NEXT WEEK Monday Start of Test Week Start of Yr1 Phonics Screening Check NO Gymnastics Violin Chelsea Football KS1 Coding Club   Tuesday Guitar Lessons Chelsea Football KS2 Lego Club   Wednesday NO Gymnastics Start of Yr6 PGL Residential Trip Yr3 Swimming Rugby Tots KS1   Thursday Multi-sports Y3 to Y5   Friday Non-Uniform Day (return ‘Sweet Cups’) Gymnastics Basketball KS2

Dear Parent/Carer, The children have had a fantastic start to this half-term taking part in lots of hands-on activities around the theme of ‘Dinosaurs’. The highlight of the week was a series of Dinosaur workshops followed by a visit from a life-sized, moving baby T-Rex. Thank you to everybody who donated their unwanted clothes to our Recycle2School collection on Monday. As a part of these scheme our school will receive extra funds based on the number of bags received. On Wednesday, our Year 1 and 2 pupils were lucky enough to take part in drama workshops, our Year 5 class visited Whipsnade Zoo to find out more about animals and their habitats and a group of pupils took part in a tennis competition at Dr Triplett’s CofE Primary School. We have a really busy few weeks ahead – please take a look at the diary dates below.   Mr Briggs It is with great sadness that we inform you that Mr Briggs will be leaving St. Mary’s, at the end of this academic year, due to a promotion to Headship. Mr Briggs has served as our Deputy Headteacher, for the past 4 years, and has made a significant impact to the progress of pupils and the professional development of staff. He has also served as our Religious Education coordinator and his leadership of the RE curriculum and spiritual life of the school were fundamental in helping us to secure our ‘Outstanding’ Ofsted grade. His hard work and dedication will be sorely missed by both pupils and staff. I’m sure you will join us in wishing him all the best for the future.   Test Week Throughout next week each class (excluding EYs, Years 2 and 6) will be taking various age/ability appropriate tests. These results will be used to set targets and any support needed to achieve these. The results will also be included on the Annual Pupil Progress Reports.   Sweet Cups Tomorrow, every child will be bringing home an empty cup and they have been asked to try to fill it with sweets, small toys or stationary items (to be used on our ‘Sweet Cup Children’s Tombola’). On Friday 15th June pupils may wear their own clothes to school in return from bringing in a filled cup.

 

Year 1 Phonics Screening Check

Throughout next week, Year 1 pupils will be taking the government’s statutory Phonics Screening Check intended to show how well children can use the phonics skills they’ve learned up to the end of Year 1, and to identify students who need extra phonics help. The Department for Education defines the checks as “short, light-touch assessments” that take about four to nine minutes to complete. The checks consist of 40 words and non-words that your child will be asked to read one-on-one with a teacher. Non-words (or nonsense words, or pseudo words) are a collection of letters that will follow phonics rules your child has been taught, but don’t mean anything – your child will need to read these with the correct sounds to show that they understand the phonics rules behind them.

 

Upcoming Assemblies and Productions

We have planned the following assemblies and productions for this half-term. All parents, carers and family members are most welcome to attend.

Date	Class	Time
19th June	Year 3	3pm
26th June	Year 1	3pm
17th July	Yr6 Leavers’ Production	5.30pm
20th July	Yr6 Leavers’ Mass (Church)	9.30am

 

Sports Day

Our Sports Days for this year will take place as follows:

Thu 12^th July: Sports Day for Years 1 to 6, from 9.30am, on Rockingham Recreational Ground.

Fri 13^th July: Early Years Sports Day, from 9.30am, in school. Both Nursery classes should attend the morning session on this day.

In the event of rain, we have arranged a back-up date for each event (please see details in the list of ‘Upcoming Events’).

 

Used Children's books for 20p each at Uxbridge Library

They have recently received lots of new children's fiction, picture books and board books and as a result they now have many used children's books for sale at 20p each.

 

HOUSE POINTS

House Point Winners (each class):

Year	Name	Number of House Points
1	Saskia	16
2	Dilleta	18
3	Rosien	10
4	Uriel	7
5	Malika	10
6	Julia	13

This week’s winning house is: St Thomas with 124 points!!

 

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Please see below for a list of upcoming dates. Our school calendar and term dates are available to view on our school website:

http://www.st-marys.hillingdon.sch.uk/

Date	Event
Fri 8th Jun	Empty sweet cups (for Summer Fete)  to be sent home
Mon 11th Jun	Start of Test Week (Yr1 Phonics Screening Check)
Wed 13th Jun – Fri 15th Jun	Year 6 residential trip PGL – Osmington Bay
Fri 15th Jun	Non-uniform Day (return filled sweet cups for Summer Fete)
Mon 18th Jun	PTA Collecting Cuddly Toys &  Second Hand Uniform
	Start of Maths Week
Tue 19th Jun	Year 3 Class Assembly
Thu 21st Jun	Crazy Hair Day (bring luxury items)
Fri 22nd Jun	PTA collecting cakes for Fete
Fri 29th Jun	St Peter and St Paul Mass at school
Sat 23rd Jun	Summer Fete 12 pm – 3 pm
Mon 2nd Jul	Year 6 Bike-ability
Tue 3rd Jul	Transition Day (Yr6 Secondary School visits)
Wed 4th Jul – Fri 6th Jul	Year 6 Bike-ability
Thu 5th Jul	Year 4 Trip
Mon 9th Jul	Start of Health & Wellbeing Week
Wed 11th Jul	Year 5 Trip – Additional Reward Trip
	Early Years Trip
Thu 12th Jul	Year 1 – Year 6 Sports Day (9:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.)
Fri 13th Jul	Early Year Sports Day 9:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Mon 16th Jul	Sports Day Back-up date (9.30am)
Tues 17th Jul	EYs Sports Day Back-up date (9.30am)

 

School Fundraising Team (PTA) Newsletter 7^th June 2018 

Summer Fete update and lots more

Meet the PTA Team:

We are your contacts for the Fete

Sarah Wells Y4	Chair 07855 998693
Sue Serret  Y4	Secretary/Vice Chair   07580 805236
Aileen Gallahue  Y3	Treasurer/Social Media 07940 987660
Amelie	Class Rep LEY am
Nikki	Class Rep LEY am
Cecila	Class Rep LEY PM
Tamara	Class Rep LEY PM
Isabel	Class Rep UEY
Denise	Class Rep UEY
Maria	Class Rep Year 1
Karen	Class Rep Year 1
Catherine	Class Rep Year 2
Katie	Class Rep Year 2
Margarita	Class Rep Year 3
Jenny	Class Rep Year 3
Roxanne	Class Rep Year 4
Vacant	Class Rep Year 4
Jayne	Class Rep Year 5
Vacant	Class Rep Year 5
Magda	Class Rep Year 6
Lucy	Class Rep Year 6

Class reps. tell parents about fund-raising events, a point of contact about what’s going on in the school. They will ask you all for help when needed, they come along to meetings where possible.

Enhance our feeling of a community. Please chat to one of the above for more information.

Money YOU have raised so far:

Sept 2017 - July 2018

Bingo Night 12/10/17 - cancelled

Tea & Coffee 19/11/17 £101.35

Christmas Fayre 08/12/17 £1237.99

Christmas Raffle £1018.26

Tea Towels £344.80

Scholastic Books £373.00

Race Night 05/05/18        £450.00

Summer Fete 23/06/18 £we’ll see!

The Giving Machine

24^th May -  28 people joined Raised £104.76

7^th June – 40 people joined

Raised £113.98   Hurrah ! 

Thank you to Miss Shevlin who has sent a welcome email to all of those who have joined the scheme

Quick sign-up this link makes it really easy!!

https://www.thegivingmachine.co.uk/causes/st-marys-uxbridge/support/

TOP TIP – Install the ‘Shop and Give Reminder’ this means you don’t have to shop via The Giving Machine website. Whatever online purchase you are making a Giving Machine reminder will pop up – easy!!

An invitation to tea……

More dates, please come along

All the info. is on separate poster

 

 

IMPORTANT DATES:

Empty sweet cups given out to children

Friday 8^th June

Non-uniform day bring filled cups to school Friday 15^th June

Crazy hair day, bring wine, spirits and chocolates to school

Thursday 21^st June

 

PTA Team Update

Good bye Sue……

Our PTA Secretary,

Sue Serret who was

elected in 2016 is

reluctantly standing

down at the end of

this school year.

She has worked very hard on the team to fulfil our motto ‘a community not a committee’. Many of you will know her for being very at ease holding a microphone in her hand - compere extraordinaire! At the Bingo Night, Race Night and Fetes where her talents came to the fore!

We all wish her the very best in her paid role working for Trinity Homeless Charity. Sue will be heading the team in organising the Big Sleep Out 2018. Find out more, http://www.wearetrinity.org.uk/

 

PTA AGM Elections

We need to elect a core team ……

Sue’s post of Secretary is an elected post, therefore we need to replace her at our AGM on 16^th July 2018 at 8pm - the Beefeater, Premier Inn, Uxbridge.

 

St Mary’s PTA cannot exist without electing a new Chair, Treasurer and Secretary on an annual basis. Please send your application for one of these posts to Miss Shevlin by Wednesday 11^th July at 3.30pm.

 

In addition, it would be lovely to have a Vice Chair, Vice Treasurer, Class Rep. Co-ordinator and Event promotion Co-ordinator to support the team.

Summer Fete Update please help

 

• Can someone loan us a small counter-top freezer from Thursday 21^st June until after the fete on Saturday afternoon?
• Bring outgrown school uniform to the school w/c Monday 18th June
• Donate all your unwanted nearly-new cuddly toys to the school w/c Monday 18^th June
• Home made cakes please, especially chocolate!, bring to the school Friday 21^st June
• Full Throttle Wrestling, a huge hit last year, they are back! We need 5 men (or women) to put up the ring on the morning of the fete at 9am, please get in touch asap
• Gazebos, do you have one? Can we use it for the fete?
• We will not be having a book, DVD or toy stall this year, no need to save these items

 

£500 donation!!

 

A huge thank you to Sophie’s (Y6) Dad, who has secured this donation from his company, O’Halloran and O’Brien.

 

This demonstrates the importance of personal connections with a business. The PTA regularly write to many companies for support, largely without success. Therefore, please help us by being pro-active with your employer. They can only say ‘no’.