The John Moore Primary School

Open classrooms 1

Year 6 assembly 1

Lost property 2

Healthy lunchboxes 2

Exciting events 3

Dates for your diary 4

Inside this issue:

Friday Fortnightly

Newsletter

Friday January 26th 2018 Spring Term No. 2

Dear Parents/Carers

Over the next

few weeks:

Year 5 Stemworks

workshop Wed 31st January

Year 3HC

Assembly Thursday 1st February

9:00 a.m.

Book Fair

5th—7th February

3:15—4:00 p.m.

Open classrooms

Thank you very much to all the parents and families who joined us for our

open classrooms this week. It was wonderful to see the children sharing

their work with you and to have a chance to talk through some of their

successes. If you were not able to join us, please do not worry, we will be

holding further sessions throughout the year.

Year 6 assembly

Thank you to our amazing Year 6 children, to Miss Mann, Mrs Summers and Mrs Hamilton for the fantastic celebration of your work so far this year. It was

wonderful to see how much you have all achieved and to share in your excitement for learning.

Thank you also to all the parents and families who attended the assembly. It

was wonderful that you were able to celebrate with us.

Patience

As a school over the past two weeks we have been exploring the theme of

patience. The children have been working hard to develop their patience

when they have to wait for something and their patience with each other.

We have been celebrating lots of examples where the children have been

patient with each other (showing kindness and compassion for others) and

where they have been patient in their learning (persevering and not giving

up).

We hope that you have seen some examples of this at home too!

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Healthy lunchboxes

We have had some parents asking whether it is okay to put chocolate bars in packed lunch

boxes. As a school, our aim is to promote healthy eating as much as possible. Whilst we

recognise that a chocolate bar as a treat now and again is fine as part of a healthy diet we do try

and encourage the children to have these at home rather than as part of their lunch. We know

that often cereal bars or biscuits have a small amount of chocolate on them and we accept that

you may wish to include these as a small treat. Please however could you support us by not

including full chocolate bars in lunchboxes.

We have also noticed that some children have started to bring squash in their water bottles. We

only encourage water in the school water bottles. This again is part of our bid to encourage

healthy drinking habits and to reduce tooth decay. Please could you support us by only sending

water in the water bottles.

If you would like to explore further ideas for healthy lunchboxes please visit:

www.holleygrainger.com/125-healthy-lunchboxes-kids

www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/school-packed-lunch-inspiration

Parking

Please could we ask that you do not park or wait in

cars on the yellow lined areas in front of the school

gates. We have received a number of concerns from

local residents and from parents at the school . Our

key priority is the safety of the children so please help

us to keep them safe by keeping these designated

access areas clear. The local police will be making

some spot check visits over the coming months to

support us with this.

Severe Weather

In case of severe weather conditions please use the following for up-dates regarding school

closures:

The local radio station will have regular up-dates about closed schools on:

Radio Gloucestershire 104.7 FM

You can now also log on to the following websites for

information:

www.glosclosedschools.com

www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/closedschools

www.glosclosedschools.co.uk

www.thejohnmooreprimary.org

Please note, the school would only need to close if not enough staff could get into school safely, or the

Health and Safety of the children in the school was at risk.

Texting Service - We also have our

teachers2parents texting system, so should be

able to send a text out to everyone in the event

of a school closure—provided internet services

are working!

Lost property

We still have a considerable amount of lost

property that has been with us since the

end of last term. This includes coats,

jumpers, gloves and hats. If your child has

lost something, please

visit the main office and

hopefully we can reunite

you.

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Exciting events

OUR SCHOOL VISION ‘Our vision is to provide an excellent education for all that enables each individual to achieve

their very best and where everyone is valued and respected.’

Slippers!

This week in Reception we had a visit from the local

press as they were very interested in our slipper project. We had great fun talking to the reporter

about why we love wearing our slippers. We showed off our slippers and enjoyed having our photos taken! Watch out for our photos in the local press! This can

be accessed via the Gloucestershire live website www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk

Visit from the Toy Museum In Year 1 last week, we had an

amazing visit from the Toy Museum. We were able to play with and explore lots of old toys. These toys were not electronic and did not need batteries.

We had such fun and learnt a lot about how they were made.

Year 2 Food Tasting

As part of our Geography topic, we are

comparing life in the Caribbean to here in

Tewkesbury. We had a great time tasting a

variety of fruits that are grown in St.Lucia

(including coconut!) In our Art sketch books

we then drew the inside and outside of each

fruit, studying the wide variety of patterns

and lines. The results are beautiful!

Mini Marines

In Year 3, we are loving our Friday

mornings where we are extending

our physical development through

the Mini Marines program.

School Term Dates and Holidays - Academic Year 2017/18

Dates for your diary

SPRINGTERM 2018

Monday February 12th

– Friday February 16th

2018 Half Term holiday

Monday February 19th

– Wednesday March 28th 2018 Spring Term (Term 4) [Term ends at 2.00pm on

March 28th ]

Thursday March 29th 2018 School closed for teacher training (INSET)

Friday March 30th 2018 Bank Holiday—Good Friday—School closed

Monday April 2nd – Friday April 13t 2018 Easter holidays

Summer 2018

Monday April 16th – Friday May 25th 2018 Summer Term (Term 5)

Monday May7th 2018 Bank holiday Monday – School Closed

Monday May 28th

– Friday June 1st 2018 Half term holiday

Monday June 4th

– Tuesday July 24th 2018 Summer Term (Term 6)[Term ends at 2.00 pm on

July 24th

]

SPRING TERM 2018

Wednesday January 31st

2018

Year 5 Stemworks workshop

Thursday February 1st

2018

Y3HC assembly—All families welcome

Monday February 5th—7th

2018

3.15—4.00 pm Book fair

Thursday February 8th

2018

Y4 assembly—All families welcome

Tuesday Feb 27th and

Thursday March 1st 2018

3.30—6.30 pm Parents’ evenings

Thursday March 8th 2018 Y3F assembly—All families welcome

Thursday March 22nd

2018

Y5 assembly—All families welcome

Thursday March 29th 2018 INSET training day for staff

SUMMER TERM 2018

Monday May 14th

– Thurs-

day May 17th

2018

Year 6 SATs week

Tuesday May 22nd 2018 New Foundation Stage Parents’ meeting

Friday June 15th 2018 9.30 am Infant Sports Day

1.15 pm Junior Sports Day

Thursday June 21st 2018 8.30 am ‘Open Classrooms

Monday June 25th

– Friday

June 29th

2018

Year 6 PGL Residential Torrington

Tuesday July 17th 2018 3.30 pm—4.30 pm Optional parents’ evening

Tuesday July 24th 2018 9.00 am Year 6 Leavers Assembly (Y6 Parents invited)

Tuesday July 24th 2018 Term ends at 2.00 pm