28 June - Epsom Primary School

Epsom Primary School’sNEWSLETTERMrs Emma Smith, Headteacher Tel: 01372 720608www.epsomprimaryschool.co.ukSummer Term 2013 Week Ending Friday 28 June 2013 No.17Diary Dates for the next two weeksMonday 1 July Seals Class to Hobbledown Farm 9am—3:15pmTuesday 2 July Parenting Course 9am - 11am Explorers RoomWednesday 3 July Year 2 to Pizza Express 9:30amGovernors’ Visiting Day9am - 3pmThursday 4 July Year 6 Swimming lesson 1:30 - 2:30pm Rainbow CentreFriday 5 JulyCake, strawberry and plant donations for Summer Fair please!!(NOT a Mufti Day)KS2 District Sports Field EventsYear 6 Activity Week assembly2:30 - 4:30pm Cuddington Community2:45pm Parents welcomeSaturday 6 July PSA Summer Fair 11am - 2pmMonday 8 July KS2 District Sports Track events Sutton ArenaWednesday 10 July Police Officer to visit Nursery 9am and 1pmYear 4 Zebras to Blenheim - Science1:45pm - 3pmThursday 11 JulyFriday 12 JulyYear 2 & 3 Transition ActivitiesYear 6 Swimming lessonEnd of year Reports to go out to parentsYear 2 & 3 Transition ActivitiesReception & Year 1 Sports morningYear 6 Dress rehearsal in front of school1:30pm - 3pm1:30 - 2:30pm Rainbow CentreAll day9:30am1:30 - 2:30pmKS1 Talent ShowRabbits Assembly2pm2:45pm Parents welcomeSaturday 13 July Choir singing at Ewell Village Fair To be confirmed

Postcards posted homeEach week each class teacher will pick a child who hasshown that he or she has behaved/performedexceptionally in some way. A postcard will be posted hometo them detailing their achievement.17/06/2013 24/06/13Bumblebees Oscar Clements-Jones Henry BennettDragonflies Sara Saeed Chris NurcjaLadybirds Andrew Adjei Frankie EtchesButterflies Evelyne Bridges Bhevna JugroopOwls Ezekiel Bertrand Joey SummersRabbits Rahul Mungla Daniela SeniorHedgehogs James Carey Sienna GingellBadgers Aaron Clavey Luca BedfordFoxes Yash Bissessur Ariel Beckles-KuneneSeals Sarah Delest Natalia FerdekDolphins Sonya Koleva Beatriz FerreiraGiraffes Mateusz Krawiec Jessica CampbellZebras Sade Olutola Waahid KhanTigers Charley Boult Bobby GolamgouseLions Luis Neves Daffyd JamesPumas Adam Waters Maria Goubran-KeshtaLeopards Georgia Ho William KamaraNursery Bumblebees andDragonflies have beenvery busy growing awhole range of plants.They will be selling themnext Wednesday 3rd July at 3:15pm inthe playground. Please come andsupport us!!The last day of term(Wednesday 24 July)will be a mufti day!In return, we’d like toask you all to bring inyour old schooluniforms which will be donated to Bag-2-School. The bags for this will behanded out during the next couple ofweeks, so keep a look out for them.However, you can use any bag to put yourold uniform in (big or small), togetherwith any other clothes you would like todonate. The more clothes we have, thelarger amount of money we will receivefrom Bag-2-School. What an ideal timeto throw out those old uniforms!!Design a Christmas Stamp Competition!Royal Mail is running an amazing national art competition for primary schoolpupils to design stamps for Christmas 2013. This has only happened twicebefore in 1966 and 1981 - see the winning designs below. Two lucky winners will see their designs on oneof the 1st or 2nd Class Christmas stamps from this year’s range. The competition theme is ‘what doesthe Christmas season mean to you?’ , so the children should design an image that best describes whatthe festive holiday period means to them.This is a prize that money cannot buy, and will be a huge honour for the winners and their schools. Thewinning designs will be approved by HerMajesty the Queen, and used on millions ofChristmas cards during the festive season.All competition entries must bereceived by 19 July 2013; pleasecome to the school office to get anENTRY FORM!

We were so lucky to have parent Clair Hood andher colleague Hayley from Aon come into schoolthis week to do some “community support” work.Giving up a couple of hours of their work day theladies have helped us freshen up the 6 largeplanters that line the ramp to school reception!They removed the old flowers and weeds, addedcompost and planted some lovely new plants andshrubs that will last all year round! Doesn’t thefinished effect look great?!JULY 6 TH 11AM – 2PMThank you to everyone who has alreadydonated to our summer fair!SEE YOU THERE!!SWEET DONATIONS - We need more sweets !!We are hoping to create 100 fabulous candy bags for the children to buy with theirpocket money and are just a few short, so if you are yet to donate please can youbring in a bag of the following …Wrapped sweetsLollipops are idealSORRY NO CHOCOLATEBOOK donations - during the week of 1st JulyEveryone loves to read … so please donate any unwanted adult or children’s books – in good,clean condition - for our Book StallFINAL DONATION DAY – 5 TH JULYPLANT STALLWe look forward to receiving your plants or herbs tocreate a lovely green stall!!Years 3-6 = CAKESNursery – Year 2 =A punnet of strawberries

WORLD MUSIC DAYLast Friday at Epsom Primary School we celebrated World Music Day. As you walkedaround the school you will have seen and heard: Nursery playing hand bells, Receptionmaking music with brooms and buckets, Y1 drawing musical pictures, Y2 and Y3 childrenusing junk to make music, Y4 playing their recorders, Y5 using junk to drum and Y6 listeningto different genres of music.This is just a snapshot of the day.It was a fun, exciting, music filled day and the children had a lot to say about it......“I enjoyed watching STOMP as you could make musical sounds with your body.”“I enjoyed the assembly the most because I liked performing.”We ended the day with a grand finale of an assembly where every year group gave a musicalperformance. It was a great celebration of the variety that music can bring and therange of talent we have in our school.Lastly I want to say a huge THANK YOU to the parents for supporting the children throughdonations of junk and coming along to the assembly. We also had a range of visiting musicianswho freely gave their time to perform and work with the children.We will be looking to repeat this event next year so watch this space!Many thanks,Mrs Tubby