Falconhurst School Autumn 2 Term Newsletter

9.12.2016

TERM DATES 2017

Spring Term Wednesday

4th January

Monday 20th

February

Friday 10th

February

Friday 31st

March

Summer Term Tuesday 18th

April

Monday 5th

June

Friday 26th

May

Friday 21st

July

Training Days

Tuesday 3rd January

Monday 24th July

CHRISTMAS DISCO

School Christmas Disco is tonight, 9th December. Times are:

Rec, Y1 & Y2 5.00-6.15pm

Y3, Y4, Y5 & Y6 7.00-8.15pm

Tickets are £1.50 and can be purchased in the school office

or on the door. Refreshments will be available too!

WELCOME BACK

Welcome back Miss Metcalfe!!! We are very pleased to have Miss Metcalfe back from maternity leave in Y4Sharks.

GOOD WISHES

We would like to wish Miss Carter all the very best for her forth coming maternity leave. Miss Carter is expecting twin boys in March 2017. Mrs Saunders will be covering Miss Carter, so we look forward to her joining our Falconhurst family from January 2017.

SCHOOL

IS BACK ON

WEDNESDAY

4TH JANUARY

2017

THANK YOU

Thank you Mrs King for being wonderful in Y4 Sharks and covering Miss Metcalfe’s maternity leave. We wish you all the best for 2017.

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MR NASH

Congratulations on your promotion to Phase Leader for LKS2. We know that you’ll do a great job!

WINTER WEATHER

Please ensure you have added your mobile number to the Milton Keynes

Council FREE Text message service where if the school is closed due to bad weather, you will receive a message notifying you. Go onto http://

www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/Closures/Subscribe If you need help with this please see Mrs Turner in the school of-fice and she will be happy to help add you.

Please also remember that your child must come to school with NAMED, warm coats, hats, gloves & scarves.

CANCER RESEARCH & CHILDREN IN NEED

We are over the moon at the kind donations that families made for both charities. Cancer Research raised £751.40 and Children in Need raised £206.50.

Thank you to everyone. £206.50 was also raised for playground equipment.

PUPIL PREMIUM

Please remember that families can now apply ONLINE for Pupil Premium to see if they are entitled to Free School Meals, FREE Breakfast Club and extra resources for the school. If you haven't already please go on to:

https://emsonline.milton-

keynes.gov.uk/CitizenPortal_LIVE

If you would like this information emailed to you so that you can just click on the website, need any help either applying or even need to use a computer then please come to the school office where Mrs Turner will be happy to help!

STICKY FINGERS

We are sadly going through a spate of children having sticky fingers. Please can you emphasise to your children how important it is not to take, remove or borrow anything that doesn't belong to them. We of course chat to all children about this and have had the local PCSO’s in to chat to some children too, however if you too can enforce the importance of honesty too, we are sure it will stop.

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PARKING

We would like to thank all those families and that have been respecting Mr Williamson and the cones that he places outside each day to stop the parking on the yellow lines. It gives us great delight to know that families understand the importance of NOT parking on them to ensure that our precious children are safe each day when they arrive and depart from school.

BREAKFAST CLUB 8.00-8.40am each day for 50p unless you

receive Pupil Premium and then your child can attend FREE!

No need to book, you can just turn up on the day.

Children are then taken to their classes.

SCHOOL WEBSITE, FACEBOOK & TWITTER

Please remember that you can find out information in the following ways: Website: www.falconhurstschool.co.uk Facebook Falconhurst Primary School Twitter: FalconhurstPE

2017 DATES FOR YOUR DIARY JANUARY Wednesday 4th - School re-opens for Spring 1 Term Friday 6th - PETER PAN PANTO

(Donations still gratefully received) Monday 9th - Y3 trip to MK City Discovery Centre £7.00 contribution FEBRUARY Friday 10th - Break up for Half Term

SCHOOL COUNCIL

This half term the School Council have still been focusing on Road Safety. They have met with a member of Milton Keynes Council and discussed ways to help improve our school parking. The children are now working on bringing the Park Smart initiative in to our school.

Next term they hope to carry on working alongside the Council

with Road Safety and also meet with Chartwells, our school dinner provider, to improve our school dinners.

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Falconhurst School

Celebrations

9.12.2016

Happy Birthday to...Demi-Lee, Samanta, Hilmy, Abigail,

Brandon, Amelia, Lucy & Destiny from 10.12.2016-

16.12.2016

Headteacher Awards

Little Falcons: Glorious

Bee: Ruby B

Ladybird: Chelsea

Elephant: Faith

Crocodile: Jacob

Tiger: Laura

Monkey: Benedetta

Octopus: Callum C

Dolphin: Viktoria

Orca: Casey

Shark: Thevina

Duck: Chidubem

Kingfisher: Matthew

Griffin: Marwaan

Phoenix: Trey

HOUSE POINTS

HAWKS: 3447

FALCONS:3780

OWLS:3768

EAGLES:3573

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SPORT’S REPORT MK College: We have teamed up with MK College to continue delivering lots of great PE and sports clubs. We have Coaches coming in to support lessons and they have been leading some great basketball session after school on a Tuesday which will continue after the break! Well done to our Y5/6 Basketball team who performed brilliantly at the school competition. Having not had much of a chance to practice before, they soon showed the rest of the schools their skills and talents! A huge well done to our school Cross Country team who all competed against hundreds of other children on a freezing Saturday morning. There were some incredible individual performance but the whole team together were outstanding!

Gifted and Talented: We were proud to host the pupil enhancement programmes for Gymnastics and Rock Climbing to children from schools across Milton Keynes. We were able to support the more able and talented athletes from many schools to progress their skills, network and support other top performers. Congratulations to Ruby T, Olivia and Merija for their involvement In Gymnastics and, Emma P and Kyros in Rock Climbing. Additionally, well done to Angelika and Ruby T who attended the MK gifted and Talented programme where they attended skill sessions with other top athletes from the city and learnt how to have a good balance of training and school! We are hoping to have more of our talented Year 6's attended next time.

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FC Falconhurst Our brilliant efforts in our league campaign continue and we have gone into the Christmas break top of the league! Since January, our first team have only lost one league game and a cup final (on penalties). An unbelievable achievement to have played so well all year!

Results: FC Falconhurst 2-0 Brooksward Goals: Chidubem and Kyle Player of the Match: Kyle

FC Falconhurst 8-0 Moorlands Goals: Salim (3), Harry B, Freddy T, Angelika, Chidubem, Matthew POTM: Matthew FC Falconhurst 0-3 Middleton POTM: Salim Well done also to those who played for FC Falconhurst in a B team tournament in November. Congratulations go to Freddy T and Harry T, who in year 3, became the youngest players to represent the school with Freddy also becoming youngest tournament and league goal scorer. Tia also takes the proud accolade of first girl to score for FC Falconhurst narrowly getting there before Angelika!

We look forward to another term of fantastic sport and achievements. Don’t forget to follow @FalconhurstPE for all the up to date news!