School and Office Opening Hours School - 8.45am - 3.15pm Office- 8.30am - 4pm Morning club - 8am Sports clubs 3.15pm –4.30pm Headteacher: Mr R Stead Toasties Tel: 01823 400439 Friday Flyer 3.15pm –4.30/5.45pm New email: [email protected] www.milvertonprimary.co.uk 10th June 2016—Issue No. 33

Dear Parents and Carers, Diary Dates As the weather improves it is fantastic to be able to make full use of our wonderful school grounds. Please remember that the field is needed for clubs after school and are out of Class 6 Photos bounds. If you are staying with your child, they are welcome to use the adventure play- Monday 13th June ground with your supervision. Mr Stead Class 5 Sports Festival at Kingsmead Weds 15th June

Well done to Class 3 for Eco Art Day an enter- Thursday 23rd June taining and brilliantly performed Eco Day & Carrymoor Workshops sharing Art exhibition of the children’s work at assembly all about 3pm in the hall Ancient Friday 24th June (please see over for Rome. more information)

Year 5 Outdoor Education Festival Weds 29th June (more info to follow)

Year 4 Orienteering Thursday 30th June

Move Up Day Thursday 30th June

Sports Day Monday 4th July

Summer Fete Saturday 9th July

Year 6 Play ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ Thursday 14th July at 6pm

Year 6 Leaver’s Assembly Last Day of Term Tuesday 19th July Over the last few weeks, Class 4 have been making Roman helmets. We made the hel- Sharing Assembly Dates mets out of cardboard cereal boxes which Class R: Teddy Bear’s picnic made a good base. After that we used pa- Thurs 14th July at 2.30pm per mache in four layers. When it was dry Class 1: Friday 1st July we chose a colour and painted it and added Class 4: Friday 8th July all the details. Class 5: Friday 17th June by Crystal, Hattie and Evie, Class 4 Class 6: Leavers’ Assembly Tuesday 19th July Well done to London House Points Weekly Half Term Plane for Total Total receiving the most house Horse Chestnut 116 116 points last London Plane 120 120 half term and winning Blue Cedar 110 110 the House Cork Oak 134 134 Cup.

OUTSTANDING LEARNERS OF THE WEEK! Class R Imogen for fantastic understanding and use of tricky vocabulary. Class 1 The Whole of Class 1 for working so well with multiplication. Georgia for her consistent hard work and effort in everything she does. She brings a great attitude and smile to Class 2 the classroom each day. Class 3 The Whole of Class 3 for their amazing performance in their play about the Romans. Isaac for his poem (see below). Class 4’s poems were entered into a poetry competition and Isaac’s poem was Class 4 commended out of 906 entries! Fantastic work, well done Isaac! Class 5 Charlotte for the support, leadership and ability she has shown during our morning of athletics with Maths. Class 6 Maura for being really focussed and working hard this week.

On Wednesday 8th Before half term 11 Year June some Year 5 & 6s 4 children, their parents went to and Mrs Nicholls went to College to Vale Cricket Club to compete in take part in a rounder’s tournament. This was the Kwik-cCicket playoffs. We all did very the first tournament that the team had taken well. Our first match was a friendly part in so nerves were running high! On arrival against St. Andrews and we lost this by quite a large margin. We still held our the teams were talked through the rules and heads high and went into the next match then the matches began. As you can see from against Creech St. Michael. After the 12 the results there was no need for any nerves as overs, Milverton won it by just 2 runs off the team played exceptionally well! the very last ball of the game. This meant we moved to the semi-final! This was Blackbrook 12 Milverton 19 against (our rivals) and yet again we beat them quite convincingly allowing us to move forward into the final! North Town 3 Milverton 41 Unfortunately, we came up against last year’s winners, Parkfield, and we lost the match in the very last over – it was so close! However, we still received our silver Bishops Henderson 13 Milverton 25 medals and won a place at the Somerset Kwik Cricket Finals to be held at Somer- set County Cricket Ground on June 22nd. Well done to everyone that played and Wiveliscombe 18 Milverton 18 thank you to the parents for their help with transport and cheering and Mr Coupe Rockwell Green 3 Milverton 19 for umpiring. We are really looking forward to the next tournament. by Josh, Class 6

On Tuesday 7th June 2016, Milverton School Year 5 Cricket team took part in the Tone Schools Primary Year 5 Kwik Cricket Tournament. This took place at Taunton Cricket Club at Tone Vale. The weather was really hot and sunny and perfect for cricket. In the squad we had 8 players, each game had 3 pairs with one pair having a rest. We played 4 games, winning 3 and losing just 1. Unfortu- nately, the match we lost meant that we didn’t get Milverton 252 Staplegrove 227 through to the semi-finals, however we all played really Milverton 246 Trinity 260 well and competitively. We would like to thank all the Milverton 260 215 parents for taking us and cheering us on, SASP for organis- Milverton 267 Sampford Arundel 226 ing such a great tournament and Mr Coupe and the teach- ers from other schools for umpiring and keeping score. by Jack and Finley, Class 5

Peregrine Falcon We are holding eco art day next week and We welcome bikes and scooters on site, espe- would love the children to bring in next O Falcon fierce and heroic your eyes scan cially if that means that children have not trav- land for prey. elled to school in the car, but for safety’s sake Thursday any of the following if you have it Your speed beats night and day. we have to have a strict policy that they are not Flying higher and higher. at home: You are a bird that can inspire. ridden on the school grounds. If you are bring- ing bike or scooter on site, please make sure Old CDS Is it a mystery what you eat? your child is pushing it, not riding on it. Crisp packets (cleaned) Why do you have such a sharp beak? Thank you. Magazines Why are your eyes so filled with fire? Any recycling such as egg cartons, card Why are your talens like barbed wire? Is your child aged between 2 to 4? Are you usually in a good mood or bad Would you like them to attend pre tubes, small plastic bottles, bits of wool, mood? yoghurt pots, card boxes, ribbon, old fab- school in the beautiful setting of Are you good at scavenging for food? Milverton school? Milverton rics. Community Pre School is open Plastic carrier bags You must go and feed your chicks now from 9am to 3pm term time. Rated Newspapers So please go past. Wait one last thing to good by Ofsted we offer a caring and stimulating ask. environment for our children. Check out our lovely Really how are you so fast? web site for more details milvertonpreschool.com, For Class 4 any old t-shirts/ thin material or why not give us a ring and come and have a for tie-dying. By Isaac, Class 4 look around? Call Carol Morris on 01823 400243.