Stadhampton Primary School Blog

Week ending 29 March 2018

Sports Relief Week “Steps Challenge”

The steps have all been stepped and counted and the totals all added together to make a grand total of 50,387 steps. The maths as well as the activity was certainly a challenge, as the classes added their steps and then the combined steps of the whole class. The winner of the eggtastic prize are the Gravett family with a guess of 50,000 steps. Congratulations to them and a big thank you to all who entered - together we raised £163.70 for Sport Relief.

UK Chess Challenge

This year we have had 20 pupils in KS2 take part in the Delancey UK Schools Chess Challenge with a mix from both Class 2 and Class 3. Mrs Sheridan has been very supportive with a quick clear up from lunch so that we could use the hall. The children have been a lovely group for Mrs Manzie to help and they have all learnt a great deal and improved their chess knowledge and skills over the 7-week competition. We had some strong candidates and two strong players in the final with the winner being Peter Fegyveres-Nagy from Class 2. Well done Peter!

Meerkat Champion of the Week

Reception Erika M

Class 1 Joel V

Class 2 Nate M-B

Class 3 Jem B

Congratulations to you all!

A-Life Healthy Eating and Fitness

On Wednesday 28th March A-Life came to school. During the morning all classes took part in activities to promote healthy eating and living. The activities included making a healthy meal, looking at the salt and sugar content of different foods, thinking about how much exercise we have and what we do after school, brushing our teeth, what bones we have, how smoking affects your body and lots more besides. During the afternoon each class had a fitness workshop.

Mr Adams also talked to us about the 7 day healthy challenge, a leaflet about it came home on Wednesday. To give everyone time to complete it you have until Monday 30th April to complete the challenge. When you have completed the challenge and have your certificate, please bring them in to the school office and we can look at them all together. The certificates will be returned to you.

School Council Easter Competition

Thank you to all the children who entered our Easter competition. We loved your creativity from a unicorn egg to ninja turtle eggs!

The lucky winners are:

Reception Elsa J

Year 1 Jake M

Year 2 Betsy C-B

Year 3 Mim H

Year 4 Bella J

Year 5 Tom W

Year 6 Wyatt B

Advance notice - School Photographs!

We have decided to trial a company called Fishpole for school photographs this year. Their website is www.fishpolephotography.co.uk and they are a local company based in Thame. Their approach is different –“a child-focused, relaxed method which engages each individual.” Wherever possible (weather permitting) the photographs will be taken outdoors in the school grounds. We have asked this company to also take Class photographs which will be done the same way and these will be taken on Thursday 14 June. Individual photographs, siblings, etc will be taken in the Autumn Term as usual.

Swimming for after the Easter Holiday

Swimming will commence for Class 2 on the first day back to school (Monday 16 April). They will have 6 sessions in total (16, 23, 30 June & 14, 21 May & 4 June 2018). As always, we are most grateful to receive a ‘voluntary contribution’ from parents towards the cost of the transport (currently £75 a visit) in cash or by cheque please (for £12 for the six sessions,) with cheques made payable to Stadhampton Primary School. Thank you.

PTA News:

Film Night

Thank you to everyone who supported Film Night last week. We raised over £220.

Easter Cupcake Competition

Thank you to everyone who supported our cupcake competition. We had nearly 50 entries!

Congratulations to our winners:

Reception Sassie B

Year 1 Harvey K

Year 2 Freddie T

Year 3 Mim H

Year 4 Freddie W (and William W)

Year 5 Maya K

Year 6 Gene G

Thank you to Mrs Turner and Mrs Sheridan for being our competition judges. Everyone had gone to a lot of trouble to produce such fantastic cakes so picking winners was not easy!

Thank you also to everyone who stayed after school and bought cakes at our cake sale. Altogether we raised over £200.

Bag2School Clothes Recycling - Thursday 3rd May

By getting involved in our next Bag2School collection, you have an opportunity to sort through your cupboards and wardrobes and donate unwanted textiles in the bag provided – this can include anything from the list below:

Men’s, Ladies and Children’s clothing
Paired shoes (tied together or elastic band around)
Handbags/Hats/Bags/Scarves/Ties
Jewellery/Lingerie  
Socks/Belts  
Household linen /Curtains  
Towels  
Bedding (bed sheets, pillow cases and duvet covers

Collection bags will be in book bags next week, but you can use normal black bin bags as well. Funds paid to the PTA by Bag2School are based on weight so the more bags collected the more we raise!

Bag2School do also accept soft toys - we do need some soft toys for use at Forest School so if you are happy to donate toys to Forest School instead, please let Melanie Gravett know.

Family Quiz Night - Friday 18th May

We will be holding a Family Quiz Night on Friday 18th May. Further details to follow.

Our next PTA meeting is on Wednesday 25th April, The Crown, 8pm. All welcome.

Cake Club

Well done to Daniel and Alana for winning the cakes very kindly provided by Carly MF. This week’s prize has been provided by Louise C-B and they look delicious. Good luck everyone.

Diary Dates:

April 2018

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9 Michael Hopkins Sports Course	10 Michael Hopkins Sports Course	11 Michael Hopkins Sports Course	12	13
16 Swimming resumes for Class 2 pupils	17 Y3 Forest School session; Reception FS session pm	18	19	20
23 Swimming for Class 2 pupils	24 Y3 Forest School session; Reception FS session pm	25	26	27
30 Swimming for Class 2 pupils

LITTLE BEARS NEWS:

Little Bears hope everyone had a restful Easter break. We look forward to our Easter bonnet parade tomorrow and have everything crossed for the rain to hold off!

Easter Sports Club:

Michael Hopkins, who is well-known to the school as a PE teacher will be leading an Easter Sports Course on Monday 9, Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 April 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.

Community News:

SAVE THE DATE

Building on the success of similar events and to encourage anyone who’d like to meet new people, the village will be holding a Safari Supper on Saturday 14 July 2018. It will be a no charge BYO affair and anyone over 18 is welcome.

Please do email us if you're interested in coming along, maybe hosting a course or just to find out more: stadhamsafari@gmail.com.

Look out for more info in village communications - Stadham News email, Facebook Stadhampton Village notice board and the Stadhampton Grapevine website as well as the village magazine, the Village Voice.

· Saturday morning café flyer attached