School newsletter - Friday 20th January 2012

Activities

An Evening of Clairvoyance

FOBBS have arranged an evening of clairvoyance with Janet Rushton on Monday 23rd January 2012 at 7.00pm in the school hall. Tickets are priced at £8.50 each, to include refreshments but numbers are limited, so buy yours now from the school office! (Sorry, no under 16's permitted)

Healthy Lifestyles

We had a visitor from York City in the Community in school this week to talk to the children about healthy lifestyles. He visited Years 1 - 6 and told us how important it is to keep active. The children enjoyed investigating the effect of exercise on their pulse rate.

Year 6 Bun Stall

From Monday 30th January onwards Year 6 will be running a bun stall, with all monies raised going towards the end of year Leavers party. Bun will be priced at 20p each. Any donations are welcome. Thank you.

Speech and Language Drop Ins

There are Speech and Language Therapy drop in sessions at Tadcaster and at Sherburn Children's Centres from 9.00am - 11.00am on the second Wednesday of every month. Tadcaster sessions are scheduled for 8th Feb, 11th Apr, 13th June, 8th Aug, 10th Oct and 12th Dec, with sessions at Sherburn on the alternate months, 14th Mar, 9th May, 11th July, 12th Sept and 14th Nov. Unfortunately this facility is not available at the Brotherton Children's Centre.

Sharing Assembly

Year 2 shared lots of fascinating facts about the polar regions with us this morning, including how to build an igloo and why polar bears and penguins never meet! Thank you to all those parents and grandparents who joined us.

Don't forget that you are welcome to stay for refreshments and an informal chat after sharing assembly each Friday.

Sharing assembly dates

Attendance

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Miss Bates' class (Year 1) and Mrs Edgington's class (Year 6) both won the attendance award for last week with 99.1%. Well done!

Pupils of the week

Well done to:

Gotcha winner

The Gotcha winners for this week are Oliver Tait (Year 6) and Joshua Hurd (Year 2).

School Dinners for week commencing 23rd January

Monday - Fish
Tuesday - Chicken drumsticks
Wednesday - Minced beef pie
Thursday - Chicken curry
Friday - Cheese burger

Please remember to make dinner money cheques payable to GFM Ltd.

From this coming Monday Mrs Wardle will be available on Monday mornings in the hall from 8.45 - 9.10am to receive dinner money payments or discuss any issues relating to the payment of dinner money. You may still send dinner money with your child to give to their teacher in a named envelope if you wish.

Reading books

We have reviewed our reading scheme and purchased extra books to extend our collection. Books now have coloured bands which relate to their difficulty. You may notice that your child appears to be at a different level. Please be assured that we have carefully matched the book to your child's ability but if you have any concerns, please contact your child's class teacher.

Health and Safety

I have been asked to remind parents to closely supervise their children as they approach the crossing patrol to avoid children dashing out into the road before instructed it is safe to do so by the patrol officers. A car had to brake heavily when a child went into the road this week.