Newsletter for week ending 22 September 2017

 

Change to the normal menu on Thursday 5 October 2017

Food and More have made a change to the normal meals menu for Thursday 5 October. The menu for the day is now Beef Burger in a bun or Hot Dog or Vegetarian Burger. All served with sweet potato wedges and salad; strawberry shortcake for dessert or fresh fruit.

 

This week Mrs Sheridan has been sent to help another school whilst their cook is off sick. We hope that she will return shortly.

 

Open Morning – Tuesday 3 October

In conjunction with Little Bears, the school will be open to visitors from 9.00 to 11.45am for current families and the local community, as well as for the families now making their decisions about their choice of primary school for September 2018. Please do come along and see the school at work between these times if you are able, whether you are a prospective parent or an existing one!

 

Admissions to infant and primary schools

Applying to start infant and primary school for the first time - Children born between 1 September 2013 and 31 August 2014 (inclusive) will be starting Reception from September 2018.

 

How to apply

From 25 October 2017 applications can be submitted for primary and infant schools.

If you cannot apply online, you can request a paper application form from schools and from the School Admissions Team.

The deadline for receipt of primary and infant school applications is 15 January 2018.

If your application is late, it will be processed later in the year, and you are far less likely to get a place at one of your preferred schools.

Everybody needs to apply. Even if your child attends nursery classes within a primary school, you must still apply for a place in the main school.

 

Mrs Wilkin

Mrs Wilkin has decided to retire from her current Teaching Assistant role and will be leaving on 28 September. However, we are delighted that we will still see Mrs Wilkin on a regular basis as she will be in school as usual on Thursday afternoons working with pupils in Class 1. Mrs Wilkin has been a much valued member of our team since she joined us in 2008. We will particularly miss her contribution to school plays where she has used her ideas and talents to produce amazing scenery, some memorable choreography and singing and also her invaluable support of children in need of additional help. We would like to present Mrs Wilkin with a retirement gift and would welcome contributions from parents. We also have a card for parents to sign.

 

 

 

Harvest Festival

Our annual Harvest Festival will take place in the Hall at 9.05am on Friday 6 October and families are most welcome to join us. Once again we will be supporting The Porch, (http://www.theporch.org.uk/)

an organisation which provides a stepping stone for homeless people in Oxford, with our Harvest Gifts. We hope that each child will be able to bring a small contribution into school before our service. All Harvest gifts bought into school will be taken to the village church and put on display for the Harvest Service there on Sunday 8 October, before being taken on to The Porch. The Porch prefer to receive non-perishable items such as packets of pasta, tins of beans, bars of chocolate, packets of biscuits, tins of tomatoes, tins of spaghetti, etc rather than fresh produce. Thank you.

 

Meerkat Champion of the week

Reception: Elsa J

Class 1: Anna F-N

Class 2: Freddie W

Class 3: Ruby C

Congratulations to you all.

 

School Council

The following pupils have been elected by their peers to sit on the School Council this term;

Year 6     Izzy K & Billy B

Year 5     Elizabeth M & Jack A

Year 4     Emily H & Freddie W

Year 3     Cianna B & Oliver L

Year 2     Anna F-N & Jack F

Congratulations to them all!

Mrs Wahid has kindly offered to work with the School Council during Miss Raval’s absence.

 

PTA News:

 

Children’s Bingo Night - Friday 29^th September, 5.30pm in the School Hall

Letters with further details of the Bingo Night have now been sent out in bookbags so please return the permission slip and payment to the office as soon as possible if your child would like to come along.

 

Official Notice of the PTA's Annual General Meeting (AGM) – Tuesday 3rd October, 8pm in the School Hall

The PTA plays a vital part in the school community and all parents, as members of the PTA, are invited to support the AGM. This is your chance to hear and see how the funds you have helped to raise have been used for the benefit of the children at our school.

  

The PTA Committee (Chair, Treasurer, Secretary) will be elected at the AGM so if you are interested in taking on one of these roles, please speak to Melanie Gravett who can give you more details about what is involved.

 

We would like the AGM to be a relaxed and informal meeting – drinks and nibbles will be provided.  Please come along to find out more about what the PTA committee does and how you can support us through the forthcoming year.

 

PTA Facebook Page

Just another reminder that the PTA has a Facebook page used to promote our fundraising events, to remind parents when events are coming up and to ask parents for donations or additional help.   (Individual concerns about our children or what happens in the classroom during the school day are outside of the PTA remit and should not be raised on the PTA Facebook page – the page is monitored by the PTA committee).

 

The link is below.

http://www.facebook.com/groups/765910023426217

 

It is a closed group, so you will need to make a request to join the group.  When requesting to join, please include your name, your child’s name and their year group. 

 

Cake Club

Well done to Bella Jones and Harvey Khan who were this year's first Cake Club winners!
A huge thank you to Kylie Smith for providing the amazing cupcakes and to Ami Martins for supplying this week's prize.
Don't forget to see Vicky if your child would like to enter the draw. 20p per week or £7 for the year (cheques made payable to Stadhampton Primary School PTA).

We will need volunteers to donate the cake prize each week (they don’t have to be home made!) so please also speak to Vicky if you would be willing to put your name on the rota. 

 

Diary Dates:

 

 

 

Tuesday 26 September	Year 1 and Year 2 Forest School session Reception Forest School session
Friday 29 September	PTA Children’s Bingo event
Tuesday 3 October	Open Morning Year 1 Forest School session Reception Forest School session PTA Annual General Meeting at 8pm
Friday 6 October	Harvest Service in school – parents welcome to attend at 9.00am – please could every child bring a small gift for ‘The Porch’. Thank you.
Friday 13 October	School Photographs – each child will be photographed in their school uniform individually and with their siblings automatically. If anyone would like to bring in younger siblings so that they can all be photographed as a family group please come into school as a group at 8.20am. Flu vaccination for Reception, Y1, Y2, Y3 & Y4 pupils – all forms must be returned please whether you would like your child to be vaccinated or not. Thank you.

 

Advance Notice of a Christmas Sports Club:

Michael Hopkins, who is well-known to the school as a PE teacher will be leading a Christmas Sports Course on Wednesday 20 December and Thursday 21 December 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.

 

 

LITTLE BEARS NEWS:

The Little Bears have been learning all about bodies. We have enjoyed lots of fun activities including drawing around ourselves and identifying body parts and we look forward to creating some self portraits. Little Bears have also welcomed 5 new editions  - our 5 stick insets!