Week ending 5 May 2017

 

 

Happy MAY Birthday to: Billy Bowerman, Lorenzo Elliott, Gene Green, May (Isabel) Hector, Joshua Hursey, Miriam Hutchence, Olivia Kenny, Jack Smith, Jamie Waters and Freddie Webber.

 

During MAY we are focusing on the core value of UNDERSTANDING

 

Wheels at Work Money boxes

Thank you to everyone who has returned their ‘money boxes’ from Wheels at Work. So far we have collected over £200! We will let you know the final amount collected in next week’s newsletter.

 

Woodlands Residential Visit for Years 5 and 6

As the date for the residential trip for pupils in Years 5 and 6 approaches, individual letters detailing the outstanding balance owed for the Woodlands visit from 19 -23 June have been sent home at the end of this week. Also in the letter is a kit list, details of departure time and expected arrival time home, arrangements for money to spend in the shop, purchase of T-shirts and photo discs, arrangements for medicines and inhalers, contact with school during the week, etc. Please ensure that you have seen this important letter.  Thank you.

 

Music Concert on Tuesday 16 May

We have a number of pupils In Classes 2 and 3 who have specialist music lessons in school (including piano, guitar, clarinet and saxophone) and we have arranged to hold a concert in the school hall from 2.30 to 3.10pm on Tuesday 16 May. The audience will be made up of other pupils in the school (apart from Reception pupils who will be at Forest School) and as many parents as would like to attend!

We have arranged this concert in conjunction with the children’s specialist teachers (piano - Mrs Drake, guitar - Mr Payne, woodwind – Mr Murray) who all intend to be present. We think this would be a great way to celebrate and showcase the talents of our young musicians and hope that you will be able to join us! To help us organise enough seating please let Mrs Hopkins or Mrs Scragg in the office know if you would like to join us. Thank you.

 

PTA News:

Children’s Bingo Evening – Friday 19^th May

We will be holding a children’s bingo evening on Friday 19^th May.  Letters have gone in bookbags this week – please return the permission slip as soon as possible if your child would like to come.

 

Easyfundraising

In the past, the PTA has asked families to register with Easyfundraising.org.uk as it is an easy way of raising money for the school just by shopping online.  In the last few months, we have raised over £50 from just a few parents registered with the site.

 

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 and it only takes a few minutes.  It costs you nothing, so please register on the site if you can.

 

Our next PTA meeting is on Tuesday 13^th June, The Crown, 8pm.  Please join us if you can, all welcome.

 

Cake Club

Congratulations to Jake Martins (Reception class) and his family who were the lucky winners of our Cake Club draw on Friday 28th April. Many thanks to Ami for providing (and winning!) the cake last week We hope you all enjoyed it! Kylie Smith has kindly volunteered a cake for Friday May 5th and Anett Fegyveres-Nagy is next on the rota for Friday May 12th.

 

Diary Dates:

 

Monday 8 May	SATs week begins
Thursday 11 May	Y1 Forest School session
Monday 15 May	Book Fair arrives
Tuesday 16 May	Pupil concert
Thursday 18 May	Y1 Forest School session
Wednesday 24 May	UNICEF Day for Change
Thursday 25 May	Y3 Forest School session
Friday 26 May	Break up for half term at 3.15pm
Monday 5 June	Return to school for the second half of the summer term

 

LITTLE BEARS NEWS:

The Little Bears continue to enjoy and explore our garden theme. So far they have enjoyed planting some potatoes and talking about how things in the garden grow and how we must take care of them.

Next week we hope to get some cress to make our own Little Bears!