Archive for October, 2008
Posted on Monday, October 20th, 2008
Dear Parents/Carers
Harvest Festival
All grandparents and senior citizens are warmly invited to attend our Harvest Celebration.
It will be held this Monday, 20th October at 9.30am in the school hall.
We will be collecting food items for the Cambridge Food Bank. They distribute food that has been collected to: elderly people, people with learning difficulties and disabilities, homeless shelters and women and children in refuge centres.
Types of food that can be effectively distributed include tinned and packet foods, sugar, tea, coffee, pasta, rice and cereals. Thank you for your support. Also, any flowers brought will be given as a posy of flowers to any grandparent and senior citizen who come to the assembly.
Raffle
Would you like to win 4 tickets to watch Cambridge United in November, a £10 voucher to Fish n Chick or a bottle of wine?
The office will be selling raffle tickets until Wednesday, 12th November. Tickets 20p a ticket or £1.00 a strip.
School Photos
Just a reminder that all photo orders need to be in by Monday lunchtime, the photographers will be collecting orders on Monday afternoon.
Camils’ Café
Our citizenship group will be holding their termly toy and cake stall this Tuesday 21st October after school in either the hall or the studio.
Do come along after school and support them if you can.
Lost Property
Lost property will no longer be kept in a large box at the end of the hall. It will now be kept for the week and on the Friday it will be displayed just outside the front door of the school office.
Items that are not claimed will be donated to charity.
It is vital that all items that come to school with your child are named. If names are sewed in or marked with permanent marker or biro, we can those items back to the child’s classroom.
Thank You
Firstly, I want to thank everyone who supported our 40th birthday celebrations last week. The Friday evening gathering of past staff was wonderful. It was lovely to see many past staff after so many years. I found Saturday to be a joyous celebration about everything that is good about our school and community.
On that note I want to thank all my staff for all their hard work over the past few weeks for making these two events so terrific.
But I must also say a big thank you to our wonderful PTA who work tirelessly for all our children all year long. They did a superb job in organising everything to make the day such a success.
With money raised at this and other PTA events they have donated a tremendous £5,000 worth of computer equipment for the our school and just yesterday paid for the children to see a live theatre performance of ‘Beauty and the Beast’. It was an excellent production and we are grateful for the PTA supporting this event.
Yours sincerely
Lin Whyte
Headteacher
Posted on Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Dear Parents/Carers
Next Saturday School’s 40th Birthday Bash
We hope that next Saturday everyone will be able to come to Bar Hill School’s 40th Birthday Celebration.
Starting at 12.00 noon the festivities will be opened up by Bill Norton, the school’s first headteacher
There will be a barbecue, bar, various games, homemade cakes, cookies, lucky dips, tombola stalls, unwanted adult and children gifts, a chocolate stall and more. All donations towards stalls gratefully accepted.
Do come along on what should be a lovely celebration of our school!
Parent Consultations
- Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 consultations will take place on Wednesday, 15th October and Tuesday, 4th November.
- Year 3 and 4 consultations will take place on Tuesday, 21st Oct and Tuesday, 11th Nov.
- Year 5 and 6 consultations will take place on Wednesday, 15th Oct and Wednesday, 12th Nov.
Your child will bring home a sign up sheet in a few weeks time.
Operation Christmas Child
We will be supporting this worthwhile charity again this Christmas. We have two representatives from this charity coming in to speak to the children on Monday morning.
Leaflets about what to collect and how to do it will come out shortly afterwards.
Start finding those shoeboxes!
Harvest Festival
All grandparents and senior citizens are warmly invited to attend our Harvest Celebration.
It will be held on Monday, 13th October at 9.30am in the school hall.
We will be collecting food items for the Cambridge Food Bank. They distribute food that has been collected to: elderly people, people with learning difficulties and disabilities, homeless shelters and women and children in refuge centres.
Types of food that can be effectively distributed include tinned and packet foods, sugar, tea, coffee, pasta, rice and cereals. Thank you for your support. Also, any flowers brought will be given as a posy of flowers to any grandparent and senior citizen who comes to the assembly.
Stop Press
Miss Higgins and Mrs Mayer will be shortly starting their drama club after school which will run until Christmas. After Christmas we are investigating hosting a well known drama company, Dramawise for children and teenager aged 6-18 years. Further information to follow.
Year 3 Football After School
In order for the Year 3 children to play football on the astro turf after school on Tuesdays, we need some parents to volunteer to supervise the children.
Could you help? If so, contact Julie Marin on 781838.
Congratulations
Congratulations to Katie Waldron in Miss Higgins’ class. Having submitted her stamped meal ticket to the national competition for ‘High School Musical 3’ she was the winner of and ipod. Well done Katie!
May you all have an enjoyable weekend.
Regards
Lin Whyte
Headteacher
Posted on Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
As a parent, time is often in short supply! This is why we have decided to make things as easy as possible for you to come along and meet the people who either work with your children, or who could give you information about the services that are available to you as parents.
This will take the form of half-termly coffee mornings. The people hoping to be there are: myself, the Parent Support Adviser; the School Nurse; a representative from the Parent Partnership Service (who offer advice to parents whose children have a special educational need); the locality manager, the Education Welfare Officer and hopefully one of the youth workers who works in the Bar Hill area. The head teacher will also be present to talk to you about any concerns or ideas that you have about school.
The first of these coffee mornings will take place next week on Wednesday 8th October from 9am. We will be in the community lounge, drinking coffee and eating biscuits and we would love it if you would like to join us to say hi, or just to help us finish the refreshments
Look forward to seeing you then
Rachel
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