Week ending 30 June 2017

 

PE Kit & Swimming Kit

Please could ALL pupils have both swimming kit and PE kit in school every day now until the end of term. We hope that the swimming pool will be in use from next week and there will also be frequent practices for Sports Evening, so please ensure that your child(ren) are prepared with both kits in school. Thank you.

 

Thank You

A huge thank you to Mr and Mrs Burnell and Mrs Green for working so hard with the children who attend Gardening Club. The gardening club section of the school grounds looks amazing and the crops of potatoes, tomatoes, carrots, sweetcorn etc look like they are flourishing. Thank you also for brightening up the front of the school with hanging baskets and for keeping them watered!

 

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 – Joel V

Class 1 –Harry W

Class 2 – Nate M-B

Class 3 – Lizzie B

 

Well done to you all!

 

Year 6 Treat on Monday 10 July

We have arranged for Year 6 pupils to visit the Crazy Bear Farm Shop on Monday 10 July for an end of year leavers treat. They will be accompanied by Mrs Hopkins and Mrs Wilkin. We would  very much appreciate a donation of £3 please from each family towards the cost of this special treat. Cash or cheque please to Stadhampton Primary School. Thank you.

 

Forest School Year 6 – Thursday 13 July

Year 6’s last Forest School session will be in the morning of Thursday 13^th July.  As in previous years, we would like to mark the occasion by staying at Forest School for a slightly extended session, so that Y6 can have lunch cooked on the fire (hot dogs, marshmallows etc).  This would mean the children would return to school by 1pm and would not need a packed lunch or school meal on that day.

 

We would very much appreciate a contribution of £1.50 per child to cover the cost of lunch.  Please return this to Melanie Gravett or the school office as soon as possible and also let us know about any special dietary requirements.

 

Primary School Health Team Newsletter for Term 3 has been added to the ‘Useful Links’ section of the school website this week. Please have a read!

PTA News:

 

Sports Night – Friday 14  July

BBQ tickets for Sports Night are on sale for either a burger, hot dog or veggie burger priced at £2.50 each.  A PTA member will be outside Class 1 each morning with tickets for sale and also after school where possible. 

 

School Disco – Thursday 20 July – 6pm – 7.30pm

We will be holding an end of year disco on Thursday 20^th July for all Stadhampton pupils.  Letters will be in bookbags shortly.

 

Advance Notice of PTA Dates for the Diary

Tuesday 19 September – Next PTA committee meeting, The Crown, 8pm

Friday 29 September - Children’s bingo night – further details to follow

Tuesday 3 October – PTA Annual General Meeting – further details to follow

 

Cake Club

Well done to Emily Hackett and her family who were the lucky winners of our Cake Club draw on Friday June 23rd. Thank you Hollee Mason Cook for providing another lovely cake for the school draw. Rachel Movitz has kindly agreed to provide a cake for June 30 and Angela Malley is next on the rota for July 7.

 

Diary Dates:

 

Wednesday 5-7 July	Transition days / Moving-up days – letter sent via book bags on 28 June with the details
Thursday 6 July	Current Y5 will have their normal Forest School session Meeting with new Reception parents at 2.45pm
Monday 10 July   Week commencing 10 July	Y6 visit to the Farm Shop (see entry in Newsletter) Class 3 swimming at Abbey Sports Centre Focus on Nepal week
Thursday 13 July	Y6 final Forest School session (see entry in Newsletter)
Friday 14 July	Y6 pupils Cycle Safety Practical Test Sports Evening – 6pm (races start at 6.30pm)

 

LITTLE BEARS NEWS:

Little Bears are looking forward to the Summer BBQ on Friday 30th - all welcome to join the fun. We have hook the duck, tattoos, nails by Julie, cake sale, face painting and bbq. 

All welcome till 4 pm 

 

Advance Notice of dates of two Summer Sports Courses

Michael Hopkins, who is well-known to the school as a PE teacher will be leading two Summer Sports Courses on Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 July and then Monday 21 August, Tuesday 22 August & Wednesday 23 August at Stadhampton Primary School. Each 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.  Please see attached flyer.

 

Community News:

Just two more sessions at Stadhampton Youth Club before the summer holidays! Wed, 5th July and Wed, 19th Jul, which is the date of our summer party! Those moving up into Y5 are welcome as are siblings of those already coming to SYC. We look forward to seeing you there! Flyer about party attached.

 

Week ending 23 June 2017

 

Ofsted Visit on 21 June 2017

As you will know, Ofsted visited school on Wednesday. Our last Ofsted inspection was in February 2013, so this inspection was expected as good schools (as we were rated last time) are due to happen around every 3 years.  This inspection was a ‘short inspection’, which is a one day inspection designed to ensure the existing good rating still applies.

We are unable to share the outcome of the inspection until we receive the written Ofsted report but we can say that we are very pleased with the outcome. This is fantastic news and is due to the hard work and dedication of Mrs Turner and all members of staff.  The inspector was particularly impressed with the ‘business as usual’ attitude given he was in school when Class 3 and several members of staff were at Woodlands! 

Thank you to parents for their continuing support of the school and in particular those who took the time to respond to the Parentview survey.

More information will follow when the official report is published, hopefully towards the end of next week.

Paul Gravett – Acting Chair of Governors

Woodlands Residential Visit

We have been in regular contact with school staff at Woodlands throughout this week and are delighted that all pupils seem to have thoroughly enjoyed their experience! Many parents have e-mailed to say how much they have appreciated receiving the updates on what they have been doing and seeing the photos. I’m sure you will all join me in thanking Mrs Stafford, Mrs Scragg and Sally Clark for accompanying this residential visit. We know that everyone will be delighted to get their children back on Friday evening and hear all about their visit to Woodlands. The coach is expected to arrive back at school at approximately 7.20pm. Mrs Scragg and Mrs Stafford will let us know if the expected arrival time is likely to vary significantly and we will endeavour to e-mail parents if this is the case.

 

Festival of Voices

“The Festival of Voices on Wednesday evening was wonderful. Mrs Manzie and the children had all worked so hard and it showed! The songs were fantastic and were sung beautifully, Shalom and The World in Union were just amazing - brought a tear to my eye. Having a small group of children from our school to be part of that event was great - next year more children should join in!  Such a good experience for us as parents to go and watch and for the children involved.”

Jo Hutton-Price

 

Festival of Wowzers! 

Nine Stadhampton pupils represented the school at the 34th Oxfordshire Festival of Voices on Wednesday at the magnificent Dorchester Abbey. Several  schools from across the county sang fifteen numbers including Under the Sea, The Owl and the Pussycat and Mamma Mia ending their performance with a wonderfully rousing performance of World in Union. The delighted audience gave the children a standing ovation and were rewarded with a beautiful  encore of Beauty and the Beast. 

Bella, Casey, Ella, Ellie, Emily, Freya, Mia, Mya and Nate all from Class Two, sang their hearts out and should all be super proud of themselves. Parents and grandparents thoroughly enjoyed the show and thank all the children who participated for their wonderful singing and the hard work involved, which certainly paid off on the night! A great BIG thank you to Mrs Manzie and Mrs Gravett for their help and support before and during the event and to Mrs Khan for her help with the transport.

Kerri Jones

When asked for one word to describe the event children’s comments were “fantastic, incredible, exciting and amazing!”

Important information about swimming in the school pool – please get ready!

Mrs Shortman and Mrs Singleton are working hard to ensure that the school pool is ready for use by ensuring that we have the correct chemical balance of pH, total alkalinity and calcium hardness. This is a little challenging given that in this heat wave the chlorine is very quickly burnt off. We are almost there and are waiting for the water sample taken on 21 June by SMS Environmental to come back from the lab with a satisfactory result. We therefore request that ALL pupils (including Reception) have their swimming kit in school from Monday (26 June) ready for use in the school pool. All pupils, boys and girls must have their own swimming hat and towel; girls are required to have a one piece swimming costume please and boys need trunks which are quite tight fitting so that they do not ‘balloon’ when they are in the water. The onus will be on families to ensure that swimming kit is in school each day, otherwise pupils may miss out on opportunities to swim. Pupils who do not have their swimming kit in school will sit in the pool area and read when their class has their turn in the school pool. Thank you.

 

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 – Orla V

Class 1 –Freddie T

Class 2 – Mia G

Class 3 – Woodlands visit (the Meerkat stayed in Stadhampton!)

 

Well done to you all!

 

Focus on Nepal Week – 10  – 14 July 2017

Each year, as part of our global awareness programme, we have a whole school focus on another part of the world. This year we will be focusing on Nepal and finding out about the geographical features, customs and traditions, food, history, art and culture. If any parents have any artefacts from, or other links with, Nepal that they would be willing to share, please contact Mrs Turner. Thank you.

 

PTA News:

Sports Night – Friday 14^th July

BBQ tickets for Sports Night will go on sale from Monday for either a burger, hot dog or veggie burger priced at £2.50 each.  A PTA member will be outside Class 1 each morning with tickets for sale.

 

School Disco – Thursday 20^th July – 6pm – 7.30pm

We will be holding an end of year disco on Thursday 20^th July for all Stadhampton pupils.  Further details will follow in bookbags shortly.

 

Easyfundraising

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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 using the link below and clicking on the Join Us button:

 

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Advance Notice of PTA Dates for the Diary

Tuesday 19^th September – Next PTA committee meeting, The Crown, 8pm

Friday 29^th September - Children’s bingo night – further details to follow

Tuesday 3^rd October – PTA Annual General Meeting – further details to follow

 

Cake Club

Congratulations to Lorenzo Elliott and his family who were the lucky winners of last week's Cake Club draw. Many thanks to Jo Hutchence for providing a lovely cake. Hollee Mason-Cook is on the rota to provide a cake on Friday 23rd June and Rachel Movitz has volunteered for Friday 30th June. Many thanks for your continued support.

 

Diary Dates:

 

Wednesday 5-7 July	Transition days / Moving-up days
Friday 14 July	Sports Evening – 6pm (races start at 6.30pm)

 

LITTLE BEARS NEWS:

The children are really enjoying watching and observing our caterpillars growing. They have doubled in size in just a week! We've been talking about life cycles and also taking about how children grow and eating healthily. 

Advance Notice of dates of two Summer Sports Courses

Michael Hopkins, who is well-known to the school as a PE teacher will be leading two Summer Sports Courses on Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 July and then Monday 21 August, Tuesday 22 August & Wednesday 23 August at Stadhampton Primary School. Each 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.  Please see attached flyer.

 

Community News:

Grade 8 (£23,398 - £25,951 pro rata)

 Icknield Community College has a vacancy for an Exams and Data Officer to work either 32½ hours (8.30am – 3.30pm), or 27½ hours per week (9.15am – 2.45pm) – negotiable at interview. Please contact Mrs Hopkins, or Gill Ward at ICC, for further details.

 

• Flyer attached about Little Masters Summer Courses

Week ending 16 June 2017

 

Staff Changes for September

As you will be aware Mrs Humphries (Reception teacher) is currently on maternity leave and was due to return to school for the start of the new academic year in September. Mrs Humphries has been appointed as a part-time teacher at Watlington Primary School. There will still be many opportunities through the CLOSER partnership to maintain contact with her. We know that Mrs Humphries will be missed by pupils, parents and colleagues alike. She was a dedicated and valued member of our team and was instrumental in setting up a very successful EYFS class in their current setting. We hope that she will be able to come to our end of year assembly on 21 July so that everyone will have an opportunity to thank her for her great contribution to this school and wish her well in her future career at Watlington Primary.

We are delighted to be able to announce that Mrs Stafford, who has done an excellent job covering Mrs Humphries’ maternity leave and who has quickly established herself as a valued member of the school team, will be staying with us and has been appointed as a permanent member of staff teaching the Reception Class.

We are also very sad to be losing Mrs Gonzalez as she will be taking up a new position at Lord Williams Lower School, a secondary school close to her home. We will say goodbye to Mrs Gonzalez in our assembly on 21 July and wish her every success in her career at Lord Williams.

 

Woodlands Residential Visit

We have given each pupil a reminders list of departure times, medical requirements, money, etc ready for their visit next week. Please ensure that you ask to see this list!

 

Class 2 Swimming Reminder – additional session next week only

A reminder that Class 2 pupils will be having an extra swimming session on Monday 19 June whilst Class 3 pupils are away at their residential visit. The cost of this session had already been included in the request for swimming voluntary contributions. Thank you.

 

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 – Keegan D

Class 1 –Alana H

Class 2 – Daniel R

Class 3 – Beau B

 

Well done to you all!

 

 

 

 

Calendar Syncing for Parents

Thank you to the families who have let us know that they find it very useful to have followed the guidance which enables them to download the school calendar events from the school website into their personal calendar on their computer, tablet or phone. We have attached the notes on how to do this to this newsletter again in case other families would also find this useful.

 

Lunch credit

The lunch credit issued by Food and More to cover the roast chicken meal which was unable to be served on 29 March has been added now to individual pupils’ lunch credits. Please check with Mrs Hopkins if you’re not sure whether you had paid for, and your child had ordered, a roast chicken meal on that day. Thank you.

 

Class 2’s trip to Sulgrave Manor – Report by Ella and Thomas

“On Wednesday 7 June we went on a school visit to Sulgrave Manor. We all got to dress up in Tudor clothes and spent the day as Tudor children in the Washington family home. Mistress Meg and Mistress Annie showed us around the house. They taught us a Tudor dance and some of us performed a play about Tudor history to the rest of the class. It was amazing!”

 

Class 3 Elections – Report by Sam, Isabel and May:

“We held a mini election in Class 3 because of the General Election last week. Our parties were:

FEATHER (Family, Environment, Animal welfare, Transport, Housing, Equal rights and Religion)

Environmental Impact

Support Environment & Family Care (SEFC)

UK Saver

Everyone Matters

Support Everyone

Greenland

Everyone presented their manifesto in front of the whole class. Then we voted inside a booth made from a display board. The teacher counted the votes and told us what they were. The results were: 2 votes each for Everyone Matters and Support Everyone; 3 votes for UK Saver and Greenland; 4 votes for Environmental Impact and 5 votes for SEFC; the winners were FEATHER with 8 votes.”

 

Sainsbury’s Vouchers

Thank you to everyone for their donations of Sainsbury’s vouchers which we exchange for play and sports equipment. Final call for any further vouchers lurking in bags to be brought in please so that we can complete our order and send it off. Thank you.

 

PTA News:

Sports Night – Friday 14^th July

The PTA will once again be organising a BBQ and bar on the evening of the school sports night on Friday 14^th July.  BBQ tickets will go on sale shortly for either a burger, hot dog or veggie burger priced at £2.50 each.  Further details to follow.

 

School Disco – Thursday 20^th July – 6pm – 7.30pm

We will be holding an end of year disco on Thursday 20^th July for all Stadhampton pupils.  Further details will follow in bookbags shortly.

 

Easyfundraising

And just another reminder about Easyfundraising.org.uk.

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 using the link below and clicking on the Join Us button:

 

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Advance Notice of PTA Dates for the Diary

Tuesday 19^th September – Next PTA committee meeting, The Crown, 8pm

Friday 29^th September - Children’s bingo night – further details to follow

Tuesday 3^rd October – PTA Annual General Meeting – further details to follow

 

 

Cake Club

Many congratulations to Izzy Kenny and her family who were the lucky winners of last week's Cake Club draw. Thank you to Elaine Burrell for providing another cake for our children! Jo Hutchence has kindly volunteered for Friday 16th June and Hollee Mason-Cook is next on the rota for Friday 23rd June.

Diary Dates:

 

Monday 19 – Friday 23 June	Class 3 residential visit to Woodlands
Wednesday 21 June	Festival of Voices for participating pupils
Wednesday 5-7 July	Transition days / Moving-up days
Friday 14 July	Sports Evening – 6pm (races start at 6.30pm)

 

LITTLE BEARS NEWS:

The Little Bears pedal push was a huge success last week. With lots of children bringing in something to push, scoot or pedal round the garden and some children managing a huge 15 laps! Thank you to all that came along and even the weather was kind to us. 

Advance Notice of dates of two Summer Sports Courses

Michael Hopkins, who is well-known to the school as a PE teacher will be leading two Summer Sports Courses on Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 July and then Monday 21 August, Tuesday 22 August & Wednesday 23 August at Stadhampton Primary School. Each 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.  Please see attached flyer.

 

Community News:

SALE - GARDEN FURNITURE - SATURDAY 17 JUNE, ST JOHN'S

One day only - Beautiful teak garden furniture sale at St. John's village hall, Stadhampton. Quality teak garden furniture sale - up to 50% off normal prices, table and chair sets, benches, steamers, loungers and much more. Please pop along...

SATURDAY 17 JUNE - 10am - 4pm - ALL WELCOME. 

 

Week ending 9 June 2017

 

Happy JUNE Birthday to: Freya Clapton, Ella Gravett, Alice Hindmarch, Maya Jacobs, Ivy Odell, Casey Price and Ellie Wiggins.

 

During JUNE we are focusing on the core value of HONESTY

 

Big Science Event

The Big Science Event is a competition open to all primary schools in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire; it has been run since 2010. Children within their schools have the opportunity to develop their own child led science investigations. Having devised their investigation they then have the chance to carry it out; thinking carefully about the procedure, fair testing and their conclusions. At Stadhampton all children in Class 3 were able to take part. Once the investigations were complete, they presented their findings and a winning school team was selected. Bigger schools are able to select more than one team, some even two.

 

A judge from the Big Science Event came to school to watch our team do their presentation. The judges then got together to choose who out of the 120 teams from 73 schools would go through to the final 10. We are very pleased to announce that our team were successful, getting through to the final to be held later in the term.

 

Congratulations to everyone in the team: Tende, Isabella, Tillie, Juliana and Ella. The judge who came to the school was extremely impressed with their presentation saying ‘you gave a very polished presentation, easily the best I’ve seen so far’. He was also impressed with how well the group worked together and how well thought through their investigation was.

 

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 – Chloe K

Class 1 –Cianna B

Class 2 – Peter F-N

Class 3 – Benjamin W

 

Well done to you all!

 

Woodlands Residential Visit

A huge thank you to everyone who has paid in full for the Class 3 residential visit to Woodlands. There are a very small number of outstanding balances which we would appreciate payment for at the earliest opportunity. Thank you. We are pleased to confirm that Mrs Scragg and Sally Clark, who used to attend this school and is now a student with experience of working as a TA at a local school, will be accompanying the visit. We do hope that Miss Raval will be well enough to also accompany the trip and will advise what the arrangements will be if this is not possible once we receive more information from Miss Raval.

Congratulations

We always like to hear how our past students are progressing and would like to congratulate ex-Stadhampton students who have been given roles of responsibility at Icknield Community College in the next academic year: Head Girl Orla Fernie; Senior Prefects: Jake Day, Bryce Dobson, Georgia Valentine. Prefects: Matt Ellis, Annabel Roe, Hannah Tombling. Congratulations to you all.

 

PTA News:

Just a quick reminder that our next PTA meeting is on Tuesday 13^th June, The Crown, 8pm.  Please join us if you can, all welcome.

 

Easyfundraising

And just another reminder about Easyfundraising.org.uk.

 

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.

 

Cake Club

Congratulations to Mrs Gonzalez who was the lucky winner of our Cake Club draw on Friday May 26th. Thank you so much to Mel Saunders for a magnificent Coffee and Walnut cake. Elaine Burnell has kindly volunteered a cake for Friday June 9th and Jo Hutchence is next on the rota for Friday June 16th. Many thanks for your continued support.

 

Diary Dates:

 

Monday 12 June	After School Archery Club
Tuesday 13 June	Dental screening for 5 year olds After School Drama Club PTA meeting in The Crown
Wednesday 14 June	Y6 Buddying session with ICC students
Thursday 15 June	Y4 Forest School After School Multisports
Monday 19 – Friday 23 June	Class 3 residential visit to Woodlands
Wednesday 21 June	Festival of Voices for participating pupils

 

LITTLE BEARS NEWS:

Little Bears are continuing with the topic growing and gardens. We are also going to be learning about life cycles. This Friday the Little Bears will be taking part in a sponsored peddle push. Hopefully the Sun will shine for us!!! 

 

Advance Notice of dates of two Summer Sports Courses

Michael Hopkins, who is well-known to the school as a PE teacher will be leading two Summer Sports Courses on Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 July and then Monday 21 August, Tuesday 22 August & Wednesday 23 August at Stadhampton Primary School. Each 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.  Please see attached flyer.

 

Community News:  Flyer attached from the Watlington and Chalgrove Community Centre