COMING UP…

DATE Time Event

TERM 4

Week Beginning Mon 9th

MAR

3.30pm Book fair (all week after school)

WED 11TH MAR All Day World Book Day celebrations

WED 11TH MAR 5.30pm Children’s Bedtime Stories

Fri 13th MAR All day Sports Relief Wear sports kit to school

THURS 19TH MAR 3.00pm – 3.30pm Yr 2 Parents SATS meeting

FRI 20TH MAR 3.30pm Cake Sale (Gruffalo)

FRI 27TH MAR 10am—1pm Phoenix class trip to Redland Parish Church—Easter Trail

FRI 27TH MAR 2.00pm Mother’s Day Service – St Johns Church led by Unicorn - All parents

welcome

TUES 31ST MAR Morning KS 1 Easter Activities – St Johns Church

WED 1ST APRIL Morning KS 2 Easter Activities – St Johns Church

WED 1ST APRIL Afternoon – 7pm WIA Choir Extravaganza Year 3 pupils—More information to follow.

FRI 3RD APRIL 2.00pm Easter Service – St Johns Church led by Gruffalo - All parents welcome

FRI 3RD APRIL 3.30pm Break Up

Mon 20th APRIL All day Term 5 begins

TUES 28th APRIL 3.00pm Phonics Checklist meeting Year 1 parents

MAY All month Year 2 SATS month

MAY11th—14th All week Year 6 SATS week

MAY 18th All week DT Week

MAY 20th All day Class photos

INSET DAYS Monday 1st June, Tuesday 2nd June, Monday 20th July 2020.

FOR ACTION WHO? When? What?

WHOLE SCHOOL Fri 13th MAR Sports Relief Wear sports kit to school - more information to follow

on fund raising activities led by School Council

WHOLE SCHOOL Wed 11th Mar World Book Day – Wear your favourite book character. (Please note

date—Not on National World Day this year)

UNICORN Fri 27th Mar Mother’s Day Service – St Johns Church led by Unicorn

GRUFFALO 20th Mar Cake Sale – Bring cake donations

GRUFFALO Fri 3rd April Easter Service – St Johns Church led by Gruffalo

Taken from Hebrews 10:24-25

‘And let us consider how we may spur

one another on toward love and good

deeds’

Frenchay C 0f E Primary Coming Up… Dates in blue are new!

Frenchay Primary Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/FrenchayPrimarySchool/

Frenchay Primary PTA Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/FrenchaySchoolPTA/

School Website http://www.frenchayprimary.co.uk/

Frenchay C 0f E Primary

Message from the Head Teacher

The term is now in full swing and the children are loving their new topics. By the end of this term

they will be completing their work on Fry’s Chocolate in Upper KS2 and Hot Air Balloons in Yr 1—3.

They will then be moving on to looking at global topics based around climate change and sustain-

ability, obviously an essential focus in the world today. There will be more information on these top-

ics in the next class newsletters.

Children’s Absence Please ensure that when informing the school office of your child’s absence,

you state more than just ‘unwell’. For safeguarding and attendance reasons it is important that

more detail is provided such as high temperature, sickness and diarrhoea, chest infection etc. are

given. One key aspect of our information gathering is to see if there are patterns forming in reasons

for absence such as an outbreak of a certain illness such as norovirus or chicken pox for example.

Many thanks for your cooperation.

If you are collecting your child from school during school hours you MUST sign them out from the

school office before they go home with you. This is key for our records of who is onsite and if some-

one has left the site we know who with and where they have gone. Thank you for your cooperation.

Coronavirus There has obviously been a lot in the news about the coronavirus. We will do our ut-

most to continue to send out the guidance and recommendations that we receive from the DFE

and PHE and as a school we follow their guidance along with the Local Authority. As standard

practice children use hand gel twice daily around lunchtime to reduce the risk posed to our pupils

with allergies.

We shall be encouraging children to wash their hands with

soap and water more regularly throughout the day and will

be using the leaflet of ‘Let’s Wash our Hands’ to support the

correct washing procedure. There are a number of good vid-

eos online that support hand washing too, such as the News-

round clip given in this link. We thought it might be useful to

share the poster with you all to use at home too. We shall be

encouraging the use of tissues or the crook of the elbow when

sneezing as advised. There is a useful Newsround link to a vid-

eo sharing more on the virus at child appropriate levels which

may be useful.

ISSUE 52 6TH MARCH 2020

Believe, Belong, Become

Colours of the Newsletter: Our Newsletter changes colour with the Christian Calendar. As it is the

period of ordinary time the colour is green.

Dates to

Remem-

ber:

Term 2

2019 –

Believe, Belong, Become

Yoga After School Club Along with this week’s newsletter is a letter advertising a new Yoga After

school club for term 5 and 6. Please take a look and sign up using the email address provided.

World Book Day ON WEDNESDAY 11th MARCH we will be celebrating our World Book Day with dress-

ing up, a potato making competition and book fair. We can’t wait to see you all in your favourite book

characters outfits! There is also Bedtime stories at 5.30pm. Children to come back to school in their PJs for

a story and hot chocolate. (See Book Fair letter for more details.)

SPORTS Relief On Friday 13th March we shall be holding

Sports Relief activities. This includes a fun run (weather permit-

ting) The school council are working hard on bringing their

ideas into action. All children are invited to wear sports

clothes on the day. More details to follow.

Learning in Phoenix Class

Phoenix class have had another busy term beavering

away. We have had many highlights but our new topic

'What makes the perfect chocolate bar?' has really engaged

us. We started with a maths chocolate problem looking at

fractions of chocolate and how to combine groups to allow

us to eat the most chocolate! We have gone on to learn

about the ingredients of chocolate and where they come

from. After this we have learnt about the history of chocolate in Bristol - did you know that the first Easter

Egg was made in Bristol? We have also visited Frenchay museum to find out about the history of Fry's

and how it relates to Bristol and Frenchay. Our next step is to design our own chocolate bar!

Trip to the Frenchay Museum This week children in 3 clas-

ses have been lucky enough to go to the museum and meet

our schools previous Head teacher Mrs Thorne. They have

had an in-depth tour or the artefacts and learnt all about

how the Fry’s family are connected to Frenchay along with

the explorers and toys on show from the local area.

RSE Workshop Thank you for your responses for the best

times to hold a workshop on the changes in our Relationships

and Sex Education Programme (RSE). The results are below.

We shall hold the workshop on Tuesday 31st March at 5pm—

5.45pm. This will be for all parents to join together for a

presentation. This is then followed by an opportunity to meet class teachers to find out more on the spe-

cific lessons that will be taught and to watch the new video clips that we plan to show the children. This

will be a drop in session from 5.45pm—6.30pm. You will then also be able to ask any questions you wish

to. We would like as many as possible to attend as this is a new programme of lessons which we are im-

portant for you to know about. There will be some information sent home in addition to the workshops for

those who cannot attend but as with all these things it is bet-

ter to hold a discussion and explanation rather than just read-

ing things cold. We hope you will join us.

Taken from Hebrews 10:24-25

‘And let us consider how we may spur

one another on toward love and good

deeds’

Believe, Belong, Become

Book Fair We shall be having our book

fair during the week of March 9th. All books

sold earn us commission which we can

then spend on books for the school. The

Sports Relief On 13th March we shall be

holding our Sports Relief events, raising

money for the worthwhile charities. We are

inviting everyone to wear sports kit on this

day as part of the celebrations. Please

watch this space for more information from

the school council as to the fund raising

activities.

Parent Governor Nominations Unfortu-

nately we did not received any nomina-

tions for the Parent Governor position. We

shall hold nominations again later in the

year.

PTA Flyer Please see the PTA flyer for raising

funds by collecting reusable clothes. All

contributions are much appreciated.

Value for term 4: Forgiveness

Pause for Thought Week beginning 9th March: How does it make you feel when you are forgiven?

Week beginning 16th March: Can you think of a time you have changed your behaviour to

show you are really sorry?

Clubs at Frenchay Primary Term 4

Believe, Belong, Become

Before

School After school After school Lunchtime

Monday Pride in play –

Forest skills

3.30 – 5.00

Football Progressive

Sports

Tuesday Netball with Mrs

Cooke

3.45pm KS play-

ground

Wednes-

day STEM – Ro-

botics

library

8.00am –

8.50am

Wet Felt

Easter Crafts 3.40—4.30pm Gruffalo

Thursday

Choir with Mrs McGarry

Griffin classroom y2—6

Friday KS 2 Street

Dance

3.30 – 4.30 Hall

Dodge ball Progres-

sive Sports

Club Contact

Information

Contact Details

Impact Dance Email: Impactdanceforschool@yahoo.com

Pride And Play Phone: 07401816839 Email: Prideinplay@outlook.com

Progressive Sports Email: M.quirke@progressive-sports.co.uk Phone: 01889 228033

Gardening Club Please speak to Miss Harper in Griffin Class (Will return in Spring)

STEM Factory Email: Thestemfactory@gmail.com

Netball Run by Mrs Cooke. Contact the school office

Easter Activities Run by Mrs Pinner. Contact the school office.

Wet Felt Please speak to Miss Harper in Griffin Class

Yr and KS 2 Choir Run by Mrs McGarry. Pease contact the school office.

Community Events and External Adverts

The school is often approached by external organisations with information which may be of interest to our parents. Please note these are published at the discretion of the Headteacher and are published for infor-mation only. The school is not involved with these events/organisations.

Clubs, Activities and Information from Outside the School