School News
We can not believe that the Spring Term is over already!
As usual we have had a very busy term with lots of exciting events happening.
We had an International Day on 5th February where the children took part in lots of activities about China. They tried Chinese cooking, made Chinese dragons, learnt about the story of Chinese New Year and made their very own Terracotta Army which we plan to bury in the school field. Our day was ably assisted by a replica model of one of the Terracotta Army that one of our parents loaned from the Chinese Embassy. It was a very successful day.
The whole school have made visits to the Fitzwilliam Museum this term. Our Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning theme for the half term was, 'It's Good To Be Me' and this theme was continued on the visit where the children worked with the museum staff to look at some portraits and then had the opportunity to work in the museum studio to create some of their own.
We held our own Writing Week during the week beginning 3rd March. We began with a visit from the author Mick Gowar who worked with all of the children and inspired them to write stories about Bogles and poems that were noisy and about moon animals. Throughout the week the children were engaged in making books and writing their own stories. The classes paired up to write a different chapter of a story and each younger child had an older child to work with to write a paired story. We finished the week with an assembly to show the parents what we had been doing.
'Bring Your Parent To Lunch Week' has been very successful. All of the parents were invited to come and have a school dinner with their children during this week. We wanted to show what an improvement has been made to our school lunches and to ask the parents for their opinion and any suggestions they might have. The majority of the parents were very impressed by the standard of the food served and left us with a few suggestions for how we can improve the service even further. Thanks must go to our school cook, Mrs Armstrong, who coped well with the increase in numbers that week.
Achieving Health Promoting School status remains one of the foci for the school this year. We have had a number of parents helping us to evaluate our practice and suggest ways forward. We are focusing on the Physical Activity and Healthy Eating strands at the moment and have an action plan in place to move forward with this initiative.
Our monthly CC Café continues to be a popular event on Friday afternoons. All members of the community are welcome to come along and enjoy a homemade cake and coffee between 2.30 and 3.30pm. The dates for the next few months are: 18th April and 13th June.
As you are hopefully aware we are desperately trying to raise the money for a new swimming pool for the school. Contained in this magazine is an envelope from our Parent Association (FoSPS) asking for donations towards the pool fund. We really do appreciate any support you can give us. In school the children are raising money by taking part in a sponsored swim in June, collecting small change and many other things. Some of our fit parents are attempting a sponsored cycle ride from Lands End to Swaffham Prior, please support them if you can. The children are very keen to help raise money for the new pool and below they have written some things about why the pool is important to them.
'I really miss our pool it was great fun. In the summer we used to play in it all day. I wish we had our pool back. Please help us get another pool. I miss it.' (Darcey Luttrell)
'The pool was great fun in the summer and we used to learn to swim in it. It was brilliant in the summer, but sadly after 48 years it has broken. Lots of people in the village learnt to swim in that pool, so please help us to raise money for new one.' (Sophie Bell)
'We are trying to raise money for a new swimming pool because our old one is broken. It means that Class 1, 2 and 3 won't bet swimming lessons in the summer. Also it means that we can't use it for having fun either. We are really upset and it would be brilliant to have a new one.' (Susie Tucker)