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Bulletin 7th April 2017
Dear Parents
CONGRATULATIONS
What a fantastic ‘Splash’ production this week – a H U G E well done to all the children
and staff in Y3/4 for putting on such an amazing show. We were extremely impressed with
both their singing and their acting!
STAFFING
I am looking forward to being back at Potley full-time after Easter, now that the secondment
has come to an end at Chiltern Primary. Mrs Inglis, as always, has done a fantastic job of
running the school on the days that I have been elsewhere – even going as far as evicting our
uninvited visitors at 12.30am in the morning a few weeks ago. Thank you indeed for all her
support.
BOOKBAGS & RUCKSACKS
Storage of book bags is becoming as issue due to children having too many items attached to
their bags, please could you make sure that only one ‘Keyring/keychain or toy is attached.
Our cloakrooms are also used as fire exits so it is vital that these areas are consistently clear
and not covered in scattered rucksacks.
NON-UNIFORM DAY- FRIDAY 28TH APRIL - BRING A BOTTLE FOR
YATELEY MAY FAIR
The PTA will be running a bottle tombola stall at Yateley May Fair on Monday 1st May. The
event starts at 10.30 and it is a great day out for the family.
In exchange for donations of bottles children may wear their own clothes to school. All
bottles should be taken to the foyer area where the main double doors lead in to the hall.
Last year you were all very generous which meant we were able to raise £500 and it would
be great if we could achieve the same this year.
We are also looking for parents who are able to help on the day. If you are able to commit
to an hour please can you complete the reply slip which appears at the end of the bulletin.
Should you have any queries please contact Teresa Wilson (PTA Secretary) at
[email protected] or on 07745 226503.
Thank you for your continued support. The PTA
YR 6 SATs
Could we please remind you all how important it is for the Year 6 pupils to be in school
during the lead up to their SATs. The teachers are working extremely hard to address any
gaps in children’s understanding and missed days can mean a chunk of work is not then fully
understood. Thank you.
YR 6 HOMEWORK
We have given the pupils some ‘Eggcellent’ homework for the Easter break; they have
detailed sheets to explain what they need to do with regard to each subject. This work will
be Eggstremely helpful in the lead up to SATs.
ST GEORGE’S DAY
Any Beavers, Brownies, Rainbows, Scouts, Cubs, Guides, Boys/Girls Brigade etc. can come
to school in their uniforms on Monday 24th April (1st day of the Summer Term) to
celebrate St. George's day (which is actually on Sunday 23rd April),. Other children should
wear school uniform as normal.
E-SAFETY QUESTION OF THE MONTH
If found on the box of a computer game, what do these symbols stand for?
REQUESTS FOR ABSENCE
Our Attendance Policy makes it very clear for parents that ‘treat’ days such as on
birthdays or trips to various parks are not allowed. However, it is important that we instil
honesty in our children and therefore would request that parents are also open and
honest about any reasons for absence. If it does not fit into the ‘exceptional reason’
category (as most holiday requests, for example, would not), then the school records this
as ‘unauthorised’. As a school, we start to track a child’s absence rates when they fall
below 90% and if there are then instances of regular, unauthorised absence, then this
would go to a Legal Panel and possibly a Fixed Penalty Notice would be issued. Please do
not put children in the position of having to lie about their absence as they are generally
(and pleasingly) not very good at this.
It is important to us that children have good attendance as they have a right to a full
education.
PTA QUIZ NIGHT
Another fantastic night was had at the quiz night with 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue' being
the new winners. Obviously hustlers with a name like that! Thanks once again to the
amazing Georgina Rose who does a fantastic job hosting the night, along with setting the
questions. This makes this a very easy event for the PTA to run as Georgina takes on the
2 most time consuming parts of the job. There have already been requests for another
quiz night before the end of the school year. We will try and arrange this but the Summer
term is a very busy one so no promises. A total amount of £220 was raised for the
school, so thanks to all of the teams, new and old, that attended and made it such a fun
night. Thank you, Teresa Wilson.
‘TOP HAT OF THE WEEK’
Child/ren Reason
Caterpillar Jonathon H For fantastic use of his Green creative thinking hat when
writing.
Ladybird Robin W For using his White information thinking hat to help him find
the sounds he needed on a sound mat when writing a recipe.
Dove Chloe B For using her Green thinking hat to work creatively in English
this week.
Hummingbird Thomas W For using his Blue thinking hat when planning a recipe
Puffin Isaac B For using all of the thinking hats well to discuss the events of
Palm Sunday.
Dolphin Lucas T For using his Green thinking hat to write from a different
viewpoint.
Whale Archie G For using his Red thinking hat when delivering his lines in our
production of Splash. He was captivating to watch because he
understood the emotions and personality of his character.
Shark Evie S For using her White and Green thinking hats when re-writing a
story from a different point of view – she used new vocabulary
and included all the key features needed.
Leopard Sophie R For excellent use of the Blue thinking hat when editing her
writing in English.
Lion Sophie W For using her White and Blue thinking hats to make great
progress during Year 6 testing.
Tiger Danny J For using his White and Green thinking hats to really improve
his grammar.
TERMLY AWARDS
Class Children Reason
Caterpillar Albert R For a fantastic attitude to learning and making progress.
Evie T-L For fantastic progress in writing.
Ladybird Alex M For an outstanding improvement in his attitude to learning.
Phoebe W For fantastic progress in all areas.
Puffin Courtney L-M For having a great, positive working attitude.
Elizabeth R For always trying her very best.
Dove Joel G For being a positive role model for others.
Elizabeth S For making so much progress throughout Yr1. Humming bird Caden E For trying his hardest to develop strategies for independent
writing.
Udita S For trying her best at everything she does.
Whale Matthew N For his positive attitude this year especially in Maths and PE.
Francesca S For always trying her best and putting in lots of hard work at
home and in school.
Shark Joshua S For trying hard at all times and striving to do his best.
Zoe L For being such a smiley and positive member of the class.
Dolphin Jason B For applying himself in all lessons.
Natalia G For always giving 100%.
Lion Finley R For trying hard to produce his best all the time.
Empress E For her enthusiasm and positive attitude to all challenges.
Leopard Isaac M For enthusiasm to complete all work and challenges set.
Sophie R For being a polite and hardworking pupil with a conscientious
attitude.
Tiger Conor C For impeccable behaviour always.
Grace S For always putting 100% effort into her learning, perfect manners
and a great attitude to learning.
TERMLY AWARDS
Kaufman Cup – presented for outstanding citizenship – Sam W
Barratt Trophy – presented for outstanding progress – Francesca S
Bailey Cup – presented for Lead Learning – Lily T
Fletcher Award – Maths – Amelia M
Fletcher Award – Writing – Benjamin G
STEP AWARDS Well done to the following children who were awarded a STEP award (Sorry, Thank You,
Excuse Me and Please) for superb manners:
Jasper F, Ralph W, Evie R, Frank E-W, Izzy W, Kevin M, Molly F.
Reminders….
CLUBS – SUMMER TERM
You will receive a form via Parentmail showing the clubs being offered in the Summer
Term for the children to join. We will email a separate form indicating the payable clubs
on offer from external companies. We have included as much information as we have
been given. (The Tennis flyer has changed slightly, due to an over-run with the Golf which
was running this Spring Term).
SAINSBURY’S ACTIVE KIDS VOUCHERS
It’s that time of year again! ‘Active Kids Vouchers’ can be collected instore and online at
Sainsbury's from 25 January until 2 May. Collecting for Active Kids is a great way to help
your school obtain new resources for PE, Food Technology as well as many other topics. If
you or any relatives shop with Sainsbury’s and would like to send your vouchers in, we
have a collection box in the school’s main reception area. Thank you for your support.
INSETS FOR 17/18 ACADEMIC YEAR
We have now agreed our 5 INSET days for the next academic year. These will be:
Monday 4th September
Thursday 4th January
Friday 5th January
Friday 4th May
Monday 23rd July
Please see the attached school terms and holidays sheets before booking any holidays.
IMPORTANT CHANGES TO PARENTMAIL PAYMENTS
We have recently been reviewing our charging procedures for all payments after Easter.
Please read the attached letter carefully to see how this will impact on payments for all
activities and services and contact the school office if you have any further questions.
Examples of changes Existing price New price
School Dinners £2.10 (£2.15 HCC price
from 1st April)
£2.20 (after Easter)
Music Lessons £78 £79.20
Early Bird Club £4 £4.10
CALENDAR DATES
DATE EVENT
Monday 24th April SUMMER TERM BEGINS
Thursday 27th April 6.00 pm Marchants Hill Parent’s info evening
Friday 28th April Mufti day for May Fair – bring a bottle
W/c Monday 8th May Y6 SATS
Monday 15th May E-safety day. Workshop for Y6s
Friday 19th May Class Photos
Monday 22nd May – Wednesday 24th May Y4 PGL residential trip
Thursday 25th May PTA Disco
29th May – 2nd June HALF TERM
W/c Monday 5th June Streets Ahead training for Y2 pupils
Tuesday 6th June New YR information evening at 7pm
Thursday 8th June Y3/4 trip to Marwell Zoo
Friday 9th June Sports Day
Book Fair arrives
W/c Monday 12th June Y1 Phonics screening
Thursday 15th June 6.00 pm France 2017 Parent’s info evening
Tuesday 20th June Potley Proms – Disney theme
Friday 23rd June Reserve Sports Day
Tuesday 27th June Move up afternoon
Tuesday 4th July Y5/6 production to parents 2pm
Wednesday 5th July Y5/6 production to parents 7pm
Thursday 6th July Y6 Induction Day at secondaries
Move up day for rest of school
Friday 7th July Summer Fun Night
Annual reports out to parents
W/c Monday 11th July – Friday 14th July Y6 residential visit to France
Wednesday 12th July Y5/6 to Paultons Park
Thursday 13th July Y5 Technology day at Frogmore CC
Monday 17th July Y6 Leavers Fun Afternoon
Y4/5 to World Para Athletics Championships
in London
Friday 21st July LAST DAY OF SUMMER TERM for children
(INSETs booked on 24th and 25th)
9.30 Leavers Assembly
E-SAFETY ANSWERS
Bad language Discrimination Drugs Fear Gambling Sex Violence Online
Mrs Heather Clarke Mrs Hannah Inglis
Head Teacher Acting Head Teacher
Email: [email protected] www.potleyhill.hants.sch.uk
Hannah Inglis
Parentmail charges for online payments
We are delighted with your very positive response to Parentmail, with 95% of you now
registered and using it to make payments, respond to forms and emails and book parents
evening appointments. If you would still like to register, but are unsure how to go about this,
please do contact the office.
Until now, school has been able to cover the cost of online payments (ie Credit/Debit card
and PayPal transaction charges), so that these are not passed on to you, but our increasingly
tight budget unfortunately means that we will no longer be able to do this. As a result, there
will be a very slight increase in the cost of school dinners, music lessons, Earlybird club, day
trips and so on from the Summer term onwards.
Therefore, from Monday 24th April, the cost of a school dinner will rise from £2.10 to £2.20
(£11.00 for a whole week). All Hampshire schools will see an increase of 5p per meal to
£2.15 from April 1st onwards, so we do not consider an additional 5p increase to be
excessive and we will not bring this into effect until after Easter. Music lessons will cost
£79.20 for the Summer term. Earlybird sessions will cost £4.10 after Easter. We will also add
1.5% to the cost of day trips and in-school visits. For a trip costing £10.00 for example, this
only represents 15p of the total cost. Payments for the current Year 6 French trip will be
unaffected.
Please note, school pays a percentage transaction charge for both Credit cards and PayPal
payments, but in addition to this, PayPal charges us 20p per transaction. That means that
whether you pay £2.10 for a single school dinner or £42 for a month of school dinners, we
are charged 20p on both transactions regardless. At the moment, we are trying not to pass
this on to you (as it would then be unfair on parents who only pay by Credit card). But to
keep these 20p charges to an absolute minimum, we would ask you please if you are paying
by PayPal, to pay for siblings’ school dinners together so that we are only charged once.
Similarly, if you have multiple items to pay for in the same week, such as a trip, school
dinners and Earlybird club, please try to do this all in one go. And please try to pay for at
least a week’s worth of dinners at a time, rather than just one day, if you are using PayPal.
We appreciate that it is not fair to pass any charges on to parents who still wish to pay by
cash/cheque via the office. For various reasons, it is not possible to set an online price and a
cash/cheque price for the same payment item on Parentmail, so instead we will refund the
difference between the actual cost of items and the increased cost due to online transaction
charges, to parents paying by cash/cheque. However, rather than returning a constant
stream of pennies to you, we would aim to refund you the full amount once at the end of
each school term. We will review this after the Summer term once we have seen how it
works in practice.
We do hope that the ease and convenience of using Parentmail to make online payments will
outweigh the very slight increase in costs incurred by doing so and that the majority of you
will continue to pay for all school items online.
If you have any queries about online transaction charges, please contact the office.
REPLY SLIP – MAY FAIR - 1ST MAY
I am able to help man the stall between; - (please circle answer/s)
10.30-11.30 11.30-12.30 12.30-13.30 13.30-14.30
Parent Name………………………………………………………………………………
Email………………………………………………………………………………………
Contact Number……………………………………………………………………………
External Extra Curricular Clubs
Infant/Junior
Day Club Time Year Room Price Dates
Monday Little Kickers Athletics 3.20 – 4.15 3, 4, 5, 6 Hall/Field
www.littlekickers.co.uk
Available on
website
8/5/2017 –
10/7/2017 (10 wks.)
Yateley Tennis Club 3.20 – 4.15 2,3,4,5,6 Playground
JJ tennis academy
£21.00 8/5/2017 – 22/5/2017
(3 week trial session)
Tuesday French 3.25 – 3.55 1, 2 Library
www.lajolieronde.co.uk
Available on
website
25/4/2017 -4/7/2017?
Ball Up Sports 7:45 – 8:45 3, 4, 5, 6 Hall
www.ballupsports.com
£45.00 per term 25/04/2017 – 4/07/2017
Busta-grove Dance 3.15 -4.15 R,1,2 Hall
www.busta-grove.co.uk
Ella 07929-584213
£5.00 per child
per week
2/5/2017 –
11/7/2017
Wednesday Trampolining
(relocating)
8:00 – 8:45
1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6
Frogmore Community
College
£45.00 TBC
SCL – Multi Club 3.15 – 4.30 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6
Field/Playground
£27.50 26/04/2017 – 24/05/2017
Trampolining
(relocating)
3.20 – 4.00 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6
Frogmore Community
College
£45.00 TBC
Busta-grove Dance
3,4,5,6 Hall
www.busta-grove.co.uk
07929-584213
£5.00
per child per
week
3/5/2017-
12/7/2017
Sports Leaders –
Football
3,4, 5, 6 Frogmore Community College
Astro Turf
N/A 3/5/2017 –
12/7/2017
Thursday Trampolining
(relocating)
8:00 – 8:45 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6
Frogmore Community
College
£45.00 TBC
Gymnastics 3.15 – 4.15 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6
Hall
£66.00 04/05/2017 – 20/07/2017
Friday Judo 8:00 – 8:45 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6
Hall
28/4/2017 –
14/7/2017
Little Kickers 3:20 – 4:20 Yr R, 1, 2 Hall/Field
www.littlekickers.co.uk
Available on
website
5/5/2017 –
14/7/2017 (10 wks.)