8th May 2015
Bassingbourn Community
Primary School Newsletter
www.bassingbourn.cambs.sch.uk
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Dear Parents and Carers,
This term is always the busiest as we say goodbye to our wonderful Year 6
children and welcome in our new Reception classes. Please find attached our
school structure from September.
You will notice that we have reduced to nine classes. This has been inevitable
since the barracks closed (with the loss of 70 pupils) however, rather than
reducing rapidly, causing great disturbance; the reduction has been gradual
over the past three years.
There is also a change in the dynamics at key stage 2, with three classes for
pupils in lower key stage 2, and two classes for the upper pupils. This is due to
the size of our pupil groups.
In addition, we wish to share that Mrs Archbold will be retiring in July. We
thank her for the excellent work she has done as our Maths Co-ordinator and
Year 1/2 teacher and wish her a fulfilling retirement.
We will write to you in due course outlining where teachers and support staff
will be from September and also with information about transition meetings
for children moving between key stages.
May
11th: SATs Week for Year 6
18th: Parent Forum Meeting
19th: 3.15pm Living and
Growing Videos for
Year 6 parents
20th: New Reception Parents
Evening
21st: Years 3, 4 & 5 Music
Extravaganza
22nd: INSET DAY
HALF TERM WEEK
25th—29th May
Mrs Schofield and Mrs Brown
Co-Headteachers
June
Pupils’ Achievements
1st: Children return to school
Courtesy Cup Awards— Maggie Harrison, Hannah Beck,
Emma Shalan, Amelia Edmans, Chantelle Smith,
Tristan Petersen-Piper, Lewis Truran, Zoe Shalan, Evie Burrell.
Headteacher Awards— Jasmyn Smith, Sophie Cran, Iris Diment, Ruby Gater,
Eirinn Shrimpton, Zoe Petsas, Harry Scott, Tommy Hort, Ciara Free, Jack Jordan,
Tyler Reed, Esmee Ansell, Kaitlin Coley, Toby Rogers, Ethan Dummer, George Cooper,
Julia Whiteley, Ruby Ames, Drew Murdock, Fern Ellis, Rowan Telford-Reed,
Bella Tansley, Hamish Corr, Hannah Sharman, Henry Byrne, Morgan Head,
Robyn Morse, Christina Richards, Toby Telford-Reed, Ben Hawkins.
ICT
We would love to be able to offer times that our ICT suite could be used by the
local community and are able to offer a weekly training course if there is desire
for it.
If you are interested in using the facilities in the future or attending a course
with us, please would you email us to register your interest on:
[email protected]
5th: Non-Uniform Day for
donations for the Fete Tombola
Stall
8th: KS1 SATs Week
16th: Year 4 Mini Olympics
17th: Class Photos and Year 6
Leavers Photos
27th: PTA School Fete
Please be advised that Move
Up Morning will now take place
on Monday 6th July.
Youth Sport Trust Award
We are delighted to say that we have achieved the Youth Sport Trust Silver award
this year. We were assessed against a range of factors to show how well we were
meeting the needs of our pupils. The range of sport on offer and the quality of the
sporting skills that were taught was assessed. We identified two areas that needed
further work to get us to gold. These targets have been written into our action plan
for 2015-2016.
Miss Byrne has been working hard to improve our competitive sports throughout the
year and we have had 14 teams take part in interschool matches organised by the
local School Sports Partnership. Our great thanks go to her and our amazing team of
teachers and support staff who regularly go to competitions voluntarily after school hours.
This year we would like to make better links with local sports clubs (to come into school and talk to our
children about their sports and the teams that pupils could potentially become a part of). If you or anyone
you know could do this or make links for us we would love to hear from you. Please do contact the office
with details.
Car Park
Concerns have been raised once more regarding
unsafe and inconsiderate parking. We have
received reports that parents of primary children
are parking in BVC’s bus lane. These parents are,
allegedly, those who wait to collect secondary
children.
A recent Health Related Behaviour
survey (taken by our year 5 and 6 pupils) showed
that a greater number of pupils than the
Cambridgeshire average arrive at our school by
car; so please do make use of the stop and drop
zone to reduce the need to park in the morning.
Equally, please do allow adequate time to park
safely at 3pm in the allocated parking spaces—or
at a little distance from the school and walk
through the BVC site.
Parent Forum
We hope that you have received the Parent
Forum Feedback sent out last week (available on
the website). We very much value our parent
forum and would encourage representatives
from all year groups to meet on Monday, May
18th at 7.30pm here at the school. Please email
Louise Grace for more information:
[email protected].
BVC Access
Access through the Village College will return to
normal from Monday 11th May now that their
building works have finished.
You Tube
We know that children love watching You Tube
videos; but please do check your security settings
and encourage them to watch in the same room as
you—as it’s very easy for them to stumble across
upsetting and inappropriate content.
Grit!
Why do we like doing certain things? Because we’re
good at them! Why are we good at them? Because
we keep on doing them!
We are keen to challenge this fixed mindset and
encourage Bassingbourn children that they can learn
anything...or achieve anything— if they are
determined to keep on trying.
Children who have this grit—are those who will
succeed as they don’t give up when they can’t do
something —they know that each time they try
again they will get better. As Bear Grylls said in
Mission Survival… “run when you can, walk if you
have to, crawl if you must… but don’t give up”.
School Contacts
School Office:
Reception:
Reception:
Year 1:
Year 1/2:
Year 2:
Year 3/4:
Year 3/4:
Year 5:
Year 5/6:
[email protected]
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School Finance: [email protected]
Reception:
[email protected]
Year 1:
[email protected]
KS1 Leader:
Year 3/4:
[email protected]
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Year 5:
Year 6 :
[email protected]
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