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The Bishops Nympton Primary School Newsletter From the Head Hello all. Welcome to the summer term. I hope you all had a great Easter holiday. This is a very important term in the school year with many events and the culmination of a great deal of hard work. It is a fun time but also a chance to show what we have been learning. In light of this, our key skill this term will be “Aim high” and that will be a focus for us in assemblies and many lessons. I hope to see you all at some point during the term, especially during some of our many exciting events. Exmoor Challenge Our year sixes are training hard for the Exmoor challenge which takes place tomorrow. Last Saturday Summer Term 2014 we completed nearly 9 miles of the course in some nice conditions and all did extremely well. This Saturday we hope the teams will complete all 16.1 miles. The walk will take around 7 hours to May Week 2 complete. I must again say a huge thank you to Graham Turner, Rob Partridge, Mrs Everett- Kelway and Nicky Boundy for providing logistical support and helping with transport. Good luck to the teams Dates for the Diary: for the bank holiday weekend. (Dates may be amended or added) Term events This term has many fun events for us all to look forward to. We have some area music festivals, 5th May Bank Holiday - No School summer sport fixtures (weather depending), Oceanfest, life skills, trips and theme days, sports day and fete, as well as open afternoon, parent’s evening and the leaver’s assembly. The year sixes will be 12th - 16th May KS2 SATS Week also be preparing for the transition to South Molton. More about all of these and other events closer to the time. Wed 21st May Mr Orr from SMCC to visit Year 6 pupils in school @ 1.15pm Exciting Developments You may know that the school is preparing to implement the new national curriculum form September. Mon 19th May School Group Photos As part of this we will be holding an overall school review. One part of this will be to plan to develop our grounds and premises and all aspects of our provision. This is a very exciting time with some great plans already being created (I have spoken to some of you already about this). We want to involve you 19th - 23rd May KS1 SATS Week and I will be contacting you over the next few weeks to find out what you think and to get you all involved in the next phase of school improvement for Bishops Nympton. 26th - 30th May 1/2 Term Holiday Tests Mon 2nd June Return to School This is the half term where many children take National tests or school versions of them. These tests form only one of the ways that we assess our children and we emphasise that children should not get Mon 9th June Year 6 to SMCC stressed about them. We remind them to simply try their best and never to panic about them. If you do have concerns about the tests or how children are preparing for them, do not hesitate to contact me at school. Fri 20th June Years 5/6 OceanFest Summer weather Wed 25th June Open Afternoon Hurrah! The sun is now on its way. With the warmer weather I would like to remind you about sun protection and would request that sun hats are sent when appropriate. Sun cream should be sent in or Tue 1st July Year 6 to SMCC single application cream applied before school please. Please advise us of any special arrangements. Summer dresses or shorts will be suitable now and sandals are acceptable. Trainers are to be Thu 10th July Parents Eve 1 reserved only for PE please unless in school (black) colour. Many thanks. Enjoy the term Thu 17th July Parents Eve 2 Mr Tim Gurney Staff News We are delight to announce that we will have not just one but two Bishops Nympton School babies due soon. Both Mrs Scandrett and Mrs Guy are both due to be expanding their families in the Autumn. We are very pleased for them both and wish them both health and happy pregnancies. Music Tuition We have had a great response to the music tuition this term and are currently over subscribed for the Friday lesson. We are working with Mrs Davies to provide another day of lessons. Therefore if you have asked for music tuition and your child did not receive the first lesson this Friday, we will be in contact with you soon to arrange an alternative day. Any further questions please do contact the office. Thank you. committed The Bishops Nympton Team caring committedMr Gurney TheMiss Chetham East Mrs GuyAnstey Mrs Scandrett Team Mrs Mulligan Mrs Hancockcaring Mrs Allum Mrs Loftus Miss Alderman Mrs Cockram Mrs Keighley Mr Scandrett Mrs Dart Mr Hutcheon Mr Holloway Mr Sidgwick Mrs Hamilton Mrs Tilbury Mr Gurney Mrs Carr Mrs Betts Mrs Loftus Mrs Ryan Mrs Bavin Mrs Julian Mrs Mair ‘Part of the Exmoor Link Federation’ Summer 2014 Page 2 INFANT CLASS ‘‘Life and Living Things’ Dear Parents and Children, The Summer Term is here already, and the children have come back full of enthusiasm which is lovely! We will be growing............. Topic…. Cress This term our topic is: Beanstalks .....Investigating plants and animals and finding out Sunflowers ‘What is in the garden?’ potatoes We will be making…. We will be learning about… Pet homes and hutches Plants and growth Minibeast models Food chains/life cycles small world habitats Parts of a plant Art sculptures and collages Minibeasts And more! Once alive/never alive And sharing stories…. Animals around the world/different habitats Jack and the Beanstalk Climate Eddie’s Garden Camouflage Oliver’s Vegetables Pets The Bad Tempered Ladybird The Very busy Spider *If your child has topic items they want to bring in for display please ensure they are Sam Plants a Sunflower named! And more!…… Reading books & book bags Students Thank you for helping to change your We continue to have our college Staff child’s book in the morning. The student with us, Jessica Hoskins Teaching Assistants: Mrs Arma children are making super progress from Exeter College. Jessica is in Keighley works every morning (except and collecting lots of awards, for every Monday working with the weds), and Mrs Karen Dart works reading so many books! children alongside Miss Chetham. Wednesdays, and all afternoons. Miss Paula Alderman is full time. PE kits Homework Swimming has now finished. We will be Well done for all the super work Mrs Alison Hancock now teaches the doing tennis sessions on Mondays and going on at home, your homework class on a Tuesday. Athletics on Thursdays. books are filling up fast and show And please feel welcome to ask me PE kits are needed for outdoor off all the great things you are any questions. sessions including hats for sun achieving! Don’t forget to put those protection. house points up on the chart this Kind regards term! Miss Sarah Chetham MIDDLE CLASS Dear Parents, differences between the plants PE and animals that grow there. We PE will take place on a Monday and will also be studying deforestation, a Friday; please ensure your child I hope you all had a lovely Easter. the negative effects it has and how has full PE kit in school on these Middle class have made a great we can help save rainforests. days. We will take part in Striking start to the term and have already and Fielding activities (rounders and produced some brilliant work. Art cricket) as well as Athletics In Art, Middle class will be learning Student Teacher about the artist Escher. They have Homework We have Miss Mann joining us as a already been shown some of the Homework will now be given out on student teacher for most of the paintings he did and thought about a Friday to be handed in by Summer Term. She will be teaching the ones that they like. Over the Tuesday. If your child has any a wide variety of lessons; Middle term, the children will try to problems with the homework set, class are particularly looking produce art work please don’t hesitate to get in touch. forward to learning Spanish! similar to Escher’s by Topic looking at This term our topic is Forests and patterns and Yours sincerely, Jungles. We will be looking in detail tessellations. at both temperate and tropical Mrs Guy climates and investigating the Summer 2014 Page 3 TOP CLASS Hello Parents, which is being used across the For an overview of the subjects school. This is a fun scheme that we are covering on a week by Firstly, may I take this which the children are enjoying week basis for the Summer Term opportunity to congratulate all the as it offers much more go to our website children in Top Class with their collaborative, game based www.bishopsnympton-primary.devon.sch.uk superb attitude on returning to learning outside of the and follow the link for Class 3. school after Easter? We are classroom. Literacy will continue rapidly working towards our end to be set on a Wednesday with Your Faithfully of year assessments and the Numeracy being set on the children are prepared for the Friday. They are to be handed Mrs Scandrett hard work ahead this half term. in by the following week. Spellings will continue to be Topic given on a Wednesday with a Our topic for the summer term is test the following week.