Newsletter 3rd October 2018School Admissions: Is your child due to either start primary school or leave their current school in July 2019 and transfer to the next school in September 2019? The closing date for Secondary Applications is 31st October 2018, and for Primary Applications is 15th January 2019. Please see poster on noticeboard at school entrance for details.

Playground Improvements: Mrs Weale and family would like to say a huge, Thornford School thank you to the many local businesses that kindly donated items to enhance our EYFS/KS1 playground area, including Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Waitrose, Mole Valley Farmers, Castle Gardens, B&Q, Homebase and Palmers Garden Centre. The children will continue to enjoy the planting/mud kitchen area and additional tools and equipment over the school year and beyond!

World Mental Health Awareness Day: Wednesday 10th October is Mental Health Awareness Day, so please send your child into school on Wednesday wearing something yellow and £1. This money will go to The Mental Health Foundation.

Healthy Lunchboxes: As we are a ‘Healthy Eating School’, this is a reminder to please give your child healthy food in their lunchboxes. Examples are: yogurts, sandwiches with savoury fillings, fruit and raw vegetables.

We would be very grateful if parents could check the finishing time of their child’s club. Teachers, Teaching Assistants and Governors give their time freely to run these clubs and would appreciate it if children were collected on time as they have other commitments afterwards. Many thanks for your cooperation with this.

Clubs Finishing timesDay Club Finish TimeMonday KS1 Book 4 pm

Art 4:10 pmNetball 4:10 pm

Tuesday Football 4:10 pmWednesday Drama 4:20 pmThursday Tag Rugby 4:10 pmFriday Footie4Dorset 4:20 pm

School Photos: The children are having photos taken on Wednesday 17th October. If you would like your pre-school child to have a photo taken with your child, please come to school at the earlier time of 8:30am.

Harvest Festival and Newcomers’ Service: This Friday we have a Harvest Festival and Newcomers’ Service at Thornford Church at 9:30am, please bring non-perishable items to the old hall before 8:55am on Friday to donate to the Lord’s Larder. This charity provides emergency food supplies for people in need in the local area. e.g. Packets of Rice; UHT Milk; Tinned Curry; Puddings; Tins of Baked Beans; 80 Tea Bags. Many thanks!

Goodbye and Good Luck to Elaine John and Zoe Hallett

It was with great sadness that we said goodbye To Mrs. Hallett and Mrs. John, last week. Both have worked amazingly hard for the pupils, staff and parents at Thornford ; Zoe for 7 years and Elaine for 3 years. We will miss them terribly but wish them lots of luck in Yorkshire (Mrs. John) and at Kingsbury Episcopi Primary School (Mrs.Hallett). We had a lovely staff afternoon tea with them in the sunshine, on Thursday (see picture). We would like to extend a big Thornford welcome to Mrs Louise Heath, who will be taking on the full time role of Administration Officer. We are very much looking forward to working with her from 15th October.

As always, if you have any issue to discuss, please contact myself or my staff at the school.

Neela Brooking (Headteacher) office@thornford.dorset.sch.uk 01935 872706

Diary Dates

Thursday 4th October Bags2School Collection before 9:00am

Football at Sherborne Abbey School Y3/4 and Y5/6

Friday 5th October Harvest festival followed by FTS Coffee morning in the new hall

Wednesday 10th October Mental Health Awareness Day wear uniform with something

Yellow e.g. badge, hair band, ribbon, scarf, hat, T shirt etc.

Y2 Author Eve Coy workshop at Bradford Abbas

Thursday 11th October Y6 tag Rugby Tournament Sherborne Primary School 1-3pm

KS1 Parents’ assembly

Tuesday 16th October School Nurse Drop-in

YR and Y6 Heights and Weights

Y1/2 Football Tournament at Sherborne Abbey School 4pm

Sherborne Abbey School

Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th October Parents’ Consultation Evenings-please sign up in

the old school hall on Monday 8th October from 3:20pm

Wednesday 17th October Tempest Photography in school. Please bring any pre-school

siblings up to school by 8:30am

Friday 19th October Open morning for prospective parents YR 2019-2020

Monster Disco KS1 6-7pm KS2 7-8pm

Monday 22nd-25th October Half Term holiday

Wednesday 3st October Y5 parents Mill on the Brue Information Evening 6pm

Science lessons with Sherborne Girls’ School

Y5s have been lucky to work with two Science teachers from Sherborne Girls’ School on Magnetism and Electricity with them over the last 2 weeks. We have 2 more sessions to look forward to