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I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E 1 Headteacher’s Head’s First Word introduction 2 Assemblies Dear Parents & Carers 3 Awards CHANGE OF CLASS ASSEMBLY DATE - Year 1 children have been invited to 4 Hooke Court a dance project at The Marlborough School on Friday 30th November. Because Residential Years 3 & 4 of this, we have changed the Class Assembly Dates – Class 1 will hold their assembly on Friday 30th November and Class 2 will hold their assembly on 5 Parent Consultations Friday 23rd November.

6 Harvest Festival Children in Class 5 enjoyed their first educational visit of the school year Church Service & Tea two weeks ago when they visited Hill End Outdoor Education Centre. 7 Parent’s Guide to Whilst at the centre children had the opportunity to work as a team on an Managing Sickness orienteering activity and other team building games which tested their problem solving and team work skills, patience as well as their 8 Home School perseverance. In the afternoon children had the opportunity to work with Agreement their partner along a night line and on some other team building 9 News from The PTA activities. Mr Watt, Mrs Ollman and Mrs McManus were particularly impressed with the perseverance of Brodie and Ryan who mastered the 10 School Photographs traversing wall and Freya who managed to get herself covered in mud 11 New Lunch Menus and keep on smiling! The majority of children represented Tackley School well during the visit and were a pleasure to take on the trip. 12 School Admissions

13 Forest School Congratulations to Katie Sale, Class 5 who has been selected to join the 14 School Council News chorus of Dick Whittington, the pantomime at the Oxford Playhouse this Christmas. She is one of only twenty children selected from the eighty 15 School’s Out children invited to audition. Katie will appear on alternate days during 16 Diary Dates the shows run so if anyone is thinking of attending and would like to know those dates please speak to Mrs Sale. 17 School Term Dates Tackley school were well represented at the Grove Rugby Tournament last Sunday. Freddie Cheesman, showing great determination and power, for Gosford All Blacks Under 10's. Whilst Mac Rivers and Sam V A L U E O F T H E M O N T H McManus blazed a trail to victory, winning the Under 9's tournament. Well done the three of you! P E R S E R V E R A N C E “to keep going when Yours sincerely things are difficult” J. Chalmers and Tackley Team ASSEMBLIES This term our Collective Worship theme is Perseverance. Listed below are the dates when your child’s class will be leading the Friday assembly at 9 am. We do hope you will be able to join us. Tea & coffee is served after the assembly with Mrs Chalmers

Date Class

Friday 19th October Class 5

Friday 9th November Class 4

Friday 23rd November Class 2 – please note change of date

Friday 30th November Class 1 – please note change of date

AWARDS Children were awarded school certificates recently for -  Writer of the week – Sophie Cox, Freya Smith, Edward Smith, Will Plucknett, Charlotte Haugen-Brooks, Jack Lomas  Mathematician of the week – Aaron Jones, Thomas Lord, Daisy-May Milward, Ellie Mae Spittle, Erin Roche  Reader of the week – Archie Crawford, Niamh Husband, Cai Chapple, Aeris Wilson, Garbriel Roberts  Star of the week - Noah Honour, Emily Sutcliffe, Saffron Honour, Heidi Rudman, Jo Acum, Spencer Davies-Monk, Ellie Evans, Francis Billingham, Naomi Ivings, Bevan Millis, Elena Crocker, Zoe Rolfe, Jessica Hawkins, Harry Simons, Niamh Husband, Eleanor-Rose Cowell, Alandro Bragge, Brandon Allan, Fearne Ward, Luci Bochenek, Gina Smith, Laurie Husband, Kizzie Dare  Pen Licences were awarded to Kate Sale, Freya Smith, Ellie Gilman

OTHER INFORMATION Hooke Court Residential Visit for Children in Years 3 & 4 - We have sent out invitation letters to parents of our Year 3 & 4 children to attend the residential centre at Hooke Court in Dorset, from Wednesday 15th to Friday 17th May 2013. Could parents please ensure that they return the permission slip along with their deposit of £30 as soon as possible and by Monday 5th November at the latest.

Parent Consultations & Parent & Carers Questionnaire – Last week we sent a letter inviting you to book a meeting with your child’s class teacher and a copy of the parent and carers questionnaire. At the end of this week we will send out the Mid-Year Progress Report for all children in Years 1-6.

Harvest Festival Church Service & Tea – on Thursday 25th October we will be going to St Nicholas Church for our Harvest Festival Service. We will leave school at 1.15 pm to walk to the church and return by 3 pm – everyone is welcome to join us. Offers of help to walk the children to and from the church would be very welcome, please let your child’s class teacher or the office know if you are able to help.

Scones Needed!!!! - After the Church Service at 3 pm the PTA will serve a cream tea in the School Hall for parents, carers and children. There will be a small charge for this and all proceed will support our children via the PTA. We hope you will all join us but we need your help!. We would welcome donations of scones! Please bring them to the School Hall on Thursday morning. We do need volunteers to help with the cream tea - please speak to Natasha Peterson or the school office if you can help.

Parent’s Guide to Managing Sickness Absence from School- we have enclosed a leaflet which has been produced by the Local Authority Attendance & Engagement Team to help parents decide whether their child is well enough to attend school.

Home School Agreement - we have revised our Home School Agreement and Class Teachers will be talking about this during circle time with the children. Copies will be given to parents and carers at the Parent Consultations next week. Please can we ask parents and carers to talk to their children about the Home School Agreement, and sign it and return it to school.

News from the PTA  An order form for Northbrook fabulous quality gift wrap and cards was sent out to parents a few weeks ago. The deadline for orders is before half term starts. PTA Committee Members will be collecting orders at the Parent Consultation meetings (and will have spare brochures / order forms). Or you can send in your order to the office by Thursday 25th October. The PTA will receive 77p for each item you order.  The PTA Annual Accounts will be distributed at the AGM (see diary dates below). Copies will also be published on the school website following the AGM.  Pamper and Shopping Evening – is on Friday 30th November. Pre-book your treatments – reflexology, massage, nails, eyebrows, hair – contact Nicky Carling on 0789 1116630.  The Yard Sale raised £185 which included a £50 donation and £50 support for advertising  The Lost Property & Cake Sale held at the end of the summer term raised £117  The PTA have funded £1000 for the purchase of school reading books.  We supported the Forest School by purchasing additional outdoor wear for Class 1.  The PTA have agreed to fund 6 I-Pads for the school. These will be ordered shortly.  Help from parents is needed to wrap gifts on Friday 9th November at school in the morning. Please let the office know if you can help.

School Photographs - On Tuesday 6th November the school photographer will be in school. The format will be for family group photographs to be taken in the hall from 8.30-9.00 am, followed by individual photographs of children and siblings in school.

New School Lunch Menus – there will be new school lunch menus which start after half term. The new menus are enclosed with this newsletter.

School Admissions September 2013 –The deadline for online applications or paper forms for children in Year 6 due to start secondary school in September 2013 is 31st October 2012. For primary school children due to start in Reception in September 2013, the application deadline is 15th January 2013.

Forest School -. Class 1 began their Forest School visits on October 2nd. It took a while for us to get our larger groups (25 compared to last year’s 16!) all waterproofed and wellied, but we had a lovely morning once we made it to the woods and the children began to discover the freedom and opportunities Forest School offers. We have already enjoyed our second visit and this time managed to get the fire going and have some hot chocolate!! Thanks to our volunteers - Nathalie (mum of Cai), Amanda (mum of Phoebe) and Pam (mum of Jonathan), and Gill (mum of Katie in class 2) who has kindly agreed to help again this year. Sadly over the Summer we have arrived in the area to find it littered and vandalised. We have also had reports of children playing in the area after school. Please can you remind your older children, including older siblings who have moved on from Primary School that the land is private and without the owner’s permission going into the area is trespassing. Whoever is responsible is jeopardising the school’s relationship with the Peake family, as well as leaving the youngest children in our community very upset. If we can all work together to eradicate the problem Class 1 and I would be very grateful. Mrs Sale

School council - this year our school council representatives are: Jessica Spittle, Jo Acum, Freya Ollman, Joshua Haynes, Noah Honour, Ellie Gilman, Gabriel Roberts, Lilly Norton, Ethan Jones, Phoebe May Help needed! - Each Friday the school council are running a fruit bar at break time. This involves a group visiting the village shop, another group preparing the fruit and a third group selling it outside during morning break. If any parent/friend of the school would be willing to give up an hour on Friday morning to help with this we would be most grateful. Please let the office/Mrs Sale know. Volunteers will need to undergo a CRB Enhanced Disclosure check.

A reminder from School Council - As you know we should be bringing in only healthy snacks for break times. If you bring in an unhealthy snack you will need to put it in your lunch box or take it home. Please visit the fruit bar on Fresh Fruit Fridays where you can buy fruit for 30p.

School’s Out, Holiday Provision - It is with regret that we have to inform you that the very difficult decision to cease running School’s Out has recently been made by the Headteachers of the Woodstock Partnership of schools. This decision has not been taken lightly, but with a significant falling off of paying participants over the last couple of years (we are sure because of the current economic climate) it has become impossible for us to continue to operate without substantial financial support and unfortunately that is no longer available. Should we be able to access new sources of funding it is our ambition to initiate other projects that offer valuable support to children.

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Diary Dates FORTHCOMING DATES  The next mobile library visits on 24th October  Tues 23rd October – 4.30-7 Parent Consultations  Weds 24th October 3.30-5.30 Parent Consultations  Thurs 25th October Harvest Service at St Nicholas Church followed by tea at school – all parents and carers welcome  Fri 26th October – inset day – school closed  Tues November 6th – individual and family photographs  Thurs 15th November – PTA AGM meeting 7.30 pm at school – everyone welcome.  Fri 30th November – PTA Shopping and Pamper Evening. Please come along and support us.  Fri 14th December – 9.30 am – Class 1 Nativity  Tues 18th December – 1.30 Years 1-6 Xmas Concert; 6 pm Years 3-6 Xmas Concert  Thurs 20th December – 1 pm class parties  Fri 21st December – Christmas Carol Service at St Nicholas Church

SCHOOL TERM DATES FOR 2012/13  Term 1 Weds 5th September to Thursday 25th October 2012  Term 2 Monday 5th November to Friday 21st December 2012  Term 3: Monday 7th January to Friday 8th February 2013  Term 4: Monday 18th February to Thursday 28th March 2013  Term 5: Monday 15th April to Friday 24th May 2013 School closed bank holiday Monday 6th May 2013  Term 6: Monday 3rd June to Friday 19th July 2013