School Newsletter 3 July 2015 Good morning, it looks like it's going to be another warm one! The staff and children have coped incredibly well with the rising temperatures this week. As you can imagine, with a building of this age, and classrooms full of 30 children, the afternoon sessions can be quite challenging. Couple this with a lack of shade outside and tired children who haven't slept well, we have all done well to keep going! This week has been a hive of activity culminating today with Friendly Friday, where chil- dren are completing a variety of SMSC based activities across the school. We have been busy preparing children for transition this week and welcomed our new Re- ception children into school on Wednesday of this week. It was lovely for me to spend some time with them and to reflect about how much children develop and grow during their first full year of school with us. Our year 6 pupils have visited their secondary schools this week and have come back buzzing about the exciting opportunities which lie ahead of them. Whilst welcoming new children, we also welcomed in to school this week new staff mem- bers who are joining us - Mrs Gill and Mrs Humphries. Mrs Gilbey has also been out and about visiting classrooms to observe teachers as she prepares to start her teacher training with us in September. Mrs Gilbey will be completing the same course as Miss Barker has done this year and will be learning the ropes in Hawthorn class from Mrs Porter. We've had more sporting success over the past week, with our swim team winning the WASPs competition at the weekend and our runners being crowned the ‘District Sports Mixed Grand Shuttle Relay Champions'. Well done to all of our children who participated and to staff and parents for supporting them. Next week we continue with our busy schedule and await the return of SATs papers which we shall then number crunch and report to parents as soon as we can. We will also be finalising preparations for the Pyrford and Wisley Flower Show taking place next weekend and look forward to seeing all the children there. The link http:// www.pyrfordflowershow.org.uk/junior/4555956852 takes you to the junior section and we encourage you to enter some of the junior categories. I wish you all a pleasant weekend and look forward to seeing many of you this evening when I shall be attending the Iftar at the Shah Jahan Mosque. I feel privileged to be invited and cannot but admire the determination of those of you in our school community who are currently undertaking fasting during this long and hot Ramadan. Best wishes. Kathryn Krynicki Headteacher YEAR 6 LEAVERS’ SERVICE AT THE CATHEDRAL ON MONDAY Remember to come smartly dressed in your uniform and bring a packed lunch. Congratulations to the Golden Book Winners Week beginning 29 June Ash - Eiliyah for excellent progress in Elm - Ethan Harvey & writing. Maple - Charlie Jones Beech - Hannah Anderson for always for excellent story boards telling of the trying her best! ‘Weighing of the Heart’ ceremony in Hazel - Thomas Atkins for being a Ancient Egypt. superstar and working hard all year. Larch - Charlotte Lambert for excellent Chestnut - Joe Hodges for working work in RE this week. hard all year and being a brilliant Birch - Charles Crossley & Niko Hack mathmagician. for excellent film reviews in Literacy. Pine - William Wynne for wearing his Rowan - Jacob Wynne for writing a glasses. lovely poem about the sea. Cedar - Kerron Patrick for trying hard. Willow - Gemma Robins & Evangeline Hawthorn - James Cobbett for Maloney for an excellent version of the working hard and making very good ‘At Sea’ poem. progress. Laurel - Oscar Reynell for great team- Sycamore - Bronte Oliver-Watts for work and such a positive attitude during exceptional hard work all year. our residential. Holly classes - Vivek Kalia for being a good team member and encouraging throughout our residential. MUFTI DAY - TUESDAY 14TH JULY We are inviting children to come in to school in mufti clothes for a suggested donation of £1 towards JDRF. The School Council have chosen to support this charity as it has given a lot of support to a child in one of our Reception classes who has Type 1 Diabetes. She, too, has raised money for the charity by taking part in a sponsored walk. JDRF funds research to cure, treat and prevent Type 1 diabetes and provides information for children, adults and parents living with the condition, from diagnosis and beyond. Sport4Kids (S4K) are very excited to be delivering the Pyrford School Holiday Camps this summer. S4K have been delivering weekend sports classes, midweek school and nursery programmes and holi- day camps since 2012, currently working with over 1000 children every week. Our mission is to build a movement that champions sport from a child and parents perspective. In our classes we look to merge child psychology and learning, entertainment and fun along with the development of confidence through individual skills coaching. Earlier this year we joined forces with ActivKids who have been working with Pyrford for a number of years supporting PE and delivering an after school club, and together our range of programmes and services have been enhanced further. The summer camp timetable is now available at http://sport4kids.biz/holiday-camp/ wokingholidaycamp. We look forward to welcoming pupils from Pyrford to our exciting and energetic camp. Best regards Dr. Mark Gould and James Porter SCHOOL DATES FOR 2014—2015 ACADEMIC YEAR Additions & changes in bold Description Date Time Yr 6 Leavers’ Service at the Cathedral 6 July Yr 5 Internet Safety Workshops 8 July morning Internet safety meeting for KS2 parents 9 July 7 pm Pyrford Flower Show 11 July Fundraising Concert at the CoGS 13 July evening Mufti Day for JDRF 14 July KS2 Sports Day 15 July 9:30 am EYFS & KS1 Sports Day 16 July 9:30 am Yr 6 production 17 July Afternoon Friends Family Summer BBQ 17 July 6 - 9 pm Yr 6 Disco 20 July 6:30 pm Last Day of Summer Term 21 July finish at 13:30 PLEASE NOTE THAT TEACHER LED CLUBS FINISHED THIS WEEK The last Judo session is Tuesday 14th and Chobham Rugby’s last session is Wednesday 15th. Please check direct with other external providers for infor- mation about their final sessions. ICE CREAMS are on sale after school every Friday FAMILY BBQ afternoon . Friday 17th July Please come around to the Reception 6 - 9 pm playground near the school field entrance. Booking form at the back of the newsletter 2015/16 Term Dates & INSETs INSET DAY 2 September First day of Autumn term 3 September AFTER SCHOOL CLUB STAFF REQUIRED Autumn Half term 26 - 30 October Last day of Autumn term 17 December 5 afternoons INSET DAY 18 December 3 - 6:15pm (16.25hrs per week) Christmas Holidays 21 December - 4 January Term time only First day of Spring term 5 January Salary FTE £15,156 Spring Half Term 15 - 19 February Actual £5,682 per annum Last day of Spring term 24 March Easter Holidays 25 March - 8 April Please contact Mrs McAllister for further INSET 11 April details / application form First Day of Summer term 12 April INSET 27 May [email protected] Summer Half term 30 May - 3 June INSET 6 June Last Day of Summer Term 22 July WASPS SWIMMING GALA 2015 Another Success for Pyrford Swimmers! The Woking Primary Schools Annual Swimming Gala took place this year at the Pool in the Park in Woking on Saturday 27th June. All of our swimmers swam their absolute hardest, and every swimmer contributed to the growing confidence that the team felt as regular score updates put Pyrford as the team to be beaten. The whole area fell silent as the placings were confirmed in reverse order. The top spot was between Pyrford and Goldsworth Park, who had been chasing us through- out. And finally– confirmation………PYRFORD WERE THE CHAMPIONS!! Well done to our fabulous swimmers – Izzy Simons (captain), Genevieve Moller- Butcher, Freya Daines, Alex Keane (captain), Isaac Wong, William Cobbett, Gemma Robins, Maddi Livingstone, Rosina Hanington, Freddie Plummer, Lorenzo Vanotti, Lucas Collyer-Todd, Oliver Mantell, Lois Wong and Christian Moller-Butcher, and thanks to our wonderfully noisy supporters!! DISTRICT SPORTS 2015 Field Events : Charlotte Lambert, Bobby Lockwood-Cowell, Molly Ryan, Sarib Umair, Parisa Kordestani, Lois Wong, Daniel Wass, Amelie King, Samantha Osborne, Luca Elliott and Isaac Wong. Charlotte and Bobby came first in their events, Daniel came 2nd in his and Samantha came 3rd in hers. We came 3rd overall in the field events. Track Events : Rania Zareen, Caitlin Maytham, Lois Wong, Charlie Jones, Sami Salim, Theo Scott, Connie Clifton, Charlotte Lambert, Harriet Cook, Bobby Lockwood-Cowell, Chris Batten, Daniel Wass, Amelie King, Maddi Livingstone, Gemma Robins, Lorenzo Vanotti, Freddie Plummer, Robbie Moore, Samantha Osborne, Kate Booker, Genevieve Moller-Butcher, Madeline Harrison, Alex Clifton, Sean Ndebele, Joseph Monday and Luca Elliott. Great performances from everyone but particular congratulations to the following who were placed in their races Rania - 2nd Bobby - 3rd Amelie - 2nd Kate - 3rd Alex - 3rd Connie and Samantha came 1st in their heats and then 2nd in their respective finals. Yr 3&4 Boys relay came 3rd, Yr 5&6 Girls relay came 2nd and the Mixed Shuttle Relay team came first winning the Grand Mixed Shuttle Relay trophy. All pupils were a credit to the school and thanks go to Mrs Cockle and Mr Jones for all their help. Please come to the Pyrford C of E Primary School Summer Concert at the Church of the Good Shepherd th On Monday 13 July, 7pm.