Wanborough Primary School

NEWSLETTER

Thurs 13th Feb – 1.30pm

Dobbin Day Service for Rec and

Y6 @ St Andrews Church

w/c 17th Feb

Half Term

Fri 28th Feb – 9am – 10am

NSPCC eSafety Workshop for

Parents

Thurs 5th March

World Book Day –details to follow

Thurs 12th March

Year 1 Class Assembly

Tues 24th March

Year 5 Class Assembly

Tues 31st March

Parents’ Evening and SEND ‘Drop

In’ Session

Thurs 2nd April

Easter Service @ St Andrews

Church – 9.30am

Parents’ Evening

Fri 3rd April

School Finishes at 1.30pm

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Teacher Training Days

2019/2020

2nd Sept / 21st, 22nd, 23rd Oct / 22nd

July

2020/2021

1st Sept / 19th, 20th, 21st Oct / 23rd

July

Diary Dates Dear Parents

Thank you to everybody who is parking at

Hoopers field and walking up the path to

school. After a relatively quiet period I have

received another couple of concerns from

local residents about parking inappropriately

near the chicanes on The Beanlands (blocking

the road to emergency vehicles). I have been

in contact with the local councillor to see if

Wanborough can be made a priority for

reviewing parking, however there are other

priority areas in Swindon, so there is no quick

fix. Therefore, may I ask everybody to

continue to park safely, be considerate to

others and respect the concerns of local

residents - and of course walk to school

whenever possible.

With our “Let’s All Grow Together” project

into our second year, our focus has turned to

eating more healthily. The children will soon

be completing a wide range of curriculum

activities linked to this topic (see pg. 2). We

are also currently reviewing our related

policies and procedures in school with the aim

of promoting more effectively a healthy

lifestyle / wellbeing for all stakeholders. This

week a number of Wanborough staff

attended a workshop led by Nicola Cook and

Rose White at the school (see attached

letter) which we all found extremely useful

and informative as individuals, educators and

parents. We still have spaces for the parents’

workshop on Tuesday 4th February at 6.30pm

– so please fill in the slip and return to the

school office if you would like to attend.

Before our next newsletter Mrs Marshall will

have started her maternity leave, with her

last day being on the final day of this term. I

know many of you have appreciated the work

she has done in Reception and would like to

wish her well before she starts her new class

of one!

Andrew Drury

Headteacher

ISSUE

4 Feb ’20

Value of the Month for February is:

F O R G I V E N E S S

Everyone makes mistakes, it’s part of being

human. Sometimes our mistakes hurt

others and then we need to say sorry.

Sometimes mistakes made by other people

hurt us. When this happens we need to be

able to forgive. Forgiveness can be

difficult and costly but without it a new

start is impossible. Talk together about:

A time when you needed to say sorry.

A time you didn’t say sorry but wish you

had.

A time when you had to forgive someone

who had hurt or upset you.

How it feels when you are given a new

start because someone has forgiven you.

Class Assemblies

We would like to invite parents to attend a

class assembly which will be a celebration of

the topic they have been covering and the

work they have been doing. Each assembly

will start at 2.15pm and will last approx. 30

mins. Dates as follows:

Year 1 Thurs 12th March

Year 5 Tues 24th March

Year 3 Thurs 30th April

Year 4 Thurs 21st May

Rec Thurs 18th June

Year 2 Thurs 25th June

SEND Drop-In Session - 31st March

Mrs Wride will be holding a SEND ‘drop in’

session for any parents wishing to meet

with her during the Parents’ Evening on

Tuesday 31st March. You can either call in

advance to make an appointment, or just pop

in on the night. She will be there between

3.15pm – approx. 6pm.

NSPCC eSafety Workshop for Parents

The NSPCC will be hosting a workshop for

parents here in school on eSafety on Fri

28th Feb at 9am. The online world brings

many positives and possibilities, but it’s also

full of risks – and it’s constantly changing.

This workshop will help you to understand

what children and young people do online,

why they take risks and how to respond to

these risks so you can feel confident in

protecting your children. In the meantime

here is a useful link

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-

children-safe/online-safety/

Newsletter Cont’d

Voluntary Donations

Thank you to all parents who have set up a

standing order for monthly donations to the

school. The donations have been used to

support all areas of the curriculum,

including books, stationery and materials

and class budgets. Please find attached a

copy of the original letter from Governors

giving some background information. If any

parents are interested in setting up a

regular donation to the school or would like

more information about this please contact

the Office or email

finance@wanborough.swindon.sch.uk

Dobbin Day Service – 13th Feb 1.30pm

'Dobbin Day' is a very special service,

unique to the village of Wanborough.

'Dobbin' is an old Wiltshire word for a small

loaf. The service celebrates the life of 18th

Century local rich land owner, William

Stanley, who left £50 in his will, a huge sum

when he died in 1745, requesting that this

be used to distribute bread to the poor of

the parish, at a service at Wanborough

Church near to the date of his death in

February each year. YR and Y6 will attend

the service. All Parishioners are welcome.

RSPB Big Schools’ Birdwatch

Last Thursday and Friday all the classes

took part in this event. This ‘citizen science’

project collects data for the RSPB to track

bird population data across the country.

The children had to be quite and still to

ensure that the birds came close enough to

identify. After a while you spot more and

more. We saw blackbirds, robins, dunnocks,

blue tits, thrushes and many more. See a

full report and pictures on the website. A

special thank you to families who loaned

pairs of binoculars for us to use.

Healthy Eating

During terms 3, 4 and 5 each class will be

looking at an element of healthy eating and

will be contributing the work they have

done to our ETwinning project called

'Healthy Food for a Healthy Mood'.

Reception - Discuss healthy meals and

create posters to promote healthy eating.

Year 1 - Design, make and evaluate fruit

kebabs and link this to healthy snacks.

Year 2 - Class assembly on healthy eating

and balanced diet.

Year 3 - Design, make and evaluate

healthy sandwiches and link this to packed

lunches.

Year 4 - Create a balanced diet meal plan.

Year 5 - Research and create traditional

meals with a modern spin.

Year 6 - Create bilingual posters to

promote healthy eating using technology.

In addition to this we have already had

workshops from Fit4Kids who discussed

the importance of a balanced diet and

showed the children how to check the

labels on their food and how to use the

Change4life, sugar swap app.

Support for PTA Events

The PTA are doing an amazing effort in

raising money for the school. We are

looking to further invest in computing

equipment. We are hoping to raise enough

money for 15 extra iPads and 15 extra

laptops to support the Computing

Curriculum and further the children's

experiences. Thank you for your

continued support.

You will all have received a text yesterday

regarding a child who suffered a severe

allergic reaction to nuts in school yesterday.

This is Rosie in Year 3 and with mum and

Rosie’s permission, we would like to share a

photo of what happened to Rosie. This

reaction happened very quickly and resulted

in a visit to the hospital. Had the swelling

have also affected Rosie’s lips/throat the

result could’ve been a lot more serious. We

would like to please remind all parents that

we are a NUT FREE school and for Rosie and

her sister to be in the same vicinity as nuts

or products containing nuts can result in a

reaction like this. Thank you for your

understanding. I am pleased to say Rosie

made a full recovery.

Wanborough Primary School

NEWSLETTER

Year 4 Football Competition

Congratulations to the Year 4 football team

who proved to be invincible at a recent

competition at Kembrey Park winning all of

their seven games against other Swindon

schools. The team were full of goals and

solid at the back – Well done to Aiden, Alex,

Wilf, Dan, Ben P, Sonny, Ben S and Tom.

A group of our Year 6 students had a great

time on Thursday at a Swindon schools

hockey tournament. The group worked well

as a team, producing some great play

between them! Some of the goals scored

were fantastic pieces of teamwork, one in

particular starting with a great tackle at

the back, followed by a pass down the wing

and a precise pass completed by a great

finish! All the hard work in the four training

sessions really paid off and they should all

be very proud of themselves for their

performances. The team ended up

undefeated - winning their first two games

and drawing their final game. Well done to

Jake, Alex, Eden, Darcey, Jess, Jack, Toby,

Ollie, Henry and Oscar.

Luke, Max & Fin from Year 3 played with

their Wanborough Wasps U8’s team on

Sunday 26th January winning against

Highworth beating them 10-2 in the cup

final. Well done boys!

Alex from Year 6 recently competed

in a netball tournament for Lawn

Netball Club. Her team came away

with a Gold medal. Well done Alex

and team mates.

Young Carers Awareness Day

On Thursday, we were visited by Ann Giles

of Swindon Carers Centre to talk to us all

about the role of being a Young Carer.

On Friday, we rose awareness for Young

Carers with our 'Wear Something Bright'

non-school uniform day. At break-time we

sold hot chocolate with marshmallows and

lots of cakes and biscuits. Thank you very

much to Mrs Carter in the kitchen for

making biscuits and cupcakes; to Miss

Corbyn's after-school cooking club who

made yummy biscuits and to Wanborough's

Young Carers who decorated lots of

cupcakes, but especially to Molly and Niamh

who made some at home to bring in. Thank

you, also, to Bella and Millie in Year 4 who

both made posters about Young Carers and

these are now on display on the Young Carer

board.

It was really lovely to see everyone getting

so involved in the day which made the

fantastic amount of £327 for Young Carers.

Thank you very much for everybody who

took part and supported the day.

If you feel your child may be Young Carer

please talk to me at school.

Ms Hingley

We love to hear about children’s ‘out of school’

achievements so please email

admin@wanborougprimary.org if your child has anything

they would like to share with us.

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