Newsletter: 7th July 2023
Posted on July 7, 2023 | By Mr Cole
Annual Reports
Annual Reports on your child’s progress this year are in book bags tonight. Please take some time to read them; they give you important information about how your child is doing and what their challenges next year will be. If you would like to meet your child’s teacher to discuss any of the comments or grades in the report, you can email them directly using the addreses below. The cover letter which should be in the envelope with your child’s report, describes the system we have used for effort and attainment gradings.
For children who have had statutory tests this term (Reception, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 6), these results will be sent out separately next week or the beginning of the week after when all results have been released to us by the Standards and Testing Agency.
If you don’t live with your child, our office staff will be sending a copy of your child’s report to you by post this evening, so you should receive your copy to the address we have on file for you, in due course.
| Miss Shorney | gshorney@villageschools.org.uk |
| Mrs Kersey | skersey@villageschools.org.uk |
| Mrs Hanger | ehanger@villageschools.org.uk |
| Miss McCann | lmccann@villageschools.org.uk |
| Miss Orchard | norchard@villageschools.org.uk |
| Mrs Phillips | kphillips@villageschools.org.uk |
| Mrs Farmer | cfarmer@villageschools.org.uk |
| Mrs Morrison | hmorrison@villageschools.org.uk |
| Mrs Parkhouse | cparkhouse@villageschools.org.uk |
| Ms Richardson | jrichardson@villageschools.org.uk |
Sports Days
Sports Days are next week! The weather is looking showery, but we are anticipating being able to run all three events.
For Buckland Brewer (Thursday 13th), you are able to come at lunchtime and share a picnic on the field with your child from 12 noon. Children who don’t have parents coming in will have lunch as normal in school and join everyone else on the field later. Please ensure your ScoPay order for school lunches reflects what you want your child to do next Thursday. Sports Day will run for the afternoon and you will be able to take your child home at the end of the proceedings.
For Parkham (Friday 14th), you are able to come onto the football field from 12:40 pm and support your child participate in the activities and races which will begin at 1pm. Following Sports Day, FOPS will be serving Cream Teas at the Allardice Hall – see poster below.
For Woolsery (Wednesday 12th), Sports Day begins as 10:30am and you are welcome to come onto the school field at any time from then onwards to support your child and watch the races. You are also welcome to share a picnic lunch with your child at lunchtime but, as for Buckland Brewer, please ensure that ScoPay reflects what your child is doing for lunch on the day. Children having school lunches will be able to take their hot dog onto the field and eat with you but we won’t be able to offer additional hot dogs for other family members. Sports Day runs through the afternoon so you can also come for the afternoon section which will begin at around 1:10pm.
For all schools, children will be doing their team challenges in their Family Groups so you will be able to follow all of your children’s activities at the same time before watching the races which will be by year group.
Please ensure your child has their correct PE kit in school for Sports Day. This includes our long-established rule to not wear jewellery, including ear rings, for PE activities. It’s much easier for your child if they leave ear rings out on the day, but if this may cause problems, please speak to your child’s teacher ahead of their Sports Day)
Polytunnel Plea
The Polytunnel at Woolsery School is enjoying its first season in production – with the promise of lots of tomatoes and melons, amongst other things, later in the summer. Louise is hoping to be able to set up a watering rota to look after things during the school holiday. If you are able to volunteer a couple of days over the break where you and your children could go in and water the plants from the water tank next to the polytunnel, we’d really appreciate it. You will also, of course, have access to the school field whilst you’re watering, so please feel free to use it as thanks for your time! (Children from all three schools carry out work in the polytunnel, so this offer is open to all families within the Village Schools Partnership)
If you can help, Louise’s email address is lgrout@villageschools.org.uk – she is hoping to be able to circulate a rota before the start of the holidays if enough people come forward.
Thanks
Business Week
Today is the culmination of the older year group’s Business Week which has encouraged the children to understand more about commerce, advertising, profit and loss (though hopefully not too much of the loss!) Thank you in advance if you’re coming in to school this afternoon to support the children’s efforts – we all really appreciate it.
Year 5 Taster Day at GTS
We’ve received this message to pass on to parents who have children booked onto the Great Torrington School taster day next Monday…
GTS Year 5 Day – Monday 10th July
We are very much looking forward to welcoming you and your children to our Year 5 day on Monday 10th July.
As advertised you are welcome to return to school at 2.30pm to watch the afternoon’s PE activities.
However, despite us ordering sunshine, it seems there may be a chance of inclement weather.
Should this happen the PE activities will not be observable, in which case we request you collect your child at 3pm.
Miniature Gardens
Congraulations to all of the children who have won prizes in the Merry Harriers Garden Centre miniature garden competition this year. Even if you didn’t get around to submitting your child’s entry, please could you return the black tray to your school next week so that we can run the compeition again next year? Many thanks.
We have a whole raft of summer holiday activity offers coming through to pass onto parents now – please browse through these amazing opportunities – there is a huge range of experiences, some free; some fee-based…
Holiday Tennis Clubs
This summer, ARC are offering a brand new Multi Sport Holiday Camp. This will be running Monday-Friday every week of the school holidays. Our Camp will run 9am-4pm, with a late pick up option 4pm-6pm. There will be a variety of sports and games played throughout the day. We can’t wait to see lots of you getting active during the holidays. To book, please visit www.atlanticracquetcentre.co.u
Holiday Cricket Club (with Mr Marks!)
Holsworthy Cricket Club Youth Academy will be delivering Summer Holiday Softball Cricket Camps on every Tuesdays in August (1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th)
9am-3pm
£15 per day per child or £60 for all 5 days
Sign up online @ https://docs.google.
Well done to everyone who was presented with a Headteacher’s Award this week…
Orleigh: Mylee (bee)- for being really kind and encouraging to other children; Leo P (tortoise)- for carrying on trying to complete his sea monster sculpture even when it got difficult and finding new ways to solve the problem and attach the parts
Tythecott: George (Cat) – Asking brilliant enquiry questions during our Church visit this week; Ada (Owl) – Well done for using your previous knowledge of alliteration in your descriptive writing, making it more interesting to read.
Gorwood: Molly (tortoise) – for showing incredible resilience and determination in forest schools and not giving up when using the fire starting kit; Aoife (dolphin) – for diving into her learning about time in maths with great determination
Foxdown: Darcey (bee) – Darcey worked together with her friends and all the adults to make our trip to Rosemoor a wonderful day out!; Myles (tortoise) – Myles worked hard to perfect his cricket skills while at the cricket festival.
Melbury: Oli (dolphin) – Oli has dived into our rivers topic and enjoyed learning the different terminology, he also created a detailed and accurate picture of a river; Tyler (tortoise) – Tyler has shown resilience when creating a 3d sculpture, he created a number of different free standing shapes. Great work Tyler
Goldworthy: Xavi and Ariana (bees) for working well together in your business team to create posters, a price list and an advert to sell cookies at the Business Week event.
Sunflowers: Ethan (cat) – for being inquisitive and asking lots of questions; Ella (dolphin) – for diving into her learning and trying really hard during phonics
Cranford:
Alminstone:
Ashmansworthy: Alfie (dolphin) – for his enthusiastic approach towards Business Week and thinking carefully about his budget; Sidney (dolphin) – for his enthusiastic approach towards Business Week and being extremely well-organised
| Monday |
KS2 visit to Taunton (Cricket: Somerset Vs Hampshire) -all day Great Torrington School Year 5 day |
| Tuesday | Mr Cole out all day |
| Wednesday | Woolsery Sports Day from 10:30am |
| Thursday | Buckland Brewer Sports Day from 1pm |
| Friday | Parkham Sports Day from 1pm |
Mr Cole’s planned schedule
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| Monday | afternoon | morning | morning |
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| Wednesday | morning | afternoon | |
| Thursday | all day | ||
| Friday | all day |
With best wishes,
Matt Cole, Headteacher