Preparation Respect Opportunity Determination Understanding Tel: 01925 444795 Fax: 01925 633531 School E Mail:[email protected] http://callands.warrington.dbprimary.com Friday 8 May 2015 NEWSLETTER BOOK AND SPORT KIT AMNESTY May we make a plea for you to look for any school home reading book at home that you may have had some time? We have lost a significant amount and although it is only 3 years since we invested thousands of pounds into this, we are now having to replace these, taking a significant amount of money from this year’s budget. If found either place in your child’s book bag or hand in at the school office. Additionally, we have now lost a number of school sports kits, worn by children for external competitions. Again, if not returned, instead of building on the current kit and purchasing potential extras such as tracksuits, we will simply have to replace what we did have already. As above, if found please return with your child or hand into school. Many thanks in advance for this. I Pads You may remember that I mentioned a few months ago that FOCS had kindly provided the school with the funds to purchase a set of I Pads. I would like to update you with regards to these. We have had significant problems with the set up of these. This is not an issue with us as a school but rather with the LA. Setting them up in school is unfortunately not as simple as setting them up at home. The main issue we are having is that passwords provided by Apple to enable our technical providers to set them up to our server are being blocked and put into hold at the LA. Regrettably their system is not telling them when this has happened and it is causing significant delays. The LA have promised us they are dealing with the issue. I will update you again as soon as we have made progress with this. You may be aware that Radio City are looking for Superheroes to step up for Cash for Kids and Alder Hey Children's Charity and help them raise much-needed funds to make their new hospital into a Super Hospital for all little Superheroes! As in recent years, a number of our children have been treated so well under the care of Alder Hey, we would like to play our part in this. Radio City are actually completing this on Friday. However we will have our Superhero Day on Monday 18 May 2015. In exchange for wearing a Superhero costume for the day, we are asking the children to make a donation of AT LEAST £1. We would also like to hold a cake sale. Please send in as many cakes as possible on Monday 18 May to enable us to raise as many funds as possible. CROSS COUNTRY SUCCESS Congratulations to all the Y3,4,5 and 6 children who took part in the Cross Country event at Culcheth Primary School on Wednesday. They did so well. Particularly well done to Joseph Murphy in Y5 who came first in the Y5/6 boys race out of 79 Y5 and Y6 boys from 19 schools. When I asked Joseph in assembly if he enjoyed running, he replied, “not really!” Not bad for someone who is not mad keen on running. He was awarded a lovely trophy. DATES (INCLUDING ADDITIONAL ONES) Wednesday 13 May 2015 – Initial interest meeting for Y5 parents for 2016 Residential Visit to France 4pm Monday 11 May – Y6 SATs Week begins Monday 18 May – Superhero Day Friday 22 May – Own Clothes Day in exchange for chocolate items for the Summer Fair Tuesday 2 June – 4.15pm – Parent Class Representatives Meeting Friday 5 June – 3.45pm – Y2 Residential Meeting for Parents Monday 8 June - Y4 Intensive Swimming Course begins at GS (further details to follow) Tuesday 9 June – Y3 Swimming Course begins at GS (further details to follow) Friday 12 June – Own Clothes Day in exchange for bottle/pamper items for the Summer Fair Y1 Phonics Screening Week Monday 15 June – Friday 19 June Saturday 20 June – 11.00am-2.00pm Summer Fair Tuesday 30 June – Y3 Keyboard Concert at Parr Hall Thursday 2 July – 6pm Y3/4 Summer Musical Friday 3 July – 9.15am Y3/4 Summer Musical Thursday 9 July – 6pm Y5/6/ Summer Musical Friday 10 July – 9.15am – Y5/6 Summer Musical Friday 10 July FOCS Disco (further details to be issued) Tuesday 14 July – 2.30pm Y3 End of Year Keyboard Show Wednesday 15 July – AM KS1 Sports Day and PM Key Stage 2 Sports Day Friday 17 July – Y4 Science Investigation Day with Sellafield Friday 17 July - Y6 Leavers’ Assembly MDA VACANCY We currently have a vacancy for a Midday Assistant. Please contact the office for details if you are interested in this. The hours are 12.00 – 1.00 every day. A MESSAGE FROM THE MUMS “We would like to thank the children of Y3 for the day out at Tatton Park. We had a great time learning about the gardens and the jobs the gardening apprentices would get up to every day. The children were very attentive, listening to the staff who gave the talks and answering the questions. Lots of interesting questions were asked by the children. Hopefully they enjoyed themselves as much as we did. We were very proud to be associated with them as they behaved very well and were a credit to the school. Thank you.” Well done Y3 for living up to our school ‘PROUD’ statement. REMINDER Class photograph orders to be returned to school no later than Tuesday 12 May 2015. STARS OF THE WEEK YRW Amy Patterson Y1P Macie Wheeler Y1O’N Azfar Khan Y2W Rosie Gardner Y2B Katie Bennett Y3CL Jack Butterworth Y3L Liam Gauckwin Y4L Joseph O’Toole Y4W Olivia Maher Y5K Oliver Shiel Y5B Giorgi Cunningham Y6L Megan O’Neill Y6F Halime Huyuk Mrs L Wigglesworth