Charlton Kings Junior School

Newsletter

HEAD’S NEWS

It was lovely to see so many of you at our recent parents’ eve-

nings. The feedback received was positive and I am thankful to

the teaching team for providing such detailed and focused

information to help you work with your child and help them to

learn and grow.

We are keen to speak with all parents, so if you were unable to

attend for some reason, we will make contact in the coming

weeks.

We want to hear your views about our school. Please see how

to access the questionnaire on the reverse of this letter.

We have had a busy few weeks with lots of different sporting

events including Cross Country meets, our first Swimming Gala

of the year and more football and netball matches. These

sporting activities are reported in full in our Termly Match

Reports — do have a look at them as the results our children

achieve are fantastic.

Have a great couple of weeks and enjoy the onset of spring.

L Pajak

DIARY DATES FOR MARCH

Wednesday 15th at 6.30 and

Thursday 16th at 7.00 —CK Live

- Festival of Music

Tuesday 21st—2.30—3P Class

Assembly

Friday 24th— Red Nose Day—

wear something red to school.

Tuesday 28th March– Class

Photographs in morning

Thursday 30th— Y4 Spring Show

at the Baptist Church

Friday 31st—Y4 Spring Show at

school for their parents at 2pm

Friday 31st— Extreme Reading

photos deadline

DIARY DATES FOR APRIL

Tuesday 4th—2.30—3S Class

Assembly

Wednesday 5th—2.30—3T Class

Assembly

Wednesday 5th—Y5 to PGL

Friday 7th—Y5 return from PGL

Friday 7th—End of Term 4

Monday 24th—Start of Term 5

Thursday 27th—Y5 French Trip

Information Evening at 7pm for

parents and children

10 March 2017

WORLD BOOK DAY

On Friday, 4th March (one day late due to the Parents’ Evening) the

school celebrated World Book Day.

It was fantastic to see such a wide range of characters come to life for

the day at the school. We had lots of Harry Potters, Hermione Graingers

and Where’s Wallies attending for the day, but also the Cat in the Hat,

the Mad Hatter, some Oompa Loompas, Alice in Wonderland, Thing 1

and Thing 2, Cruella de Vil, Queen of Hearts, Fantastic Mr Fox, Violet

Beauregarde, BFGs, Tin Tins and many, many more.

Lots of the staff joined in dressed as Witches, Tigger, a Dalmatian, Miss

Honey, Mrs Wormwood, Miss Trunchbull, Mr Stink, and we even had

Goldilocks and the Three Bears spending the day in Year 4!

The school was run for the day by Harry Potter and Madame Hooch! 2

MARCH—EXTREME READING MONTH

Children and staff are invited to send in a photo of

themselves reading a book in “extreme” conditions —

nothing too dangerous — maybe having climbed to the

top of a mountain, dangling from a tree, sitting under

the water or ….. you get the idea!

Send your photo in to school, making sure you have

written your name and class on the back, before the

deadline of Friday, 31st March.

The competition will be judged and prizes awarded just

before we break for the Easter holidays.

Reading Scheme Books—a plea!!!

Please can all parents have a hunt

around at home to see if they can find

any of the school’s reading scheme boos

(the ones with the stickers on the spine)

as we seem to have lots missing.

They can be deposited in Reception to

avoid any naming and shaming!!

BARE FOOT FITNESS

Rise and Shine it's Pilates time!

New STOTI MAT PILATES classes starting

24th April 2017 at 6.30pm to 7.30pm

Beginner & Intermediate 60 minute Classes at Charlton Kings Junior School

'The Pilates Method teaches you to be in control of your body not at its mercy "

Joseph Pilates

For all above classes contact Cath on:

07341906671 (£4 PER CLASS)

Qualified ETM, Les MillsBody

Balance &: Stott Trained Pilates

Instructor 3

Feet First Dance Fest

On Wednesday 8th of March, 25 Year 5 pupils took part in

the exciting event Feet First Dance Fest. This dance festival

was a celebration of different dance styles and featured

performances from local primary and secondary schools.

The Year 5s performed a routine to the song 'Rockabye'

which featured lots of moves choreographed by the

children, including breakdance. The children really put their

all into their performance and rose to the

exhilarating atmosphere created by the coloured spotlights

and large audience. They also did the school proud with

their behaviour, showing fantastic support for the other

schools when they were watching their performances.

To the left you will see some photos from the event.

There is also a video on the school website!

The Troupe

Waiting patiently 1

Waiting patiently 2

In The Net

On Monday, 6th March, Year 4 walked to St Edwards School. We went

there to learn about how to be safe on the internet. We learnt that if you

are mean to someone on the internet it can hurt as much as saying it to

someone in person. We also learnt that you should not take pictures of

yourself in school uniform and then post it on Twitter or Facebook.

If anything strange pops up on the internet then you turn the monitor off

or shut the screen. Go and get an adult and they will sort it out.

We heard a story about a girl called Dotty who had just got a new iPad

for her birthday. She was 7 years old and was mean to people on the

internet and got sucked into the Net through her journey to find the

guardian. On her journey she met Virus and Spam, not very nice people

who pretended to be her friend. Their nasty behaviour taught her not to

be mean to people and to be very careful with people she doesn’t know

but who say they want to be friends.

After a while Dotty got sucked out of the Net and when she got home

she asked her dad to delete her profile photo because this showed her

in her school uniform. The next day she went into school to apologise to

the children she had been mean to.

Written by: Georgie and Lottie

Stay Safe On The Net

and always tell an adult if

you are worried about

something or somebody.

VERY IMPORTANT

NOTICE FOR ALL

PARENTS/CARERS

Children should have a PE kit

in school all the time - this is a house coloured t-shirt, shorts and pumps kept in a draw-

string bag. On Games days they need to bring in trainers, a sweatshirt and tracksuit bot-

toms and this all goes home the same day, as it might get very muddy.

We welcome donations of PE kit that pupils have grown out of for those occasions when children forget .

Please can you make sure that all items children have in school - sports kit, coats,

uniform, equipment, lunch bags, water bottles and personal belongings are

CLEARLY named.

Parent Survey

As a school we are always looking for ways we can improve and make our school even better. We would love to hear your views about what we do well and what we could do better.

We would like to invite you to complete a survey to help us find out your thoughts. Please go to the school website where you will find, under the ‘Parents’ tab, a link on the left-hand side called, 2017 Parent Survey.

Many thanks for taking the time to do this.

East End Road

Charlton Kings

Cheltenham

GL53 8QE

Tel: 01242 526171

reception@charltonkings-

jun.gloucs.sch.uk

IMPORTANT DATES

Friday 7 April—end of Term 4

Monday 24 April—start of Term 5

Monday 1 May—Bank Holiday –school closed

Friday 26 May—end of Term 5

Monday 5 June—start of Term 6

Friday 21 July—end of Term 6 for children

Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 July—INSET for staff

Wednesday 6 September—ALL children return to school

The school calendar for the 2016/17 academic year may be found on

the home page of the school website.

Note that all terms end at the usual school finishing time of 3.10pm

Stop Press!

We are delighted to report that both

our Cross Country and Swimming

Teams were successful this week,

winning outright their competitions.

A full write up will appear in the next

Match Report at Easter.

We would like to wish runners who

are representing Cheltenham in

Newent on Saturday in the District

Schools competition lots of luck!

The winners of the Cross Country

competition at St Edwards.