Buckton Vale Primary School

Newsletter No 27 Friday 5

th April 2019

School will close today, Friday 5th

April for the Easter Holidays. Thank you all for

all your continued support and we look forward to seeing everyone when school

reopens on Tuesday 23rd

April.

Wishing you all a Happy Easter!

Parents Evening Feedback Questionnaires As usual, we are extremely pleased with the high percentage turnout at parents’ evening this last week.

Over 90% of parents managed to attend planned appointments. For those unable to make a specific time

teachers accommodated early morning appointments instead. This takes our total to over 94% and is

testament to the community spirit and your continued support of the school. We would like to offer

sincere thanks to you all. Please see the following page for the questionnaire results.

On the very rare occasion you are unhappy with any aspect of school please share it with a class teacher.

We cannot support if we are unware of your concerns.

Book Bus Visit We are excited to announce that the Book

Bus will be visiting school on Tuesday 23rd

April 2019. More information was sent home

this week. Please see the text message sent

home on Thursday 4th

April.

Random Reading

As part of our drive to encourage a love of reading we are asking the children to send us a picture of

themselves reading in an unusual place. We would like to showcase these photographs on a reading

display in school. Please either print your photographs or send them for the attention of Miss Woodhouse

to admin@bucktonvale.tameside.sch.uk. We are excited to see where our children choose to read!

Beech Class and Sycamore Class Castles

WOW! Have you seen our Castles? All of the staff and many visitors have been amazed at the high

standard of this project homweork. We love that you have all embraced the challenge and worked

together as families to learn so much about castles. This shows a really deep interest in learning.

A recent visitor said ‘I am so impressed

to see such dedication to learning from

children so young. I actually can’t

believe these castles were made by

children in Year 1 and 2. How lucky are

they to have families who worked

together? I can just imagine the

conversations about castles and where

they are. It is such a great idea I am going to share it at my school.’

Congratulations to all of the children who took part in this project. We are all very proud of you.

Additional Comments Additional Comments Additional Comments Additional Comments

Evaluation ResultsEvaluation ResultsEvaluation ResultsEvaluation Results

40 parents that attended completed an evaluation

1.1.1.1. Did you get enough warning about the scheduled date for parents evening?

100%

2.2.2.2. Did you feel like the length of the appointment was long enough? If not, were you offered an alternative time?

97.5%

3.3.3.3. Were you able to attend appointments for all your children who attend the school?

100%

4.4.4.4. Were you given clear information about your child’s next steps?

97.5%

5.5.5.5. Is there any aspect of your child’s learning that you would like further information on?

93%

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You saidYou saidYou saidYou said thank you for all your

hard work!

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You saidYou saidYou saidYou said well-structured and very

pleasing.

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You saidYou saidYou saidYou said really happy with progress made

during the current year.

You saidYou saidYou saidYou said you would like more discussion

about the creative subjects.

We willWe willWe willWe will ensure that we allocate some

time to feedback about the creative

subjects during subsequent parents

evenings.

We willWe willWe willWe will also look at consistency of

homework given out across Key Stage 2.

You saidYou saidYou saidYou said great communication!

You saidYou saidYou saidYou said very informative and helpful

regarding child’s emotional state too.

You saidYou saidYou saidYou said we are extremely happy

with the progress that our

children are making.

You saidYou saidYou saidYou said well lead and

very informative.

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Special Achievement Awards Congratulations to all our Special Achievers this term.

Year 6 - Enterprise The Year 6 children will be taking part in the Enterprise in June. They need empty

‘Coloured Fruit Shoot’ bottles and balls of wool for their projects. If you have any,

please send them into Year 6.

Thank you.

Mossley’s Got Talent Congratulations to all our children who participated in the Mossley’s Got Talent Show on Thursday. They

were Madison D, Erin P, Maisie R, Alice L and Ruby M. The children were an absolute credit to the school.

Our Year 6 Girls (Erin, Maisie, Alice and Ruby) came 3rd

in the final. Well done to you all! The overall winner

was Brodie from Mossley Hollins.

School Uniform Reminder Many of you commented on how useful it was to have our uniform provider on site during parents

evening. We are working with them to continue this for further events and will keep you updated. On

almost all occasions pupils at Buckton Vale adhere to our school uniform policy. In case you are ready to

purchase new unform over the holiday I have inserted a reminder copied from our Uniform Policy (on our

website.)

• White polo shirt, white shirt or blouse

• Green sweatshirt or cardigan (with or without school logo on)

• Grey skirt, Pinafore dress

Suitable school shoes

Unsuitable school

shoes

• Grey/green tights

• Grey, black or white socks

• Grey trousers or shorts

• Summer option: Green/White checked dress

• Suitable outdoor footwear (black flat shoes – not trainers)

• In winter, boots can be worn for the journey to school and suitable shoes must be brought to change into once inside

• We ask that pupils bring a suitable coat and a suitable bag. ( we ask the bag is as small as possible to fit into our new lockers)

PE Kit:

• White T-shirt , dark shorts

• Suitable footwear – Trainers (Girls and Boys)

• PE Kits should be stored in an appropriate bag (such as a drawstring bag) that can be hung up in the cloakroom

area. Each item should be named.

• Swimming: girls must wear a one-piece swimming costume. Boys must wear trunks or ‘short’ swimming shorts

(not baggy Bermuda type shorts).

Jewellery:

For Health and Safety reasons, we do not allow children to wear jewellery in school. The exception to this rule is a

watch.

Earrings are not allowed under any circumstances. Pupils should remove earrings for school. When getting ears

pierced for the first time, this should take place at the start of the summer holidays so that the earring holes do not

close during the school day. Plasters worn over earrings are not acceptable.

Hair:

• Hairstyles should be reasonable and appropriate for being in a learning environment at school. Extreme

hairstyles are not acceptable at school. This would include shaved patterns in the scalp, Mohicans and

unnaturally coloured dyes.

• All children, girls and boys, are required to have their hair tied back, if long enough.

• Hair accessories such as bobbles, headbands and hair slides should be plain and in neutral or school uniform

colours. Very large bows and brightly coloured hair accessories are not appropriate.

Make-up is not acceptable under any circumstances, including nail varnish. Fake tattoos are not appropriate at

school and must be removed without trace. A child coming to school with fake tattoos will be asked to remove them.

Year 5 - Swimming If you have not already brought in £1 (cash) for your Swimming Badge, please bring this on the first

Wednesday back in school, 24th

April.

After School Clubs All before and after school clubs will start again the first week back.

Clubs have had places allocated to the same children again for next term. There are some spaces available

on some of the clubs, LIMITED PLACES AVAILABLE. There are also two new clubs starting when we return,

Tag Rugby on Wednesdays and Tennis on Fridays

To book a place, please look in the SHOP area on www.eduspot.co.uk. (see instructions below)

Please make payments before 22nd

April.

A fond farewell to Mr Luckman

Mr Luckman will be leaving us shortly after the May holiday. He is emigrating to Canada after falling in love

with the country on his sabbatical a year ago. Mr Luckman has been a teacher with us for over 6 years and

will certainly be missed by all the staff and many children whom have been taught by him. We wish him

well for his future. A separate letter to Mr Luckman’s class has been sent with details about their new

teacher joining us after the May holiday. We are so looking forward to welcoming Mrs Ingram to our team.

Outstanding Payments Please bring all outstanding payments up to date including school meals, clubs and trips. School meals

should be paid for in advance. Please see school Policy for the Recovery of Unpaid Dinner Monies for more

details.

Recycling Boxes As part of our continued work to help with the environment we have a new recycling box. Can you bring in

any old jewellery, coins, mobile phones, cameras and stamps? Are you going on holiday? If you have any

spare change from your foreign currency we would be very grateful if you could pop it into our new box.

The proceeds collected from this recycling will be used to support a school online MADD About Bullying

program supporting many young people. Thank you in advance for your support.

Big Battery Hunt Thank you for bringing all your batteries in so far, the tub is almost full, but don’t

worry a new one will be on its way soon. This project will continue so please carry

on collecting your old batteries. Thank you. We appreciate your support of this

recycling initiative.

Future Events and Important Dates

Please see the Calendar of Events sent home previously with more dates for future events. The calendar is

also on the school website.

Easter Soccer Camp – Inspire Sports Coaching

Our Sports Coaches Mr Williams & Mr Bennett at Inspire Sports Coaching will be running an Easter Soccer

camp on 10th

April 2019, the venue will be at Active Copley in Stalybridge.

Drop off from 9:30am and pick up from 15:00pm. The day is run by FA Qualified coaches and the day is

carefully structured to ensure the children have fun whilst learning new skills, drills, fun games and

Matches there will also be trophies and prizes on the day. Inspire Sports would love to give Buckton Vale

pupils early access to book as there is only 30 spaces available the price is £20 for the day and to book

please go to the link below or email below. We look forward to seeing you all there,

Regards

info@inspire-sc.co.uk

Wayne Williams

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/easter-soccer-camp-tickets-58369099548

Easter Soccer Camp

www.eventbrite.co.uk

Easter Soccer Camp with Inspire Sports Coaching is back. This time we are running this from Active

Copley 3G pitches on 10th April. Drop off at 9:30 and pick up at 15:00. All staff are FA qualified

coaches and DBS checked. The day will be filled with fun football drills, skills and games with prizes to

be won on the day. Age ranges 5-11 year olds

Instructions for payments on Eduspot/schoolmoney

Either click the link on the text message you receive from school, or search for www.schoolmoney.co.uk or

www.eduspot.co.uk You will be directed to this screen:

STEP 1

STEP 2

STEP 3

Select SIGN IN

Then select the last option:

Schoolmoney parent login

The Parental Login will ask the following:

Mobile (this is the number you have

received your text on)

Email (this is the email address you have

supplied school with)

Password (this will be included in your text

message)

Child’s First Name Then select GO

Select School Shop

Any clubs available will be there.