Air Balloon Hill Primary School

Newsletter No: 24

22nd March 2019 School Telephone No. 0117 903 0077

Website: www.abhps.com

Everyone can achieve. Everyone can learn. Everyone belongs.

Hello,

As part of our series of safety weeks, we’re exploring how

people overcome challenges within their everyday lives. An

element of this will be looking at disabilities and people who

are 'the same but different’.

Our aim is for children to gain a wider understanding of a

range of challenges that people face in their lives, how they

overcome them and achieve. We’ll be looking at inspirational

figures who have achieved great things in spite of living with

a disability or a challenge: athletes, actors, musicians,

artists, people in business...

It will be a week where we will all learn something about the

lives of others who are 'the same but different’ to

ourselves and increase our empathy for others.

Have a good weekend and see you next week.

Tim Browse

Next Week in School - School Safety Week Tuesday

Year 1 WOW Singing Event - 8:55am -

Parents Invited.

Year 4 Class trip to the Zoo - Pegasus

and Aquila Classes.

Year 6 Football Match against Waycroft Academy at

home - 3:30pm.

Wednesday

Pavement Professors - Venus Class - 9:15 - 12:00pm.

Year 2 WOW Event - 2:30pm - Parents Invited.

Thursday

Pavement Professors - Earth Class - 9:15am -

12:00pm.

Year 4 Class trip to the Zoo - Phoenix Orion Classes.

Year 5 trip to Avon Wildlife Trust - Capella and

Polaris Classes.

Best Class Attendance of the week

This weeks winners are:

Year 2/3 Hall: Sky Class 99.57%

Dining Hall: Endeavour Class 98.53%

PE Hall: Polaris 98.29%

Attendance for the week = 95.06% that's 1.94% below our

target of 97%.

Don’t forget to follow us on

Twitter: @ABHPSchool and

Facebook at

www.facebook.com/ABHPSchool

Team Points

1st - Rowling (135) 2nd - Brunel (119)

3rd - Dixie (118) 4th - Banksy (80)

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messages. You can download the App for free. For more information or for a

copy of the registration details, please ask at the school office.

Translations

Our newsletter is available to read on the school website

(https://www.abhps.com/newsletters/) which can be

translated into over 100 different languages using the

button at the bottom of the page.

If you would like any school information in a different

format, for example Braille, audiotape, large print, computer

disk, or community languages, please contact Mrs King in the

school office.

Well done

A BIG well done to Zach in Aquila Class who won a

competition to watch Bristol Flyers Basketball Team last

Saturday. Zach also received a year’s pass to Airhop and a

jersey signed by all the players, he was lucky enough to have

his photograph taken with a few of the players too!

Up-to-date contact Details

Please make sure you keep us updated with any

changes to your contact details. It really is

essential that we are able to contact you if we

need to - this is especially important if your

child is on our walk-to-school alone list.

Important Year 6 Information

Year 6 SAT’s and Camp Information Evening

will be held on Thursday 4th April at 6:00pm. We encourage

all Year 6 parents/carers to attend.

Hockey Tournament

A HUGE congratulations to the

children that took part in the

hockey tournament against Redfield Educate Together

School on Tuesday, we won 11-3! Go Air Balloon!!

All Clubs are running as normal next week.

FAB News

Spring disco’s will take place on Tuesday 2nd

April at the following times:

Reception - 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Years 1-3 - 4:45pm - 6:00pm

Years 4-6 - 6:15pm - 7:45pm

If you would like to purchase a ticket

you can do so by using the ParentMail

app. Once you have reserved your

tickets then please put money in an

envelope marked with your child’s

name, class and ‘disco money’ and

hand it in at the school office or

place it in the postbox in the foyer. The last day for signing

up and for payment will be Friday 29th March.

If you do not have access to ParentMail, please speak to Sally

King in the school office.

There will be a CAKE SALE after school today in the Dining

Hall. We look forward to seeing you there.

Dates for your Diary

Spring Discos 2 April

Ice-Cream Fridays - from 26 April (weather permitting)

FAB AGM - 1 May

Bingo Night - 17 May

Summer Fayre - 28 June

Autumn Discos - 24 October

Christmas Fayre - 7 December

Parents’ Evening

Reception Parents’ Evening - 22nd-24th April.

Years 1-6 Parents’ Evening - 23rd and 24th

April.

Booking will be via ParentMail and opens at 1:00pm on

Sunday 31st March.

After School Activities

Junior Parkrun

Congratulations to Joshua from Sun Class

who on Sunday took part in the Junior

Parkrun in Eastville Park. Joshua ran

without holding Mummy or Daddy’s hand and

he completed the 2km course in 15 minutes and 32 seconds.

This is a personal best time for Joshua! Well done!

New Lunch Menu

Children will be bringing home the new Spring/

Summer lunch menu next week - it will be full

of new, tasty and nutritious lunch options as

well as some of the old favourites!

All of the food we serve follows the school meals healthy

eating standards - including high-quality meat and poultry or

products and plenty of fruit and vegetables.

Lost Property

Jack in Earth Class has lost his sweatshirt, if

found please return to the class. Thank you.

School Facilities for Hire

Did you know that parts of the school

are available to hire during evenings and

weekends?

The school halls, field, climbing frame, pavilion and ball court

(including toilet facilities) are available to hire until 10pm

during the week and on Saturdays and Sundays/Bank

Holidays.

If you know of a local community group who may be looking

for a new place to meet, or a sports club who would like to

hire our ball court or school field, please contact Rachel

Bowyer, our School Business Manager, for further

information.

Library News

We are doing so well on the leader

board for the 200Million Minutes

Reading Challenge.

Please remember to let me know of all those amazing

minutes that you are reading at home.

Book of the week

The Book of the Week - Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly

Truth by Jeff Kinney.

The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series is very popular with all the

children here at Air Balloon Hill Primary.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth is the massively

funny fifth title in the highly-illustrated, bestselling and

award-winning Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. Perfect for

both boys and girls of 8+, reluctant readers and all the

millions of devoted Wimpy Kid fans out there.

Greg Heffley has always been in a hurry to grow up. But is

getting older really all it's cracked up to be? Suddenly Greg

is dealing with the pressures of boy-girl parties, increased

responsibilities, and even the awkward changes that come

with getting older. After a fight with his best friend

Rowley, it looks like Greg is going to have to face the ugly

truth all by himself!

In-Service Closure

Monday 22nd July 2019

Tuesday 23rd July 2019

No Scootering in school

Please be reminded again that scootering and

riding bikes is NOT permitted in school. Whilst

we love that children use these methods of transport to get

to and from school, we must ask that they get off their

bikes and scooters at the gate and do not ride them in the

playgrounds. (or buildings).