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Today's News
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updated
08 February 2010 16:22
Working together to
support your child's learning.
Spring term
questionnaire: Please take a few minutes to complete the
questionnaire that was distributed on Friday. Your
replies will help the school identify the areas /
approaches we can use to support your child's learning.
Open Book Event. OUR
FIRST EVER OPEN BOOK event.Friday 26th February, 3.30pm,
look our for the information posters.
FOSS news.
Great disco - photos
will appear on the gallery soon.
£142
donated to the Haiti Earthquake appeal from DISCO
raffle. Thank you
Wednesday 10th, 8pm
events planning meeting. All welcome, meeting held
at school.
Thursday 11th,
RagtexBags 2 school collection, 9am.
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.

Master
chef in the Robins

Preparing
the ingredients for the Pumpkin soup.. and that tasted
lovely too!!
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.
Photos of all classes on
their first day back in gallery
New ICT resource
The Puffins have this
week enjoyed using our new school collection of laptops

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Friday 5th February
Another very busy day in school!
Kestrels ran a stall to
raise money for their chosen charity The Dogs Trust.

And we had a special
musical visitor who played many different instruments

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

FOSS
Next Bags2School Collection Date THURSDAY
February 11th. Start sorting!!
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.

Last Week of Autumn Term -
filled with happenings!
On Tuesday we sang
carols in the courtyard

We were accompanied by
the Spaldwick Band.

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."
Autumn Instrumental
Concert.
A wonderful evening,
with over 80 performances from our pupils.

Congratulations to all
the members of our Dance groups who participated over
the weekend in the Gala of Dance.
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