24th February 2017 Newsletter No. 062 St Dunstan’s, Cheam...
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St Dunstan’s, Cheam, C of E Primary School .sch.uk 24th February 2017 Newsletter No. 062 I hope you all had a relaxing half term break with your children and were able to take advantage of some early Spring sunshine. I would like to thank you for your amazing generosity for our recent NSPCC fundraiser - we raised an incredible £4079.27 for this very worthwhile charity. On behalf of all the children the NSPCC supports, thank you! I am delighted to share with you the news that Ms Saunders is expecng a baby and we wish her a healthy pregnancy as she prepares for her new arrival. Finally, we are trialling a new iniave - the ’daily mile’ - look out for a leer from Mrs Ward next week with the details . Ms J Corby PTFA The PTFA AGM was held on February 9 th and a few new appointments were made. Ally Carnie was elected as Chairperson - her sons are currently in Recepon. The new PTFA secretary will be Ashleigh Abrunhosa, whose daughter is in Year 3. Lucy Bahi whose children are in Years 1 and 5 will remain as Vice-Chair. Following feedback from a parent representave at the AGM, we will shortly be circulang a flyer which will let people know who is on the PTFA commiee this year. Aſter the AGM we had our first PTFA meeng of 2017 and we discussed acvies and events for the spring and summer terms. Due to the success at Christmas we are hoping to run an Easter Bake Off compeon and dates for the Summer Fayre will be circulated once finalised. We will keep you posted of planned events and dates over the coming weeks. If you are a parent helper with a DBS check, you should have hopefully received an email from your class rep asking for some details for the PTFA. We would be grateful if you could provide the details requested at your earliest possible convenience so we can collate a list for future events and acvies. On Thursday 9 th February, Year 3 held a Greek Day. We came to school dressed as an Ancient Greek or an Ancient Greek God/Goddess and everyone looked great because they put lots of effort into their costumes. Before Worship, we went to the hall to show off our awesome costumes. We then had an Olympic opening ceremony because the Ancient Greeks hosted the first Olympic games. Aſterwards we had the chance to try out lots of different Olympic sports including running, discus and javelin. We also learnt about the Ancient Greek alphabet and had a go at wring our names. Later on we had a scrumpous feast of humus, pia, grapes and olives. Yum! In the aſternoon we started to make paper mache masks because during the Ancient Greek mes actors wore masks when performing. This was lots of fun but also very messy. By the end of the day we were quite red aſter all of the fun we had! We would really recommend this day to everyone and wish we could do it again. By Joseph and Jessica Greek Day - Y ear 3 Girls’ Football report On 9th February, the Year 6 girls’ football team played an away match against The Avenue. It was a tough, hard game in the billowing wind but we stayed strong, trying our best and not giving up. The first half leſt us at 0-0. Mud flew in every direcon and salty sweat trickled down our necks as we hurtled down the soggy pitch. It was a throw- in close to the corner for Avenue which gave them their chance to shine. Unluckily for us, they had a shot and Treajure stretched as far as she could but was not able to save their first goal! 1-0 leſt The Avenue jumping for joy and us devastated but willing to fight back! We carried on without any more goals for either team. But at the last minute our luck turned against us and The Avenue scored the final goal of the match! It was a tough match and we all had a great me. A big well done to them! By Rose and Sky
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St Dunstan’s, Cheam,
C of E Primary School
.sch.uk
24th February 2017 Newsletter No. 062
I hope you all had a relaxing half term break with your children and were able to take advantage of some early Spring sunshine. I would like to thank you for your amazing generosity for our recent NSPCC fundraiser - we raised an incredible £4079.27 for this very
worthwhile charity. On behalf of all the children the NSPCC supports, thank you! I am delighted to share with you the news that Ms Saunders is expecting a baby and we wish her a healthy pregnancy as she prepares for her new arrival. Finally, we are trialling a new initiative - the ’daily mile’ - look out for a letter from Mrs Ward next week with the details . Ms J Corby
PTFA
The PTFA AGM was held on February 9th and a few new appointments were made. Ally Carnie was elected as Chairperson - her sons are currently in Reception. The new PTFA secretary will be Ashleigh Abrunhosa, whose daughter is in Year 3. Lucy Bahiti whose children are in Years 1 and 5 will remain as Vice-Chair. Following feedback from a parent representative at the AGM, we will shortly be circulating a flyer which will let people know who is on the PTFA committee this year. After the AGM we had our first PTFA meeting of 2017 and we discussed activities and events for the spring and summer terms. Due to the success at Christmas we are hoping to run an Easter Bake Off competition and dates for the Summer Fayre will be circulated once finalised. We will keep you posted of planned events and dates over the coming weeks. If you are a parent helper with a DBS check, you should have hopefully received an email from your class rep asking for some details for the PTFA. We would be grateful if you could provide the details requested at your earliest possible convenience so we can collate a list for future events and activities.
On Thursday 9th February, Year 3 held a Greek Day. We came to school dressed as an Ancient Greek or an Ancient Greek God/Goddess and everyone looked great because they put lots of effort into their costumes. Before Worship, we went to the hall to show off our awesome costumes. We then had an Olympic opening ceremony because the Ancient Greeks hosted the first Olympic games. Afterwards we had the chance to try out lots of different Olympic sports including running, discus and javelin. We also learnt about the Ancient Greek alphabet and had a go at writing our names. Later on we had a scrumptious feast of humus, pitta, grapes and olives. Yum! In the afternoon we started to make paper mache masks because during the Ancient Greek times actors wore masks when performing. This was lots of fun but also very messy. By the end of the day we were quite tired after all of the fun we had! We would really recommend this day to everyone and wish we could do it again.
By Joseph and Jessica
Greek Day - Year 3
Girls’ Football report On 9th February, the Year 6 girls’ football team played an away match against The Avenue. It was a tough, hard game in the billowing wind but we stayed strong, trying our best and not giving up. The first half left us at 0-0. Mud flew in every direction and salty sweat trickled down our necks as we hurtled down the soggy pitch. It was a throw- in close to the corner for Avenue which gave them their chance to shine. Unluckily for us, they had a shot and Treajure stretched as far as she could but was not able to save their first goal! 1-0 left The Avenue jumping for joy and us devastated but willing to fight back! We carried on without any more goals for either team. But at the last minute our luck turned against us and The Avenue scored the final goal of the match! It was a tough match and we all had a great time. A big well done to them! By Rose and Sky
[ DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
(Dates may be subject to change)
March
Thurs 2nd World Book Day
Prayer Group 8.45am
Weds 8th Year 2 to visit Brooklands
Parents Evening Booking System
Live from 7pm
Thurs 9th Aquila Class Assembly 9am
Mercury Class Assembly 9.30am
Thurs 16th Prayer Group 8.45am
Fri 17th Year 3 to visit the Natural History
Museum
Tues 21st 9-10am School Nurse Drop-in
Thurs 23rd Eucharist in Church 9.15am KS2
All Welcome
Tues 28th Parents’ Evening 3-6pm
Thurs 30th Prayer Group 8.45am
Parents’ Evening 3-8pm
Fri 31st Term Ends 1.30pm
April
Tues 18th INSET Day
Weds 19th Return to school
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ST DUNSTAN’S, CHEAM, C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL www.stdunstans.sutton.sch.uk Tel No 020 8642 5463
Attendance
‘Stars’ of the last two weeks...
week…..
The attendance figure for 6th - 10th February
is:
96.7% Our target is 96.4%
House Points
Venus Jessie-Mae Ballard Shelomi Selverajah
Pluto Francesca Barling Billy Rowles
Neptune Alfi Laci Holly O’Connor
Mercury Isabella Van Lierop Julia Wojcik
Jupiter Amelia Loader Aditya Sengupta
Saturn Andrew Miller Maia Benedicto
Delphinus Fraser Howden Conor Towers
Phoenix Lilly Shine Evie Javelot
Orion Tarek Naayem Scarlett Goodin
Pegasus Daniel Bowling Ella McKenzie
Unicorn Jayden Mouzaya Sam Mitchell
Hercules Harriett Gingell Ayesha Orchard
Aquila Elinor Hinton Thomas Suggitt
Cygnus Eveie Rhodes Conor Farrell
St Patrick
*537*
St George
513 St David
458
St Andrew
498
We are concerned that the area around school can be congested with cars at certain times and that this causes problems with car fumes. In order to try and keep pollution levels down as much as we can, please switch off your car engine whilst waiting, particularly if on site . Many thanks.
Unlimited Vegetables!! In response to a number of comments in our recent parental survey regarding school lunch portion sizes, we are pleased to confirm that our caterers are now
able to offer unlimited vegetables and salad with every meal.
Borrowed items From time to time children need to borrow clothes from the office. Accidents, muddy puddles or dropped lunches can mean a change of clothes is
needed. We are able to accommodate most situations but we are struggling at the moment because items that have been lent have not been returned. If your child has borrowed items/ ever needs to borrow items, please help us by returning them as soon as possible. We are currently short of socks and pants (age 5-6, boys and girls), swimming costumes and towels for junior children and would be grateful for donations. Whilst on the subject of laundry, Mrs Armstrong has recently restored a paint- splashed yellow sweatshirt to its former glory by pre-soaking it in vanish - we were astonished by the results! However, we would like to point out that Mrs Armstrong is not available for service washing and we are not currently sponsored by vanish!
Thank you.
