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SIssue: 24

9th March 2018

Live Fully, Laugh Often, Learn Deeply, Love as God Loves You and Let Your Light Shine

Dear Parents/Carers

This week 6 of our Year 6 pupils competed with 13 other Chelmsford schools in the Maths and English Competitions. These competitions are

challenging! Our Teams were: Harry, Naomi, Harriet and Amy (English), Naomi, Aaron, Tara and Harry (Maths)…..and they won both competitions, which is an amazing achievement. Great congratulations to them – they will now be going forward to the Essex Finals.

Year 4 Public Speaking Competition Our Year 4 Public Speaking Teams are busy practising and learning their speeches. In the meantime, judges have been looking at entries from the 800 or so Year 4s from across the county to see whose poem will be used in the competition by all the teams – and they have selected Poppy’s poem, ‘Voice for a Reason’. Congratulations to Poppy!

3R have been

making Egyptian shadufs to

understand how water was collected from the Nile 5000 years ago… … and 5E have

been learning about the design of our Viking invaders’ long ships, as well as doing

some excellent story writing (this is Esosa’s which is full of impressive description and imaginative ideas).

The licensing of Rev Dan Pierce as a Pioneer Minister for Beaulieu Park is

at 3pm at Beaulieu (near the spherical sculpture), followed by a service and refreshments back at The Bishops’. If you would like to support Dan as he starts his ministry in this area, everyone is welcome.

The ICT/ Animation Club have

bought some new robotic ‘toys’. They are controlled through the

Learnpad computers and can move, make noises, light up in a

variety of ways and even play the xylophone. One of them

visited Little Fingers this week.

Thank you, 3R, for your totally mathematical assembly this week!

Year 4 had a fantastic trip to

Colchester Castle Museum this

week. They travelled back 2000 years, as they toured the

foundations of the Roman Temple which Boudicca

destroyed, and raced Roman chariots.

Lunchtime Menu—Week beginning Monday 12th March 2018

Term Dates—Academic Year 2018-2019

Autumn Term: Tuesday 4th September 2018 to Wednesday 19th December 2018 Half Term: Monday 22nd October 2018 to Friday 26th October 2018

Spring Term: Thursday 3rd January 2019 to Friday 5th April 2019 Half Term: Monday 18th February 2019 to Friday 22nd February 2019 Summer Term: Tuesday 23rd April 2019 to Wednesday 24th July 2019

Half Term: Monday 27th May 2019 to Friday 31st May 2019

Non Pupil Days & Bank Holidays: Tuesday 4th September 2018, Wednesday 5th September 2018,

Thursday 3rd January 2019, Friday 4th January 2019,

Lost & Found Black/blue glasses in orange

circles case, padlock blue/green wimming

goggles, Animal Facts book, ear rings, necklaces, watches, sunglasses, fitness counters, keys

Available to view in the office

Electronic Entry System Please can anyone entering/leaving the school building

sign in using the electronic entry system, apart from children at the beginning and end of the day. Children

who enter or leave the building at any other time should also sign in and out using the system.

Please note, however, that this system is NOT for reporting student absences. This should be done by

telephoning or emailing the office by 9am. Thank you.

Looking Ahead ...

Saturday 10th March— PTA Mothers’ Day Afternoon Tea in the School Hall, 1 to 3pm Sunday 11th March— Licensing of Dan Pierce at Beaulieu Globe (3pm) and school (3.45pm)

Monday 12th March - PTA Bag2School, 9am; CCHS presentation to parents of Yr 4/5 girls, in class 5E via office, at 3.30pm

Tuesday 13th March—Mothers’ Day Services in house groups, Air & Fire in Church and Earth & Water in School, 9.15am;

Yr 2 trip to Hedingham Castle, 9.30am to 3pm

Wednesday 14th March— Morning Concert, 9.15am; Football match v Baddow Hall, parish field, 3.30 to 4.15pm;

Yr 1 Bedtime Stories, 6 to 6.45pm

Thursday 15th March— funeral in Church, please clear car park by 9.15am; SATS information meeting for year 6, in the hall, 1.50 to 2.50pm;

Film Club, 3.30 to 5pm; Class 1CT Parents’ Evening, 3.30 to 6.30pm

Friday 16th March — FSM’s Class Assembly in the School Hall, 9.15am (doors open 9am); 5B Cake Sale for whole school, at breaktime, in aid of the Dogs’ Trust;

PTA Easter Fayre, from 3.15pm

PTA

12th March is Bags2School - all bags in by 9am

16th March is the Easter Fayre from 3.15 till 5.00. Raffle and tombola donations due

in to classrooms by Thursday 15th.

We hope you can enjoy and support us at some or all of these events.

Jane and Becci

Find us @BishopsPta Or The Bishops' School PTA on Facebook. Or contact at: thebishopspta@hotmail.com

Morning Concert Wednesday, 14th March at 9.15am All private students will perform in small groups or short solos. Also playing, the Band and the string group . All parents welcome .

Some reminders…… Please remind your children if necessary that the Adventure Play Area, Pirate Ship and Play

Ground are not for playing on after school – including ball games etc – it’s Home-Time!

Most of you are amazing at paying promptly for clubs/dinners – and for some the amount owed mounts up. Please talk to us if there are financial difficulties, and if not – please catch

up on your payments!

Name everything! It is much, much more likely to find its way back to your children.

For those of you lucky enough to be going, we hope you enjoy

the Mothers’ Tea tomorrow! Thank you, PTA!

Thumbs down….. To dangerous parking across the school entrance on

double yellow lines! Vehicle Registration VF17 BHL

Fun Samba & Drumming Workshop—Sunday 25th March 2018

This course is open to all aged 5 – 9 years old with little, or, no experience playing Samba and African drums and those who live or study in Essex. The free course offers opportunities to ex-

plore the sounds and instruments of Samba and Drums.

https://www.essexmusichub.org.uk/site/events/free-fun-samba-drumming-workshop -for-5-9-year-old/

www.essexmusichub.org.uk

This course is open to all aged 5 – 9 years old with little, or, no experience playing Samba and African drums and those who live or study in Essex.

On Sunday 4th March, Miss French and I are taking part in the Colchester Zoo 10km Stampede and then 2 weeks later I am taking part in the London Landmarks Half

Marathon. I am doing both events to raise money for a charity that I have been supporting for the past 6 years, The Matt Hampson Foundation. In 2005, Matt suffered an accident

whilst training with the England Rugby U21 squad, which changed his life, so Matt set up the foundation to support others who have also been injured through sport. I would love

your prayers and support and if possible a donation to help continue their wonderful work. My Justgiving page is: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/sarah-hinchcliffe6

For more information please come and speak to me or you can visit: https://www.matthampsonfoundation.org/

There is still time to enrol on a free English or maths course with ACL, get a qualifi-cation by the summer and then enrol onto a GCSE starting in September.

If you want to improve your maths and English skills, ACL Essex offers free cours-es from beginners to GCSE. You can learn in the classroom at one of our centres,

or online. If you need a confidence boost with speaking, reading and writing, or perhaps with

numbers and calculations then please get in touch.

Call 0345 603 7635 or visit www.aclessex.com/english-maths-contact-us-form/

Daniel Land ACL Essex

Marketing & Business Development Manager

Telephone: 03330 139379│Mobile: 07590 034305 Email: daniel.land@essex.gov.uk │www.aclessex.com

Follow ACL on Facebook and Twitter

Available during Church Services and Assemblies from now until the end

of term for a suggested £1 donation.

Help us win a prize in the Meadows Shopping Centre’s Shop for Schools

competition by placing tokens, rewarded when shopping, into our slot. Thank you.

Easter Woodland Flumpets available now from the Office for a suggested £2 donation to Farleigh Hospice.