‘Maximum Effort for

Maximum Achievement’

Friday 8th June 2018

Diary Dates for Next Week School Dinners - Week 2 - Revised Menu

Monday 11th June

Year 5 French Week commences

After School ‘Bake it Better’ cake sale for GOSH Tuesday 12th June

Year 4 ‘Ancient Greek’ day

5C and 5S to Lake Meadows

Kwik Cricket Competition

Swimming Team training at Mayflower High School (pm)

Wednesday 13th June

Fathers’ Day Sale during lunch (Small Hall) Thursday 14th June

Year 5 ‘French Dress Up’ day

Year 5 French Café - 5C and 5S at 9.15am, 5T and 5M at 10.00am

Fathers’ Day Sale during lunch (Group Room)

Induction Meetings for new Year 3 parents, 2.00pm and 7.00pm (Small Hall)

Partnership Swimming Gala - leaving Mill Hill Drive at 2.30pm

Friday 15th June

Deposits for Windmill Hill 2019 (current Year 3) due in by today

Fathers’ Day sale during lunch (Group Room)

Welcome back to school for the final half-term of the year! The next few weeks will be extremely busy, due to

lots of exciting events such as the Inflatables event, Sports Day, the District Sports, our Musical Evening, the

Summer Bonanza and the Year 6 play. Do keep an eye on the newsletter and the website to make sure that you don’t

miss out on an event. This week we sent out our Annual Parents’ Questionnaire; please do try to take a few moments to complete it as we would really like to be able to include your thoughts and

suggestions in our new School Development Plan. Thank you.

Fathers’ Day Sales These will be held during lunch on Wednesday (Small Hall),

Thursday and Friday (Group Room) next week and will provide the opportunity for children to come and

independently choose a gift for their Dads (or Grandads) to show their appreciation and thanks.

Gifts cost from 50p - £5.00.

Staffing News As you are already aware, Mrs Coughtrey is leaving us at the

end of the term to commence her new role as Deputy Headteacher at St. Thomas’ Junior School, Brentwood. Many

of you are also aware that Mrs Backhouse is leaving us to spend more time with her family and explore other career

options (still within teaching though). Sadly, Mrs Mara is also leaving us - after 11 years at Buttsbury, she felt it was time for a change so she has secured a class teaching position at

St. Anne’s Preparatory School in Chelmsford. We wish them all continued success in their new roles. If you would like to contribute to a present for Mrs Coughtrey, Mrs

Backhouse or Mrs Mara, a service has been set up on your child’s parentpay account to enable you to make a contribution by 29th June. As previously shared, Mr Adam Graves will be joining us in September as our new Deputy Headteacher. We will also be joined by Miss Gemma Cutmore who will be taking on the role of Year Group Leader and will also be a member of our Senior Leadership Team. Miss Cutmore currently teaches

at Great Wakering Primary School and is also a member of their Senior Leadership Team. Also joining us is Mrs Rebecca

Cheesman who has been appointed as our new Inclusion Manag-er. Mrs Cheesman is currently the Inclusion Manager at Ongar Primary School and thus brings great experience to the posi-

tion. And finally, our last team member - Mr Ross Frazer - who will be joining us as a Class Teacher. Mr Frazer was a SCITT trainee here in the Spring Term, so is already a familiar face! We look forward to them joining our team and sharing their

exciting new ideas!

Maths Master Class At the end of last half term some Year 3 and 4 children were chosen

to take part in the Maths Masterclass at Billericay School. Abby Caldon and Alex Lee represented the Year 3 team and Harriet

Rowe-Goodey and Austin Kelly competed as the Year 4 team. The competition was tough as some of the most able mathematicians in Billericay took part but they were no match for our children as we took first place in both year groups. A super achievement to all of

the children who took part!

Midday Assistant Vacancy We have a vacancy for a Midday Assistant to join

our friendly team on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, from 12.00pm - 1.20pm.

Joining our MDA team is a great way to step back into work perhaps as the hours fit perfectly around a family. The role could also be split into two roles of

two days each if preferred. Please contact Mrs Byfield in the School Office if

you are interested in joining our team.

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

William Clements Liam Alger Katie Hood Ethan Wiles Louise Shepherd Ellis Stock Lukas Tyler Oliver Coshell Matthew Tanner Fatima Ahmed Oliver McCreery Joshua Cannon Holly Nethercoat Millie Coffill Daniel Tanner Angus Noble Olivia Evans Larney Simpson Lewie Tear Stacie Moore Ben Edwards Holly Bashman Taitum Barnes Rosie Howard Alexa Mann Millie Worthington Sophie Vaidya Oliver Norman Harry Weston Katie Woods Holly Fox Amelia Bird

Girls’ Netball Partnership Final – Wednesday 6th June 2018

On Wednesday our Year 6 Girls took part in the netball partnership final. Since Miss Taylor has been

going to this competition, she has never seen such determination and sportsmanship from all the girls

on and off the court. They all played some outstanding netball, including super shooting and

fantastic defending. The girls played against schools such as; Quilters, Elmwood, Oakfield and Trinity. We are extremely pleased to announce that we came 1st overall, with a huge 20 goal difference (which hasn’t happened before). This means that we are off to the

County Finals which we believe is a first in netball for us! Let’s hope that we can do it all again at the County Final! A huge thank you to Mrs Coughlan and

Ms Hoare for attending the event and supporting our girls with transport and to Miss Taylor, our Netball

Coach and Team Manager.

This week’s ‘Writers of the Week’ are: Elsa Ward Abbey Prior Aisha Sarfraz

Jasmine Briggs Gulsu Bekem Evie Carvell Rachel Taylor Dominic Glover

Well done to our writing super stars!

This week’s attendance figure is: 95.4%! Oh my!!!! This year’s attendance target is 97.7%.

A special ‘Well Done’ to Class 6R who had the highest attendance this week — 98.9%! Congratulations!

This week’s ‘Mathematicians of the Week’ are: Jamie Weddell Sophie Foulkes Harry Fuller

Thomas Cavanagh Charlie Doman Iona McMorris Ruby Phillips

Ashton Bowerman Toby Lashmar

Well done to our magical mathematicians!

Afternoon Tea Having had to wait almost the whole year for their number

to be pulled out of the hat, this week’s lucky children excitedly made their way to the staff room, in readiness for

the lovely treats awaiting them. There’s no Afternoon Tea next week as the diary is a little

busy on Thursday but it will be business as usual on Thursday 21st June.

The Ark Day Care Centre - School Council Visit As part of our ongoing community project, another six of our School Council representatives from Years 3, 4 and 6 visited

The Ark Day Care Centre on Thursday afternoon. The Ark Day Care Centre aims to provide stimulating activities to reduce

isolation and increase interaction with others. The children visiting had baked some delicious cakes in

preparation for the event which were much enjoyed by all the clients and members of staff at The Ark. The children also

interacted and socialised with the clients by playing a game of giant dominoes and solving a complex puzzle. A huge thank you to all the children for baking their yummy cakes and also to

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

Out of School Success

Well done to Philippa Warhurst (4H) who completed her 1 mile distance swim during half-term in a very good time!

Congratulations to Amy Norman (4T) who ran her first Parkrun on Saturday and even beat her Mum!

Well done to Holly Bashman (6R) who is off to the National British Riding Clubs dressage championships having won the Billericay and District Area Competition.

Congratulations to Holly Fox (4C) who performed on stage at The Harlow Playhouse with her friends from Fusion Dance Troupe and Strictly Come Dancing’s Pasha on his ‘Magic of Hollywood’ tour.

Well done to George Beckett (5M) who represented South East England in an U11s Ice Hockey Tournament. After 4 tough games, South East won Bronze making them the 3rd best team in Great Britain.

Congratulations to Jenna Phillips (4H) who auditioned for a part in the ‘Wizard of Oz’ and was successful in gaining a role. She will be performing at The Civic Theatre, Chelmsford.

This week’s winning house: Jaguars

Top Table This week, the children chosen by the Midday

Assistants to sit at the ‘Top Table’ were:

Aidan Sterry Rupert Duncan Dominic Glover

Oliver Park Scarlet Nugent

Rainbow Awards

Well done to the following children who all received their VIOLET award this week:

Sam Hughes, Thomas Cavanagh, Liam Alger, Oliver Driscoll, Joel De Groot, Cece Ross, Fife Abel-

Idowu, Jack Buick, Alana Louden, Liam Winch, Ria Mittal, Joe Smith, Lucas Yeo-Evans, Alfie Riches

and Jack Ahrens. __________________________________________

Congratulations also to this week’s

INDIGO award winners: Tyler Mitchell, Chloe Nicel, Buddie Blewitt, Megan

Jobbins, George Goodwin, Abby Caldon, Ellie Lovell, Hermione Poulter, Ben Perry, James Blyth-

Tancock, Harry Showell, Harry Dyer and Bray Harris.

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A very special ‘Well Done’ to the following children

who received their BLUE award this week: Max Langshaw, Tommy Garwood, Jessica Line,

Harry Gilbert, Finlay Trott, Archie Connolly-Cole, Mihaela Karapeneva and Oliver Wiles.

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An even bigger ‘Well Done’ to this week’s GREEN

award winners: Anya Mistry, Daisy Spencer, Ella Patten, Georgia

Taylor, Ana Sutton, Jaime Obery and Mae Saunders. __________________________________________

A super, duper ‘Congratulations’ to this week’s

YELLOW award winners: Lucy Clarke, Millie Coffill and

Amelie Cunningham, __________________________________________

And we have some more ORANGE award winners this week:

Libby Wright and Laila Walton,

Well done to all our RAINBOW AWARD winners - who will be the first to RED?

Invitation to Ride During half-term, seven children in Years 3, 4 and 5 had the

opportunity to take part in a fully-sponsored pony riding morning at Runningwell Equestrian Centre. They had a

wonderful time and when they took part in a mini-gymkhana at the end of the morning, it was impossible to believe that this was their first time in the saddle! Well done to all the

children who took part and thank you to Rebecca Parker and The Friends of Runningwell for organising the event.

Clockwise from Top Left:

Philippa, Amy, Holly, Jenna and George.

Engineering Competition During the Spring Term, the Primary Leaders Engineering competition

was launched for all children across the school. The competition required the children to think of a solution to one of life’s little problems. From

there they would design the solution; annotate their design, explaining

their vision; before finally writing a persuasive letter to the judges to convince them to build their design (the prize for the national winner). We had a number of entries from across the age groups, with Charlotte Sell

(5T) winning the East of England award for her design, the Pen Pal. The ceremony took place on the 4th of June at the University of Hertfordshire where all the winners received a certificate and a trophy. There was also

an exhibition of the work from the winners as well as shortlisted and featured work from other children. Within the display, we had work from Ruby Walsh, Emily Harvey and Jasmine Briggs so congratulations also

go to these girls. All the children worked really well and Mr Tweedie is looking forward to launching the competition again next year.

Inter-House Architectural Design Competition During the last week of half term the children that were left at Buttsbury, whilst Year 6 were having fun in the Isle of Wight were set an Inter-House challenge to build famous British monuments out of newspaper. Each class

participated in their House groups and the end products were judged by the teachers and scored accordingly. There were some very interesting efforts

including a London Eye replica that even turned! The Buttsbury children can be very inventive with a goal and a newspaper! Lots of fun was had by all and it

was lovely to see the children collaborating on a joint project. The overall winning houses were the Jaguars and the Leopards but it was a

very close competition so well done to all of the children!

Around The World Week This week, the children of Buttsbury have been travelling Around the World! The school has been filled with the sounds of other places, with traditional

music and dances being taught. Some children even got to try new foods as part of their experiences.

The week started with an assembly based on colours, led by Miss Featherstone and Miss Unite. The children shared their ideas about the mean-

ings of colours before finding out what other cultures around the world be-lieved. They then led an enthusiastic sing-along to end the assembly, before

heading back to their classrooms to begin their trip around the world. Year 3 have been discovering the delights of China, learning about Chinese customs, food and music. During their rotation lessons, the

children made lanterns, made origami animals, created beautiful cherry blossom paintings and invented puppet shows about Chinese New Year.

Year 4 have explored the continent of Africa, linked to their learning on ‘The Buttefly Lion’ by Michael Morpurgo. They were further inspired this week by

the African clip ‘Zahra’ to create an imaginative diary entry and narrative from the perspective of Zahra. They began the week with a Geographical lesson,

where they created a picture map of Africa and identified key locations around the continent. They then took part in carousel of activities, including learning an African song, an African drama, creating a Maasai necklace and a Kente Cloth. They even had the opportunity to make African-inspired smoothies and go on

safari around the school field! Mexico was the destination for Year 5 and they leapt into action to learn a

Mexican Hat dance! Their artistic skills were fired up by creating Ojos de Dios and ‘Metapec’ (clay suns). They ended their topic with the thrilling opportunity

to crack open a piñata and reward themselves with sweet treats. Based on their recent experiences, Year 6 only travelled as far as the Isle of

Wight, but are now connoisseurs of everything related to the island! The children have thought about exploring the high seas as Admiral Nelson,

creating dramatic diary entries; created watercolour representations of the Needles and, the pièce de résistance… a survival guide to the Isle of Wight for

the Year 5 classes to refer to next year! The children have all had a fantastic week, with the opportunity to shine

creatively! Thanks to all the teachers for creating a fabulous themed week.