Summer Term 12/6/15
Dear Parents,
Proud to be Purple
Jigsaw Award
YR Sophie Murray
Y1 Will Sheahan
Y2 Joshua Mabbett
Y3 Bea Power
Y4 Charlie Smith
Y5 Aniqa Akhlter
Y6 Lewis Wright
Charlie Layton-Smith
Jamie Liley
Grace McCorquodale
Isobelle Hume
Ben Robinson
Lacey-Mae Williams
Katie McDougall
Attendance Award
Huge congratulations to the children in Reception and Y2. Both classes achieved 100% attendance last week, we are very
proud of all of you.
High School Musical
Rehearsals are going well and the children are looking forward to performing next Thursday evening at The Bacon Theatre. If
you are able to come along and support, that would be wonderful. Tickets are available from the school office.
CAST MEMBERS – please arrive in costume at the rehearsal tomorrow (2-5pm) and bring a drink and a snack.
Book Fair
We will have a book fair in school all of next week; please feel free to come in to the main school entrance at the end of the
school day to have a browse with your child.
Summer Fete
Only just over a week to go until the summer fete. A reminder from last week’s newsletter:
 On Friday 19th June we will hold a dress down day where children can come to school in their own clothes in
exchange for bringing in a gift for the tombola. This could be a tin of fruit, bottle of wine, box of chocolates etc.
 GPA will be seeking donations of the following items for their stalls (to be brought into school on Friday 19 th June,
apart from cakes):
o Plants
o Cakes – these can be brought to school during the afternoon of Saturday 20 th June or on the morning of the
fete itself.
o Books
o Clean, soft toys
 We are very grateful to those people who have already identified that they are able to help, but are always on the lookout for more willing helpers – please let the school office know if you are able to help out in any way (even if it is only
for part of the time).
Junior Chef
We wish Suzanne Rogers all the best as she takes part in the final of Junior Chef at The Food and Drink Festival this afternoon.
Suzanne is being supported by her family and friends as well as Mrs Kydd and Mrs Moseley.
Football match
We wish our football team luck in their football match tomorrow morning and looking forward to hearing the match analysis
on Monday! Thank you to Mrs Bennett and Mr Stalley for organising this.
School Uniform
To ensure new uniform is here before the end of term please submit orders with payment to the school office by Monday 22nd
June. Any orders received after that date may not arrive until we return in September.
Summer Term 12/6/15
Inter-school Athletics
Congratulations to all the children who took part in the Severn Shield Field Events as part of the inter-school athletics
competition last Thursday. The representatives from Year 5 and 6 represented the school beautifully and participated
enthusiastically. Special congratulations to Katie Peters-Smith who came 6th in the long jump.
School Kitchen and future school meals
Work on our new kitchen is about to commence. This is obviously very exciting for the school. A few notes are below relating
to this development:
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The school car park will be halved in size during the build. With the exception of any disabled users, parents should
not be using the car park (even for pick up from after school club) so this should not affect you.
As part of the build, the steps down to the main school entrance will be replaced with a ramp.
As part of the build, the path around to the side/rear of the school will be widened.
As part of the build, the external lighting to the side/rear of the school will be updated.
Edwards and Ward currently hold the County Contract for school meals. This will cease at the end of the academic
year. The County Contract has now been won by a company called Caterlink.
Caterlink will be responsible for cooking our school meals on site, they will only be cooking for our school.
New menus will come out to parents as soon as they become available.
Space will be reduced within the hall during the build time so please be aware of this if you are attending an event.
School Decoration
Following on from the improved look of the newly painted KS1 corridor and toilets, there is more decoration work planned
during the summer holidays. During this time, the following areas will be painted – the KS2 corridor, all classrooms, KS1
cloakroom and KS2 toilets. We look forward to seeing our gleaming school in September!
News from the Lido
The Pied Piper Junior Aquathlon on Saturday 11th July 2015 is a fun sporting challenge designed for children aged 8-16 years,
which entails a swim in the heated main pool at the lido followed by a run around Sandford Park, with various distances
according to age categories. The link to this event is : http://www.sandfordparkslido.org.uk/e12-pied-piper-junioraquathlon.html
Kind regards, Mrs Nikki Hill (Headteacher)
Term 6
21/6/15 Summer Fete 11.30-2.30
23/6/15 Y6 residential
24/6/15 Governors (resources)
26/6/15 RSPCA Van Visit
1/7/15 Reception play session 1
1/7/15 Bournside liaison day
1/7/15 Music evening 6pm
2/7/15 Reception play session 2
2/7/15 Bournside liaison day
3/7/15 Athletics – Prince of Wales Stadium
3/7/15 Y4 slumber party
6/7/15 Reception parent conferences
7/7/15 Reception parent conferences
8/7/15 Meet the teacher 4.45pm
8/7/15 Science Day 1
9/7/15 Science Day 2 (Minibeast roadshow)
9/7/15 FGB
10/7/15 Reports to parents
10/7/15 Achievement dinner
11/7/15 Party in the Park
13/7/15 9.15am Merit assembly
17/7/15 Leavers assembly
17/7/15 2pm School finishes