NEWSLETTER
June 2015
LETTER 11
Dear Parents and Carers,
As we approach the excitement of our transition day
I wanted to share with you the ways we have been
preparing for next year. We are saying farewell to
some staff: Miss Binns is off to teach in Dulwich
College, South Korea; Miss Moore has been offered
a promotion and will be teaching at Woodlea School;
Mrs Enston is going to train to be a secondary school
English teacher and Mrs Leeves is taking up a more
senior post at Moorhouse School. Two other teachers
are moving on to new adventures – so we will be saying goodbye to Mrs Kelly and Mrs Dyja. Needless to
say they will all be sorely missed – and I cannot find
the words to thank them all fully enough for everything
they have given to our school.
I have been busy recruiting fresh blood into the St Mary’s team and we will
be welcoming Mr Nguyen, Mr Heyburn, Mr Sweeting and Mrs O’Neill in
September. They will all be here on the transition day on 30 th June – except
Mrs O’Neill who lives in Canada and will be moving over here at the end of
July but will be with her class via Skype!
Two members of staff have been promoted. Miss Hill is now a year leader
and Miss Wylie is our new SENDCO (and will be sharing a class with Mrs Wallace, who will be
year 3 leader and taking on other leadership responsibilities across the school as well.
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
Mrs Wallace/Miss Wylie 3W
Miss Hill 4H
Mrs Mance 5M
Miss Greenwood 6G
Mrs Gautrey 3G
Mr Heyburn 4CH
Mr Clarke 5C
Mrs Whiteley 6W
Mr Collins 3C
Mr Sweeting 4S
Mrs O’Neill 5O
Mr Nguyen 6N
The children will learn who their new teachers are on Tuesday 30 th June.
I hope you enjoy reading about some of the things we have been busy with this half-term and we
look forward to sharing further adventures with you and your children over the coming weeks
Best wishes
Sarah Lewis
Head Teacher
Merit Awards
The following children have been awarded a Merit Award during June 2015
Matthew Cowley
Annabelle Ireland
Emily Foster
Amy Neil
Olivia Harris x 2
Edward Power
Freddie Bennett x 2
Abigail Shaw
Maya Gould
Holly Record x 2
Phillip Langham
Matthew Cowley
Amber Masson
Sonny Platts
Joseph Bodle
Hannah Alladina
Rafferty Pearce
Grace Bishop
Olivia Foster
Edward Power
Molly Reynolds
Maddie Humphries
Daniel O’Reilly
Iris Murphy
Thomas Muscio
Eleanor Staples
Georgy Whittaker
James Fricker
Ben Pearce
Matthew Dixon
Eloisa Marcantonio Caitlin Widdowson
-Flint
Amber Masson
Layla Chute
Emma Marques
Maya Gould x 2
Harry Prettyman
Lisa Lammali
Alex Tagg
Poppy Mullen
Freddie Bennett
Charlotte Ainsworth
Charlie Percival
Anya Monk
Rosie Mullen
Hannah Alladina
Zach Bradshaw
Erica Wheatley
Issy Shaw
Holly Barnett
Phoebe Gillespie
George Peachey
Freya Coakes
Ioan Edwards Zara Shelley
Jamie Houston
Sophie Ainsworth
Isaac Davies
Max Virley
Aston Lawrence
Alexandra Dujmovic
Hanna Dix
Lucy Roe
School Lunches
School lunches are £2.10 per day. May we please remind you of Surrey’s policy that
school meals should be paid for in advance and no debt should be allowed to accrue.
July only will cost £31.50 (15 days)
As from September 2015 the cost of a pupil school meal will be £2.15 per day.
Schoolfest
On Saturday 13th of June, St Marys Chamber Choir (led by Mrs Gautrey) and Year 3 & 4
Dance Club (led by Miss Greenwood) performed at the Barn Theatre along with other
schools in the local area. Friday afternoon was a dress rehearsal in front of the other
schools that participated.
In Act 1, the Chamber choir sang ‘When you believe’ (from The Prince Of Egypt), ‘Touch
the sky’ (from Brave) and Banaha. After 11 acts the Junior Dance Club danced to ‘Love
Can Build A Bridge’.
In Act 2, the Chamber Choir sang ‘A Wizard of Oz’ medley, ‘Somewhere Over The
Rainbow’ (solo), ‘Merry Old Land Of Oz’, ‘Follow The Yellow Brick Road’, ‘Ding Dong The
Witch Is Dead’ and ‘If I Only Had A Brain’. After 6 acts Dance Club danced to ‘Up Town
Funk’.
For the finale, everybody performed 'Happy' with actions.
Children who took part in Schoolfest are : Charlotte Ainsworth, Bella Brazier, Rachel Budd,
Angelina Copeland, Kassia Cheal, Alison Ebbels, Hattie Erwood, Isobel Fricker, Olivia
Foster, Eve Farrell, Louisa Gautrey, Isabelle Haywood, Olivia Harris, Caitlin Lynch,
Annaleigh Lewis, Amy Lloyd, Harvey McGuinness, Beth Nancarrow, Martha Nancarrow,
Jessica Quick, Summer Radley, Tali Rumsey, Indi Sharp, Nick Slack, Hannah Smith,
William Taylor, Olivia Weclawek, Layla Whitmore, Maia Whitmore, Elena Vinall, Hattie
Wallace, Vicki Barofka, Olivia Cholerton, Sophie Budd, Allana Crump, Heidi Cusack, Poppy
Doe, Phoebe Gillespie, Rosa Grayling, Bella Greatwood, Clara Hogg, Charlotte Hosp,
Sienna Lanca, Keira Luckhurst, Daisy Pulley, Maddie Southwell, Millie Southwell, Imogen
Taylor, Maddie Westcott.
We had great, colourful costumes and our hair and make-up was done for us so we looked
the part. Everyone worked hard to make the show fantastic and we all really enjoyed the
experience.
A big Thank You to all the teachers who taught us dances and songs and spent the Friday
and Saturday helping us all.
Maia Whitmore & Jessica Quick
Mrs Tozer’s and Mrs Walter’s
‘Goodbye Do’
Thursday 16th July 2015
2.00-3.15pm Downs Way School Hall
Please join us for a cup of tea, a piece of cake and a chance to say goodbye
Year 3 Romans Play in a Day
Year 5 Victorians Play in a Day
Year 3 Trip to Nower Wood
Year 3 visited Nower Wood, Surrey Wildlife Centre earlier in the month. They enjoyed activities
which taught them about soil and plants. In 'Soil Scientists' we learnt about different types of
soils and tested different soils in different areas to identify the type of soil. In 'Plant Detectives'
we learnt to identify a range of trees by looking at their leaves and then had to go on a treasure
hunt. 3W had a particularly exciting trip as their coach broke down on the M25. The children
were beautifully behaved and Verity Coughlan who had to go with 3W as she was away when
her class went said "This is the best trip ever! I am very glad I got to go with 3W as I saw the fire
brigade!"
Well done Year 3, you were great as always and showed St Mary's spirit!
Miss Wylie
Thank you so much to
everyone who sponsored
Phillip and Zach. As you
can see from the photo
they completed the 5km
run on a very hot day, in
fact they did it in a very
creditable 25 minutes. So
far they have raised
£1,106.88 from the run and
this combined with the
money Phillip raised from a
mile long swim takes his
total to £1,515.25 which is
well in excess of his annual
target for Great Ormond
Street Hospital.
Many congratulations to
Frankie Fisher for being
selected to play Tennis for
the Kent team in the Aegon
County Cup in August.
Alison Langham
Year 5/6 Cricket Club trip to The Oval
Once again St. Mary's were invited by Surrey Cricket to spend a day at The Kia Oval to watch a
county championship game and experience their annual school's day on 2nd June. Everyone
who signed up for cricket club this year was invited to attend, and we were lucky to dodge the
large raincloud which was looming over Oxted that day. We even managed a small bit of sunshine. For much of the day we were joined by our friends (and many ex- St. Mary's cricket club
members!) from Oxted School. We got to watch some excellent cricket, meet the players and get
some autographs. A great day was had by all!
Year 5 cricket club member Matthew Cowley (5G) had another visit to The Oval on Friday 5th
June where he was the mascot for the T20 game against Essex. Matthew won a competition
which meant he performed the toss at the beginning of the match in front of a crowd which was
in excess of 20,000! Matthew did Surrey proud by winning the toss, but sadly Surrey ended up
losing the game.
Matthew also got to meet
the players and got his bat
signed. What a week of
cricket!
Mrs Wallace
Hardball Cricket at Grub Street
On Wednesday, 10th June St. Mary's Year 6 hardball cricket team played against Banstead Juniors
in round 1 of the Connellan Trophy competition.
We hosted at Grub Street Cricket ground on a grey
morning with high winds. St. Mary's lost the toss so
went to bat first. Conor and Will opened proceedings before Conor was bowled in the 2nd over.
Charlie took over and had an impressive go before
finally being bowled after he scored 24 runs. St.
Mary's finished the innings on 48 runs.
Banstead were an incredible team, and despite
Will Mullen bowling their first batsman out for a diamond duck we just couldn't keep their runs
down. They ended up finishing on a very impressive 91 runs.
Our thanks go to Bernie Mullen from Oxted and Limpsfield Cricket Club for umpiring the match
and also to OLCC for letting us use their ground and clubhouse.
The players were: Max Fackrell Spinks (c), Charlie Fisher, Will Mullen, Jonathan MacTavish,
Jonah Rumsey, Conor Greer and Beau Fackrell Spinks
Mrs Wallace
Girls Kwik Cricket
On Wednesday, 17th June St Mary’s Girls Kwik Cricket Team went to Epsom College to
compete in a county tournament. All our competition looked tough, but we were ready to go.
Rosie, our captain won the first toss. We were fielding first. First to bowl was Millie. They were
strong bowls and they only got a few runs. Zara’s bowling was also very accurate and as a
result she got 2 people out and also threw the ball at the wicket to get another person out in one
over. Although our team was playing well we lost by 13 runs.
Now our team was all warmed up for our next match, but unfortunately we lost the toss so we
were batting first. The oppositions bowling was strong, but not strong enough for us. When we
swapped Rosie did 2 excellent bowls and got 2 people out in a row and we were very proud, At
the end of the game, Steven announced that we had won! The final game came upon us and
they were our toughest competition of the day and we were fielding first. They were a good
team and were hitting 4’s and 6’s. Then out of nowhere Hannah bowled a superb ball and
caught it fantastically on her knees. Next to bowl was Rosie and unfortunately she didn’t have a
good start, but then gave Anna a chance to catch the ball single handed and then gave Lois a
chance and she leapt into the air and caught the ball astonishingly. Then Rosie bowled someone out on her last ball. We won with a total of 282 runs.
We were the champions of Group E. We had the chance to play at the Oval, but unfortunately
we cant go because of Bowles week.
Rosie Weight ©, Zara Taylor (vice-captain), Anna Sebire, Millie Howgate, Hannah Evans, Lois
Clark, Poppy Erwood, Olivia Taylor and Rachel Budd.
Thank you to Mrs Wallace for coaching us and screaming for us to run!
Boy’s Kwik Cricket
On Wednesday, 17th June the boys Kwik Cricket Team
went to play at Epsom college in a county tournament.
The first match was tough, but we tried our best and got
five wickets. We didn’t do so well on our batting and
conceded 4 wickets, but still lost the match. The second
match we struggled, but continued to play and got a few
wickets. The team we were against were strong at fielding and put a lot of pressure on us. In the end we lost by
10 runs!
After two defeats we thought it was all over, but we ended up getting through to the ‘Plate
Competition’ and went straight to the pitch we were playing on. Our group for the plate was good
and we knew we needed to win to go to the final. So we played out best and when we got to the
last match of the group, we needed to win! We got 2 amazing catches from Will and Charlie and
when we batted we hit lots of 6’s and 4’s. We ended up beating them by 25 runs.
When we got to the final we did a toss-up and they won it, but surprisingly they wanted to bat
first. They were good batsmen as they hit lot of 4’s and 6’s, but we got only a few wickets. They
did amazing and hit 264 runs. Then it was time for us to bat. We stepped up feeling confident;
in our first 2 pairs we hit 234 runs, and it was now down to the last 2 pairs. Ben and Conor got
us into the lead leaving Will and Charlie to play it safe. We ended up winning with a total of 274
runs and it meant we had won the plate!
Conor Greer ©, Will Mullen (vice-captain), Ben Hasler, Charlie Fisher, Seb Royce, Jonah
Runsey, Joe Davies, Max and Beau Fackrell Spinks
A big thank you to Mrs Wallace for organising the tournament and cheering us on.
ST MARY’S C OF E JUNIOR SCHOOL, OXTED
Tuesday 28th to Thursday 30th July
Tuesday 4th to Thursday 6th August
Tuesday 11th to Thursday 13th August
Tuesday 18th to Thursday 20th August
Tuesday 25th to Thursday 27th August
Dates for your Diary
June
Friday 26th
10-10.20am
Tuesday 30th
5B Class Assembly
Transition Day—children spend the day with their new class
July
Wednesday 1st
4.00-5.30pm
District Sports Track Events at St Mary’s School
Thursday 2nd
4.00-5.30pm
District Sports Field Events at Lingfield School
Friday 3rd
6.00-10.00pm Party in the Playground—see letter for more details
Saturday 4th
1.00pm
Oxted Carnival—see letter for more information
Wednesday 8th
2.00-3.00pm
Year 2 Transition meeting at St Mary’s
Friday 10th
9.30am
Sports Day
Monday 13th
Reserve Sports Day
Tuesday 14th
9.30am
Year 6 Swimming Gala
Thursday 16th
6.30pm
Year 6 Leavers BBQ
Friday 17th
2pm
Year 6 Leavers Assembly in the School Hall
Monday 20th
1pm
Year 6 Leavers Service at St Mary’s Church
Tuesday 21st
End of Term
Summer Holidays -Wednesday 22nd July to Thursday 3rd September
September
Wednesday 2nd
INSET DAY
Thursday 3rd
INSET DAY
Friday 4th
08.55
Wednesday 23rd
First day of the Autumn Term
Individual Photographs
October
Half Term - Saturday 24th October to Monday 2nd November
November
Monday 2nd
INSET DAY