Worfield Endowed Church of England Primary School Summer Term 2016 Farewell Mrs Jones. Happy Retirement! What’s On Dear Parent, Welcome to the final newsletter of this academic year. Worfield th Sunday 17 July School has had a busy and successful year and I would like to 10.30 am – Morning Praise thank you for your support. ‘Milky’ Monday 18th July This year’s school fete was a great success, the fete raised ‘Toasty’ Tuesday 19th July £1278.57 for school funds and the first 6 of our 11 new computers Guitar Lessons were delivered and installed today! Violin Lessons ‘Watery’ Wednesday 20th July Thank you for all your donations of prizes, bottles, cakes etc. and Science Club many many thanks to The Friends for their hard work in planning 6-8pm – Year 6 Has Got Talent the event and giving up their time to make it happen. st ‘Treaty’ Thursday 21 July Also a special thank you to New Barns Nurseries in Hilton and Hill Piano Lessons with Mr Clarke Tennis Club Y1-3 View Hardy Plants for their donations of flowers and shrubs. ‘Fruity Flapjack’ Friday 22nd July Sadly, at the end of this school year we will be saying a fond Piano Lessons with Mr Clark farewell to Mrs Jones, our much-loved school administrator, as 9.30am Year 6 Leavers’ Service at she is retiring. Mrs Jones came to Worfield as a mum in 1996 St Peter’s Church when her son James was at the school. She then volunteered as a classroom helper and soon became a member of the staff team! School re -opens to children on Tuesday 6 th September 2016 Mrs Jones has been the welcoming voice on the end of the telephone as well as the member of staff greeting parents and visitors on arrival at our school for many years. I’m sure that you will agree that Mrs Jones has been a real asset to our school. She Clubs News will be greatly missed by children, parents and staff. We wish her a long and relaxing retirement. If you would like to contribute No Clubs This Week towards a retirement gift for Mrs Jones please speak to Mrs (with the exception of Science Club) Hazelwood or one of the teaching assistants. We will of course be saying goodbye to our Year 6 children from Brecon class next Friday. The leavers’ service will take place in St. nd Peter’s Church on Friday 22 July at 9.30am. Families of our Year 6 pupils are invited to attend. Parking will be available on the rear WORFIELD CATERPILLARS playground during the service. Sports Morning and Fete th Monday 18 July 9.30-12.30 everyone welcome! Best wishes for a lovely summer, Raffle drawn 12.15pm Mrs C. Gaskin Executive Headteacher SPORTS NEWS Summer County Games 2016 Champions…Again! East Shropshire are County Champions and unbeaten for 7½ years in a row. The prestigious level 3 games were held once again at Shrewsbury Sports Village with hundreds of children taking part. Worfield Primary was successful in qualifying for the tennis, tri-golf and cricket events. All three teams played extremely well, collecting valuable points for the district. At lunch time East Shropshire were lying in third place, meaning the heat was on to bag some very crucial points in the afternoon’s activities. Worfield teams stepped up to the mark taking first place in both the tri-golf and the cricket. A fantastic achievement for Worfield! BES Primary School Games Well done to Bridgnorth Endowed School for hosting another massive primary school sports day, on Thursday. With the theme set for Rio Carnival and the weather on its best behaviour, a brilliant day of fun and games was had by all pupils who took part. The BBQ and ice-creams topped off the day. Table Tennis – ‘Challenge 100’ Event It started in January. A total of 80 competitors all wanting to be crowned Worfield’s number one! A massive 87 games later, we have our finalists. The scene is set. The school’s biggest stage, watched by everyone who has taken part and their classes. The final of the Worfield Table Tennis League has been held in Friday’s assembly. Tom Cowell V Jem Forrest. The game was brilliantly played, with excitement and nerves from both sides. The boys both played some seriously technical shots and it was obvious to see they both deserved their place in this final game. Well done to Tom Cowell who is crowned Worfield Table Tennis Grand Champion 2016. Also, a big shout to Jem Forrest who took the second place and Asa Thomas who came third. RAF Cosford Athletics Well done to everyone who took park in the athletics at RAF Cosford this year. Pupils from Years 3 to 6 competed in events: track -hurdles, sprints, distance and relay races and field - high jump, long jump, rounders ball & javelin throw. With several podium finishes Worfield finished in 4th place overall. Reminders: Please can any sponsor money from the Bridgnorth Walk now be paid in. School Sports Hoodies - These are now available to purchase from Bristows Bridgnorth, as part of the school PE uniform. Also don’t forget to take a look on the school website – there are lots of photographs of all the events on there. Review of the Disabled Children’s Register in Shropshire Well done to Archie and The Children Act 1989 requires all local authorities to keep a voluntary register of Martha Bradburn, their disabled children and young people (up to the age of 25) in the area. The aim of the fund-raising for Russells register is to help local areas understand how many disabled children and young people (and those with special educational needs or some additional needs) live in Hall Hospital Maternity their area and to assist them in planning provision and support. Unit Bereavement Services raised £76 Shropshire Council have asked an Independent person, Sue North, to review the current register and make some recommendations for the future. Sue is working with PACC, Shropshire’s parent carer forum, to find out how the current register works, and how it is used to support families. Also how this helps the local area to use the information to plan good support and services for children and young people and their families in the future. We are keen to hear from parent carers your thoughts about the Disabled Children’s Register and what you would like for the future. You can do this by filling in this quick survey monkey questionnaire which should not take more than 10 minutes. https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/DisabledChildrenSurvey If you would rather complete this over the telephone, please call Sue North on 07891 942755 so we can arrange to do this . We would be grateful if you could complete this before the end of July. Thank you for your help. tel: 01746 716606 e-mail: admin@worfield .shropshire.sch.uk website: www.worfield.shropshire.sch.uk .