Blandford St Mary Primary School Newsletter Headteacher: Ms Carol Brown Acting Deputy Headteacher : Miss Julia Ives
June 2014 Volume 3, Issue 10
Dear Parents
Contents: Sports Day
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School council letter 3 School opening Hours
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Non-Uniform Day 4 School Nurse Drop-in 4 Diary Dates
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July Dates 2ndCelebration July—Transfer DayAssembly Dates 3rd July—Sports Day January ~ Yr 5 11th17th July—Yr 6 Leavers Service at 24th January ~ Yr 6 Salisbury Cathedral
18th July—Year 5 31st January School Camp~ Reception
21st July—Beach trip 22nd July—Yr 6 Leavers Assembly starting at 1.30
Blandford St Mary School enjoys being a part of the local and wider community. As young members of the local community, it is good to see our children venturing further afield, meeting children from other schools and taking responsibility for their behaviour and learning. One of the advantages of being members of the Blandford Schools Network is that we can participate in competitive sport and other activities at local Primary and Secondary schools. We have been busy this month! A big thank you to Teachers and Support Staff for their willingness to participate in these out of school events. Earlier in June, Years 5 and 6 visited the Shaftesbury School for a mixed cricket event. Mrs Thomas was very proud of our children as they persevered with overarm bowling, showing maturity and developing skill. Reaching out beyond our maintained schools network, Year 5 enjoyed a Cricket and Rounders tournament at Claysmore. It was a real treat to experience the extensive grounds there and they loved the lunch, I’m told! Learning how to win and lose gracefully, challenging yourself, supporting your team and others as they give their best, is a life lesson. The reports from the staff accompanying our children is that they have taken the events in their stride and behaved really well. Downlands School hosted an IT event last week designed to enable children to experience a broad range of hardware and new software programs. 8 of our children represented the school and again, Mrs Walton-Smith reported that their behaviour was exemplary and they enjoyed meeting children from other schools, as well as trying out the IT activities. Our Year 4 children had a wonderful experience at Leeson House last week. For some, it was their first time away from home without their families, for all it provided the opportunity to be themselves in a different environment. Mrs Rees, Mrs Green and Mrs Cooper were very pleased with the way the children socialised and encouraged one another. Year 6 have been further afield on the Isle of Wight, with Miss O’Sullivan and Miss Walton, over the weekend and have had a very exciting time. The activities were challenging for many of the children (and staff!) and support and encouragement were key to everyone’s success and enjoyment. Our Summer Fete this Saturday is our chance to open the school grounds to our local community and I hope that it is already in your diary. Please invite your family, friends and neighbours. The day promises to be full of fun and your support would be greatly appreciated. Friends of School are working hard to ensure that there is entertainment, food and activities to suit all ages. Gates will be open at 12. All offers of help to set up on Friday 27th late afternoon/Saturday morning or run stalls for an hour or so, to Trevor Keep please, as there is lots to be done. trevor.keep@hotmail.co.uk I look forward to seeing you there. Best wishes Carol Brown
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Volume Blandford St Mary Primary School Newsletter
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Notice Board Sports Day With all our fingers crossed we are hoping for lovely fine weather on the Thursday 3rd July for the postponed Sports Day to go ahead. We are planning to run it as previously explained in the last newsletter with the following timetable: Reception, Year 1 & Year 2 The younger children will be taking part in their carousel of sporting activities on the school field from 10.00am to 11.
HUGE THANK YOU! We would like to say a very big thank you to Morrisons who have been so generous in their donations this term. Not only have they supplied a huge amount of lollies for us to sell to raise money for the beach trip but they have also supplied all the rolls for the BBQ at the summer fete. Thank you very much!
Lunchtime We would like to invite parents to join us for a picnic on the field where the children will be taking either their packed lunch or school meal outside. This however will be weather dependent. Years 3, 4, 5 & 6 The older children will begin their competition at 1.15pm. We will endeavour to finish on time for the end of school – but I somehow feel it is inevitable that we may run a little over time at the end! Thanks for your support in this! We hope you have a great time and come along to soak up the atmosphere on Thursday.
Thank you also to Tesco who have supplied lollies for the summer fete. We are very grateful. Bring on the sun so we have good lolly selling!!
Volume 3, Issue 10 Blandford St Mary Primary School Newsletter
Letter from the school council
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Summer Fete
Dear Parents/Carers, We are delighted to say that due to all your generosity of supplying and then buying cakes we made a fantastic ÂŁ98.90 at the School Council Cake Sale. This will make a brilliant contribution towards our exciting day at the beach so a big thank you from all of us to all of you! From School Council
School Hours
We would like to reiterate our school opening times as we are having children being dropped off before the school opens. Breakfast Club opens at 8am and the rest of school opens at 8.30am. Please do not leave your child before these times as they are not supervised and therefore we cannot guarantee their safety. Thank you very much for your cooperation.
Parking
We have been receiving a number of complaints from the local residents about people parking in driveways and blocking entrances to the residents parking areas. We are lucky to have great relations with our local residents so please can we ask that you park with care and consideration when collecting your children. Many thanks
Blandford St Mary Primary School Newsletter Blandford St Mary Primary School Phone: 01258-453331 Fax: 01258-455865 Email: office@blandfordstmary.dorset.sch.uk
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Non-Uniform Day
School Nurse Drop-In
Just to remind you all that it is non-uniform day on Friday 27th June. We would appreciate it if you can please bring in a contribution for our tombola. We would welcome sweets, bottles, jars, jars full of sweets and would never turn away chocolate although this could be a bit gooey if it’s the hot day that we are hoping for!
The next School Nurse drop in is on Monday 14th July 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.
TERM DATES 2014/2015 Autumn Term 2014 Monday 1st September Tuesday 2nd September Wednesday 3rd September Monday 27th October – Friday 31st October Friday 19th December
Staff training day Staff training day Children return to school Half term Children break up for Christmas holidays Spring Term 2015
Monday 5th January Tuesday 6th January Monday 16th February – Friday 20th February Friday 27th March
Staff training day Children return to school Half term Children break up for Easter holidays Summer Term 2015
Monday 13th April Monday 4th May Monday 25th May - Friday 29th May Monday 1st June Friday 17th July Monday 20th July
Summer term begins May Bank Holiday Half term Staff training day Children break up for summer holidays Staff Training day