Knights Templar Church School
Newsletter No. 12
30th January 2015
www.knightstemplarfirst.co.uk
email:office@knightstemplar.somerset.sch.uk
Dates for your diary
February
2nd
Monday
~ family reading for Early Years 3pm; maths games for Y3 & 4s parents 3.15pm
th
Thursday 5 ~ 3.15 maths games exchange for Early Years, Ash, Maple and Silver Birch
~ Indoor football for Year 4s
Friday 6th ~ Bible Day; please join us for the final assembly at 2.50pm
~ Indoor football tournament for Year 4s starting at 4pm
Monday 9th ~ start of creativity week focussing on IT
~ family reading for Early Years at 3pm; maths games for Y3 & 4s parents at
3.15pm
th
Tuesday 10 ~ E-safety day with a special assembly by our digital leaders at 2.45pm
Thursday 12th ~ 3.15 maths games exchange for Early Years, Ash, Maple and Silver Birch
~ 4pm to 5.30pm Jimjam Jamboree; a highlight of the year for story telling
and hot chocolate delights!
Friday 13th ~ 2.15pm: parents and carers invited in to share the IT and e-safety work.
HALF TERM from Monday 16th to Friday 20th February
Monday 23rd ~ family reading for Early Years at 3pm; maths games for Y3 & 4s parents
3.15pm
Thursday 26th ~ 3.15 maths games exchange for Early Years Ash, Maple and Silver Birch
~ Indoor football starts for Year 3s
~ PTFA meeting at 3.45
Friday 27th ~ Celebration Assembly for Beech and Maple classes starting at 2.40pm
March
Monday 2nd ~ Y2s extended parents meetings starting at 1.15pm
~ family reading for Early Years at 3pm; maths games for Y3 &4s at 3.15pm.
Tuesday 3rd ~ Parents meetings from 4pm to 6pm
Wednesday 4th ~ Parents meetings all day for Year 2s; other classes from 4pm to 6pm
Thursday 5th ~ 3.15 maths games exchange for Sycamore, Willow, Ash, Maple, Silver Birch
~ Indoor football for Year 3s
Friday 6th ~ Celebration Assembly for Silver Birch and Cherry classes starting at 2.40pm
Monday 9th ~ family reading for Early Years at 3pm; maths games for Year 3 & 4 at 3.15pm
Thursday 12th ~ 3.15 maths games exchange for Sycamore, Willow, Ash, Maple,Silver Birch
~ Indoor football for Year 3s
Friday 13th ~ Comic Relief day
~ Secret Room for Mothers’ Day gifts
~ Celebration Assembly for Ash and Oak starting at 2.40pm
Monday 16th ~ family reading for Early Years 3pm; maths games for Y3 & 4s parents3.15pm
Thursday 19th ~ 3.15 maths games exchange for Early Years, Ash, Maple and Silver Birch
~ Indoor football for Year 3s
Friday 20th ~ Celebration Assembly for Sycamore and Willow classes starting at 2.40pm
Monday 23rd ~ family reading for Early Years at 3pm; maths games for Year 3 at 3.15pm
~ 3pm meeting for Y4 parents/carers to go through details of the PGL trip
Thursday 26th ~ 3.15 maths games exchange for Sycamore, Willow, Ash, Maple,Silver Birch
~ No indoor football for Year 3s
Three Stars and a Wish
A huge thank you to the PTFA who agreed at the last meeting to use some of the
funds for CD players and headphones for each class as well as camera sets for the
children to use. We are also looking into buying tablets to have as a class set as
well as a big project to build a wooden classroom up in the top field.
David Milton has been a star in renovating our football goals and fitting new netting
to them. We are now ready for the football gala!
Congratulations to Willow class as every single family has contributed towards
swimming!
We hope your child enjoys using their new skipping rope. If they intend bringing it to school
please make sure it is clearly marked with their name. The Skipping Workshop
has kindly provided some ropes for playtime use and unmarked ropes may
get lost. We are continuing to have problems with school jumpers going
missing. Please name them very clearly so that we can return them to rightful
owners.
Readformyschool
Well done to the 14 children who have now signed up for this reading
website – I hope you’ve seen my messages! Oliver W, Amber, Ryan F,
Ryan W, Zak W, Lloyd H, Theo H, Ellie T, Isabel R, Oliver B, Jamie D,
Nathaniel W, Reece O’M, Libby – you are all trying to be the best you can
be at reading.
If you’ve not yet signed up - it’s free, it’s easy (just needs a name and a
password) and it’s great for finding an amazing number of great books.
Sign up this weekend and give your child something extra to help them
enjoy reading – www.readformyschool.co.uk To start an account, go to the website and
then put in our classroom code 19092. You then register your child by putting in a name,
year group and a password. (The age is to then give lists of books suitable for that age.)
Sainsbury’s Active Kids Vouchers
If you happen to be shopping in Sainsbury’s, please pick up the vouchers
as we are collecting them in the foyer. Each year we manage to get
some great resources to improve our PE and gardening equipment.
This week’s RACER focus….
Discounted vegboxes that raise money for school projects
We’re excited to announce that Knights Templar and Little Vikings Nursery have partnered
with local, organic vegetable farm, Plowright Organic to offer reduced cost vegboxes at the
school. Anyone in the community is able to use this
service.
Each week, if the school or nursery has 10 or more
people ordering, Plowright will give us a donation to
put towards exciting food based projects, such as
growing our own veg and running cookery
demonstrations; so please do encourage as many
people as you can to order this way.
How to order:
Please order vegboxes by 11pm on Tuesdays via Plowright’s website:
www.plowrightorganic.co.uk, using the codes:
KTSmall
KTMedium
KTLarge
for a small box (£7.83 reduced from £8.70)
for a medium box, or (£10.89 reduced from £12.10)
for a large box (£13.50 reduced from £15)
Using the codes will get you a 10% discount on standard vegbox prices if you are having
your box delivered to school.
Please write KNIGHTS TEMPLAR COLLECTION POINT in the delivery notes.
The boxes will be delivered before school on Friday, and left outside Little Vikings Children’s
Centre for you to collect. You can call the farm on 01278 734580 if you have any queries.
Plowright does accept Healthy Start vouchers.
Please return the boxes for reuse each week. Bags will be left at the collection point to help
you transport your vegetables.
“Switching to organic crop consumption is equivalent to eating
one or two additional portions of fruit or vegetables per
day.” (Newcastle University, 2014)
Jim Jam Jamboree
Our annual favourite will take place on Thursday 12th February
from 3.30pm to 5.30pm. For those new to the event, children bring
along their jimjams, dressing gowns, slippers, etc and change into
them at the end of the day. We then all gather together and the
children go into group for each of their story sessions. As well as
hearing stories from different people, they also have a cup of hot
chocolate with marshmallows – much enjoyed! As this event is so popular, we won’t be
running Parrot Club on that evening.
Mrs Hooper will be selling tickets before school on Wednesday 4th and Thursday 5th
February. If you are unable to come into school, please send in an envelope containing
£1, with the child’s name and also any details of dietary needs such as dairy intolerance
so that we can meet their needs.
West Somerset First Schools’ Football gala
Next Friday, 6th February, we will be hosting the indoor football gala. It will be
starting at 3.30pm and finishing at about 5.30pm. Please be aware that the
school will be very busy at the end of the day with all the children from the
other schools arriving.
If your Y4 child has been regularly coming to play on Thursdays, they will be
part of our school teams. Please let me know after Thursday practice if they
won’t be able to come. Any parents willing to help at the gala will be very
welcome.
Bible Day ~ Share your worries
Next Friday, we will be joined by Carl Smethurst, Vincent Wood, Hannah de Bourcier,
Patrick Weld, Jane Sefton to focus on how to deal with worries. If you’d like to join us for
the special assembly at the end of the day at 2.45pm, you’d be very welcome.
Pupils of the Week
Sycamore ~ Oscar Stenhouse Libby Shopland
Willow ~ Lucas Williams Teigan Gardner
Ash ~ Lewis Clavey Jessica Dyllan Scully
Silver Birch ~ Alfie Filer Cruize Edwards
Maple ~Kiegan Thompson Zak Watson
Cherry ~ Xander Padfield
Jacob Ruddy
Beech ~ Tiegan Wood Natalia Witos
Oak ~ Oliver Rowe Dexter Bullen Webb