Newsletter 30 Summer 2018/19

Bishops Lydeard Church School

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Bishops Lydeard Church School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.

Respect Endurance Friendship

Current Whole School Attendance – 94.8% 17

th May 2019

Dear Parents and Carers,

I am excited to say the community support, events and opportunities are popping up all over the place. Thank you for

this.

Three new opportunities this week:

Opportunity 1 – Would you like to take part? You only need 20 minutes.

The school eco council have previously organised a litter pick on site. Following a suggestion from the community it

would be great to take this wider. If you and your child would like to be a part of it simply meet on the ‘top playground’

after school on Monday 20th May. If you could, come armed with a pair of gardening type gloves and a bag to put the

litter into. (We are keen to not generate more waste so are avoiding handing out black bin bags or similar).

Opportunity 2

I have received a letter from ‘Bagborough and About’. They are

holding a photography competition which will see the winning

entries published into the calendar for 2020. They are very keen

to have some pictures taken by local children – we are their

nearest school. If you have a picture to share please send them

to the school email address. You never know it could be the start

of a photographic career.

Opportunity 3

The parish council have bought these phone boxes from BT and

would like ideas of what they could be turned into. Have a think,

your class teachers will ask you for ideas next week. It would be

great if we could offer support to help renovate these too. Let me

know if you would like to be part of this.

Trust Matters

This week we have paired with Staplegrove Primary School and worked

together to look at each others books to identify what really helps the children

of our schools to make progress.

Parent forum is next week, please do share your ideas, they are really appreciated.

Mrs Harvey

Staying Safe If you have a Child Protection (Safeguarding) concern, please see a Safeguarding Lead (Mrs Harvey or Mrs Culverhouse) or ring Somerset Direct

on 0300 123 2224 If you notice a Health & Safety concern, please report it to Mrs Harvey or Mrs Fillingham

We have children with nut allergies so please remember our school is a nut free school Mobile phones must not be used within the school grounds

If you drive your children to school, please park responsibly on the surrounding roads

Year 6 Congratulations to Year 6 who have worked and concentrated so hard all week, doing their very best in their SATs. There were lots of tasty treats to keep up their energy levels during the week and, today, they have enjoyed a well deserved ‘duvet day’! Well done Year 6!

Bikeability – please can you help? This year, we are fortunate to have been offered cycle training for the whole of Year 6. Each pupil will have the opportunity to take part in a two day course giving them the skills and confidence to ride their bikes safely on the road. In order for the courses to take place we will need parent volunteers. Volunteers will need a roadworthy bike and helmet. The courses will run from 17

th – 20

th June. If you are able to help for one or more days, please contact the

school office. Many thanks for your support. Green shed If any parents would be able to remove and dispose of the green shed on the top playground, please contact the school office. We would be very grateful for any help. Thank you.

Liturgical Prayer Cloth

We are delighted by the skill and generosity of St Mary’s Church. To help improve our

collective worship environment they have sewn new liturgical prayer cloths. The

current colour red helps us remember and celebrate the season of ‘Pentecost.’

Auction of Promises

The 2019 BLSA Auction of Promises website is now live! Please visit

https://auctionofpromises.com/2019BishopsLydeardSchool to see the brilliant

selection of prizes available. Happy bidding! Bids close online on 27th June,

reopening at the summer fete on Saturday 29th June where the final bids can be

placed.

Collective Advocacy

If your child is doing something to help make a difference to the world, please write a

description and/or take a photograph that we can display in school.

Recommended Reads

EYFS

KS1

KS2, 7 – 9 year olds

KS2, 9 – 11 year olds

Cricket Year 3 enjoyed a taster session with All Stars Cricket this afternoon. All Stars Cricket starts tonight at Wombat Cricket Club, Bishops Lydeard and runs until 12

th July. For more information, visit www.allstarscricket.co.uk

Messy Church Come and join the fun this Saturday from 3 – 5pm at the village hall. A light meal is provided. Everyone welcome. Flower Show If your child has not already done so, please could they bring in a shoe box after half term? We will be making shoe box habitats for our entries into the Bishops Lydeard Flower Show. Quiz Night, Quantock Brewery, Saturday 8

th June, 7.30pm

The Co-op have kindly been fundraising for the redevelopment of the POD and have, to date, raised nearly £900. They have organised a quiz night to raise further funds. Please come along to join in the fun at the Quantock Brewery on Saturday 8

th June. To book a table, please call 433 812.

Maths and English updates

Ladybird Next week English and maths will be based around the story 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. This will include writing a letter to the giant, reading instructions to plant a seed and solving measurement problems.

Hedgehog In maths we will be continuing work on fractions. In English we are developing our sentence writing to include question marks, exclamation marks, prefixes and suffixes.

Rabbit In English, we will be creating some animal poems whilst learning some grammatical terms. In maths, we will be exploring the inverse between calculations and continuing to practise telling the time.

Fox Next week in English, we will be learning to use adjectives to give our own opinion in a discussion text and use paragraphs to organise our ideas. In maths, we will be learning to convert analogue time to digital time and find the difference between times.

Owl Next week we will be writing our own discussion texts. The class enjoyed debating whether the school day should finish at lunchtime. I wonder what they will choose to discuss next week when they are given freedom to choose their own topic? In maths, we will be starting to look at reading the time. We will be moving on to comparing analogue and digital times as well as the 24hr clock.

Badger In English we will be writing persuasive arguments. In maths we are continuing with decimals.

Dragonfly Next week we are focusing on editing our writing to make it the best it can be and writing an information report about a fictional creature. In maths we will be investigating multiples and solving problems using multiples.

House Points This week Overall

Brendon 227 1581

Quantock 225 1131

Blackdown 208 740

Mendip 182 1019

Class Attendance Cup

This week Hedgehog class won the attendance cup with 99.16% attendance and were rewarded with an extra session on the trim trail. Gold Book Ladybird Ollie for improved presentation in all of his work. Leo Sk for listening to Mrs Parks about organising his

belongings. Hannah for sounding out words and becoming a confident reader. Hedgehog Ruby, for trying really hard with her independent writing and for being a good friend to others this week.

Fletcher, for trying really hard to extend his writing using cursive script and adjectives. Ciara and Ella for completing the Greater Depth Challenge in Maths this week.

Rabbit Theo and Freya have been working hard this week to say thank you every time a door is held open for them and holding the door open for others. Keep it up!

Fox Sonny always tries his best in all of his work and is polite and kind to others around him. Maisie has worked incredibly hard all week in all of her work and is always kind and polite to everyone!

Owl Zack for settling in to Owl Class so quickly. It is like he has always been one of us! Elsie and Charlie have been excellent this week at knowing when it is time to talk and time to listen. They are alert for when the teacher is talking and are always ready to listen.

Badger Badger class for showing resilience, endurance, friendship and a good sense of fun at Kilve. Dragonfly All of Dragonfly Class for working incredibly hard all year and for doing their best in their SATs.

May

20th Litter pick after school

24th Class photos

27th – 31

st Half-term week

June

3rd

INSET day

8th Quiz night, Quantock Brewery, 7.30pm

17th – 20

th Bikeability courses

29th Summer fete

July

23rd

Last day of term