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:
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School
Newsletter
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E-mailed out on a weekly basis to parents. Please let us
know if you are not receiving this
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Uploaded to the school website using this link http://stadhamptonprimaryschool.blogspot.co.uk/
Path to follow on the website:
Parents/Newsletter Link
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School
Meals Menu
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Currently awaiting hard copies of the menu from Food &
More. There is also a copy of the menu on display outside the school office
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Uploaded to the school website. Path to follow on the website
Parents/School Meals
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Recent
Letters
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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
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Uploaded to the school website. Path to follow is Parents/Recent Letters
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After
School Clubs
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Hard copies of letters are sent home via book bags.
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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
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School
Calendar
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We have made significant improvements to this section of the website
during the last week or so. Path to follow is Parents/Calendar
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The calendar is now colour-coded so that the activities for
each class stand out more.
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When you click on the item further information and detail about
the item now appears.
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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!!
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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 24th
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
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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:
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Monday 20 March
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Work
Viewing Evening – 3:15pm to 6pm
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Thursday 23 March
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Year
6 Forest School
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Friday 24 March
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Comic
Relief/Red Nose Day
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Thursday 30 March
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Year
6 Forest School
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Saturday 1 April
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PTA
Easter Fayre (pm)
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Monday 3 April
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Governing
Body meeting
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Thursday 6 April
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End
of term assembly at 9.05am
School
finishes at 1.30pm for the Easter Holiday
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Friday 7 April
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INSET
Day for teaching staff only
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Monday 24 April
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Return
to school for the start of Term 3
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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
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