3 July 2015

Good morning, it looks like it's going to be another warm one!

The staff and children have coped incredibly well with the rising temperatures this week. As you can imagine, with a building of this age, and classrooms full of 30 children, the afternoon sessions can be quite challenging. Couple this with a lack of shade outside and tired children who haven't slept well, we have all done well to keep going!

This week has been a hive of activity culminating today with Friendly Friday, where chil-dren are completing a variety of SMSC based activities across the school.

We have been busy preparing children for transition this week and welcomed our new Re-ception children into school on Wednesday of this week. It was lovely for me to spend some time with them and to reflect about how much children develop and grow during their first full year of school with us. Our year 6 pupils have visited their secondary schools this week and have come back buzzing about the exciting opportunities which lie ahead of them.

Whilst welcoming new children, we also welcomed in to school this week new staff mem-bers who are joining us - Mrs Gill and Mrs Humphries. Mrs Gilbey has also been out and about visiting classrooms to observe teachers as she prepares to start her teacher training with us in September. Mrs Gilbey will be completing the same course as Miss Barker has done this year and will be learning the ropes in Hawthorn class from Mrs Porter.

We've had more sporting success over the past week, with our swim team winning the WASPs competition at the weekend and our runners being crowned the ‘District Sports Mixed Grand Shuttle Relay Champions'. Well done to all of our children who participated and to staff and parents for supporting them.

Next week we continue with our busy schedule and await the return of SATs papers which we shall then number crunch and report to parents as soon as we can.

We will also be finalising preparations for the Pyrford and Wisley Flower Show taking place next weekend and look forward to seeing all the children there. The link http://www.pyrfordflowershow.org.uk/junior/4555956852 takes you to the junior section and we encourage you to enter some of the junior categories.

I wish you all a pleasant weekend and look forward to seeing many of you this evening when I shall be attending the Iftar at the Shah Jahan Mosque. I feel privileged to be invited and cannot but admire the determination of those of you in our school community who are currently undertaking fasting during this long and hot Ramadan.

Best wishes.

Kathryn Krynicki

Headteacher

School Newsletter

YEAR 6 LEAVERS’ SERVICE AT THE CATHEDRAL ON MONDAY

Remember to come smartly dressed in your uniform and bring a

packed lunch.

Congratulations to the Golden Book Winners

Week beginning 29 June

Ash - Eiliyah for excellent progress in

writing.

Beech - Hannah Anderson for always

trying her best!

Hazel - Thomas Atkins for being a

superstar and working hard all year.

Chestnut - Joe Hodges for working

hard all year and being a brilliant

mathmagician.

Pine - William Wynne for wearing his

glasses.

Cedar - Kerron Patrick for trying hard.

Hawthorn - James Cobbett for

working hard and making very good

progress.

Sycamore - Bronte Oliver-Watts for

exceptional hard work all year.

Elm - Ethan Harvey &

Maple - Charlie Jones

for excellent story boards telling of the

‘Weighing of the Heart’ ceremony in

Ancient Egypt.

Larch - Charlotte Lambert for excellent

work in RE this week.

Birch - Charles Crossley & Niko Hack

for excellent film reviews in Literacy.

Rowan - Jacob Wynne for writing a

lovely poem about the sea.

Willow - Gemma Robins & Evangeline

Maloney for an excellent version of the

‘At Sea’ poem.

Laurel - Oscar Reynell for great team-

work and such a positive attitude during

our residential.

Holly classes - Vivek Kalia for being a

good team member and encouraging

throughout our residential.

MUFTI DAY - TUESDAY 14TH JULY

We are inviting children to come in to school in mufti

clothes for a suggested donation of £1 towards JDRF.

The School Council have chosen to support this

charity as it has given a lot of support to a child in

one of our Reception classes who has Type 1

Diabetes. She, too, has raised money for the charity by taking part in a sponsored walk.

JDRF funds research to cure, treat and prevent Type 1 diabetes and provides information for children, adults and

parents living with the condition, from diagnosis and beyond.

Sport4Kids (S4K) are very excited to be delivering the Pyrford School Holiday Camps this summer.

S4K have been delivering weekend sports classes, midweek school and nursery programmes and holi-

day camps since 2012, currently working with over 1000 children every week. Our mission is to build a

movement that champions sport from a child and parents perspective. In our classes we look to merge

child psychology and learning, entertainment and fun along with the development of confidence

through individual skills coaching.

Earlier this year we joined forces with ActivKids who have been working with Pyrford for a number of

years supporting PE and delivering an after school club, and together our range of programmes and

services have been enhanced further.

The summer camp timetable is now available at http://sport4kids.biz/holiday-camp/

wokingholidaycamp. We look forward to welcoming pupils from Pyrford to our exciting and energetic

camp.

Best regards

Dr. Mark Gould and James Porter

SCHOOL DATES FOR 2014—2015 ACADEMIC YEAR Additions & changes in bold

Description Date Time

Yr 6 Leavers’ Service at the Cathedral 6 July

Yr 5 Internet Safety Workshops 8 July morning

Internet safety meeting for KS2 parents 9 July 7 pm

Pyrford Flower Show 11 July

Fundraising Concert at the CoGS 13 July evening

Mufti Day for JDRF 14 July

KS2 Sports Day 15 July 9:30 am

EYFS & KS1 Sports Day 16 July 9:30 am

Yr 6 production 17 July Afternoon

Friends Family Summer BBQ 17 July 6 - 9 pm

Yr 6 Disco 20 July 6:30 pm

Last Day of Summer Term 21 July finish at 13:30

2015/16 Term Dates & INSETs

INSET DAY 2 September

First day of Autumn term 3 September

Autumn Half term 26 - 30 October

Last day of Autumn term 17 December

INSET DAY 18 December

Christmas Holidays 21 December - 4 January

First day of Spring term 5 January

Spring Half Term 15 - 19 February

Last day of Spring term 24 March

Easter Holidays 25 March - 8 April

INSET 11 April

First Day of Summer term 12 April

INSET 27 May

Summer Half term 30 May - 3 June

INSET 6 June

Last Day of Summer Term 22 July

ICE CREAMS are on sale after school every Friday

afternoon .

Please come around to the Reception

playground near the school field

entrance.

AFTER SCHOOL CLUB STAFF REQUIRED

5 afternoons

3 - 6:15pm (16.25hrs per week)

Term time only

Salary FTE £15,156

Actual £5,682 per annum

Please contact Mrs McAllister for further

details / application form

info@pyrford.surrey.sch.uk

FAMILY BBQ

Friday 17th July

6 - 9 pm

Booking form at the back

of the newsletter

PLEASE NOTE THAT TEACHER LED CLUBS FINISHED THIS WEEK The last Judo session is Tuesday 14th and Chobham Rugby’s last session is

Wednesday 15th. Please check direct with other external providers for infor-

mation about their final sessions.

The Woking Primary Schools Annual Swimming Gala took place this year at the Pool in the Park in Woking on Saturday 27th June.

All of our swimmers swam their absolute hardest, and every swimmer contributed to the growing confidence that the team felt as regular score updates put Pyrford as the team to be beaten.

The whole area fell silent as the placings were confirmed in reverse order. The top spot was between Pyrford and Goldsworth Park, who had been chasing us through-out.

And finally – confirmation………PYRFORD WERE THE CHAMPIONS!!

Well done to our fabulous swimmers – Izzy Simons (captain), Genevieve Moller-Butcher, Freya Daines, Alex Keane (captain), Isaac Wong, William Cobbett, Gemma Robins, Maddi Livingstone, Rosina Hanington, Freddie Plummer, Lorenzo Vanotti, Lucas Collyer-Todd, Oliver Mantell, Lois Wong and Christian Moller-Butcher, and thanks to our wonderfully noisy supporters!!

WASPS SWIMMING GALA 2015

Another Success for Pyrford Swimmers!

DISTRICT SPORTS 2015

Field Events : Charlotte Lambert, Bobby Lockwood-Cowell, Molly Ryan, Sarib Umair, Parisa Kordestani, Lois Wong, Daniel Wass, Amelie King, Samantha Osborne, Luca Elliott and Isaac Wong.

Charlotte and Bobby came first in their events, Daniel came 2nd in his and Samantha came 3rd in hers.

We came 3rd overall in the field events.

Track Events : Rania Zareen, Caitlin Maytham, Lois Wong, Charlie Jones, Sami Salim, Theo Scott, Connie Clifton, Charlotte Lambert, Harriet Cook, Bobby Lockwood-Cowell, Chris Batten, Daniel Wass, Amelie King, Maddi Livingstone, Gemma Robins, Lorenzo Vanotti, Freddie Plummer, Robbie Moore, Samantha Osborne, Kate Booker, Genevieve Moller-Butcher, Madeline Harrison, Alex Clifton, Sean Ndebele, Joseph Monday and Luca Elliott.

Great performances from everyone but particular congratulations to the following who were placed in their races

Rania - 2nd Bobby - 3rd Amelie - 2nd Kate - 3rd Alex - 3rd

Connie and Samantha came 1st in their heats and then 2nd in their respective finals.

Yr 3&4 Boys relay came 3rd, Yr 5&6 Girls relay came 2nd and the Mixed Shuttle Relay team came first winning the Grand Mixed Shuttle Relay trophy.

All pupils were a credit to the school and thanks go to Mrs Cockle and Mr Jones for all their help.

Please come to the

Pyrford C of E Primary School

Summer Concert

at the

Church of the Good Shepherd

On Monday 13th

July, 7pm.

Entry is £10 per adult (children go free)

and includes a complimentary interval drink.

No advance ticket sales;

Just turn up!

All proceeds from this concert will be donated towards the refurbishment of the Church of the Good Shepherd.

Summer Fayre

We would like to thank everyone who generously volunteered and donated for the Summer Fayre - we couldn’t do it without you.

To all our donors for providing our headline Silent Auction and raffle prizes; Sky for offering to match fund our money-raising efforts; G Honour Butchers for providing our BBQ equipment; and the Church of the Good Shepherd for the loaning of equipment.

Our Donors

Apples and Pears Nuffield Health Gym Birdworld Papillon Dry Cleaners Brooklands Jewellers Perform Brooklands Museum PlusGolf Live Scoring Chobham Rugby Pure Motion Cycles Clare Charett Pyrford Primary School Cliff Hatch Stables Pyrford Social Club Denbies Wine Estate The Red Lion Elton Stationers Seymours Estate Agency Flair Gymnastics Surrounds Picture Framing Agency Focus on Phonics Sutton Green Golf Club Frazer Green Tante Marie Hair Mekanix Tesco Hodder and Stoughton Wine Rack Wine Holly Bush Stables Yogaflow Jigsaw Lloyds Pharmacy Mini Musical Madness Our Volunteers Class reps, and the army of parent helpers, Nicky Purnell for creating our flyers and programme, the staff of the School and volunteers of the Friends of Pyrford Primary School.