Week ending 13 July 2018

 

Meerkat Champion of the Week

Reception        No one pupil stood out

Class 1                         Grace

Class 2             Amaya

Class 3                         Mya

Congratulations to you all!

 

Sports Evening tonight – please arrive at 6.15pm for a 6.30pm start. The gate will be unlocked at 6pm. Please remember to bring something to sit on!

 

Swimming Reminder

Reminder to Class 3 – safety week at swimming. Please bring long PJs, or leggings and t-shirt on Monday.

 

Year 6 Final Forest School Session

A reminder that we ask pupils to contribute £1.50 per child to cover the cost of providing a camp-fire lunch on Tuesday 17 July. Please return this to Melanie Gravett or the school office as soon as possible and also let us know about any special dietary requirements. Thank you.

 

Forest School News

Forest School is a well-established and valued part of school life at Stadhampton School. All pupils benefit from regular Forest School sessions and we are very grateful to Mrs Mel Gravett (a member of staff and our Forest School Leader), the many parents who volunteer to assist Mrs Gravett with these sessions, Mr and Mrs Campbell who generously allow us to have our Forest School sessions on their land, the PTA for financial support with resources and the Governing Body for supporting our on-going provision of Forest School sessions, both as part of our school development plan and from a school budget perspective.

 

We are proud to be able to offer this opportunity for all pupils and delighted that we are in a position to extend our Forest School sessions, on a trial basis, for 2018-2019. From September 2018 we will;

 

continue to provide weekly sessions for pupils in Reception (Tuesday afternoons)

extend our KS1 provision so that all pupils in Years 1 and 2 have weekly sessions for a six week block each full term – ie Year 1 for 6 weeks followed by Year 2 for 6 weeks (Thursday mornings)

extend our KS2 provision so that all pupils in Years 3-6 have 3 weekly sessions each full term, usually on 3 consecutive weeks (Tuesday mornings)

 

Details of the dates for the Autumn Term sessions will be circulated next week.

We appreciate that Mrs Gravett has made herself available for these additional sessions, as we need a qualified Forest School Leader to enable them to take place, and that we will need to rely on parent volunteers to ensure we have the appropriate adult:pupil ratio for each session. No doubt Mrs Gravett will be seeking out volunteers in the near future, in readiness!

 

At a time when our education system demands so much of children, we are convinced that Forest School has an important role to play in helping develop well-rounded children. Here are just some of the benefits:

• learning perseverance and determination
• problem-solving skills and learning to take risks
• improved physical health from spending time outdoors
• learning how to offer and accept help (emotional intelligence)
• teamwork, improved physical coordination
• learning resilience and resourcefulness, and developing initiative.

 

PTA News:

Disco - Thursday 19 July 5.30pm - 7pm

Please return your child’s permission slip to the office as soon as possible if they wish to attend the Disco on Thursday 19th July.

 

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 Beau for winning the lovely cake provided by Charlotte M. Thank you Charlotte and to Jo H for this week’s prize. Good luck 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

 

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
16 Swimming for Class 3 pupils Reception & Class 1 visit to Tiddywinkles	17 Y6 Forest School session with lunch (£1.50 required for this please). Daylight Theatre end of school year treat	18	Disco 5.30-7pm 19	20 End of School Year & Leavers Assembly 9.05am School finishes for the Summer holidays 1.30pm

 

LITTLE BEARS NEWS:

Our Big Bears enjoyed a few days in "Big School" last week and all looked very smart and grown up in their uniforms. We are starting to get ready for our sports day now which will be on the last day of term. Lets hope this spell of warmer weather continues for our Little Bears.

The Little Bears summer BBQ is this Friday 2pm till 4pm - do come along if you can.