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Paulton Junior School create history AGAIN ! PTA On 26th January 2016, eight of us went to the MSN Schools On the next page of this Newsletter is the second Swimming Gala at Pool. The captains were edition of the PTA News containing all the latest Alfie Pearson and Mia Latkovic who were delighted to collect information from our fantastic PTA. #getinvolved! the winners trophy. They enjoyed extra delight when we also beat a longstanding record. Mia Latkovic, Jess Chard, Leah Dates for your Diary Lovell and Alice Harvey beat the freestyle relay record with a time of 1.10.53. A record that had stood since 1994. Overall, we See the calendar on the home page of our website had a total of 110 points to clinch victory. for more dates; The boys Alfie Pearson, Charlie McLachlan, Tom Gray and Mon 8th - Fri 12th February - Y6 Camp at Skern Alfie Boulton played their part too. The whole team wining a Fri 12th Feb - Term 3 ends total of 26 medals something that had never been done before. Mon 22nd Feb - Term 4 starts Report by Alfie P and Charlie M. It was an absolute pleasure to be able to take such an incredibly SAVE THE DATE: talented team to the gala and for the girls to break the relay Tues 29th March Parent Teacher Consultations record was the icing on the cake. Well done to them all. from 3-7pm

Wed 30th March Parent Teacher Consultations Gold Standard Gymnastics (Pictured left are the from 3-5pm winning gymnastics team) Read For My School Clara, Gracie, Each child has been given the code 717528. This Abbie, Abi, will enable them to access hundreds of free books. Summer-Rose, Just visit www.readformyschool.co.uk. Elyssa, Holly, Happy reading. Billy, Rebecca and Taran brought back Sainsbury’s Active Kids Vouchers 12 medals after Once again we are collecting Sainsbury’s vouchers. winning gold at the annual gymnastics Please collect as many as you can and post them competition held at into the box in reception. Thanks for supporting us. Writhlington School. Special mention to Summer-Rose Grantham who won the overall gold medal. This was a 500 Words wonderful team performance and my thanks go to Mrs Cowgill BBC Radio 2 have launched their annual 500 Words who taught them the routines so perfectly. Story Competition. Visit their website for more information and get writing. County Athletics Finals Monday saw 23 children take part in the County Sportshall And Finally… Athletics Final at UWE in . The team gave their all and  Congratulations and good luck to Alfie performed with real determination to secure 7th place out of all the schools in the South West. An incredible achievement. Boulton, Alfie Pearson, Tom Gray, Alice Ford and Alice Harvey who have qualified for Y5 Football Winners the National Schools Biathlon And the winning continues! Our Y5 Football Team, consisting of Championships in Crystal Palace on 19th and Freddie Wilcox, Jorge Perry, Harrison Rogers, Evan Young, 20th March. What an amazing achievement! Harry Emery, Jayden Rowlands and Clark Chivers produced  Thank you to Mr Parry for securing a donation some high quality passing football to win the Bath and North of £1200 from The Festival. East Schools Football Tournament on Thursday. Mr Parry worked during the festival under a They beat all comers on their way to the final where they met scheme which means that money is donated to local rivals Midsomer Norton Primary. We played some a local charity - he chose Paulton Junior excellent football with a Harrison Rogers strike giving us a 1-0 win. The team now go on to compete in the County Finals held School, School Fund and just recently we at Millfield School in April. Great work team - super stuff! received the huge cheque. Wow.

No. 11 www.paultonjuniorschool.co.uk/

Paulton Junior School PTA Update – January 2016 Welcome to the second update of this year’s PTA activities and thank you for all your support !

The Christmas Fayre seems a long time ago now – we raised a fantastic amount of £927. Thank you to everybody - all the teachers, children, parents and carers for supporting this event and making and buying all those cakes !

Paulton Local Funding Donates £1,000 to the Junior School’s Outdoor Classroom An application was put in last September and thank you to Councillor Liz Hardman who supported the application. We are delighted to say that we received a fantastic donation of £1,000. Money Raised so far...... This means we have now raised £2,125.34 so far...... we’d like to get this up to £5,000 by the Summer and have lots of activities planned – with your support we can do this.

Did you know ? Each class is revamping their book corner and thanks to money from last year’s PTA activities they are able to buy brand new books – check it out. And if you have good second-hand books or comics, take them in for your class.

Events Coming up ...... Easter Raffle

Cinema Night – Wednesday 23rd March

Disco – Thursday 19th May

Bag to School – collection on Wednesday 25th May

Paulton Schools Summer Fayre – Friday 8th July

If you can help at any of the above events, especially before then please let me or any member of the PTA know, we have very few helpers and need just a few minutes of your time.

Can you help donate or find a raffle prize for the Easter Raffle ? We’re looking for prizes now, anything Easter related or something you’d like to win yourself in a raffle. Please contact Jenny Perez for more information.

And finally...... Don’t forget by doing all your online shopping through easyfundraising.co.uk – you can raise money for Paulton Infants and Juniors, over recent years it has raised a total of £1,000 – so easy and can buy us lots more books !