NORTHBOURNE NEWS
Issue No: Twelve
Date: 27th November 2009
OUR B-L-U-E GALLERY!
It was great to see so many families come to visit our anti-bullying art gallery last week. The art work on display was all of a very high quality, and really reinforced the message about how important it is for children to tell someone whenever they might be concerned about any form of bullying. Our local MP, Ed Vaizey, and 2 police officers judged the competition and chose a winner from each year group. All of the winners will be framed and displayed in school for the rest of the year.
Two pupils and Mr. Shaughnessy attended a Local Authority conference at the Kassam Stadium during the week, which looked at the relatively new problem of cyber-bullying. The school council will be following this up with some work in school to raise awareness of potential problems which text messages and social networking sites like Facebook can sometimes cause. Our pupils were impeccably behaved during the day and worked really hard to plan events to run in school...well done both of you.
BBC Radio Oxford heard about the work the school was doing, and interviewed us live on air last Friday. They were really interested to hear about everything we had been doing at Northbourne to raise awareness of this very important issue.
KS1 PLAY UDATE
Tickets for ‘The Shiniest Star’ will go on general sale from Monday. This means that further tickets on top of the initial limit of 2 per family can now be bought. Please remember to speak to your child’s class teacher with any costume queries, or to book younger children into the crèche; this must be done by next Wednesday in order to secure a place.
CHRISTMAS DINNER
Remember that Christmas dinner money (£1.85) must be sent to the office in an envelope labelled with child’s name and class by next Friday in order for the correct amount of turkey to be ordered!
D-I-S-C-O!!
Our Christmas discos will be on Wednesday 9th December. Foundation Stage and years 1, 2 and 3 will have their disco from 5 – 6pm, and the year 4 – 6 event will run from 6:15 – 7:30pm. Tickets are now on sale from the office at £1.50 each; the entrance price includes squash and a bag of sweets to bring home. Small and large glow sticks will be on sale for 50p and £1 each. .
If any parents or family members are able to help with any small jobs on the evening, please let Mr. Shaughnessy or a member of the PTA know. All help will be gratefully received!
Our discos are always good fun, and we hope to see as many of you there as possible to start the Christmas celebrations!
CHRISTMAS BAZAAR
We will be holding our Christmas Bazaar next Friday (4th December) from 2:30pm. Children and class teachers will be running games and selling small items they have been making for Christmas, ranging from cards to cakes! Stalls will be in the hall and in some of the classrooms in the main building.
You are welcome to collect your children at any time from 2:30 and walk around the stalls with them; please come into school through the main door by the office and let the class teacher know you are collecting your child. The stalls will run until 3:30 so if you can’t make the earlier time you are still very welcome to have a look round after the end of school. Older children will be given time by their teachers to look round stalls on their own, so please feel free to send them to school with a small amount of money in the morning. Class teachers may ask for extra pairs of hands, either from family members or from some of the older pupils; please keep your eyes peeled for sign-up sheets around school throughout next week if you are able to help.
BREAKFAST CLUB
Breakfast Club is open from 7.50 am. We offer breakfast until 8.20 am. We have lots of toys and activities for the children to do. On Friday, we usually go into the hall and do activities, eg, table tennis/skittles/badminton to name but a few. Please can you arrive early to be able to participate and join in the fun! (as well as having a great healthy breakfast at the same time). Weather permitting we go out on the playing field, but if it’s been wet, can we please ask that children bring their wellington boots so they can still go outside.
YES! YES!! YES!!!
We WILL be running our Christmas Camp this year!!!
AND WE STILL HAVE SOME SPACES!
Pick up more information and booking forms by visiting the school office or downloading them from our host school’s website ( http://www.willowcroft.org.uk/childcare.asp ) and return your completed forms to the office asap. Ring our Childcare Co-ordinator at 07599 018 627 for more information or to book a tour. Hope to see you on the playground!
