‘Maximum Effort for

Maximum Achievement’

Friday 17th May 2019

Diary Dates for Next Week School Dinners - Week 2

Assessment Week for Years 3, 4 and 5 Monday 20th May

Year 6 Isle of Wight Residential 6H/6C to arrive at 7.30am, 6A/6R to arrive at 7.45am. Don’t be late!!

5T ‘Parents to Lunch’ event at 12.20pm Friday 24th May

Year 6 return from the Isle of Wight - approximately 4.00pm

Monday 27th May - Friday 31st May (inc.) Half-Term

Monday 3rd June

Non-Pupil Day Tuesday 4th June

Children return to school

Congratulations All the children in Year 6 have undertaken their KS2 SATs this week. They showed great maturity and tackled all the tasks set with great confidence. The children have worked incredibly hard, both at home and at school, preparing for their SATS, and they all certainly deserve to achieve their full potential based on effort alone! ‘Well Done’ to all our

Year 6 children - you are absolute stars! Our thanks go to Jo, our School Cook, who baked a rather

tasty chocolate cake as a celebratory treat for the children, to the staff team for all their hard work and to the

Year 6 parents for their continued support.

This week has been comparatively quiet due to the Year 6 SATs. The Year 6 children (and staff) are all relieved the

SATs are now over and are looking forward to their residential visit to the Isle of Wight next week. In my

absence, Mr. Graves will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the school, supported by the Senior

Leadership Team. ——————————————————————-

Enjoy a peaceful weekend and, as I won’t see most of you next week, I wish you a lovely half-term too!

Out of School Success Mr Graves will be preparing next week’s newsletter (as I

will be in the Isle of Wight). Please can any ‘Out of School Successes’ be emailed to: admin@buttsbury-

jun.essex.sch.uk by Wednesday. Please also state which class your child is in. Thank you.

Year 4 Residential Visit to Danbury Park (March 2020)

Thank you very much to the Year 3 parents who were able to join us for the meeting on Wednesday. Hopefully it has given you a flavour of the visit and what the trip

entails. The powerpoint presentation which summarises the main points of the meeting has been added to the Year

3 page of our school website as I am aware that some parents were unable to attend due to work commitments.

If you have any questions at all though, please don’t hesitate to contact either Miss Carroll, Miss Cutmore or

me. Thank you.

School Disco Last Friday evening, 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 some amazing dancing and everyone

thoroughly enjoyed themselves. We would like to thank the members of the Friends’ Association and parents who

gave up their Friday evening and helped to support the event! The total raised was £1172.00 which is a fabulous

amount of money!

Jacket Potato Lunch Yesterday, several staff went to the Jacket Potato Lunch at Christ Church. Asides from the fact that the lunch itself was delicious, it was lovely to meet new faces and enjoy

the relaxed atmosphere. Thank you very much to the volunteers from Churches Together in Billericay who

organised the event and to Christ Church for hosting. All the money raised will go to the Schools’ Ministry Billericay

Team who, as you know, lead a number of activities for the children at Buttsbury.

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

Harry Vail PJ Fulker Evie Plummer Hayden Williams Mary Alston Ashton Thomas JoshuaWagstaff Tiffany Bullen Torsten Greenan Alana Louden Bethan Armsden Laura Simpson Sam Bowden Maddie Clarke Libby Wright Jessica Line Millie Waters Tommy Garwood Matilda Pierce Oliver Sargood Benedict Guthrie-Blunkell Grace Marsh Khaled Badwilan Juliet Vinton-Smith

This week’s ‘Writers of the Week’ are: Harry Showell Leila Cable Carolina Steven

Lenny Batchelor Ben Simpson Hana Ahmed Emily Hyatt Alex Lee

Well done to our writing super stars!

This week’s attendance figure is: 98.8%! This year’s attendance target is 97.6%.

A special ‘Well Done’ to Classes 3R, 4C, 6A and 6H who all had 100% attendance this week! Congratulations!

This week’s ‘Mathematicians of the Week’ are: Harrison Purnell Charlotte Hellings Lucas Ramsden

Hana Ahmad Elena Humphreys Sophie Thomas Emily Joshi Olivia Gladwin Evie Plummer

Well done to our magical mathematicians!

This week’s ‘Readers of the Week’ are: Harrison Dempsie Olivia Cooke Olivia Gladwin

Abby Caldon Libby Evans Izaak Brough Ava Harlow Freya Agate

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 - 5T - 59 tokens 2nd - 5S - 56 tokens 3rd - 6H - 52 tokens

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

at the ‘Top Table’ were: Fife Abel-Idowu

Molly Wright Ruby Rumsey

Shezan Mushabe Amelia Bird

Well done for being selected!

This week’s winning house:

Panthers

Rainbow Awards

Congratulations to this week’s INDIGO award recipient:

Harry Showell

Well done to our BLUE award winners:

Harry Vail, Oliver Driscoll, Emily Hyatt and Maya Tseayo.

Congratulations to our GREEN award recipients:

Emma Tribe, Anika Gupta, Sam Havis, Charlie Cox, Cece Ross, Owen Anderson, Harry Gilbert, Theo

Wakerly, Hayden Fitch and Frankie Anson.

Well done to our YELLOW award winners:

Alex Le Carpentier, AJ Belcher, Olivia Smith Joshua Wagstaff, Fife Abel-Idowu, Buddie

Blewitt, Megan Jobbins, Alana Louden, Thomas Hall, Alex Hill, Juliet Wenborn, Caela McMorris,

Elliot Stephens and Grace Marsh.

Congratulations to our ORANGE award recipients:

Rebecca Brown, Libby Wright, Edward Dickinson, Henry Gilbert, Tiffany Bullen, Isabella Rowley, Ellie

Lovell, Heidi Webb and Russell Salvatore.

Well done to this week’s RED award winners who are now working on the BRONZE POT

OF GOLD which requires them to go ‘above and beyond’ to earn a sticker!

Sophia Rekasheva, Elena Humphreys, Louis Burridge, Connor Gutteridge, Edie Poulton, Isabel

Henderson, Felicity Chiappe, Jessica Toll, Ella Patten and Jash Dalal.

BRONZE POT OF GOLD

Tom Pearce and Holly Breathwick

Out of School Success

Following various trials, Bray Harris (5F) was selected to represent the South East region in the 25th Inter conference ice hockey tournament in Sheffield where the Under 11 team came 3rd out of the five regions of Great Britain represented. Well done to Bray on this super achievement.

Well done to Emma Henry (4M) who passed her Red Belt in karate last weekend.

Congratulations to Laura Bailey (6H) who was placed 3rd in her first ballet solo at the Medway Stage Festival in Kent on Saturday.

Well done to Millie Coffill (5M) who competed last weekend, for South Essex Gym Club, against 11 & 12 year olds. Millie came third in one of her routines and is through to the regional finals.

50 Things To Do Before Leaving Primary School Well done to: Fife Abel-Idowu, Sienna Wiles, Ethan Wiles and

Tom Pearce who have completed 10 things at home! Congratulations to Bethan Armsden and Lucas Ramsden who have

both completed 20 things! Well done to Lily Parker-Compton who has completed an amazing

30 things!

Afternoon Tea This week the children once again enjoyed sharing their ‘best’ work and we were treated to an array of subjects including maths, science, history, literacy

and art!

Billericay District Residents’ Association Message

Do you want to help your community?

Although we have recently been concentrating on the Local Plan, and will continue to do so, we are concerned about much more that affects the lives of the town’s people. As an example it is the persistence and perseverance of the BDRA which had led Basildon Council to consider enforcement action in relation to the illegal dumping of vast amounts of rub-

ble to build a car park in Barrenleys Wood.

The BDRA is run by residents for residents but we need more help. If you believe that local residents deserve a voice in what happens to our community and you have a little time to spare why not come along and help us ? At most we meet

on only one evening each month. No specific skills are needed, just enthusiasm and a passion for our town.

Send your details to resident@bdra.org and we’ll be in touch.

New Football Goals Thank you very much to our Friends’ Association

who kindly donated the funds to replace our lunchtime football goals which were literally falling

apart! The goals are used by all our children at various times, during the lunchbreak, in lesson time

and for clubs, so they will be well-used!

Ivy Rose Lily On Wednesday, Miss Donnelly popped in to

see us all with her beautiful baby

daughter. As you can see, both mother and baby are doing well

and motherhood certainly seems to suit

Miss Donnelly!

Some photos below from the Jacket Potato Lunch