Published on: 18th December 2020

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Dear Parents and Carers,

We have reached the end of another term and today we held our Termly Awards assembly, celebrating the great number of achievements that our pupils have made in school this term. The pupils of Charvil Primary continue to be a great credit to their families. The circumstances we find ourselves have provided challenges, but the strength of our school community to work together, with our Christian values supporting us, has enabled many great achievements.

Preliminary data shows that our Year 2 cohort have done superbly in the Phonics Check. Despite the missed schooling earlier in the year, we will have achieved a 97% pass rate, significantly above local and national averages. The passion for reading in this school is clear to see and our children do superbly well as a result of excellent teaching.

The Christmas performances have been sent to parents of Foundation, Year 1 and Year 2 and these really showcase what is wonderful about our school. As well as the academic successes which we achieve, our pupils show great confidence on the stage and their musical ability is superbly demonstrated in each of these performances.

As we look ahead to 2021, we hope for a more settled year in terms of schooling. We look forward to working with all of our families towards the ongoing wellbeing, happiness, academic and personal successes of the children of The Piggott School: Charvil Primary.

Wishing you all a very Happy Christmas!

Mr Gray, Mr Hillerton and Ms May

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Upcoming Diary Dates 2020/21

Monday 4th January 2021 First Day of Term

Monday 15th February - Friday 19th February 2021 Half Term

W/c Monday 8th March 2020 Parent Consultations - Details to be confirmed

W/c Monday 15th March 2021 Parent Consultations - Details to be confirmed

Tuesday 23rd March 2021 Tempest School Photographs TBC

Thursday 1st April 2021 1.00pm Finish Last Day of Term

Monday 19th April 2021 First Day of Term

Monday 3rd May 2021 Bank Holiday

Monday 31st May 2021 - Friday 4th June 2021 Half Term

Friday 16th July 2021 1.00pm Finish Last Day of Term

Monday 19th July - Tuesday 20th July 2021 INSET Days - School closed to Pupils

School Lunches

Please can you make sure that your child has a lunch each day. These can be ordered online from Aspens, by the 8.00 am deadline or a packed lunch may be provided from home.

While the kitchen staff will endeavour to provide a meal for those children without a lunch ordered, this does often cause considerable distress to the child and extra work for kitchen, admin and serving staff.

NB: If your child no longer requires a school meal, please CANCEL their order so that the school does not get charged. This applies to ALL children, including those in receipt of Free School Meals Thank you.

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Name Labels

Please can we take this opportunity to remind you that everything your child brings into school should be clearly labelled with their name. This includes all uniform, PE kit, coats, gloves, scarves, hats, lunch boxes, and water bottles.

PE Days are as follows:

Monday: Year 5 Tuesday: Year 6 Wednesday: Year 1 and Year 3 Thursday: Foundation and Year 4 Friday: Year 2

Please ensure your child comes to school in their PE kit. Thank you.

Please remember:

Break-time Snacks We provide fruit or vegetable snacks at break-time

for all children in KS1 and Foundation.

Please ensure that any morning snacks provided for children from home, are fruit or vegetable

based and NUT FREE.

Sweets and chocolate are not allowed.

Thank you for your support

The Sporting Excellence Award: Amy for your excellent contributions in our

lessons on dance and movement; ensuring you use levels, find the beat and

consider how your movements might look to an audience.

The Creative Award for the Arts and Music: Theo M for showing real creativity

and precision in art, and through your writing too.

Termly Award Winners

Autumn 2020

Congratulations to St Patricks

for winning the House Points Cup this term with 887 points

Awards for following Our Values:

Respect — Freddie H for showing mutual respect to adults and peers at all times.

Equality — Anay for helping make sure that everyone has their turn at classroom jobs.

Honesty — Mollie-Grace for understanding the importance of honesty.

Dedication — Lena for all your hard work in every subject.

Courage — Victoria for showing true courage in all that you have done.

Love — Isabelle M for her kindness towards others.

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EYFS Learning Behaviour Awards:

Eoin for being willing to have a go. Teddy for keeping on trying.

Elijah for making links in his learning. Rosie for her understanding of British Values.

Key Stage 1 and 2 Academic Achievement and Progress Awards:

KS1 Writing: Azariah for always striving to improve your writing content and handwriting.

KS2 Writing: Charlie He for your unwavering dedication to improving your writing which has resulted in excellent progress.

KS1 Maths: George D for consistently working hard and being focused in maths lessons.

KS2 Maths: Thomas S for your progress and always challenging yourself in maths.

KS1 Reading: Gary for making super progress in your reading, and for your dedication to reading Bug Club books at home.

KS2 Reading: Olivia C for making great progress with reading aloud, taking time to consider your expression and developing your comprehension skills.

KS1 Science: Morwenna for offering good suggestions for scientific ideas.

KS2 Science: Matthew M for sharing your good knowledge of scientific concepts in science lessons.

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Year 2 - Virtual Windsor Castle Workshop

As part of their castles topic, last Wednesday, Year 2 linked up with Windsor Castle to take part in a virtual workshop. It was lovely that the children who were self isolating could join in too!

The workshop covered Her Majesty’s working life, including the many official and State duties that she carries out at Windsor. How to identify symbols of royalty, whose home Windsor Castle is, how we can identify if The Queen is in residence, and what The Queen likes to do when she takes time off.

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Foundation and KS1 Christmas Performances

Huge congratulations to the children and staff in our Foundation and KS1 classes, who recorded their fantastic Christmas performances last week. You are all real superstars and all your effort and hard work is clear to see!

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Year 3 Stone Age Jewellery Making

How to make stone age jewellery like Year 3…..

Step 1. Cut a piece of string to the length you require.

Step 2. Make different shapes with your clay and mould them onto your string.

Step 3. Place a piece of clay onto both ends of the string and mould them together.

You have made a piece of stone age jewellery!

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Hi everyone,

Well, back in March, who’d have thought we’d still be in this situation at Christmas? Certainly PTAs all around the country have been finding fundraising for their schools a bit challenging, to say the least.

We’ve tried a few things this term, with varying success – the Christmas cards and raffle tickets have made some money (£147 and £200, respectively) but our virtual events have been less popular. Conversely, we’ve had our best ever year for the Christmas trees – we sold 58 trees, raising over £500.

We’re not sure how we’ll play things next term yet, but there’s a good chance we might suspend our events until we can hold physical fundraisers. In this case we’ll be asking for donations from those who are able, as the school still has two big projects they’d like us to help fund (the Daily Mile track and the sensory garden, including a new classroom structure). Watch this space….

We really hope we’ll be able to run some of our popular events in the not-too-distant-future – we think the kids could really do with a disco to let off some steam and we’re sure the parents could all do with the same at the Summer Family BBQ. Let’s keep everything crossed for that.

Wishing you a safe and happy break over Christmas and New Year.

Alex Mclean, CPSA Chair

charvilPSA@gmail.com

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CPSA Update

CPSA Christmas Trees

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We are really pleased with our tree!

Thank you to

Mrs Haynes and Mr Mackie

for decorating it so beautifully!

Thank you so much to everyone who ordered a CPSA Christmas tree this year. You helped raise over £500 for our school, which is amazing!

Very special thanks to Alex McLean for being at school at 7am to take delivery of them all!

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Christmas Lunch 2020

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Christmas Jumper Day

Thank you to everyone who supported Christmas Jumper Day last Friday. The children all looked very festive in their jumpers and raised a fantastic £161.76 for Save The Children.

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We would like to wish a very Happy Birthday to all our pupils celebrating their birthday in December!

Henry P - Year 1

Noah - Foundation

Greg - Year 3

Willow - Year 6

Alexander H-W - Year 1

Harry - Year 3

Tahillia - Year 3

Rishi - Year 5

Jess - Year 5

Hope -Year 6

Archie - Year 1

Jack - Year 2