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Newsletter 7 25/10/19 Roots to grow… wings to soar.

Friendship Respect

Love

Honesty Thankfulness

Dear School Community,

I am sure the children are ready for a week off. I am also sure the staff are! We hope you

have a lovely half term and are inspired by the newsletter to try something outside before

the winter really sets in.

With my best wishes, Mr Beveridge, Headteacher

Thank you if you are planning to support our annual

‘Christmas shoe box’ appeal.

Please return any prepared gifts by Friday 8th

November. £1 towards transport costs is always

appreciated too!

Following our visit to Studland Beach, Year 2 made these ‘ Seaside in a Jar’: could you make one in half term?

The PTA raised over £400… thank you for your support

HELP NEEDED IF YOU ARE OUTDOORSY AND PRACTICAL

Our next woodland and school grounds working party in scheduled for Sat 9th November 10:00-13:00. Please let the school office know if you can help with woodland clearance, paths, pruning or tidying. We want to overhaul the raised beds and prepare the woodland for forest schools.

What a team! – Y6 rugby stars! Wow! What can I say about these guys!? They played

out of their skin today, bearing in mind it was their first

proper match situation! They took a game or two to

warm up, but then started playing some outstanding

rugby both in attack and in defense, working their

socks off for each other.

Stand out performances for Daisy and Olive, but closely

chased by every other Year 6 player!

Team: Olive, Daisy, Ruby, Ava, OJ, Will, Wilson, Fraser,

Aiden, Freddie, Ollie and Finley.

Lots of parents there to support which made it a really

great afternoon! The RFU have deemed all tournaments

to be non-competitive, so no out and out winners

announced, we won far more games than we lost!!

After setting up two tries, Wilson managed to bag one

himself!!! Priceless moment! Definitely worthy of a

celebration worship cheer :)

Mr Heard

Well done:

PTA request Could anyone who has broken or unwanted

crayons that they would like to get rid of,

drop them into school for recycling

please? Planning to make these:

Year 2 had a great English lesson reading stories they had written to Year 3. The stories were written following a letter that the Year group had received from a story teller, who asked for their assistance. Mr Beveridge had asked her if she could come and tell stories to Year 3 - unfortunately was at a story telling convention in a far away land and therefore asked for Year 2's assistance (knowing that we had been working on writing stories and using Roald Dahl stories) The children thoroughly enjoyed reading their stories to Year 3 and they were great critiques too. The stories were based on The Enormous Crocodile with the children writing an extra trick made by the crocodile.

Eco Club Request

The children who are members of Eco Club are very excited to be involved in a project to build some new

raised flower beds and hopefully another buddy bench using ‘Eco Bricks’, which they have been making

brilliantly but we need YOUR help too!! Please if you are able - make an Eco Brick for us! What a way to fill

up those half term hours…?

Eco Bricks are plastic milk cartons which are filled with any clean food wrappers or plastic bags which can’t

be recycled. They are to be stuffed in extremely tightly so the carton becomes rigid. We have one now on

the side in the kitchen and it is amazing how much waste can fit in them which doesn’t then just go

into the normal waste bin.

Eco Club are hoping to work with the P.T.A to build and maintain the flower beds as well as many other

exciting projects to make school as caring for the environment as it is for the children!

Any completed bricks can be handed in to the office next term.

Thanks in advance for your support - the children are so passionate about saving their planet!

Eco Club – Wednesday Lunchtimes – Mrs Watson and Mrs Wooloff-Parslow

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Dates for your Diary

October

HALF TERM Mon 28th Oct-Fri 1st Nov 2019

November

Autumn 2 Mon 4th Nov - Fri 20th Dec 2019

Last day of Autumn term – Friday 20th Dec 2019

4th

5th

6th Whizzy Wednesdays breakfast club 7th

8th

SAT 9th Woodland working party 10-1

11th Remembrance – school council to war memorial for 11am

12th

13th Whizzy Wednesdays breakfast club

14th

15th

18th

19th

20th Whizzy Wednesdays breakfast club

21st

22nd

23rd

24th

25h Whizzy Wednesdays breakfast club

26th

27th

CHRISTMAS HOLS Mon 23rd Dec-Mon 6th Jan

Spring 1 Tues 7th Jan - Fri 14th Feb 2020

Mon 6th Jan 2020 – School closed for INSET

Tuesday 7th Jan 2020 – First day back for children

HALF TERM Mon 17th Feb-Fri 21st Feb 2020

Spring 2 Mon 24th Feb - Thurs 2nd April 2020

Fri 3rd April – School closed for INSET (prior to Easter holidays)

EASTER HOLS Mon 6th April-Fri 17th April 2020