Attendance Last year the national average attendance for pri-mary schools was 96.1% Our attendance target as set by the education Welfare Officer is 95.5% You will notice that our target is lower than the national average, but there is no reason why we cannot aim to meet it. It is the responsi-bility of parents to ensure their children come to school every day. Children are more resilient than you might think and are able to come to school despite having a minor cold/ bump or scrape. Please rest assured that if we feel your child is not well enough to be in school we will ring you, but it is good to bring them each day to give them a chance to have a go, this builds their resilience and pre-pares them for their future, it is a life skill! As a school we monitor and challenge poor attendance. Each half term we will send home the attendance percentages for each child. We expect children to be at least 95% and will contact those with attendance below 90% at this time.

Tesco Farm to Fork Years 3 & 4 are going on a Farm to Fork trail in Tesco learning where our food comes from and how it gets to our plate. Year 3 will be visiting on June 17th in the afternoon and Year 4 on 24th June. This will mean a slight-ly early lunch but we will be back by end of day. Please ensure your child has sensible footwear and coats. They will be required to be wearing their school uniform.

Friday 12th June 2015

Wilcombe Primary School

See what’s happening at Wilcombe Primary School!

Lazenby Road

Tiverton

Devon

EX16 4AL

01884 253025

Diary Dates

13.06.15

Groundforce day

17.06.15

Year 3 Tesco Farm to

Fork

24.06.15

Year 4 Tesco Farm to

Fork

26.06.15

CHAT teddy sleepover

06.07.15 & 09.07.15

Two Rivers Festival @

THS

08.07.15

1:30 & 7:00

KS2 Production

18.07.15

Wilcombe Family Fun

Day

Happy Birthday

this week to…

Bailey Wilkins

Lucas-James Alford

Attendance Bunny The winner this week is Dahl class, with 96.45%, Bob is off to their classroom next week. Well done!

Anti-Bullying Assembly This morning each class shared what they had been learning as part of our focus on anti-bullying this week. Paige shared the reception class anti-bullying promise to keep each other safe, Murphy class demon-strated how to be a super-friend and Sharratt class pre-sented scenarios to demonstrate what is; and isn't bully-ing. Browne class shared their poetry illustrating how bullying might make you feel, Dahl class used posters they had made to explain how bullying affects people. , Morpurgo class showed their happy/sad portraits that depicted positive and negative feelings you may feel at school. Pullman used an acrostic poem to explore the different forms of bullying and finally well done to Jade, Dominic and Erin for winning the “who wants to be a millionaire” bullying quiz!

Swimming Gala On Wednesday this week, 18 children took part in a ’7 school swimming gala’ at Tiverton pool. Our swimmers has three events, front crawl, backstroke and breastroke, girls and boys heats. Charlotte Sloman (Yr4), Harry Hirst (Yr5) & Alfie Hudd (Yr6) came second in their heats. The star of the day was Tayla Smith (Yr6) who came 1st in her front crawl heat ‘gliding like an Olympic swimmer’. The gala ended withtwo relays, girls/boys in which Tayla was our anchor athlete. Our girls time just beat our boys by 10 seconds! Overall we came 6th. Well done swimmers!

Sickness Bug We have had several cases of vomiting and diar-rhoea in reception and KS1. Please inform us if your child becomes unwell.

Our Attendance Goal: 95.5% This Week’s Attendance: 94.27%

In accordance with our Safeguarding Policy, from time to time school may need to make a referral to Children & Young People Services

Message from the Head of School This week as a school we have reviewed our anti-bullying policy. We do this on a termly basis and this time we made the decision to invite parents to our sum-mary assembly in order to share the school approach. Thank you to those parents who came, especially those who left very positive feedback. For those of you who didn't manage to join us we have uploaded the power-point presentations we used onto the website, please go to the parents tab, then select letters home, they are on the right-hand side. Please find the time to look at these with your child and discuss and issues raised. Our anti-bullying policy is being reviewed next week by our local governing body and as soon as it is ratified it will be available on our website.

We would like to remind you to speak to your class teacher if you ever have any concerns in this area. We take all bullying alle-gations very seriously and are committed to ensuring Wilcombe is a safe place to be for every child.

Louise Oxenham Head of School

EX16 7QD

Tel: 01884 252161

Year 6 Parents Please could all parents of our year 6 children bring pho-tographs into school showing their early years. These could be baby photos, early years school photos etc. All photos will be copied and returned to the children. Thank you.

Wilcombe PTA Just to keep people up to date, our PTA is still running overseen by Jo Pedrick. We have a number of exciting events coming up, please keep an eye on the PTA board and the news-letter.

Gazette Token - We are Winners! We have won £500 from the Gazette community fund! Thank you to all who collected tokens. This money will be used to further improve our school.

Quiz and Chilli Night

Please come along to our Quiz night on Friday 26th June at 7.30 in the school hall. The cost is £5 per player to include a jacket potato with chilli con carne! Guaranteed to be great fun and we will be raising money for outdoor equipment for school, we hope to see you there! Please see Jo Pedrick or the school office to get a booking form for you team.

Groundforce Day This Saturday the 13th June from 9:00am onwards, refreshments and fun come along and get involved! Clearing, building, gardening and much more!

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KS2 Summer Production

Ticket Pre-Order Form

Child’s Name:

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I would like to order the following tickets

Matinee Performance—8th July 2015—1.30pm

_______ Adult Tickets @ £4

_______ Child Tickets @ £2

Evening Performance—8th July 2015—7.00pm

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Total Payment Enclosed £___________

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Please make cheques payable to: Primary Academies Trust

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