29 Apr 2008 - Newsletter
A summer to celebrate
Plans are now finally taking shape for the school’s 100 year anniversary celebrations in early June. On Thursday 5th and Friday 6th June we will be holding special assemblies to showcase the children’ s learning about the last 100 years at Prince Rock and across the world. On those 2 days we will also be hosting tours of the building for past pupils, parents and staff to look at an exhibition of school memorabilia and take a look at how the building has changed and developed over time.
On Monday 9th June we will be holding a special lunchtime ‘street style’ themed party event with food from the last 100 years. This will be followed by a fun packed afternoon of activities including things such as a bouncy castle, a bowling alley, maypole dancing, Punch and Judy etc. Watch this space for more details.
The new adventure play trail plans are go!
The structural engineers have been to visit and their initial survey results have indicated that one or our planned infant playground projects can proceed immediately and one will need to wait for further investigations. The brilliant news is that while we will have to wait a little longer to build our canopy over Reception’s outside area, the adventure play trail can be built right away and building will begin this Friday. Hopefully if all goes to plan the new adventure play trail will be up and running by the time the children return to school on Tuesday 22nd April.
More baby news
After the birth of 4 children so far since the start of January, the staff of Prince Rock Primary School are continuing their quest to create a 5 a side football team in time for the summer holidays. The next recruit for the squad will soon be provided by Mrs Grenney whose bump is currently developing nicely. Congratulations!!!
Simon Spry - Headteacher
Chess club news
Last week our school chess club took part in a tournament against 6 other schools at Highfield Primary. Although we didn’t win it the children were a real credit to the school and the staff supervising the event voted our children the best behaved school on the day. Well done to Habir, Callum, Tertulien, Liam and Jamie.
Infant multiskills
Not to be outdone by their older junior colleagues, a team of Year R, year 1 and Year 2 children recently took place in a multiskills tournament against 6 other local schools at Lipson Community college. The children were absolutely fantastic. Well done Infants!
SATs week
This years key Stage 2 year 6 SAT’s test take place from Monday 13th May to Friday 16th May.
Summer trips to Wembury, Saltram and ????
This year’s Infant trip to Wembury will take place on Friday 4th July and the whole school picnic at Saltram will be the following week on Friday 11th July. In addition we are hoping to run a special free trip for the children to celebrate our 100 year anniversary but as yet we don’t know where or when this will take place. Watch this space for more details.
Football update
During the last week our school football team have played 3 matches against local schools. We beat old Priory (Mr. Clooke’s old school) 4 – 3, Holy Cross . Many congratulations to Bethany, Habir, jack, Gerard, Tertulien, Liam, Jacob, Charlie and Jonathon. An excellent effort – Well done.
At least 3 more years of Parent support!!
Prince Rock Primary school has recently confirmation of continued financial support to employ Nikki Bloodworth, our fantastic Parent Support Advisor. Nikki is there to help you and if you haven’t met her or used her yet please do. Nikki is there solely to support you!
The end of the East End support!!
After 3 amazing years of support the East End pot finally runs out today. This means that after half term breakfast and after school club will no longer be free and there will be no free fruit for the juniors at break time. We will of course be allowing the children to bring in a snack for break but we would like this to be healthy. We appreciate all the support you can give us and the children in encouraging them to eat as healthily as possible.
At least 3 more years of Parent support!!
Prince Rock Primary school has recently confirmation of continued financial support to employ Nikki Bloodworth, our fantastic Parent Support Advisor. Nikki is there to help you and if you haven’t met her or used her yet please do. Nikki is there solely to support you!
Building Learning Power
So what’s the 3rd of the 4 T’s??
So far we’ve told you all about ‘Trying’ and ‘Together’. This month it’s the turn of our third learning power, ‘Tools’. So what do we mean by tools?
Tools are the skills we need to use to learn in different ways. Some of these tools are inside us. For example, children (and adults) who are good learners are curious people. They like to ask questions about things and figure out how they work. When you are coming up with your own idea in design technology you will need to be creative and imaginative – other learning tools. Or, instead of being imaginative, you might need to work things out logically and in a sensible order. This might be when the children are learning how to use grid multiplication. Other tools will be around us like dictionaries or number lines. We ask the children to use different learning tools every day and they can become better at all of them.
Friday morning class assemblies
Next terms class assemblies are as follows:-
Friday 2nd May – class 4
Friday 23rd May – class R
Friday 20th June – class 1
Friday 27th June – class 2
Friday 4th July – class 5
Friday 11th July – class 3
Friday 18th July – class 6
Life education
caravan visit
On Tuesday 22nd and Wednesday 23rd April the Life Education caravan will be visiting our school to teach the children various aspects of the personal, social and health education curriculum. Each class will be visiting the caravan over the 2 days and if you’d like to find out more about it why don’t you pop in to their open session on Tuesday 22nd April from 2.45—3.30.
Reading meeting
On Tuesday 29th April at 3.45pm our Reception teacher, Mrs Hanley, will be holding an open parents meeting to explain the ways in which the school introduces the teaching of reading through phonics to our youngest learners. You are of course all welcome too attend.
Thursday morning assemblies
We continue to invite visitors in to lead whole school assemblies on Thursday mornings. This coming term we have another visit from father Brian, visitors of different faiths from the Cultural Centre, Matt Gordon (the youth worker from St. Judes church, kids Club, a speaker from St. John’s ambulance and a visitor from Childline. The children really enjoy hearing these different people who will be talking about our PSHE topic next term – Making good decisions.
SCHOOL
PHOTOGRAPHER
This year’s school photograph day is on Wednesday 30th April. If you would like Pre school children to have their photos taken with their siblings could you please bring them to the area outside the gym at 8.30am. The children will have photographs taken throughout the day these will include siblings in school, individual photographs, class photographs and team photographs. You will be under no obligation to buy these photographs. Could you please try to make sure that your children are wearing school uniform, if you want your child to comb their own hair they must bring their own brush/comb on the understanding that staff will not be tidying up their hair for them and they are not to use other children’s brushes/combs.
School closure
On Thursday 1st May Prince Rock Primary School will be closed for the local elections. Sorry for any inconvenience caused, but the school is being used as a polling station.