Meerkat
Champion of the Week
Reception No one pupil stood out this week
Class 1 Betsy
Class 2 Maggie
Class 3 Wyatt
Congratulations to you all!
School
Year Group Photographs
The year group photographs taken on
Thursday 14 June have been on display in the hall for the last week. Order
forms are available on the hall table for any families wishing to place an
order. The deadline for orders to be returned back to school is Monday 3 July to take advantage of the
free delivery to school. For clarity, please indicate on the form (if
necessary) whether you want the version with or without the members of staff! Thank
you.
School
Council event – “Stadhampton’s Got Talent”!
School Council are arranging a talent
competition in order to raise money for a charity called Books2Africa. The
Charity provides schools in Africa with much-needed books. As we are fortunate
enough to have lots of books, we thought we could send our surplus books to
other children for them to enjoy. For each 20kg of books we send, we need £7 to
cover delivery costs.
Stadhampton pupils are invited to showcase
a talent they wish to share with others. This may be singing, dancing, a magic
act, acting – the list is endless!
Entry for each child is £1 and children can
perform individually or in a group. All acts will have the opportunity to
perform in front of their class and one act from each year will perform in
front of the school.
Children will need to bring their entry
money in by Monday 9 July. The acts will be performed in front of their class
during Monday to Thursday and one act from each year group will be performed to
the whole school on Friday 13 July.
Thank you for your support. We can’t wait
to see the children’s talents – and help other children as a result!
CLICK
Performance
On Monday, a theatre company came into
Stadhampton School to perform a play for Class 3 and other Year 5/6 children
from our partnership schools. The play was about going on the internet safely
and being careful about what you say/do online. The three characters were
called Nina, Click (Clara) and Jay. Click was obsessed with online gaming and
said unkind things to people online without realising the impact of her words.
Her friends reminded her of E-Safety rules and encouraged her to play football
outside with them rather than just playing FIFA online.
It was a memorable performance that taught
the children a lot about being safe online and having fun at the same time.
Teams
for Sports Night on Friday 13 July – 6pm arrival for races to start at 6.30pm
Pupils
will know which team they have been put into for Sports Night tomorrow and the
younger pupils will have this information on a slip so that they know what
colour T-shirt they will need. (We may have bibs which could be borrowed if you
don’t have the appropriate colour T-shirt.) The team colours are the Olympic
colours of black, red, blue, green and yellow. If any pupil is not going to be at Sports Night it
would be very useful for the teachers to know this before the teams are confirmed
so that they are as fairly balanced as possible. Please let Mrs Hopkins know by
e-mail to office.2455@stadhampton.oxon.sch.uk
Thank you.
‘Moving
Up’ Days next week
A reminder that in order for pupils to
experience, and become more familiar with, classroom arrangements for September,
we have planned a series of ‘moving up’ days in July which take place on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday next week. Pupils should go directly to the
class they will be in for the start of the new academic year when they come
into school and Year 6 pupils should hopefully be able to come in
independently.
ELLIE
Project
On 21 June, Year 6 performed their final
ELLIE Project assembly with the theme of ‘Making Links Spider.’ Two groups
presented their ideas in very different ways. One group’s story was titled
‘Candy Land’ and was inspired by Class 3’s focus on Alice in Wonderland. It was
about Curiosity Cat’s inquisitive nature leading her down a ‘rabbit hole’. All
the characters came to help but they all fell into Candy Land too! In the end,
they all linked together to solve the problem. The second group’s play was
called Ellie’s Big Problem in which Elli used her knowledge from the Woodlands
residential to make rope. The children enjoyed preparing the assemblies and
sharing them with the rest of the school.
Year
6 Final Forest School Session
Year 6’s last
Forest School session will be in the morning of Tuesday 17 July. As
in previous years, we would like to mark the occasion by staying at Forest
School for a slightly extended session, so that Y6 can have lunch cooked on the
fire (hot dogs, marshmallows etc). This would mean the children would
return to school by 1pm and would not need a packed lunch or school meal on
that day.
We would very much
appreciate a contribution of £1.50 per child to cover the cost of lunch.
Please return this to Melanie Gravett or the school office as soon as possible
and also let us know about any special dietary requirements.
PTA
News:
Tea
Towels and Shopping Bags
Thank
you to everyone who ordered tea towels and shopping bags. We will let you
know as soon as the items are delivered to school.
Sports
Night - Friday 13 July
As ever, the PTA will be running a bar and
BBQ on the evening of Sports Night on Friday 13 July. BBQ tickets for
hot dogs, burgers and a veggie option priced at £2.50 each will be on sale from
Monday. Please return cash or cheques made payable to Stadhampton Primary
School PTA to the office with a note of how many and which tickets you need in
an envelope and we will get tickets to you either at the gate or via bookbags.
Alternatively, please catch Melanie Gravett or Carol Holmes at school in
the morning or afternoon.
Disco
- Thursday 19 July 5.30pm - 7pm
We
will be holding an end of term disco for all pupils on Thursday 19 July from
5.30pm until 7pm in the hall. Letters with further details and the
permission slip were sent home in book bags this week. Please return your
child’s permission slip to the office as soon as possible if they wish to
attend.
Official Notice of the PTA's Annual General
Meeting (AGM) – Wednesday 3 October, 8pm in the School Hall
The PTA plays a vital part in the school
community and all parents, as members of the PTA, are invited to support the
AGM. This is your chance to hear and see how the funds you have helped to raise
have been used for the benefit of the children at our school.
We appreciate the date of the AGM in
October is a while away, but we wanted official notice of the meeting to be
sent out before the summer holidays so that everyone has time to think about
coming along to the meeting and / or getting more involved with the PTA.
The PTA Committee (Chair, Treasurer,
Secretary) will be elected at the AGM so if you are interested in taking on one
of these roles for the forthcoming academic year, please speak to Melanie
Gravett who can give you more details about what is involved.
Our
next PTA committee meeting will now be on Wednesday 12 September at 8pm, venue
TBC.
Cake
Club
Well done to Albie, Honor, Sidney and Thomas for winning
Friday’s cakes. This week’s offering is courtesy of Carol. Thank you Carol and
good luck to everyone!
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.
Diary
Dates:
July
2018
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Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
|
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2
Swimming
for Class 3 pupils
Afterschool
Archery
|
3
Y6
Forest School session; Reception FS session pm
Afterschool
Karate Club
|
4
Transition Day 1
After
School Year 6 / ICC Buddying session at ICC
|
5
Transition Day 2
Afterschool
Multisports Club
|
6
Transition Day 3
|
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9
Swimming
for Class 3 pupils
Afterschool
Archery
(last
one)
|
10
Y6
Forest School session; Reception FS session pm
Afterschool
Karate Club (last one)
|
11
Class 3 IMPS
|
12
Afterschool
Multisports Club
(last
one)
|
13
Sports Evening
|
|
16
Swimming
for Class 3 pupils
|
17
Y6
Forest School session with lunch Reception FS session pm
Disco
5.30-7pm
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18
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19
|
20
End of School Year & Leavers Assembly
9.05am
School finishes for the Summer holidays 1.30pm
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LITTLE
BEARS NEWS:
This week the Little Bears have talked about the life cycle of a
butterfly. We also talked about symmetry and will start making our own
Butterfly pictures as our 5 cocooned caterpillars start to emerge.
We have been listening to the sounds of nature e.g. birds singing
and continued to discuss other animals life cycles e.g. frogs
The Little Bears have loved reading the The Very Hungry
Caterpillar book and discussing what they think healthy food is and we will be
enjoying a fruit tasting session next week.
COMMUNITY NEWS :
- SEN Assistant vacancy at ICC
- Chalgrove Fete flyer
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