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9 May 2014
Dear Parents
Golden Sweatshirt
Ted – for being imaginative and sorting things out at lunchtime play.
Red Sweatshirt
Alexander – for “being nice to Ali”.
SATs week for year 6
Please make sure your child goes to bed at a reasonable time and has a proper breakfast.
Kwik Cricket – Monday 12 May
Ambleside Cricket Club will be doing some coaching with the juniors. Please could they all have their PE kit?
Orienteering with Lakeland Orienteering Club
This will be in school time on Wednesdays until half term: please could all juniors have a waterproof, trainers or boots, and outdoor trousers
(or ones that you aren’t too precious about). We hope to be at Baysbrown Farm this week.
Forest
Reception and Year 1 Tuesday morning and Wednesday morning.
Stranger Danger with PCSO Laura Jackson – Friday 16 May, 1.15pm
Big Dance – Friday 16 May
The juniors will be taking part in this national dance phenomenon with Katie Marston who has been doing our dancing. Parents are welcome
to come and join us at 1pm. It will be a very short performance – 5minutes!
Heading Off
As you are probably aware I will be leaving at the end of the summer term to start a new post as headteacher of Selside School.
The governors have started the process to find a permanent replacement to start in January 2015. In the meantime Mrs Su Holohan will take
up the post of acting headteacher. She is vastly experienced as a headteacher of small primary schools in Cumbria and is already well known to
the school staff.
Whole School/Leavers photos
The photos are now ready to order.
The school photo will be a 10” x 5” mounted print @ £9.50 (no other size available)
The leavers photo is available in two sizes, 7” x 5” mounted @ £7.50 or 10” x 7”
mounted @ £9.50.
Please make cheques payable to Cumbria Kids.
Please send your order (with your payment) into the school office by Friday 23 May.
Book recommendation
This week’s book is Otter Chaos by Michael Broad recommended by Tom Squires
because it is “dramatic, funny and scary”.
Fix the Fells Volunteering day
In Great Langdale on 28 June http://www.fixthefells.co.uk/fix-fells-volunteering-day
Tesco Uniform Service
Three new products have been added to the school’s page – cardigan, half zip fleece and PE t-shirt.
All these items are also available from Coniston Corporate
Scholastic Book Club
You should have received a Scholastic catalogue last week. I would like to post orders on Monday next week so that they will be delivered
before half term. If you would like anything please send your order into school on Monday 12 May.
Learning This Week
Juniors
Maths – Practising for SATs.
Literacy – Researching significant authors. Spellings with prefixes and suffixes added to root words.
Infants
Maths – Y2 – SATs. Y1 numbers to 100 and finding numbers on the 100 square.
Literacy – Y2 – reading and writing SATs. Y1 ai spellings and handwriting practice.
Dates for your diary
Wednesday 21 May
Friday 23 May
Monday 9 June
Friday 13 June
Wednesday 25 June
Friday 27 June
Monday 30 June
Tuesday 1 July
Wednesday 2 July
Thursday 3 – Friday 4 July
Wednesday 16 July
Friday 18 July
Junior orienteering
Kwik Cricket tournament at Kendal Cricket Club – details to follow
Juniors to Kendal Archives – workshop on the art of Alfred Wainwright
Kwik Cricket at Ambleside
Cumberland Wrestling day with John Wilson – details to follow
Juniors to Brewery Arts Centre to see QKS musical production of ‘Return to the Forbidden Planet’
Silverband Falconry will be back this time with (small) mammals
Sports Day
Move up day
Whole School camp
Leavers Service at Holy Trinity at 1.30pm. This is not the last day of term
Last day of term
Yours sincerely
Mark Squires