Today's News

Last updated 02 September 2010 11:49

AUTUMN TERM started on THURSDAY 2nd Sept, lovely to see everyone back at school.

photos on the gallery page

Kestrels had to pick their way to their classroom carefully as their pumpkins have taken over!

Our Sunflowers and Pumpkins are still growing!!

Growing and Changes in the school grounds

As you can see the plants are growing at a great rate - sunflowers, tomatoes, beans and pumpkins.

Wishing you all a very happy holiday.

Thank you for your support during another action packed year at Spaldwick School

Miss P

We also said a BIG thank you to Mrs Grindley and Mrs Scotney for our lunches!

Fantastic Curriculum trips enjoyed by the Kestrels, Blackbirds and the Swifts.

More photo on Gallery soon!

FOSS Summer disco.

Hot dogs and hot weather on Friday!!

What a week! Just some of the activities and event in Spaldwick School this week.

We attended the Cambridge Young People's Film Festival and the Kingfishers film won 3rd prize, well done to all our film makers.

Swifts held a charity event trying to "Beat the Goalie"

Summer term parent's evening.

Friday DISCO. Kingfishers class charity event.

Waspeze Letter

All pupils have received a letter seeking parental permission about the administration of Waspeze.

Harmonia Music Concert. Friday evening. A lovely way to start the weekend listening to the school's wind band, choirs as well as hearing the drummers and 'mature' singers.

Monday 28th,Sports afternoon. 

Congratulation to  the Wenlock team

Thank you to Y6 pupils for their help as team leaders and equipment supervisors.

Thank you to FOSS for providing refreshments.

And finally, thank you for coming along and supporting this whole school event.

Advanced notice of a FOSS event. Saturday 11th September, FOSS family event. Note details to follow.

Eagles spent Thursday at Hinchingbrooke taking part in a Year 6 Sports day.

Tuesday 22nd June

Puffins Assembly. Thank you Puffins. Great flag waving.

Robins had yet another busy day on Tuesday with a visit from a crested lizard and planting tomato plants and cabbages!

Anyone for Tennis?

Our Swifts and Blackbirds have been receiving Tennis coaching from David Ivory, County Tennis Coach. Next stop Wimbledon!!

Supporting the Ellington Gala.

Our Samba band, Youth Choir and Saxophone Group entertained the gathered crowds.

Thank you to Miss Body for preparing these groups for their performances. Also to Mrs Saunders for joining the Samba Band, and then becoming one of our special human music stands!

Eagles harvested their salad crop and produced salads from World Cup countries.

They became Spanish chorizo salad.

PLEASE NOTE RE TESCO VOUCHERS.

The closing date for us to submit the Tesco vouchers is Friday 25th June. Please ensure that all vouchers reach school by this date as no vouchers can be sent in after this date and are wasted.

Friday 11th June

A very successful World Cup Lunch with over 120 lunches served. Lets hope England are as successful!

Wednesday 9th June Busy day at school.

FOSS Ragtex collection, thank you for your donations.

Netball Matches against Great Staughton. Fantastic matches and support from players and family members.

Parents of Robins and Swifts.

Your child is today bringing home the second information letter related to the September class structure. Also an invitation for you to attend a meeting with the School Governors, Local Authority School Inspector and School Staff.

Robins had some special visitors and an interesting plant in school today!

Thursday 27th May 1960    well it was in the Eagles classroom!!

Parent Mail message [Wednesday]

Information letter to parents about changes to cohort organisation and staffing from September 2010 onwards.

Paper copies of the letter will be distributed to non-subscribing parents on Thursday.

Parking of cars, concerns from the school bus drivers. [Monday]

The drivers of the bus have today again expressed their concern about being able to safely reverse into the bus bay due to parent's cars being parked.

We know that parents have been asked on several occasions to consider parking away from the junction and bus bay areas.

The Safer routes working party are meeting again this week with Road Engineers to discuss road markings.

School Governors and Miss Prior

The Blackbirds have been on safari.. carefully searching our environment for  bugs.

The Swifts wedding and the reception after were very enjoyable. The groom shared the cake with his new bride. more photos on gallery.

Maths Puzzle Day

Some of the puzzles not as easy as they looked!

A very big thank you to Mr Whitlock for collecting tyres to be used in our various gardening projects. And also to Mr Matt Seabrook from the Ellington Thorpe Nursery for his very kind donation of compost to fill the tyres! (photo to follow!)

Why is this Kingfisher lifting up a water barrel?

The answer can be provided by any KS2 pupil, after their activity session in the Anglia Water Education Mobile.

The wedding preparations have begun!!

In the Swifts class, the invitations have been sent and the first two replies received.

The Swifts look forward to seeing their invited guests next Tuesday afternoon at 2.30pm [ in of course their best outfits!!]

Film Club. We did enjoy a film as well as the Hot Dog and Popcorn!!

Thank you to FOSS for providing the refreshments. News of next event to follow soon.

P

Lovely to see the flowers in full bloom

We were pleased to welcome The Durham family back in to school to catch up with old friends.

Lucy with the Eagles Class

Harriet with Kestrels

Hunting for eggs.

The Robin's have been searching in the school grounds for Easter Eggs and recording their location on a map.

The Blackbirds have created their own Easter Garden in their classroom

FOUND! Snowie was returned to Robins during our Easter Egg Assembly

The Robins had some special visitors today, they had a fab time sounding the siren on the Police car

Our first open book event.

More photos to follow.

Very exciting day at Spaldwick School.

A group of pupils have produced the first ever broadcast of Spaldwick School Radio Programme. The radio show was broadcast live to the school, and is now linked to the webpage for all to enjoy.

 Link to broadcast

We received a lovely e-mail from Russell Prue who came to our school with the radio station.

Bookbag check!!

Please check bookbags as there will, over the next few days, several pieces of paper coming home that you will need to check/complete and return:

End of day arrangements

Contact information

Instrumental Lessons agreements for pupils having music lessons

Damage to school site.

It is a great shame that we are informing you about damage to the school site that occurred during Wed 31st/ Sept 1st.

A dustbin was wheeled onto site and set alight,

Damage to the school roof has also taken place.

Bottles and cans left around the grounds.

Our CCTV cameras have shown a group of young people on site during the night[4am - 5am] setting the dustbin alight and climbing up onto roof sections.

The community police have been informed.

Miss Prior  Mr Pearce

Remains of dustbin

Growing and Changes in the school grounds

Also, the majority of the trim trail has been taken away. It will be replaced with a new trail in September - ready for you all to enjoy when school returns.

Congratulations to our Woodwind Musicians, for all passing their recent exams. [ more news on the Music Page]

Goodbye and Good Luck

To our Y6 leavers.

To two families moving away from our school

To Mr Canavan.

Mr Canavan bought a tree for us to remember him by. He even planted it before he left.

In the final assemblies, good luck cards were presented to our leavers,  and 100% attendance prizes to the 13 pupils who have attended school everyday this year.

We presented Mr Canavan with a garden chair, to enjoy in his garden.

Transition Afternoon

 On Monday afternoon all our current pupils and teachers spent time together in their 'new' rooms. This was a chance to get to know each other, discuss the classroom routines and curriculum overview for the next academic year. Each pupil went home with a summary sheet about their new class.

On Monday our Eagles enjoyed their end of Spaldwick Days trip to Wicksteed Park

Fabulous Final Production by Eagles!

The answer is 62..

The question was, how many items at there in the LOST PROPERTY BOX!! [ collected in the last 6 weeks] The items include 14 green sweatshirts, 7 cardigans, 5 PE shirts, 4 pairs of trousers, a winter coat and a balaclava!!

Autumn term clubs

Information about the extra-curricular club activities will be distributed at the beginning of the Autumn term.

Miss Prior entertained us with a drum solo in a special drumming assembly

Fruity Tooties had a special lunch to eat their potatoes.

Blackbirds attended the Huntingdon

Year 2 Music Festival

Parentmail.

Distributed to parents on Monday, a copy of the Whole School Survey. I hope you will be able to take a few moments to complete the short survey.

1st July Whole School Summer lunch

and the Fruity Tooties dug up their potatoes

Lovely trip to Birmingham. Fantastic performance by  members of the Rhythms of Egypt Drumming and Dance group, and superb support by our pupil and parent supporters.

Y5 Swimming success.

Congratulations to our Y5 swimming team for finishing 3rd in the Sports Partnership Swimming Gala.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

Our school grounds look fantastic after Saturday morning's work, completed by a very enthusiastic group of parents, children, staff and governors.

Busy week. Thank you for supporting all the different class events this week:

Puffins assembly,

Kingfisher Travel Agency Afternoon.

Kestrel family lunch

Open book session.

Notification of CHANGE to a school closure day.

The school will be closed on MONDAY 11th October, for a staff training day. [not on Friday 8th October as originally informed]

Kestrels lunch Thursday 24th June had a World Cup Countries theme with food from around the globe!

Supporting the Ellington Gala

FOSS had a football themed stand

Congratulations to Robins, Swifts, Blackbirds, Kingfishers and Kestrels whose films have made it to the final of the Cambridgeshire Schools Film Festival.

Commiserations to Puffins and Year 6 girls who were not successful BUT we hope to have our own Film Premieres in school for all films. Watch this space for details!

Kestrels Assembly. Thank you very much,

Congratulations to Thomas on winning the Kimbolton Castle Rotary Writing Competition. He was presented with a certificate and book token in our special Friday Assembly.

Kingfishers Travel Agents worked very hard in their assembly to provide suitable holidays for some of the teachers, not always successfully!

E-Safety Information meeting CANCELLED but it will be held later in the term. Parents will be informed of the new date. 

Well done to the year 5 Maths team who came second in the quiz held at Sawtry school.

During the half tem break one of the kestrels played for the county cricket team! Well done!

Friday 28th May Back in time with the Puffins to the Land of Ancient Greece.

Thursday 27th May We all enjoyed a special music assembly when Mrs Hart (Jason & Emily's Mum) sang opera to us.

Later the Kingfishers and parents had a "Holiday Destinations" lunch with Cornwall Pasty Pie and Italian Macaroni Cheese.

Thank you for your lovely assembly Robins.

Kestrels enjoyed Wii Lets Dance during PPA.

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Summer Instrumental Concert.

Thank you to everyone who performed.

Unfortunately we have not been successful in our bid to win the Homebase Makeover. Thank you all for your support in voting.

Our latest dance craze..... Cheerleading!

Congratulations to Kim Hall and her Rhythms of Egypt Dance and Music group for reaching the regional Music for Youth finals in Birmingham. Fantastic news 

The Puffins enjoyed a Greek Lunch

Investigating a special island.

Thank you to the Blackbirds for sharing with everyone all about the island they are busy exploring.

Thank  you for supporting our  second open book event.

Welcome Back to Kim's Gym!!

Lovely to see Kim Hall back at school and running her gymnastics club.

Tuesday 20th April                                     Bookbag news.                                         Please update and return "end of day slips" to school office as soon as possible.

Wednesday 21st April

First lesson with new Maypole!!

Kestrels start very well

Kingfishers continue!

 Thursday 1st April.

Easter celebrations at Spaldwick School.

Church service, Hot cross bun eating, Chocolate Egg raffle, egg rolling and the FOSS Coin trail and cake sale.

Eating Hot Cross Buns

Drawing the raffle tickets and watching carefully as Miss Prior is near the chocolate!

Rolling decorated eggs down the hill

Placing coins on the FOSS coin trail.

Swifts Houses. A wonderful collection of houses have been made by the Swifts.. and their Mums and Dads!!

The Swifts have enjoyed talking about their models with their friends.

Two Swifts talking about the houses designed by the three little pigs.

School term dates 2010 -2011

At the bottom of the school dates column you will find the term dates for the next academic year. Included at the professional training days, some of this occur at the start of a term, others are located within the term due to specific training for the school.

More pupil success!

A pupil has been accepted in to the English Youth Ballet, Congratulations!

Thank you lunch

Today our classroom and office support  staff enjoyed a special lunch.

They enjoyed  roast chicken, pizza and chocolate sponge and custard. Members of the Fruity Tooties team acted as waiter and waitresses.

Road Junction

[ Royston Avenue/Ferriman Road]

We would like to once again remind parents to park away from this road junction as this is the route into school for the buses and the crossing area for many of our pupils. A clear view of the junction is required by all users. Thank you

Miss Prior and School Governors

Tuesday

Lovely assembly by the Swifts to their families and the whole school. More photos on gallery.

Thursday Puffins Eco Exhibition to KS2 classes and their parents

We were asked to provide Sound Effects for a talking book that is being published next year.