Also: St Chad’s School Newsletter  DINNER COST IN- CREASE . A celebration of one of the very best years! Please note that dinner As is tradition now, I will share Y6s have been working on their huge We will mention the Festival of costs will go up some of the many events that have Young Apprentice project which Youth Sport inside – but spoiler – by 10p per day happened in St Chad’s over the last also culminated in the sale of pupil our pupils did very well indeed! to £2.20 per term and also as it is the end of the made cakes. They raised almost We welcomed new Reception Par- child per day. year I will remind you of some of £160 which will be shared between ents to the St Chad’s family during the bigger successes from across the Y5 and 6 charities of Southern our new to EYFS evening. It was a  Summer Read- the year (see inside for the latter). Brooks and the Crisis Centre, along great turn out and the new families ing Challenge It has been the first time we have with funds raised at the collection were really happy to be part of St is about to had two classes in Y6 and the first for the productions. Chad’s. start! See in- KS2 produc- winning House for this year time we have held our The Y4s produced their fab Ramadan side for further tions in St Chad’s Church (a much was and as a reward for details. assembly to parents. It’s now the bigger venue). The pupils as always being the overall winners of the end of our second year of assem- were amazing, stepping up, overcom- year, the entire house was taken to blies shared with parents and from Fromeside Gym ing nerves, learning dances, lines and this Wednesday. the feedback it seems it is very songs to a standard that any West Here they spent the afternoon be- popular, so it is certainly something End actor would be proud of. Well ing shown some pretty incredible we will continue with – well done done everyone involved, I think it gym techniques by the trained in- everyone who has led an assembly to structors and had a go on equipment may have been the best yet! parents this year. EYFS annual yearly re- that we don’t have in school. As you held their During the start of this term we view can imagine, they had a great time! to parents, it has been amazing held another of our whole school Recep- to watch how much our youngest The trips this term were a reading buddies sessions, where tion Zoo Trip Y3/4 trip pupils have grown socially, academi- , and a to pupils are paired with another from We are Curi- cally and physically in such a short the newly re-branded a different age within school to ous space of time – we are all proud of . The pupils had lots of fun and spend some time enjoying reading Below, Leah you! for both trips we had members of with her win- with each other. It is such a lovely At the time of writing, we have not the location’s teams and also mem- thing to see every child in school ning design bers of the public congratulating for Feathers yet had our Leavers’ Assembly, but engaged in the magic of a book and knowing how fab this year’s Y6 are, the pupils on their manners, kind- really enjoying sharing with other McGraw. ness and helpful actions. Well done Look out for I am sure it will be an equally high children in school. standard to all of the other fab St Chad’s pupils! him in the It seems a while ago now, but it was things that they have done this Mrs Dobson and our pupil Eco-Team Mall Y6 camp at the start of this term! year. I wonder if there were organised our fantastic Eco Week, For the first time we went to Croft tears?! where the pupils all worked on dif- Farm which was a very good choice. Thank you to the pupils and families ferent ways we could become more We met two schools from Kent who supported the superb 25th an- eco-friendly. Themes included there who come simply for the wa- niversary Patchway Festival last healthy living, biodiversity, water, ter sport tuition as they say there Saturday. The pupils worked hard to waste, litter, local area and global is nothing better between here and create amazing citizenship. Pupils were even set Kent! The pupils were great and had artworks that challenges where they could earn a fab time; I am not sure they had extra house points. The whole they carried on much sleep however! parade to Scott school has got behind the initiative and our school is certainly a much It has truly been one of the most Park. greener place now. successful years ever in St Chad’s One focus in St and I want to say thank you to the Chad’s this year As a link to their charity work, Revd pupils and teachers for just an has been on a Howard shuttled Y3s in the Patch- amazing year, and thank you to eve- Memory Café year of Commu- way minibus to the to ryone who has helped: Governors, nity and Charity. spend time with people who fre- Friends, volunteers - and of course quent the café. The organisers of Y3 finished their parents and carers for all you do! year with a cake the café heaped praise on the pu- We wish you a fantastic summer sale to raise mon- pils; the café visitors as well as the everyone. We know our Y6s are ey for Precious pupils loved the experience, which going to go on to do great things, Time. Well done was followed by some really inter- and we look forward to welcoming Y3 for raising esting conversations back in school you all back for our new year on £87.10. about how we could help. September 3rd. Similarly, the St Chad’s School Newsletter Term 6 “This is one of

the best Dates to be aware of, for full year please see the letter already sent and on productions I have our website under letters. There is a basic overview of the entire year on our website now— seen. I sing in a http://www.stchadsprimaryschool.co.uk/key-information/ choir and I don’t

September think they could

Monday 3rd September 9 a.m. School re-opens to pupils. do harmonies as Monday 3rd and Tuesday 4th September One to one interviews for new to EYFS parents and well as St Chad’s pupils. children.” W/comm Monday 10th September External clubs and Music lessons commence this week. TBC for some clubs and this does not include Feedback from a teacher clubs. parent after our Monday 17th September EYFS full time. KS2 production. Wednesday at 19th September New to EYFS evening 6.00 p.m. for approximately an hour. Following on from meeting one in July. Friday 28th September Languages Day – the infamous breakfast! Parent October Thursday 4th October TBC Y4 Swimming – a letter will be sent nearer the time helpers Are will full details once the pool has confirmed time / you interested in date. helping out with reading Friday 5th October Prospective new EYFS tour one 9.30 or other activities in Friday 12th October INSET day (number 1 of 5) school closed to pupils. school? We are always Monday 15th October 10.00am Harvest Festival – held at St Chad’s happy for extra people Church. (Time TBC) to get involved, and Tuesday 23rd October Individual photos those who already are very much enjoying it! Wednesday 24th October Parents’ evenings 4.30 to 7.00 p.m. Some parents come on a Thursday 25th October Prospective new EYFS tour two 1.30 regular basis, some Thursday 25th October Parents’ evenings 3.45 to 6.00 p.m. every now and then. We have people who come to th Friday 26 October School closes – Term 1 ends. read, people who like to November work with groups in class, some who share Monday 5th November 9.00 a.m. School re-opens –Term 2 starts. specific knowledge Thursday 8th November Prospective new EYFS tour three 1.30 (such as experiences of certain events, or Wednesday 14th November Open morning one 9.00 to 10.00 cultural sharing) and Friday 23rd November TBC Non-uniform day, collection for the Christmas Fair. many more. Anything you can think of really! Monday 26th November London Trip Y5 and 6. We are happy to discuss Wednesday 28th November Prospective new EYFS tour four 9.30 with you times and December things you might be interested in doing. If Saturday 1st December TBC Christmas Fair time (TBC) this does interest you, Monday 17th December EYFS and Y1 Christmas rehearsal AM please see your child’s 1.30 p.m. EYFS and Y1 Christmas production class teacher, Mrs Tuesday 18th December Y2 Christmas rehearsal AM Rogers, Mrs Jenkins, 6.00 p.m. Y2 Christmas production Mrs Ives, or myself. Wednesday 19th December KS2 rehearsal AM Whole School Christmas Lunch TBC 6.00 p.m. Carol Service at the Church Friday 21st December Class parties (TBC – availability of St Nicholas) Non-uniform day. 3.30 p.m. School closes for the Christmas break. School disco TBC January

Monday 7th January INSET Day (2 of 5) – school closed to pupils. Tuesday 8th January 9.00 a.m. School re-opens for pupils. Summer ideas http://www.activecentres.org/ for-kids/holiday-programme/ As always, Bradley Stoke Leisure Centre (and other activity centres) holiday activ- ities are due to begin at the start of the school holiday. The above link explains more, but here are some of the things they list: Arts & Crafts, Football, Bouncy Castle, Face & Nail paints, Treasure Hunts, Den Making, Parachute Games, Relay Races, Swimming (8yrs+), Ball Games, Basketball, Team Games, Dodgeball…and much more Summer Reading Challenge http://www.mypatchway.co.uk/patchway/patchway-library Pupils have had a great introductory assembly with one of the team form the library and know all about this year’s reading challenge (in all libraries) see sum- merreadingchallenge.org.uk/ to find out more. Have you seen the free app Hoop? You set it to the age/s of the children you have and it will show you events (paid and free) within your area. https://hoop.co.uk/

Pictures, Zoo trip, Patchway Festival and planting seeds as part of Eco Week. Camp climbing on the other page.

Young Apprentice As part of the term 6 topic, years 5 and 6 undertook a Young Apprentice Project, as Harry and Fudail in Y6 said: The Young Apprentice of 2018 was a stunning experience. Even though there were some challenges, such as the fact the number of this year’s project par- ticipants were doubled, the children (and the staff of course) turned this into a great success. The pupils of the Year 6 classes were split into numerous groups, which each represented a country from the World Cup. Each team undertook a series of difficult yet rewarding activities. We first decided on our team names, roles and logos before creating our final designs. Of course, we thoroughly enjoyed baking and seeing our designs before us and we packaged them attractively and decorated our stalls. We then commenced designing our boardroom presenta- tions. Finally, the sale of our biscuits gave us the sensation of business success as we made £150 altogether. The Young Apprentice was a truly marvelous experience for us all to enjoy.

An extra and £100 to spend how you wish* and other benefits too! Who wouldn’t want a free £100 and other benefits such as additional learning support for English, Maths and all other subjects where appropriate, additional revision and booster sessions, specific resources that will support them, free school lunches in Key Stage Two? As part of the Pupil Premium Grant we may be able to give this to you. See if you are eligible in a confidential and simple way and open up a host of additional benefits. If you have further questions please contact the school, or follow the links on our website. http://www.stchadsprimaryschool.co.uk/key-information/ (*to be spent in ways described in the policy available on our website)

Could this be one of our best sporting years at St Chad’s too?

What a fantastic year we’ve had! You will recall that our aim this year has been to achieve the School Games Gold Mark again, which has involved meeting some tricky criteria like 50% or more children attending clubs, all children involved in ‘learning to lead’ and children from across the school taking part in high numbers of competitions throughout the year. We are delighted to announce that once again, we have achieved GOLD MARK success! To receive this once is significant, so twice in a row is a huge accolade and not easy to achieve at all so a big well done and thank you to everyone involved. We have to achieve Gold mark consistently across a number of years before we can apply for the Platinum mark so we will be aiming for GOLD again next year and as soon as we are able to do so will apply for the Platinum mark. 8 children from Y5 and 6 attended the South Festival of Youth Sport at the beginning of term. The children competed against local primary schools in Archery. They were a credit to the school and their parents in terms of behaviour, sportsmanship and their sporting ability. We are delighted to announce that one of the teams (Ruby, Fitnat, Kian and Callum) finished in 2nd place, being presented with silver medals, whilst the other team (Harrison, Zach, Abi and Michelle) were awarded with gold medals and the South Gloucestershire county winner’s trophy! Harrison and Michelle were also awarded top archers overall too. Both teams demonstrated superb team- work and encouragement of each other and should be very proud of their achievements. A big well done to all of the children and thank you to the parents for taking the time to bring them. The sun really was shining for our sporting stars during our annual Area Sports competition. Local schools attended St Chad’s on the evening of Wednesday 27th June to compete in track events, such as running, skipping, sack race and pick up. A fantastic time was had by all involved. Congratulations to the children from St Chad’s, who were se- lected to take part and were overall winners of the trophy! Thank you to all staff who supported the event and to the Friends who provided a bbq and drinks for visitors and participants, which was much enjoyed. An extra special men- tion goes to Mrs Yates, our Area Sports lead, who has been organising the event for 12 years; it is always looked forward to by so many children from St Chad’s and the local area. The evening was superbly organised and she will certainly be leaving behind a legacy when she moves on to her new school in September! Intra-school competitions have continued to take place this term. Most classes have carried out more than one. Here are a few examples: Reception and Year 1 competed in houses in a throwing, catching and striking com- petition; Year 1 and 2 were involved in a house Kick Rounders competition along with year 3 and 4 at separate points. Year 4 have also been swimming, which have involved a variety of challenges including water safety. Year 5 and 6 have carried out various striking and fielding house tournaments in Rounders, Scatterball, Kick Rounders and Cricket. They have also been involved in learning a range of dances for Mary Poppins the musical. Reports from teachers say that the children worked well in teams and enjoyed competing for their houses. We have a whole range of sports clubs running after school at St Chad’s. These will continue next term. Our sports clubs look at developing a range of skills, including sporting skills learnt in PE/Games lessons, competitive skills, teamwork skills, perseverance and many of our school values. Competitions against other schools are often planned if children attend the clubs to receive coaching for the events. If you would like any more information on joining any of our clubs, please contact the office who will be pleased to help.

Wow! What a busy sporting term we’ve had. We look forward to continuing to build on sporting opportunities at St Chad’s in September. Stay active!

Pictures, one of the comment bubbles writ- ten by the School Council for Y6s and being very impressed with someone's abseiling ability. School Council 2017/18 These notes have been written by members of the school council: We have held weekly meetings throughout the year and completed many projects. “We have taken the responsibility seriously.” “We helped the school become a better school and organised surprises.” “Everyone has taken part.” Term 1 Each class voted and selected their School Council representatives. We discussed the purpose of the School Council and shared ideas about what we could improve in the school. We created a list of the things we thought were already great and the things we thought could become projects over the course of the year. What is going well? Clubs- entertaining range of clubs, Sports competitions between schools, School community, Den Day- charity days, Teachers, School trips, Special days- languages day. Term 2 “It is important so people can reflect.” We decided to create a quiet reflection area as our first project. We selected the garden area as we thought it was a peaceful area for the children to spend their time. Next, we decided to use the display case to create a thoughtful area based on each terms value. We then creat- ed poetry, art, prayers and quotes to decorate the box each term. We introduced the reflection area and display case in an assembly to the whole school and we updated the display each term to reflect the new value.

Term 3 “It was good so people could have fun and learn.” “Everyone could improve their times tables to help other things in maths.” “Everyone could practise even when they weren’t in school.” This term we decided we wanted to run a whole school inter house competition as we enjoyed them during the previous year. However, we wanted to create a competition which was not sports based. As times tables have been a target in our school, we planned a times tables competition to run over the course of a week. We used Times Tables Rockstars as an online tool for the children to compete and then used the scores to determine the winning house. To prepare this, we had to create and deliver an assembly to the school, make our own posters to advertise it, plan the event and calculate the scores. Term 4 “It was important so we could raise money for people who need it.” “I liked the videos about Sports Relief.” “The fencing was funny to do with my friends.” We wanted our next project to be ‘Giving Back’ so we decided to help organise and run Sports re- lief day in the school. We worked as a team to plan and deliver an assembly to the school explaining the way the day would run and explaining the important work that Sports Relief does. We then created posters to advertise the event and displayed them around the school.

Term 5 “We got to use the computers.” “Some children might move schools because they are getting bullied and we want them to know it won’t happen here.” This term Mr Brown set us a very important task. He wanted us to create a new version of the Anti-Bullying policy to give to new pupils to reassure them about the community in St Chad’s. We looked at the school policy and identified the key points. Then we looked at the examples from other schools and made notes on what we would like ours to look like. Finally, we used the comput- ers to create our own child-friendly policy. (This will be on our website very soon.) Term 6 We decided to do something special for the Year 6 pupils who were leaving this year. We created large speech bubbles and asked our classes to add all their special memories to the bubbles. We then displayed them in the hall for the Year 6 pupils to read and enjoy.

“As you can see, the school council have done an amazing job this year. Well done all of you who have bee part of this very im- portant pupil led work.” Mr. Brown. School meal price small We have had the one else's property to look had helped them show humil- themes of Respect after and did so with care ity and to trust other people. increase (+10p) and Reverence as well as and respect. As you can see we have Wisdom. Please note that from the Mae (Y4) helped some amazing children in St start of September, Ashely (Y6) showed respect friends who had a disagree- Chad’s who really live out to someone who had hurt ment (that she wasn’t in- their lives with values that school meals will cost themselves during a break volved in) to clear the air they consciously choose to time and let them go in be- showing wisdom. hold and they all aim to make fore him. their world a little better. Well Isla (Y6) was nominated by done all of the pupils of St Callum (Y1) was given some- another child who said she Chad’s.

EYFS, Year 1 & 2 Universal Free School Meals and Free school meals after this age. Are you a parent of a year 2 child currently? Just a reminder that the Government initiative of Universal Free School Meals runs only until your child leaves Year 2. That means if you have a child moving into Year 3, you will need to purchase school lunches at the standard rate if you chose to con- tinue to have them. If you qualify for Pupil Premium, you will be eligible for free school meals and a number of other items. This year we are running a scheme as described elsewhere in this newsletter which gives significant benefits to those who are eligible and apply for Pupil Premium funding. http://www.stchadsprimaryschool.co.uk/key-information/ What else have we done this year? It has been such an amazing year that there is no way I can fit everything that we have achieved here. Here are some of the very many amazing things that the pupils have achieved this year and that the school and its support network has run:

♦ Parent invitations: Quiz night (for the grown-ups), Open mornings, Languages Breakfast, Welcome BBQ, our first Car Boot Sale, class assemblies to parents across the year, end of year open classroom, Sports Day, productions (Christmas as well as end of year), Key Stage 1 / EYFS and Key Stage 2 open evenings, where adults were invited to come and find out about what we do and how we do it, parent courses in writing, how we teach reading and supporting in maths, and specific events run in classes, such as food tasting and end of project sharing and more.

♦ Year of community and charity – as well as the fixed events such as Harvest festival raising support for Loaves & Fishes appeal and Foodbank, Operation Christmas child shoeboxes, Remembrance Day, Children in Need and more (many of these events have been organised or part organised by the School Council who are being amazing). Each class worked with a different charity, as below and many exciting events have raised valuable funds, but also raised awareness of the work each does. EYFS RNIB http://www.rnib.org.uk/ Y1 RSPCA https://www.rspca.org.uk Y2 Oxfam https://www.oxfam.org.uk Y3 Precious time – retired people (Men in Sheds, Computer surfers, All sewn up). Contact Sue Stengel T: 0117 975 9347 M: 07580 436273 Y4 https://www.samaritans-purse.org.uk/ Y5 Southern Brooks https://southernbrooks.org.uk/ Y6 Homeless charity https://crisis-centre.org.uk/content/projects

♦ Sport: As you know we do a lot of sport! Well done to our accredited in house fencing coaches Mrs Medway and Miss Davies. For the rest of St Chad’s sport I can’t put it all here, but some of the highlights this year have been: winning Area Sport (again!), one of the largest amounts of inter and intra sport that St Chad’s has ever had, Festival of Youth Dance, swimming for mainly Y4s, expert cricket coaching, fencing and archery and our teams have enjoyed success in a huge range of sports (more inside). Park and Stride has continued to be successful with Strider, the 6 foot tall foot mas- cot helping families know alternative places to park and walk within less than 5 minutes of the house. They are the Traveller’s Rest and the Hollow Tree carparks. Please do use these car parks if you are frustrated by the busy roads outside school!

♦ Our appearance in: the Festival of Youth Dance, Carol Service held in Clifton , singing in Olive Tree House, Patchway Fes- tival Opening Ceremony, the Staff Pantomime to pupils, Methodist Church and The Ark Project annual Easter trail to create a Flamin- go, our entrance into the Gromit appeal to create a Feather McGraw (you can see at the Mall), our choir performing at the Christmas Fair (and other events), and a lot more.

♦ Our visits to places such as: Lifeskills Centre, Airhop, Ice Skating, , Colston Hall to watch the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, SS Great Britain, Croft Farm, Memory Café, We are Curious, Fromeside Gym, Redpoint Bristol Climbing and many more.

♦ Special visitors such as: on our Sports Day Bristol Rovers Mascot Captain Gas came along, journey planning experts, ‘Safer, fitter, Greener’ team, bikeability trainers, pedestrian training, scooter training, MAD Science team, Patchway Festival artist Ruth working with the Y6s, ‘Be Safe, Be Seen’, Firefighters, Lorry safety, Strider (from Park and Stride), the Police, Explore Learning, 2x students from Patchway’s twinned town Gauting, then a collection of dignitaries from the town of Gauting and the local area, rugby coaching from Aretians RFC and North Bristol RFC (thank you!), the Young Poet Laureate, an expert Badminton Coach, NFER (where they are undertaking research into maths and science), University of Bristol (research into memory strategies – verbal memory), Chris MacDon- ald a partially sighted aspiring Paralympian, Grandparents of Y1 and 2 to discuss toys and so many more!

♦ Special days / events - We have run more ‘special days / events’ than ever before (even more than last year which was our record) such as – creating biologically powered fuel cells (and robots) with UWE, Waste Week, World Book day, transforming the hall into scenes from the Great Fire of London, Eco Week, Switch off Fortnight, Arts Week, the Big Battery Hunt, Languages Day (this year we had just over 250 adults attend the breakfast, 50 more than last year), our new cobble path surrounding the gazebo created by pupils supported by Mr D Lippiatt (and his dad!), Mental Health Week focusing on ‘Being Ourselves’ and ‘Valuing our character strengths’, RE week with the theme of ‘Making Peace’, Easter Experience, DT day across the school, diversity workshop, movie night, Book at Bedtime and again even more besides.

♦ So many clubs which is a huge credit to the staff, as well as being considerably more than many other schools provide: lego club, multi sports club, Rockstars, summer sports club, hockey club, science club, choir, gym, board games, guitar lessons, ukulele lessons, keyboard lessons, card club, running club, watercolour club, art & craft club, eco club, film club, girls football club, dance club, painting club, invasion games, mad science, Zumba, mindfulness colouring, kick rounders, athletics, rounders & scatterball, high intensity train- ing, and computer club. Something for everyone!

♦ Our productions such as ukulele / guitar concerts to the school and to parents, EYFS concert to parents, KS1 and KS2 productions, Christmas productions (and church service), Leavers’ Assembly, assemblies to parents, Festival of Youth Dance and more. This is also the year that thanks to Year 1 raising the most Pudsey money they chose a reward of whole school hide and seek, followed by whole school Simon Says! Remember also that within this year we have had some of the hottest days and even had to close for snow! Thank you to the Friends for all that they have done to help make many of the above the achievements that they were, and thank you to the ever smiling staff who have given above and beyond to achieve the above and much more. This has been such a suc- cessful year and it is down to each person who is part of the St Chad’s family who have worked hard together to make this such a great school! Attendance figures by class in percent—Term 6 What a difference a year makes! Well done everyone for the hard work you have all put in to make sure your children are in school as much as possible. As you know it is an expectation form the Government and OFSTED to ensure good attendance. We strive to be above 96% and as you can see, we have made it this year! The governors have on numerous occasions shared the reasoning behind not taking holidays within term time and we again thank you for supporting this. Congratulations to all of the children who have worked to be in school and for those who have won some of the many prizes across the year: weekly attendance competition, where we look to see which class has had the highest attendance within one week, where cumulatively, at the end of the term, the class who has won the most times will receive a prize. In addition we have the pupils who have had no absence at all within a term and finally those who have had no absence at all across the year— we have 38 children in the lat- ter group (an increase by 6 on last year) ! Well done them!

A message to the pupils of St Chad’s Primary School: Dear pupils, All of the staff, parents, Governors and everyone who is involved with school I am sure will join me in saying just how proud of you all that we are. In my view this has been one of the very best year’s that I have known in St Chad’s and each and every one of you has put your all into school, into learning, into getting stuck in with everything that there is to offer and into being the very best versions of you that you can be. St Chad’s is a family and you are all part of this family. You show being part of this every day in the way you are with each other; your kindness and thought to others is unparalleled. People always congratulate our school on how impressed they are by you every time we do anything, from sport to productions, from trips to welcoming someone new to your class. You do all this and work excep- tionally hard to achieve well. I hope you all think back over this year that you can all think of lots of things you are proud of, because we are all proud of you. Have a lovely summer and good luck Y6s as you move to Y7. From all of the staff at St Chad’s Primary School.

Staffing update It has been a busy year as I am sure you all know! With us reverting back to a straight single form entry school, we were always going to be saying goodbye to someone at the end of this year. We are sad to be saying goodbye to both Mrs Jo Hachani and Mrs Jo Yate. Both of whom have been here for some time (Mrs Hachani for 10 years and Mrs Yates for 13 years). We are proud of them both for gaining pro- motions in other schools, Mrs Hachani as a Maths Leader and Mrs Yates as a Lead Teacher. We have been lucky to have them for so long and we thank them for all they have given to the school and know they will be great in their new roles. Michaela Excell who has worked as a 1:1 for the past two years and we are saying goodbye to her as she moves onto pastures new. She has been an asset to the school and we wish her all of the best for the future. You will all know that Mrs Jenkins is about to give birth to her first child at any moment (who knows, between me writing this and going to print, it may have happened!) and we all can’t wait to see the little one! Mrs Jenkins will be returning to take the Headship starting in January 2019. We have said goodbye to Ryan Walker who has been a music PPA cover teacher for 4 years now. He has promised to come back and say hello when he gets the time (when he’s not playing at Glastonbury or touring Europe, both of which he has already done!) Also we con- gratulate Miss Laura Bendall who has been a long term supply teacher with us for a long time on her new job as Reception teacher in Con- iston Primary School. She will be amazing! There will be some slight changes internally, so we congratulate Mrs Ives (see below) on her promotion to Deputy Headteacher. Similar to the way that Mrs Jenkins has only taught 50% of the time, Mrs Ives will teach each morning and her class will be taught in the afternoons by Mrs Butcher who you will all know has taught across the school. Miss Legg and Mrs Harvey have also gained a promotion of Upper and Lower Key Stage Two leaders respectively, and well deserved. We welcome experienced Y5 teacher Miss Vicky Isaac who will be joining us in Y5 in September, she comes with glowing references and we know she is going to instantly become part of the St Chad’s Family. On a slightly less school based note, please join us in congratulating Mrs Ives (formally Miss Parsons) on her wedding. We wish her and her husband love and happiness.