Aldermaston C.E. Primary School Wasing Lane, Aldermaston, Berkshire. RG7 4LX

Tel: 0118 971 3362 Text: 0118 324 0216

e-mail: enquiries@aldermaston.w-berks.sch.uk website: www.aldermaston.org.uk

Mrs A Burridge – Acting Headteacher

Summer Term No. 11 5th July 2018

Dear Parents, Pupils and Friends of the School, Another busy week, jam packed with activities! Yet again I have reflected on how lucky our children are with the range of activities on offer at Aldermaston. Last Friday’s Summer event was greatly enjoyed by all who attended. It was lovely to have so many people there supporting us and raising money for the school. Thank you to all who came, and to our PTA, staff and volunteers for organising the food and entertainment. Great to see our Judo club showing their skills too – well done all!

Sunday, Team Year One (Katherine, Nevaeh, Orla, Finley, Tim and younger siblings) completed the Race For Life and raised nearly £600 (so far!) for Cancer Research UK. Our amazing six year olds romped round the course in 27 degree heat and completed 5km (that’s half a million centimetres! ) in just over 70 minutes. Congratulations! Tuesday saw some children from Year 5 and Year 6 represent the school at a cricket tournament. We were thrilled that they came 2nd but especially pleased to hear of their fair play, impeccable conduct and great team work. To quote Mrs Redding, “Some awesome cricket was played in good spirit.” Thank you to Mrs Timperley for helping.

Wednesday Years 1, 3 and 4 enjoyed a trip to Studland to support their learning with History, Geography and Science about coasts and the seaside.

Key dates: Friday 6th July 9.30am to 1pm—Sports Day and Family Picnic Tuesday, 10th July 2pm—KS2 Production Matinee Performance Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th July 6.30 to 8.30pm KS2 Production—Evening Performances Thursday 19th July 9.30am—Leavers Service at St Mary’s Church, Aldermaston Friday 20th July 9:30am—Leavers Assembly & Prize giving 3.20pm—End of Academic Year Your local church dates: Sunday 8th July 11am—Holy Communion at Aldermaston St Mary’s Sunday 15th July 11am—Family Communion at Aldermaston St Mary’s

Also on Wednesday, as part of their transition Year 6 visited the Willink School for a sports event. Today as part of Design and Technology learning, all of our children have been to visit the Rosebourne Garden centre development. The Site manager, Ian Johnson, talked us through how building sites work and buildings are constructed. We hope to have inspired architects and construction workers of the future! Mr Johnson then returned later in the day to talk to the children in assembly and present us with some animal boxes and shelters for our environmental area.

Tomorrow we finish the week with our Sports Day. We have been watching the forecast closely and are mindful of advice we have been given from West Berkshire; we have made some amendments to the schedule to ensure that children and supporters are not in the sun and heat for too long.

A reminder that the children come to school in their PE Kit wearing a t-shirt in the colour of their House group.

Make sure all are wearing sun cream and a hat and have a water bottle. We will aim to start as soon as possible in the morning—9.30 ish. We will shorten the number of events—no tug of war or parents race, for example this year I am

afraid! We will have Open Classrooms straight after the Sports instead of after the picnic, for your child to

show you their new classroom.

Parents are then welcome to stay for lunch; the hall, decking and gazebos are available for areas of shade. You are welcome to bring your own sun tents.

Rehearsals are sounding great for our KS2 production of “Grub”. We would really love to be able to film the event, are there any parents that could help with this please? Finally we are pleased to announce that a new Rector has been appointed to the Aldermaston Parish, Revd. Jane will take up her position in September. We look forward to working closely with her as a school. Yours sincerely

Alison Burridge Acting Headteacher

Aldermaston Primary School Hall—AVAILABLE FOR HIRE

Our school hall is available evenings from 6.30pm and weekends and during the holidays at any time for hire if you re-quire space for a party or to run a club. If you are interested and would like to find out more, please contact us by email to enquiries@aldermaston.w-berks.sch.uk. A breakdown of our charges follows:-

KEY HOLDER CHARGE For each use of the premises £8.00 HOURLY CHARGES - FOR USE OF HALL, TOILETS, CHAIRS & TABLES Winter Rate (1 October – 31 March) £14.00 per hour Summer Rate (1 April – 30 September) £12.00 per hour ADDITIONAL ITEM(S) CHARGES (IF REQUIRED) Use of hot water and kitchen for the purpose of tea/coffee and light refreshments £18.00

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Leavers’ Service – Thursday, 19th July at 9.30am

Please return to the school office by Monday, 16th July

CHILD’S NAME: (please print) …………………………………………….………

I can accompany the children to the church.

(Please no pre-school children if you would like to walk to and from the church: they are welcome at the service.)

NB. THIS IS NOT A PERMISSION SLIP FOR CHILDREN TO ATTEND. THIS IS COVERED BY THE ACADEMIC SLIP COMPLETED IN SEPTEMBER. PLEASE ONLY COMPLETE THIS IS YOU ARE ABLE

TO HELP SUPERVISE AND WALK UP TO THE CHURCH WITH THE CHILDREN. Thank you.

Signed: _________________________________ Dated: _________________________

Leavers Service Our Leaver’s Service is taking place on Thursday, 19th July at St Mary’s Church from 9.30am. We will be walking up from school after morning registration. If you are able to help with supervision walking the children to and from this service, please complete the slip below. Thank you in advance. Violin Last week the children enjoyed an assembly by Roger Proctor about playing the Violin. If your child is interested in learning please speak to the office.

PTA News

WOW!!!!!! What an amazing evening we had at our Family Fun Night!!

It was lovely to see so many of you at our event. The weather was amazing and I think everybody has enjoyed themselves quite a lot! It was great to see the judo students in action and seeing our children having fun with the games (especially throwing wet spong-es at Mrs. Ebrey and Mrs. Burridge!!).

We would like to thank you from the bottom of our hearts. The money that has been raised will be spend on resources and necessary educational equipment in school. We will keep you informed on how we will spend the money that has been raised!! Watch this space!!!

So thank you to all parents, children, teachers, governors, volunteers and everyone who helped us!!! We couldn’t have done it without you.

Up to the next even in October: Fireworks!!!!!!

*The next PTA meeting is on Monday the 9th July at the Butt Inn. If you would like to join us, please come to the meeting!!

Thank you!

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