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 14th 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 20th July – 6pm – 7.30pm
We
will be holding an end of year disco on Thursday 20th 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:
Advance
Notice of PTA Dates for the Diary
Tuesday
19th September – Next PTA committee meeting, The Crown, 8pm
Friday
29th September - Children’s bingo night – further details to follow
Tuesday
3rd 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:
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Wednesday 5-7 July
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Transition
days / Moving-up days
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Friday 14 July
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Sports
Evening – 6pm (races start at 6.30pm)
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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
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