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 16^th 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	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
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

 

February 2018

 

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
			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
12	13	14	15	16
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	22 ELLI Project Assembly	23
26 Class 3 Swimming Session	27 Special PE Event – more details to follow Y4 Forest School session; Reception FS session pm	28

 

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.