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Newsletter 8 – April 2016
GO GOMER! LOSHI ALLEN won a silver and bronze medal in the Southern Regional Gymnastic Championships
and additionally won further silver and 2 golds at the West Sussex Gymnastic Championships. MEEKAH ALLEN
won a bronze at the AMA Southern Regional Karate Championships. KATIE CUMMINGS has been very diligent
with her swimming and recently awarded her 50m certificate. Following a weekend away with his karate club
competing at the AMA Championships, JAKE LEMMIS got through to the finals in his group for Kata and finished
4th. ANYA MIDDLETON came 2nd overall with the gymnastics level 4 grades in Hampshire. She achieved 1st on
beam and bar at this level. HARRISON RYDER has been awarded his Goldfish 3 Certificate and can now do an
underwater handstand! RUBY SMYTH came 2nd in the winter Alverstoke Tennis Mini Red Series in her age group.
Furthermore, HARRY CURRASS and JOHNNY WALTERS won the winter series at the Alverstoke Tennis Club, for
their age group. This involved monthly tournaments where Johnny won 4 out of the 6 tournaments.
We love to hear about your children’s achievements outside school. Please do let us know.
DATES FOR APRIL
The dates below are for your diary and are also included on the electronic calendar. Dates are subject to change.
NO Learning Log Club this term
Monday 11
Tuesday 12
Wednesday 13
Wednesday 13
Wednesday 13
Thursday 14
Friday 15/22/29
Monday 18
Monday 18-29
Tuesday 19
Wednesday 20
Wednesday 27
Wednesday 27
Thursday 28
Thursday 28
Monday 2 May
Thursday 5 May
w/b 9 May
Thursday 19 May
Friday 20 May
NO Drama Club (starting Monday 18 April)
Bike Club (Session 1 of 7) - rear playground: 3.30-4.30pm – weekly unless otherwise stated
Netball League Brune Park: 3.30-5.30pm
Girls Y5/6 Football Training: 3.30-4.30pm - weekly unless otherwise stated
Y5/6 gSTEM Club: 3.30-4.30pm
Gomer Community Coffee Morning – The Globe: 9.00-10.00am - weekly unless otherwise stated
4DF Swimming Lessons (Session 1 of 6): 10.00-11.00am
Drama Club – The Hall: 3.30 – 4.30pm – weekly unless otherwise stated.
Big Pedal. Children & adults encouraged to cycle to school. Big prizes to be won.
National Competition.
Cookery Club (Session 1 of 6) – 3.30-4.30pm – weekly unless otherwise stated
Y3/4 gSTEM Club: 3.30-4.30pm
Y5/6 gSTEM Club: 3.30-4.30pm
Netball League Brune Park: 3.30-5.30pm
Y5 Junior PCSO Scheme: 3.30-4.30pm
Y5/6 Football Cup Final Privett Park Stadium: 4.30pm
Bank Holiday
INSET – School closed to pupils – Polling Day
Y6 SATs
Non-uniform day in return for tombola
May Fete: 3.30-5.00pm
BIG PEDAL 2016 starts on Monday 18 April and runs for two weeks. Please encourage your child to cycle to
school or scoot to school. If you drive to school, perhaps your child could scoot the last leg? We share the
amount of children cycling and scooting to school daily with Hampshire and may win some prizes if we have the
highest figures. Mrs Bottriell has organised a super launch for us.
GOSPORT IN BLOOM is an opportunity for schools, businesses and residences to decorate themselves with
flowers and build gardening skills. For ‘Bloom 2016’, we have entered. Judging will take place in June. The Gomer
Growers will take a lead in the preparations and each class will be tasked with a gardening project to complete
for the competition. If you would like to donate new or used planters, soil and gardening tools, please contact
Mrs Carré. She would be delighted to hear from you.
Our GOVERNING BODY has a vacancy for a Parent Governor. If you are interested in joining our super team of
governors as a parent/carer representative please contact the clerk of governors, Gemma Waters, via email:
[email protected]. If you visit our governor page on our website you can read more about our
Governing Body. Alternatively, ask to speak to a governor to find out more about the role.
HC3S MEALS as outlined a few months ago, have now increased the price of school meals to £2.10 – please
adjust your payments accordingly and remember that all meals need to be paid for in advance. HC3S are also
offering a packed lunch option which will be available from Monday 18 April.
INSET days are important opportunities for all staff members to receive relevant training so that we can
continue to offer your child superb learning opportunities. INSET dates, in partnership with the Infant School,
for the next academic year are listed below. Now that we have had confirmation that the Infant School is being
used as a polling station we have included the May date as a polling day. Monday 5 September 2016, Monday
31 October 2016, Friday 27 January 2017, Thursday 4 May 2017 and Friday 7 July 2017.
MAY FETE 2016 is scheduled for Friday 20 May. Please also offer help with:
• sourcing raffle prizes - could you or do you know of anyone who can donate a prize?
• buying a table (£10 only) for you to sell your own table top items (pay at the office to reserve your table)
• sending your child to school in non-uniform on Thursday 19 May with a fete donation
• prepping stalls on Friday 20 May from 1pm
• helping run a stall on the day for 1 or 2 hours (bric-a-brac, games, sweets etc)
• setting up and clearing away on the day
Please outline how you can support the fete, raising money for YOUR child, by contacting Mrs Gardner directly
or popping into the office. Without your support such events cannot take place. Your school needs you.
PARKING in designated spaces at the beginning and end of the school day is very important to ensure the
safety of everyone in the Gomer Community. We are aware that parking is limited around the school site.
Please ensure you leave enough time to park in an allocated space. You are not permitted to park on the yellow
lines by school entrances. In addition to our JRSO Team monitoring parking, Hampshire Police Service are too.
ROCKSTEADY have a couple of places available. Children can learn to play the lead vocals, electric guitar, drums
or keyboard where they will have the opportunity to play contemporary rock and pop music. Lessons take
place with a music teacher once a week. All the lessons take place within the school hours, with the
opportunity for the children to showcase their songs in concerts held throughout the year. Interested? Please
call Rocksteady on 0845 094 1259 or visit www.rocksteadymusicschool.com.
SPORTING RAFFLE planned for the football final on THURSDAY 28 APRIL at Privett Park Stadium, 4.30pm –
Gomer Junior -v- Alverstoke. Firstly, it would be great to see as many Gomer pupils and families at Privett Park
Stadium supporting our football team who have played superbly this term. Working with Alverstoke Junior, we
are organising a sporting themed raffle to help raise some funds for PE kit at Gomer and the swimming pool
restoration at Alverstoke. We will text you when tickets are on sale and list the prizes on the website.
STAFF MATTER and we say farewell to a few members of staff this term. After 8 years in post, Mrs Firbank
leaves us to pursue a teaching role closer to home. Mrs Hampton is becoming a lady of leisure following 12
years of service to our school. Both these ladies have contributed much to life at Gomer. Additionally,
Mrs Leoni Annis and Mrs Jane Smith are leaving our Cleaning Team at the end of the month. We are going to
miss them very much and appreciate how hard they have worked to help keep our school neat and tidy. All
staff members leave us with good wishes for a happy future. We are currently recruiting to fill these vacancies.
SUMMER UNIFORM is welcome this term. The school uniform list, agreed by the governors, stipulates school
grey or black shorts, white shirt/blouse or polo as normal. Girls can wear shorts, culottes or a DARK BLUE (not
baby or royal blue – outlined on several occasions ahead of this newsletter) gingham dress (no playsuits
please). Also, please note - if girls choose to wear a dark blue gingham blouse, this is to be teamed with the
dark blue gingham skirt too. In line with health and safety, hair that can be tied back needs to be tied back.
Sensible sandals of a school appropriate colour (white or black) are welcomed in the Summer Term. Thank you
for supporting our uniform policy – we are often commended for looking neat and smart.
YEAR 6 LEAVERS HOODIES are optional and can soon be ordered (separate letter to follow). The hoody is
priced at £10 only and the Y6 leavers can order from a range of colours and sizes. The design is following
consultation with the Y6 leavers and will be displayed in our reception. The deadline for orders is Wednesday
25 May. Payments for the hoodies are to be made electronically please. If it is not too hot, children are
welcome to wear their hoody on the last day of term – please ensure that it is labelled with your child’s name.