School News Issue 18 – Friday 21st January 2016
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Dates for your diary
Monday 1st February: Cross-country championships – (rescheduled date from 30th Nov).
Friday 5th February: ESKA Karate taster sessions for whole school.
Friday 12th February: School closes at 3pm for half term.
Monday 22nd February: School re-opens – please note there will be no Breakfast Club today.
Thursday 24th March: School closes at 3pm for the Easter holiday. No After School Club today.
Monday 11th April: School re-opens – please note there will be no Breakfast Club today.
Monday 2nd May: School Closed – Bank Holiday.
Friday 27th May: School closes at 3pm for half term.
Monday 6th June: School re-opens.
Wednesday 20th July: School closes at 3pm for the Summer holidays.
Since the weather is so bad at the moment, there won’t be a Second Hand Uniform sale in the playground this term but Paula (Philomena, Beatrice and James’ mum) is happy to let you rummage through the box any time, so if you want to have a little look at what’s available, please catch her in the playground or leave a message in the PTA tray in the office.
We have a few IOUs from the Christmas Fayre and sale of Colby bags. If you think this might be you, please talk to a member of FOCS or leave us a note (or the money) in the PTA tray in the office. Thank you.
The Colby bags are available any time. Please see Paula or Sarah if you wish to buy some. We will also have them on sale at all FOCS events … there really will be no escape for those that haven’t already bought one! Members of FOCS will be holding a series of lunch time craft workshops later in the term to present some ideas for the children to customise their bags – keep an eye on the newsletter for more details.
We will be holding a couple of ‘Do It Together’ days this term. If you are willing to help sand and paint the picnic benches in the field after school one day (when the weather is better), or help with DIY jobs in school, please let us know.
Film Club dates for this term are February 4th (Home) and March 10th (Minions).
After the success of our Lego Competition last year, we will be holding another Lego Competition on Friday 29th January. A letter was sent out to parents this week giving further details.
The EDP are giving away £100,000 in 2016 to community groups in East Anglia. If we collect 500 tokens from the EDP and North Norfolk News in a given month (one to collect each day), we can apply for money to help our project. We will be collecting tokens throughout February and, if we manage to collect 500, we will apply for funding for new play equipment for the field. Please ask parents, grandparents and friends to collect the tokens so we can reach our goal. A box will be placed outside Amber class for you to deposit your tokens. Thank you.
If you haven’t had a chance to sign up yet please consider joining easy fundraising.org.uk It donates a small amount to FOCS on purchases you make on-line (at no charge to you). It is particularly perfect for Amazon who don’t accept any other discounts/coupons etc. We’ve already raised £35 in the last couple of months. Lucy Sparrow is on the top spot at the moment…
Please use this link as we’ll get extra for the referral
http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/invite/3CLF63/
We have lots of other events coming up, including Superhero/Inspirational People Day (April), our next Quiz ‘n’ Chips night (May) Mother’s Day and Easter events. It is going to be another busy term and we hope many of you will be able to help and support us. As always, if you have any ideas for raising or spending money, please let us know.
Diana Morton
Headteacher Awards
Sophie and Isabelle (Emerald) for awesome maths with decimals
Austin (Amber) for lovely manners
Imogen H and Imogen E (Emerald) for wonderful weaving
James, Beatrice, Harry, Honor, Florence P, and Charlie (Amber) for fantastic guided reading
Florence F, Caleb, Fred, Ava, Ethan, Imogen and Jennifer (Amber) for excellent dinosaur labelling
James (Amber) for recognising doubling in maths
Charlie (Amber) for knowing the difference between upper and lower case letters
Beatrice, Charlie, James, Florence P, Honor and Austin (Amber) for great news writing
Freddie (Emerald) for lovely manners
Samson, Phoebe and Isabel (Sapphire) for the Colby Reading Challenge
Melody (Sapphire) for fantastic division
Melody (Sapphire) for cheering up a friend
Ruby E (Sapphire) for showing interesting stones
Elise (Ruby) for fabulous French Bingo
Elise (Ruby) for fantastic French
Ezra (Ruby) for awesome religious Puja
Rosa (Ruby) for awesome religious Puja
Eliza (Sapphire) for lovely letter sounds
Elise and Rose (Ruby) for super semi colons and colons
Rosa (Ruby) for awesome Red Book writing
Mia (Ruby) for wonderful maths
Mia (Ruby) for excellent English
Sophie (Ruby) for super semi colons and colons
Joshua (Emerald) for amazing punctuation
Oliver (Ruby) for fantastic grounds work at After School Club
Luke (Emerald) for beautiful handwriting
Axel (Ruby) for wonderful writing
Eliza (Sapphire) for beautiful sitting
Henry, Isabel N, Alex and Nathaniel (Sapphire) for excellent number lines
Phoebe (Sapphire) for excellent problem solving
Jamie and Lily (Sapphire) for excellent maths
Ruby S (Sapphire) for brilliant additions
Chloe (Sapphire) for great extension maths work
Jessie (Sapphire) for great division
Melody (Sapphire) for clever maths
Jessie (Sapphire) for super addition and great labelling
Melody (Sapphire) for great presentation
Lily (Sapphire) for perfect use of speech marks
Lily (Sapphire) for great presentation and finger spaces
Ruby E (Sapphire) for excellent story writing
Sorry to Amethyst pupils who have had HTAs this week – I left your list at home so you’ll go on next week.
Imogen (Amber) for great reading
Beatrice and Phoebe (Amber) for brilliant jigsaw team work
Sadie, Lily (Year R), Illy, Theo, Dom and Jack R (Amber) for brilliant number line work
Dom (Amber) for excellent reading
Jennifer, Imogen, Ava and Florence (Amber) for excellent dinosaur writing
More Headteacher Awards
Ruby E (Sapphire) for beautiful presentation
Phoebe (Sapphire) for perfect use of speech marks
Joshua and George (Sapphire) for brilliant desert maps
Melody, Oliver, Bonnie, Phoebe and Ben (Sapphire) for amazing desert landscapes
Ruby E (Sapphire) for being really helpful and kind
Lily (Sapphire) for really interesting books about deserts
Ben (Sapphire) for beautiful presentation
Daniel, Jasmine, Aston, Danny, Philomena, Freddie P, Grace, Freddie, Alastair, Andre, Maddy,
Imogen H, Imogen E, Mae, Sophie, Maisie, Holly, Daisy and Abigail (Emerald)
for wonderful Red Book writing
Daisy, Sophie, Tom, Freddie R and Isabelle (Emerald) for fantastic decimal maths
Felix, Joshua, Aston, Philomena, Sophie, Maisie, Abigail, Grace, Andre, Luke, Imogen E, Imogen H, Daniel, Jasmine, Holly and Isabelle (Emerald)
for stunning information texts about the Natural World
Daisy, Danny, Grace, Aston, Luke, Mae, Felix, Philomena, Joshua, Imogen H,
Freddie R, Andre, Imogen E and Alastair (Emerald)
for reading diary awesomeness!
Table Tennis Awards
Congratulations to the following for achieving the following levels during the Autumn Term 2015
Emma (Amethyst) L9 L10 L11 L3C L4C
Tom (Amethyst) L18 L19 L6C
Frank (Amethyst) L7 L8
Edward (Amethyst) L5 L6
Alastair (Emerald) L1U L1
Macy-Jane (Amethyst) L1U L1 L2 L3
Marianne (Amethyst) L1U L1 L2 L3
Tom H (Emerald) L3 L4
Two equal Player Awards go to Macy Jane and Marianne – they received a table tennis bat each.
Plus 1 – 4 hours free coaching with two England coaches, Martyn and Richard,
at Norwich on a Saturday morning.
Well done to all. There are spaces on a Tuesday afternoon after school for Table Tennis coaching
£3 per session. Please contact the school office.
Christine Mead
Coming next week: Rugby report, Swimming Report,
Swimming Success (out of school) and Pung Fu Awards!
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