5th November – 9th November Diary Monday 5th PTA posting lists for raffle donations Wednesday 7th PTA Meeting 2pm – Community Room – All welcome Thursday 8th DNA Day for Years 4, 5 & 6 Session 1 – the DNA ‘necklace’; Session2 – extracting DNA from a strawberry Otter & Fox class – cross country challenge for some children 2pm – Participating children have been informed Friday 9th Dormouse Toy workshop 20 is Plenty competition We have received some excellent entries already– thank you! A number of children have expressed an interest in designing a road sign and so we have decided to extend the deadline for the competition by 1 week. Full details at the end of this newsletter. Christmas Lunch Our Christmas lunch will be held on Friday 14th December. If your child normally has a universal infant free school meal, they will automatically receive the Christmas meal. If you would like to order the Christmas meal, please do so via the Chartwells website as normal, or pay by cash via the school office. The meals are £2.35 each. If your child would prefer a packed lunch, you are welcome to add something more festive to this on the day! Orders need to be placed via the school office by the 23rd November, or through Chartwells by the 2nd December. There will be no opportunity to order a Christmas meal after these deadlines. Christmas Cards – PTA Next week, your children will be bringing home proofs of the Christmas cards they designed and an order form. We hope you like the designs your children have done. To order your cards, mugs etc, please complete the order form and put it in an envelope with your money and then post it in the box outside the school office.
Orders must be in by 15th November please. Late orders will not be able to be accepted. The cards and other goodies will be back at school by 3 December and will be given to the children to bring home as soon as possible. Yellow - School Photograph Closing Date Tuesday 6th November Please be advised if you have not yet placed your school photograph order, the order closing date is Tuesday 6th November. Please either return your order to the school office or visit using the passwords on the proofcard. Star of the Week – (w/e - 19/10/18) Halloween Disco Thank you to the PTA for organising a fantastic disco and fair. Well done to all of those who took part in the pumpkin art contest. As you can imagine it was very difficult to choose the winners: Fox 1st Gracie K 2nd Aidan Otter 1st Izzy H 2nd Riana A Squirrel 1st Harriet 2nd George O Hedgehog 1st Isabell L 2nd Neve Dormouse 1st Lois 2nd Bea Maths Challenge Day On Tuesday 30th October, I had the pleasure of supporting some challenging maths work with George, Henry, Ethan and Isibeal. We spent the day at Heron Way Primary and covered some material that was new to the children as well as reinforcing some of the Maths they were already acquainted with. We debunked a few ‘Twitter’ challenges, played a lot of number games and investigated Tangrams. As is always the case when we take our pupils out of school, people commented on their excellent behaviour. Weekly Maths Challenge Class have written to me and asked if they could have harder Maths homework (well, some of them did!). Inspired by the above day, each week the newsletter will contain a Maths challenge. This is not going to be a compulsory activity – it’s just for fun. The challenges will be drawn from as wide a variety of sources as possible. Some will be
Friday 4th – INSET Monday 28th – Bikeability week Yr6 February Friday 15th – up for half-term Monday 25th – Children back in school March Monday 4th - Book week begins Thursday 7th – World book Day Tuesday 12th – Parent Teacher Consultation Thursday 14th – Parent Teacher Consultation April Friday 5th – Term ends at 1:30pm Tuesday 23rd – Term starts May Monday 6th – Bank Holiday Monday 13th – KS2 SATS week Monday 20th – Walk to school week Friday 24th – Break up for half-term June Sunday 2nd – Wednesday 5th - PGL Residential trip Monday 3rd – Children back in school Friday 21st – Sports Day (tbc) July Wednesday 10th – Memories assembly Thursday 11th – End of Year performance Friday 12th – INSET Tuesday 23rd – Term ends at 1:30pm