Orleans Primary School
Newsletter
Thursday 4th December 2014
Newsletter ??? Summer Term
KEY SCHOOL DATES
5th December
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MUFTI DAY – please bring a bottle for the Christmas Fair to the DT room
5 December
Foundation Stage Production costumes to be in school
6th December
OPPTA Christmas Fair 11.30am – 2.30pm
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7 December
Crown Road Fair
8th December
Children’s Christmas Market (see details below)
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8 December
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Key Stage One Production costumes to be in school
12 December
Christmas Productions: 9.30am Ghandi/Nursery AM, 1.30pm Edmund Hillary/Nursery PM
15th December
Christmas Lunch for the children
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17 December
18th December
Production 10am: Mary Anning, Christopher Columbus, Mary Seacole, Christopher Columbus
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Stage Two Production at St Stephen’s Church 10.00am
18th December
Class Parties PM (AM Nursery party in AM – children can come dressed for festive season
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19 December
School closes at 2pm for Christmas holidays
MERIT AWARDS
Mary Anning – Akshaya Gopalam
Christopher Columbus – Keiara Sheehan
/Alice O’Shea
Mary Seacole – Oliver Woodley
Christopher Wren – Annie Bryan-Gillen
Cleopatra – Edgar Marcus
Boudicca – Sasha Jensen
Cromwell – Xan Vella
Lady Jane Grey – The whole class for their
wonderful assembly
Erikson – Logan Griffiths
HOUSE OF THE WEEK
CRANE
(Our House of the Week Cup goes to the House who
collectively achieved the most house points this week)
ATTENDANCE CUP
CLEOPATRA
(The class with the best attendance this week)
Dear Parents/Carers
We are approaching a very busy but wonderful time at school. The
children are starting to become very excited about Christmas, they have
all started rehearsing for their Christmas Productions. We have our
Christmas Fair on Saturday and I am looking forward to seeing lots of you
there! The annual Christmas Market for the children is on Monday.
Please do make sure your child brings a named carrier bag and their
money in a named purse.
Key Stage Two Christmas Production
Next week, each child in Key Stage Two will bring home two tickets for
their Christmas Production on 18th December at St Stephen’s Church at
10.00am.
We have to limit numbers to prevent overcrowding in the church and to
ensure everybody is able to enjoy this wonderful event.
If you are only using one ticket, you can, of course, pass your spare ticket
to someone else.
Jane Evans
Headteacher
CAKE SALES
The cakes sale held by Christopher Columbus Class on 28th November raised a fantastic £120.50. There will be no
cake sale this week, due to the School Fair on Saturday.
MUFTI DAY – PLEASE BRING A BOTTLE
Tomorrow, Friday 5th December will be a mufti day when children can come to school dressed in their
own clothes. In return, please bring a bottle for the bottle tombola at the Christmas Fair on Saturday
6th December. (Bottles to the DT room please)
CHOCOLATES FOR CROWN ROAD FAIR – Please also bring any donations of chocolates for the OPPTA
Chocolate Tombola Stall at the Crown Road Fair on Sunday 7 th December to the DT room by Friday 5th
December.
PARENTPAY
Please check your ParentPay accounts and settle any outstanding amounts as soon as
possible, especially Clubs and Uniform Sales from July 2014.
PARENT VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR THE LIBRARY
We would like some parent volunteers to help sort and audit the
Guided Reading Books in our Library. (Tea, coffee and biscuits
will be provided!). If you would like to help, please speak to Mrs
Bennett, Year Five Teacher and Literacy Leader. Many thanks.
OPPTA NEWS
Christmas Fair & Magic Show
The Christmas Fair will be taking place this Saturday 6th December, from 11.30am to
2.30pm. We will have hot food, wraps, tea & coffee, cakes, hot chocolate, prosecco,
mulled wine, gingerbread decorating, face painting, bouncy castles, a Magic Show
and a visit from Father Christmas!
Please come along and help make it a fun and successful event.
Tickets are available every day after school for the Magic Show from Camilla Danson,
near the hut in the playground. Shows on the day are at 12pm, 12.45pm and
1.30pm. It is recommended that an adult accompany younger children to the show.
Fantastic Festive Fizz Offer from The Good Wine Shop
The Good Wine Shop are offering a case of Prosecco for just £99 (that's £8.25 per
bottle - total 12 bottles). This is a reduction from the shop price of £114 plus OPPTA
benefit per case bought via this offer! If you are interested in buying a Festive Fizz
Case, please email [email protected] and let me know whether you would
like your case delivered to school or if you will collect from The Good Wine Shop in
Kew yourself. Cases will be delivered to school on Thursday 18th December, just
before school closes for Christmas.
http://www.thegoodwineshop.co.uk/Sparkling-Wine/Product-8464.aspx
Crown Road Fair
The Crown Road Fair will be taking place on Sunday 7th December, from 11am to
4pm. This year, Orleans Primary School will be running a chocolate tom bola. Thank
you to all parents who have volunteered to run the stall on the day. Please
remember to bring in your chocolate donation along with your bottle for the
Christmas Fair tom bola, tomorrow, in return for wearing own clothes on the
day. Many thanks for your generosity.
CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS MARKET
The Children’s Christmas market will take place on 8th December. At
the market children will be able to purchase five gifts for 20 pence
each for family and friends.
Please can parents/carers bring in five small gifts for each child
(On 8th December children will need to bring £1 worth of 20 pence
pieces to spend on the day with a named carrier bag for their
purchases).
BRITISH MUSEUM TRIP
On Thursday 13th November, Year 3 travelled by coach to the British
Museum. At first, we were most excited about when we would get to eat
our yummy lunches!
It was amazing seeing statues from thousands of years ago! We were
astonished at the huge statues and artefacts because some of them were
more than 4000 years old!
We thought it was totally awesome!!! The Egyptians were so clever at
preserving bodies and helping them get to the afterlife.
We were really impressed that Jean Christophe Champollion managed to
crack the Rosetta stone because it looked very difficult.
We were astonished at the sand dried mummy because many people
didn’t think that it was a real mummy.
There were some really cool amulets that had been very well protected, in
fact they had made it through about 3 or 4000 years in the future.
We also really enjoyed the mummy workshop where we got to see how
scientists discover what the mummies would have looked like when they
were alive. Looking at the bones was very interesting.
It was so much fun that I didn’t want to leave the British museum at the
end of the trip.
We all had a lovely day and were very sad when we had to leave.
By: Leyla Winchester and Oliver Coe
(see photographs below)
YEAR THREE AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM
OUR ADVENTURE WITH ISIS !
On Monday 17th November, Year 3 had a special visit from Drama Hut which took us
back in time to the Ancient Egyptian period.
We were taken on an exciting adventure with Isis, goddess of magic and life. We helped
to solve a riddle, enabling a pharaoh to pass through to the afterlife. Our acting skills
were put to the test as we formed tableaus to represent Ancient Egypt. It was great fun!
‘The Arabic chant was rewally interesting and I even remembered it when I got home. I
sung it to my mum and she really liked it’ – Neva
‘It was funny because we learnt how to say ‘welcome to Egypt’ in Arabic’ – Lexie
‘I liked getting into groups and making different Egyptian objects that would have been
put in the tomb. I most enjoyed making a crown’ – Lola
I liked it when we had to weigh the heart and feather. Luckily the heart and feather
balanced so the devourer didn’t come to eat us!’ – Rose
SECOND HAND UNIFORM SALE
A second hand uniform sale will take place on Wednesday 17th December in the DT
room from 2.30pm. All items will be sold for £1.00. If you have any uniform to
donate, please bring it to the office by 13th December.
LOST PROPERTY
Please check the lost property bin in the playground for any lost items. (All
unclaimed/unnamed items will go into the second hand uniform sale.
LISA THE DISCO DIVA – DANCE CLUB SHOWS
Parents/Carers of the children in the Disco Divas lunch clubs are welcome to attend
the shows as follows:
TUESDAY LUNCH CLUB – BALLROOM BLITZ SHOW (Ballroom and Latin)
Wednesday 10th December at 10.20am
WEDNESDAY LUNCH CLUB – POP DANCE AND STREET DANCE CLUB SHOWS
Thursday 11th December starting at 10.20am
and the two shows will follow on from each other
SAMBA SOCCER AWARDS
Congratulations to the following recipients of Samba Soccer Awards:
BEST PLAYER: Cameron Giles, Conor McNeany, Cole Parkinson,
BEST ATTITUDE: George Upton, Adriana Zapata, Huberto Zapata,
MOST IMPROVED: Taylor Giles, Adrian Rosales Marquez, Nico Sanderson
Well done everyone!
THE VICTORY MEDAL
The Victory medal was awarded to those who fought during the 2nd
World War between 1939 - 1945. The Great, Great, Great Grandad of
Oliver Loe in Lady Jane Grey Class was awarded this medal after
surviving active duty as a navigator whilst in the Royal Air Force during
WW2. The medal shows, on one side, the dates of WW2 and a picture of
King George VI and on the reverse, a lion standing on the body of a
double - headed dragon.
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CONSULTATION ON SCHOOL ADMISSION ARANGEMENTS FOR 2016 2017
Richmond Council is consulting on proposed admission arrangements for
community schools, and the coordinated primary and secondary admissions
schemes for 2016/2017.
The consultation on these proposals will run from Monday 1 December 2014
to Monday 26 January 2015.
The consultation is also available on the Richmond website at:
http://www.richmond.gov.uk/admissions_consultation
There are no proposed changes to the existing arrangements for community
primary schools however the consultation provides a structured opportunity
for interested parties to comment on proposed admissions arrangements for
2016/2017.
The only significant change to the coordinated primary and secondary
schemes from 2015/2016 is to the dates in the Pan London timetable.
If you would like a paper copy of the consultation and response form, please
contact Richmond School Admissions at the address below or by telephone
0208 891 7514.
Please note the deadline for response to the consultation is Monday 26
January 2015.
To let us know your views, please use the consultation response form and
submit your response form either by email or by post to
Email to: [email protected]
Post to: School Admissions, 42 York Street, TW1 3BW
Hartington Road, Twickenham,
Middlesex, TW1 3EN
T: 020 8892 1654
E: [email protected]
www.orleans.richmond.