HEADTEACHER’S WEEKLY NEWS
Week ending: Friday 27th March 2015
Y6 MUSIC FESTIVAL/MRS VISE’S MAGIC MOMENT
I would like to say a big thank you to the Y6 children and Miss Pottrill for a wonderful evening at the
Rhodes Centre on Thursday night. It certainly was a VERY magical moment!! Our school performed in
the Y6 Music Festival alongside children from Mandeville, Reedings and High Wych – the theme for this
year was World Peace. During the first half of the performance each school presented their own item
relating to peace aswell as singing some songs all together. The thirteen children representing
Spellbrook sang “When Children rule the World” from “Whistle down the Wind”. Not only was their
singing amazing; but to introduce it three of them – Brooke, Samuel L, and Max read their speeches
about what they would do if they were in charge of the world. I know I am biased, but I have to say, the
standard of our performance was undoubtedly the highlight of the evening!! For the second half of the
evening the children from all four schools performed “Missing Peace” – a cantata written especially for
the music festival and the words were very thought provoking and reflected the subject of peace and
harmony from the children’s point of view. As I said in my closing speech at the end of the evening the
standard of singing and the children’s behaviour and enthusiasm from all four schools was a credit to the
hard work of the staff involved. Thank you again to Miss Pottrill.
SCHOOL DINNERS
To make life as easy as possible for Ms Blackham, our new cook manager, please return the letter that
asks you to indicate your child’s dinner pattern to the school office by the end of this term. We are finding
it increasingly difficult to ensure the right number of school dinners are being cooked and keep within
budgets due to parents chopping and changing their child’s meal arrangements without prior notice.
GYMNASTICS
Children from Emerald and Sapphire represented the school at a Sports Partnership gymnastics event
this week. The KS2 team finished 4th and the KS1 team finished 5th with everyone performing really well.
A special mention to Amber in Y4 who got the highest score of the morning!! Well done to all our
gymnasts.
CROSS COUNTRY
Children from Y1 and Y2 took part in a cross country race at Leventhorpe on Wednesday. Thank you to
all the parents who turned out to watch your children running. Again everyone tried really hard – but a
special well done to Lenny & Ella in Y2 and Ronnie & Lauren in Y1.
FOOTBALL
Well done to our football team – they had their first victory this week – beating Mandeville 3-2. Well done
to Harry for scoring a hat trick!! Let’s maintain our success in the final match after Easter!!
KS1 MATHS
On Wednesday Mrs Hammond organised a maths challenge for Y2 children from four schools. She
invited pupils from Albury, Furneux Pelham and Much Hadham to work on activities around place value.
Ella and Jack represented Spellbrook and enjoyed working with the children from other schools.
TRAINEE TEACHERS
Next week will be Miss Lourenco’s last week with us – she will be going back to Windhill21 Primary
School after Easter. Miss Hunter will be coming back to Sapphire Class for the summer term. Mr
Churchill, a PGCE student from Cambridge University, will be working with Emerald Class and Mrs
Hammond after Easter.
After School Clubs:
STAR OF THE WEEK – 27TH MARCH
Please be reminded that after school finished
RUBY CLASS
LEAH
on Friday 27 March. (With the exception of Dance
SAPPHIRE CLASS
ISLA
with Mrs Knights, which continues into week
beginning 30 March)
EMERALD CLASS
JANKO
DIAMOND CLASS
SAMUEL L
Clubs will start again week beginning Monday
MRS VISE’S
Y6
27 April. Booking forms will be available from
Tuesday 21 April.
Gill Vise, Headteacher