Week ending 5 January 2018

 

Welcome back to everyone and Happy New Year!

 

Happy January Birthday to: Anna F-N, Peter F-N, Aisulu G, Izzy K, Riley M-C, Leo T, William W, Thomas W, Honor W, Max W, Rosie W and Eva W.

 

During JANUARY we are focusing on the core value of HAPPINESS

 

Thank you

All members of staff would like to join me in thanking you for your many good wishes, Christmas cards and very thoughtful Christmas gifts. We don’t expect any gifts but are very touched by your generosity and thoughtfulness. Thank you!

 

Staffing Update - Mrs Baker

Although Mrs Baker has recently had her cast taken off following a very nasty fracture, she is still not well enough to be back in school at the present time and may not be back this half term. We send her our very best wishes and look forward to welcoming her back to school as soon as she is well enough.

 

Swimming at the Abbey Sports Centre in January

Swimming will start for Class 2 pupils at the Abbey Sports Centre on Monday 8 January. They will have 5 sessions leading up to half-term. As always, we are most grateful to receive a ‘voluntary contribution’ from parents of £2 per child per swimming session towards the transport costs (currently £75 per visit). Cheques for swimming contributions (£10 in total) should be made payable to Stadhampton School. Thank you, in advance, for your continued support, it is very much appreciated.

 

After School Clubs

This term we are offering after school clubs as follows:

• Computing for Years 3-6 on Mondays
• Multisports for Years 1-6 on Thursdays

Letters detailing the dates of the clubs, costs etc will be sent out this week and also uploaded to the school website.

 

School Newsletters – please tell us your thoughts!

Finding effective ways to communicate with parents and establish strong home-school links is very important to us and we would welcome feedback from you about our school newsletter.

We are aware that not everyone reads it on a weekly basis and perhaps that is because some parents think that sending out a weekly newsletter is too much. Some local schools only send out a newsletter once a month – is that something you think we should consider switching to? We work hard to ensure that parents have access to information when they need it by uploading recent letters, details of after school clubs, school meals menu, forest school dates, calendar events, etc to our school website and have twice recently sent out details of how parents can sync the website calendar with their phone. Please let us know your thoughts about the frequency/format of the school newsletter so that we can do our best to ensure that you have access to the information you need when you need it. Thank you!

 

PTA News:

Dates for the Diary

Film Night (children) - Friday 19th January

Further details to follow.

 

Our next PTA meeting is on Wednesday 10th January, The Crown, 8pm.

 

Cake Club

The Cake Club draw is an exciting part of the end of our school assembly on Fridays. Mrs Venner manages the Cake Club on behalf of the PTA and it costs 20p a week to have your child’s name entered into the draw. In order to reduce the administration time for the draw it is very helpful if parents can pay for a half term at a time – so the cost would be £1 for the next five weeks of the draw. Please see Mrs Venner if you would like to pay for your child to be entered in the draw or if you would be willing to go on the rota to supply a cake for the draw. Thank you.

 

Diary Dates:  January 2018

 

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
1 Bank Holiday	2 Holiday	3 Holiday	4 Pupils and staff return to school for the start of the Spring Term	5
8 Class 2 Swimming Session	9 Y1 Forest School session; Reception FS session pm	10	11	12 Year 5/6 Sportshall Athletics
15 Class 2 Swimming Session	16 Y1 Forest School session; Reception FS session pm	17  Reception & Year 6 pupils weighing and measuring by the school nurse	18	19 PTA Film night (more details to follow)
22 Class 2 Swimming Session	23	24 Y2 Forest School session Reception FS session pm (note change of day for this week only)	25	26
29 Class 2 Swimming Session Meeting of the School Governors at 7pm	30 Y2 Forest School session; Reception FS session pm	31

 

 

LITTLE BEARS NEWS:

Little Bears and the team would like to wish you a happy and healthy new year. 

We look forward to getting to know our new Little Bears who have just joined us this term. 

 

Community News:

• January Timetable for the Children’s Centre