SLINFOLD CE PRIMARY SCHOOL AND PRE-SCHOOL Caring, Learning, Achieving guided by God H E A D T E A C H E R : Miss Laura Phibbs, BA(Hons), PGCE, NPQH Dear Parents and Carers, Friday 1 st December 2017 It s official. The countdown to Christmas is well on its way and things are becoming slightly more Christmassy in school. Don t forget about the Christmas decoration competition and make sure that you have bought your raffle tickets for the amazing hampers that the PTA has organised. If you want to see what you might win, the hampers are displayed on the tables in the entrance. The Choir at Wellcross Grange Residential Home Our choir went to sing at Wellcross Grange today with Mrs Upstone and Mrs Barber. The children enjoyed themselves and the elderly residents had a good sing along. Thank you to Mrs Upstone and Mrs Barber for organising the songs and rehearsals ready for Christmas. Achievement Certificates were awarded this week to: Hamble Medway Arun Adur Rother Lily B and James F J Pixie P and Eira G Zara T and Riana P Bea K and Alex W Olivia R and Monty Pot More Times Tables Badges This week a few more children have gained their times tables badges. Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Bronze Alistair L Bronze Bronze Luca D Bailey C Braydon A Silver Joel I Austen A Nulabelle P Silver Harry G Dylan P Silver Gold Gold Gold Ryan M
Christmas Decoration Competition Our Christmas tree has now arrived thanks to the Potburys and it will need some decorations. Therefore, if you would like to make a decoration for the tree, it will automatically be entered into a Christmas decoration competition. No bought items allowed as it has to be home made! Entries in by Friday 8 th December. Please make sure you put your name and class on its hanging loop. Open afternoon Monday 18 th December 2.30pm We will be holding our termly open afternoon on Monday 18 th December at 2.30pm. This is an opportunity for you to come into school to see your child s learning over the last term and have a look at their books with them. Everybody is welcome. Update from our Green Dragons Switch off Fortnight is an environmental awareness campaign for schools on how to help save planet earth by reducing energy, reducing our carbon footprint and busting global warming. We have been working hard on this in school. Green Dragons have led a worship where they have used Wastebuster mascots - Buster and Pong to explain how our planet is warming up due to the excesses of greenhouse gases, and giving some great tips on how we can reduce our energy consumption to combat this. From Mrs Hamer Netball Tournament at Colliers Yesterday, our netball team took part in a tournament against two teams at Colliers. There were six teams in total and we played two matches against St Andrew s B team and Plaistow and Kirdford team A. We didn t win our matches but achieved reasonable scores of 5,3 and 9,2 respectively. Keep up the good team work everyone. By Molly and Millie Cake Raffle Thank you to Mrs Forster (Archie s mum in Reception) for making the cake this week. The winner was Alex W.
KS2 Carol Service Thursday 14 th December 6pm Don t forget it s our annual KS2 Carol service on Thurday 14 th at 6pm at St Peter s and afterwards in the school hall for coffee and mince pies (kindly donated by the PTA). Children will need to be dropped off to their classrooms at 5.30pm in school uniform ready to walk up to the church with their class teachers. Outstanding Cups If your child received an outstanding cup from the summer term please can you return it to the school office by Friday 15 th December. Many thanks. Christmas Jumper Day We will be having a Christmas Jumper day on Wednesday 6 th December along with our Christmas lunch from Easy lunch on the same day. You can wear anything christmassy and it doesn t have to be a shop bought jumper but any colourful jumper with some tinsel or a christmas badge/brooch. It s just for fun and families are not expected to spend lots of money for a new outfit! Children will still need to wear their school uniform just with a different jumper. Class Cover, our supply agency are offering a prize of a 50 amazon voucher for the best Christmas jumper this can be a teacher or child at school. Again, it can be a homemade approach or bought. We will send off the photos for judging. Staff changes for January 2018 This is to inform you that Mrs Claudia Hamer (Arun class teacher) will be leaving us at Christmas. She has made a very difficult decision to leave Slinfold in order to take a step back from full time teaching and focus on her family and other interests. We are very sad to see her leave as she has been a great member of the team here at Slinfold since 2011. We wish her all the best in everything and hope that she may come back every so often and do some supply teaching for us! We are hoping to have a teacher in place as soon as possible and will keep you informed of any appointments we make. Slinfold School Survey Index for Inclusion Closing Date Friday 8 th December In our locality of schools, we are taking part in a school development project based on the 'Index for Inclusion' document. This document is to help us develop our setting through creating inclusive cultures, policies and practices. One of the key areas on which we are focusing is our practice and how we aid learning. We want to find out about how much the children are actively involved in their own learning and to encourage them to be confident, critical thinkers. By completing this survey, we will have a simple baseline from which we can start to improve how we encourage children to be more independent and responsible for their learning. It will take you less than 2 minutes and is only 7 questions. Please follow this link: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/xkgvyxw
Church services Weekly services held at St Peter s: Holy Communion (BCP) 8am 1st and 3rd Sundays Holy Communion 9.30am 1 st, 2 nd, 4 th and 5th Sundays in each month Young in Faith Family Service 10am 3 rd Sundays all ages welcome to a simple celebration Mid-week Holy Communion 10am Thursdays, on the 3 rd week of the month, at The Cobblers, Hayes Lane Morning Prayers 9am Mondays Sunday s Cool for the children is held every Sunday in term time in the Parish rooms (Village Hall) from 9.15am. Messy Church 1 st Tuesday of each month in the Village Hall from 3.05pm Drop in Café 8.30am until 9.30am on a Friday morning during term time, call in for a cuppa and a chat. So how many days to go only 23! Have a great weekend. Miss Phibbs Headteacher
Monday 4 th December Last week of after school clubs Monday 4 th December Able Maths Day - Heron Way School 9.20am until 3pm (children tbc) Wednesday 6 th December Christmas lunch in school and Christmas Jumper Day Thursday 7 th December Christingle at the Church 1.45pm Friday 8 th December Hamble to Pantomime The Capitol Theatre 1pm Tuesday 12 th December Yr R, 1 &2 Christmas Performance 2pm (Shine, star, shine) Wednesday 13 th December Yr R, 1 &2 Christmas Performance 2pm (Shine, star, shine) Wednesday 13 th December Hockey Tournament at The Weald School 2.30pm-4.30pm Thursday 14 th December Choir to Clemsfold House 1.30pm Thursday 14 th December KS2 Carol Service at St Peters 6pm followed by coffee and mince pies in the school hall. Friday 15 th December Medway and Arun (Yr2 only) to Pantomime The Capitol Theatre 1pm Monday 18 th December Open afternoon 2.30pm All welcome Wednesday 20 th December End of Autumn Term Thursday 4 th January Spring Term commences Thursday 11 th January Swimming starts Yrs 2 & 3 Friday 9 th February Monday 12 th February Half Term Thursday 29 th March End of Spring Term Monday 16 th April Summer Term commences Thursday 3 rd May/4 th May Year 4 Lodge Hill residential Monday 7 th May Spring Bank Holiday Monday 28 th May Half Term Friday 20 th July End of Summer Term Monday 23 rd July Tuesday 24 th July We do add to these so please check every week! School dates/letters and details about future events are available on the school website at: www.slinfold.w-sussex.sch.uk