Newsletter: 10th February 2023
Posted on February 10, 2023 | By Mr Cole
Disasters Emergency Committee Appeal
I am sure you’ve been as shocked as we have to see the terrible effects and loss of life in Turkey and Syria following the recent series of earthquakes.
Charity Voice teams in each school would like to do something to help, which is really commendable and shows the compassion our children have for others.
So that we can run an event quickly and get the money to the DEC as soon as possible, all three schools will be holding a Go Casual For The Quake day on the first Friday after Half Term. We will be accepting any donations for wearing non-school uniform on the day, with a minimum contribution of £1. We are also happy to accept donations from the wider community at this time – everything we raise will go to the Disasters Emergency Committee. Thank you for your support.
More Cross Country Success!
A huge well done to ouor group of children who are continuing to take part int he Gliddon and Squire Cross Country series this season. Last weekend’s meet was at Coxleigh Barton – here are the results for Village Schools Partnership runners…
Year 4 girls
Molly 8th, Bella 14th and Bronte 15th
Year 4 boys
Henry 9th
Year 5 Boys
Monti 26th
Year 6 Girls
Anise 30th
Safer Internet Day
Well done to the six children from our Partnership who confidently ran whole-school assemblies this week on internet safety: this was the culmination of work they had carried out at St Mary’s on the Atlantic Coast Co-operative Trust’s workshop day last week.
The children have all been learning more about Internet Safety this week and to match this, Scomis, our Schools internet support provider, have produced the following useful Newsletter for parents… OLSNewsletterparentsFeb2023-1e88f767
World Book Day
World Book Day comes around very soon after half term! As usual, the children will receive a voucher which can be spent in book shops, usually on the offical World Book Day publications.
This year we will not be asking children to dress up on world book day so please don’t go to the expense of buying things to dress your child in. However we will be running a creative competition which we think the children will thoroughly enjoy
Potatoes At The Ready!
Yes, you read that right. This year, we will be holding a competition in each school to bring in the best BOOK CHARACTER potato creation. As you can see from the photos below, we’re setting our expectations pretty high and inviting children to turn a simple RAW potato (hopefully a nice big one!) into a character from a book they have enjoyed. The more imaginative the better but please limit your child’s entries to a SINGLE potato – this can be on its own or on a small stand or scene – see the examples below. It should be clearly labelled with your child’s name and the character they are portraying. These will be on display in school for as long as the potatoes stay in reasonable shape.
There will be prizes in each school for the top three entries in KS1/EYFS and in KS2. Entries should be brought in on World Book Day, 2nd March and not before, please.
Partnership Cross Country Morning
On Wednesday 15th March we will be doing a Family Group Cross Country Competition. All three schools will compete on Woolsery Primary School field. The event will begin at approximately 10am starting with the year 6 race and finish around 11:15am-11:30am. All parents are welcome to come and support and to take part in the final fun race.
Preschool Sessions
From the start of the Summer Term (17th April 2023) our charges for non-funded hours in our three Preschool settings will rise to £5 per hour. This is to help offset increased running costs but leaves us very competitive compared with other local providers. Please bear this cost increase in mind when the time comes to book your child’s sessions for the Summer Term.
Well done to all of the chidlren who have received a Headteacher’s Award at this half way point through the school year, recognising their positive learning behaviours which are represented by our six Learning Animals:
Orleigh: Leo P (Tortoise)– for being resilient and trying very hard to complete his Maths independently; Maddie (dolphin)– diving into her phonics and enjoying her reading
Tythecott: Leah (tortoise) – Excellent perseverance this week in Maths, great work!; Lily (tortoise) – Great resilience when trying to pronounce French phrases.
Gorwood: Amy (dolphin) – for diving into her maths learning this week about perimeter; Monti (owl) – for showing a keen interest in his geography learning and using what he has learnt
Foxdown: Verity (spider) – Verity is keen to spot the tricky words she has been learning all around the classroom, for example spotting them at story time!; Harvey (cat) – Harvey was curious to find out more about earthquakes after the events in Turkey and used his Explore Time to draw Turkey before and after the earthquake.
Melbury: Jaxon (Bee) – Jaxon worked well with others in his PE group, encouraging and supporting them. Great work Jaxon; Emmie – (Tortoise) – Emmie has shown resilience this half term in Maths even when questions have been tricky. Well done Emmie
Goldworthy: Roman (owl) – for showing maturity towards his learning; working through some difficult SATs questions and writing a well-thought out description of a lighthouse on a stormy night; Elodie (spider) – making links and connections with previous learning and using what she knows to help her calculate some difficult mathematics word problems
Sunflowers: Lola for amazing participation during phonics time; Albert for amazing participation during maths time.
Cranford: Noah (bee) – for always being so helpful and thinking ahead when jobs need doing; Riley (owl) – for making an amazing camera and adapting it to make it even better. Thank you for inspiring others.
Burscott: Robyn (bee) – working as a team with her fellow play leaders – always helping others and making sure the job gets done; Hugo (spider) – making links and connections in this week’s maths work on multiplication
Stroxworthy: Logan (dolphin) – for diving into his learning when being challenged by his work with perimeter in maths; Jenson (dolphin) – for diving into his learning and writing superb sentences to describe his likes and dislikes about our new book in English.
Alminstone: Evie (tortoise) – for her hardworking attitude towards learning. She is always ready to listen to advice to improve in every area of the curriculum – so impressive, Evie!; Arthur (dolphin) – for actively making decisions about his learning environment and the best places he can focus – this has made a huge difference to his Maths learning. Well done, Arthur!
Ashmansworthy: Isla (dolphin) – for working extremely hard to create an interesting and informative biography; Harry (tortoise) – for perseverance and participation in maths lessons, especially with difficult decimals
(Week commencing 20th February 2023)
| Monday |
Parent/Teacher Meetings this week FOPPS Meeting 1pm Governing Board Meeting 6pm, Woolsery |
| Tuesday |
Stroxworthy Class Forest School Burscott Class Forest School Pancake Day activities at Parkham (FOPPS) |
| Wednesday |
Mrs Morrison out all day (Music subject leader time) Tythecott Class Forest School Melbury Class Forest School |
| Thursday |
Mr Cole out (am) Gorwood Class Swimming (pm) |
| Friday |
Go Casual for the Quake Day – all schools Ashmansworthy Class Swimming (am) Tythecott Class: China Day |
Mr Cole’s planned schedule
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| Monday | All Day | ||
| Tuesday | All Day | ||
| Wednesday | All Day | ||
| Thursday | Afternoon | ||
| Friday | Morning | Afternoon | Afternoon |
Happy Half Term!
So, we’re now half way through the school year! Whatever you’re doing next week have a wonderful break from school, re-charge those batteries and we look forward to seeing everyone back in school on Monday 20th February!
with best wishes,
Mr Cole