Bures C.E. Primary School

Newsletter

Contact us: 01787 227446 primary@bures.suffolk.sch.uk Date: 11th October 2019

Big Question of the Week

“If you had to describe yourself as a food what would you be?”

Explore, Believe, Shine

‘The Adventure Awaits…’

A Week of Church Visits—Part 1—The Cathedral

Thank you to the children and parents who joined Mr

Fairbairn, Reverend Steve and me at St Edmundsbury

Cathedral on Sunday for the Diocesan Schools

Celebration Service. We had a lovely time. The

children were very brave - parading down the aisle of

the cathedral with our brand new banner which they

had helped to make on Friday. The theme for the

service was “I am the Vine” and children from schools

in different parts of the county helped to bring the

theme alive. We all got to tie our own leaf onto a ‘vine’

which stretched from one end of the cathedral to the

other. Thank you Jessica, Martha, Erin, Evelyn and

Lucy you did a great job of representing our school.

Part 2—Harvest Festivals

Our Harvest Festivals were a real treat on Thursday. The children visited the Baptist Church in three

groups sharing poems, songs, prayers, art work and even Harvest raps! As always we were warmly welcomed

by the lovely people at the church who provided refreshments for parents and made sure the services ran

smoothly. The ‘Open the Book’ Team told the story of ‘The Widow’s Mite’ with a little help from our children

and Kath ,the minister, led the whole thing beautifully. Thank you to all parents who were able to attend—I

hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Thank you too to everyone who sent in their gifts of food. These will

be donated to the ‘Storehouse Foodbank’ in Sudbury to be shared with families in need.

Explore, Believe, Shine

‘The Adventure Awaits…’

Collective Worship

On Monday, the children and I thought about the best ways to keep

ourselves mentally healthy in recognition of World Metal Health Day

on Thursday 10th October. We watched a video about a girl who was

becoming anxious about her school work and who felt better after

she’d talked about it to her mum and then did something nice for

herself. Ask your children what she chose to do to make herself feel

better. You might also want to talk about what things they like to do

if they are feeling a bit sad or anxious.

On Tuesday Mrs Holmes, put the children through their paces with

the Harvest songs. Mrs Bennie led the assembly on Wednesday and

talked about Growth Mindset. She related it to the athletes

currently competing in Doha who lots of the children knew about.

We ended our worship week as usual with our Celebration Assembly.

Still Shining!

It was lovely to hear this week that

lots of our ex-pupils received awards

at the Thomas Gainsborough School

KS 3 and 4 awards events. You will

find photos of them receiving their

awards on the TGS website at

www.tgschool.net. Well done to all of

them!

Our Aldi Kit for schools poster is half full.

Thank you to everyone who has already

brought in their stickers. We have until

the 6th November to complete the

poster. Please hand in all stickers to the

office.

Sickness & Diarrhoea Policy

A quick reminder—If your child is

absent due to vomiting or diarrhoea,

they should not return to school for

the next 48 hours after the last

episode. This is to reduce the risk

of infection to other children and

adults at the school.

We appreciate there may be excep-

tional circumstance to the above,

for example if a child vomits due to

coughing. In this event, attendance

of the child is down to the

Headteacher’s and parent’s

discretion. Thank you!

Explore, Believe, Shine

‘The Adventure Awaits…’

Stepping Stones

Come along with your toddlers and little ones

to Stepping Stones at St Mary's Church on

Wednesday at 2.15 pm. 20 mins of fun,

songs and a bible story then lots of play and

teas and coffees before school pick up. See

you there ....

Revd Tricia

School Council

We would like to introduce our 2019/2020 school council: Darcey, Emily, Annabelle, Noah, Daniel, Erin, Bella,

Dylan, Lauren, Abigail, William, Florence, Isaac, Betty (Eco) and Alex.

Children in Need—Friday 15th November

For Children in Need the School Council would like everyone to join in a ‘Work

Out’ with Joe Wicks. You should wear any sport appropriate clothing and we are

asking for at £1 donation. Thank you!

Late Gate Update

As you know we had a late gate on Monday. We

are pleased to say that there were very few

late arrivals. We will

planning another late

gate in the future

however are not

proposing any warning

in advance.

Our Learning Ambassadors for this week are:

Poppy, James, Calum, Florence, Charlie, Pippa, Ariane, Billy,

Poppy, Ruben, Betty, Erin, Martha, Maya,

Well Done to all of them!

Staff Ambassadors this week are Mrs Manning and Mrs

Holmes

Attendance—Whole School so far this academic year 97.7%

Gold = 98 -100% Green = 95 – 97.9% Red = 90 – 94.9% Purple = <90%

Reception Year One Year Two Year Three Year Four Year Five Year Six

98.1% 97.7% 98% 97.5% 97.6% 97.5% 98%

Explore, Believe, Shine

‘The Adventure Awaits…’

Secondary Applications

Just a reminder about Secondary (including upper and higher) school applications for 2020/21

school year. The deadline for this is fast approaching on Thursday 31st October 2019.

An email and letter was sent out to all Year 6 parents regarding this early in September. For

further information, please visit https://www.suffolk.gov.uk/children-families-and-learning/

schools/school-places/admissions-to-schools-in-suffolk-for-the-20202021-school-year/.

Please be advised that if you live in Essex, applications are made through Essex County

Council.

PSA NEWS

AGM

We will be holding our Annual General Meeting on Wednesday

16th October at 2pm at the school. All parents are warmly wel-

comed to join us for this meeting. As well as celebrating our

successes from last year, we will be thinking about fundraising

activities for 2020 and appointing a new committee to lead us

this academic year. Please do join us if you can (pre-school

aged children welcome too)

Non-Uniform Day

Don't forget that we will be holding a non-uniform day next Friday (18th October). All children

are invited to wear clothes of their choice to school in return for one of the following please:

fun-sized chocolate bars (No Snickers-type bars please)

fun-sized packets of sweets (Haribos, Skittles, Smarties etc)

packets of individually wrapped sweets or lollies (Maoam, Celebrations, Drumsticks etc)

surplus party bag fillers (small pencils, stickers, balloons, small toys etc)

a small financial donation to the PSA

Class Reps

Class Reps provide an informal link between the PSA committee and the parents in each year

group. They remind other parents about forthcoming fundraising activities and act as a point of

contact for their class should parents have any query regarding a PSA event. This role takes up

very little time but is an ideal for somebody who would like to support the PSA a little more ac-

tively. We are currently looking for a new Class Rep for Year 4 and either Nursery or Year 2. If

you would like to know more, please contact Helen Foster or speak to one of our current Class

Reps (Tracy Verguld, Clare Frewin, Jo Kendall, Helen Lane, Ruth Woodman)

Jam Jars

Please continue to collect any jam jars (with lids) over the coming weeks and pass these on to Hel-

en Lane (year 3) or leave them in the school office for her.

Bag2School

Our next Bag2School (used clothing) collection will take place on Friday 22 November. Bags will

be sent home after half term, but meanwhile please keep hold of any old clothes that you or your

children no longer need.

Explore, Believe, Shine

‘The Adventure Awaits…’