‘Maximum Effort for

Maximum Achievement’

Friday 24th January 2020

Diary Dates for Next Week School Dinners - Week 1

Wednesday 29th January, 7.00pm - Parent Workshop – Main Hall - ‘Developing Writing Skills At Home’.

We’ve had a reasonably quiet week for Buttsbury but we made up for it today with ‘Mrs Robinson’s Birthday

Bash’. I can definitely say that I have had a truly memorable day, full of excitement and fun. I think the

children enjoyed the day as much as me! Thank you also for your kind donations towards my Marathon Mission

and BCCS! It’s just another reminder of how lucky I am to work with

such amazing children, staff and families! This weekend will see further celebrations but more of the

‘tame’ variety! Have a wonderful weekend too and I shall see you on

Monday, ready to start my next half-century!

Year 6 Mock SATS Well done to all the children in Year 6 who admirably rose to the challenge of the various tests they faced this week. We were very proud of their positivity and commitment. Thank you to Miss Carroll and the Year 6 team for all the time spent planning the complex timetable and to all the teaching assistants who supported individual children. Thank you also to the other teachers in the school who

released their own teaching assistants as required. A very successful week all round.

School Disco Last Friday night, we once again held our very popular

school discos. As always, the children and even some of the teachers threw themselves into the spirit of the evening with

lots of fun dancing and singing and everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves. We would like to thank the members of the Friends’ Association, parents and staff who

gave up their Friday evening and helped to support the event! The total raised was £1,515 which is a

fabulous amount of money! Unfortunately, we have not had any volunteers come

forward for the positions for Chair and Vice-Chair so the future of our Friends’ Association is still very much in doubt.

Parent Workshop It’s not too late to book a place to join us for our

interactive workshop about teaching writing skills at home. We have a lively evening of activities planned, led by

members of the Senior Leadership Team, with tea, coffee and biscuits too - it’s got to beat doing the ironing!

The non-uniform day for anyone who has achieved their RED award so far this academic year is on:

FRIDAY 31st January.

First Aid Workshop for Parents We had a lovely evening on Wednesday, learning skills such as CPR and how to put someone in the recovery

position. Thank you to everyone who came along - I hope you found the evening helpful and fun too! Thank you to Jenni, Safe Hands First Aid, for leading the session and

also for leading all the children’s sessions too. First Aid training will now be an annual event as it has

proved to be incredibly valuable.

Staffing News Miss Moore has some exciting news to share - she is

expecting a baby in July! We would like to pass on our congratulations to Miss Moore and her partner and wish her a smooth pregnancy. Miss Moore plans to begin her

maternity leave on Friday 3rd July. More details will follow closer to the time regarding class cover for Miss Moore

whilst she is on leave.

Safeguarding If you need to come into the school building, regardless of the time, please can you sign in at the School Office first.

Thank you.

Jaguars House Assembly On Wednesday, it was the Jaguars’ turn to lead our assembly. They were given the theme of Chinese New Year (which is on 25th January). They found out that this year is the Year of the Rat. The team spent some of their break and lunchtimes

gathering information and rehearsing for their assembly. They came up with a short play which demonstrated the character-

istics of the different animals that are used each year and the Chinese Zodiac was formed. The assembly also looked into how

Chinese New Year is celebrated in different parts of the world. The team enjoyed researching and performing their assembly. Thank you to Harry and Jasmine for leading their

team and to Mr Redmill for assisting the children.

‘Well Done’ to all the children who were awarded MERIT certificates this week.

Leon Dearlove Callum Pearce Amy Norman Thomas Anderson Gabriel Tanner Joshua Bateman Oliver McCreery Florence Meade Daisy Spencer Archie Henson Millie Coffill Daniel Tanner Olivia Tappin Holly Farrow Finlay Cannon Benjamin Anderson Jack McCarthy Amelia Slater Theo Kirby Shezan Mushabe Toby Lashmar Alex Gilbert Megan Lyons Connor Gutteridge

This week’s ‘Writers of the Week’ are: Aidan Dunbar Amy-Leigh James Kai Smith Emily Henderson Lana Bailey Amelie Rippon

Amber Harbrow Charlotte Seeney Well done to our writing super stars!

This week’s attendance figure is: 98%! This year’s attendance target is 97.8%.

A special ‘Well Done’ to Class 3M who had 100% attendance this week! Congratulations!

This week’s ‘Mathematicians of the Week’ are:

Eloise Lock William Brass Sam Hughes Jessica Agg Archie Moore Maxwell Sawyer Elsa Ward Taylor Halfhide Aidan Sterry Well done to our magical mathematicians!

This week’s ‘Readers of the Week’ are:

Erin Barnes Lacey Gordon Jamie Cooper Harriet Rowe–Goodey Vasilis Vasileiadis

Russell Salvatore Thomas Cavanagh Zack Briggs Well done to our enthusiastic readers!

3PR Results Well done to everyone who managed to collect tokens this

week for walking in the 3PR zone! The results this week are:

1st - 3P - 50 tokens 2nd - 5T, 5F and 5Fr - 49 tokens

3rd - 3R - 48 tokens

Top Table This week, the children chosen by the Midday Assistants to sit

at the ‘Top Table’ were: Taylor Halfhide Edward Cushing

Jessica Toll Toby Pickett Aidan Sterry

Well done for being selected!

This week’s winning house:

Jaguars

Afternoon Tea Once again, the children really enjoyed coming along to

‘afternoon tea’ and enthusiastically tucked into the chocolate biscuits, cakes and squash. They were equally

excited to talk about their favourite pieces of work this year which they shared with great confidence.

Success in Swimming On Wednesday eight children from each year group competed

at Billericay School in the Billericay Consortium Swimming Gala. It was a very exciting afternoon which, for many of the younger team members, was the first time they had represented their school. The team had been training very hard under the expert coaching of Elites Swim School and it certainly paid off, with our team scooping many first place wins including all of the

fourteen relay races! Overall both our Year 3/4 team and our Year 5/6 team finished in FIRST place - by quite some margin!

This means that both teams now go on to represent the Billericay Family (along with Quilters) at the next stage of the competition which is at William De Ferrers School on Thursday 4th June (pm). Congratulations to all our swimmers - you were amazing and made me very proud! Thank you to Alex and Will (Elites Swim School) and to Mrs Hall, Mrs Alderman and Mrs

Rivas for their assistance too. Thank you also to the children’s parents who have been extremely supportive of the gala preparations and training sessions, and also helped with

transporting to the gala itself.

Out of School Success

Well done to Skye Greenan (4F) who recently passed her Primary ballet exam with Distinction.

Congratulations to Daniel Natusch (3M) who took part in an Equestrian Combined Training Competition on Sunday, which included dressage and show jumping, and finished in 4th place overall!

Well done to Jack Warren-Gunn (6R) and Kesia Crees (6A) who represented Essex in the regional Indoor Athletics Final during the weekend. Overall the Essex team beat the five other counties to finish in first place! Congratulations to Jack, Kesia and their U11 Essex team!

Congratulations to Heidi Webb (5M) who qualified for a ‘Sunshine Tour’ in a recent horse show and achieved 4th place.

Well done to Anya Mistry (6R) who passed her ABRSM Grade 2 piano exam recently and achieved a Merit.

Congratulations to Lola Johnston (5T) who finished 3rd in a riding event on Sunday and qualified for the ‘Sunshine Tour’.

Rainbow Awards

Well done to this week’s VIOLET award winner :

Oliver Driscoll

Congratulations to this week’s INDIGO award recipients:

Khaled Badwilan, Liam Alger, Lucas Ramsden, Sam Havis, Ryan Strain, Cece Ross and Max Langshaw.

Well done to our BLUE award winners:

Joel De Groot, Rhoda Collier, Emilija Malakauskaite, Aidan Dunbar, Freddie Gardner, Abi Povey, Hesme

Muller, Maisie Pamenter, Advay Sharma, Maisie Burcombe, Amaya Weeks, Billy Brass, Freddie

Gardner and Alfie Gray.

Congratulations to our GREEN award recipients:

Amy Holms. Oliver McCreery, Emily Henderson, Emily Crowe, Jacob Collins, Benjamin Anderson, Felicity Chiappe, Harvey Heathfield, Jacob Pierce, Travis Lapsky, Hermione Poulter, Matilda Pierce,

Farrah Keniry, Ollie Alsemgeest, Esther Davies, Alex Lee, Alfie Mills, Emelia Dear, Annie Jerreat, Georgina

Brown and Edie Poulton.

Well done to our YELLOW award winners:

Beau Cunningham, Alfie Healy, Anika Gupta, Alex Carter, Izzy Cheesman, Joshua Cannon, Amy Norman, Lotty Smith, Joshua Bateman, Holly

Bubb, Elsie Orchard, William Fuller, Alya Brewer, Lorcan Curley-Sanchez, Jamie Comitti, Zakk Harris, Alexander Guthrie-Blunkell, Samuel

Clements, Emma Hughes, Daniel Tanner, Phoebe Thompson, Taylor McGinness, Ana Sutton, Jenna

Phillips, Ben Markham, Grace Barker, Jack Warren-Gunn, Alfie Woolmer, Katie Hood,

Philippa Warhurst, Harriet Rowe-Goodey, Jessica Elsdon, Emily Jackson-Bridge, Jessica Bowie,

Amelia Slater, Freya Spencer, Sam Hughes, Freya Agate, Edie Rowling, Ellie Lovell, Grace Marsh,

Ruby Beckwith, Lotty Smith, Lola Johnston, Athina Mitchell, Eleanor Chaplin, Buddie Blewitt, Roxy

Hartman, Isabella Howlett, Gemma Lague, Grace Vasiliou, Lenny Batchelor, Max Parish, Amelie

Robbshaw, Poppy Hobbs, Amelie Rippon, Jie Long He and Josh Harrington.

A special ‘Well Done’ to this week’s ORANGE award winners:

Aaron Bickerstaff, Isabelle Lee, Luke Andrews, Amy-Leigh James, Eloise Minto, Georgina Nunney, Alex

Rowe-Goodey, Summer Seabrook, Evie Henson, Daniel Natusch, Gia Wilkins, Freddy Crooks,

Jessica Agg, Elizabeth Salvatore, Archie Connolly-Cole, Daisy Judd, Ruby Edwards, Millie Agate, Mason

Grindrod, Jessica Jobbins, Mimi Tarraf, Amelia-Violet Cole, Christopher Johnson, Arthur

McSharry, Ethan Lee, Matthew Tanner, Tyler Mitchell, Gene Sullivan, Theo Kirby, Toby Lashmar, Holly Fox, Jake Barrett, Archie Austin, Juliet Vinton-Smith, Luke

Andrews Oliver Chandra and Oliver Sargood.

And HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to our RED awards this week:

Claire Senior, Elsa Reason, Isabella Rebel, Bibi Tarraf, Hattie Walsh, William Barrett, Justin Moody, George

Murphy, Maisie Anderson, Tommy Cripps, Mia Eggleton, Flora Noble, Miya Tyler, Katie Woods and

Amelia Bird.

50 Things To Do Before Leaving Primary School

Well done to Zara Foulser who has

completed 10 things at home.

Congratulations to Fife Abel-Idowu who

has completed 20 things at home!

Well done!

Basketball County Final On Friday, 12 of our talented basketballers from Year 6

visited the University of Essex in Colchester for the County Final competition. The Buttsbury Team were the

qualifying team from the William de Ferrers School Sports Partnership, and were excited to represent our local

area. The morning proved to be extremely difficult and the teams we played in our group were all very

skilled. Our team put up an extra good fight and played extremely well through each game. Unfortunately, we did not get through our group stages but we did still have the

ranked games to play in the afternoon. The afternoon games were a completely different story - without the worry of qualifying for the next round, the

Buttsbury Team came alive! The children demonstrated not only great skill and teamwork, but a flair and passion

for the game. Well done to all of the team. It was a fantastic day of sport and Miss Carroll was extremely proud of the whole team and the way they conducted

themselves. Thank you to the parents who helped transport and stayed to cheer the team on during the day and to Miss Carroll

and Mrs Hall, for accompanying the team.

Year 6 Careers Festival On Tuesday afternoon we hosted our first-ever Careers Festival for Year 6 children. The aim of the

festival was to inspire the children about life beyond education and encourage them to think about what the world of work could look like for them in the future. We had a fantastic afternoon, with a wide

range of professions being shared, including hair and beauty, photography, speech therapy and metal trading to name but a few. All of the children had a great time and left with smiles on their faces. Thank you very much to all of the parents who were able to give up their time and make the event a

success. We would like to express a special thank you to Mrs Toll for putting together the promotional posters and banners to add a little more gravitas to the event. Thank you also to Mr Graves for

organising the afternoon.

The Ark Day Care Centre As part of our continuing partnership with

the Ark Day Care Centre, some of our School Council representatives from across the school, visited on Monday

afternoon. The children attending had baked some delicious cakes in preparation for the event which, as always, were much enjoyed by all the clients and members of

staff at The Ark. The children also interacted and socialised with the clients brilliantly by playing table tennis, basket-ball and completing puzzles with them! A

huge thank you to all the children for baking their yummy cakes and to Mrs

Felton and Mrs Willis for supervising the children during the visit.