October 2019 the Ashlands and Misterton Federation
Misterton News Love of learning, love of life, love of one another
“Life in all its fullness” John 10:10 October 2019 The Ashlands and Misterton Federation
This Federation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Dear Parents, Carers and Friends, I have ended the term by visiting the classrooms with Mr Pearse and Dates for your Diary observing the teaching of Writing across the Curriculum. I was impressed with the children’s attitudes to learning and the way in which they all wanted to share their learning with us. Thank you to all of you who Monday 4th November attended our parent expectation meetings this term. It is always great to Inset Day really strengthen the understanding of our routines and share with you the learning that your child will experience as they travel through this Tuesday 5th November academic year. Parents Evening 3.30—6.00pm In the last two weeks we have welcomed lots of families to our EYFS open sessions. I am always proud to show off our schools and the wonderful complimentary comments and responses I received about our children Wednesday 6th November and their learning spaces was simply lovely. I hope you all enjoy the half Cross Country Run at YTFC term break and that the weather brings you many crunchy leaf moments PTA Meeting that make you really enjoy Autumn. Please remember Monday the 4th is
an INSET and we will be welcoming you back to school on Tuesday 5th November. Thursday 7th November Parents Evening 3.30-6.00pm Flu Immunisations—whole school Hinton St George Football Match Key Stage 1 Friday 8th November What a super afternoon of sunshine and smiles we had watching the Key Stage Non-Uniform Day—Chocolate Donations One footballers. There was a mix of experience on the pitch but the children all worked together as a team with a positive attitude. Reuben, Alfie, George and Sunday 10th November Rupert took turns to take responsibility for being in goal and each one tried their Church Remembrance Service best to stop Hinton from scoring. William Charles demonstrated great resilience and perseverance and came back on after a hit in the face by a goal kick. Tuesday 12th November Of the four games played Hinton scored the most goals but Ashlands and Odd Socks Day for Anti Bullying Week Misterton’s heads never dropped and we had the pleasure of watching some School Cinema Trip to Mary Poppins Returns great goal shots with Doors open from 8.30 to allow for prompt elaborate celebration departure at 9am from Reuben and Fin- ley. Thanks to all sup- Friday 15th November porters who made the Children In Need—children to come dressed in boys feel amazing! sports wear with a £1 donation
Saturday 22nd November St Leonards Christmas Fayre 5pm –8pm Summer Library Reading Challenge th Over the summer holidays a number of children took part in the Space Chase reading challenge run Monday 25 November by Crewkerne library where children were encouraged to read 6 books over the summer holidays. Misterton PTA Christmas Bingo This month we welcomed Sue from the library to present those children with their certificates and medals! There was also special recognition for both Genevieve and Korbin. Tuesday 10th December Pantomime at the Octagon Theatre
Tuesday 17th December Christmas Nativity 2pm and 6pm at St Leonard’s Church
Monday 23rd December - Friday 3rd January Christmas Holiday
Carymoor Visit Whole School Welly Walk to the Church As part of our ‘Environmental heroes’ topic we On the 4th October the children were able to get out in the fresh air and go on a invited staff from Carymoor Recycling Centre to visit us. The children had a fantastic morning welly walk around the village as part of our Environmental Heroes topic. We learning about the importance of recycling took photos at the church to help with the ideas for the competition and then through fun and exciting activities. Oak class be- ventured on through the fields around the back of the school. Everyone had a came pirates and learnt about the ‘three Rs’, Re- great time and loved exploring the beautiful countryside surrounding our duce, Reuse, Recycle! Cedar class had a great school! time using plastic bottles to make their own greenhouses! It has been great to hear that children have been inspired at home to care for the environment, what great heroes we are!
Forest School & Exchange Students On Friday 11th October we were very privileged to share a visit at Ashlands from the Maiden Beech Academy, TVS Indian exchange students. They did a short presentation for the Key Stage 2 children from both schools in collective Yeovil Area Cross Country Event - Year 2, 3 & 4 Race worship, including songs sung in their traditional language and showing a video Two amazing races! With a few newcomers to Team MASHof their all school nerves environment. and butterflies The children were also shared one of their harvest soon quashed as the first race got underway! songs with the TVS students and staff. After collective worship the TVS Parents scrambled to the side lines of the course aroundstudents, the Yeovil their Rugby teachers Club groundsand staff to from Maiden Beech joined Cedar class and “shout it out” for Team MASH. In the distance, throughsome the drizzle representatives (rain without from fail) Beech it was Class in a forest school session. All the chil- clear to see that the effort was immense as our purple drenT-shirts worked pulled collaboratively away to close theto gaps.make seed bombs, then enjoyed a selection of free choice activities, including cooking bread sticks over the fire, toasting Results have yet to be confirmed but it is estimated thatmarshmallows, there were usingat least flint 200 andgirls steels, and 200trying out a strapline and swinging on a boys in each of our races! Taking this into considerationrope and swing. that Itsome was aof fantastic the runners morning could thoroughly enjoyed by everyone. be up to three years older than some of our team members, an 11th place for Poppy Conroy and a 33rd place for Lucus Dawe both in Yr3 were no mean feat! They were followed across the finish line (in no particular order – tbc) by first time runners including Summer Cole Yr2, Emma Astall Yr2, Samuel Tucker Yr4 and Patryk Gawrys Yr2 who all looked to our more experi- ence runners Will Kirton yr4, Sayer Pilton Yr3, Sophie Synakova Yr3 and Chloe Willis Yr4 for technique, determination and staying power. A tremendous effort well Done EVERYONE! Great team spirit!
Coach Carter J Harvest Festivities
On the day of the Harvest Festival the children spent the morning celebrating Parking Outside School our church values through making hedgehog bread, creating leaf sun Please can we ask all parents not to park on the catchers, scarecrows and paper pumpkins. Then after lunch we headed up to double yellow lines at the entrance to Silver Street. the church for our Harvest Festival where the children sang and displayed Not only is this against the law but causes a risk to their pumpkins with words of what they were thankful for. the safety of the children at these busy times of day. It also causes obstruction for traffic trying to enter the road thus leading to problems backing up into the village. Please allow plenty of time in the morning to get to school and park. There is parking available in Turnpike Green or alternatively there is the option of parking at the village hall and walking from there. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. Please remember to refer to our website for details on online safety. New Science Equipment! We were very excited this month to receive a delivery of brand new science equipment! Thank you to Mrs Carter who applied for a grant from the National Grid which has enabled us to purchase a range of items. One of the most exciting arrivals is a pack of 5 data loggers and temperature sensors. These use Bluetooth technology to send data to our iPads and, although purchased for use by our Key Stage 2 children, can easily be accessed by the Key Stage 1 children as well.
Green leaves and Certificates Congratulations to the following children who have achieved a green leaf this month:- Oak Class Finley Swinnerton x 2 Kahlan Corthine x 2 Willow Cole x 2 Christopher Clarke Harvey Craven Summer Darch Marlie Denslow x 2 Holly Goodison Seren Gower Matthew Hodder Oliver Hodder Shania Langdon Genevieve Long Chloe Masterman Ruby Melvin Emily Newton Reuben Palmer x 2 Sky Parkinson Korbin Rodford x 2 Jesse Strawbridge
Cedar Class Sienna Madgin Guilio Palmer x 2 Joseph Djeebet Chloe Newton Seren Walke Hugo Hellier Ashton Langdon Mia Hawes Eliza Sugar Teegan Marsh Presley Vincent Summer Cole
Bronze Certificates Finley Swinnerton Korbin Rodford Holly Goodison Shania Langdon Kahlan Corthine
School Website BACS Payments
Keep up to date with all the events, trips Please can you ensure that you use the follow- and visits on the school website. This is ing codes for making BACS payments: updated regularly with photos of the fun we Pre-fix with 122 71502—Clubs have been having! There is also a list of the 71505—Swimming important dates coming up in the near 75004—Breakfast Club future. 71300—Donation
www.mistertonfirstschool.co.uk 71504—Trips 73109—Meals Followed by your Surname
Royal British Legion Visit
We were very excited to receive a visit from Sam from the Crewkerne branch of the Royal British Legion. However Sam did not come alone, much to the children’s enjoyment he was accompanied by a lion! The visit was in aid of promoting their competition to name their lion mascot. The children all had a chance to enter the competition and the Legion Committee will choose a suitable name and there will be a prize of a £10 book voucher. This prize will be presented at the Poppy Launch in the town square in Crewkerne Saturday 26th October 2019. Good luck all!
Rainbow Olympic Certificates Miss Ball’s Proud Wall Congratulations to all the children who have made it on to my proud wall this month!
Ashlands & Misterton Rainbow Maths George was extremely kind Congratulations to the following children who have achieved their teaching Presley how to do his shoe next Rainbow Olympic Certificates in June: laces. It was lovely to see how patient he was being helping a Oak Class friend. #Friendship #Compassion Ruby Melvin x 3 Finley Swinnerton x 4 Emily Newton x 3
Summer Darch x 2 Reuben Palmer x 4 Holly Goodison x 2 Willow Cole Genevieve Long Oliver Hodder Matthew Hodder Chloe Masterman x 2 Christopher Clarke Gary from Carymoor was so impressed with Kahlan Corthine Sky Parkinson Willow Cole x 2 Summer’s thinking of how, if we reduced our Jesse Strawbridge x2 Korbin Rodford Marlie Denslow x3 waste, it would also reduce the fuel used by Shania Langdon x 2 Harvey Craven Seren Gower lorries carrying the waste. No child has ever
Cedar Class thought of that before! #aspiration #respect Mackenzie Ball x 2 Deven Shurvinton x 2 Eliza Sugar Hugo Hellier x 2 Summer Cole x 3 Joseph Djeebet x3 We are all super proud of Holly who George Vernon x 2 Chloe Newton Giulio Palmer x 2 achieved her Aqua Bears Certificate for Eliza Sugar x 2 Mia Hawes x 3 Teegan Marsh ‘Confidence in the Water’. This is such an Chloe Newton Presley Vincent Sienna Madgin Lily Heathman Ashton Langdon important skill to have and will help to keep Holly safe at all times, as well as helping her to look after others in the water. #aspiration #compassion #respect
Star Readers Shania impressed me with her Well done to all the children who have achieved their Star Reader superb story planning. Shania certificates this month. brought the story to life with her
Oak Class excitement and positivity! I can’t wait to read the finished written 10 Reads Marlie Denslow Jesse Strawbridge Finley Swinnerton version. Thank you for making me Summer Darch Willow Cole Teegan Marsh so proud! #aspiration Summer Cole Chloe Newton Emily Newton Korbin Rodford Reuben Palmer Genevieve impressed me with her
comprehension skills. She looked carefully 20 Reads Genevieve Long Sienna Madgin Kahlan Corthine for the answers in the text and didn’t give Hugo Hellier Chloe Masterman Joseph Djeebet up even when the answer was at the Shania Langdon Presley Vincent Seren Gower bottom of the page of writing! Well done Giulio Palmer Ruby Melvin Mia Hawes young lady. #aspiration #perseverance Holly Goodison Summer Darch George Vernon Deven Shurvinton Jesse Strawbridge Korbin Rodford Seren made me very proud with Finley Swinnerton Willow Cole her attitude to learning in Maths. 30 Reads 50 Reads Since the start of term she has Sky Parkinson Christopher Clarke grown in confidence and is really Sienna Madgin Genevieve Long shining! Keep this up young lady it Matthew Hodder Sky Parkinson is wonderful to see! Teegan Marsh Seren Gower Kahlan Corthine #aspiration #perseverance Hugo Hellier 60 Reads Following our visit from Carymoor, Ruby Melvin Christopher Clarke Reuben was inspired and has decided to Shania Langdon clean the streets of Misterton of any
litter. Every Wednesday morning on his 80 Reads Christopher Clarke way to school he picks up rubbish he sees along the pavements. Well done 100 Reads Reuben, the world needs people like Christopher Clarke you. #aspiration #compassion #respect Hinton St George Football Match Cross Country Races Key Stage 2 There was a super 'buzz' of excitement in the air at the first race On Wednesday 9th October the Misterton and Ashland’s of the Cross Country season. The children were enthusiastic and children represented the school in a friendly football match eager to do their best alongside children from many other against Hinton St George. The team played very well wining schools. There were 505 children who crossed the finish line 11-0. I was very impressed with children’s attitude and altogether, representing 25 schools. This is an amazing number teamwork on the pitch. Well done boys! and we are thankful to Adam and his team of organisers from Miss Bailey Yeovil Town RRC who make this possible every year! As a school we are proud of every runner for simply being at the race and having a go. Our girls came 12th out of 23 schools and the boys came 11th out of 23 schools - what a great result. Well done to all our young runners.
Miss Ball
Important Information Cross Country Race 2 saw the first event to be held at If there is ever a time where you feel you need Ninesprings. The children faced to pass information onto me directly and would an uphill challenge from the very prefer not to got through the school office then start and reported back that it please do not hesitate to contact me on my was an up and downhill school email address which is: adventure. Well done to all who nball@educ.somerset.gov.uk participated! Weekly Class Attendance Award
After Half Term we are going to start a Weekly Class Attendance Award. The winner will be announced in our Praise and Celebration assembly each week. The winning Class will have a ten minute biscuit break with Mrs Goodison in the Library and the class photo will also go up on the wall outside the School Office. Please could you let Mrs Goodison know which biscuits are your favourites! Or if your child has any food allergies which biscuits or snacks we could get.
Our whole school attendance this month stands at 97.4%. The table below shows attendance for October and how it is broken down.
% Attendance % Medical/Illness Late % Unauthorised Sessions Oak 97.8 1.6% 4 0.3% Cedar 96.9% 2.9% 1 0.2%
Flu Vaccinations
Somerset SAINT (school aged immunisation nursing team) will be visiting the school on Thursday 7th November to administer the nasal spray flu vaccination. If you have given permission for your child to have the vaccination please could you inform the school if any of the below applies to your child:
• if your child is wheezy on the day of vaccination, or has been wheezy in the three days prior to this date
• is asthmatic and has had to increase his or her asthma medication since you returned the consent form
• if there are any other changes in your child’s health since you returned the consent form
• if your child has already received the flu vaccine via their GP recently, it is really im- portant that you inform the school otherwise your child may be immunised again be- cause Somerset SAINT may still hold a consent form for them.