Amphitrite St South, , Barrow in Furness, , LA14 3BG 01229 471447 May 2019

Dear Parents/Carers, Better Biggar Bank Community Group The Better Biggar Bank Community group are Dolce change of menu becoming more established now and have several Before the Easter Holidays, the children were projects ongoing. One of the projects involves our asked for their opinions regarding the lunch menu. children: to design a logo and a motto. This will be They were given a choice from the Traditional menu, used to promote our Biggar Bank beach. Parents/ Around the World menu and the Choice menu – they carers/ family members are welcome to help and chose the Traditional menu. However, the children support the children with their logos and mottos! have not liked the Traditional menu as much as they The entries will be presented to the Better Biggar had originally thought. Therefore, we have listened Bank committee and the winning entry will be chosen to the children’s views, spoken to Dolce and they to represent the community group. All entries to Ms have kindly agreed to change the menu to the Choice Lines and the closing date for the competition is menu after half term. This would mean that the 28th June. children have a choice of 1 hot meal, 1 vegetarian hot meal, choice of sandwiches/ fillings and choice of jacket potato/ fillings. We hope that the children continue to enjoy their school lunches at SWJS! School Garden – Calling all Gardeners Books for School Offer! WIN £5000 FOR OUR SCHOOL LIBRARY!! We are always looking for spare flowering plants/ National Book Token’s FREE TO ENTER bushes or cuttings for our school garden. Also, if you have ‘green fingers’ and are able to spare some Competition: time to help us with our school garden or gardening Enter to WIN a MASSIVE £5000 worth of club, we would really appreciate this! NATIONAL BOOK TOKENS for our school- enough to buy hundreds of new books for our SWJS Successes school library. Hills Books would absolutely love To see our photos/ videos of the activities the for a school in Cumbria to win this fabulous children do in school, Celebration Assembly photos,log into out Twitter accounts! Just click prize, so as an added incentive, if we win the ‘Following’ when you first log in. prize and they will INCREASE THE VALUE Mrs McParland/ Mrs Hall (3MH) - @mmcdatswjs TO A MASSIVE £7000!! Mrs Hall/ Mrs Atkinson (3HA) - @fhaswjs Mr Edwards (4E) - @redswjs How to Enter…Simply click on the link below Mr Wilson (4W) - @twiswjs and nominate our school to win: Mrs McIntyre (5McI) - @pmcswjs https://www.nationalbooktokens.com/schools Mrs Anderson (5A) - @fanswjs Mrs McKellar (6McK) - @nmcswjs The more nominations we get the better our Mrs Banks (6B) - @mbaswjs chances are to win! Whole School - @swalneyj

Dates for the Diary: Work of the Month March 2019 May 2019 Well done to the following children who achieved 20th Open the Book assembly 21st Rugby Finals – Good Luck! Work of the Month! 22nd Y6 KNEX day

Barrow Raiders rugby coaching 3HA – Hughie Ward & Abigail Crawford 23rd Y6 Macbeth workshop 23rd School Photographs – Class & Teams 3MH – Rowan Fox & Abigail Robinson Y5 Netball match 4W – Laila Corkill Girls Football match 4E – Skyla Fitzgerald, Isabelle Drake & Luiz 24th Book & Biscuit, 2.45pm Da Silva (Half Term Mon 27th May- Fri 31st May) 5McI – Rhys Kellett 5A – Jude Green & Isaac Wadiun June 2019 3rd Y6 Geog trip to Bowness & Blackwell 6McK – Ella Corkill 5th CADAS in to speak to Y6 6B – Dempsey Newton & Noah White 6th Y3 with South Lakes Rock School Y5/6 Cyclo Cross Comp, Furness 7th 3 Y6 to Walney, mentoring program 10th/11th Y4 residential, York Work of the Month April 2019

th 10 Y6 Cricket comp Well done to the following children who achieved 11th Y6 at Junior Citizens Work of the Month! 12th CADAS in to work with Y6 th 13 Y4 with South Lakes Rock School 14th Girls Cricket comp 3HA – Dylan Heath & Abigail Robinson Whole School Sports Afternoon 3MH – Oliver Ellis, Demi Newton & Archie 17th ASSESSMENT WEEK for Y3/ Y4/ Y5 Open the Book assembly Atherton 18th Y4 boys to Wes Magee workshop 4W – Alfie Allan Y3 Furness Voices choir at Forum 4E – Zara Cavan & Bradley Sweeting 19th/20th/21st Y6 residential, London 20th Y5 with South Lakes Rock School 5McI – Evan Townsend 21st June Y3 trip to the Lakes 5A – Finn Whitehead, Libby Steele, Yasmine th 25 Orienteering competition, Barrow Park Jacobs & Tia Jones 27th Y5 experience day, Walney School Y6 with South Lakes Rock School 6McK – Heidi Reid, Edward Hinde, Kane Gow 28th Book & Biscuit, 2.45pm & Hannah Spry July 2019 6B – Charlotte Jesson-Martin 1st Transition Day Y6 to secondary schools ‘Moving Up’ afternoon in school 2nd Transition Day Y6 to secondary schools 3rd Y5 Transition visit to St Bernards 10th/11th School Show: Aladdin Parentmail app 19th Break up for the Summer holidays, 3.30pm This is easy and free to download to your phone from the ‘App store’ & a great way to keep up to date with any school notifications. At the moment only 88% of our parents are using the app.