Link
School Meals Menu	Currently awaiting hard copies of the menu from Food & More. There is also a copy of the menu on display outside the school office	Uploaded to the school website. Path to follow on the website Parents/School Meals
Recent Letters	Hard copies of letters are sent home via book bags. Some classes have a ‘spare copies drawer’ where they put additional copies of letters and home work	Uploaded to the school website. Path to follow is Parents/Recent Letters
After School Clubs	Hard copies of letters are sent home via book bags.	Uploaded to the school website as a reference point including a list of all the dates and times of all After School Clubs. Path to follow is  Parents/After School Clubs
School Calendar	We have made significant improvements to this section of the website during the last week or so. Path to follow is Parents/Calendar ·         The calendar is now colour-coded so that the activities for each class stand out more. ·         When you click on the item further information and detail about the item now appears. ·         Parents are now able to download the school calendars events into their personal calendar on their computer, tablet or phone. Instructions are attached to this Newsletter about Calendar Syncing for Parents. Mrs Ellis has tested this for us and reports that it was easy to do and works well!!

 

Chess Resource

Mr Goddard, who leads our Chess Club, would like to share this resource with other parents as it has some very useful basic training that would suit our level of children very well. This can be accessed at https://en.lichess.org/

 

Red Nose Day/Comic Relief on Friday 24 March

We would like to support Comic Relief by inviting children to come to school wearing their school uniform (or at least the top part of it!) “back to front” on Friday 24^th March. They can also wear a Red Nose or other red Comic Relief “accessory” during the day and we suggest £1 donation per child – all of which will go to Comic Relief. We appreciate that we have had two very successful “dressing-up” days for charity recently and that having a third one so soon could develop into “dressing-up fatigue”!

 

PTA News

Easter Fayre – Saturday 1 April

DONATIONS PLEASE – if parents are able to donate any Easter chocolate or sweets as prizes at the Easter Fayre, these would be gratefully received in the PTA box in the hall.

 

We will also need clean recycling items for the junk modelling – cardboard boxes, egg boxes, clean milk containers, kitchen rolls etc.  Please start to collect anything which you think may be useful.

 

HELPERS WANTED – if anyone can spare half an hour to help with a stall on the day, then please let Melanie Gravett know.

 

RAFFLE TICKETS - You should now have received raffle tickets via bookbags, so please look out for these and return to the office as soon as possible.

 

COMPETITIONS - we are also planning to have several Easter themed competitions for the children to be judged on the day of the Fayre.  If your children would like to enter any of the competitions, they will need to bring their entries to the hall on 1 April by 2.15pm, or alternatively if they are not able to come on the day itself, by the end of the school day on Friday 31  March.

 

The competitions are as follows and all cost £1 to enter or £3 to enter all five.

 

Easter Cupcake and Biscuits – any Easter themed cupcakes and biscuits (please note all entries will go to the cake stall for sale after judging).

Easter Shoebox – decorate a shoebox with an Easter theme

Decorate an umbrella – decorate an umbrella with a spring theme

Decorate a vegetable – decorate a vegetable in any way you like

Junk Modelling – make a model from junk.  Children can do this in advance or will be able to do this on the day during the Fayre.

 

 

 

Bags2School Clothes Recycling – Friday 5 May

Our next Bags2School recycling date is Friday 5 May, so please bear that in mind if you are having a clear out in the next few weeks or over the Easter holidays. For those who don’t know, we will receive cash from Bags2School based on the total weight of the bags collected, so the more we collect, the more we raise.

 

Bags2School collection bags will be in bookbags shortly, but you are able to use normal black bin bags if you are having a clear out before then. Please fill your Bags2School bag (or a normal bin bag) with any unwanted items from the list below: 

 

Men’s, Ladies and Children’s clothing


Paired shoes (tied together or elastic band around) 

Handbags/Hats/Bags/Scarves and ties/Socks/Belts

Jewellery


Lingerie


Soft toys


Household linen / Curtains/Towels

Bedding (bed sheets, pillow cases and duvet covers) 

 

Children’s Bingo Evening – Friday 19 May

We will be holding a children’s bingo evening on Friday 19  May.  More details to follow soon.

 

Easyfundraising

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. 

 

It is very easy, you only need to register once, it costs you nothing and raises money for the PTA.  Please register on the site – it only takes a few minutes and really does raise money for the PTA just by shopping online.  If you need any help with registering, please ask any member of the PTA committee.

 

Our next meeting is on Tuesday 2 May, The Crown 8pm.  Please join us if you can.

 

Cake Club

Congratulations to Alana Hyde and family who were the lucky winners of the Cake Club draw last Friday! Thank you to Jane Marshall for providing the lovely cake.

 

 Leanne Kenny has kindly volunteered a cake for Friday 17 March and Rowena Dobson is next on the rota for 24 March.

 

Cake Club has been well supported this year and your donations and baking have helped to raise valuable extra funds for the school and our children. As the school year progresses, we

have some gaps in the rota that we need to fill. Thank you so much to those of you who have volunteered to bake or provide a cake for the children’s weekly draw for the second time! If you would be willing to provide a cake, or a second cake before the end of the school year, please let me know or get in touch via the PTA FB page or Mrs Hopkins in the school office.

 

 

 

Diary Dates:

 

Monday 20 March	Work Viewing Evening – 3:15pm to 6pm
Thursday 23 March	Year 6 Forest School
Friday 24 March	Comic Relief/Red Nose Day
Thursday 30 March	Year 6 Forest School
Saturday 1 April	PTA Easter Fayre (pm)
Monday 3 April	Governing Body meeting
Thursday 6 April	End of term assembly at 9.05am School finishes at 1.30pm for the Easter Holiday
Friday 7 April	INSET Day for teaching staff only
Monday 24 April	Return to school for the start of Term 3

 

LITTLE BEARS NEWS:

Next week's books are called ‘Dinosaurs Galore’ and ‘Dinosaurs Love Underpants.’ We look forward to looking at the rhyming patterns in the books as well as designing our own underpants!

 

Little Bears Ladies Supper Night

Friday 17 March, 7.30pm

Stadhampton Church Hall

Selection of curries and desserts. £12.00, contact Debbie on 07854 508417 to book your place. 

Please bring your own drinks. 

 

Advance Notice of an Easter Sports Club:

Michael Hopkins, who is well-known to the school as a PE teacher will be leading an Easter Sports Course on Monday 10^, Tuesday 11 and Wednesday 12 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.

 

Community News:

• Cross Country Running Event at RAF Benson flyer on Saturday 25 March
• Safari Supper on Saturday 20 May

 

Lambing Weekends 25th-26th March and 1st-2nd April, 11am-4pm each day

Come and join Earth Trust for some baa-rilliant farmyard fun at our annual Lambing Weekends! You’ll have the opportunity to meet the new spring arrivals - lambs, piglets and goats – and try bale climbing, tractor and trailer rides (weather permitting), a sheep hunt and quiz, craft activities and more! Refreshments will be available from Poem Tree Café and a BBQ. It’s £4 per child, £6 per adult and £16 for a family of four and there’s a discount for online tickets; please visit http://www.earthtrust.org.uk/explore/lambingweekends for further details. We look forward to seeing ewe you there!

Earth Trust, Little Wittenham, OX14 4QZ