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St Andrew’s CE Primary School Autumn Term 1 Newsletter 13 October 2017 Year 4’s Harvest Festival 6 October 2017 A Message from Be Bright Day Mrs Kime … SCHOOL DISCOS I hope those who came to our Harvest Festival last week enjoyed it! Get your dancing shoes at the ready Thank you so much to Miss Small, – our school discos will be held on Miss Slater and the children of Year 4 Thursday, 23 November. Times are for a super service. on the ‘Important Dates’ towards the end of this newsletter. I would like to say how much we encourage your active participation in the education of your child/children so Road Safety Week … if you have any queries or concerns, Baby congratulations! please do contact either your child’s w/c Monday, 23 October class teacher or myself straight away. We are absolutely Primary School Admissions delighted to 2017: announce the birth of If you have a child whose fourth Mr and Mrs birthday is between 1 September The PCO officers will be in to lead an Hughes’ 2017 and the 31 August 2018 assembly on Tuesday, 24 October baby – inclusive, then your child will start and then will take the Year 6 children Harry James school in September 2018. out to take part in Speed Awareness on Blackpool Road. – born on Applications can now be made online Monday, 2 October weighing at www.lancashire.gov.uk/schools For further details: 6lb 3oz. search admissions. Closing date for applications for September 2018 is 15 http://www.roadsafetyweek.org.uk/co All are well and enjoying this January 2018. ntent/theme/595-make-the-brake- special time. pledge Children’s Bibles We are very grateful for the annual gift of our Bibles in Years 2 and 5. It means so much to the It has been a huge pleasure having children to have FENCING Josie for Hockey training. The their own copies children have progressed enormously and they really and I have also learnt a lot. The treasure them. We have children have improved and this year them out on tables at all times and (as mentioned above) we won the they are used during guided reading, League and the Preston Hockey golden time and break times, as well Champions! as during lessons. Our Bibles play a Mrs Nash very important role in promoting the Christian values of the school and Athletics: helping our children to grow and A big well done to St. Andrew's understand the world around them. Fencing Team, who took part in the first ever match for the school on the Below are some thank you messages nd to the Church from our children: 22 September. “Thank you for the Bibles. We are Daniel, Harry and Harry of Year very grateful because we all love 6 travelled to Ashbridge Primary reading them. We feel very lucky to School in Hutton to compete against all have our own Bible and to be their team, who, like us, are trained looked after by St. Andrew’s church.” by Nicholas from Judo Education. Sam. Three boys and three girls formed our The team had to be first to score 45 Year 2 Athletics Team - they trained “I am very grateful for our Bibles. We points over the course of nine hard for the Primary Stars Event, and use them all the time, in guided individual matches in order to win. competed well against over twenty reading, to learn how to be good and They got off to a great start over the other primary schools. We were so how God wants us to act and treat first three bouts, building a proud when they were announced as others. God teaches us to try our best considerable lead. However, winners of the whole event! Another and be kind. We really love reading Ashbridge were able to fight back and great success! about Jesus too.” the scores remained relatively even. Luke. In the last fight, with the team behind Football: 38-40 overall, Daniel was able to fight There has been plenty of football in “On behalf of Year 5 I would like to back and claim a 45-42 victory, the opening weeks of the school year. say a big thank you for our Bibles. capping off a thrilling encounter. A big Our Year 5/6 Football Team have We use them in RE, during guided congratulations to the boys, who were played some fixtures: reading and in our free time. We very competitive and showed great St Andrews 4-0 St Josephs (Friendly) enjoy them very much and they make sportsmanship. St Andrews 6-3 St Anthony’s it much easier to understand our Mr Woollatt (Friendly) lessons and life.” St Andrews 7-4 Queens Drive Beth. The primary school sporting (Friendly) calendar is well and truly up and St Andrews 6-1 Roebuck (1st Round “Me and my friends in Year 5 are very running and we have made a of the Harold Slater Shield) thankful for our Bibles and the rest of fantastic start! St Andrews 2-1 Blessed Sacrament (League match) the things the church does, helping us through our journey at St. Hockey: The Year 5/6 Football Team also Andrews. You have helped us, cared Our Year 6 Hockey Team, led by for us and loved us. This is a great competed in the Kids' Cup, which is a Mrs Nash, has competed in the top 6-a-side competition. Their results big thank you!” division of the Preston Primary Jenna. were as follows: School Hockey League. They St Andrews 6-0 Kennington managed to win all of their matches, Mr Woollatt St Andrews 7-0 St Mary & St meaning that they finished top of the Andrews league - as champions! An excellent St Andrews 3-0 Highfield achievement! St Andrews 3-2 Fulwood & Cadley This meant that we had finished top Music Lessons Army also attended the service and of the group, and then in the knockout Children in KS 2 are enjoying their was overwhelmed by the celebration rounds our results were: music lessons. As you are aware we and all the generous donations you St Andrews 2-0 Broughton have children learning the flute, sent in. On behalf of the Year 4 St Andrews 7-0 Longsands (Quarter clarinet, violin, trumpet, guitar, teachers, thank you so much for all Final) keyboard and recorder. The majority your donations and your continuous St Andrews 4-0 Brookfield (Semi- of these lessons do take place in support- we are already planning the Final) lesson time as it would be impossible next Harvest celebration for 2018! St Andrews 0-1 Fulwood & Cadley to have them after school as we now (Final) have just over 100 children having Miss Small & Miss Slater lessons! As you can see, the team performed superbly well to reach the final. As Year 2 Choir Visions + Values Committee they finished as one of the top four Our Visions + Values Committee schools, they have qualified for the goes from strength to strength. This is next phase of the competition, where a group of our Year 5 and 6 children the best teams from South Ribble and who will work together to share the Chorley join us to see who represent Christian Values throughout our Preston North End in the Regional school. The children on the Finals. Our Year 2 choir really enjoyed their committee are Thomas Boorne first performance. They sang as part (Chair), Mille Shirley (Vice Chair), The Yr 5/6 Girls' Football Team of our Harvest Festival Service. They Olivia Lubnicka (secretary), Claudia played their first football match of the were fantastic and brought a smile to Hedingham, Joshua Bedford, Loukas year in a friendly match against St everyone’s faces at the start of our Cornes, Bethany Beranek, Harrison Josephs. There were a lot of girls service. Murphy and Tallulah Kelly. They have involved and they performed really Year 5 and 6 Choir been busy planning a Worship on well - the game finished in a 0-0 The Parable of The Lost Son, making draw. sure our Worship areas in school are Mr Martland relevant and interactive and also planning on how to make an outside Please visit area available for a friendship bench www.yourschoolgames.com and and prayer time. search for our school to keep up to Our Year 5 and 6 choir also sang at date with sport at our school, or visit our Harvest Service. They sang ‘One The Visions + Values Committee our school website. World’ beautifully; a beautiful song would like you to remember the Thanks for your support and I look with very appropriate lyrics to end the following in your prayers. Harvest Service. forward to keeping you informed of The work of The Salvation our achievements this year! . Army, especially in Preston. Miss Maiden Churches all around the World. Christian people in countries where it is forbidden to be a Christian. Miss Maiden and Mr Woollat Visions + Values Committee It is hard to believe that our Harvest Young Voices celebration is over already. The Year 4 children worked incredibly hard to Our Year 5 and 6 choir have begun to produce a performance about how learn the songs for Young Voices. Harvest is celebrated around the They will be performing at The nd world. Through our performance we Manchester Arena on Monday 22 visited Thanksgiving in America, a January 2018. All children now have traditional village dance celebration in a copy of the words and are able to Africa and ended our journey in access the music on the Young Germany attending the grape Voices website.