‘Maximum Effort for

Maximum Achievement’

Friday 6th March 2020

Diary Dates for Next Week School Dinners - Week 3

Monday 6th March

Maths Set Drop Ins - 3.30pm - 5.00pm Tuesday 10th March

Year 5 Open Door Event: 2.15pm - 3.00pm Wednesday 11th March

6C ‘Parents to Lunch’ event at 12.20pm Friday 13th March

Sport Relief Day

Maths Drop Ins - Year 5 Set 2, Year 6 Set 1: 3.30pm - 5.00pm

Saturday 14th March and Sunday 15th March

Reading Rooms ‘Mayflower History Project’

We’ve had a busy week which culminated today with World Book Day. It’s always wonderful to see the staff

and children dressed up as book characters and enjoying a day focused on reading. The children loved taking part in all the book-related activities and Drop Everything And

Read (DEAR) was once again a popular inclusion. We’ve also had lots of sport, class visits and an Open

Door event. We also welcomed Maureen Lee (Dementia Friends) who spoke to the School Council and the Schools

Ministry Team who led our Wednesday assembly.

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

Friday 20th March.

Year 5 ‘Open Door’ Afternoon If you have a child in Year 5, you are very warmly invited to

join them in their classroom on Tuesday 10th March from 2.15pm - 3.00pm. You will have a chance to

experience life inside a Year 5 classroom and get a flavour of some of their recent activities - you may even

have the opportunity to join in! Please could we ask that you don’t bring pre-school children along as the

classrooms will be very full. Please could you come in via the front door and sign in upstairs.

Thank you and we hope you can join us!

Sport Relief Day - Friday 13th March The School Council would like to invite everyone to come

to school dressed in sports clothes next Friday to raise funds for Sport Relief. A donation of £1 is suggested.

Hopefully we will have a very lively, fun day!

New Arrival! Congratulations to Miss Francis and her partner on the

safe arrival of their baby - Lyla Jane Rawlings - on her due date of Saturday 29th February, weighing a healthy 7lb

13oz. Miss Francis and Lyla are both doing very well - we look forward to our first visit from them both!

Mayflower Project During this term we have been learning all about the

Mayflower Project and its significance to our local area in Billericay. All the children in the school have taken part

to contribute their research, writing skills and creativity to our overall project which will be showcased in the

Reading Rooms (next to Barclays Bank) from Friday 13th March to Sunday 15th March. This is an open invitation to all our children and their families to visit the Reading

Rooms and see our fabulous work on display and an opportunity to find out more about the Mayflower voyage to the New World. We hope to see lots of familiar faces over the course of next weekend to help us celebrate our school’s fantastic efforts. Our children will be ‘manning’ the exhibition between 10am and 12pm on Saturday 14th March. Thank you very much to Miss Moore for all her hard work with the project and to Miss Francis for her

help at the planning stage.

Year 3 ‘Open Door’ Event Thank you very much to the Year 3 parents who were able to join us for this Open Door event - it looks like you had

fun!

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

Aidan Dunbar Eadie Hatchard Emilija Malakauskaite Sophie Bohle Oliver Coughtrey Shay Coughlan Yahia Asfour Oliver Baker Jamie Comitti Amy Holms Eloise Minto Darcey Lister Nikita Moskalonoks Liam Wiltshire Harriet Garlick Amelia Johnson Skye Greenan Evie Andrews Ethan Wiles Sam Hughes Megan Mecham Anna Bowden Emily Jackson Bridge Tom Pearce

Rugby Roundup Last Friday saw the highly anticipated rearranged Woodham

Family rugby tournament. Having won the Mayflower tournament in November, the squad had been training regularly

since, desperate to show their abilities. With heavy wind or rain alternating intermittently, we were to play seven 7-minute games, luckily, on the fast and firm 3G pitches. This set us in great stead, as our team had been selected around direct and

elusive running. From the opening whistle we had strong carries from Toll and Wenborn, resulting in our opening try and the

confidence in the squad swelled. We won the opening fixture 10 tries to 3. As the tournament progressed, we continued to

score heavily and defend doggedly, with some brilliant sweeping passing play and fast counter-attacking rugby off of our formidable defence. Glover and Kostic seemingly had a

telepathic connection for some wonderful passing support play. Our toughest game came at the hands of Abacus Primary, who

were 3-1 up within minutes. The determination and resilience of our team was shown and direct running from Dackomb and

Comitti drew us back into the game. Just like Arsenal in 2003-04, the only blemish on our perfect record was this draw (6-6). From this point service was resumed, our defence tightened; direct and elusive running continued; and telepathic under-

standing in support showed our class. We won the tournament, progressing to the county finals in a fortnight, scoring 51 tries

in total and conceding only 28. The spirit and nature of this team are a real credit to the school, as was the parental

support from the touchline in such adverse conditions. Mrs Robinson is also certain that Mr Tweedie’s contagious

enthusiasm also helped play a part in our victory!

This week’s ‘Writers of the Week’ are: Abigail Povey Oliver Neathercoat Erin Blake Miya Tyler Sienna Wiles

Amelia Slater Amelia Bird Olivia Joshi Well done to our writing super stars!

This week’s attendance figure is: 98.7%! This year’s attendance target is 97.8%.

A special ‘Well Done’ to Classes 3M, 3R, 4F and 4U who had 100% attendance this week! Congratulations!

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

Gene Sullivan Tyler Mitchell Ben Markham Isabel Henderson Felicity Chiappe Lucy Clarke Evie Andrews Eadie Hatchard Sam Torrens Well done to our magical mathematicians!

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

Izzy Cheesman Ben Mesnard Austin Kelly Riley Anderson Amy Tear Ryan Crawford

Ruby Toll Elodie Domien 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 - 3M and 3Mc - 51 tokens 2nd - 4C - 47 tokens 3rd - 4F - 46 tokens

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

at the ‘Top Table’ were: Evie Henson

Joey Hatchard Tom Gill

Ethan Boyce William Rowley

Well done for being selected!

This week’s winning house:

Panthers

PE Kits Unfortunately we seem to have an ever-increasing number of children each week who do not have their PE kit with

them or are missing part of it, e.g. trainers or plimsolls and therefore cannot take part in the lesson. Please can you

make sure that your child has their kit with them every day as everyone should be taking part unless injured. Thank you.

Out of School Success Well done to Jonathan Warhurst (3M) who has passed his Level 3 swimming award. Congratulations to Ava Dean (4P) who was awarded her Bronze apparatus badge and certificate in gymnastics on Wednesday. Well done to Jamie Comitti (6C) who, after a long and gruelling series of Essex Swimming Championships, finished in the Top 5 boys for his age and has been selected for the Swim England Talent Programme.

Rainbow Awards

Well done to our BLUE award winners:

Alexander Borg and Kobe Keily.

Congratulations to our GREEN award recipients:

Poppy Groves, Angus Noble, Emilija Malakauskaite, Jamie Nethercoat, Sebastian Ellis, Daisy Thompson, Poppy Dackombe,

Alfie Gray, Emily Harris, Billy Brass, Thomas Fox, Bella Prior, Jack Martin and

Olivia Joshi.

Well done to our YELLOW award winners:

Emma Henry, Zara Ellis, Isabella Barke, Thomas Overton, Kuzey Musabak, Max

Baker, Toby Pickett, Joey Hatchard, James Lock, Zak Sarfraz, Korey Groves, Bray Harris, Alfie Hodges, Taylor Hayes, Jacob Collins, Edward Cushing, Harvey

Heathfield, Ruby Tunstall-Legras, Travis Lapsky, Jamie Jones, Harriet Borg,

Ethan Ferris, Millie Brown, Matilda Pierce and Farrah Keniry.

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

Rupert Duncan, Alana Louden, Michael Clements, Beau Cunningham, Harry Evans, Philippa Warhurst, Jessica Elsdon, Emma

Hughes, Oliver Neathercoat, Ben Mesnard, Harriet Rowe-Goodey, Ben Markham,

Oliver Coughtrey, Ada Halder, William Fuller, Caitlyn Rae, Lorcan Curley-Sanchez,

Erin Kelly, Darcey Lister, Jessica Toll, Joshua Harrington, Isabel Henderson, Amelia Johnson, Sam Hughes, Saxon Minto, Thomas Cavanagh, Will Clements, Elena Stent, Poppy

Hobbs, Max Parish, Amelie Robbshaw and Eva Poloni.

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to our RED awards this week:

Ooviya Loganathan, Ollie Carter, Abby Caldon, Archie Doyle, Ivy-Sola Gaci, Daniel Natusch, George Waters, Tom Gill, Ethan

Lightfoot, Austin Kelly, Jamie Cooper, James Blyth-Tancock, George Dear , Sophie Leach, Ruby Rumsey, Ethan Lee, Ellen Hood, Kai

Smith, Ruby Toll, Elena Harris, Molly Wright, Matthew Tanner, Toby Lashmar, Sophie Bickerstaff, Laura Simpson, Ollie

Stroud, Luke Andrews, Daisy Mears, Chloe Nicel and Scarlet Nugent.

We also have our first BRONZE POT OF GOLD this week too - Taylor Halfhide. Well done to Taylor on this fabulous achievement.

50 Things To Do Before Leaving Primary School Congratulations to William Barrett and Amelie

Rippon who has completed 20 things! A very special ‘Well Done’ to Abby Caldon and

George Cohen who have both completed 30 things at home!

Afternoon Tea This week we were joined by ‘Number 24’ on the class

registers for our afternoon tea! As ever, the children were very excited to make their way into the staff room (usually off-limits)

and to take their places on the comfy staff chairs! Everyone had a great time and enjoyed the sweet treats as well as sharing one

another’s work.

Visit to The Synagogue This week Year 5 enjoyed a visit to the synagogue in Southend. It was a brilliant day and lots of information was learnt to help the children with their Judaism topic. The children’s behaviour was exemplary and they really enjoyed themselves. They were very

interactive and listened well to the guest speakers. They also asked lots of questions and enjoyed exploring the synagogue.

Year 4 PE – Writtle College Activities On Wednesday afternoon, 4P had a very exciting afternoon with Mr Brass and his Sports Science college students who had planned an

outdoor session with several exciting activities. The children took part in lots of different activities, such as team building exercises,

mathematical exercises and communication exercises. The children really enjoyed this different approach to a PE lesson.

Jonathan (far left) Ava (centre) Jamie (left)

Schools Ministry Billericay Assembly On Wednesday, Charlotte and Sue, from the Schools Ministry

Team led our assembly. They started by sharing the Bible story about Jesus being tempted in the desert for forty days and

nights. The children thought about Lent in the same way as their Maths - there are some things that they take away and some things

they may add. Some of the school shared the things they have given up for Lent such as chocolate, electronic devices and tomato ketchup. The children enjoyed having Julian visit them again and

impressed them with his piano skills. Thank you to Julian, Charlotte and Sue for a very thought-provoking assembly.

World Book Day 2020 Today saw the return of Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Where’s Wally and the Cat in the Hat (to name just a

few)! It was of course World Book Day! No World Book Day is now complete without having a D.E.A.R day… and today was no different. Whenever the bell

rang, the whole school fell silent (including the teachers and teaching assistants) and read. This has certainly become one of the children’s favourite reading activities! During the day, the classes also took part in an

Interhouse Reading Quiz, which tested their knowledge of Harry Potter and Roald Dahl as well as other favourite children’s authors. Thank you to Mr Graves for creating the quiz.

Throughout the day, all of the classes took part in some wonderful reading themed activities, such as Story Puppets, Stories in a Jar and creating their own Book Nook! The activities were very inspiring and it was wonderful

to see so many children so enthusiastic about their favourite books. All of the children’s hard work built up to creating a live library in their classrooms. During the afternoon, the children had the opportunity to visit other classrooms and see the work they had produced during the day and hopefully came back with a few ideas of new

books they would like to read! World Book Day also saw the librarians hard at work in the newly-redecorated school library. They spoke first to each class in Year 3 and explained how the books are organised in the library, before helping them find some new books. During the morning, they were then collecting different children from each class who have not borrowed a

book from the library before and helped them to pick some new reading books. We hope that they managed to find some books to inspire you!

It was fantastic to see so many of the children and staff in their reading themed outfits and thank you to all the parents for being so creative and to Miss Carroll, for organising the day.

CVL Netball Tournament - Round 2 On Wednesday morning, our Year 6 teams took part in the CVL

Round 2 Netball tournament, which was held at Billericay School. We played against 10 schools including Downham, St Peter’s, St

John’s and Quilters, to name just a few. Both teams played fantastically well and have improved

immensely since the beginning of the year. It was lovely to see the two teams gel and be so supportive to one another. The

teams played in two different pools and then were both involved in the Play Offs. Some great interceptions and several brilliant shots were made! The teams produced some excellent results too! Overall, Buttsbury 1 finished 1st and Buttsbury 2 finished 6th. We look forward to the next tournament in the very near

future. A big thank to Mrs Coughlan, Miss Paine, Mrs Bohle and Mrs Crees for supporting the event with transport. Additional thanks go to Mrs Coughlan and Miss Paine for supporting the girls continuously at training sessions and to Miss Pretty, our

team manager and coach! Well done Buttsbury!

Maureen Lee - Dementia Friends On Thursday morning this week, the School Councillors had a visit from Maureen Lee

from Dementia Friends. This was a follow-up session after her first visit back in

September and was an opportunity for the children to discuss and share everything

they, and we, have been doing as a school to become more dementia friendly. Maureen was particularly impressed with how much everyone had been doing at home and in the

community to spread awareness. We are now very close to submitting our evidence

of our work towards the ‘Billericay Dementia Friendly Schools’ Award’.

Well done to all of our school councillors and a huge thank you to Maureen for taking

the time to come and see us again!