Parents

Weekly Parent Bulletin - Friday 1st May

Dear parents,

Our new Opal play lunchtimes continue to be a success. Next week children in Years 2 to 6 will get the opportunity to experience further new zones in areas of the playground they haven't yet been able to explore. This is another step towards our goal of having the full playground space available for pupils to free flow around, really making the most of our large outdoor spaces. If you haven't already, do chat to them to find out what they think of our new lunchtimes. Whether it's playing in the mud kitchen, building dens or putting on shows... there is hopefully something for everyone.

Next Wednesday (6th May), we have the latest PTA meeting - held at 7:30pm at the Way Outback Bar. The majority of the meeting is spent listening to bids and helping plan new fundraising ideas. We always love to see new parents at these meetings, so if you can escape bedtime plans to join us then it would be great to see you there.

Have a great bank holiday weekend!

Mr Jackson

Whole School Reminders

PTA Updates

Thank you Quizzers

Thank you to everyone who enjoyed our Quiz Night. Fun was had and £450 was raised for the school. Congratulations to our winners Late to Pick Up!

🎉 Break the Rules Day is Coming! 🎉 Friday 15^th May

To celebrate the end of SATs, we’re excited to announce a fun and slightly mischievous event — Break the Rules Day!

On this special day, children will have the chance to bend (or even break!) some of the usual school rules in exchange for a small donation to the school. It’s our way of marking the end of a busy period with some well-earned fun. Our teachers are currently reviewing and selecting which rules will be included — we’ll share the full list with you very soon, so keep an eye out!

How to take part:

Make a donation using our payment link,

Bring cash on the day and give it to a member of staff

All funds raised will go towards supporting school activities and resources.

We can’t wait to see the creative (and slightly cheeky!) ways our pupils take part — it’s going to be a fantastic day!

https://pay.collctiv.com/break-the-rules-day-32181

Thank you for your continued support.

Whole School Updates

ECO-Council needs your help!

We are revamping the allotment alongside OPAL Play and we need a few donations please - Plants, vegetables or flowering, for our newly weeded and composted beds. Please label donations and hand to the office.

Thank you.

Mrs Pritchard and the ECO-council

OPAL

Another amazing week out in the playground for the children. It has been wonderful to see the children using their creative play skills to try and build their own swings as well as teaching each other traditional game such as leap frog.

Next week the children will change to the other end of the playground at lunchtimes to discover what is on offer there. Do any parents work in the construction industry that may have access to some scaffolding planks? The children have requested these to enable them to build obstacle courses with the tyres. A second request from the children is for milk/bottle crates to practise stacking skills and to use in the den building area, so if you are able to acquire any of these, the children would really appreciate them. We are also on the hunt for more guttering to develop our water play area too.

Thank you as always for your continued support at restocking our OPAL donations box which is near the school office.

Weekly Year Group Updates

EYFS

Please make sure that your child’s jumpers and cardigans are named clearly with their name. We have a lot without names or names of other children in which makes it hard to figure out who they belong to.

Year 1

None this week.

Year 2

None this week.

Year 3

A reminder that there is no swimming next week due to the Bank Holiday. Our next swimming lesson is Monday 11^th May.
On Friday 22^nd May, we are having a DT day to design and make sandwiches. Children need to come in with fillings that they would like to add to their sandwich. A reminder that we are a nut free school. Families are also welcome to join us from 2-3pm for a picnic to celebrate this half term.
We are going to be having our Ancient Greek day on Friday 5^th June. Children can come in wearing Ancient Greek costumes but normal mufti is fine if not dressing up. We do not expect families to buy new costumes for this day.

Year 4

Thank you to all of the parents that attended the parent meeting about the year 4 residential. A few reminders to be aware of:

A letter went home this week, which included a helpful kit list and a medical form. Please can the medical form be completed and handed back to the class teacher ASAP.
There will be a sign up sheet outside Hawks classroom on Tuesday 5^th May for parents to choose their drop off time slot.
A link to the PowerPoint that was delivered by Craig will be emailed to all parents with a helpful voiceover by Miss Keates.

2. Now that the weather is getting warmer we are finding a lot of jumpers being left in the classroom without names in. A polite reminder for all school uniform to be clearly labelled to avoid lost items.

3. Pupil engagement with our online reading record has started to dip slightly. We love looking at what the children are reading at home so please continue to use the online platform when possible.

Year 5

Year 5 have their River Piddle trip on Thursday. Please see the letter that was previously sent out for further details. Children need to arrive early to school in order to make it on the coach on time.
Swimming next week is cancelled because of the bank holiday.

Year 6

Revision - a reminder that we have a variety of revision resources available for children on our school website here. These include videos which recap all key arithmetic methods. We also have '10-a-day' resources available. These can be used to review 10 facts a day or just as a general reminder of key information. You can access these from the Revision page on the school website or use the links here: maths and grammar
Kit list reminder for Buddens - Buddens Activity Centre Kit List