Week ending 17 March 2017
MEERKAT Champion of the Week
We are delighted to share the names of our "MEERKAT Champion of the Week" award in each class last week as follows;
Reception – Imogen H
Class 1 – Maya J
Class 2 – Thomas W
Class 3 – Beau B
Well done to you all!
Cycling Safety Training
Will P has taken the final place on the cycle safety training course, which means that the course is now fully booked. Thank you all for your interest.
Communications
In order to improve communication links between school and parents we thought that it might be useful to clarify the ways we communicate in case not all parents are aware of all of the different ways there are to access information. We hope that you will find this useful:
| School Newsletter | E-mailed out on a weekly basis to parents. Please let us know if you are not receiving this | Uploaded to the school website using this link http://stadhamptonprimaryschool.blogspot.co.uk/ Path to follow on the website: Parents/Newsletter Link |
| School Meals Menu | Currently awaiting hard copies of the menu from Food & More. There is also a copy of the menu on display outside the school office | Uploaded to the school website. Path to follow on the website Parents/School Meals |
| Recent Letters | Hard copies of letters are sent home via book bags. Some classes have a ‘spare copies drawer’ where they put additional copies of letters and home work | Uploaded to the school website. Path to follow is Parents/Recent Letters |
| After School Clubs | Hard copies of letters are sent home via book bags. | Uploaded to the school website as a reference point including a list of all the dates and times of all After School Clubs. Path to follow is Parents/After School Clubs |
| School Calendar | We have made significant improvements to this section of the website during the last week or so. Path to follow is Parents/Calendar · The calendar is now colour-coded so that the activities for each class stand out more. · When you click on the item further information and detail about the item now appears. · Parents are now able to download the school calendars events into their personal calendar on their computer, tablet or phone. Instructions are attached to this Newsletter about Calendar Syncing for Parents. Mrs Ellis has tested this for us and reports that it was easy to do and works well!! | |
Chess Resource
Mr Goddard, who leads our Chess Club, would like to share this resource with other parents as it has some very useful basic training that would suit our level of children very well. This can be accessed at https://en.lichess.org/
Red Nose Day/Comic Relief on Friday 24 March
We would like to support Comic Relief by inviting children to come to school wearing their school uniform (or at least the top part of it!) “back to front” on Friday 24thMarch. They can also wear a Red Nose or other red Comic Relief “accessory” during the day and we suggest £1 donation per child – all of which will go to Comic Relief. We appreciate that we have had two very successful “dressing-up” days for charity recently and that having a third one so soon could develop into “dressing-up fatigue”!
PTA News
Easter Fayre – Saturday 1 April
DONATIONS PLEASE – if parents are able to donate any Easter chocolate or sweets as prizes at the Easter Fayre, these would be gratefully received in the PTA box in the hall.
We will also need clean recycling items for the junk modelling – cardboard boxes, egg boxes, clean milk containers, kitchen rolls etc. Please start to collect anything which you think may be useful.
HELPERS WANTED –if anyone can spare half an hour to help with a stall on the day, then please let Melanie Gravett know.
RAFFLE TICKETS- You should now have received raffle tickets via bookbags, so please look out for these and return to the office as soon as possible.
COMPETITIONS -we are also planning to have several Easter themed competitions for the children to be judged on the day of the Fayre. If your children would like to enter any of the competitions, they will need to bring their entries to the hall on 1 April by 2.15pm, or alternatively if they are not able to come on the day itself, by the end of the school day on Friday 31 March.
The competitions are as follows and all cost £1 to enter or £3 to enter all five.
Easter Cupcake and Biscuits – any Easter themed cupcakes and biscuits (please note all entries will go to the cake stall for sale after judging).
Easter Shoebox – decorate a shoebox with an Easter theme
Decorate an umbrella – decorate an umbrella with a spring theme
Decorate a vegetable – decorate a vegetable in any way you like
Junk Modelling – make a model from junk. Children can do this in advance or will be able to do this on the day during the Fayre.
Bags2School Clothes Recycling – Friday 5 May
Our next Bags2School recycling date is Friday 5 May, so please bear that in mind if you are having a clear out in the next few weeks or over the Easter holidays. For those who don’t know, we will receive cash from Bags2School based on the total weight of the bags collected, so the more we collect, the more we raise.
Bags2School collection bags will be in bookbags shortly, but you are able to use normal black bin bags if you are having a clear out before then. Please fill your Bags2School bag (or a normal bin bag) with any unwanted items from the list below:
Men’s, Ladies and Children’s clothing
Paired shoes (tied together or elastic band around)
Handbags/Hats/Bags/Scarves and ties/Socks/Belts
Jewellery
Lingerie
Soft toys
Household linen / Curtains/Towels
Bedding (bed sheets, pillow cases and duvet covers)
Children’s Bingo Evening – Friday 19 May
We will be holding a children’s bingo evening on Friday 19 May. More details to follow soon.
Easyfundraising
Easyfundraising.org.uk provides a FREE service where you can shop with your favourite online stores and at no extra cost raise funds for the PTA. Simply access your chosen websites by using the links from the Easyfundraising.org.uk site or use the ‘Find and Remind’ toolbar on the website. There are over 3,000 retailers and online sites registered with Easyfundraising and each purchase you make will generate a cashback donation to the PTA.
All you need to do is register at Easyfundraising.org.uk.
It is very easy, you only need to register once, it costs you nothing and raises money for the PTA. Please register on the site – it only takes a few minutes and really does raise money for the PTA just by shopping online. If you need any help with registering, please ask any member of the PTA committee.
Our next meeting is on Tuesday 2 May, The Crown 8pm. Please join us if you can.
Cake Club
Congratulations to Alana Hyde and family who were the lucky winners of the Cake Club draw last Friday! Thank you to Jane Marshall for providing the lovely cake. Leanne Kenny has kindly volunteered a cake for Friday 17 March and Rowena Dobson is next on the rota for 24 March.
Cake Club has been well supported this year and your donations and baking have helped to raise valuable extra funds for the school and our children. As the school year progresses, we have some gaps in the rota that we need to fill. Thank you so much to those of you who have volunteered to bake or provide a cake for the children’s weekly draw for the second time! If you would be willing to provide a cake, or a second cake before the end of the school year, please let me know or get in touch via the PTA FB page or Mrs Hopkins in the school office.
Diary Dates:
| Monday 20 March | Work Viewing Evening – 3:15pm to 6pm |
| Thursday 23 March | Year 6 Forest School |
| Friday 24 March | Comic Relief/Red Nose Day |
| Thursday 30 March | Year 6 Forest School |
| Saturday 1 April | PTA Easter Fayre (pm) |
| Monday 3 April | Governing Body meeting |
| Thursday 6 April | End of term assembly at 9.05am School finishes at 1.30pm for the Easter Holiday |
| Friday 7 April | INSET Day for teaching staff only |
| Monday 24 April | Return to school for the start of Term 3 |
LITTLE BEARS NEWS:
Next week's books are called ‘Dinosaurs Galore’ and ‘Dinosaurs Love Underpants.’ We look forward to looking at the rhyming patterns in the books as well as designing our own underpants!
Little Bears Ladies Supper Night
Friday 17 March, 7.30pm
Stadhampton Church Hall
Selection of curries and desserts. £12.00, contact Debbie on 07854 508417 to book your place.
Please bring your own drinks.
Advance Notice of an Easter Sports Club:
Michael Hopkins, who is well-known to the school as a PE teacher will be leading an Easter Sports Course on Monday 10, Tuesday 11 and Wednesday 12 April at Stadhampton Primary School. The course runs from 9-3pm each day and is open to all pupils (not necessarily just Stadhampton School) aged 4-11. The cost is £10 for the day and bookings can be made directly by e-mailing m.hopkins07@hotmail.com or via Mrs Hopkins in the school office. Community News:
- Cross Country Running Event at RAF Benson flyer on Saturday 25 March
- Safari Supper on Saturday 20 May
Lambing Weekends 25th-26th March and 1st-2nd April, 11am-4pm each day
Come and join Earth Trust for some baa-rilliant farmyard fun at our annual Lambing Weekends! You’ll have the opportunity to meet the new spring arrivals - lambs, piglets and goats – and try bale climbing, tractor and trailer rides (weather permitting), a sheep hunt and quiz, craft activities and more! Refreshments will be available from Poem Tree Café and a BBQ. It’s £4 per child, £6 per adult and £16 for a family of four and there’s a discount for online tickets; please visit http://www.earthtrust.org.uk/explore/lambingweekendsfor further details. We look forward to seeing ewe you there!
Earth Trust, Little Wittenham, OX14 4QZ
MEERKAT Champion of the Week
We are delighted to share the names of our "MEERKAT Champion of the Week" award in each class last week as follows;
Reception – Imogen H
Class 1 – Maya J
Class 2 – Thomas W
Class 3 – Beau B
Well done to you all!
Cycling Safety Training
Will P has taken the final place on the cycle safety training course, which means that the course is now fully booked. Thank you all for your interest.
Communications
In order to improve communication links between school and parents we thought that it might be useful to clarify the ways we communicate in case not all parents are aware of all of the different ways there are to access information. We hope that you will find this useful:
| School Newsletter | E-mailed out on a weekly basis to parents. Please let us know if you are not receiving this | Uploaded to the school website using this link http://stadhamptonprimaryschool.blogspot.co.uk/ Path to follow on the website: Parents/Newsletter Link |
| School Meals Menu | Currently awaiting hard copies of the menu from Food & More. There is also a copy of the menu on display outside the school office | Uploaded to the school website. Path to follow on the website Parents/School Meals |
| Recent Letters | Hard copies of letters are sent home via book bags. Some classes have a ‘spare copies drawer’ where they put additional copies of letters and home work | Uploaded to the school website. Path to follow is Parents/Recent Letters |
| After School Clubs | Hard copies of letters are sent home via book bags. | Uploaded to the school website as a reference point including a list of all the dates and times of all After School Clubs. Path to follow is Parents/After School Clubs |
| School Calendar | We have made significant improvements to this section of the website during the last week or so. Path to follow is Parents/Calendar · The calendar is now colour-coded so that the activities for each class stand out more. · When you click on the item further information and detail about the item now appears. · Parents are now able to download the school calendars events into their personal calendar on their computer, tablet or phone. Instructions are attached to this Newsletter about Calendar Syncing for Parents. Mrs Ellis has tested this for us and reports that it was easy to do and works well!! | |
Chess Resource
Mr Goddard, who leads our Chess Club, would like to share this resource with other parents as it has some very useful basic training that would suit our level of children very well. This can be accessed at https://en.lichess.org/
Red Nose Day/Comic Relief on Friday 24 March
We would like to support Comic Relief by inviting children to come to school wearing their school uniform (or at least the top part of it!) “back to front” on Friday 24thMarch. They can also wear a Red Nose or other red Comic Relief “accessory” during the day and we suggest £1 donation per child – all of which will go to Comic Relief. We appreciate that we have had two very successful “dressing-up” days for charity recently and that having a third one so soon could develop into “dressing-up fatigue”!
PTA News
Easter Fayre – Saturday 1 April
DONATIONS PLEASE – if parents are able to donate any Easter chocolate or sweets as prizes at the Easter Fayre, these would be gratefully received in the PTA box in the hall.
We will also need clean recycling items for the junk modelling – cardboard boxes, egg boxes, clean milk containers, kitchen rolls etc. Please start to collect anything which you think may be useful.
HELPERS WANTED –if anyone can spare half an hour to help with a stall on the day, then please let Melanie Gravett know.
RAFFLE TICKETS- You should now have received raffle tickets via bookbags, so please look out for these and return to the office as soon as possible.
COMPETITIONS -we are also planning to have several Easter themed competitions for the children to be judged on the day of the Fayre. If your children would like to enter any of the competitions, they will need to bring their entries to the hall on 1 April by 2.15pm, or alternatively if they are not able to come on the day itself, by the end of the school day on Friday 31 March.
The competitions are as follows and all cost £1 to enter or £3 to enter all five.
Easter Cupcake and Biscuits – any Easter themed cupcakes and biscuits (please note all entries will go to the cake stall for sale after judging).
Easter Shoebox – decorate a shoebox with an Easter theme
Decorate an umbrella – decorate an umbrella with a spring theme
Decorate a vegetable – decorate a vegetable in any way you like
Junk Modelling – make a model from junk. Children can do this in advance or will be able to do this on the day during the Fayre.
Bags2School Clothes Recycling – Friday 5 May
Our next Bags2School recycling date is Friday 5 May, so please bear that in mind if you are having a clear out in the next few weeks or over the Easter holidays. For those who don’t know, we will receive cash from Bags2School based on the total weight of the bags collected, so the more we collect, the more we raise.
Bags2School collection bags will be in bookbags shortly, but you are able to use normal black bin bags if you are having a clear out before then. Please fill your Bags2School bag (or a normal bin bag) with any unwanted items from the list below:
Men’s, Ladies and Children’s clothing
Paired shoes (tied together or elastic band around)
Handbags/Hats/Bags/Scarves and ties/Socks/Belts
Jewellery
Lingerie
Soft toys
Household linen / Curtains/Towels
Bedding (bed sheets, pillow cases and duvet covers)
Children’s Bingo Evening – Friday 19 May
We will be holding a children’s bingo evening on Friday 19 May. More details to follow soon.
Easyfundraising
Easyfundraising.org.uk provides a FREE service where you can shop with your favourite online stores and at no extra cost raise funds for the PTA. Simply access your chosen websites by using the links from the Easyfundraising.org.uk site or use the ‘Find and Remind’ toolbar on the website. There are over 3,000 retailers and online sites registered with Easyfundraising and each purchase you make will generate a cashback donation to the PTA.
All you need to do is register at Easyfundraising.org.uk.
It is very easy, you only need to register once, it costs you nothing and raises money for the PTA. Please register on the site – it only takes a few minutes and really does raise money for the PTA just by shopping online. If you need any help with registering, please ask any member of the PTA committee.
Our next meeting is on Tuesday 2 May, The Crown 8pm. Please join us if you can.
Cake Club
Congratulations to Alana Hyde and family who were the lucky winners of the Cake Club draw last Friday! Thank you to Jane Marshall for providing the lovely cake. Leanne Kenny has kindly volunteered a cake for Friday 17 March and Rowena Dobson is next on the rota for 24 March.
Cake Club has been well supported this year and your donations and baking have helped to raise valuable extra funds for the school and our children. As the school year progresses, we have some gaps in the rota that we need to fill. Thank you so much to those of you who have volunteered to bake or provide a cake for the children’s weekly draw for the second time! If you would be willing to provide a cake, or a second cake before the end of the school year, please let me know or get in touch via the PTA FB page or Mrs Hopkins in the school office.
Diary Dates:
| Monday 20 March | Work Viewing Evening – 3:15pm to 6pm |
| Thursday 23 March | Year 6 Forest School |
| Friday 24 March | Comic Relief/Red Nose Day |
| Thursday 30 March | Year 6 Forest School |
| Saturday 1 April | PTA Easter Fayre (pm) |
| Monday 3 April | Governing Body meeting |
| Thursday 6 April | End of term assembly at 9.05am School finishes at 1.30pm for the Easter Holiday |
| Friday 7 April | INSET Day for teaching staff only |
| Monday 24 April | Return to school for the start of Term 3 |
LITTLE BEARS NEWS:
Next week's books are called ‘Dinosaurs Galore’ and ‘Dinosaurs Love Underpants.’ We look forward to looking at the rhyming patterns in the books as well as designing our own underpants!
Little Bears Ladies Supper Night
Friday 17 March, 7.30pm
Stadhampton Church Hall
Selection of curries and desserts. £12.00, contact Debbie on 07854 508417 to book your place.
Please bring your own drinks.
Advance Notice of an Easter Sports Club:
Michael Hopkins, who is well-known to the school as a PE teacher will be leading an Easter Sports Course on Monday 10, Tuesday 11 and Wednesday 12 April at Stadhampton Primary School. The course runs from 9-3pm each day and is open to all pupils (not necessarily just Stadhampton School) aged 4-11. The cost is £10 for the day and bookings can be made directly by e-mailing m.hopkins07@hotmail.com or via Mrs Hopkins in the school office. Community News:
- Cross Country Running Event at RAF Benson flyer on Saturday 25 March
- Safari Supper on Saturday 20 May
Lambing Weekends 25th-26th March and 1st-2nd April, 11am-4pm each day
Come and join Earth Trust for some baa-rilliant farmyard fun at our annual Lambing Weekends! You’ll have the opportunity to meet the new spring arrivals - lambs, piglets and goats – and try bale climbing, tractor and trailer rides (weather permitting), a sheep hunt and quiz, craft activities and more! Refreshments will be available from Poem Tree Café and a BBQ. It’s £4 per child, £6 per adult and £16 for a family of four and there’s a discount for online tickets; please visit http://www.earthtrust.org.uk/explore/lambingweekendsfor further details. We look forward to seeing ewe you there!
Earth Trust, Little Wittenham, OX14 4QZ
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