Wybunbury Delves C.E. (aided) Primary School Bridge Street CW5 7NE Tel: 01270 841302 March 2013 Newsletter E-mail [email protected]

Dear Parents/Carers, Thank you for all your support with the Friends’ Easter Fair. The committee thought carefully before postponing, due to the severe weather, and we look forward to the event on FRIDAY 20th APRIL—10am—12 noon. The emergency road closure has also been at the mercy of the weather and we are on standby; we hope it does not inconvenience you in accessing the school. Apparently it has been the longest winter for 50 years and it certainly feels like the cold, dark months stretch on. At this time of year the Christian Message coincides with our reflections on new life and a new start. Let’s hope the daffodils open very soon and the new term brings some sunshine.

Staffing News Miss Silvester is visiting Mississippi through a Rotary scheme and will look at how Phonics is taught. She returns to school in the 2nd week of the Summer term. Mrs Burns and Miss Cartwright (student teacher) will teach year 2 for the first week back. Mrs Dore commences maternity leave at the end of this term and Mrs Charlesworth and Mrs Jenkins will teach reception class. Mrs Jenkins has taught here before (as Miss Crossley) for those of you who remember staff from years ago! Congratulations to Miss McCurrie who is getting married during the Easter break and will return as Mrs Rogers. Our special thanks to Mrs McGirl, who is leaving us this term due to the funding cuts that are affecting SEN support teaching posts across county. Mrs McGirl has been a valued member of our team.

The faces of ‘Our Club’ for before and after school care are changing. Chris Cornes and Mrs Brownell are helping Miss Gregory our supervisor, whilst Kris Heath and Mrs Anita Hughes are stepping down. Kris has also worked as mid-day assistant and volunteered across school and we wish him every success in his new venture. We welcome Mrs A Hughes as our new acting caretaker. She is a familiar face to many of you and a constant presence around our school as midday supervisor and helping in the office. She has covered as caretaker in the past and is enjoying the new role.

Parent Partnership Thank you for supporting our Study Work sharing day. We had lots of positive comments to our governors (Mrs Heath, Mrs Farleigh and Mrs Coney) who spoke with parents and talked to children about their books. So much work goes into Study Work books and they are worth admiration and should be treasured. I certainly love to see them as children show me their work. Targets have also been shared with parents for Literacy and Numeracy at our recent Parents’ evening. We want Key Stage 2 children to bring home their English and Maths exercise books in order to talk to parents about their targets and what their ‘next steps’ are to progress in their work. It would really do our children good to talk this through at home. We would need strong assurance that exercise books would be back in school for the next lesson! Hopefully this will take place over April and May. If you are unable to get to school for Sharing Days or Parent meetings, please let Mrs Casserley know so she can arrange an alternative time to meet with you or for your children to share their work.

Kind regards C Casserley Year 3 ‘Robin Hood’ day SCHOOL MEALS

Thank you to the parents and grandparents of children in Year 3 for their cakes and savouries Please ensure you pay regularly for school meals. We for our ‘Robin Hood’ day. Costumes were collect payment on behalf of Catering fantastic and we all thoroughly enjoyed role and have to pay from the school budget any play, Sherwood games, woodland themed outstanding debt, which we cannot afford from our snacks and art/craft activities. school finances. A text message will be sent if you are Miss Lake getting near to the 2 week deadline.

The amount for dinner money for the next half term WYBUNBURY 100 CLUB is £58.80 for those of you who like to pay in advance. Congratulations to Mrs L Taylor who is February’s Credits will be given for any days absence. winner of the Wybunbury Delves ‘100’ Club’ Well done! A lovely new menu has been issued to children this week by Cheshire East Catering, this also has snack PARKING items on the reverse. This will start after the Easter break. We have received the following communication:

FUNDRAISING Dear Head Teacher, This term we have raised the following amounts from I have been asked to write to you on behalf of fundraising:- Wybunbury parish Council. Local residents are Fairtrade sharing day—(Kenyan partnership)£35.50 having a problem accessing their properties due to Dressing up as a book character—£71.35 parents causing an obstruction with their cars at Comic Relief , including sale of cakes—£233.06 KS 1 Easter collection—£67 school start and finish times. Travelling Book Fair—£190 commission in books The Parish Council would be grateful if you could ask parents to take this into consideration when A big thank you for supporting all these! parking. Thankyou, Sainsburys vouchers are being issued until 22.5.13. We need Parish Clerk to order our goodies by 1st July so please send them in promptly!

LOST PROPERTY We have a nice pair of UGG gloves in the office waiting to be returned. This month a silver chain with a double silver heart was found in the hall. There is also a square diamante watch which was found some time ago. We would love to find the owners.

HOLIDAY DATES ACADEMIC YEAR 2013-14 HOLIDAY PERIOD DATE OF CLOSING DATE OF RE-OPENING

SUMMER 2013 TUES 3RD SEPTEMBER 2013

AUTUMN HALF TERM 2013 FRI 18TH OCTOBER 2013 MON 28TH OCTOBER 2013

CHRISTMAS 2013/14 WED 18TH DECEMBER 2013 MON 6TH JANUARY 2014

SPRING HALF TERM 2014 FRI 14TH FEBRUARY 2014 WED 26TH FEBRUARY 2014

EASTER 2014 FRI 4TH APRIL 2014 TUES 22ND APRIL 2014

MAY DAY 2014 (5th May 2014) FRI 2ND MAY 2014 TUES 6TH MAY 2014

SUMMER HALF TERM 2014 FRI 23RD MAY 2014 TUES 3RD JUNE 2014

SUMMER 2014 WED 23RD JULY 2014

Staff Training Days: Mon 2 Sept 13, Thurs 19 Dec 13, Mon 24 Feb 14, Tues 25 Feb 2014, Mon 2 June 2014 FREE ‘STREET SPORTS LEISURE ACTIVITIES’ FOR HALF TERM Please see attachment for the itinerary.

Easter fun at Nantwich Museum Wed 3rd and Thurs 4th April 11am—3pm and Wed 10th and Thurs 11th April Easter and Spring time crafts

Activities based on Nantwich artists £2 per child Workshops are drop in between 11am and 3pm Children must be accompanied

FOWD News

Hello all

The following people were the lucky winners of the Easter Grand Prize raffle draw. Please collect your prizes from the school—Apologies if we have misspelt any names.

£50 – Mrs Bailey (Ashton Year 1) ticket 726 Little Moreton hall – Lucy Jenkins (Reception) ticket 1455 Swan at Wybunbury Meal – Debbie Alexander (Y2) ticket 597 Lakeside bowling – Peter Zair (Sam Yr1) 647 Alex soccer school day – Ray Lucock (Rose Hancock) 1029 Kidz Kitchen voucher – Tom Woollam (yr4) 1839 Nantwich Swimming and fitness voucher – Andrea Cozens (yr6) 1553 Funsters voucher – Christie Baldwin (Matt Harris yr2) 563 Quarry Bank Mill – T Poxon (Cameron Pratt Thomson Reception) 541 Snugburys voucher – Mrs Skampriunka (Zulfiker)507 Diddi Dance voucher – Oliver Taylor(yr6) 1556 cream tea – Abbie Jones (Sam yr3)1181 Stockley Farm – Kate Hughes (office) 254 Boars Head meal – Rachel Brodin (Maddie yr4) 1896 Cheerbrook voucher – Jay Izadifar (Amitis yr2) 479 Hypnotherapy voucher – Mrs Miles (Alex/Emily Yr3) 1628 Good time Charlies voucher – Ann Cullen (yr2) 623. Please contact Bentley merchandise – J Hunt (Yr1) - 626

Thank you all for joining in the Grand Prize raffle.

There will also be a mini, one off, “on the day” raffle at the new Easter Fair, so look out for the stand if you would like to buy tickets for a chance to win some new prizes.

New Date for the Easter Fair Sat April 20th 10-12 Great stalls, lots of fun activities and a delicious breakfast café (bacon rolls, croissants, local jams, hot chocolate and more)

CALENDAR OF EVENTS Summer Term 2013

DATE EVENT DETAILS

THURS 28TH MARCH SCHOOL CLOSES FOR EASTER BREAK

MON 15TH APRIL RETURN TO SCHOOL

TUES 16TH APRIL SPANISH CLASSES COMMENCE IN To be run by Blanca de la Fuente, la LIBRARY Jolie Ronde, after school. In the library. Y2, Y3, Y4, Y5, Y6 3.20—4.30pm

WED 17TH APRIL SPANISH CLASSES COMMENCE IN 3.20—3.50pm LIBRARY YR and Y1 THURS 19TH APRIL Y3 VISIT TO ROSE COTTAGE, OAKHANGER SAT 20TH APRIL EASTER FAIR 10—12 NOON

TUES 23RD APRIL Y6 FUNDRAISERS—DRESS UP IN DETAILS TO FOLLOW FROM Y6 PINK DAY FOR CANCER RE- SEARCH

MON 13TH –FRI 17TH MAY SATS WEEK FOR YEAR 6

WED 22ND MAY KS 2 SPORTS DAY RESERVE DAY THURS 23RD MAY 10am 10am

THURS 23RD MAY BREAK UP FOR HALF TERM

MON 3RD JUNE RETURN TO SCHOOL

WED 5TH JUNE YR 6 BARBECUE—MOTHERS AFTER SCHOOL—ST CHADS UNION

TUES 11TH JUNE KS1 SPORTS DAY 10am RESERVE DATE WED 12TH JUNE 10am

SAT 22ND JUNE ARLEY HALL GARDENING WEEK- ORGANISED BY MRS END CHARLESWORTH/VOLUNTEERS

KENYAN VISITORS ARRIVE - STAYING UNTIL 3RD JULY

MON 24TH JUNE TOWN SPORTS—CUMBERLAND 5.30—8.30pm ARENA

WED 26TH JUNE TOWN SPORTS—BARONY PARK 5.30-8.30pm

THUR 11TH JULY STUDY WORK SHARING 1.15—5.30PM

WED 17TH JULY LEAVERS’ SERVICE ST CHAD’S 10AM COMMUNITY AFTERNOON TEA 1.30PM SCHOOL

THURS 18TH JULY Y6 FUNDRAISERS TALENT SHOW

MON 22ND JULY BREAK UP FOR SUMMER