CAPENHURST CE PRIMARY SCHOOL
NEWSLETTER
29th April 2013
Thank you for your patience during the disruptions this week. We are keeping a close eye on developments regarding the re-surfacing outside school and will let you know of any adaptations to drop off and collection arrangements should they be necessary.
Mrs Claire Green
Celebrations!
Pupils of the week:
Class 1: David Seddon for excellent behaviour
Class 2: Ewan McGinn working hard as a newspaper reporter & coming into school always with a smile
Class 3: Oliver Fenn for good concentration in Math and trying hard at reading comprehension
Class 4: Nathan Wainwright for trying really hard with handling data work
Cups were awarded to . Rosie Howling for always working hard and trying her best and Tyler Pover for working hard all week and being more settled. Well done to all the children who shared their successes in this week’s sharing assembly.
Holy Trinity Spring Fair
This is to be held in the Village Hall on Saturday 25th May from 10.00am until 12.00noon. Please come along and support this community event.
Fundraising appeal
The big day is drawing nearer when Naomi Bowden (Phoebe’s mum, Phoebe is in class 1) will run the Chester half marathon this year (the date is ??/) to raise funds for the Anya Bentham Appeal. Anya is a 2 yearlittle girl from Chester who is very poorly and funds are need forNeuroblastoma treatment. If you would like to make a donation please do so either via the internet (use the ’justgiving’ website underLomax Bowden) or cash donations can be given directly to Naomi and she will add them to the appeal. If you are unsure then send your donation to school in a named envelope and we will pass them onto Naomi for you. Thank you.
Thursday 2nd May - reminder
School will be closed on Thursday 2nd May due to
essential maintenance work being carried out by our electricity supplier.
Super Hero Friday
We have been invited to be part of Children’s Hospice week by the staff at Hope House and the final celebration of the week will be ‘Super Hero Friday!’ Hannah from the hospice came to speak to the children today and explain the work that they do to support children and families. She explained that the children can come dressed as any super hero, or as someone who is a superhero to them. This could be a family member or friend. They could also create their own super hero and design their own super outfit! In return, each child will be asked to donate £1 which will be passed to Hope House.
Friday looks like it is going to be a very colourful day - I look forward to seeing all their brilliant costumes and ideas.
Beeston
The final details of the upcoming trip to Beeston for the children in class 2 are almost ready. It will be an exciting opportunity for some children to experience their first residential. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact school and speak to me or Mrs Hough.
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NEWSLETTER
22nd April 2013
A big thank you to everyone who was able to support the bag pack at M&S organised by Friends of Capenhurst; it was lovely to see you all there and a great opportunity to tell others about our school. A fantastic total of £527.00 was raised providing valuable additional funds to support school through-out this year.
Mrs Claire Green
Thursday 2nd May
School will be closed on Thursday 2nd May due to essential maintenance work being carried out by our electricity supplier. There will be a separate letter coming home today with more details.
Fundraising:
The Year 6 Cake Sale on Friday raised £115.58 which will go towards the Year 6 Leavers Evening. Thankyou to all who supported this event.
M&S Bagpack: We would like to thank TE Hughes in Great Sutton for loaning us the Collection Buckets and Urenco who paid for the printing and supply of the t-shirts. Thank you to both for their support.
Sale Sharks rugby coaching
The children in classes 3 and 4 had a wonderful first training session with Will, a coach from Sale Sharks on Friday 19th April. There will be more of these sessions for both classes on the following few Fridays - please make sure your child has appropriate PE kit in school so that they can make the most of this exciting opportunity.
Super Hero Friday - Friday 3rd May
Children can dress up as a ‘Super Hero’ for the day for a donation of £1 to raise funds for Hope House Hospice.
Celebrations!
Pupils of the week:
Class 1: Aidan Yates for trying really hard with all his work and writing lovely independent sentence
Class 2: Daniel Brocklehurst for working hard all week especially in Maths.
Class 3: Millie Howling—working well in English and trying hard in Rugby.
Class 4: Matthew Booth - Working well with coordinates and reflecting shapes.
Cups were awarded to Joe Hughes for being very creative and tried very hard this week and enjoying the new topic. Ceredwen Fisher for consistently hard working and a good friend to all.
Well done to all the children who shared their successes in this week’s sharing assembly.
Beeston
The children in class 2 will have the opportunity to experience a residential trip to Beeston Outdoor Education Centre from 11th to 12th June. Once all the details have been finalised a letter will be set home with costs and forms. It will be an exciting opportunity for some children to experience their first residential. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact school and speak to me or Mrs Hough.
Holy Trinity Spring Fair
This is to be held in the Village Hall on Saturday 25th May from 10.00am until 12.00noon. Please come along and support this community event.
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CAPENHURST CE PRIMARY SCHOOL
NEWSLETTER
15th April 2013
Dear Parents/Carers,
Welcome Back! I hope that you have all had a restful and pleasant Easter break. The first newsletter for this new term is in a different format as there is a lot of information to share and many dates for your diary. The usual format will return next week.
There will be a sharing assembly this Friday at the usual time with a cake sale following it. This cake sale is to raise funds for the Year six leavers’ disco which will be held at the end of this term – more information will follow during the course of the coming weeks. Please bring your cakes to school on Friday morning and your purses to sharing assembly and at the end of the day!
New staff
The staff and I extend a warm welcome to Mrs Andrea Hough in class 2 .We hope you will be happy at Capenhurst and form friends that will stay with you for many years to come.
Lunches and Snacks – a reminder
Hot lunches are available to purchase on a daily basis, it is preferable that these are paid for in advance on a weekly, monthly or termly basis with cheques made payable to Cheshire West and Chester Council. To help with the administration and collection of monies for lunches and snacks, reminders will be sent home with the children on Fridays about any monies owing. If you are providing a lunch for your child from home, please make sure that they understand that it is not helpful when they change their mind and order a hot lunch once at school. It is hoped that this will minimise any confusion over missing monies and children ordering lunches in preference to a packed lunch. ALL money is to be sent to school in NAMED envelope.
If you choose to provide a snack from home, please ensure that it is a healthy snack such as fruit or a plain biscuit rather than a packet of crisps or chocolate. Fizzy drinks are not permitted in school.
We have a child in school with a nut allergy and as such I ask that you minimise the risk of a reaction for this child by choosing snacks and packed lunch contents appropriately. Please consider and avoid, where possible, items such as peanut butter, bags of nuts, health bars which contain nuts and some chocolate spreads. Thank you for your cooperation with this matter.
School uniform
At Capenhurst, we are very proud of our tradition of wearing our school uniform. Please support school in this matter by ensuring that all uniform is appropriate for school following the guidelines provided in the prospectus. School shoes are to be worn each day unless a letter about different footwear required for a trip is sent from school. All items of uniform and other belongings are to be clearly named to avoid confusion and aid the return of missing items.
Long hair is to be tied back when in school. This keeps hair out of your child’s face when they are working and it is essential for P.E. activities to avoid hair begin caught in equipment and apparatus.
P.E. kits are to be brought to school on Monday and remain in school until Friday to ensure that each child has a change of clothes in school should the usual days for P.E. need to change or extra sessions are planned.
The term ahead
There are many events planned for the coming term and these will be detailed in the weekly newsletters or through letters from the class teachers if they concern individual classes. This term will be a busy one with children preparing for end of year assessments. The children in Year Six will be undertaking their SATs during the week commencing 13th May 2013. Ensure your child is in school for these tests. Children in other year groups will be undertaking end of year assessments during the following week and/or June.
Rugby training sessions for classes 3 and 4 commence on Friday 19th April and will be delivered by a coach from Sale Sharks rugby Club as detailed in previous newsletters. Please make sure your child has their full outdoor PE kit in school for these sessions.
There is a list of dates of upcoming events at the end of this letter and a table showing the term dates for next school year 2013/14.
If you have any questions or queries about the information in this letter, please contact me at school.
Yours sincerely,
Mrs Claire Green
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