KINGSMOOR SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER

Dear Parents and Carers,

It has been another exciting month here at Kingsmoor. Key Stage Two are continuing

to learn about Superheroes (have a look at the website for some of their fantastic

comic strips!) Key Stage One have had The Theatre of Widdershins in to perform ‘The

Princess and the Pea’ as part of their traditional tales topic and reception have been

publishing their own information books about castles!

The children have been very excited to have snow this week, they were very sensible

at break times and thoroughly enjoyed building snowmen and snow castles amongst

other things. Thank you very much to all of our staff who travelled into work on

Friday, braving very difficult conditions to ensure that the children could come to

school. A particular thank you to Mr Mason, our Site Manager who made sure that the

paths were clear and safe before school opened.

I would also like to say a big THANK YOU to our wonderful PTA and all of the children

and families that took part in the Readathon. The amount raised was astounding and

paired with a very generous parent donation, means that we will be able to give our

library some well needed updates.

World Book Day on Thursday was a great success, with children and staff alike

enjoying all of the very creative costumes. Thank you to Mrs Dear for organising the

visit from the author Julia Jarmon. She was an inspirational visitor for the children

who left her talk keen to start writing their own books! Again, thanks to your support

buying her books, we received £60.00 worth of her books for our school library.

With best wishes,

Mrs C. Jenkins

Values

Well done to children and parents who have been sending in Values posters.

Please take a moment to have a look on the website at the entries and to look

at the assemblies with your children. Values are so very important, so it is

really powerful for children to see that we are all talking about the same

Values!

Fun in the snow

Friends of Kingsmoor Lower School Update

Thank You!

Race Night – The commiee would like to thank everyone who supported

the race night on 24th

February. Par�cular thanks go to the individuals who

sponsored some of the races: Lucy Hartley – Stella & Dot Independent Stylist,

The Kingsmoor Lower School Governors, Mick Doherty and The Lile Ranch

Riding School.

There was a lot of laughter, some very 80’s looking horse races and even a My Lile Pony

birthday cake! We are very pleased to announce that we raised £269 to put towards new

IT equipment.

Readathon - Your support for the Readathon has been fantas�c! 69

children took part and collec�vely clocked up 15,273 minutes of reading,

raising an amazing £1865.30 for the school library!

The commiee will now purchase all the books chosen by the children as

well as work closely with staff to further enhance the library.

We drew the names of the children who took part out of a hat and the lucky prize draw

winners are as follows:

Florence Franks Parker Darvall

Georgie Cliff-Read Charlie Bull

Alannah Turner Teddy Gibson

Ellie Virgin Theo Smith

Liam Byrne Daniel Howle

Eva Thomas Finlay Darvall

Imogen Hampstead Lucas Moxon-Booth

We would like to thank the following publishers for their kind prize dona�ons:

The Bedford Corn Exchange also kindly donated two �ckets for their produc�on of

The Wizard of Oz and the lucky winner of these �ckets was:

Isabella Peters – Year 1

Dona�ons from the PTA to School: September 2017 – February 2018

Throughout the year the commiee work with the school to determine where best to

spend the funds raised to enhance the educa�on of all the children at Kingsmoor.

So far, this academic year, we have donated funds, totaling £1226.80 for the following:

Whole School: Books for pupil Christmas presents

Pantomime 2017 – Aladdin performed by West End in Schools

Pantomime 2018 – Deposit paid

Karaoke Machine for wet play �mes

Founda�on Stage: A dona�on towards their Castles Topic experience day

Key Stage 1: Funding for a performance by Widdershins Theatre Company

Dates for Your Diary

Friday 9th

March Mother’s Day Pop-Up Shop

Venue: School Gates from 3:15pm

Cost: £2 per bag

This year the commiee will be donning their aprons “Bake Off”

style to produce a selec�on of homemade sweet treats! There

will be cookies, flapjacks, Millionaires Shortbread and much

more to choose from all presented in a giI bag for the children

to purchase for Mums, Grandmas, Aun�es and any other treas-

ured lady in their lives.

Friday 23rd

March School Disco

Venue: School Hall

Times: Founda�on and Year 1 Children 3:45pm – 4:30pm

Years 2, 3 & 4 Children 4:45pm – 5:45pm

Please note there has been a change to the arrangements for

the disco from previous discos. These changes are to enable us

to beer tailor the disco for different age groups. Full details

will be sent home in a separate flyer nearer the date.

Please look out for more informa�on on both events in book bags and on our Facebook

page, Kingsmoor Lower School PTA.

March 6th—1.30—3.30 KS2 transfer to Woodland

March 12th—Animal Capers—Year 4 to Woodlands

March 13th—Parents evening—5—7 pm

March 14th—Parents evening—4—6pm

March 20th—Choir concert for parents 2.45pm

March 21st—Knight, Kings and Queens Day—Foundation Stage

March 22nd—Class photos

March 23rd—School Disco

March 26th—Year 4 to Woodlands to watch ‘Pantastic’

March 29th—Last day of school

Future Events

Holiday Requests

As a parent you do not have any legal right or entitlement to take your child

out of school in order to go on a family holiday during term time and you

should not expect to have any leave requested to be granted. National

regulations state that headteachers may only grant any leave

of absence during term time if there are exceptional

circumstances.

Please refer to the Central Bed’s policy for further clarification:

http://www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/school/pupil-support/attendance/

holidays-term-time.aspx

April 16th

Julia Jarman said we are a ‘lovely school with very

switched on children, it has been a pleasure’.

Ideally food in a packed lunch should include something from each of the

four main food groups:

1. Bread, other cereals and potatoes e.g. wholemeal bread, chapatti,

tortilla wrap, rice, pitta, potato salad.

2. Fruit and vegetables e.g. cherry tomatoes, carrot sticks, grapes, fruit

chunks, salads.

3. Milk and Dairy, e.g. portion of milk, cheese, drinking or pot yoghurts,

fromage frais, cheese dips with vegetable sticks.

4. Meat, fish or an alternative e.g. a portion of lean meat or fish such as

tuna or chicken, eggs, hummus, beans or lentils.

Fresh drinking water is provided to all children . Drinks from home could be

fruit juice, milk, yoghurt or smoothies.

One fifth of your child’s daily food intake is at lunch time.

If you really want your child to have a healthy lunch why not choose

school dinners? School dinners cost £2.05 per day or FREE if your child

is in Foundation Stage or Key Stage 1

Please remember to call the office if you would like someone else to collect your child from school. For safeguarding reasons we are not able to let your child go with any-one else unless you confirm with the school office in writing or with a telephone call.

Car Park

Safety!

There are up to 280 people moving

in and out of school at the start

and end of the day including pupils,

parents, siblings, child minders and

grandparents. Please keep to the

footpath whilst on school grounds

and avoid allowing your children to

run around in the car park.

Kingsmoor Rewards February

Best Group

Squirrels

William Keenan

Dottie McLaughlan-Cain

Tyler Catley

Ruby-Jo Bailey

Red Kites

Bailey Moore

Charlie Bull

Georgie Cliff-Reid

Harry Eyles

Butterflies

Jack Haselton

Shayla-Rai Reilly-Smith

Amber Riley

Kimberley Rambart

Thomas Newbery

Nicole Tofan

Owls

Ysabelle Celastino

Khyle Connor

Emma Cookland

Aalia Hussain

Chloe McDermot

Honeybees

Aiden MacNeil

Thea Bone

Harrison Smith

Cloe Feeley

Robins

Lily Firth

Amelia Smith

Eleanor Benham

Liam Byrne

Stan Ward

Badgers

Jessica Graham

Molly Doherty

Lara Hall

Freya Chekaya

Kylan Boughton

Attendance

Award

Best Worker Holly Hayhurst Squirrels

Eleanor Hymus Red Kites

Lillie-May Herbert Robins

Sophie Hall Butterflies

Zach Smith Badgers

Lucas Moxon-Booth Honeybees

Finlay Darvall Owls

Excellent Work

Ethan Cox Squirrels Computing

Kya Mitchell Red Kites Writing

Leah-Mae Machniak Robins Y1 English

Liam Byrne Robins Y2 Maths

Dexter Ward Butterflies Y1 Maths

Molly-Mae Geddes Butterflies Y2 English

Archie Ward Badgers Y3 Maths

Leo Coward Badgers Y4 Maths

Sam Harris Honeybees Y3 Maths

Charlie Oliver Honeybees Y4 Maths

Tristan Collymore Owls Y3 Science

Isla Stewart Owls Y4 Maths

Well Done! Gym badges awarded:

Eleanor Benham and Amelia Smith—level 7,

Isabelle—level 6,

Lillie-May Herbert and Sharna Ryder-Suri—

level 5,

Livia Wakefield Burkevicius, Lily Firth and

Grace Thomas—level 4,

Hayden Crisp—level 2

Charlotte Biddles and Eva Thomas—level 1

Well done to

Lola Rollason

who has passed

her stage 1

swimming badge

Our Values Awards for February are….

Honeybees

Robins

Butterflies

Owls

Tristan Collymore Jonathan Acheampong

Lily Gibson Zara Booth

Grace Thomas William Dyer

Aalia Hussain Jayden Minney-King

Jack Haselton

Joshua Walden

Cara Brooks

Amber Riley

Jesse Achaempong

Thomas Newbery

Badgers Oliver Clements

Blake Ward-Clarke

Zach Smith

Jessica McLaughlin

Eva Thomas

Millie Sutcliffe

Charlotte Biddles

Elizabeth Jones

Cyrus Thatcher

Charlie Oliver Thomas Hendry

Hanna-Jade Kember

Alexa Ryder

Jack Booth

Sofia Celestino

Daniel Howlett

Squirrels

Georgia Biddles

Evie Gilroy

Red Kites

Georgie Cliff-Reid

Oliver Carr

Bailey Moore

Jacob Rambart