Bulletin 21st June 2019

Dear Parents/Carers

SUMMER FUN NIGHT

Although it has been unseasonably wet, our annual Summer Fun Night will soon be upon us – and the weather

looks like it is improving towards the end of next week! The event starts at 6pm to 8.30pm on Friday 28th June

with lots of fun activities, face painting and bouncy castle.

The PTA cannot run an event of this size without a lot of volunteers. We need a lot of help all day from

school drop off but especially from 2.30pm onwards and any help you can offer is really appreciated. A rota

will be available in the playground from Monday and details will also be put on our Facebook page at

www.facebook.com/PotleyHillPTA.

Friday 28th will also be a MUFTI day for children in exchange for bringing a bottle for the tombola stall.

SPORTS MORNING

Thank you for your patience and understanding with the weather issues which have

caused our sports afternoon to be cancelled – TWICE! The rain has been

unprecedented for June! Congratulations to Green Team for their narrow win by a

mere one point! It was extremely close all the way through the events this year with

only a few points difference between first and third places. A big thank you goes to

Miss Bucknell who organised this year’s event and prepared the resources three

times! We were really pleased to see everyone having such a good time.

MISS BOXALL’S VOLUNTEER WORK IN UGANDA

Miss Boxall sends you all her thanks and gratitude, last Friday’s non uniform day

raised £236.10 towards her target, she is extremely grateful. Don’t forget the Uganda be in it to win it Quiz

on Thursday 27th June in the school hall.

Uganda Be In It To Win It! QUIZ NIGHT RETURNS! And this time we are raising funds to support Miss Boxall (Hummingbird Class)

who has been accepted into the LRTT (Limited Resource Teacher Training) programme and will be spending

four weeks of the summer holidays in Uganda helping to up skill and energise teaching communities, providing

sustainable support and training to local teachers who will go on to deliver a better education to their

students.

So whether you are taking part in order to help raise vital funds for a worthy cause, fighting to earn school

playground/staff room bragging rights or just fancy coming along to see your Quiz Mistress give her farewell

performance then book your tickets and join us for a rip-roaring child-free night.

When? Thursday 27th June, 7pm for a 7.30pm start

Where? The School Hall

How? Fill in the entry form at the end of the bulletin and return to Mrs Rose/Hummingbird Class along with

your fee - £4 per person, maximum of 6 per team.

Bring your own booze and food (local takeaways are welcome!) Prizes for the winning team, Wooden Spoon

and Best Grub.

See you there! And your teaser question is…. Which sub-Saharan African country is home to King T’Challa,

came under attack by “Killmonger” and is a rich source of vibranium? Oh, wait… that’s fictional and called

Wakanda. I promise they will get better…

The link to donate is: https://www.gofundme.com/limited-resource-teacher-training-uganda

TIMID TO TIGER TRAINING

I have included a few key slides from week 3 of our ‘Timid to Tiger’ Course which is taking place on

Wednesday afternoons in the school. This session focused on anxiety.

What is Anxiety?

Anxiety is a natural, normal feeling we all experience from time to time. It is our body’s way of preparing us

for a challenge when faced with stress, by releasing a hormone called adrenaline. This causes a ‘fight or flight’

response so that we are alert and ready to react to the challenge. So anxiety can be useful and helpful when

we face new or stressful situations. When we are anxious about something, we can get all sorts of funny

feelings in our bodies – shaking, feeling sick, wobbly legs, blurred vision, feeling like we can’t breathe, can’t

swallow, feeling dizzy, tight chest, looking pale and many more.

These feelings feel horrible but are completely normal and harmless. These feelings are just to help our bodies

to prepare to escape from something that we are scared of. If you child gets these feelings, be very calm and

confident, and tell them it’s going to be OK. Even if you are really alarmed by the feelings that your child is

having in their body, don’t let on! If you look upset, you child will think there really is something to worry

about!

The role of Avoidance in Anxiety

If children learn to avoid things that they are scared of, they never get used to them and never learn that they

can cope with them. Remember if we avoid things, the issue just gets bigger! Avoiding things we are scared of

then becomes a very ingrained behaviour, and one that is difficult to break. This is because when we escape

from our fear, we experience a powerful feeling of relief. This then rewards our avoidance behaviours and

increases the odds we will avoid the next time we encounter this fear and reinforces the cycle.

The Avoidance Cycle

Compensating

When you have a marked fear of something “compensate” by making sure your children have lots of extra

opportunities to have a positive experience with that stimulus. For example, if you are scared of spiders, find

someone who is happy around spiders to model how to remove them from your house.

The person needs to be able to:

Be confident with the stimulus

Have a good relationship with the child

CLASS LISTS & MOVE UP DAYS

We will be sending you details of your child’s new class on Monday 1st July in advance of their first move up

morning on Thursday 4th July. A second move up afternoon will take place on Wednesday 17th July. Children in

Y6 moving up to secondary school in September spend the entire day at their new school on Thursday 4th.

SPORTS

On Friday 14th June Annabel R, Amelia H, Lily W, Lois C,

Matthew N, Megan H and Mia S, played their final league game

against Heatherside Junior School, to qualify for a place at the

Hampshire Games. We won 6-3.

On Thursday 20th June, at the Games, we represented North-

East Hampshire and played 6 teams from across the county.

Hattie B and Liam B joined the squad. The overall winner was

Abbotswood, from the New Forest, and in our game against

them they won 6-3, which gives an indication of the standard of

this year’s team. Congratulations and well done to all the squad!

Thank you to all our parents for their support and help transporting the team to fixtures during the season.

Well done to Annabel R and Lily W who are both competing in a basketball tournament on Sunday 23rd June in Sheffield, representing the South of England Under 11s category. What a fantastic achievement, girls!

Y5 ACTIVITY DAY AT YATELEY SECONDARY

On Wednesday 26th June, our Y5s are due to spend a day at Yateley Secondary. These days always prove to

be invaluable in helping with children’s transition to secondary school – even if they do not intend to ultimately

move on to this particular school. Parents of children in Y5 will have received a booking form a few weeks ago

with all of the instructions for dropping off and picking up. Children will be recorded as being on a ‘visit’ in the

register and this is not counted as an absence from school. Just as a reminder, children are being taken

DIRECTLY to Yateley in the morning and being picked up from there (or walking home!).

HART SPORTING EVENT KS1

Primary schools in the Hart District are very excited to have organised their first joint sporting event on

Tuesday 2nd July at the Aldershot Garrison Centre. Unfortunately, the date for this was only confirmed

recently and does clash with our KS2 Production. However, we are pleased to be able to take some of our

KS1 pupils to this athletic event. If your child has been chosen to represent the school, they should be

receiving an invitation shortly. Parents/carers are also welcome to attend if their child is taking part.

PGL INFORMATION EVENING FOR CURRENT Y5

We are due to hold an information evening for parents/carers of our current Y5 children in preparation for

our residential trip in September!! This is at 6pm in the school hall on Tuesday 2nd July. Slides from the

presentation will also be available afterwards on our password protected website – details of this will be

shared shortly.

Y5/6 PRODUCTION After many weeks of practising their lines, getting their costumes ready

and ramping up the humour, our Y5/6 pupils will be presenting “Rock

Bottom” (expect lots of rude jokes!). Performances are on the

afternoon of Monday 1st July to the rest of the school, 1.45pm on

Tuesday 2nd July and 6pm on Wednesday 3rd July. Tickets will be

allocated by the end of next week. Requests must be in by the end of

Tuesday.

Y1/2 SEASIDE DAY

Our Y1/2 team are planning an exciting History day for the children in

school with a visiting Museum workshop to give them a flavour of

seaside days of the past – including a Punch and Judy show and dressing

up. Please remember to send your voluntary contributions of £2.40 into school (payments can also be made

on ParentMail).

W/c 14/6/2019

‘TOP HAT OF THE WEEK’

Child/ren Reason

Flamingo Clara W For using her Yellow thinking hat to be positive in every lesson.

Hummingbird Albert R For using his Black and Yellow thinking hat to edit and improve his

work including his handwriting.

Toucan Oliver S For using his Black thinking hat to summarise the story of the

lighthouse keepers lunch.

Dolphin Ashton C-S For using his Blue thinking hat to help him reflect on his own learning

and maintain perseverance.

Narwhal Reece E For using his Yellow thinking hat in PE to become an amazing skipper!

Shark Alfie-Jack B For using his Blue & thinking hats to write an information reports

about the desert.

Leopard Max W For using his Green and White thinking hats to create an

emotive poem. (Leopard pm) Lion Annabel R For using her Yellow & Green thinking hats to perform so confidently

during rehearsals.

Tiger Freya M For using her Red thinking hat to show empathy and kindness towards

others at lunchtime this week.

W/C 21/06/2019

‘TOP HAT OF THE WEEK’

Child/ren Reason

Caterpillar Samuel W For using his Black thinking j=hat to predict which object would float

or sink and give reasons why.

Ladybird Joshua B For using his Black thinking hat to predict if objects would sink or float

and giving reasons why.

Flamingo Angelo A For using his White thinking hat to make a detailed story plan.

Hummingbird Louisa H For using her Green and White thinking hat and including lots of

taught grammar in her story.

Toucan Mitchall R For using his Blue and White thinking hats to persevere with his

reading and move up a book bank.

Dolphin Joe G For using his Yellow hat for showing a positive approach to all our

recent tests.

Narwhal Fotios T For using his White & Yellow thinking hats during testing.

Shark Alisha W For using her Red thinking hat to be a kind, caring friend to all.

Leopard Max W For using his Yellow & White thinking hats and working hard all term

to improve his NFER tests – Max has now moved into the next scoring

bracket. Well done! (Tiger AM)

Lion Matthew J For using his Yellow and Green thinking hats to make the most of his

part in the play and for supporting others.

Tiger Isobel P For using her Yellow & Red thinking hat being mature and sensible this

week in Rounders Izzy moved teams to help out despite not being

asked to.

CALENDAR DATES

DATE EVENT

Monday 24th June New YR visits for groups 2 & 4 with parents 9.15 – 10.15

Tuesday 25th June New YR visits for groups 1 & 3 with parents 9.15 – 10.15

Wednesday 26th June New YR Storytime 2.45pm

Y5 Activity Day to Yateley Secondary

Friday 28th June Summer Fun Night

Mufti day – bring a bottle

Monday 1st July Y5/6 Production to school

Tuesday 2nd July KS1 Athletics Event

Y5/6 Production to parents pm

Parents Information Evening 6.00 pm – Little Canada (Yr 5)

Wednesday 3rd July Y1/2 Seaside Event Museum Curator visit

6pm Y5/6 Production to parents

Thursday 4th July Y6 transition day to secondary, Move up morning for rest of

school & new YRs

New YR visit 3. Parents invited at 11.45am for lunch

W/c Monday 8th July to Friday 12th July Y6 Residential to France

Tuesday 9th July Music Assembly at 9.10am for instrumentalists

Y5 Technology day to Frogmore CC

Year 3 to Primary Prom at The Anvil, Basingstoke 1.15pm

Wednesday 10th July Y5 to ‘Think Safe’ afternoon event

Information session for parents of children with either Y3 or

Y4 children in September @ 3.30pm

Thursday 11th July Y5 visit to Paultons Park

New YR Storytime 2.45pm

YR 1\2 Seaside Day Beach day and ice-creams

Monday 15th July Information session for parents of children with either Y1 or

Y2 children in September @ 2.45pm

Information session for parents of children with either Y5 or

Y6 children in September @ 3.30pm

Tuesday 16th July Rocksteady Assembly at 9.10am

Y6 LEAVERS FUN AFTERNOON

New YR Storytime 2.45pm

Wednesday 17th July Move up afternoon for YR to Y5.

Friday 19th July Last day of Summer term. Y6 Leavers assembly at 9.10am.

School closes at 1pm.

Monday 22nd July INSET – school closed

Tuesday 23rd July INSET – school closed

Reminders…

‘MOVING UP’ INFORMATION SESSIONS FOR PARENTS

We endeavour to help parents and pupils feel prepared for their transition into the next year group – and it

can be helpful to have a good idea of how this new team operates and the curriculum expectations within it.

We will therefore be holding a series of information sessions for parents. Our focus is on those children

transitioning into new year teams: YR to Y1, Y2 to Y3 and Y4 to Y5. However, parents of children who will be

in Years 2, 4 and 6 are also welcome to attend.

Wednesday 10th July @ 3.30pm: Y3 and Y4

Monday 15th July @ 2.45pm: Y1 and Y2

Monday 15th July @ 3.30pm; Y5 and Y6

SPORTS FIXTURES FOR SUMMER

We are planning on attending the following local cluster sporting events this term, all taking place after school:

Monday 1st July Y5/6 Tennis @ Farnborough Tennis Club

Tuesday 2nd July KS1 District Sports morning

CLASS ASSEMBLIES FOR THE SUMMER TERM

All Class Assemblies will take place on Thursday mornings at 9.10am in the school hall:

Thursday 27th June: Ladybirds

Thursday 4th July: Flamingos

Thursday 12th July: Caterpillars

Y5 & 6 do not do class assemblies this term as they will be working on their summer term production.

Email: adminoffice@potleyhill.hants.sch.uk www.potleyhill.hants.sch.uk

SCHOOL QUIZ ENTRY FORM – THURSDAY 27TH JUNE TEAM NAME……………………………………………………………………. NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS……………………………………………. ENTRY FEE (£4 per person)……………………………………………… Please return to Mrs Rose (normally on playground at pick up, hair colour varies) or via Hummingbird Class