St John’s Primary School

Wallingford

Newsletter

October 2017

Issue 3

13/10/17

Dear Parents,

Thank you to all of you who came along to join us at our Harvest Assembly this morning. It was lovely

to see so many of you here and thank you for your generous gifts. We really enjoyed the children’s

singing, poetry and re-telling of ‘The Little Red Hen’. Well done to Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1.

Year 6 delivered all of the Harvest gifts to the Wallingford Food Bank this morning, who were very

grateful for the donations.

We have had children out on some exciting trips this week. Year 2 visited the River and Rowing Muse-

um as part of their topic, visiting the ‘Wind in the Willows’ exhibition and learning more about rivers.

Thank you to the parents who accompanied the class. Years 5 and 6 visited a Hindu Temple in Read-

ing as part of their topic learning about India, the Ganges and Indian culture and religion. Year 6 also

took part in the IMPS First Aid programme at Townlands Hospital in Henley. Photos of all of these

trips are included in this newsletter. Next week is our Art Week and we hope lots of you will come

and see our water themed exhibition on Thursday at 2pm. Year 5 are also hoping to perform their

Bangra dance!

We were visited on three days this week by teachers from South Africa as part of the CHOKO project.

They really enjoyed learning about how we teach and were particularly impressed by the creativity of

our teachers and the teaching of phonics! They went away with lots of photographs, resources and

ideas.

Our Autumn Fair on 30th September was a great success, raising around £1,600. Thank you so much

for supporting the event; it was a really fun and enjoyable day. Well done to the new PTFA com-

mittee and their many helpers for all of their hard work. It has been a great start to the PTFA year!

Tomorrow we are having a ‘mini’ Love Your School Day, from 10am - 1pm. If you can spare some time

to come along and sweep leaves, weed, fix fences…..we’d be really pleased to see you!

We are really keen to re-launch our reading journals this year and to support you in supporting your

children with reading at home. Many of you will have already received reading homework and seen

journals coming home. For the younger years, these will be issued soon. We are holding Phonics/

Reading Workshops for parents of children in Foundation Stage, Year 1 and Year 2 on Monday 16th

October, at 3pm and 7pm for Foundation Stage and 3.30pm and 7.30pm for Year 1 and 2. We hope

to see lots of you there.

A reminder that parent teacher interviews will be held during the week beginning 6th November.

Letters letting you know the days and times available for your child’s teacher will be sent out next

week, so do look out for that.

Have a lovely weekend.

Kind regards,

Nicky Hughes

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Important dates for your diaries…

Fri 13th Oct 9.30am - Harvest Festival

Fri 13th Oct - Year 6 Pop up café 3pm

Sat 14th Oct - mini Love your school day

w/c 16th Oct - Art Week

Mon 16th Oct - Foundation Stage and Year 1/ 2

Phonics and Reading workshop for parents:

2pm and 7pm for Foundation Stage

3pm and 7.30pm for Year 1/2

Thurs 19th Oct 2 - 3.30pm - Open Afternoon, Art

Exhibition

* End of term Friday 20th October *

Tues 31st Oct - Year 6 start swimming

Mon 6th Nov - INSET DAY no school for pupils

Mon 13th Nov - Flu immunisations FS - Y4

Thurs 16th Nov - School Photos

Tues 12th Dec - Year 4 start swimming

Thurs 14th Dec - Christmas Dinner

Tues 19th Dec - Christmas Concert at St Mary’s

Term Dates 2017-2018 Term 1 06/09/17 to 20/10/17, Term 2 30/10/17 to 19/12/17, Term 3 04/01/18 to 09/02/18, Term 4 19/02/18 to 29/03/18, Term 5 16/04/18 to 25/05/18, Term 6 04/06/18 to 20/07/17

Remaining Inset Days 2017-2018

Monday 06/11/17, Monday 23/07/18, Tuesday

24/07/18, Wednesday 25/07/18

Election results

Parent Governor

Mr Nick Oliver, dad of Lily in Year 1, has

been elected unopposed to our Governing

Body. We look forward to working with

him.

School and Eco Councils

Well done to everyone who stood for

School and Eco Council last week. We en-

joyed the speeches and campaign posters!

School Councillors:

Year 2: Elizabeth and Tom

Year 3: Charlotte H and Charlie

Year 4: Lewis and Nancy

Year 5: Nate and Herbie

Year 6: Eve and Thomas

Eco Councillors:

Year 2: Sonny and George

Year3: Iris and Eleanor

Year 4: Danni and Daniel

Year 5: Rohan and Rowan H

Year 6: Holly and Rowan

Congratulations to all of the successful can-

didates! Meetings will be starting over the

next couple of weeks.

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Autumn

Fair

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Year 2 - River and Rowing Museum

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Year 6 IMPS trip to Henley hospital

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Year 5 and 6 visit to the Hindu Temple

This is just a reminder that South Oxfordshire Music Centre is up and running again for the Autumn term. We're at Wallingford School in the Music Department from 9.30am - 12pm on Saturday mornings. We run a variety of ensembles for beginners to grade 5+. Come along for a free trial tomorrow.... * Lots of fun music - tomorrow we're trying a new arrangement of the Game of Thrones theme and a piece from Home Alone with the Senior Orchestra! * A yummy tuck-shop (we've just been shopping)! * A great opportunity to make like-minded musician chums (we're a friendly bunch)! For more information, please go to: https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/cms/content/south-oxfordshire-music-centre or email; lorna.waters@oxfordshire.gov.uk

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Full Circle Sports October Half Term Holiday Sports & Activity Camps Come and join us to have fun, learn new skills and make new friends!

**NEW** FOCUS ON…Workshops Spend the day taking part in your favourite activity or try something new! Wallingford School (OX10 8HH) £35 9.30am- 3.00pm (extra time of 8.30am - 5.30pm available) Tuesday 24th October

Focus On… Forest School – Tuesday 24th October - For children aged 4-9 years Focus On… Dance Workshop – Tuesday 24th October - For children aged 7-14 years Wednesday 25th October Focus On... Climbing Workshop - For children aged 7-14 years Focus On... Football Workshop - For Children aged 7-14 years MultiSport Camp Tuesday 24th October – Thursday 26th October - Age 4 to 13 years

Activities include: Trampolining, Climbing Wall, MultiSports, Lacrosse, Hockey, Football, Basketball, Cricket, Rounders, Ten-nis, Badminton, Tag Rugby, Dance, Arts & Crafts and much more! *Thursday 26 October is Harry Potter Day!* Time: 9.30 to 4.30pm (extra time of 8.30am to 5.30pm available - charges apply) Cost: £32 per day, book all 3 MultiSport Camp days in the same week for £90.(sibling discounts available). Venue: Wallingford School Leisure Centre (OX10 8HH) We are OFSTED registered and accept Childcare Vouchers. For more details or to reserve your places - Email - sam@fullcirclesports.co.uk Call - 07751 231 090 Details and booking form also available at: www.fullcirclesports.co.uk

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