Allaway Avenue
Portsmouth
PO6 4QP
Issue 116 –June 2016
Library Books
Can we please ask that any year 6 children who still
have any library books at home, can they please return
them to the school library.
Pick Up Time 1
Please can I remind parents about behaving well whilst
on school grounds. Loud conversations taking place
outside classroom doors can often be heard by
children at the end of the school day and the topic of
conversation can sometimes not be suitable for
children’s ears. In addition some very bad words have
been overhead by the children (and what’s overheard
from adults is often repeated by children)
Paulsgrove and Wymering Carnival Time
The Victory Primary School are proud to be taking part
in the carnival parade this Saturday (25th June). We will
start from King Richard School at 10:15am (approx.)
then walk the route shown below. We finish on the
Carnival Green (opposite Allaway Ave shops). So,
please come out and cheer us on!
Breakfast Club
From September the breakfast club will no longer be
free. This is for financial reasons. As a result of
government cutbacks we have to reduce spending
by 10% over the length of parliament.
From next term the cost of breakfast club will be £1
a day making it, we believe, the equal cheapest in
Portsmouth. Breakfast club will still be heavily
subsidised by school funds so that it can remain
affordable for families.
We recognise that this may cause some hardship
particularly for larger families and so we will be
reducing the cost to 50p a day for second children.
Confidentiality
Please do not put our lunchtime supervisors in a
difficult position by asking them for school
information. They are under strict instructions to
follow confidentiality rules, so please do not ask
them for confidential information as a refusal to
answer your question can offend.
Trips
Recently I have had a lot of positive feedback about
the behaviour of our children on trips. In fact on one
occasion we were described by a museum as the
best behaved school they have every had.
Diary Dates
Attendance
27th June – PJ day and bring a bottle
Attendance for the whole school last week was
94.5% and the top classes was Crab class with 96%.
Our aim for attendance is to be above 96.4%.
Thank you to all the Parents for supporting your
child at the school.
Penguin 92.5%
Puffin 95.2%
Seahorse 95.3%
Crab 96.0%
Turtle 95.8%
Octopus 94.9%
Dolphin 94.4%
Sealion 93.4%
Catfish 94.7%
Swordfish 94.7%
Shark 93.5%
Stingray 94.2%
Orca 93.4%
Rainbow Fish 1 95.2%
Rainbow Fish 2 94.3%
Attendance has not been good this week. For
children to achieve their best in school they need
to attend school on a daily basis. Please support
your child and the school in giving your child every
opportunity to learn and succeed.
27th June – Book week
Thursday 30th June - summer fayre
27th June-9.00-9.30 and 2.45-3.15 Parents meeting
about the new curriculum.
30th June - Year 6 reports sent to parents
Friday 1st July – INSET day – school closed
5th and 6th July - parent’s evening years 1-6
6th July-EYFS reports sent to parents
7th July – Year 3-6 Track and Field Competition
7th July - Y6 SATs results to parents
Friday 8th July – Last day for year 6 children going to
King Richard School. Leavers assembly and Prom.
11th and 12th July – School Play
14th and 15th July – Transition days. Children spend
two days in their new classes.
18th July – Return to old classes and reports for
years 1-5 sent to parents.
19th July – last day of term for children
Reading Club
Thank you so much to all who have made
Reading Club a success this year. We enjoyed
our last club of this academic year last week
but we look forward to starting the club up
again in September. Thank you to all the older
children who helped out over the year. This is a
good opportunity to say an extra special thank
you to Harvey Newman for his brilliant help
from beginning to end. Also a big thank you to
James Musasa for his calm and positive
attitude towards helping the younger children
read.
Final Book Week Reminders
- Monday 27th June - wear your pyjamas, bring
your favourite bedtime story and a bottle for
our tombola (no alcohol please).
Sports Days
Rescheduled Sports Day EYFS
It has been a brilliant week (apart from the weather)
for the children who have taken part in their sports
day. All the children showed great team spirit,
determination and had fun. The final results were:
This will take place on Tuesday 5th July weather
dependent. Unfortunately there will be no picnic but
parents are very welcome to attend.
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Year 1 and 2 winners – Dryad
Year 3 and 4 winners – Mercury
Year 5 and 6 winners – Dryad
Please see the photos on the next page.
Pickup Time 2
The school day officially ends at 3:15pm (3:20 for
juniors). Schools are permitted to keep children
behind for 10 minutes after school with out telling
parents. We try our hardest to let the children out on
time however, there are occasions when this is not
possible simply because children are children. Things
happen when you are trying to get children ready.
For example:
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They drag their feet
They drop things
Problems need addressing
Work needs finishing off
It could be argued that teachers should therefore
simply start getting ready earlier. The problem with
doing this is:
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It is not always possible to predict when
delays to routines will happen.
We want to make the most of educational
time and we do not want children sitting
around twiddling their thumbs, waiting for
the end of the day.
Thank you for your understanding
Athletics
Monday 27th June – years 5 and 6 (3:30pm to 4:15pm)
Tuesday 28th June – years 3 and 4 (3:30pm to 4:15pm)
Multisports
Friday 25th June will be the last multisports for this
year.
Olympic Parade
We celebrated our Olympic parade today there will be
a full write up and photos in the next newsletter.
Final Book Week Reminders
- Monday 27th June - wear your pyjamas, bring your
favourite bedtime story and a bottle for our tombola
(no alcohol please).
Thursday 30th June - Fancy Dress day - favourite book
characters! Please bring any cake or sweet donations
you may be making in by today. Children can be
collected from their classroom doors from 2pm.
Magic show tickets are still available for all 4 shows
(2.05, 2.35, 3.05, 3.35) £1 for children and £1.50 for
adults, please send a labelled envelope in. There will
also be a book swap stall where you can bring books
you no longer want and swap them with different
titles without spending any money. Some books will
also be for sale. Where possible could we ask you to
bring change to pay for anything you wish to buy. We
can take notes but we do not want to run out of
change. Many thanks.