Fairhaven Primary School Newsletter Number 21 12 th June 2015 www.southwalshamfairhaven.norfolk.sch.uk Dates for your Diary Class Structure for 2015-16 June As I am sure most parents are aware our Sun 14 th 2pm – 5pm Open Garden at The class organisation is influenced by the size Old House Ranworth th of our year groups. Each year we have to Tues 16 Open Dance rehearsals 3.15pm- consider the best way in which to spread the 4.30pm Thurs 18 th Song & Dance Festival 6.30pm children across the classes. In order to for 7pm start accommodate all of our pupils in classes Fri 19 th PM Oak Class swimming which are of a manageable size our class PM Family Learning session 7 structure for next year will be as follows. Tues 23 rd Netball club restarts Wed 24 th 9.15am Meeting of the Finance & Premises sub committee Sycamore Class will be for pupils in Year R 7pm Meeting for parents of and Year 1 taught by Mrs Fleet children joining Fairhaven in Chestnut Class will be for pupils in Year 2 September. th and Year 3 taught by Mrs Lake Fri 26 AM Cluster cricket tournament @ Beech Class will be for pupils in Year 3 and Freethorpe Parents lunch (Year 2 parents) Year 4 taught by Mr Branch PM Oak Class swimming Oak Class will be for pupils in Year 5 and PM Family learning session 8 Year 6 taught by Mr Muff and Mrs Dix Mon 29 th Food & Farming Challenge (Yr 6) Yr 5/6 Girls Cricket final @ Old This means that no class will be bigger Buckenham July than 32 pupils. Wed 1 st Food & Farming Challenge @ Norfolk Show (Yr 6) Cluster Song and Dance Performance at nd Thur 2 Food & Farming Challenge @ the Open Venue – 18 th June 2015 Norfolk Show (Yr6) 5.30pm Meeting of the full Governing Body Three groups of children worked throughout Fri 3 rd Family Learning Session 9 the day on Wednesday to put together their PM Oak Class swimming performances for next week. th Mon 6 Yr 6 transition day at Acle Academy th One group of children worked with an Tues 7 Cluster celebration evening @ Acle Academy African dance teacher to learn and Thurs 9 th Cluster Athletics choreograph a dance which they will Championships @ UEA continue to practise during the next week th Fri 10 Beech Class cake sale before working with the teacher again next PM Oak Class swimming Wednesday. PM Family Learning Session (final one) Mon 13 th AM - Sports Day The drummers worked on perfecting their Wed 15 th AM Yr 6 Performance routines with some of them learning new th Thurs 16 9.15am Music Concert rhythms to accompany the dancers while the Fri 17 th PM Oak Class swimming th choir worked with Mrs Fleet to learn their Sun 19 Leavers Service Ranworth Mon 20 th Whole school trip songs. Tues 21 st Last day of term At the end of the afternoon we put all the Open Gardens at The Old House parts together and will now spend the next Ranworth on Sunday 14 th June week rehearsing the performance so that it is ready for the performance next Thursday We are hoping the sun will shine on Sunday evening. afternoon for the open garden at The Old House in Ranworth. Come along between If your child is a drummer please speak to 2pm and 5pm. Not only will you be able to Mr Branch or Mrs Dix about transporting the look around the arboretum and lovely drums home from the event. Children need gardens overlooking the broad, there will be to arrive at The Open Venue no later than cakes and cream teas with music provided 6.30pm, the performances start at 7pm. by the Acle St Edmund Youth Orchestra. There is a nature trail for children and a Apologies to those parents who had hoped there might be more tickets available. At the raffle with some really good prizes. moment we are limited a total of 80 tickets. The Friends have been working very hard to We are trying to obtain some more but have put this event together and I am sure to wait to see if other schools have any returns. everyone who is able to go will enjoy the day. Food and Farming Challenge Guitar Lessons This will be held on Monday 29 th June at Easton College and the Norwich Show Ground. Some of Due to the rehearsals for the Song & our Year 6 pupils will make a presentation based Dance Festival, guitar lessons next on the work they have been doing about the Dig week will be on Wednesday. for Victory Campaign during and after World War 2 and the comparisons they have made with Mud Kitchen farming today. The pupils will then attend the Norfolk Show and ‘man’ our display in the Schools tent. Mrs Fleet would like to create a mud kitchen in the garden area for the School Lunches younger children. We are looking for wooden pallets and any old kitchen Just a reminder that school lunches equipment you no longer want such as needs to be paid in advance (on a bowls, saucepans, utensils, baking tins Monday.) etc. It doesn’t matter how old and battered they are but they do need to be Library Books non-breakable. National Book Tokens are running a Oak Class Swimming Money competition giving schools the chance to win up to £5,000 worth of book tokens A reminder that we still have quite a few contributions towards the cost of swimming for their library. Please log on to outstanding for Oak Class. Please could we http://caboodle.msgfocus.com/q/1bo249 have these as soon as possible. TAec6pIt6Dbzk/wv and enter Fairhaven’s details to give us a chance to win. The more entries we have, the greater our chance so please can you ask friends and family to do so too. Cookery Club Go Go Dragons Cookery club has seen the children baking and eating delicious pizzas. Thank you Mrs Thank you to Neave . everyone who returned their collection boxes, we raised £121.59. We have been told that Ethel (our school dragon) will be sited at the Break Charity Shop on Unthank Road. The schools’ dragons will be spread around the City and compliment the Happy Birthday to large dragons which are located all around the City and on the outskirts (i.e. Thomas S 11 on 6 th June Airport, Holiday Inn, Dingles on Fifers Summer K 7 on 12 th Lane etc). There will be 3 large dragons Harry 5 on 15th near the Break Charity shop on Unthank Summer G 7 on 16 th Road; one at the Roman Catholic Sienna-Mae 6 on 21 st Cathedral – which has fabulous art work Summer C 7 on 24 th of Norfolk scenes. One outside Websters estate agents on Unthank Road, which is a brilliant map of the Partnership Tennis at The Open city. There is also another one on Academy Unthank Road. On 4 th June four children from Beech Class The EDP are launching a sticker book represented the school in a tennis next week, these will only be for sale in competition at The Open Academy. This Break Charity Shops or the Co-op. was a partnership event and involved a There will be a sticker book to buy and number of teams from the area. All of the packets of stickers, like football stickers children performed to the best of their ability – but they will be of dragons & gorillas. and were a credit to the school. Most importantly, they returned to school at lunchtime with smiles on their faces For more information have a look at the following a great experience. activity page on the website for dragon events over the Summer & enjoy our Visit by author Jack Trelawny fine City of Norwich . Fairhaven had a visit from Jack Trelawny, http://gogodragons.co.uk/activity/ author of the fantasy adventure series Kernowland and the Thirteen Things series of books Jack told the children in years 2 – Club Money 6 how he develops the characters in his books and some of the incidents which had If you haven’t already done so, could inspired the adventures. He also read extracts from the Kernowland books. you please pay any outstanding club Everyone found his mutant animals funny money as soon as possible. and went away inspired to invent their own. Acle Cluster Football Tournament harder spellings. Christopher for a super start to his Snail and Whale story and lovely On Monday 8 th June our school entered the neat handwriting. Lyra for counting coins Acle Cluster Football tournament held at brilliantly and doubling the amount. Lingwood Primary School. We took 2 teams who each played 6 matches. Out of Chestnut Class the 12 matches played in total, they only lost George for writing a good start for his Mr a single game overall! In the end, the team Grinling story. Oliver and Toby for showing from Beech Class gained silver medals and great enthusiasm towards our work on the team from Oak Class won Gold! A electrical circuits. Grace for using a number massive well done to both teams. line correctly to help her add up. Summer G for making good progress in writing. Jenna for improving her sentence structures by using conjunctions. Florence for understanding what happens when we add two bulbs into an electrical circuit. Beech Class Rosie for producing a superb scrapbook about her holiday in Greece.