Welcome to
this week’s BLOG. Quite a lot to get through this week as we move towards the
festive period. An opportunity to dust off the Christmas jumpers and order an
early Christmas Dinner!
I for one
have already enjoyed listening to the Y6 pupils’ fantastic Radio show – I’m
certain you will too.
Have a
restful and enjoyable weekend.
Mr Spencer
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Dates for your Diary
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Year 6 Radio
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Switch Off Fortnight
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The Sun ‘Books for Schools’
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Message from YN – Nativity
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News from St Andrew’s Church
·
Swindon Town FC Courses
·
Scouts – Christmas Cards
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Term Dates 2020/21
Dates for your Diary
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Term 2 2019/20
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Date
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Time
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Event
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10/12
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2-3pm
5-6pm
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YR Nativity –
grandparents and siblings
YR Nativity –
parents
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9/12 - 13/12
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RE Week - more details to
follow
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13/12
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Christmas
Jumper Day – charitable
donations welcome
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10/12
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Y6 learning at Life Skills
Centre Bristol.
Provisional Date for YR
Nativity - more details to follow
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11/12
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10am or 2pm
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YN Nativity Tableau and
songs – letters have been sent out to all YN parents
with specific time slots
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12/12
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7am-10pm
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ELECTION DAY – POLL OPEN
IN SCHOOL HALL School will remain open - packed
lunches will replace hot meals.
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12/12
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EVENT POSTPONED – new
date to follow
Y5 and Y6 will be leading
worship on theme of Perseverance– parents of children in these year
groups welcome to join us for worship
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13/12
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Save the Children
Christmas Jumper Day
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16/12 – 17/12
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“Show me” sessions; for
children in YR, Y2, Y4, Y6 -please note change to arrangements for Show Me
sessions this year - in response to feedback about how crowded such sessions
can get we have split the year groups - please see note below - For YR,
Y2, Y4, Y6 only Monday 16/12 classrooms open 3:30 – 5:00; Tuesday 17/12 – 3:30
– 4:30.
Parental access to
Tapestry for YN and YR children and Seesaw for Y1/2/3/4/5/6 children until
end of Christmas holiday.
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16/12
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6:00 pm
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Carols by Candlelight -
all invited– the aim is for this to be outside unless weather really bad so
all will be welcome
18/12 is
reserve date should event be postponed
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18/12
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Christmas
Dinner – please book via Parent Pay
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20/12
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Last Day of Term - usual
times
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21/12 – 5/1/2020
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Christmas holiday –
school closed
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1/1/2020
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Last Date for ordering
meals via Parent Pay for week 1 of the next term - see below.
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6/1/2020
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School closed to children
- Staff Training (INSET) day - staff in school; no children in school
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7/1/2020
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Children back to school
normal times for start of term 3 - remember no school run clubs this week
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Year 6 Radio
On Friday, Year 6 had a Radio Workshop where they created their very own
radio show which went out LIVE on Anderton Tiger.
If you would like to listen to it (or listen to it again!) please use this link:
A big thank
you to Russell Prue for giving us this experience!
Switch off Fortnight
As part of our
Switch Off Fortnight in school (18th - 29th November), our Eco Committee have
decided to try a No Electricity Day on Thursday 28th November. We are all going
to try and use as little electricity as possible all day long in classes and
around school. We'd like to invite you to join in with us on this day by
trying to reduce your electricity at home! Please encourage your children to
think of new ways they can reduce electricity around their homes to share with
their friends. Thank you!
Sun ‘Books
for Schools’
We have signed our school
up for 'The Sun Books for Schools' and would really like your help to collect
as many tokens as we can. This can then help to extend our range of books
within our school library!
Please send these tokens in
with your child so they can give them to their class teacher.
Tokens start in tomorrow's
Sun newspaper (Saturday 22nd November).
Message
from YN team
All parents should have received an invite
letter to the YN Nativity - please can parents return slips to let us know how
many reports to expect.
News
from Reverend Sally (St Andrew’s Church)
News from St Andrew's
Church.
Not long now until Christmas,
so here are the details of all our Christmas Services.
There are two at Tadpole
Farm, of which the first is our Christingle Service on 8th December at
4pm. There will be traditional Christingles and another performance from
TFA's Performing Puppets Club. Hope to see you there.
Many thanks
Sally
Swindon
Town Football Club Courses
Scouts – Christmas Cards
We are delighted to be
hosting the scouts green post box for Christmas Card deliveries in the local
area. A volunteer from the scouting community will be selling scout stamps in
the school foyer on Tuesday 26th November
3:15pm – 3:45pm and Wednesday 27th November 8:30am – 9am only -
CASH ONLY please.
The green box will be
available during normal school opening hours for dropping off Christmas cards
with the scout stamp on them. Last day for posting is 4pm Wednesday 11th
December. After that, the thousands of cards are sorted and the local scouting
groups deliver them to their communities just before Christmas.
Term
Dates for 2020/21
