Widmer End Community Combined School Estcourt Drive, Widmer End, High Wycombe, Bucks HP15 6AH

Telephone: 01494 714371 www.widmerend.bucks.sch.uk parents@widmerend.bucks.sch.uk

Newsletter—9th March 2018(24)

Dear Parents,

Well...What a week! Starting with World Book day and ending with Year 1 Sharing Assembly, with Ofsted in be-tween! It has to have been the most varied of my many weeks in teaching to date. On Monday the children all looked fantastic in their many varied costumes for our World Book day. Thank you to our parent helpers who have supported our book fair this week. It is wonderful to see children reading their new books, so excited by what those pages will bring; reading together outside at lunchtime and agreeing to swap books when they’ve finished. Let’s keep that excitement going! Thank you to Year 1 for your fabulous Sharing Assembly this morning. You were so excited last week and so you have been superstars to wait an extra week before sharing your learning with us today. Kind regards,

Miss R Burch Head Teacher

Dates for the Diary

Tuesday 13th March 10.45-11.45 Reception children to Tuesday Centre Thursday 15th March Football match Vs Manor Farm Friday 16th March Bikeability Level 1 Year 3 Sharing Assembly Year 2 Sing, Perform at Great Kingshill School Footsteps Training Year 2 / 3 Tuesday 20th March Year 1 to Hughenden Manor Wednesday 21st March Year 2 to RAF Hendon 2.30pm Year 1 Phonics Meeting Friday 23rd March Sport Relief Pre School Induction day Year 3 Basketball competition at HGSS 2pm Travel Plan meeting

More Able Maths Day

On Wednesday 6 of our pupils from Years 3 and 4 went with Mrs Gould to Manor Farm Junior School to work alongside Mr Pete Hall, a lead-ing maths tutor in the UK, covering a variety of activities to stretch and challenge our pupils. They were joined by pupils from other local schools and had a fantastic day.

Letters/emails home this week: Change of menus, Year 4 tag rugby, Preschool trip to Odds Farm, Ofsted visit and questionnaires.

Ofsted Thank you to everyone in our School Community for your support on Wednesday when HMI Mrs Prince came to inspect our school. I would like to say a huge well done to our staff who, as always, demonstrated the high calibre of professionalism and nurture that makes me proud to be their colleague. Our children were also

incredible and it was an absolute pleasure to show someone how fantastic our school is and what a great place for learning it is too. The final report will be ready for publication in around three weeks.

Year 4 trip to Hazard Alley Yesterday was amazing. We went to Hazard Alley and learnt all about being safe and had loads of fun. First my group went to the traffic light and were told that even though the light was red for the cares, we have to check because if the car is going too fast , when it puts its brakes on its not going to stop straight away.

Hari Mahesh

Year 1 Football Tournament with AJD On Tuesday last, seven hardy souls from Year 1 took part in the AJD Year 1 football tournament at the Cres-sex Astroturf. It was a bright but very cold day and the players were well wrapped up and eager to play. In their first group of matches, they beat Cookham Dean School 1-0, lost 0-4 to Spinfield and 0-1 to Hannah Ball. This put them 3rd in the group and into the group 3 play-offs against another Spinfield team and West Wycombe. We lost to Spinfield but beat West Wycombe 1-0, ending up 2nd in that group. Everyone tried their best and our player of the day was Asher, who scored both the goals and was unlucky not to get more. Well done to all the team of Asher, Dylan, Jake, Jibreel, Noah, Oscar and Roshan and grateful thanks to Asher’s mum and Jibreel’s par-ents for their support and help with transport and Dylan’s mum and brother who came along to watch. Mrs Stone

Clicker 7

Thank you so much for all of your donations so far; we really hope we can go ahead with the purchase of this fantastic software before next term. You can make a donation using the link through ParentPay or send in your donation via the school office. If you haven't had a look yet to see what it can do please follow the link to take a look:

http://www.cricksoft.com/uk/clicker

Reading with your child This week in assembly I asked the children how many of them read with their parents before bedtime. I was shocked to see that not even half of our children raised their hand. I was saddened to hear them tell me individually on the way out that their par-ents are too busy or too tired to read with them or that they want them to watch the iPad to fall asleep with instead. Please make the time to read with your child. It is so important to their overall de-velopment both academically as well as socially. The emotional warmth and comfort a child receives whilst reading together is incredibly precious. It can help your child form a bedtime routine which will induce sleep and allow them to relax and calm down at the end of a busy day. If you can get your child into a story reading routine from a young age, they will be more likely to continue reading as adults. They will continue to enjoy the benefits of it, while enhancing their imagination, their thirst for knowledge, and escapism. Children ultimately learn to love books because they are sharing it with someone they love.

Literacy Planet

Over the next few weeks your child will be given a log in to Literacy Planet, an online learning resource to support children's learning in English. They may have already

been logged in and set up! Please find attached to the newsletter how to access Literacy Planet via a tablet or iPad.

How green are your fingers?

Whether they are green (and you have spare items) or

they are not at all green (and you have items you don’t

know what to do with), the Eco-Club are appealing for

pots, compost, seeds, old CD's,

garden twine . Please send them

into school so their quest to

beautify the school site can con-

tinue!

BOOK FAIR

Thanks to your support, we raised enough at the Book Fair to enable us to purchase £678 worth of books for the school library and classrooms!!!