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Head’s News Dates for your Diary

February

7th Y5 Wilson Workshop

15h LAST DAY OF TERM 3

25th FIRST DAY OF TERM 4

25th Y6 Height and Weight

Checks taking place – letters

emailed out last week

28th Parents’ Evening 1

March

4th PTA Meeting 7pm

5th Parents’ Evening 2

7th World Book Day

12th and 13th Y3 Pottery

Workshops

13th Y5 Abernant Info Evening at

7pm for parents and children

14th CKJS Music Concert

15th Red Nose Day – Crazy Hair

22nd PTA School Disco

26th Class Photographs

April

3rd Y5 to Abernant

5th Y5 return from Abernant

5th LAST DAY OF TERM 4

The snow flurries came and went with

little impact on the school. The

children had a wonderful time

building snowpeople, carving snow-

angels and generally rushing around!

Thanks to all the staff and parents for

your support and flexibility on the

day. I wonder if there will be any

more?

As Mr Gill fell ill just before the

football match yesterday, I was

delighted to step in and referee (in

suit trousers!) – both teams played

superbly against Holy Apostles,

against whom they drew in the Albert

Dix tournament. The game was well-

contested with superb play from the

schools. CKJS were victorious in both

games, winning 4-1 in the A team

game and 7-0 in the B team. I was

proud of their effort, determination

and sportsmanship.

I continue to be proud of our school’s

sporting success and reputation –

many thanks to all the staff, parents

and friends who commit to the

children and provide such wide

experiences.

As the snow lay on the ground last

week, many of our local community

enjoyed an evening’s entertainment

thanks to Thrill Collins. Many thanks to

the band who, as I understand,

provided the entertainment free of

charge. The event was organized by

both PTAs and hosted by Balcarras

school to help raise funds for CKIS

and CKJS. It was an excellent

example of the strong collaboration

that exists between the schools in

CK and a thoroughly enjoyable

evening. Special thanks to all the

volunteers, supporters and the PTAs

who did much of the work in

organizing the event.

You may have noticed our name

recently in the press

(Gloucestershire Live) celebrating

last year’s achievements at the end

of Year 6.

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.

uk/news/charlton-kings-junior-

school-1052574

In this comparison we were

awarded 5th place overall out of the

270 schools within the county. In

recognition of the school’s

outstanding achievement, we

received a congratulatory letter

from Alex Chalk MP, a copy of

which can be found in this letter.

I hope you have a great week

ahead.

Best wishes

Lee Pajak

8/18

CKJS Golden Jubilee This week we celebrated our school’s Golden Jubilee marking 50 years since the Junior School was officially

opened on this site on 5th February 1969.

We had a special visitor in assembly. James Moore, a former pupil of

CKJS and star of Emmerdale, spoke to the children and showed them the

trophy he won in the British Television Awards.

Mrs Selwood showed a slide-show of pictures from the last 50 years and shared some of her memories since

the Silver Jubilee, when a time capsule was buried at the front of the school. We did try to find the time

capsule (a metal box containing pictures and memories of the school in 1993-4), but unfortunately couldn’t

locate it. Many thanks to Mr Fincham (Logan’s dad) for coming with his metal detectors and helping us to

look for it. We hope to bury a new capsule when the weather improves, with memories from 2019, and bury

it when we install the ground mosaic the children made earlier this term.

After school, lots of children, friends, current and former staff came along to our tea party in the hall. It was a

lovely event, full of nostalgia and a chance for some to be re-united with their former teachers. It is amazing

how many parents were pupils at the school when they were of primary age, a testament to the continued

success and wonderful ethos of CKJS.

We would like to thank everyone who donated such wonderful cakes and who came along to support this

special event.

PTA News and

upcoming events

The fundraising total from Cauliflower Cards is in - the

school raised a fantastic amount - £539.50!

Thank you to everyone who bought the Christmas cards, labels and even a few

mugs. Thanks also to Miss Morrison for organising the artwork creation and to all

the teachers for thinking about Christmas in October.

The class who raised the most money was 3P - raising £61.00 - well done!

Dates for your diary:

Monday 4th March - PTA meeting in the staffroom from 7.30pm – do come along

Friday 22nd March - School disco

Friday 10th May - Lido event with CKIS

ZIG

ZAG

LINES

We are delighted to inform you that our

new zig zag parking restrictions are in

place in Glynrosa Road.

We would ask all parents to make sure

that they do not park or even drop off

children in this area. This ensures the

exit is clear for children to safely enter

and leave the school grounds.

Current Vacancies

We are looking for a new clearer and

lunchtime supervisors to join our great

teams.

The posts are both part time and are for

approximately 5 hours per week term

time only.

If you or anyone you know would be

interested, please contact the School

Business Manager on 01242 526171

option 2 or simply pop in to Reception.

ParentPay - our new online payment service

We are pleased to announce that we will shortly

be accepting payments online for School Dinners

using a secure website called ParentPay with

which some of you will be familiar.

A letter with full details accompanies this

newsletter and the system will go “live” after

half term. ParentPay will be our method of

making payments for school dinners.

Next week we will be sending you your account

activation details. Follow the instructions in the

letter to get started with ParentPay.

If you want to find out more go to:

https://www.parentpay.com/parents/

or visit our school’s website.

Together with we have recently launched a new clothes recycling scheme which will hopefully raise some money towards our

current projects.

We would like to invite you all to get involved in recycling and school fundraising. Simply gather unwanted clothing, paired shoes, handbags and belts and bring them in to school!

Be green and reuse bags from home when packing your textiles for recycling! The collection box is in the car park adjacent to the main gate.

Cycling Skills Club

CKJS have two teams entered in the Bank View Winter Series Cycle Race. Team A: George, James, Harry and

Joshua and Team B: Henry, Noah, Toby and Michael both performed very well in the first round.

There were two heats and a final and Harry came second and Joshua third. This leaves CKJS running second

in the leader board with 10 points.

Fliers

From time to time we send home fliers either with the children or via email. These fliers are

advertisements for activities or events which we feel may be of interest to you or your children and please

feel free to ignore them!

Our usual practice when approached to distribute these is to ask the organisers for one or two free places

as a “thank you”. These places can then be offered to children who may not otherwise have opportunities

to participate in such activities.

Fun in the snow!

We were very pleased that we were able to remain open on Friday in spite of the snow

and only a handful of children were unable to get in to school. We felt it best to cancel

the after-school clubs in case the weather deteriorated.

All the children had an extended morning break and we all took to the playing fields to

make giant snowmen and enjoy the snow!

Watch out for the next issue!

Contact Us:

reception@ckjs.org.uk 01242 526171

Website: www.ckjs.org.uk

(Please note changes to our email and website addresses.)

Passport

Forms

Recently we have had quite a number of

passport forms brought in for signing by staff.

Whilst we are able to do these we would like to

invite parents to make a small contribution to

our Swimming Pool Fund as a token of gratitude.