Newsletter 07: 27/11/09

Dear Parent/Carers

Special Parent’s Christmas Dinner
Parents are invited to have a school dinner with their child on Tuesday, 8th December.  The meal will cost £2.50.

If you would like to come to this meal, please send in £2.50 in an envelope with your name, your child’s name, and their class teacher’s name with “for the attention of the office” on it.

Congratulations and Thank You – To Ellie Morris (Year 1)
Ellie entered a competition at her swimming club on behalf of our school and won first prize which was £200 of sports equipment for the school.  Ellie and her mum have selected some exciting new equipment for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2.  Well done Ellie!

Christmas Hampers
We are hoping to raffle Christmas hampers again this Christmas.  We would be most grateful for donation of items for the hampers.  Please can they be in by next Friday, 4th December.

Operation Christmas Child
We have been asked to thank all those who sent in Christmas boxes for Operation Christmas Child.  It has been another successful year for them thanks to everyone’s participation.

Emergency Closures
In bad weather or because of any other major incident, if  closure is necessary, information will be given out on:

• Radio Cambridgeshire
• Heart Radio

In addition, information about closures will also be posted on the Home Page of our website or will be left on the school answer phone.

New Children’s Centre News Update
Work will begin on the new Children’s Centre on Monday, 7th December.
Please keep the hammerhead free as there will be large lorries coming and going throughout the day.

Also, just a reminder that the route to the school office will change with a new gate being put in by the village playground.  This will stop access during school time through the reception playground.  We will notify you of the change when the work is completed.

Dates Of Christmas Concerts

• Monday, 7th December
  Year 1/2 Christmas Concert, in the church, with one performance at 6.00pm.
• Tuesday, 8th December
  Year 5/6 Christmas Concert, in the church, with performances at 2.00pm and 6.30pm.
• Wednesday, 9th December
  Year 3/4 Christmas Concert, in the church, with performances at 2.00pm and 6.30pm.
• Reception Christmas Concert
  Their concert will be on Tuesday, 15th December at 2.00pm in the school hall.

New Club Starting After Christmas
This week the children had a demonstration of Capoeira.  Capoeira is a Brazilian Art form that puts together in a game elements of dance, martial art, acrobatics and music.  The kids will learn the basic moves having fun with games, they will have a taste of the instruments, learn about team work and bit by bit of the Portuguese language. It’s a great way to improve their social skills, their co-ordination and their physical well being.

In summary, Capoeira is a fun and challenging game  and great value for money: bits of martial art, dance, music and a foreign language all in one.

A letter will be coming out before Christmas with more details. In the meantime ‘google’ Capoeira.

Finally,

Thank you to everyone who participated last Friday for ‘Children in Need’.
As a school we raised £245. Well done!

Yours sincerely

Lin Whyte
Headteacher

Newsletter 06: 13/11/09

Dear Parent/Carers

PTA Autumn Plants
Hopefully your child brought a note home yesterday to say that if you ordered plants they are in the staff car park today after school.  If you get home and have not yet collect them, you can come back up to 5.00pm.

Indulgence Evening – TONIGHT – 7.00 to 10.00pm
There will be: Relaxing Beauty / Holistic Treatments by Professional Therapists (Includes manicure/massage/reiki/Indian head and more!
plus Christmas Shopping (Includes Body Shop, Virgin Vie, jewellery, crafts, Jamie at Home, gifts homemade cards, Tish Tash Toys, cosmetics, preserves, Christmas themed gifts) – 18 stall holders in hall!

Dates Of Christmas Concerts

• Monday, 7th December – Year 1/2 Christmas Concert, in the church, with one performance at 6.00pm.
• Tuesday, 8th December – Year 5/6 Christmas Concert, in the church, with performances at 2.00pm and 6.30pm.
• Wednesday, 9th December – Year 3/4 Christmas Concert, in the church, with performances at 2.00pm and 6.30pm.
• Reception Christmas Concert – To be announced

Office Hours and Reminders
Firstly, thank you to everyone for the patience and cooperation with the new office set up.  So far it seems to be going very smoothly.

The route to the school office will change with a new gate being put in by the village playground.  This will stop access during school time through the reception playground.  We will notify you of the change when the work is completed.

Also, just a reminder that parents should not be walking through the school to access their children’s classroom.  The new entrance foyer has a secure key pad system for staff use only.  Therefore, if you visit the office you will need to go back outside to access your child’s classroom.  You will not be able to pass through the office area. 

Hilltop and Jarman Centre
Many thanks to all those parents who have sent in deposits for the Year 6 trip to Hilltop and the Year 5 trip to the Jarman Centre.  These are now booked and going ahead.  The Year 6 Hilltop trip will be from Monday, 21st June to Wednesday, 23rd June and the Year 5 Jarman Centre trip will be from Wednesday, 24th March to Friday, 26th March.

It would be helpful if parents started making monthly payments on these trips with their child’s paying in books.

Next Friday, 20th November, is ‘Children In Need’.  Two things will be happening that day:

1. Non uniform – cost 50p – come in spots if at all possible.
2. Cake stall at morning break time.  All cakes either 20p or 10p.

If possible, we would appreciate as many cakes, biscuits or popcorn as possible on the day in order to sell to the children at break time.  Please bring your contribution to school either Thursday afternoon up to 4.30pm or first thing Friday morning.

Operation Christmas Child
Many thanks for all the lovely boxes we have already received.  If you need any spare leaflets, there are some in the office. They will be collecting the boxes from us on Monday, 23rd November so they need to be to the school office by 9.00am that morning.

Best wishes

Lin Whyte
Headteacher

PTA – Evening of Indulgence

Bar Hill School P.T.A. invites you to a

Christmas

Evening of Indulgence

Friday 13 November 7pm – 10pm

 Full details