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Today's News
Last
updated
12 March 2010 16:05
Sounds
Of Spaldwick at St Ives Festival on Saturday. Good Luck
to all our music and dance groups from Miss Prior and
the whole school.
Spring
term Parent's evening.
Thank you
for attending the meetings. We hope you found the
opportunity to discuss your child's attainment valuable.
Please
complete the report comment page with your child and
return it as soon as possible
Voucher deadline.
Mrs Thomas will be sending
off our collection of Nestle Book tokens next week.
Please bring in any more you may have on cereal packets.
The
Fruity Tooties have been busy painting their garden
crate from Morrisons ready for their tomato plants.
Signs of spring in our
school grounds
Bora Da
Just
what was Mrs Bell doing in assembly??
A Robin dressed in
Welsh national costume to help Mrs Bell with her St
David's Day assembly
Our
first open book event.
More photos to follow.
Swifts
"Bob the Builder" lunch was very well attended and
enjoyed by all!
Burwell news
Thursday 9.15am
The process of
returning all the clothes begins!!
Wednesday 3.4pm The
adventurers return.. with plenty of mud!!
Wednesday 8am
The
return packing has started!! But will all the items fit
into the suitcases.
A
historical walk around Burwell Village for all this
morning.
Tuesday
5.45pm
A lunch of Roast
Chicken followed by apple crumble has been enjoyed, and
the smuggler mystery completed.
This evening is 'film
night'
11.30am
Miss P has just returned from her visit to Burwell.
Bedroom inspections passed - with the members of Pike
Room having the tidiest room.
The
morning's activities underway - Batik, Natural Art
Sculptures and the Egg challenge.
Team challenge
10.45 Burwell Travellers
have arrived safely. All very excited.
Departure in this snow
Working together to
support your child's learning.
Spring term
questionnaire:
36
questionnaires returned, thank you for your
support. Your
replies will help the school identify the areas /
approaches we can use to support your child's learning.
FOSS news.
Great disco - photos
on the gallery now.
£142
donated to the Haiti Earthquake appeal from DISCO
raffle. Thank you
On
Friday 29th, our school Band, Blow Away, visited Hill
House in Ellington and played a collection of
instrumental tunes.
Everyone enjoyed the visit
Prizes were presented
in assembly to the winners of the Allotment design
competition.
And Spaldwick won a
gardening prize from Morrisons supermarket and the
chance to send a garden to Chelsea!
Academic year Term
dates.2010 -2011
At the end of our
current list of dates on the right hand side of this
page, you will find the dates for the NEXT academic
year.
There is currently one
school closure /training day that occurs within the term
[Friday 8th October] A further training day will be
added.
What is
this Blackbird looking at? [Blackbirds assembly
photograph]
We were asked to provide
Sound Effects for a talking book that is being published
next year.
Class Curriculum
page now contains Spring term coverage letters
Spring Term 2010
Tuesday - we did enjoy the
snow at the beginning of the week!!
Snow at the end
of the Autumn
term
Thursday
Miss Prior presented Mr
Mellish, our Chair of Governors with a gift to mark his
"retirement"!
Our new Key Stage One
growing zone
Can you work out the
design in our new growing area?
The
year 5 & 6 pupils who stayed in school had a day out at
Burghley looking round the Sculpture Garden, the House
and Garden of Surprises.
New ICT resource
The Puffins have this
week enjoyed using our new school collection of laptops
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Voucher Collecting as
started:
Please
send in any vouchers collected from Tesco or The Daily
Mirror. We are also collecting Active Kids and Flora
coupons!
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.
Monday.
All pupils have been given the Spring Term Parent
Evening Appointment letter. Please check in the bookbags!!
Misuse
of school grounds 'open play spaces'
Sadly over the weekend
a large amount of broken glass was left on the
playground. Thanks to the time given by a Spaldwick
family the glass was removed to ensure the playground
safe for use over the weekend.
The area will be
checked by Mr Pearce. Mrs Hanks and Miss Prior before
the children return on Monday.
The school CCTV cameras
will also be viewed.
This is the second time
this year, this type of misuse has occurred on the
schools open play spaces.
Thursday Puffins Eco
Exhibition to KS2 classes and their parents
The Y3 and Y4 Spaldwick
Detectives have also been out and about - taking photos
for their village walk map.
Irish
Dancing Champions
Several
pupils have swept the board at a recent Irish Dance
Festival. These pupils joined a class following the
dance sessions in PPA last summer. Well done
to all!
Open Book Event. OUR
FIRST EVER OPEN BOOK event. Friday 26th February, 3.30pm,
look our for the information posters.
Monday
22nd, another busy day at Spaldwick.
The Burwell
Adventure begins for many of our Kingfishers and
Kestrels. Miss Vasey, Mr Hatton and Mrs Arbuthnott are
also looking forward to the residential trip.
Our Y5 boys were joined by pupils form some other HuntSnet schools for a BEATBOX day,with Miss Body.
FOSS folks on hand to
load the Ragtex van.
Friday 5th February
Kestrels ran a stall to
raise money for the charity, The Dogs Trust.
And we had a special
musical visitor who played many different instruments
At the end
of the concert Mr Copley received a donation of £230 for
his music charities, from the Autumn Harmonia Concert.
A very busy time for
the Robins and their families.
Kipper's school lunch
last week.
A chance to 'stay and
play' on Monday
and on Tuesday their
first class assembly
Well done Robins
Thursday 28th January
Robins enjoyed a lunch
with the theme of Kipper the dog! We even had new table
cloths and flowers to celebrate.
The Kestrels had a
fantastic Tudor Day in Peterborough
Thursday 22nd.
The Puffins completed
a collection of environmental challenges linked to their Coldham Farm visit.
The Vikings have
returned!!
On Monday 18th, the
Kingfishers enjoyed an action packed day, full of Viking
investigations.
As a result of the
returned ballot papers, Mr Simon Richards and Mr Richard
Walters have been elected as Parent Governors.
Thank you for
participating in the ballot and the school looks forward
to working with Mr Richards and Mr Walters in their new
role.
Tuesday 12th January. Our
Governor Visit Day
Mrs Allen visited the
Robins and saw them completing some amazing number work
with minibeasts
Mr Baldwin, joined the
Kingfishers outside as they searched for different
materials
Mr Yates enjoyed his
meeting with members of Hoots Parliament and some Fruity
Tooties.
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.
"Thank you so much for your kind and exceptionally
generous hospitality today, both Sarah and I had a
brilliant day and very much enjoyed meeting your
children. You have a lovely very special school to
be very proud of indeed, we loved visiting and hope
to see you all soon."
Special School Lunches.
The dates of the our family lunches and special school
dinners have been added to the school term dates down
the right-hand side of this web page.
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