Dear Parents It has been a week in school unlike any other we have known! Thank you to everyone; staff, children and families for rising to the challenge of home learning with enthusiasm and determination. Everyone has worked so hard to make it a success, and it demonstrates how fortunate we are to have such a strong community and team. Only two more days of home learning to go! Keep up the hard work. We look forward to seeing everyone next week. Mrs Murrey 25 Reads Congratulations to the following children achieving their 25 reads milestone this week: and to the following children for achieving their 50 reads milestone this week: and to the following children for achieving their 75 reads milestone this week. School Applications for 2021/2022 Primary School—Parents are reminded that they can now submit online applications for children for Reception Year entry in September 2021. Attending our Nursery does not automatically give your child a school place in September. Parents should apply direct at: https://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/residents/schools/apply-school-place/infant-and-primary-school The deadline for receipt of primary school applications is Friday 15th January 2021. Christingle This year we will be celebrating Christingle in school. In the morning the children will make their Christingles in class and I will lead a short collective worship with each class in the afternoon where we will light our Christingles and focus on its significance in the Christian calendar. Children have their Christingle Collection Candle, please can your child bring it back into school by Thursday 3rd December so we can finalise the amount we have raised for The Childrens’ Society charity. Christmas Lunch We will be having our Christmas Lunch on Wednesday 16th December. The menu and order form has been emailed to you separately and is also available on the website https://tackley.oxon.sch.uk/ . Jacket Potato will not be available as an option on this day. Please can all orders be emailed to the office by Thursday 3rd December at the latest office.3144@tackley.oxon.sch.uk Payment is through ParentPay and will be charged on the day, it is free for children entitled to the Universal Infant Free School Meals and Free School Meals schemes. Christmas Crafts We are excited to be making and selling Christmas crafts this year to raise money for the PTA. Please place your order and complete your payment both via ParentPay by Wednesday 2nd December. The crafts are being made to order so only orders with completed payments will be distributed. Christmas Cards We will run our Christmas postbox as normal this year, taking extra precautions to quarantine the post before it is delivered to class. If children want to send Christmas cards to each other in school the postbox will be available from Monday 7th December. PTA Christmas Cake Sale We will be holding a Christmas Cake Sale after school on the 16th December, donations would be greatly appreciated on the morning to the office or please call Carrie to collect. Christmas Trees Thank you to everyone who bought their Christmas Tree through Oxford Edens - they generously give the PTA a percentage of the profits and we are very grateful for their support. Christmas Trail Nearly time to get the fairy lights out! We will be running a Christmas trail from the 12th December. There will be clues to find outside and a code to crack... please let Carrie know if you’d like your festive house to take part and be on the trail.

Tackley C of E Primary School Newsletter - 27.11.2020 www.tackley.oxon.sch.uk @Tackleyschool

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Value Awards Medcroft Class: I am so proud of all of Medcroft this week who have really taken home learning in their stride and produced some great quality work. It is really hard for me to choose who to give a certificate too as so many of the Reception children have just excelled in what has been required of them. I think a highlight of my week was looking at all the amazing water filters everyone managed to make. I decided that this week's value of Curiosity is awarded to Tilly G who has not only conducted some amazing Science experiments, she has presently them beautifully for us too. A huge well done, Tilly and to everyone in Medcroft. I look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday. Nethercote Class: What an interesting week we have had in Nethercote learning from home! Miss Ilott and I have been so pleased with the work you have produced, and how engaged you have all been on the Google Classroom. It has made it all so enjoyable and we are immensely proud of you all! With that in mind, we simply cannot choose a single child for a Learning Power because in our opinion, you have all had to use all 3 in order to have such a successful transition over to home learning! Well done everyone! Harborne Class: This week in celebration assembly we celebrated Independence. The children shared some of their Maths addition and subtraction fluency posters which they had completed independently. Our Values certificate for Responsibility this week went to Edith T, I have been so impressed with your ‘can-do’ attitude and accountability towards learning your weekly spellings through morning work. Well done! Rousham Class: This week Rousham celebrated our poetry work. We have been writing observational poetry and learning how to make the ordinary extraordinary! We took photos around a theme and then wrote poems about them and created pastel paintings of the sky and wrote poems that included metaphors. I was super impressed with the quality of work the children produced. This week’s value certificate is awarded to Selina K for taking such good ‘Responsibility’ for her learning. She always tries her best and works hard but I have been particularly impressed with her attitude to Maths this week. Keep it up Selina!

Tackley C of E Primary School Newsletter - 27.11.2020 www.tackley.oxon.sch.uk @Tackleyschool

Tackley C of E Primary School Newsletter - 27.11.2020 www.tackley.oxon.sch.uk @Tackleyschool