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February 25th 2016 Parent/Child/Teacher Evenings What qualities We will be holding parent, child Easter Eggs make for a good and teacher evenings during the The children will be delivering leader? final week of term. We are chocolate Easter Eggs to the asking, like last time, that where senior citizens in our village possible you are able to bring again this year. We will be your children to the meeting with collecting donations of Easter st you. We look forward to seeing Eggs until Monday the 21 of Save The Date! you then. Please see the attached March. Thank you for your letter for further details and to support of this event. Easter Reading – book an appointment. th March 16 Easter Reading Morning Morning Drop-Off On Wednesday the 16th of We are still having children March we will be holding an Parent Evenings – entering our premises before 8:30 st Easter Reading morning for Week of March 21 in the mornings when there is no parents and their children in the supervision in the playgrounds. hall from 8:00 a.m until Please can we remind you that Easter Crafting 8:40a.m. Refreshments will be March 23rd unless you have a before-school served. club, you must not enter the
school gates until 8:30a.m. Book Character Dress Up Further, can we please remind Also, to celebrate reading and in parents that children must not be lieu of World Book Day, we are playing on the equipment, on the asking children to dress up as field or with footballs first thing their favourite book characters in the morning. Safety of th on Wednesday the 16 of everyone is paramount to us. March. We look forward to Thank you. seeing what you come as.
“In the middle of Open Afternoon difficulty lies Easter Crafting Morning Our final open afternoon this term opportunity.” th On the final Wednesday will now be on Wednesday 16 of rd morning of term, March 23 , March from 3:15 until 3:45. from 8:00 in the hall, we will be ~Albert Einstein~ Please come in and see your having another Easter crafting children’s books and their morning. Come help your classrooms. children create some lovely Easter decorations.
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World Book Day £1 book tokens are being given out to COMMUNITY NEWS each child for World Book Day which We are happy to include community is on Thursday 3rd March. The tokens items when space permits but may be used in most bookshops readers should be aware that events between 29th February and 27th March. and activities advertised have not been researched by the school. Class Photos Class photos will be taken on the Church Service at St Mary morning of Monday 7th March. Please Magdalene ensure your child is in full school of particular interest to families: uniform. Sunday 28th February 11am All Age Communion. Code of Conduct Forms There are a number of parent code of Wallingford Young People for conduct forms which have not been Kenya signed and returned. If you need Wallingford Young People for Kenya another copy please ask at the school are students from Wallingford School office. fundraising to travel to work with orphaned and vulnerable children in PTA NEWS Kenya. Mrs Hudson is one of the trip leaders and has many has many stories Non-Uniform Day of the children she met and the work There will be a non-uniform day on the group did – including building a Thursday 24th March. Please bring mud house. Wallingford Young sweets (not chocolate) or £1 donation People for Kenya have organised a fun in aid of the Thames Run. Shrek party for children of primary age on Saturday 19th March at Wallingford Thames Run 2016 Baptist Church from 4 – 6pm. (There Registration for the Thames 5K and will also be appropriate adult 10K run is now open! Early bird supervision). Join them for crafts, discounts available. Visit activities and hotdogs! Tickets are £5 www.thamesrun.co.uk to enter. If per child. To book please email running is not your thing please [email protected]. support the event by spreading the word by liking and sharing our Best of Wallingford Fashion Show Facebook page. and Pamper Fair In aid of Oxfam and Wallingford Kindest Regards, Young People for Kenya. Your headteacher Mrs Barton and the Friday 22nd April 7.30 – 10pm in team at Crowmarsh Gifford CE Wallingford School Hall Primary School.
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Doors open: 7.00pm. Catwalk: Cranford House School 8.00pm. Pamper Fair: 7.30 – 10pm. Are running activity day camps for 4 to Includes a night of live entertainment, 14 year olds this Easter and Summer. a catwalk, luxury raffle prizes, a For more information, see the poster complimentary drink, local stalls to and leaflets in the entrance hall, phone buy unique items from, hair and beauty 0844 870 7077 or visit artists, and an opportunity to buy www.ultimateactivity.co.uk. quality clothing (new and old) including evening/prom dresses and The Elms Multi-Sports Camps are suits. Tickets in advance £8 for taking place at Woodcote Primary adults, £6 for students. Contact Julie School at Easter, Whitsun and in the or Eleanor on summer. Booking Hotline: 020 8954 [email protected] or call 8787 or online at 07803 015527. www.elmsholidayschemes.co.uk. For further information email: Tutor Available [email protected]. Mrs Lewis-Miller, who is one of our regular supply teachers, is available for Dan Housego Cricket Coaching private tutoring and has asked us to Are running specialist cricket camps at include the following notice. the Oratory School and at Wokingham Cricket Club from 4 – 8 April. To Tutor available, based in Warborough book online go to or will travel. Becky Lewis-Miller http://www.danhousegocricketcoachin BSc.PGCE with over 20 years’ g.com. experience teaching all primary school age groups up to and including Year 7. Offering confidence boosting, SN support (dyslexia trained/experience). Curriculum reinforcement or extension and creative opportunities. Tel: 01865 858 339/ 07810 373770.
Earth Trust Lambing Weekends The Earth Trust at Little Wittenham, OX14 4QZ are holding Lambing Weekends on 12th & 13th March and on 19th & 20th March from 11am – 4pm. £6 adult, £3 child £15 family (2 adults and 2 children). For more information phone 01865 407792 or email [email protected]. www.earthtrust.org.uk.
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to put on our February 11th 2016 tree?
Internet Safety Session Behaviour Policy
Please note that we now have We had an excellent turn-out updated our behaviour policy and (almost 100 in total!) for the e- The Week you will be able to find a copy on safety session on Tuesday our website after Friday. Please Ahead evening. Thank you to all the read it to have a better parents who came with their understanding of how we manage children and we hope that you behaviour across the school. found it informative and useful. Thank you. E-safety issues arise every year, but each time slightly different.
Thank you for realising how Half Term! Class Blogs and Twitter! important this issue was and Don’t forget to see what your supporting the event. We will children are doing each week on be holding another parent’s the class blogs on our website as session in the summer term. well as the headteacher blog. Also, follow us on PTA NEWS @CrowmarshSchool for pictures and tweets throughout the week. The next PTA meeting will be on the first Monday after half – School Term Dates 2016-17 term, 7.30 – 8.30pm in the Attached is a calendar showing school hall. We will be the term and holiday dates for the discussing the school fete that school year starting in September will be supporting the Thames 2016. Run and really need the help “We are what we and support of the parents and carers, so please attend if repeatedly do. possible. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit .”
~Aristotle ~
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PRE-SCHOOL VALENTINE’S CAKE SALE, FRIDAY 12 An Evening of Music and Song FEBRUARY with Cholsey Silver Band and A cake sale is to be held on Friday 12th February in the school playground to Cholsey School Choir help raise money for Pre-School resources. Please come along and Friday 12th February, Great Hall, support this event and enjoy some Cholsey Meadows, 7:30pm yummy cakes! Tickets £7 (adults), £5 (seniors), £1 (children) Kindest Regards, Please come along to support this
Your headteacher Mrs Barton and the event. Proceeds will be donated team at Crowmarsh Gifford CE to Sam's Musical Garden. Mr Primary School. Barlow is performing as a guest soloist. Tickets are available from the school office or on the
door. COMMUNITY NEWS We are happy to include community items when space permits but Please contact Cholsey School readers should be aware that events for more information and activities advertised have not been researched by the school. 01491 651862
Church Services at St Mary Reading School Taster Days Magdalene of particular interest to families are: Reading School is offering a ‘Sleepover Experience’ in their Sunday 14th February 11am All Age boarding houses on Friday 10th June Worship for any boys who are working above nationally expected levels in Year 5. Sunday 28th February 11am All Age This is for Year 5 boys who might be Communion. considering a boarding school or are preparing themselves for a school 1st Crowmarsh Gifford Scout Troop entrance test in Year 6. They will be providing stretching booster lessons in Attached is a poster for the local scout English, Maths and Science. If you are troop. Young people can join the interested please contact Rebecca scouts between the ages of 10 and 14 Cooper, on 0118 901 5600 ext: 275. years.
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February 4th 2016 Code of Conduct What mistakes Thank you to parents who have have you learnt already read, signed and returned Internet Safety Session from today? the Code of Conduct signature sheets. We cannot encourage you
enough to attend our Internet Safeguarding Sessions Safety Session on Tuesday the For those still needing Generalist th 9 of February at 7:00 p.m. We Safeguarding training we will be are asking all parents of years 4, All Clubs as Normal offering more dates after the half 5 and 6 to attend with their term. So far we have trained over children and any other parent Save The Date! 50 parents! from the younger years may attend (but it won’t be suitable
th Class Blogs and Twitter! for your children). We have Internet Safety – 9 Feb Don’t forget to see what your had problems with children
children are doing each week on bullying other children online in
the class blogs on our website as upper key stage 2 and we really well as the headteacher blog. need your help and support to Also, follow us on put an end to it. Unfortunately @CrowmarshSchool for pictures this type of bullying is and tweets throughout the week. happening away from school
but very often the after effects Phonics and Reading Session are brought into school. Thank you to those parents who Therefore, we are constantly attended the training last Monday. dealing with issues that are We hope you found it “A life spent making stemming from online social informative. mistakes is not only networks. We cannot urge all We will be putting all handouts parents enough to help us to more honourable but for this event and any other future help protect your children more useful than a events on our school website online. If you haven’t attended life spent doing under the ‘Parent Links’ tab. before, we expect to see you nothing.” They will be up there shortly. and your children (if they are in Thank you. years 4,5 and 6) at this event on ~George Bernard Tuesday evening. There will be Shaw~ childcare for younger children. Thank you and look forward to seeing you there.
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Scarlet Fever PRE-SCHOOL VALENTINE’S We have had one confirmed case of CAKE SALE, FRIDAY 12 scarlet fever in school. This is an FEBRUARY infectious disease caused by the A cake sale is to be held on Friday 12th streptococcus bacteria. It is February in the school playground to characterised by a rash, which usually help raise money for Pre-School accompanies a sore throat and is resources. Please come along and sometimes confused with the measles support this event and enjoy some rash. There may also be a fever, yummy cakes! headache, red and swollen tongue and flushed cheeks. It takes around two to Kindest Regards, five days to develop symptoms after being infected. Treatment consists of a Your headteacher Mrs Barton and the ten-day course of antibiotics. If you team at Crowmarsh Gifford CE think your child has scarlet fever, you Primary School. should consult your GP. Children should stay away from school for at COMMUNITY NEWS least 24 hours after starting the We are happy to include community antibiotic treatment. items when space permits but readers should be aware that events PTA NEWS and activities advertised have not Don’t forget to sign up for the PTA been researched by the school. Valentine’s Disco! We are going to trial a new idea and give Year 3 the Church Services at St Mary option of attending either the KS1 Magdalene disco or the KS2 disco. At the of particular interest to families are: Halloween Disco a few Year 3s found being with the larger children a bit Sunday 14th February 11am All Age overwhelming so hopefully the option Worship of attending either disco will help to resolve this. Please indicate on your Sunday 28th February 11am All Age slip when booking. Communion.
The next PTA meeting will be on the Family Basketball Tickets first Monday after half –term, 7.30 – We have been given four family tickets 8.30pm in the school hall. We will be for the Reading Rockets game on discussing the school fete that will be Sunday 7th February, 5pm Tip-Off at supporting the Thames Run and really Rivermead Leisure Complex. Please need the help and support of the call at the office if interested. parents and carers, so please attend if possible.
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foxes to clever cockroaches, wise bears to cats skilled in martial arts, this Host a Hive? animal safari promises unforgettable encounters with many prize specimens. Mr Wilkes, parent of a child at Crowmarsh School, is looking for a Use all your senses to experience site to keep a bee hive in the favourite tales, books and films and Crowmarsh or surrounding area. Do learn how their animal heroes are you have somewhere you think may be faring in the real world. suitable and are willing to host a hive? Payment in honey produced locally! Howl like a hunter. Dive beneath the Or do you know a farmer or landowner sea. Discover your daemon. who could be approached? Please email [email protected] Explore your wild side…
Crescendo Music, in association with Find out more: the Corn Exchange Wallingford http://www.storymuseum.org.uk/visit/ presents ‘The Magical Music of whats-inside/animal/ Richard and Robert Sherman, featuring all your favourite songs from Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Plus… Wild Half Term! from Tuesday 15th to Saturday 19th March at 7.30pm and a matinee on Celebrate the opening of our new Saturday at 2.30pm. Animal exhibition with a packed week of events workshops and activities Story Museum, Oxford including animation, creative writing, insect handling and author events. Animal: a safari through stories Find out more: Opens 13 February 2016 http://www.storymuseum.org.uk/whats- on/wild-half-term/ Why are there so many children’s stories about animals? What do they Reading School Taster Days tell us about ourselves and the natural Reading School is offering a world? And if you were a story animal, ‘Sleepover Experience’ in their th which would you be? boarding houses on Friday 10 June for any boys who are working above Find out by travelling our immersive nationally expected levels in Year 5. story trail. Explore snowy forests and This is for Year 5 boys who might be jungle clearings, city streets and sunlit considering a boarding school or are meadows in search of fictional animals preparing themselves for a school both fierce and friendly. From fantastic entrance test in Year 6. They will be providing stretching booster lessons in
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English, Maths and Science. If you are health pack for every child who has a interested please contact Rebecca check-up. Call 01235 813245. Cooper, on 0118 901 5600 ext: 275 Reading FC are running Half Term The Smile Dental Practice Didcot soccer schools. Call 0118 968 1460 or presents a Children’s Day on visit www.community.readingfc.co.uk Wednesday 17th February from 10am – ‘Sport Participation’ for more details 4pm. Running throughout the day will and to book on line. Details also be staff in fancy dress, face painting, available from the school office. balloons, competitions, plus a free oral
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PTA VALENTINE’S DISCO THURSDAY 11TH FEBRUARY
KS1 5.30 – 6.30pm KS2 6.45 – 8.00pm
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