Bolnore Village Primary School

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Volume 17, Issue 148, 4 April 2014 – The Tiger Who Came to Tea

Bolnore Village Tiger School ‘It takes a village to throw a tea party’

Did you know? The tiger is the biggest species of the cat family. D

id you know? T

iger cubs leave their mother w

hen they are around 2 years of age.

How many examples of our Core Values can you spot in this

edition?

Q U I C K Q U I C K Q U I C K Q U I C K R E A D SR E A D SR E A D SR E A D S Tuesday 22 April: Back to school. Saturday 26 April: Bolnore FC Race Night 6 – 10pm.

INSET DAYS: Monday 2 June 2014 and Wednesday 23 July are INSET days and the school will be closed to children. Half term is between Monday 26 May and Friday 30 May. The last day of term is Tuesday 22 July. Wednesday 23 July is an INSET day. Wednesday 3 September is an INSET day. WELLIES: The School Council would like some donations of old wellington boots for us to plant in – please hand into the school office. Thank you: Thank you to Hannah Carter and Elspeth McPherson for arranging such a fantastic choir workshop with Pavlos Carvalho. NEW STARTER PACK: We will be sending out the packs for children starting school in September 2014 at the start of the summer term. Active Kids Vouchers: We’re collecting!

Vacancy: We are looking to add to our casual bank of Midday Meals Supervisors. Please see the website for details or ask at the office.

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Read all about it!

Did you get a copy of the Bolnore BashBolnore BashBolnore BashBolnore Bash

– our school newspaper was a sell out. If you didn’t get a copy, please let

the office know and we can get one

printed for you. CongratulationsCongratulationsCongratulationsCongratulations to the whole team – you did a fantastic

job. A special thank you to Jenny

Cochrane and Mrs Hosking for making it happen.

Year 4 and 5 took part in a Festival of Languages at Warden Park Secondary Academy this week. They watched the pupils put on an array of skits. Quote of the day “That was the most beautiful violin playing I have ever heard.” Matthew. A huge thank you to Becky McLeod and Karen Farmer.

Reception have been making Easter cakes.

Blooming Marvellous

Well done to the glorious gardeners. 6 schools took part in the Haywards Heath Horticultural Society Spring Fair; Bolnore won 2nd place and a highly commended for daffodil growing.

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Our year 5 girls’ team made us very proud at a football tournament at Harlands this week. They showed great enthusiasm, commitment and sportsmanship. Well done girls!

Newspaper editorial meeting

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Thank you

A huge thank you to everyone who has helped in school this half term – it makes such a difference to the children.

To celebrate the end of their terrific tiger topic, Key Stage 1 threw a huge tea partyhuge tea partyhuge tea partyhuge tea party. The school was overrun by wild tigers, but it was ok – Sophie and her mummy were there to keep order!

Reading the Bolnore Bash over Breakfast

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OFSTED produce a yearly report called Dashboard Data to show how schools perform. Governors are delighted that our dashboard data shows that children all made required attainment for 2013. They were in the top 20% for all schools in reading and writing and the top 40% of all schools for maths. Well done everyone!

Look at our new outside

learning space. ☺

FIRE PRACTICEFIRE PRACTICEFIRE PRACTICEFIRE PRACTICE – we held a successful fire practice today. The whole building was cleared and all accounted for within 5 minutes.