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Term 6 2014
News in School
22nd July 2014
A brilliant day was had by all on this year’s whole
school trip to Sherwood Forest. Key Stage 2 children
enjoyed a shelter building workshop whilst Key Stage
1 children took part in a nature based art project.
Everyone enjoyed a guided woodland walk leading to
the Great Oak . This ancient tree is believed to be
linked to Robin Hood and our guide shared some in-
teresting stories about the great outlaw. The chal-
lenge of “How many children can you fit inside a
tree?” provided competition for each class.
On the look out for Robin Hood
Pupils achieve high in another successful year
Fun Day 2
ECO School
Fundraising
3
Music Extrava-
ganza
3
School Facelift 4
Sports Day 4
Year 6 Celebra-tion
5
Class News 6
Athletics School grounds
7
Term Dates & Forth coming
events
8
Inside this issue:
Well done to everyone! On behalf of all the staff I would like
to congratulate the children on another successful year in school. The staff have worked extremely hard to support the children’s learning with great success; results in EYFS,
the Year 1 phonics test, key stage 1 and 2 SAT’s have all ex-ceeded national averages with good or outstanding progress across each key stage.
Fun Day 2014
The annual school fun day was held on Sun-day 13th July. It was a fantastic day with lots of fun events and
shows. The day’s fundraising plus later plant sales raised over £1500 for the school.
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We were delighted by the Spalding Children’s choir who entertained us with their wonderful voices—many of the young singers are also pupils in the school. The Zumba display team encouraged people to join in, which was fun too, they got everyone in the mood for keep fit. The tradi-tional raffle, tombola and bouncy castle were this year joined by swing-
boats and an ice cream van. What a wonderful day!
A very big thank you to the PTFA committee for all of their hard work and to all the volunteers who helped along the way. A big thank you too
to the kind contributors of prizes and stall stock.
Year 5 get Bikewise
Sports Day
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Perfect weather for another per-
fect sports day! For me this
year’s sports day was the best I
have ever attended. The team
spirit of the children and sup-
port and encouragement they
gave to each other was a delight
to observe. The parent races
were also a highlight! We can
see where the children get their
competitive streak from!
To ensure that our pupils are adequately pre-
pared for independent use of their bicycles we present an annual Bikeability course which is
open to all year 5 pupils. The course replaces the traditional ‘cycling proficiency’ test which some parents may be more familiar with. The
course is designed to the children the skills nd confidence to ride their bikes on today’s roads.
Well done to all of the Year 5’s who took part.
Musical fills the air at the Music Extravaganza
Over the past year Oak class and Willow
class have been supported by Mr Dory (LCC
Music service) to develop their musical tal-
ents in their weekly music lessons. Oak
class have been learning to play a range of
percussion instruments from across the
world and Willow class have been learning
to play brass instruments. Taking centre
stage at our musical extravaganza both
classes wowed the audience. It was a
wonderful evening that showcased the
children’s musical talents. Individual musi-
cal performances were also enjoyed from
the children who have been taking up indi-
vidual piano, violin, clarinet, trumpet and
saxophone lessons. Next year Oak class
will be learning to play woodwind and Wil-
low class will be learning to play ukulele.
A big thank you to everyone who has donated items for our blue
bag campaigns this year and also for those who have deposited
batteries, wires and ink cartridges in our recycling bank. We will con-
tinue to provide these facilities next year.
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Green News
Cheerleading takes
the show! Our close links with our par-
ish church of St Bartholo-
mew’s were celebrated at
their annual summer fair
when members of our cheer-
leading club entertained the
crowds with their well prac-
tised routine. Many thanks
to all the children and fami-
lies who supported us taking
part in this event.
To support National diabetes week we raised funds through a wear blue day. Leaning links were inter-twined throughout the day in order to increase awareness of this disease. Thank you to
everyone who helped us raise £136.20
Wear Blue for Diabetes
PTFA work tirelessly to raise funds for the school
In addition to the £1500 raised at the Summer Fair, this term the PTFA
have raised £136.46 at the Sports Day Cream Tea event, £50.21 at the
Children’s Bingo and £21.70 from the Father’s Day gift event. Thank you
for supporting these fund raising events.
We’re getting a facelift
Over the summer holidays work will commence on a new extension to the school. The new extension will be built onto the current Head Teachers office to create a new secure reception area and main office. Behind this, adjacent to Rowan class a further extension will become the Head teacher’s office with the current school office being used as a meeting room/small group teaching area. Of course building work does take time to complete and will extend beyond the summer holidays. As we are unable to provide an alternative main entrance to the school the work will have to be completed around the operations of the school. We will do everything that we can to limit any disruption to you and the school. Please be patient with us whilst work is completed.
Year 6’s have enjoyed a wonderful final term commencing with a trip to Lincoln Cathedral to attend the Church School’s Festival. Then there was SATS week- in which they excelled, a residential trip to London and the end of year disco with catwalk event - as well as the ‘mummy toilet roll game (in which Jula & Freya seemed well practiced). The term, and the Yr6’s time in the school, will conclude with the end of year church service. We are absolutely confident that each of our leavers will go on to achieve great things; they have the ability to be or do anything they want. The world is definitely their oyster!
All Good Things Come To An End
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Apple Class enjoy a beach life
Apple Class has
been transformed this term
into an beach oasis. Sprin-
kled with a range of sea life
animals, buckets and spades,
beach towels and swimming
gear the seaside topic has
really to come alive.
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Life is just a walk in the park for Palm Class The local environment formed the basis
for Palm’s final topic of the year. Using fi-
ne art as their guide they have created
landscape images in the style of Monet. In
addition they have considered the design
of the park equipment and designed and
built their own play park (on a much smaller
scale!).
Congratulations
Well done to Blue Team who
triumphed in this year’s team
point challenge!
This has been a really en-
joyable topic which has in-
spired great learning. A
beach party (on the school
field) for Apple class and
their families concluded the
topic.
Oak class have been learning about the local environment too. Honing their re-search skills to find out about a local environmental issue has allowed them to develop their debating and persua-sion skills .
Oak Class get persuasive
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Oak class also represented the school this term in Spalding primary schools athletics tour-nament. They did a tremendous job in both field and track events placing us 4th out of the 9 schools. A great improvement on previous years.
A wonderful sight Due to the kind donation of summer bedding plants from Mr and Mrs Chappell and herbs and plants from Mr and Mrs Nieburg the school
grounds look amazing. (Many thanks to them!)
In addition to the rainbow of colour which now adorns the school grounds our pond area has had a make over too. Mr Midgley’s pond dipping club have done a wonderful job improving the area for the whole school to enjoy.
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St Bartholomew’s CE Primary School
Well done to Jula Gdula and Freya Peters
who achieved level 6 in their key Stage 2
maths SATs tests. This is a fantastic
achievement and we are very proud of
them.
72% of year 6’s achieved level 5 in the
reading test—an amazing result which ex-
ceeds all previous results in the school.
Reports Thank you to everyone who took the
time to return comments regarding
their child’s report. These were in-
credibly positive and we are grateful
Year 6 SATs Results
Thank you for the music Violin and piano lessons will continue to be provided by Miss Gardiner. Miss Young will continue to provide clari-net, saxophone and flute lessons. Please contact the office if your child is interested in taking up these lessons.
On behalf of the all the staff,
thank you for the continued support that you have shown
the school over this academic year. We hope that you enjoy a
wonderful summer holiday with
lots of sunshine!
We look forward to seeing you
all back in school in September.
Pupils return to school Thursday 4th September 2014
Term Dates 2013-14
Term 1- Inset Tues/Wed 2nd/3rd September
Thursday - 4th Sept - Thurs 23rd October
Term 2 -Mon 3rd Nov – Thurs 18th December
Term 3—Tues 6th Jan—Fri 13th February 2015
Term 4 - Monday 23rd February – Fri 27th March
Term 5- Tuesday 14th April – Fri 22nd May
Term 6 -Monday 1st June – Wed 22nd July
Thank you
Volunteers are an invaluable asset to primary schools, add-ing value for every child in the school. Many thanks to eve-ryone who has volunteered in school this year. Particular thanks go to Mrs Carrington, Mrs Corefield, and Mrs Noble who have supported children with their reading this year. Mr Sapsford’s work with our high achieving mathematicians in year 5/6 is much appreciated as is the time given up by Mrs Neal, Mrs Townsend, Mr Hollis, Mr Precious, Miss Sapsford, Becky and Tony who have volunteered their time to lead af-ter school clubs. Harry Waine and Jamie Hutchinson have supported in school activities too. We are very grateful to everyone who has given up their time to assist the children and as we look forward to next year. We would be very please d to hear from anyone who would be interested in hearing readers in school or leading an afterschool club. Please contact the office if you are able to help.
Attendance Levels 2013-14
Whole School—95.59%,
Yr 6 96.5%, Yr5 95.5%, Yr4 97.7%
Yr3 98.1%, Yr2 96.1%,
Yr1 95.4%, Reception 97.7%