Happy May Birthday to: William Bowerman, Lorenzo Elliott, Gene Green, May Hector, Joshua Hursey, Mim Hutchence, Olivia Kenny, Daniel Martins, Jack Smith, Dominic Watts and Freddie Webber

 

During May we are focusing on the core value of

TOLERANCE & CELEBRATION OF DIVERSITY

 

Meerkat Champion of the Week

Reception        Elsa J

Class 1                         Imogen H

Class 2             Arun D

Class 3                         Albie C

Congratulations to you all!

 

Year 6 E-mail from ICC directly to parents about Buddying sessions

Y6 parents should have received an e-mail direct to them from ICC to explain the arrangements for the Buddying sessions. Please let Mrs Hopkins know if you didn’t receive the e-mail as that means they are likely to have an incorrect e-mail address on file for you. Please confirm with Mrs Hopkins whether  your child will or won’t be able to attend the buddying sessions.

 

After half term, Year 10 students from Icknield Community College will be visiting Stadhampton School to run three one hour sessions for Year 6 students to help ease their transition to secondary school.

 

The sessions will take place on the following Wednesdays from 3.30 – 4.30 (timings to allow ICC students to travel back to their home village on County transport) with the following themes:

 

13 June:        Getting to Know You 

20 June:        Finding My Way Around

27 June:        Working Together

 

The final session, “Who’s who and where do I fit in?” will take place on the Thursday afternoon of the new student induction days (4-6 July 2018).

 

The “Buddying” sessions will enable your child to meet older students from Icknield before their transfer, as well providing them with an opportunity to ask any questions they might have (directly to students rather than to teachers!)

 

The sessions will be fun and practical and a member of staff from the primary school will be supervising the session. We do hope that your child will be able to benefit from this opportunity.

 

 

NITS

Thank you to the parent who has kindly let us know that she has treated her children for nits recently. It does appear that more than one class is affected at the current time and we therefore respectfully suggest that ALL parents please check their children’s hair over the weekend and treat if there is any evidence of nits. If everyone does this there is an excellent chance that this outbreak could be cleared up quickly. Thank you for your co-operation in this matter.

 

PTA News:

Bag2School Clothes Recycling

Thank you to everyone who returned Bag2School Clothes Recycling bags to school this week.  We will let you know the amount raised in due course.

Family Quiz Night - Friday 18th May

We will be holding a Family Quiz Night on Friday 18th May from 6pm until 8pm.  Tickets are £10 for a family (or combination of families) up to a maximum of 6 people.  Pizza and hot dogs will be available to buy on the evening and there will be a bar selling beer, wine and soft drinks.  

 

It promises to be a fun evening with a variety of quiz questions for all the family.  For tickets, please see Georgina Wiggins outside Class 1 each morning.

 

 Our next PTA meeting is on Wednesday 13th June, The Crown, 8pm.  All welcome.

 

Cake Club

Well done Joel for winning the cake on Friday. We can recommend the chocolate cake from Budgens, it was delicious! Thank you to Beka V for this week’s prize and good luck to everyone.

 

Diary Dates:

 

May 2018

 

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
7. Bank Holiday	8 Y5 Forest School session; Reception FS session pm   Afterschool Karate	9 Afterschool Cookery	10 ELLI Project Assembly Afterschool Multisports	11 Maths workshop 8.15am (for selected Y6 pupils)
14. SATs Week Swimming for Class 2 pupils	15. SATs Week Y1 Forest School session; Reception FS session pm   Afterschool Karate	16. SATs Week Afterschool Cookery	17. SATs Week Royal Wedding lunch Afterschool Multisports	18. SATs Week
21 Swimming for Class 2 pupils	22 Y1 Forest School session; Reception FS session pm Book Fair arrives Afterschool Karate	23 Afterschool Cookery	24 Afterschool Multisports	25 School finishes at 3.15 for May half term

 

 

Sports Evening confirmation

Just to confirm that our annual Sports Evening will take place on Friday 13 July – races starting at 6.30pm!

 

LITTLE BEARS NEWS:

This weeks topic is ‘Growing’ and ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. This topic has promoted Mathematics and
Understanding of the World. The Little Bears will be planting lots of different seeds and measuring
their own broad beans as they grow.

Little Bears Preschool are recruiting for a friendly, welcoming and enthusiastic pre-school assistant to join our team at Little Bears. Our ethos at Little Bears is to provide high quality childcare and education within a community Pre-School.

Job title: Pre-school Assistant - Level 2 early years education and childcare qualification or equivalent

Responsible to: Pre-school Manager & Senior Staff members

Purpose of the job: To work as part of the pre-school team under the direction of the manager. To provide safe, high quality early years education and care for young children which meets the individual needs of the children attending the setting.

Closing date: 21 May 2018

To apply, please email to littlebears@btconnect.com for a application form and job spec

Please note we are unable to accept CV’s and only applications using the application form will be considered.

Summer Sports Course at Stadhampton School

Michael Hopkins will be leading a sports course at Stadhampton School on Monday 13, Tuesday 14 and Wednesday 15 August. The cost is from 9am to 3pm and costs £15 per day and is open to pupils aged 4 to 11. This course is run regularly at Stadhampton School and is always very popular. Please book early to confirm your place by e-mailing m.hopkins07@hotmail.com or text Michael directly on 07846 012858; alternatively you may book with Mrs Hopkins in the school office.

 

Community News

My last session as Youth Club leader and Chair will be on 18th July. I have really enjoyed my time at Stadhampton Youth Club but life is busy with two jobs and two boys!
I am looking for someone to hand over the position to. The children love youth club, we have on average 20 children per session. We run on the first and third Wednesday of every month between 6.30-7.30pm in the church We are members of Oxfordshire Youth who have been very supportive. There is a small but wonderful group of volunteers who help each week.
Please contact me if you would like more information I would hate to see it stop after everyone’s hard work and I’m sure the kids would miss it!
Many thanks Anna (Thomas’s mum)
07908230072