Blandford St Mary Primary School Newsletter Headteacher: Mr Paul Lavis Deputy Headteacher: Mrs Sam Harris
November 2012 Volume 5, Issue 3
Contents:
Dear Parents
Anti-bullying poster competition entry form
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Christingle
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School Nurse drop ~ in
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Collection Arrangements 3 Children In Need
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Nativity
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Diary dates
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Celebration Assembly Dates 30th November ~ Year 6 7th December ~ Year 5
14th December ~ Year 4
21st December ~ Christmas assembly for the whole school (2.30pm)
links to inform you about how the school is performing in I hope you’re all well and not too many areas. Please take the depressed by the weather or, in- time to explore and get to deed, the early Christmas adverts know our school even better. Hello all!
on the television… crumbs! Anyway—I have plenty to share so I will crack on.
Card Swapping
I’m sure many of you are aware of the myriad of cards that the children collect and swap. It can You Said, So... cause many, many problems in Thank you for all of you who school which can then impact completed the online queson learning. Next Thursday will tionnaire on the school web- be the last day that KS1 will be site—it was much appreciated. able to bring their cards into school. Please make sure that One area for development that they don’t bring any cards with emerged from the exercise was them after this as they will be school sharing information removed and held onto until with parents. We’ve looked Christmas. hard at what we do at school Inspections and have tried to improve in We are to be inspected by the that area. To that end the school website has been added Diocese on Tuesday 27th November. Canon Harold to : Stephens will spend the day with us, watching some lessons You can still keep up to date with the children’s learning by and talking to the school comfollowing their class blogs. You munity at large. I’m sure you’ll support us in ensuring the chilcan also follow the Twitter dren take the opportunity to feed we have on the homepage too where updates from do everything they can to be the best that they can be and various blogs are posted make us all proud—I know the (including SEN & the headstaff certainly will! teacher blog as well as the I will write to let you know School Council. Under the About Us pencil there are new how we get on.
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Anti-Bullying Week This week has been anti-bullying week across the country. At Blandford St Mary Primary School we decided to hold a competition to give the children an opportunity to share a piece of work promoting anti-bullying. The piece can take any form: a poster, a poem, a song… anything. For the piece to be considered as part of the competition we would like you to attach the slip below to the entry and then hand to the office. If it’s a recording (maybe a video or a song) then let us know on the slip where to find it—it may be on a disk, Youtube or it may need to be performed live to Mr Lavis! (If you’ve already handed something in—don’t panic—we’ll attach a form to your entry for you!) The deadline for entries is Friday 30th November and we’ll announce winners shortly afterwards. Good luck!
————————————————————————— Anti-Bullying Week Competition Name(s):……………………………. Base:…………………… Describe your entry:……………………………………….. —————————————————————————-Christingle This year's Christingle Service will be held at Spetisbury Church on Sunday 2nd December at 4pm. Please can you let us know if you and your family are attending so we can make sure we have enough Christingles to go round! — ———————————————————————————————
Children’s names:………………………………………………………………. We are attending the Christingle Service on 2nd December at Spetisbury Church.
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Notice Board Collection arrangements
Drop--In School Nurse Drop
Can we please remind you, that any change to the regular collection arrangements for your child/children, must be reported to the school office. Unless we know that your child is regularly collected by someone other than a parent/ guardian, we will not allow them to leave school unless we have had prior notification. If the person you have asked to collect your child for you, is not familiar to us, we will ask you to set a password that the person collecting will know, they will then be expected to come to the office to introduce themselves and confirm the password. We really do appreciate your co-operation with this.
The next School Nurse drop in is on Wednesday 12th December at 8.50am. Please let the office or one of the class teachers know if you would like to make an appointment to see Sarah. You can also just pop in on the day.
Children In Need We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone for taking part in helping us raise money for the BBC Children In Need appeal. It was lovely to see so many spotty outfits last Friday and the wrist bands were a roaring success, so thank you. In total we raised a fabulous £113.83 through sales of the wrist bands and £ 98.21 in other donations, giving us a total so far of £218.84. £218.84 Thank you
Nativity This years nativity is called “Hey Ewe” and involves all the children in the Reception, year 1 and year 2 classes. There will be 3 performances; ~ Monday 17th December ~ 1.15 doors open 1.30 the performance starts Tuesday 18th December ~ 9.15 doors open 9.30 the performance starts Wednesday 19th December ~ 9.15 doors open 9.30 the performance starts As our numbers have grown, we will be issuing tickets for these performances to make sure everyone gets a seat and we are not breaking any H&S regulations. Tickets will be available from Monday 10th December. Our Friends of School will be selling refreshments at each of the performances. We look forward to seeing you there!
Blandford St Mary Primary School Newsletter Blandford St Mary Primary School Birch Avenue Blandford St Mary, Dorset DT11 9QD Phone: 01258-453331 Fax: 01258-455865
Website : www.blandfordstmary.dorset.sch.uk
School Diary Dates:
Friday 23rd November ~ School production 7pm Sunday 2nd December ~ Christingle service 2pm at Spetisbury church Wednesday 5th December ~ Christmas Festival Wednesday 12th December ~ Lantern Parade Thursday 13th December ~ BSM Talent Show (NEW DATE) Monday 17th December ~ Nativity (1.30pm) Tuesday 18th December ~ Nativity (9.30am) Wednesday 19th December ~ Nativity (9.30am) Wednesday 19th December ~ Christmas meal Thursday 20th December ~ Christmas Parties Friday 21st December ~ Christmas Assembly Monday 24th December – Friday 4th January ~ Christmas Holidays Monday 7th January ~ Children return to school