Dear parents and carers,
Harvest Festival
Thank you for your food donations. These were taken to church and will be passed to the Bicester Food Bank. The Harvest Festival service was obviously very different this year. The children prepared video clips of different sections, and they watched them in class yesterday. If you would like to watch them yourself please follow this link:
http://dr-souths.co.uk/harvest-festival-2020/
The password will be e-mailed to parents separately.
Medical Notes
In accordance with advice from Public Health England, we are trying to ensure the classrooms have as much ventilation as possible. It is a difficult call balancing ventilation with comfort, but we aim to have windows open during lessons if we can and open doors during break times. Please make sure your child has layers on, particularly on PE days, when they may be wearing shorts; it is perfectly acceptable to wear track suit bottoms over the shorts in class. Please also ensure your child has a coat as we expect the children to go outside even if it is drizzling.
Drop Off and Collection
This is working well overall, but we need to make sure everybody sticks to their times to prevent large groups building up. Please follow these timings:
A-G 8.45am 3.00pm
H-O 8.55am 3.05pm
P-Z 8.55am 3.10pm
This way the playground can be empty by 9.00am and 3.15pm.
Playtime Snacks
If you wish to send a healthy snack for your child for playtime, please send in a piece of fruit or similar. Children in Willow and Ash classes receive a piece of fruit from the government scheme, so you do not need to send one in if your child is in one of these classes.
This week we congratulated:
Willow Class: Aaron, for beautiful reading and being kind to his friends;
Ash Class: Fred, for brilliant independent writing; Evie, for a lovely harvest prayer;
Oak Class: Math, for great enthusiasm for all his work; Isabella, for an excellent explanatory text;
Beech Class: Flossie, for a thoughtful harvest prayer; Tausif, for a positive attitude towards his work.
Our Christian Value this term is Responsibility. Ask your child about the parable of the talents.
Future events (w/b 5th October)
Cookery: Beech
Monday 5th Year 6 Forest School
Tuesday 6th Oak Class group A Forest School
Mrs Robinson is on First Aid training
Dates for the year
26/10/2020 Half term week
09/11/2020 Beech Class cycling proficiency
04/12/2020 St Nicholas service – provisional
09/12/2020 Willow Class Nativity – provisional
10/12/2020 Reception to Year 6 flu immunisation
17/12/2020 Carol service – provisional
End of term
18/12/2021 INSET Day – school closed
04/01/2021 INSET Day – school closed
05/01/2021 Start of term
12/02/2021 Soup Lunch and Talent Show – provisional
15/02/2021 Half term week
10/03/2021 Reception and Year 6 Heights and Weights measurement
31/03/2021 Stations of the Cross service – provisional
End of term
19/04/2021 Start of term
03/05/2021 Bank Holiday – school closed
10/05/2021 Year 6 SATS
28/05/2021 May Day – provisional
31/05/2021 Half term week
07/06/2021 Beech Class residential – very provisional
01/07/2021 Sports Day – provisional
07/07/2021 Ash/Willow production (afternoon) – provisional
15/07/2021 Oak/Beech production (evening) – provisional
21/07/2021 Leavers’ Service
End of term
22/07/2021 INSET Day – school closed
01/09/2021 INSET Day – school closed
02/09/2021 Start of term