Kingsclere Chronicle No 12 (06/03/2015)

Happy, confident, successful, responsible children with a lifelong love of learning
Welcome to the
Kingsclere Chronicle
Thank you to all parents and carers who help us save money and the environment by signing up for email newsletters - If you
have not yet signed up, please see the office with your email address. More information can be found on our website at
www.kingsclereprimary.com
We
www ’re on the
.king
sclere web at
prima
ry.co
m
13 February 2015
Issue: 11
Dear Parents/Carers
We now have three furry additions to our
school. As a ‘thank you’ to the children
for their ‘outstanding’ behaviour, two
guinea pigs and a rabbit have joined
the team (they will also support the
children’s understanding of nurture and
SMSC). We have asked the children to
think of names to call our furry friends
and we will pick names from a hat next
Friday. The children, and teachers, were
very excited in assembly this morning
when they were introduced and we
talked about how to look after and care
for them. When they have become
more familiar with being held, children,
(if they choose,) will have the
opportunity for a hold and stroke! Thank
you to FKS for supporting the funding of
our new celebrities.
I must also thank Richard Croft who
came into school on Thursday to talk to
our Year 1 and 2 children about the
history of Kingsclere as part of their
‘Street Detective’ topic. He was
extremely complementary about the
children’s behaviour and the questions
they asked.
Congratulations to Mrs Spencer-Healey
for coming second in a horse dressage
competition over half term—she was
even in Horse and Hound! Over the next
term and a half Mrs Spencer-Healey will
be working in Year 6 to support the
children in their run up to SATs.
Best Regards
Mr Steve Wells
Headteacher
Dates for your Diary
Thanks to Pets At
Home
and
especially Brad
for the brilliant
advice!
9.3.15
Parent Evening booking goes
live
9.3.15
Red Noses & Gunging votes on
Sale
10.3.15
Y5/6 High Five Netball
Coaching
12.3.15
The Clere School Spring Disco
Y5/6
13.3.15
Red Nose Day - Non uniform
16.3.15
FKS First Aid Course 5.30 8.30pm
17.3.15
Messy Church 3.20pm - 5.30pm
17.3.15
FKS First Aid Course 6.00pm 8.00pm
18.3.15
Y5 Parents Osmington Bay
meeting at 3.30pm
20.3.15
Last Judo session this term
25.3.15
Parents Evening 3.45pm to 6pm
Friends of Kingsclere
CE Primary School
(FKS)
The school would like to thank the
FKS team and the parent/carers
of our school for our new Hi Vis
jackets. The infant
children wore them
for the first time this
week
for
their
village walks and
looked very smart
and visible around
our village.
26.3.15
Parents Evening 5pm to 7.30pm
27.3.15
School Film Night 3.30 - 5.30pm
1.4.15
Y6 Parents SATs / Skern Lodge
meeting at 3.30pm
1.4.15
Y4 Parents Stubbington meeting
at 3.00pm
2.4.15
School Easter Church service
10.30am
2.4.15
Last day of Spring 2 term
4.4.15
FKS Easter Egg Hunt
3.4.15 - 19.4.15
Easter Holiday
Address: Ash Grove, Kingsclere, Newbury, Berkshire, RG20 5RE. Tel:01635 298583, Email: adminoffice@kingsclere.hants.sch.uk
Red Nose Day
Friday 13th March
Bag yourself one of the nine new Red Noses for £1 each, our school council will be selling them during
break and lunchtime and we will also be selling them from the school office. They will go on sell from
Monday 9th to Thursday 12th March.
On 13th March 2015 we will be holding a day to go undercover for a donation. Children can come into
school dressed up as one of the fabulous nine noses (good luck with snorbit, the alien nose) or paint their
face like one of the nine comic relief noses (Supernose, Stripey, Snotty Professor, Snorbit, Astrosnort,
Nosebot, Snortel or Karate Konk). Children can wear non uniform if they are just painting their faces.
Also on 13th March we will ‘Gunging one of our members of staff and one of our school leaders”. This will
now take place during school time but we will have pictures for our website and the next Chronicle.
From Monday 9th March to 12th March our pupils, parents, carers and staff will be able to buy a vote
from our school council members or the school office for 20p each for the person they would like to see
gunged! The lucky volunteers for the gunging are:
Mr Wells - Headteacher
Mrs Spencer-Healey - Deputy Head
Miss King - Y6 teacher
Miss Wallace - Y3/4 teacher
Miss Davis - Y6 teaching Assistant
Miss Tice - Y1 teacher
Miss Beeden - YR/1 teacher
Harry - Y6 School Leader
Daisy - Y6 School Leader
Owen - Y6 School Leader
Chelsie - Y6 School Leader
The more votes you buy, the better chance you have to see your favourite person gunged. We will be
keeping a totaliser in the school during the week.
Page 2
Happy, confident, successful, responsible children with a lifelong love of learning
PE Kit
Please can we ask parent/carers to make sure
that their children come to school on a Monday
morning with their PE kit, which should include
green shorts, yellow t-shirt, black/blue track suit,
PE socks and outdoor trainers. We have had a
increasing number of children who have been
without training shoes or the
trainer have been too small. Due
to safety reasons wearing their
school shoes is not suitable for PE
lessons and could lead to injures.
Many thank for your support to
make sure every child can take
part in our PE curriculum
Read for My School
How many books have you read? Currently our
KS2 children have read 232 books since the
launch of the competition.
This is a very
impressive amount for 6 weeks but
we can do better. The competition is closing on 20th March, so
only a few weeks left. Don’t forget
that all books that you read can
be
registered on the website.
Sainsbury’s Active Vouchers
We are still collecting Sainsbury’s Active vouchers.
Please bring them into the school reception and
leave them in the Sainsbury’s
box. They can be found at all
Sainsbury’s stores, petrol
stations and when ordering
groceries online until 5th May
2015. We are hoping that this
year we can collect even
more.
Messy Church
Our first Messy Church for 2015 will be on
Tuesday,
March 17th from 3.20pm - 5.30pm at school. The
theme is “I am the good shepherd” and “I am the
light”
Come and enjoy various activities, hear more about
the bible story and then tuck into a home cooked
hot meal. All are
invited… adults, teenagers,
children,
carers,
families,
partners,
g r a n d p a r e n t s ……
Everyone is welcome!
Future Messy Church
dates for 2015 are:
Tuesday 16th June
Tuesday 22nd September
Tuesday 24th November
This term, the school council have decided to
enter the Potato Council’s "Grow Your Own
Potatoes" competition. Entrants will have the
chance learn about how to grow potatoes,
healthy eating and have a chance to win a prize,
including fantastic Marmax furniture for the
playground.
Our Pack arrived last week so our team leaders,
Sean and Elena have been busy preparing the
potatoes for planting.
Page 3
Sparkling Rugby Competition
Well done to our Year 6 rugby team who took
part in a inter-school sparkling rugby
competition this week at Ecchinswell School.
Even though they did not win the competition,
they did demonstrate our school values of
resilience and thinking. They listened to the
coach and kept on trying to break through.
They won one match but unfortunately lost two.
Happy, confident, successful, responsible children with a lifelong love of learning
World Book Day
The day began with the teachers sharing their favourite books with the children in a whole school
assembly- we even discovered which was Wayne Rooney’s and Barack Obama’s! Classes then joined up
to share their favourite books with each other.
Ash class began a roll on story which travelled its way up to Oak class and
featured Princesses and Pirates! Whilst Chestnut class began a story for KS2
based upon magical adventures. World Book day was also celebrated by
Rowan class going on a bear hunt, year 6 designing a treasure hunt,
designing of books covers and much more!
Page 4
Happy, confident, successful, responsible children with a lifelong love of learning
Year 6 Topic - Blood Heart
This term our year 6 children will be learning about the parts of the
circulatory system and last week they had an opportunity to have a
“hands on” experience of an animal’s heart. We did have a few
children who were reluctant to take part at the start of the lesson,
but all managed to investigate the workings of the heart in the end.
The whole class then wrote their own assembly that they gave on
Wednesday morning to the whole school to explain about healthy
eating and exercise.
Mr Wells’ THUNK of the
Fortnight!
THUNKS are questions that make you stop and
think. It does not necessarily have a right
answer and people may have different views.
This fortnight’s THUNK is:
If you were an animal, what would you be?
Page 5
Celebrating Good
Attendance
As good attendance at school is vital for successful
learning we are always keen to celebrate good
attendance at our school. The class that has the best
attendance the previous fortnight will be
celebrated in assembly.
The winners for the last fortnight were:
Oak Class - 99.3%
Happy, confident, successful, responsible children with a lifelong love of learning
Over the last fortnight we have been learning to:
Early Years
KS2 - Juniors
Year R
Year 3/4
English - write instructions
English - write recounts about Edmund Hillary (First man
to conquer Mount Everest)
Maths - add
Maths - Miss Hoar & Mrs Wallace: identify, add and
subtract fractions
KS1 - Infants
Maths - Mrs Criggie: identify, add and subtract fractions
Year 1
English - Rowan: write instructions
Willow : write instructions
Maths - Rowan: add
Year 5
English - write adventure/quest stories about ancient
Egypt
Willow: add
Maths - add and subtract fractions
Year 2
Year 6
English - write instructions
English - write an explanation
Maths - understand 2D & 3D Shapes
Maths - Mrs Neville: add and subtract fractions
Maths - Miss King: understand and use algebra
All class topic newsletters have either been emailed or sent home in book bags but if you have not seen
a copy, please visit our website at www.kingsclereprimary.com
Our walk around Kingsclere
This week Early years and Key Stage one enjoyed a historical walk through our village,
where we explored the buildings and looked
at changes through time.
The gates
to the old
school!
On Thursday Willow and Oak were joined by
Mr Croft who is writing a book about the
history of Kingsclere and led our tour!
One our walk we learn all about past and
present buildings and important people in
our village.
The oldest house
in the village!
Outside the
library.
Old cottages on
North Street.
Page 6
Happy, confident, successful, responsible children with a lifelong love of learning
Registered Charity Number: 1099453
The Parent Teacher Association of Kingsclere C of E Primary School
News from FKS
FKS have lots of exciting fundraising events planned for 2015 so please support us. This
year we are working on improving the school playground as well as continuing to
provide sporting and educational equipment, support and extra curricular activities for
our school.
Forthcoming events include our annual Easter Egg Hunt, Mothers Day gift making, First
Aid courses and please note the film night will now be held on Friday 27th March for YR
to 6 and we will be showing Paddington.
Future Dates for your Diary - all welcome
Friday 13th March - Mothers Day Gifts £1.50
Monday 16th March - FKS First Aid Course 6.00pm - 8.00pm
Tuesday 17th March - FKS First Aid Course 6.00pm - 8.00pm
New Date - Friday 27th March - R to Y6 - School Film night 3.20pm
Wednesday 1st April - FKS First Aid Course 7.00pm - 9.00pm
Saturday 4th April - Easter Egg hunt around the village
Saturday 27th June - School Summer Fair
Community Notices
Reading Half Marathon
Kingsclere Library
I'm Nik, mum to Zak and Phoebe. On the 22nd
March, I'm going to be running the Reading Half
Marathon in aid of The National Autistic Society.
In March's edition of the Tower, the Parish Council
reported the news that the village library will not
be closing, merely changing hands; from 7th April
this year, we will have a community-run library
rather than a council-operated one. This does
mean that the current library staff will be leaving
us.
It's a charity that means a lot to my sisters and
others who live challenging and often isolating lives
affected by Autism.
This challenge has been over 5 years in the making,
overcoming various hurdles on the way. So, any
donations would be greatly received by myself on
behalf of The National Autistic Society.
If you would like to donate, either just check out
my Just giving page (or via facebook) or text
TNAS95 followed by amount either £10, £5, £4, £3,
£2 or even just £1 to 70070. eg TNAS95 £2
Thank you for your support, Nicola Dymond x
Page 7
The Council notice concludes, "We would like to
say a proper than you to the Staff, particularly
Rowena who has worked tirelessly for our Library
for many years. There will be a collection for
some of the staff and we would be happy to
receive your contributions via The Clerk at the
Parish Office which is open on Monday and
Wednesday mornings between the hours of 9:30
& 11:30."
Happy, confident, successful, responsible children with a lifelong love of learning
Address: Ash Grove, Kingsclere, Newbury, Berkshire, RG20 5RE. Tel:01635 298583, Email: adminoffice@kingsclere.hants.sch.uk
Page 8
Happy, confident, successful, responsible children with a lifelong love of learning
Address: Ash Grove, Kingsclere, Newbury, Berkshire, RG20 5RE. Tel:01635 298583, Email: adminoffice@kingsclere.hants.sch.uk