Welcome to our school newsletter - Issue 7

Dear Parents/Carers,

As you will read below, the support that has been shown to the PTA this term

is overwhelming. Everyone’s contribution to the school and PTA is

appreciated and I would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your

families a very merry Christmas and best wishes for 2017.

Louise Druce

Headteacher

PTA News

Thank you for all your support for the fun and fundraising activities

co-ordinated by PTA volunteers across the school this term. Your

contributions make such a difference to the success of the activities by

enriching the experience for the children and raising valuable funds for

school projects. For more information on current projects and fundraising

targets please refer to the school’s website.

Since September the exciting events have so far raised £11,600 culminating

with the most recent Children’s disco (£1.3k), Christmas Cards (to follow),

Christmas Trees (£525) and Christmas Market (£5k). A great achievement by

the children with their superb Christmas creativity as well for the teachers,

staff and parents/carers with their commitment and support.

Planning for PTA activities in 2017 has now commenced and the feedback

received from the PTA Survey at Parents Evening has been valuable in

identifying particular preferences from the School Community.

We received responses from 141 individuals and overwhelmingly 91% of

respondents highlighted they would attend a family theatre event. The idea

of an Open Air Cinema was also well received (81%), and a number of

alternative suggestions were made, which will be discussed at the next PTA

event.

Wishing you a very happy Christmas and New Year.

Louise Dennis

Parking Reminder

We have received a

complaint from a local

resident regarding West Gate

parents parking over

driveways in the surrounding

area. Please can we remind

you to park considerately as

the residents will be reporting

any illegal parking directly to

the Police. Thank you for your

co-operation

School Dinners

Please remember to check

your dinner money balances

on Tucasi before the end of

term. School dinners must be

paid for in advance and any

pupils with debt from this term

on their account will not be

able to have school dinners

from January until the debt is

cleared. Tucasi will be

updated on the last day of

term to show the amount

owed for the Spring term.

On Wednesday 21 December

the school kitchen will be

providing a fish and chips

dinner for the children instead

of the usual roast dinner.

The children will be delighted

as this is the most

popular meal by far.

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News In Brief Headteacher’s Headlines www.stamford-green.surrey.sch.uk

A M B I T I O N Welcome to our School Newsletter Issue 5 - 16.12.16

Tweet of the fortnight!

Follow us on @StamfordGreen

Take a look at how creative Reception

have been this week!

Frosty the Snowman is here!

T O G E T H E R N E S S

Sports Support - Thank you

At Stamford Green we work hard to encourage the children to lead fit and healthy

lifestyles, part of this is to encourage them to engage in sport. As a school we try to

enter as many borough sports events with as many children as possible. We pride

ourselves on the fact that every child in Y6, who wants to, will represent the school on

the sports field before they leave us at the end of Y6.

The borough competitions have really developed over

the past few years and I wanted to take this opportunity

to thank our parents and carers for your continued

support at these events. I am always extremely proud of

the way our children conduct themselves at sporting

events. However our supporters are equally respectful,

encouraging and positive and need to be

acknowledged for this as well.

So thank you to all who have stood on a side line over

recent years and no matter what, have remained

positive to the children and staff at all times.

It really does make a difference!

Mrs Peters - Phase 3 and PE Lead

I N S P I R I N G

Thank you for all the generous donations after the YR

Carols and Y1/Y2 Nativities. We will be sending a

cheque for the monies raised to Crisis. So far we have

counted £552.37. This provides support for 24 people over

the Christmas period. Fantastic news!

Hot of the press … Today’s Mufti Day

in support of Save the Children

Christmas Jumper Day has so far

raised £392.26. Thank you for

supporting this very worthwhile

cause.

Well done to the Choir

and Mrs James for raising

£92.71 by singing in The

Ashley Centre for EMEF.

Further to the recent Anti-Bullying competition – Power for Good, Mrs Dray and the Behaviour

Partnership were very impressed with the

standard of the entries. It is clear that the children have a good understanding of what to do if

they

encounter bullying. The winners of the

competition were:

Year 1 – Milly Playle

Year 2 – Vishal Soni

Year 3 – Lyra Hamilton

Year 4 – Elsie Macauley

Year 5 – Ayushi Soni

Year 6 – Mia Stevens

A massive well done to those children in particular. The winners can look forward to lunch out at

The Vale school in the new year, hosted by their Behaviour Ambassadors.

L E A R N I N G

Away in a Danger and Promoting Resilience for Children with Anxiety

Mrs Dray organised a well received workshop for parents about screen time for children and

the associated dangers. The workshop was called, ‘Away in a Danger’. If you were unable to

attend, you may like to look at the PowerPoint slides from the session on the following link:

http://www.stamford-green.surrey.sch.uk/fileadmin/user_upload/Letters_2016-2017/

Away_in_a_Danger_FINAL_for_website.pdf

Mrs Dray has also organised another workshop for parents about anxiety in children. The session

is called, ‘Promoting Resilience for Children with Anxiety’ and will be held at

school on Thursday 23 February 2017 at 9.00am - 10.00am.

Please make a note of the date in you diaries.

What the children say:

Spotlight on Values through Homework

This term I have received some fantastic pieces of values

based homework from various children. As it is not a

compulsory homework task, it is lovely to see the children

choosing this task and writing so passionately about values

that they feel are important to them.

Although the children at Stamford Green consistently show a

variety of values on a daily basis, homework tasks that

Involve writing about these help the children to reflect on

their understanding of value and how they show them

regardless of where they are.

Here are just a few of those that I’ve received and I’m sure

you’ll agree that lots of effort and resilience has gone into

these to make them this fantastic!

Mrs Smith

Our Value for December is:

Co-operation

Craze of the week

This week it’s been space hoppers

V A L U E S

Showing co-operation is a skill that involves using many

other values such as patience or using good manners.

It is something we see the children doing on a daily

basis at school and a value that we believe is

definitely instilled in the children at Stamford Green.

H A P P I N E S S

Carol Service 2016

This year's Carol Service was another success and it's all down to

the wonderful children! They sang their hearts out to old favourites

and new songs. A massive thank you to the Year 6 narrators (Elliott

King, Ella Crowther, Toby Symons, Mia Stambrey, Lizzie

Baker, Lillyrose Grimshaw, Christopher Pahl, Ollie Hayward, Hugo

Jennings, Izzie Giles, Scarlett Tillman and Oscar White) and the Year

2 children who acted out the

Christmas story( Rosie Walker, Lucy

Stevens, Isaac Newby, Sam

Wickens, Ana Collins, Tallulah

Henson, Katie Crane, Dylan

Maw, Ollie Hoare and Ben

Wheatley). Also a special mention

to Tomas Lorenz who played the

organ so beautifully and Amelia

Roberts for the programme design.

Reception’s First Christmas Carols

Weeks of hard work and rehearsals came to fruition this week for our

Reception children and they did themselves proud! RM, RW, RV and

RD worked so hard to remember lots of words and actions to our

Christmas songs. All the children looked very festive in their Christmas

jumpers and remembered to give their best smiles while performing

on the stage. It can be a daunting experience to get up and sing in

front of an audience but the children used our school values

of courage and resilience to help them. It was fantastic to see so

many parents and carers coming to support their children, they really

enjoyed the whole experience (and we hope you did too!).

Festive Cheer

What a wonderful lead up to the Christmas break we have had with the Christmas performances

taking place this week. Well done to all the children who worked so hard to learn all their lines and

excelled themselves by delivering such brilliant performances. We are so proud of you all.

The Year 1 Nativity

Programmes are shown aside

and were drawn by;

Samuel Dennis 1R

Niamh Probert 1W

Ryley Ward 1S

Winners of Pepe the punctuality puppy were: RW, RV and 1W

Winners of Annabelle the attendance ape were: 5V, 4J and 6KB

The winning house with the most values buttons was Waterloo

Golden Awards for good behaviour at lunchtime were awarded to lots of children but

Ronnie Cartwright, Lara Todd, Kate Blackall, Sam Blunden Hayden Brady and Ethan Hill won

Merit awards were given to:

Achiever of the week -

the following children had gold

jumpers to wear :

Leah Sargent 6SB Lillyrose Grimshaw 6SB

Dylan Maw 2G Trent Jones 2B

Kaitlyn Hill 2B Samuel Dennis 1R

Evie Blackall 3S Jamie Peaty 3L

Tom Carr 5PJ Hope Payne 5PJ

Jonathan Wilmot 1W Zoe Lorenz 4S

Leo Thornburn 5V Freya Collings 1S

Lacey Sharpling 3L Izzy Jones 2G

Bethan Kelly 6KB Milly Playle 1W

Sophie Lewis 3L Christopher Pahl 6KB

Benedict Pocock 4J Kate Blackall 5V

George Claridge 4S Nithyasri Annamalai 4J

Whole of 2G Oliver Burton 3S

Imogen Duffy 1W Dylan Maw 2G

Whole of 2B Ryan Pon 1W

Zach Giles 3S Amy Matthews 2B

Mia Stambrey 6SB Elliott King 6SB

Callum Bird 5V Archie Collins 6KB

Dylan Evans 4J Layla Steventon 3S

Sophie-Anne Baxter 1S Kathryn Blunden 1S

Mia Getty 4S Anna Hedger-Hay 5V

Ella Buckley 6KB Jess Blunden 4J

Oliver Southgate 5PJ Alicia Horsnell 4S

Amelia Roberts 6SB Evangeline McGeever 5PJ

Amelie Frost 6KB Johnny Dawson 6KB

Arun Chadha 1W Toby Hopson 6SB

Grace Dalton 4S Jonathan Wilmot 1W

Zack Lowis 1S Gokul Jayasankar 1S

Daisy Jones 3S Finley Morphew 4S

Emilia Stanbridge 3S Imogen anderson 3L

Leo Morgan 3L Isaac Williams 3L

Ewan McGhee 3L Shay Chhatralia 3S

Ollie Hoare 2B Emma Lewis 5V

Cameron Youngs 5PJ Kai Jones 4J

Freya Springer 2G Ezra Tings 2G

Jack Yeong 4J Hope Payne 5PJ

Edwin Cross 5V Isabelle Jones 2B

A C H I E V I N G - Celebrating Success

A C H I E V I N G

Securing Outstanding Attendance from 24.11.16 to 14.12.16

Every two weeks we will be reporting what the overall class attendance is. All classes

should secure a weekly attendance of at least 97%.

Stamford Bear says well done to: 3S and 2G who have fantastic attendance!

A special mention to the following children who have been the

first to receive the special awards below;

Head Teacher Award -Lara Todd (Awarded

Stamford Green Bear) for all round

amazingness.

Governors Award -Sophie Hope-Gill

(Awarded Buckingham Bear) for displaying

Stamford Green’s Values.

A C H I E V I N G

Congratulations to the following Stamford Green pupils who deserve a

special mention for demonstrating many school values.

Magnus Probert also went to Epsom College to take part in the Surrey

Badminton Under 11s Tournament.

Magnus got through the group stages, was able to win his quarter final,

then his semi final to end up in the Final! Where he was finally beaten,

but he was very pleased to get his silver medal

given it was his first ever tournament.

Well done Magnus!

We are very pleased to say that Zoe Lorenz raised £250 for Children in Need by running a 2km Junior Parkrun in

her onesie. Well done Zoe. I bet Pudsey Bear was delighted!

I’ve always wondered…

Next week we will be emailing home the spring term dates for diaries which contains

all the important information you will need to take note of. Details of forthcoming

trips and visitors to the school for the children

will also be notified in this document to help you plan.

A reminder for forthcoming INSET/Staff training days which are planned during the

Spring and Summer Term which are as follows;

Friday 10 February 2017

Monday 5 June 2017

School will be closed for all children on these dates.

Thank you for your

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A message from Surrey County Council

regarding September 2017 Admissions

for Reception School Places;

We especially welcome online applications, however parents can also request a paper application form or seek impartial help in completing an application via the Surrey Schools & Childcare Service (0300 200 1004). Full information is available on Surrey's website at www.surreycc.gov.uk/admissions. Applications received after the closing date without good reason will be treated as late and will not be considered until all on time applications have been processed. This may jeopardise the chance of a parent being offered one of their preferred schools for their child.

The closing date for Reception and Junior applications for September 2017 entry is 15

January 2017.

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