Executive Headteacher: Mr James Procter

Email: office@easthoathly.e-sussex.sch.uk

NEWSLETTER 3

Friday 21st September 2018

WORD OF THE WEEK

Definition of Meticulous (adjective) in

English:

1) Showing great attention to detail.

Meticulous

Data Collection Sheets

Data collection sheets will be

making their way to parents this

Friday.

Please fill the sheets in and return

them by Friday 5th of October to

the school office.

FPTA Fundraising

East Hoathly FPTA have signed up to

Easyfundraising, an easy way for parents to raise

funds for the school at no extra cost to

themselves. Whenever you place your shopping

through 100s of sites they automatically give us

a donation, and for anyone who uses the below

link, Easyfunding will give us an extra £1

donation! Please could all parents consider doing

their online shopping through this, especially

with Christmas coming up!

https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/invite/XF7UYO/

Menu Change 4th October

Please be aware that the menu

is changing on Thursday 4th of

October.

Instead of beef pasta

Bolognese and cheese and

tomato chimichangas (V), it will

be turkey meatball pasta and

macaroni cheese (V) with

garlic bread.

Please see the

poster for further

details.

Lost Property

Mya in Year 2 has lost her cardigan. Please can

parents double check the label in their child’s

cardigan. Mya’s has a pink label with her name on.

Year 1/2 Outside Area

Year 1 and 2 have been enjoying their new outside area this week. The outside area has

been developed to aid transition between the Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 and the

children have been enjoying themselves immensely!

Max M in Year 1 said

“it’s exciting because

it’s brand new. I like

the sand!”

Evelyn in Year 2 said

“it’s fantastic

because we can play

with water and sand

and we can dress up!”

Beatrice in Year 2

said “I think it’s

great, I like dressing

up.”

Eco Warriors

At East Hoathly, we believe that everyone has a responsibility for not only caring about

the school but also the impact it has on the environment. Every year we have an Eco Group

who are given the responsibility of promoting this message to the children but also making

sure everything possible is done to minimise energy waste, that we recycle everything

possible and that the grounds contain as much

plants and habitat as possible.

The Eco Group consists of two children from

Year1/2, Year 3/4 and Year 5/6. Those

interested will be given an application form.

The two best applications from each class will

be chosen as the Eco Warriors. The children

will have 2 weeks to hand back completed

forms to the office and I will announce the

chosen Eco Warriors after that.

Mr Herdman

Diner of the Week

Nursery - Rodrigo Jose

Freitas Abreu

KS1 - Charlie Watton

KS2 - Amelia Freezer

Champion Table

KS1 - Australia - 8 points

KS2 - Ghana - 5 points

BIRTHDAYS!

Birthdays for this week!

Happy Birthday to Freya

O’Sullivan in Year 3!

Headteacher’s Award

The Headteacher’s Award goes to;

Max Magner in Year 1, for excellent

number sentences and amazing progress

in recording them.

Destiny-May Prangnell in Year 6, for

an excellent start to Year 6 at East

Hoathly, especially with working so hard

in improving her writing.

Well done, Max and Destiny-May!

Attendance

The whole school attendance for this year so far is: 97.1%

This week’s attendance: 97.6%

Reception – 97.4% Year 1/2 - 97.5%

Year 3/4 - 96.4% Year 5/6 - 98.7%

Learning Powers

On Friday 28th of September, there will

be a celebration assembly at 9.15am, the

following children will be celebrating their

achievements:

Reception George Baxter

Year 1/2 Alexandra Zorn

Year 3/4 Daisy Callander

Year 5/6 Archie Gibbons

Positivity Board

A ‘Positivity Board’ has been put up in the School Office. This board enables parents/

carers, staff, children and visitors to write positive comments, or thoughts, about their

time in school or during events that they would like to share with others.

Please pop in any time to write down something that you would like to share or send an

email.

In the newsletter every week, there will be a picture to share and celebrate the positivity

within our school and community.

As always, thank you for your support!

Governors

Juliet Stirrat

I moved to Sussex from London 25 years ago with my young family,

leaving behind a career in the art world and returning to study to

embark on a second career in primary education.

During this time I have also chaired a PTA, been a governor at two

other schools and am currently a trustee of two local charities. I have

been volunteering regularly at St Mary’s for five years and been a

governor there for the last four years, as well as teaching for one term as a temporary

last-minute replacement!

I am looking forward to getting to know the other Pioneer schools and will be particularly

focusing on SEND.

Reception and their Year 6 Buddies

It has been an absolute pleasure this week watching Year 6 guide their Reception buddies

in and around the school.

The Reception children have settled into school life really well and the Year 6 buddies have

gone above and beyond in looking after them.

George in Reception said “I like playing with my buddy, Archie.”

Nursery News

Welcome back everyone! We hope you all had a wonderful Summer break and it is lovely to

see all the children back at Nursery.

This week in Nursery, our learning objectives have been to focus on our speaking and using

different types of everyday words and to begin balancing blocks and counting them.

Our story of the week is ‘Hello Goodbye’. The children have enjoyed making polar bear

pictures using white paint and black card. Also they created big bear paws using glue and

tissue paper.

In Forest School this week, the children did a fantastic job helping to tidy the Nursery

garden. The children used brooms to sweep up the leaves, and used gloves to help sow seeds

and pull up the weeds.

Reminders

We now have some new furniture in Nursery. Inside the cloakroom, you will find pigeon

holes for all of the children. These will be used for the children’s art work and any letters;

please can you ensure you check them at the end of each session.

If all children with packed lunches can now place their lunch boxes underneath their coat

pegs inside the slots provided and water bottles inside the water tray.

Thank you for your continued support,

Nursery Team

“Hello!” Bear

said loudly.

Dates for your diary 2018/2019

Sep 2018

26th—Parent Forum 9.00am

Oct 2018

1st—Tempest photos AM (siblings/individual)

4th—Tempest photos AM (groups)

18th—Harvest Festival 9.25am

19th—End of Term Celebration 2.30pm

19th—Term 1 ends

29th—Term 2 starts

Nov 2018

5th—WW1 week

9th—Remembrance Day Service 10.30am

12th—Anti-Bullying Week

14th—New Parents Tour 1.30-2.30pm

19th—Parent Consultations 4-6pm

21st—Parent Forum 9.00am

21st—Parent Consultations 4-6pm

Dec 2018

4th—New Parent Tours 6-7pm

7th—Christmas Production dress rehearsal

2.00pm

11th—Christmas Production 2.00pm & 6.30pm

19th—Christingle Service 2.00pm

19th—Term 2 ends

Jan 2019

3rd—INSET Day

4th—INSET Day

7th—Term 3 starts

Dates for your diary 2018/2019

Jan 2019

15th—Maths Day

22nd—Parent Forum 9.00am

28th—Country of Focus Week

Feb 2019

15th—End of Term Celebration 2.30pm

15th—Term 3 ends

25th—Term 4 starts

Mar 2019

7th—World Book Day

13th—Parent Forum 9.00am

18th—Parent Consultations 4-6pm

20th—Parent Consultations 4-6pm

25th—Country of Focus Week

Apr 2019

5th—Easter Service 9.25am

5th—Term 4 ends

22nd—Easter Monday

23rd—Term 5 starts

30th—Parent Forum 9.00am

May 2019

6th—Bank Holiday

23rd—Sports Day and picnic 12pm

24th—Term 5 ends

June 2019

3rd— INSET Day

4th—Term 6 starts

12th—Parent Forum 9.00am

Dates for your diary 2018/2019

July 2019

8th—Bikeability Week

8th—Summer Production dress rehearsal

1.30pm

11th—Summer Production 1.30pm

11th—Summer Production 6.30pm

12th—Reports out to parents

16th—Parent Consultations—reports

only— 4-6pm

23rd—Leavers’ Service

23rd—Term 6 ends

Parent Forums 2018/19

25th September - New Learning Powers

and Homework

21st November - Curriculum, Homework,

Attendance and School vision and values

22nd January - Homework, Wellbeing and

SIAMs

13th March - Homework, Year 2 and 6

SATs focus

30th April - Homework and Thrive

12th June - Homework, SDP review and

SDP next year.