‘In the News’… Issue 34, 13th July 2018

Weeke Primary School Weekly Bulletin www.weekeprimary.com

Whole School Information

Reports

All parents and carers should now have received their child’s end of year report. As well as the report, there

will be a piece of your child’s work, an information leaflet about the assessment process and a feedback form.

We would be really grateful for your feedback – please hand forms to the office or send in via your child.

Celebration of work/meet the teacher evening

Next Wednesday (18th) we will hold our annual Celebration of work and meet the teacher evening, between

5pm and 6pm (please note that parents and carers of children in year 6, or wanting to meet our year 6

teachers, are invited to come in between 3.30pm – 4.30pm). This is an opportunity for parents/carers to come

to school with their child(ren) to look at this year’s books and also go to their child’s new classroom and meet

the teacher(s). Please note that the evening provides an opportunity for a review of work and general

introduction rather than an individual consultation. If you would like an individual meeting with your child’s

class teacher, please make an appointment with them directly.

Please note, the majority of books will be sent home over the coming days and we would be grateful if your

child could bring a carrier bag to school to transport them. A number of books will be kept at school until the

end of the autumn term for moderation purposes and will be returned in January.

Diamond Jubilee Photos

At the end of the newsletter, we have put together a number of photos from our Diamond Jubilee

celebrations; we hope you enjoy looking through them.

Hampshire CAMHS Great Big Bunting Off!

Last week some of our year four children attended ‘The Great Big Bunting Off’ as part of Hampshire CAMHS’

‘Everybody’ Campaign; a celebration of individuality and difference. The bunting created allowed people to

express their individuality and share opinions, thoughts and messages to the world through their individual

flags. CAMHS received 21,880 flags which equates to 3.26 miles!!!! Although the Guinness World Record was

not broken, it was a fantastic attempt which involved many thousands of young people. A huge thank you to

everyone involved - Hampshire CAMHS.

Friends Against Malaria

Libi, Isla, Phoebe and Neve in Y5 are very passionate about the charity Friends Against Malaria. We are trying

to raise money in order to purchase bed nets to protect families from malaria. Malaria is an illness caused by a

parasite on a mosquito. As a group we are doing a bake sale at school on Monday 16th July to carry out our

ambition. We would really appreciate it if you could stop off at our bake sale in the playground after school

and we would be thrilled if you could bake or buy a cake for us to sell. Every penny we raise will go towards

our charity. A bed net in Africa costs as much as an ice cream in England but can save a whole family’s lives.

Please help us as people living in malaria infested countries don’t deserve to die just because they can’t afford

treatment. Thank you.

Shooting Stars

There were no shooting stars awarded last week due to our Jubilee celebrations.

Sport

Our updated sports premium funding information is now on our website, along with

a list of all the coaching opportunities and tournaments that the children have been

involved in this year.

Year Group Information

Year R

We have had a very busy week preparing for our final assembly. The children have worked very hard and we

hope you all enjoyed watching it. We walked to the post box on Wednesday to send our postcards from the

Aquarium. Hopefully some of them should start arriving over the next few days. Thank you for all of the

stamps. We will be sending home PE kits at the beginning of next week, and learning journals will be sent

home towards the end of the week. Please can we ask for any reading books and library books to be

returned by Tuesday 17th July. Thank you.

Year 1

This week we have been completing our Scott of the Antarctic topic by sequencing the key events of his

expedition, discussing whether we would undertake the journey ourselves and if so, what would we need to

take with us. Finally, we designed our own commemorative stamps to show the three key facts we have

learnt. In Science we have learnt about the different ways that seeds are dispersed and we used the ipads to

write and debug algorithms; some of them were really tricky. Please can we ask for any reading books and

library books to be returned by Tuesday 17th July as we need to carry out our annual stock take. Thank you.

Year 2

We have had another fantastic week in Year 2 which ended with our wonderful trip to Southsea. The

children were absolutely brilliant on the trip and told us that they loved watching the hovercraft and finding

treasures on the beach the best. Sorry for all the rocks, pebbles and shells they came home with. Thank

you to all of the parents who helped out and to those of you who volunteered but didn’t come. We really

appreciate all of your support.

Marwell Zoo Animal Adoption

My name is Samuel Symons. I’m in Year 6 and when I was in Year 4 I organised Weeke Wildlife Day where

the children came dressed as animals and brought in a small donation for Marwell Zoo. We also enjoyed an

excellent talk from Mr Read, an ex-head zoo keeper at Marwell Zoo. We successfully raised £300 for Marwell

Zoo. On Wednesday 18th July, Marwell Zoo are coming back to talk to us about adopting some of the zoo

animals. They will tell us about how the money will be spent on their work on conservation of the animals and

their habitats. It will cost each year group £55 to be able to sponsor an animal. I am really passionate about

wildlife and about conservation so I would be really grateful if you could bring in a small donation on

Wednesday to make this happen. Thank you for supporting this. Samuel Symons.

Attendance

Congratulations to Yew and Willow Classes who had the best attendance in EYFS/KS1 both with 98.7% and

Elm Class with the best attendance in KS2 with 99.3%

Other classes with good attendance were Ash Class (97.4%), Rowan Class (98.0%), Larch Class (97.7%),

Cherry Class (98.7%) and Pine Class (97.3%). Well done everyone.

Year Group Information

Year 3

This week the children have been enjoying putting their striking and fielding skills to good use in rounders

matches. They have been inferring the character of Daedalus from story of Icarus and Daedalus and have

been describing him using this inference e.g. Daedalus is creative as he uses sea gull feathers and materials

around him to create wings. In maths the children have been estimating and measuring units of

measurement. This week is the last week of set homework – thank you for supporting your children with this

throughout the year.

Year 4

We would like to thank all of the children in Year 4 for producing such amazing pieces of art to celebrate the

Diamond Jubilee last week. Dan mesmerised the audience when he performed a piece of music that he had

composed by himself called ‘Classmates’. This week during our design technology sessions, children have

designed and started making their moving toys (with a rainforest theme). They have learnt about the

different materials and components needed to make their toys move, including the effect that different types

of cams, have on movement. In maths, both classes have taken part in a variety of sporting activities and will

be using the data they collected to make pictograms, bar charts and line graphs. Our tennis lessons at the

Tennis and Squash Club have now come to an end. We would like to thank all of you who gave up your time

to escort children to and from the club. We would like to remind you that there is a Year 4 assembly at 9am

on Tuesday, next week.

Year 5

What an amazing Jubilee celebration we enjoyed last week! Thanks you so much to all parents for sending in

drum making materials, T-shirts, lovely fancy dress for Thursday and all the other ways you have supported

your children and us this last week, and over the whole year. This week we’ve discovered the phases of the

moon, using Oreo cookies in science, different methods for division and multiplication, a little bit of how to

play cricket in PE and continued to explore refugees in our literacy lessons. We’ve managed to fit in a sneak

preview of the year 6 performance, and create images of Mongolia in the school grounds using clever angles

and photography.

Year 6

This week we have been busy putting the final touches to our end of year performance of Oliver. We are

really looking forward to sharing the performance with you next week (see newsletter for timings).

Alongside this we have been working on our Leaver’s Performance which will be on the last day of term.

We will be inviting the children to attend a small celebration the field from 1:30 till 3:00 next Thursday

afternoon. They are welcome to bring a change of clothes, we will provide the drinks and cake!

Letters and emails sent this week

9.7.18 WPSA Year Reps – Years 3 and 4

12.7.18 WPSA Auction items – whole school

Dates for your diary

NEW DATES FOR NEWSLETTER ARE IN RED

Term dates

For all term dates in 2017/2018 please see our website (Our school/school holidays).

INSETS

Monday 23rd July 2018

Monday 3rd September 2018

Monday 29th October 2018

Friday 25th January 2019

Monday 25th February 2019

Monday 3rd June 2019

Curriculum dates

Wednesday 18th July - Celebration of work/meet new class teacher evening

Years 1–5 5.00pm – 6.00pm, Year 6 – 3.30pm – 4.30pm

Thursday 19th July - Hazel Hill Wood trip with Miss Knapp

Assemblies and Performances

Tuesday 17th July – Year 4 assembly and classroom visit 9.00am

Tuesday 17th July – Year 6 performance to parents/carers arrive from 1.00 pm for 1.30 pm start

Wednesday 18th July – Year 6 performance to parents/carers 6.15pm

Friday 20th July – Year 6 Leavers Assembly 2.00 pm

WPSA The final count for the Summer Fete is in and it's a whopping £4,257!

The ice lolly sale last week raised a cool £133.60 and there are some left over which will be on sale this

week at the disco.

Today is leavers disco; KS1 will be 5.15pm - 6pm and KS2 will be 6.15pm - 7pm. Tickets sold on

the door for £3. Volunteers, please arrive 10 minutes before your disco slot. Remember your change for

extra snacks!

The Summer Party social is tomorrow at 7.30pm and we're aiming high with what we can raise! There's

just a few hours left if you want to bid for items or if you want to be part of the live auction: get in touch!

As this is the penultimate message of this school year, it's a time of thanks: to ALL those that helped or

donated, whether that be manning stalls, tidying up, donating a cake, entertaining - thank you.

To everyone that came along to an event, and joined in or bought something: thank you.

To those in the background, such as the birthday book club ladies, or updating the noticeboard, thank you.

However you have supported this school’s WPSA and therefore the CHILDREN: thank you!

See you in the playground, Michelle and Steve

weekeprimary.wpsa@gmail.com

Noticeboard in the playground by the gate

http://www.weekeprimary.com/wpsa.html

Facebook 'Weeke Primary School Association'

Diamond Jubilee Celebrations

Last week we held celebrations to mark our 60th year and gave the opportunity for those involved with the school in our

early years to return to the school and be part of our celebration. We were overwhelmed by the number of past

pupils/staff etc. who got in touch, with over 40 alumni coming in on Friday including a number of pupils and staff who

were at the school in 1957.

During Creative Arts Week, the children created some fantastic pieces of work, including bunting; tie-dye t-shirts, clay

figures and giant installations. Each year group explored an artist from a decade of the school’s history. We are so proud

of the displays around the school which look magnificent.

Our historical enquiry project has enabled the children to discover what life was like at Weeke ‘in the olden days’;

visitors to our school have really enhanced children’s learning and helped bring the past to life. Their work was displayed

as part of the jubilee celebrations for parents and visitors to view.

Mrs Sanjar has worked with the children at Weeke to create a mural that represents our school values; the school’s

aspirations for the children, in celebration of our Diamond Jubilee. Our school values – Kindness, Respect, Community,

Excellence and Responsibility - are an integral part of Weeke Primary School.

Each of the 60 leaf designs are based on the artwork created by 30 Key Stage 2 children and the shape of the leaves

found in the school grounds. An additional leaf will be added to represent every forthcoming year of Weeke. The journey

of each leaf signifies the individual path each of our children take and their achievements as they flourish, year on year.

Mrs Sanjar has spent a number of hours transferring their designs to our main entrance; we are incredibly grateful for all

of her efforts and work.

Dan Morris, in Year 4, is an exceptionally talented musician. We were thrilled when he agreed to create a piece of music

dedicated to our school’s Diamond Jubilee. Dan created a piece of music using some of his favourite pieces of music; he

called it ‘Classmates’ reflecting the fact that whilst many things change in a school the relationships that we build stand

the test of time.

Diamond Jubilee Celebrations

We have had such wonderful feedback from our alumni:

“The children were all very friendly and engaging, even with the stifling but glorious weather that day!

It was wonderful to be able to catch up with a few old friends who I had not seen in almost five decades! I was able to

add to my already cherished memories of Weeke Primary School.”

“The child playing the music before the unveiling of the artwork on the wall was absolutely astounding.”

“It was lovely to revisit the school after so many years and also to see it from an adult's view rather than a child's”

“It was so nice to relive my earlier days and see still familiar parts of the school alongside all the improvements. And I got

to meet my former teacher, Mr Tipple. Happy memories of times gone by and a lovely event. Thank you!”

Thank you to all our parents and visitors for coming to the school; for sharing your memories with us; sharing photos

and memorabilia. You all really helped to make our Jubilee Celebrations special; we will remember this for years to

come.

Diamond Jubilee Celebrations

Letters and emails sent this week 16.03.2015 Gym and Dance Display, Henry Beaufort, Year 5 16.03.2015 Cake Sale, Whole School 17.03.2015 Y6 Comic Relief Cake Bake, Whole School 17.02.2015 Y2 Assembly / Solar Eclipse, Whole School 19.03.2015 Dinner Monies, KS2 19.03.2015 Carfest, Whole School 19.03.2015 Solar Eclipse, Whole School 20.03.2015 Dance Busters Free Trial, Years 1-4

Diamond Jubilee Celebrations