Week ending 26 January
2018
SODC
food waste trucks need a name – vote now!
Residents of South Oxfordshire District
Council (SODC) are being invited to vote for their favourite names put forward
by local schoolchildren for a new fleet of food waste recycling trucks. Local
schools were invited to participate and from the dozens of names suggested by
the children across the area, SODC has whittled them down to ten names and one
of the names was suggested by a pupil at Stadhampton
School!
Residents are being asked to choose their
top three names out of the ten names and the most popular will be printed onto
the district’s new food waste trucks which will be seen out and about carrying
weekly food waste collections. The children whose suggested name gets the most
votes will scoop £150 book tokens for their school and a swimming pass for
their family. Our contribution to the
list is “Waste Warrior”.
To vote please go to:
southandvale.gov.uk/namethattruck
In addition, residents can look out for how
to vote on the council’s social media channels:
·
Twitter:
@SouthOxon / @WhiteHorseDC
·
Facebook:
facebook.com/southoxfordshire
Voting will close on Friday 16th
February. Thank you.
Meerkat
Champion of the Week
Reception Matteo
B
Class 1 Orla
V
Class 2 Jude
B
Class 3 Izzy
K
Congratulations to you all!
Sportshall
Athletics Tournament
A reminder that the rescheduled Athletics
tournament for Class 3 pupils will now take place on Thursday 8 February from
11am until 1.15pm, so all pupils will need to take a packed lunch with them. We
have held on to the payments parents have already paid in readiness for the new
date.
National
Storytelling Week
Letters detailing the arrangements for
National Storytelling Week were sent home via book bags earlier this week. Please
think about coming in on the afternoon of Wednesday 31 January to tell/read a
story to a small group of children. Thank you.
Head
Lice
A parent has reported that despite
treatments to her own children’s hair, they keep being reinfected. Please could
ALL parents, and particularly
parents in Class 3, check their children’s hair for head lice and treat if
necessary. This is the only way that this problem can be cleared up quickly.
Thank you.
PTA
News:
Film
Night
Thank
you to everyone who supported the PTA film night last week. The evening
raised over £150 for PTA funds.
We
hope to hold another film night later in the year, so please watch this space
for details.
Race Night, Friday 2nd February, 7pm for first race at 7.30pm, St
John’s Church
The PTA and Little Bears will be holding a Race Night to raise
funds for both the school and pre-school on Friday 2nd February. For
those who don’t know what a Race Night is, pre-recorded horse races are played
onto the big screen. You are then able to place bets on which horse will
win - if your horse wins, you win!
It promises to be a fun evening (over 18s only), so please see
Melanie Gravett or Debbie Bradford for tickets. Tickets are £7.50 each.
Our next PTA meeting is now on Wednesday 14th March, 8pm, The
Crown.
Cake
Club
A huge thank you to Craig Thomson for the lovely cake on
Friday. It was won by Emily in Year 4 who very kindly donated it to Mia – what
a treat for the weekend! This week’s cake is very kindly being provided by
Claire Cowlard. Many thanks.
Diary
Dates:
January
2018
Monday
|
Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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29
Class 2 Swimming Session
Meeting of the School Governors at 7pm
|
30
Y2
Forest School session; Reception FS session pm
|
31 Parents/grandparents are invited to
come into school to read a story as part of National Storytelling Week
|
|
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February 2018
Monday
|
Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
|
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|
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1
Multisports afterschool club
|
2
PTA & Little Bears Race Evening 7.30pm at St
John’s Church
|
5
Class 2 Swimming Session
4/4 Computing afterschool club
|
6
Safer
Internet Day
Y3
Forest School session; Reception FS session pm
|
7
|
8
Rescheduled Sports Hall Athletics Event for C3. All pupils require a
packed lunch
Multisports afterschool club
|
9
3.15pm pupils finish for Spring ½ term
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12
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13
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14
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15
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16
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19
Pupils return to school
Class 3 Swimming Session
|
20
Y3
Forest School session; Reception FS session pm
|
21
Science Club starting – more details to follow
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22
ELLI Project Assembly
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23
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26
Class 3 Swimming Session
|
27
Special PE Event – more details to follow
Y4
Forest School session; Reception FS session pm
|
28
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LITTLE
BEARS NEWS:
Little Bears will continue with our ‘All about Me’ theme for new
children and we will begin to look at families and how we celebrate different
holidays and celebrations. We look forward to celebrating Burns Night as
well as Shrove Tuesday.
We will be in the garden with balls, target practice and bats
making large gross motor movements to keep warm!
Its National Storytelling Week soon and we look forward to sharing
lots of traditional stories with the children.
Community
News:
This
year Oxford Brookes University is celebrating 10 years of the Brookes Science
Bazaar and we invite your students, their families/guardians and school staff
to celebrate with us!
The
science bazaar will take place at Headington Campus on Saturday 24 February
from 10.00am to 4.30pm.
This
free event will be packed with exciting activities offering something for
everyone, from fitness to healthy foods, building the highest spaghetti
marshmallow tower and learning about your genes.