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
3rd - Tim Bradley is a local author and television producer.
On Monday 3rd 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
4th – “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 3rd
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 2nd overall within the boys and four of the girls came 4th,
5th, 6th and 7th. 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:
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Saturday 1 April
|
PTA
Easter Fayre (pm)
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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
|
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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
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