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Eynsham Partnership Academy: Registered in England & Wales. Company no: 07939655

EYNSHAM COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL

Everybody Learning, Every Day

Beech Road, Eynsham, Witney. Oxon. OX29 4LJ Headteacher Mrs V A Bayliss

Tel: 01865 881294 Fax: 01865 883094 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.eynsham.oxon.sch.uk

Monday 25th March 2019

Newsletter 16

This term has flown by with so many exciting opportunities and learning taking place. This fortnight has seen the school participating in British Science Week and children having the opportunity to attend more sporting and musical events. (See below for the details) Year 2 have visited St Leonards Church and Year 3 visited the Methodist Church in Witney. The purpose of these trips was to extend their knowledge and understanding of Christianity. It is thanks to the hard work and efforts of all the staff that work tirelessly to create an amazing education for all our children. I feel privileged to be working with such an incredibly hard working team. This weekend saw 14 members of our staff run the Blenheim 5 mile run in aid of Oxford Children’s Hospital. This was a warm up to the Wytham Woods 10k which is taking place on 9th June and is raising money for our school. (Sign up at https://www.runwythamwoods.org/races )

WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING? Science week winners

Year 5/6 EPA swimming gala

Year 6 Transition Day 2

Year 6 attend Primary Pop Concert

EPA Year 1 & 2 Dance Festival

Singing Squad attending Voice in a Million at Wembley

Year 2 trip to St. Leonard’s Church

Year 3 trip to the Methodist Church in Witney

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https://www.runwythamwoods.org/races


Year 5/6 EPA Swimming Gala

On Monday 11th March a team of year 5 & 6 children attended the EPA swimming gala at Carterton. Both of our

teams performed amazingly. They represented the school with pride & showed great termination and

sportsmanship throughout. Huge congratulations to Ben (Y6) for setting two new EPA records in both the butterfly

& backstroke individual events!

Well done to all that took part this year.

Year 6 – Primary Pop Concert

On 12th March, most of year 6 went to Primary Pop – a concert for children. The

majority of the songs were from musicals like Mamma Mia, The Greatest

Showman and Matilda. Other songs however were from artists like The Spice

girls and Olly Murs. We travelled on a coach to Oxford Music Centre. We arrived

there at around 2.15pm before having a rehearsal. It was a lot of fun singing

along with the conductors. We finished practising and had a break for dinner.

We started our first concert at 5pm and the next concert at 7pm. Overall it was a

day of fantastic fun that everyone enjoyed.

Report by Maisie (Y6)

EPA Year 1 & 2 Dance Festival

This week children from Years 1 & 2 attended a Dance Festival at Bartholomew School with other EPA primary

schools. Using dance they retold the story ‘Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp‘. The fantastic sports leaders

from Bartholomew School helped them learn their moves and provided lots of

encouragement.

The Dance Festival concluded with a performance from all of the groups. The

children’s behaviour was exemplary throughout the morning, demonstrating that

they were Ready, Respectful and Responsible at all times.

Well done Years 1 and 2!


Singing Squad – Voice in a Million Concert

Singing Squad had the most fantastic time at Wembley last Thursday evening! I would like to congratulate each and every member of Singing Squad for their hard work and effort during rehearsals for the past couple of months. Well done!

Singing Squad also had the opportunity to meet and greet RoadTrip, New Hope Club and Bring it North, we then later saw these bands perform which we were all very

excited about!! Thank you to all the children and parents for their continual support and enthusiasm.

I look forward to now preparing the children for our next event... NAPE - Oxfordshire Festival of Voices - which will be held on 20th June 2019 at Dorchester Abbey. There will be no choir rehearsals next week, enjoy the rest! Miss Cullen.


RED NOSE DAY – UPDATE The school Snail Trail raised an impressive £113.00. The winning guess of £117.00 was Sharks classwho will receive an extra play session as their reward! Red Nose day £1 collection & the red noses sold, raised £530.00. A total of £643.00!! A massive thank you to all the children, parents & staff that donated, we should all be very proud of ourselves. Nursery Open Morning & Stay & Play sessions The school is holding a nursery open morning on Thursday 25th April at 9.15 with a Head Teachers welcome, please pass this on to any one you know that may be interested in attending. There will be ‘stay and play’ sessions for parents & toddlers every Thursday (during term time) from 9th May – 13th June 9.45-10.45am for all 2-3 year olds £2.50 including a snack and a drink, please come along.

Thank you A big thank you to all that took part…World Book Day raised £204.00 for the school English resources. This is a fantastic amount which we will use to purchase more reading books and materials for the whole school to enjoy. Apologies for the delay in the children receiving their vouchers, they should all have brought them home within the last few days, these can be redeemed at participating retailers until 31st March 2019.


Science Week The joint winners of the school's Big Science Event (Lucas, Abigail, Aysha, Theo and Lacey from Year 3) with their question: Which liquid can dissolve a mint fastest? And Year 4 Lucy, Myra, Aysha, Harry and Fin & Jessica with their investigation: Which ball is the bounciest?).

And congratulations to Indigo (Y2) who won the crocodile poster competition! Indigo has won a family pass for a visit to Crocodiles of the World – We hope you and your family have a snap-tastic time!

STAFFING NEWS: I am pleased to inform you that Mr William Reeves has successfully been recruited as the substantive Deputy Headteacher and has taken the position up from immediate effect. From September 19, Mrs Edwards will take up the position of Assistant Headteacher with the responsibility of SENCo. Mrs Bayliss will continue to act as SENCo until the end of the academic year. Earlier this month, I was successful in appointing two new class teachers who will each have the responsibility of being a phase leader. We will be welcoming Mr Thomas Webberley-Brant and Miss Rosie Warrington who are both incredibly strong teachers and will bring a wealth of experience to Eynsham. I am very excited about welcoming them to Team Eynsham in September.


I am pleased to announce the children who have achieved the following awards: WRITING AWARD Findlay (Y4) Showing great use of figurative language in his description of the Jar Wizard Jessica (Y4) Writing an imaginative description of the Jar Wizard full of great adjectives Keila (Y2) Her fabulous description of the Jar Wizard Vivian (Y2) Her fantastic character description of the Jar Wizard Indigo (Y2) Her excellent character description of the Jar Wizard Maisie (Y6) Amazing character description and self-editing to improve your writing Flora (Y6) Amazing character description and self-editing to improve your writing Oskar (Y2) An exciting and detailed story about supertato! MATHS AWARD

Alfie (Y6) Caitlyn (Y4) Belle (Y1) CLASS AWARDS Harry (Y4) Fantastic attitude to learning and consistently following the 3 R’s Astrid (Y6) Achieving 40/40 in her weekly fluency math test Willow (Y6) Enthusiasm during the big Science event and taking responsibility for resources Nathanael (Y2) Great responsibility shown during our walk to St. Leonard’s Church Matilda (Y1) For being an awesome school representative at the gymnastic competition and

demonstrating a positive attitude Bartosz (Y4) Trying to be Ready, Respectful and Responsible in class Alfie (Y1) Working extremely hard in English this week, writing about our visit to the library HOUSE POINTS

Bronze awards 25 points; Year 5: Cory Sam Oliver

Silver awards 50 points

Year 1: Myah Millie Sasha Year 2: Jacob Isabel Year 3: Harri F Year 4: Kyle

Year 6: Maisie Flora Callum Ben Theo Joshy Otis Travis


GOLD awards 100 points Year 1: Harrison Bryn Iver Year4: Harry Myra Lucy Year 6: Noah Karida

ATTENDANCE: As you know, we monitor school attendance carefully throughout the year and thought that you would be

interested to see how things look so far. The table below shows the percentage attendance for each class since

the beginning of term. The national average is 96%. Well done to Bobcats & Rabbits class for last week & to

Rabbit class for this week!

Week Beg

FS Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6

Rabbits Squirrels Foxes Hedge-hogs

Sharks Orcas Starfish Penguins Cougars Ocelots Pumas Bobcats

07/01/19 91% 95% 95% 100% 99% 97% 95% 99% 94% 100% 100% 98% 100%

14/01/19 96% 96% 96% 96% 97% 99% 97% 100% 98% 96% 98% 93% 99%

21/01/19 96% 100% 95% 97% 99% 96% 98% 99% 96% 99% 95% 98% 97%

28/01/19 92% 100% 93% 97% 97% 99% 95% 99% 95% 97% 99% 94% 99%

08/02/19 92% 96% 94% 97% 95% 96% 95% 99% 98% 97% 93% 98% 92%

11/02/19 92% 97% 87% 98% 95% 98% 95% 99% 94% 96% 96% 89% 95%

25/02/19 94% 98% 95% 95% 98% 97% 98% 97% 94% 100% 100% 87% 95%

04/03/19 93% 98% 95% 95% 97% 96% 95% 96% 99% 97% 91% 89% 95%

11/03/19 91% 100% 95% 94% 99% 98% 97% 96% 99% 99% 97% 95% 100%

18/03/19 92% 100% 94% 99% 95% 96% 99% 97% 98% 99% 96% 92% 99%


Please note that the date of the next newsletter will be on: Friday 5th April 2019 DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Thursday 28th March: Year 4 trip to Baptist Church

KS1 Singing club singing to their parents 3.45pm school hall

Tuesday 2nd April: EPA Year 5 & 6 Invasion Games Festival

Tuesday 2nd April: Year 4/5 production: 6pm

Wednesday 3rd April: Year 4/5 productions; 1:30pm (Babies and younger siblings welcome)

Wednesday 3rd April: Year 4/5 production: 6pm

Thursday 4th April: 20 children from Year 4/5 visiting nursing home

Friday 5th April: End of Term (Finish at 1:15pm)

Tuesday 23rd April: Term 5 begins

Wednesday 24th April: Year 2 Trip to Sutton Courtenay

Thursday 25th April: Nursery Open Morning for prospective parents 9.15am

Friday 26th April: Space Dome Experience – Y5

Monday 29th April: Whole School Class Photographs

Thursday 2nd May: May Day Parade and celebrations

Friday 3rd May: Year 3 Trip to Oxford Natural History Museum

Wednesday 8th May: Year 1 attending Music Festival @3:45pm

Thursday 9th May: Nursery stay and play session for 2-3yr olds 9.45am-10.45am £2.50

Monday 13th-Friday 17th May: KS2 SATs

Thursday 16th May: Nursery stay and play session for 2-3yr olds 9.45am-10.45am £2.50

Tuesday 21st May: Year 6 Trip to IMPS Oxford John Radcliffe

Wednesday 22nd May: Parents open afternoon beginning at 2:45pm Thursday 23rd May: Nursery stay and play session for 2-3yr olds 9.45am-10.45am £2.50 Friday 24th May: School Council trip to Houses of Parliament Friday 24th May: Last day of term 5

Monday 3rd June: INSET Day 5

Tuesday 4th June: Term 6 begins

Thursday 6th June: Nursery stay and play session for 2-3yr olds 9.45am-10.45am £2.50

Monday 10th June: Year 2 trip to the Living Rainforest

Tuesday 11th June: EPA KS2 Sports Day – Tilsey Park, Abingdon

Thursday 13th June: Nursery stay and play session for 2-3yr olds 9.45am-10.45am £2.50

Wednesday 19th June: Year 6 Trip to Sulgrave Manor

Thursday 20th June: Singing Squad to attend NAPE’s Festival of Voices, Dorchester Abbey

Thursday 4th July: Sports Day Friday 5th July: Back up sports day in case of bad weather Thursday 11th July: Year 6 Transition Day 3 and Meet the new teacher morning Friday 12th July: Reports out Tuesday 16th July: Year 6 Production to the School: 1:30pm Wednesday 17th July: Year 6 Production: 6pm Thursday 18th July: Year 6 Production: 6pm Tuesday 23rd July: Year 6 Leavers’ Assembly: 1:30pm Tuesday 23rd July: Year 6 Leavers’ Disco: 3:15-4:45pm Wednesday 24th July: End of Term (Finish at 1:15pm)

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