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Farewell

We say farewell to Amy Phillips on

Tuesday as she has secured a

permanent job at Exmouth Primary

school. We thank her for her fun

lessons and for being a great

colleague. We wish her and her

family the very best for the future.

Welcome Back

After seeing Jodi Dawson at the gate

as a parent for the past 10 months,

it will be lovely to see her back in the

classroom and the staffroom as she

starts her return back to work. Jodi

will be teaching for a few mornings

after half term before her official

return to work in July.

Welcome Back 2

We offer a warm welcome to Dan

McKimm (one of our former

teaching assistants) who will doing

his teaching practice in Upper Dart

for the next four weeks.

Outdoor Learning Day

Yesterday, we joined many other

schools nationally in celebrating

Outdoor Classroom Day. Upper Dart

spent the whole morning in the

playground making fantastic Rube

Goldberg contraptions (make sure

you have a look at the video on our

website, Lower Dart went on a rock

hunt in the village and Webburn had

lots of fun on the bikes and trikes.

WIDECOMBE PRIMARY NEWSLETTER

No. 30 19th May 2017

EVENTS NEXT WEEK

Monday 22nd May

Athletics Club

Tuesday 23rd May

Dance Club

Thursday 25th May

Year 3 Athletics Festival

@ SDCC 2-4pm

Sharing Afternoon from 2.45pm

Football Club

Meeting for new Reception Parents in

Webburn at 4pm

Friday 26th May

Widdy Tots in School from 1.15pm

Cycle Clubs

Rock Hunting

Lower Dart went on a rocking Rock

Hunt, yesterday afternoon. A big

thanks to Yvette, Pam & Emily for

coming to help us. In science we

have been looking at how rocks are

formed

and the

types of

rocks we

get on

our

planet

(igneous,

sedimentary & metamorphic) and

we decided to see what sort of rocks

we have in Widecombe. Mostly

granite obviously, but we were

surprised by the amount of other

types of rock that we found: slate,

marble, chalk – all being used in

very different ways.

We decided to ask lots of questions

about the rocks: Where is it?, What

is it used for? What colour is it? Is it

natural or man-made? Is it cut, cut

and polished or natural? Is it local

(granite) or

not local? Is

it naturally

there or has

it been put

there by

man? We had an exciting time, but

it was all cut short by a bit too much

rain! We will be analysing our results

next week, so watch this space!

This Week’s

Learning Superheroes

Congratulations to:-

Ashy

All Year 2

Evie

ATTENDANCE

THIS WEEK

Well done to Lower Dart for their

excellent attendance

this week.

Lower Dart 98%

Webburn 96%

Upper Dart 92%

Emailed or sent with the Newsletter

Athletics Festival Letter—Year 3

Governor Contact Details

The Chair of Governors, Chris Elliott

and Clerk to Governors, Laura Dudman

can be contacted by email at

wid-celliott

@southdartmoor.devon.sch.uk

clerktogovernors

@southdartmoor.devon.sch.uk

Rowan‘s Joke

There was a farmer and

his wife making gin. One

day the farmer went to

buy a tractor and his wife

said “What type are you

going to get”?

Gin Dear!

(John Deere)

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WIDECOMBE PRIMARY

NEWSLETTER

No. 30

My Week by … Tawny It’s been really fun this morning doing

the marble run thing. We made it out of

junk model things and foam and stuff

and it was all across the playground.

The auditions were really fun and I’m

going to be Squawk the parrot in the

play.

The swimming pool was really nice this

week.

Summer Production

Now that SATs for KS1 and

KS2 are over it is time to get

into production mode! Our

summer production will be-

‘Pirates of the Curry Bean’.

The children are really

excited about the production

and have already started

learning their lines.

London Residential

A reminder that next Friday 26th May is the

deadline for final payments to be made via

ParentPay. Please also make sure you have

returned your child’s medical consent form for

this trip.

Sharing Afternoon

You are invited to visit your child’s class on

Thursday from 2.45pm, so that they can show

you what they have been learning this term.

Drama Club Cancelled

Please note there will be no Drama Club next

Wednesday.

Des Stokes

Head of School

Friends will be having a stall at the River Dart Country Park Picnic in the Park, please see details

below. Support and volunteers to man activities, including face painting, would be much

appreciated. More details to follow soon.