Newsletter 4 Term 1
s! SSJS New Term 1 Newsletter 4
Have a great half term! Thank you to all the children, staff, parents, carers and our wider community for what has been a wonderful term. Lots of exciting learning has taken place and the children have done really well. We have an INSET day tomorrow (Friday 21st) when we will be welcoming 7 local primary schools to SSJS from the local East Bath Learning Partnership, over 130 school staff will be sharing best practice and taking part in training which will include Thrive, Primary Dance, Esafety, Growth Mindset and Forest School, to name just a few. Keep an eye on our Twitter Feed to see some photos from the day. Have a great half term and see you all back at school on Monday 31st October.
20th October 2016
Harvest Donations Thanks to all the families that donated food as part of this years collection. Your donations will go to the local Food Bank.
Mr Beament
We need you! Christmas is just round the corner and we have a planned date of Friday 2nd December 3.30pm—5pm for the school’s Christmas Fair. We want this to be a huge success, raise lots of money for the school and most importantly be a fun experience for our families. The Christmas Fair can only take place with a team of volunteers that can bring ideas, plan, organise and help on the day. Mr Beament invites you to a meeting on:
Tuesday 8th November at 2.30pm Mr Beament will lead and chair this meeting. By helping out at the Christmas Fair you are not committing to becoming a PTA member however we would love to have more parents on board in the future.
The new website is due to go live during the half term holiday! Thank you to parents who have fed back to the website survey and the positive feedback I have received on the new style newsletters. If there is anything you feel is not communicated effectively through the newsletter, website, email system or Twitter. Please let us know. We are very keen to continue to improve communication with our families and keep you informed and up to date with everything happening at SSJS.
Lunchtime Quiet Club to start after half term Next term quiet club will start at lunchtimes. This gives children who struggle with lunchtime or children that just want a quiet lunchtime a space to read, chat, colour and just relax.
Year 5 (Miss Parkes) Class Assembly has had to be moved and will now take place on Friday 9th December at 2.45pm.
Parent’s Evenings Will be held next Term: Monday 14th November 5pm-8pm
Parents and Carers are all welcome!
Thursday 17th November 4pm-7pm
A surprise visit from an Olympic silver medallist The children had a surprise visit from Olympic silver medallist, Siobhan-Marie O'Connor. She spent the whole morning visiting classrooms, answering questions, signing autographs and having photos taken. All the children were lucky enough to hold the silver medal and ask lots of questions. The children were very excited (as were some of the staff!)
After our successful trial and staff training, all classes will be using Class Dojo next term. We are now ready to implement the approach fully along with a new behaviour policy. The policy will be finalised by staff at the beginning of next term and will include the full explanation of our Class Dojo approach. This policy will then be shared with parents and carers. Thank you to all the parents, children and staff for their feedback during this trial. It’s great to hear it is having a positive impact in school and at home. We have made a number of tweaks during this trial which will ensure the official roll out next term should be a success.
Here are a few ideas for free activities over the half term. Museums Week (formerly known as Heritage Week) – from 22 to 30 October. See http://www.bathmuseumsweek.co.uk/ for a full list and events times You will need your Discovery Card (B&NES residents only) to get in free to most venues.
We are delighted to announce that we have achieved the Sainsbury’s School Games mark at Silver standard for our commitment and development of competition, school sport and Physical Education. What is the Sainsbury’s School Games Mark? The Sainsbury’s School Games Mark is a Government led awards scheme launched in 2012 to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community.
Bath City Farm 25 October 11am – 2pm – Apple & Pumpkin day 29 October 1pm – 4pm – Halloween Fun Bath Area Play Project 25 October – 5pm to 6.30 – Community Play Ranger session at Bath City Farm 27 October – 6pm to 7.30 - Park in the Dark play event at Victoria Park In the Bristol area there is: M Shed, which has the STEAM powered big draw on 25 October and steam train rides (not free unless you are under 6, £2 single fare or £3 return fare to SS Great Britain) on 22 and 29 October; Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, which has the Imagination Museum dance event on 22 October and guided tours of the Jurassic fossils on 26 October; Blaise Castle which has a Halloween Family Fun event on 26 October.
Massive thanks to Mrs Barlow who has been instrumental to helping the school achieve this award.
Have a great half term! Thank you to all the children, staff, parents, carers and our wider community for what has been a wonderful term. Lots of exciting learning has taken place and the children have done really well. We have an INSET day tomorrow (Friday 21st) when we will be welcoming 7 local primary schools to SSJS from the local East Bath Learning Partnership, over 130 school staff will be sharing best practice and taking part in training which will include Thrive, Primary Dance, Esafety, Growth Mindset and Forest School, to name just a few. Keep an eye on our Twitter Feed to see some photos from the day. Have a great half term and see you all back at school on Monday 31st October.
20th October 2016
Harvest Donations Thanks to all the families that donated food as part of this years collection. Your donations will go to the local Food Bank.
Mr Beament
We need you! Christmas is just round the corner and we have a planned date of Friday 2nd December 3.30pm—5pm for the school’s Christmas Fair. We want this to be a huge success, raise lots of money for the school and most importantly be a fun experience for our families. The Christmas Fair can only take place with a team of volunteers that can bring ideas, plan, organise and help on the day. Mr Beament invites you to a meeting on:
Tuesday 8th November at 2.30pm Mr Beament will lead and chair this meeting. By helping out at the Christmas Fair you are not committing to becoming a PTA member however we would love to have more parents on board in the future.
The new website is due to go live during the half term holiday! Thank you to parents who have fed back to the website survey and the positive feedback I have received on the new style newsletters. If there is anything you feel is not communicated effectively through the newsletter, website, email system or Twitter. Please let us know. We are very keen to continue to improve communication with our families and keep you informed and up to date with everything happening at SSJS.
Lunchtime Quiet Club to start after half term Next term quiet club will start at lunchtimes. This gives children who struggle with lunchtime or children that just want a quiet lunchtime a space to read, chat, colour and just relax.
Year 5 (Miss Parkes) Class Assembly has had to be moved and will now take place on Friday 9th December at 2.45pm.
Parent’s Evenings Will be held next Term: Monday 14th November 5pm-8pm
Parents and Carers are all welcome!
Thursday 17th November 4pm-7pm
A surprise visit from an Olympic silver medallist The children had a surprise visit from Olympic silver medallist, Siobhan-Marie O'Connor. She spent the whole morning visiting classrooms, answering questions, signing autographs and having photos taken. All the children were lucky enough to hold the silver medal and ask lots of questions. The children were very excited (as were some of the staff!)
After our successful trial and staff training, all classes will be using Class Dojo next term. We are now ready to implement the approach fully along with a new behaviour policy. The policy will be finalised by staff at the beginning of next term and will include the full explanation of our Class Dojo approach. This policy will then be shared with parents and carers. Thank you to all the parents, children and staff for their feedback during this trial. It’s great to hear it is having a positive impact in school and at home. We have made a number of tweaks during this trial which will ensure the official roll out next term should be a success.
Here are a few ideas for free activities over the half term. Museums Week (formerly known as Heritage Week) – from 22 to 30 October. See http://www.bathmuseumsweek.co.uk/ for a full list and events times You will need your Discovery Card (B&NES residents only) to get in free to most venues.
We are delighted to announce that we have achieved the Sainsbury’s School Games mark at Silver standard for our commitment and development of competition, school sport and Physical Education. What is the Sainsbury’s School Games Mark? The Sainsbury’s School Games Mark is a Government led awards scheme launched in 2012 to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community.
Bath City Farm 25 October 11am – 2pm – Apple & Pumpkin day 29 October 1pm – 4pm – Halloween Fun Bath Area Play Project 25 October – 5pm to 6.30 – Community Play Ranger session at Bath City Farm 27 October – 6pm to 7.30 - Park in the Dark play event at Victoria Park In the Bristol area there is: M Shed, which has the STEAM powered big draw on 25 October and steam train rides (not free unless you are under 6, £2 single fare or £3 return fare to SS Great Britain) on 22 and 29 October; Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, which has the Imagination Museum dance event on 22 October and guided tours of the Jurassic fossils on 26 October; Blaise Castle which has a Halloween Family Fun event on 26 October.
Massive thanks to Mrs Barlow who has been instrumental to helping the school achieve this award.
