Headteacher: Mr R Stead Tel: 01823 400439

office@milvertonprimary.co.uk www.milvertonprimary.co.uk

School and Office Opening Hours

School - 8.45am - 3.15pm Office - 8.30am - 4pm Morning club - 8am

Sports clubs 3.15pm –4.30pm

Toasties 3.15pm –4.30/5.45pm

Friday Flyer 25th Nov 2016—Issue No. 11

Diary Dates

Animal Themed Non-Uniform Day

MSA Christmas Fair Friday 2nd December

Year 1, 2 & 3 Flu Vaccinations Tuesday 6th December

‘Curious Creatures’ Puppet Show at school for all pupils

Monday 12th December

Sharing Lunch Tuesday 13th December

Reception Class Nativity at 9.30am Thursday 15th December

Millennium Christmas Lunch Thursday 15th December

Last Day of Term Christmas Service at St Michael’s

Church at 2pm Friday 16th December

Christmas Holidays Monday 19th December—Monday

2nd January 2017

INSET DAY (School closed to pupils) Tuesday 3rd January 2017

School Opens to Pupils Wednesday 4th January 2017

House Points Weekly Total Half Term Total

Horse Chestnut 349 968

London Plane 331 1016

Blue Cedar 322 1103

Cork Oak 244 838

Dear Parents and Carers, The final sentence in our Vision Statement is “The world is our classroom!” You can see that our vision lives and breathes through our diversity of learning presented in this week’s Flyer! Next Friday is our MSA Christmas Fair. Please come and help decorate the hall between 7 & 8pm on Thursday 1st December to really get the festive atmosphere started! Mr R Stead

Golden Mile Tally (in miles)

Class Total

Reception 9.13

Class 1 14.17

Class 2 60.21

Class 3 27.25

Class 4 68

Class 5 113.52

Class 6 16.88

It was a fabulous Friday when my class and I all

went to Taunton Museum to learn all about the

Anglo-Saxons and their history. My partner was

Ethan and we both sang fun songs and played lots

of games whlist we were on the bus. We were

driving past a lot of houses and then I saw a sign

saying Taunton Museum. I knew we were nearly

there because I could see a tremendously big

house through the trees. When we were inside the

Museum, we were told to go downstairs and to

meet a lady called Chloe who told us some facts

about the Anglo-Saxons. She also told us a story

about King Alfred and we all got to take

part. Sam and Reuben were the kings, I was an

old granny and everyone else were villagers. After

this, Class 4 and some children from Class 3

went upstairs to learn more from the artefacts in

the museum and we had a task to complete. We

then had lunch together. After this, my class and I

had a chance to make an Anglo-Saxon aestel,

write in clay using the Anglo-Saxon alphabet and

visit the museum one last time. Finally, we got

back on the bus and went back to school. Overall,

this was a good educational trip to the museum.

by James, Class 4

On Tuesday the school had a visitor from The Blue Cross. The Blue Cross is a charity that looks after rescued animals and tries to re-home them. Margaret told us that they look after all animals from tiny mice up to big hors-es! She spoke to all the children about how to look after pets and how to keep safe around unfamiliar dogs. This visit about animal wel-fare supports all our work on Animal Magic! Mrs Nicholls

OUTSTANDING LEARNERS OF THE WEEK Class R Jay for remembering so many letters in phonics and beginning to blend beautifully!

Class 1 Ollie for his super work with subtraction in Maths this week.

Class 2 Amber for her kind and caring attitude towards younger children in the dinner hall. A wonderful role model, well done Amber.

Class 3 The whole of Class 3 for a brilliant sharing assembly.

Class 4 Evie for the extra effort she is making in class this week

Class 5 & 6 Well done to all Class 5 & 6 for their fantastic effort in their curriculum evening.

Handmade Christmas Tree Decoration Competition

We’re looking forward to seeing the lovely creations the children have made. Decorations must be: Handmade at home by the children (Clearly labelled

with child’s name and class) Returned to school with £1 on Wednesday 30th No-

vember Winners will be announced on Thursday 1st December

during assembly.

Only 1 week to go until the Christmas Fair! We need donations of: Unwanted books/DVDs/Games/Toys/Bric-a-Brac Cakes/mice pies for the café Jam jars filled with a surprise Please leave these in the school foyer (cakes etc on Friday 2nd December). Help needed—we would love it if you are able to come and help set up. We’ll be setting up in the hall from 1.40pm on Fri-day 2nd December. Come and give us a hand if you can!

On Wednesday 23rd November, Class 5 was lucky enough to spend the day at Taunton School producing a 'play in a day'. The children worked incredibly hard learning songs, dance moves and lines to put on a fabulous performance based on A Midsummer Night's Dream. All the children threw themselves into the activ-ities, with some of the boys getting to

experience authentic Shake-speare by fulfilling the roles of princesses and fairies. Thank you to all the parents that came to watch the final performance and well done to all of the children involved - I was a very proud teacher!

Miss Gauntlett

On Wednesday Class 2 went to Kingsmead School to take part in The Year 2 Sports Fes-tival. The children joined in with lots of sporting activi-ties including - ball con-trol, balancing, parachute games and target practice. It was a great, fun, active morn-ing. Thank you to Ms Williams (Mylo's mummy) for coming with us. Mrs Nicholls

A squad of seven chil-dren from Class 6 went to Kingsmead School for a badmin-ton tournament. It was a friendly tour-nament, so it was just for fun! We won most of our matches

and we came joint 2nd place and had a great time. The team was: Charlotte, Freya, Finley, Saffron, Bren-dan, Ronnie and Tom. Freya, Class 6