Thank you to everyone

who has donated money

for the defibrillator.

A massive thank you to

Rodden Road Garage

who donated the

remaining money needed

for the defibrillator.

The total raised was

£300.39

Which is

amazing!!

Collective Worship

The collections at our service amounted to £14.20 & £4.10. Thank you to all who sent in contributions. We use the church at least twice a week and the funds go towards the upkeep and heating for the church. Our assembly is now on a FRIDAY for collections. The children like using the church and have a great understanding of its artefacts. Can we ask for everyone to bring a small donation. Thank you.

Michael White talked about

King Solomon and choosing

his wisdom as his gift to God.

Theme: Wisdom

www.berkleyschool.co.uk

22nd June 2018 The Berkley Times

Reading Superstar of

the Week

11th June 18th June

Audie ST Leah P

Lewis W Lara O

Jack W Lily H

Nathan D Jacob E

Golden Rules

11th June 18th June

Lou Lou J Ollie W

Theo H Cameron P

Adam B Oliver S

Maisie B Rudy F

WOW! Star of the

Week

11th June 18th June

Roman H Tabby H

Oliver A Sullivan P

Margot S William T

Charley HR

We have changed the layout

of the newsletter to

as follows:

Certificates &

Attendance

Headteacher’s

Blog

School Information

Local Events and all your

Important Diary Dates.

We have put

this on the

back page so it

can be printed

and pinned to

your noticeboard.

Attendance

For w/c 04/06/18

Attendance Absences

94.85 % 5.15%

Learning time lost:

24.5Days

Attendance

For w/c 11/06/18

Attendance Absences

96.4% 3.6%

Learning time lost:

17.5Days

We would like to remind

parents that the last weeks of

the summer term are really

important as the children not

only carry out assessments but

they learn about their new

class/school and have move up

sessions to make sure they are

fully prepared for September,

we also arrange special wow

activities and an annual school

trip so they can celebrate their

hard work so we ask that you

avoid taking your children out

of school for during this period.

Staffing

Last Friday we appointed Mrs Powrie to cover Mrs Hardwick’s maternity leave in Squirrels. She will work on

Thursdays and Fridays, starting in September until the end of May 2019.

We interviewed five candidates and it was a very strong field. Squirrels will probably get an opportunity to meet

Mrs Powrie before the end of term and I’m sure you join me in welcoming her to Berkley and we hope that she

really enjoys her time with us.

Pupils

We were very pleased with the Phonics screening testing which Year One pupils took individually last week. The

testing showed how much progress they have each made this year. My thanks to the Year One staff and of course

to you, the parents for supporting your children.

This Tuesday, a Somerset Literacy adviser (Sarah Cook) worked with some of our children on improving their

writing skills. This is the third time she has worked with some of our children this year and the impact has been

most positive for the pupils and indeed on the staff, as we have been able to tap into her expertise and to glean

even more ideas from her

I really look forward to receiving the pupils’ writing when they take up my head teacher’s challenge. I had two

super pieces last week from Noah and Lara about advice for the new children starting in reception in September.

My challenge for the next two weeks to all the pupils is as follows:

We are focusing on Wisdom through our church services this term and the pupils heard about

Solomon choosing Wisdom as his gift from God. So my challenge to the pupils is: If God

granted you one gift, what gift would you choose and why?

Last Friday the disco was well-attended, was enjoyed by the pupils and also raised valuable funds for the school.

My thanks to FBS for organising this and to Mrs Appleby and Mrs Langton for being in attendance.

My thanks to Mrs Langton and the following pupils for their part in the Family service last Sunday: "Jacob E, Laila E, Matthew H,

Tabby H. Yanah M, Kennedy D , Lara O, Millie S and Holly S.

Parents

Last week we met the new parents of the reception children who will be starting in September. It was an excellent

turn-out and my thanks to Mrs Pitman and Mrs Kick for talking about the FBS; to Mr Oliver for talking about the

governors; to Mrs Berryman and Mrs March for selling uniform; for Miss Pickford, Mrs Pickford and Mrs Langton

for being available to answer any parental queries and for Mrs Appleby for making a presentation about life in

Rabbits.

This Wednesday parents were invited to the Maths workshop which took place at Beckington school and was re-

scheduled from earlier in the term. I hope some of you were able to attend and that you found the workshop

useful. There was also a workshop to the staff of Frome schools, which should impact on our planning of

Numeracy for next year.

This week we had class and whole-school photographs taken on Monday. My thanks to Mrs Painter, Miss Lovejoy

and her daughter for organising this.

Finally, by the time you read this we hopefully would have enjoyed our annual Sports Day, which I know always

goes down well with the children, parents and grandparents. I hope everybody had a great time and that the

weather was kind to us.

Safeguarding

Watch out for the Summer

edition of the school magazine.

FBS News A massive thank you to the FBS for their generous cheque we received this week. Please watch this space with details

on how we have spent this cheque

and for the revamp of Rabbits

outside area!

Thanks to the staff and parents for

supporting the school disco, this raised a

lovely amount of money for the school.

Our next meeting will now be in the new school year in September 2018.

Fortnite – beyond the headlines In the last few days, the online multi-player game Fortnite has been in the news and on TV for a range of reasons. If Fortnite is popular in your home, or your child has friends playing the game and they want to join in, then you will want to know what risks it may present, and how to best support your child. We advise playing this 12 rated game with your child, so you can see what it’s all about., From this, you can begin to understand the areas that may concern you – time limits, contact from other players, the nature of the violence in the game. A great online guide is this one from MyKidsTime http://bit.ly/fortniteparents More advice from parents and practical tips on settings can be found at Ask About Games http://www.askaboutgames.com/parents-guide-to-fortnite-pegi-12 Epic Games will be releasing Fortnite for Android devices this summer, but have warned that some sites, including YouTube are promoting ‘early releases’ of Fortnite for Android, which are scams or spyware. No Android version of Fortnite will be available until the official release, so beware of sites offering ‘beta’ versions.

Car Park

Unfortunately we are still getting parents turn up to school before 3.10 and parking up. This causes real issues for the traffic on the road as the road is now regularly blocked with queues from 3ish when nothing can move until at least 3.15. Tuesday was horrendous with the swimming coach driver being blocked in because a parent needing to collect her child for the doctors was unable to park. This meant the coach driver was late getting to Selwood to collect his home run children. All resulting in several complaints and a lot of unnecessary frustration. Therefore it is with deep regret that we have had to take the decision to close the car park area until 3.10 and look at different ways we can do this. It is such a shame that we will now probably have to use much needed funds for this.

The children really enjoyed taking part in the preparations for the St

John’s Well dressing on the 26th May 2018. The older children busied

themselves making doves, with the younger children making anchors and

hands. It was fantastic to see the lovely end result. we hope you enjoy

our pictures. Please take the time to visit the town and see the display.

Massive thanks to Miss Pickford for securing us a Grant to revamp the

Squirrels outside area. The children have been having great fun and love using

it. Thanks also to Miss Jefferies for picking such lovely equipment. Watch out

for the school magazine when the children will be reporting on it!

In Rabbit class we have been learning about different

directions and using the correct positional language.

We had fun on the bikes following the map we had

drawn and giving each other directions to follow.

The school council arranged a colouring contest to promote

kindness within the school. The children were split into groups

with a member of each class in each group to ensure that kindness

was being spread around the entire school. The school council

were brilliant in presenting and monitoring the competition. They

were extremely pleased with the school's response.

The year 3 children took part in a

mini-Olympics festival at Selwood.

The sports ambassadors from

Selwood were as fantastic as ever.

The children had a wonderful time

completing the variety of sports that

were on offer.

The children in Rabbits Class were really lucky to visit Brakes farm. We had

a fantastic afternoon watching the cows being milked, sampling the cheese

and learning about a dairy farm. The farmer told us all about how he looks

after his cows, what they eat and where they sleep. We came back and

wrote about our favourite parts of the visit and what we had learnt.

Thank you for all your cheers and support given to the children. Also

a huge thanks to the FBS for keeping us all supplied with lovely Teas,

Coffees and cakes.

SPORTS DAY

Race 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place

Reception boys flat Errol S Toby C Noah W

Reception girls flat Louise J Lily W Leah P

Year 1 boys flat Oliver A Sullivan C Harrison G

Year 1 girls flat Millie S Meredith H Isla P

Year 2 boys flat Tommy HR Max K William E

Year 2 girls flat Holly S Lola B Frankie B

Year 3 boys flat Jack W / Alex E Spencer P

Year 3 girls flat Margot S India ST Imogen M

Year 4 boys flat Matthew H Finlay C Thomas Pe

Year 4 girls flat Kennedy D Orla N Laila E

Reception boys hurdles Errol S Tommy S Toby C

Reception girls hurdles Louise J Lily W Leah P

Year 1 boys hurdles Oliver A Sullivan C Harrison G

Year 1 girls hurdles Meredith H Phoebe M Aubree F

Year 2 boys hurdles Max K Tommy HR William E

Year2 girls hurdles Holly S Lola B Shannon D

Year 3 boys obstacle Alex E Frankie J Spencer P

Year 3 girls obstacle Rosie R Margot S Imogen M

Year 4 boys obstacle Rudy F George J Matthew H

Year 4 girls obstacle Laila E Kennedy D Orla N

Mum’s Race Mrs Kennedy Mrs Abrahams Mrs Street

Dad’s Race Mr Harris Mr Myers Mr Pearn

Toddler/Pre-school Sahara ST Riley P James E

Please keep checking our website for all the latest dates.

The next fortnight Tuesday 26th June Swimming KS1

New Reception drop-in with coffee morning for new Reception Parents.(9.15 –11.45)

Wednesday 27th June National Writing Day

Thursday 28th June Football Tournament (am) at Selwood for Year’s 3 & 4 (tbc)

Strings Concert for Year 4s (2.00pm) & Years 3 (2.30pm)

Friday 29th June Jackdaws Music Festival for year’s 3 & 4

Tuesday 3rd July Swimming KS1(last one)

Friday 6th July Transfer Day

New Reception drop-in (9.15 - 11.45)

FBS Bonanza 5pm - 7pm at the Rugby Club

Coming Up

Monday 9th July Community Afternoon 1pm

Governors’ meeting 6pm

Weds 11th July Transition Sports day at the middle schools

Thursday 12th July Year 4s to Christchurch for Babar

Friday 13th July Mufti Day

Thursday 17th July Dance and Drama at The Merlin Theatre

Weds 18th July Whole School Trip to Weymouth

Friday 20th July Leavers Assembly (tbc)

A reminder that the remaining two inset dates for 2017-2018 are Mon 23 and Tues 24 July.

A reminder that the inset days for the next academic year are: 3-4 September 2018,

7 January 2019 and 22-23 July 2019.

School re-commences on Wednesday 5th September 2018

Hot Lunches will return on a Week 2. Current Year 2 children will need to pay for

lunches in September. Please be aware these lunches will be ordered on Monday 9th

July for September so please inform the school office in writing if your child will not

require a hot lunch for September.

PLEASE NOTE: You will be charged if these meals are not cancelled in time.