Newsletter - February 2009

Newsletters are sent home with the children on the first school-Tuesday of each month and are also on the school web-site.

FEBRUARY

4th Wednesday
9.15am Road Safety Quiz (Years 4, 5 and 6)

5th Thursday
Fire Officers will speak to both Year 5 classes

8th Sunday
10am Family Mass, St Marie’s Church  all welcome

11th Wednesday
7pm Governors Performance and Standards Committee

13th Friday
3.10pm Close for the half-term break

23rd Monday
8.45am  Children return for the second half of the term

27th Friday
6pm – 8pm PTA Family Bingo Evening

25th Wednesday
2.15pm   Worship for Ash Wednesday (school hall) – all welcome

26th Thursday
Year 3 sports festival

MARCH

3rd Tuesday
6pm Service of Reconciliation and first confessions – St Marie’s Church

4th Wednesday
1pm Indoor cricket tournament, Ryton
4pm Inter-school cross-country (Binley Woods)
7pm Governors Meeting

5th Thursday
WORLD BOOK DAY – children are encouraged to dress up as a character in a book – we ask each child to give £1 to the Pattaya Orphanage – the PTA is organising a book quiz, only 20p to enter, with a book prize for one child in each year – each child in school today receives a £1 book token

13th Friday
9.30am  Choir Festival (Bilton Junior School) – SCAMPS choir

20th Friday
1.30pm`2020 – performance for school
7pm       2020 – public performance) tickets now on sale £3/£1

21st Saturday
3pm       2020 – public performance)

27th Friday
3.30pm    Briefing for parents of children going to the Lake District in April

APRIL

1st Wednesday
10.30am  Year 6 Gaelic Football tournament, Coventry

3rd Friday
2pm  Dramatised assembly to recall the Last Supper of Jesus – all welcome
3pm  Close for the Easter holiday

NEWS AND SPORT

All are warmly invited to St Marie’s Church for a special Family Mass on Sunday 8th February at 10am.  This Mass will be especially suited to children and their families.

Netball – v. Paddox lost 1-8
Cross-country – four girls and five boys ran in an inter-school race, with Jack Cave, Thomas Hubbard, Kiana Kitching, Eleanor Bridgman and Bethany Spence qualifying for district trials.

The Times newspaper is currently running a “Books For Schools” promotion.  We are registered so do please send us the tokens!

There was an incident last week when two bottles of nail varnish brought in by a child (why?) were smashed by a child (probably a different one) causing considerable extra work for the caretaker and damage to the coats and bags of a few other children.   Parents are asked to be vigilant in checking that what their child brings to school is appropriate and necessary.