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EYNSHAM COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL

Everybody Learning, Every Day

Beech Road, Eynsham, Witney. Oxon. OX29 4LJ Headteacher Mrs V A Bayliss

Tel: 01865 881294 Fax: 01865 883094 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: www.eynsham.oxon.sch.uk

Friday 4th October 2019

Newsletter 3 I feel that I am often saying at the beginning of my newsletter, that it has been another exciting week at Eynsham! However, there has really been much excitement across the school. The week began with a celebration of International Day which was organised by Miss Lopez. Each year group studied a different country and learnt about their culture and language as well as some of their food choices. Tuesday, saw Year 4 depart for Hill End, where they spent two days carrying out team building exercises. A big thank you to all the staff that gave up their time to supervise the children during this trip whose behaviour was exemplary throughout the two days. Thursday saw the BBC arriving to report on our Community Business Partnership Project. The objective of this project is to try and work with local businesses and industry in

carrying out developments within the school. The school needs approximately £1.5million pounds to carry out developments both internally and externally. Today, I was also interviewed on the radio about my vision for the school and trying to equip the children of Eynsham with the necessary tools to prepare them for their future lives and careers. If you know of a business or person that might be interested in supporting us, please let Lisa Denbow at the school office know. Finally, good luck to year 6 who depart for their residential next week, I am looking forward to hearing about their time spent away and the adventures that they have. WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING?

Year 5 Didcot Evacuation Experience

International day at Eynsham Primary

Year 3 & 4 Multi Skills Event

BBC South today visit

RAF serviceman visits Year 5

Year 4 Hill End Residential

Learning Walks across the school

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Year 3 & 4 Multi-skills Event

On Tuesday, Year 3 and 4 enjoyed a fantastic morning lead by Year 9 from

Bartholomew School. They took part in a Multi-Skill Event, developing physical

abilities and working in teams. The leaders trained hard and organised exciting

games for our Year 3 and 4 who enjoyed themselves doing races, competitions,

and movements. We were really impressed with their positive attitude and

enthusiasm!

International Day

As part of International Day Monday 30th September, Year 5 thoroughly enjoyed

learning from our fluent Bulgarian specialist, Miss K, who taught us all about her

countries traditions and cultures. The Year 5 children learnt lots of exciting things

including the Bulgarian alphabet and each child even made a traditional Bulgarian

snack called Sarmi: Stuffed Vine Leaves.

We are pleased to announce that we have chosen the Purple Mash online computing

resource to enhance the teaching and learning of the Computing National Curriculum.

Purple Mash is a whole world of fun, designed to be used by Primary aged children in the

classroom and at home. It provides exciting learning opportunities in one safe place. An

introductory letter will be sent out next week by your child’s class teacher.


Fish and Chip Supper: Screening of the BBC film ‘Expanding

the Classroom’

As you are aware, I have spent this week talking about the

history of the school on the TV and radio. Eynsham was

originally built in 1969 as a flagship school for both Oxfordshire

and the rest of the country. In the late 60s there was a move

away from traditional Victorian classrooms to open plan teaching

spaces. Eynsham was one of the first schools built in this fashion

and it was built in a completely open plan fashion. This innovative

design of classroom and progressive teaching methods attracted

the interest of BBC film makers as well as educationalists from

around the world. Approximately two years after the school was

opened, a film was made about this school entitled ‘Expanding

the Classroom’. Not long after I started working at Eynsham, I

found two BBC reels with this film footage on and over the

summer holidays I managed to get this footage converted into

digital format. The film is a wonderful insight into the history of

Eynsham and education in the late 60s/early 70s and we are

planning on holding a fundraising evening to show a screening of

this film. Please see below for details.

Invictus Games Athlete visiting the School

On Monday 14th October, Invictus Games athlete, Luke Delahunty will be

visiting the children to talk about healthy lifestyles and deliver a sponsored

fitness session for each class.

Today your child will be coming home with a sponsorship form, please can they have people sponsor them to

complete this workout session. The school will receive 60% of the sponsorship money raised which we will be

putting towards equipment for the playground. The children will have a ‘pupils voice’ during class to find out what

equipment they would like. See the next newsletter to see how they get on


Hill End Residential

This week Year 4 enjoyed a 2-residential at Hill End. As part of their Raiders and Invaders topic, the children experienced life as an Anglo-Saxon. This involved learning about weaponry, clothing, jobs, battle skills and burial customs.

The children thoroughly enjoyed a night away with their class mates and most slept very well! The residential provided the children with many opportunities for team building as well as developing greater independence.

‘It was great fun’ – Starfish class.

‘Life was hard for an Anglo-Saxon’ – Penguins class

Harvest Festival

A big thank you to all those have brought in donations for the Oxfordshire food bank. We are still collecting and

will be celebrating our collection of items during our Harvest assembly next Tuesday. If you still have items that

you wish to bring in, please ensure that you have done so by Wednesday.

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT WE ARE A ‘NO NUT’ SCHOOL

This includes anything in the children’s lunchboxes/snacks, cakes donated for cake sales etc. Some children in the school do suffer from potentially life-threatening conditions and it it therefore vital that we all do our best to ensure their safety. Thank you.


ALDI’S Kit for Schools

Help us to collect 300 Team GB stickers to complete our poster and we’ll receive an exclusive sports kit

and a chance to win £20,000!! Please hand your vouchers into your

class teacher or the school office.

Introducing New Staff

My name is Mr Webberley and I joined Eynsham at the beginning of September. I have

loved working at Eynsham Community Primary School already. My responsibilities in school

include, Maths lead and LKS2 Phase Leader.

I have got to know alot of children in such a small space of time and they are all amazing.

All the children have been very welcoming as of course I am a new member of staff this

year.

Outside of school I have many hobbies, these include playing golf and football. I'm also a member of a local

running club. I'm aiming to run the London Marathon this coming year.

Year 5 Didcot Evacuation Experience On Thursday 19th September Year 5 had a brilliant day at Didcot. The children were dressed in a variety of different outfits ranging from evacuees to members of the Home Guard. The highlight of the day was an evacuation experience and being spoken to by a man who was 7 when the war broke out.

A few weeks ago year 5 were also visited by Corporal N Thompson of the RAF. He talked to the children about the Battle of Britain as well as taking the children onto the playground to teach them the flight formations of the RAF and Luftwaffe during the battle.


I am pleased to announce the children who have achieved the following awards: Well done to Anna for passing her Stage 8 swimming award & for achieving a silver medal in 50m breaststroke time trials at her local swimming club. HOUSE POINTS Bronze Awards 25 points

Year 1: Christian Ada Millie Amelia Erin Ruby A Agnes Year 3: Harry Charlie Millie Toby Year 4: Sophie Anoushka Lucas Anna Megan Year 5: Harry Findlay Daisy Aidan Myra

Aysha Leo Lucy Year 6: Alanna Kyle Mabel Max Patrick Megan Poppy Henry Gabe Travis Oliver Emily Zoe Lily Lucas Madison Tyler Sebastian Natasha Finley SUPER READER: Joseph (Y3) Megan (Y6) MATHS AWARD: Isabel (Y3) Elizabeth (Y3) Haroon(Y5) Chris (Y5) WRITING AWARD: Anoushka (Y4) Writing a beautifully descriptive narrative Oliver (Y3) Writing an amazing setting description Myah (Y2) A fantastic piece of writing about the Great Fire of London Kyle (Y6) An excellent piece of writing on Alexander the Great CLASS AWARDS: Sammy (Y4) Having a great attitude to his learning and always persevering Hana (Y6) Always putting in 100% effort into your learning. Perfect presentation Sammy (Y3) Working heard and showing a great attitude to learning Jamie (Y5) Being the ‘Eynsham Way’ such a pleasure to teach. Penguins class Showing great independence and team work whilst on residential Sebastian (Y2) Applying himself responsibly in all lessons Ollie (Y6) A great week showing responsibility for his learning Joshua (Y2) Having an amazing attitude to learning this week Riley (Y3) Having an amazing week in school. Showing he is ready to learn and wanting to challenge himself.


ATTENDANCE: As you know, we monitor school attendance carefully throughout the year and thought that you would be

interested to see how things look so far. The table below shows the percentage attendance for each class since

the beginning of term. The national average is 96%. Well done to Fox class for the last week & to Hedgehog.

class for this week!

Week Beg

FS Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6

Rabbits Foxes Hedge-hogs

Sharks Orcas Starfish Penguins Cougars Ocelots Pumas Bobcats

03/09/19 95% 95% 100% 95% 99% 97% 99% 100% 100% 96% 98% 94%

09/09/19 96% 95% 98% 96% 98% 97% 97% 97% 98% 99% 98% 99%

16/09/19 89% 96% 100% 97% 96% 94% 98% 99% 97% 98% 99% 94%

23/09/19 99% 94% 100% 96% 98% 96% 99% 93% 98% 94% 96% 97%

30/09/19 91% 94% 94% 100% 98% 98% 95% 98% 95% 96% 99% 97%

Special Thank You’s Please keep the offers of help coming… we can’t stress enough how much it means to us and the children. DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Monday 7th October- Year 6 Residential to Woodlands Friday 11th October Friday 11th October: Year 3 Roman Day: children to dress up Monday 14th October: Invictus Games Athlete visiting the school Wednesday 16th October: PTA – Annual General (and social!) Evening – 7.30pm at Eynsham

Primary School Monday 21st October: Black History workshops – whole school Tuesday 22nd October: Black History workshops – whole school Wednesday 23rd October: Year 6 Transition day 1 Wednesday 23rd October – Year 5 Residential to Youlbury Friday 25th October Friday 25th October Last day of half term Monday 4th November: INSET Day 3

Tuesday 5th November: Term 1 (2nd half) commences

Tuesday 5th November: Flu vaccinations for whole school

This week we say thank you to the Andrew Fisher Foundation for their generous donation which we will use to purchase mobile cricket nets for next Spring/Summer term.


Wednesday 6th November: Parents’ Evening: 3:30-6:30pm

Thursday 7th November: Parents’ Evening: 4:30-7:30pm

Friday 8th November: Year 3 trip to Chedworth Roman Villa

Monday 11th November: Anti-Bullying workshops

Tuesday 12th November: Anti-Bullying workshops

Friday 15th November: Fish and Chip Supper: Showing of the 1970s BBC Film about Eynsham

Thursday 28th November: Community Business Project Meeting at 5pm

Friday 29th November: Christmas Fair 5-7pm

Friday 6th December: Light Up Eynsham

Monday 9th December: KS1 Performance to the school: 1pm

Tuesday 10th December: KS1 Performance: 1pm (Babies and toddlers welcome)

Tuesday 10th December: KS1 Performance: 6pm (Adults only)

Wednesday 11th December: KS1 Performance: 6pm (Adults only)

Thursday 12th December: FS Christmas Singing (Parents invited @ 2:00pm)

Thursday 12th December: Parents open afternoon beginning at 2:45pm with mince pies and mulled

wine

Friday 13th December: Cinderella Pantomime performance to whole school

Tuesday 17th December: IRock Concert to parents & school- 10am

Wednesday 18th December: Kingfishers and Owls trip to Theatre: The Jolly Xmas Postman

Thursday 19th December: End of Term (Finish at 1:15pm)

Monday 6th January: INSET Day 4

Tuesday 7th January: Term 2 (1st half) begins

Monday 20th January: Year 1 & 2 Dance Event at Bartholomew

Monday 10th February: EPA Year 3 & 4 Rugby Tournament at Bartholomew

Wednesday 12th February: Year 3 Showcase at 6pm

Friday 14th February: End of half term

Monday 24th February: Term 2 (2nd half) begins

Wednesday 4th March: Parents’ Evening: 3:30-6:30pm

Thursday 5th March: Parents’ Evening: 4:30-7:30pm Monday 9th March: Year 5 & 6 Swimming Gala Thursday 12th March: Year 6 Transition Day 2 Monday 30th March: Year 4/5 Production to school: 1pm

Tuesday 31st March: Year 4/5 Production to parents: 1pm (Babies and toddlers welcome)

Tuesday 31st March: Year 4/5 Production to Parents: 6pm Wednesday 1st April: Year 4/5 Production to Parents: 6pm Friday 3rd April: End of Term (Finish at 1:15pm) Monday 20th April: INSET Day 5 Tuesday 21st April: Term 3 (1st half) begins Thursday 7th May: May Day Parade Friday 8th May Bank Holiday Monday 11th May KS2 SATs -Thursday 14th May Monday 18th May- KS1 SATs Thursday 21st May Wednesday 22nd May: Parents open afternoon beginning at 2:45pm Friday 22nd May: Last day of half term Monday 1st June: Term 3 (2nd half) begins


Monday 8th June: Phonics Screening tests begins Thursday 18th June: Parents open afternoon beginning at 2:45pm Thursday 25th June: Year 6 Transition Day 3 Thursday 2nd July: Sports Day Friday 3rd July: Back up sports day in case of bad weather Thursday 9th July: Meet the new teacher morning Friday 10th July: Reports out Tuesday 14th July: Year 6 Production to school Wednesday 15th July: Year 6 Production to parents: 1pm

(Babies and toddlers welcome)

Wednesday 15th July: Year 6 Production to parents: 6pm Thursday 16th July: Year 6 Production to parents: 6pm Monday 20th July: Year 6 Leavers’ Assembly: 1:30pm Tuesday 21st July: End of Term (Finish at 1:15pm)

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