Furze Platt Infant School

Newsletter - 24th July 2024

FPIS 2023-24

End of Year Celebrations!

Wow! What an amazing year we have had in our school! It has been wonderful to see how well our children have progressed. They have grown in so many ways and we are all very proud of what they have achieved this year.

As you will know, our school has a very passionate, hard working and dedicated staff team who, once again this year, have all gone above and beyond every single day to make sure every child in our school has the best possible start to their learning journey - filled with so many exciting and engaging experiences. I cannot thank them enough for all their efforts and support.

Equally, the incredible support that we have had from our parents and families throughout the past year has also made a huge difference to what we do here at FPIS. Thank you all! We are really very fortunate to be part of such a fantastic community and very much value our partnerships with parents. I would also like to thank our parents and families for the many lovely words, cards and gifts that we have all received as the year has drawn to a close. We have been totally overwhelmed by your generousity and kindness. A very BIG thank you to you all on behalf of the whole staff team :)

Over the last few weeks, we have celebrated the end of our academic year with some wonderful events in school...

Our Year 1 Excellent Ending event was a real showcase for the children's learning this term. The children performed a selection of songs that literally took us all together on an adventure around the world! It was great that so many parents and family members were to be able to join us to see and hear all about the things the children had been doing as they proudly shared their project scrapbooks afterwards too. The children's excitement and passion to share their learning was overhwhelming and a real joy to see! My thanks once more to our fabulous Year 1 team who did such a brilliant job with planning and organising the event.

Our Year 2 Summer Production, There is a Sunflower in my Supper was 'udderly' incredible! (apologies for yet another cow joke!) It was evident that the children thoroughly enjoyed putting on this mooosical (sorry!) from all the smiles, energy and enthusiam that filled the school hall. Their confidence was wonderful to see and it was so impressive that everyone had learnt their lines, dance moves, actions and song lyrics so well! I would like to thank once again our brilliant Year 2 team for all their hard work and creativity putting the production together - and an extra special mention and thank you to the very talented Mrs Hayward, who did such an amazing job with props and costumes.

As we wish our Hazel, Holly and Willow Class children farewell as they end their journey here at the Infant School, we send them on their way with our very best wishes for the next steps in their FPPF journey at FPJS. We are incredibly proud of you all and look forward to hearing about your new adventures from our Junior School colleagues next year! :)

Finally, our Early Years Graduation yesterday brought our celebrations to a close for this year. What a lovely way for the children to mark the end of their first school year with us here at FPIS! They have made a great start to life here at FPIS and we could not be prouder of them all. The children's enthusiasm and dance moves during their performance of 'Shake it off!' was joyful to watch and so full of passion, energy and fun! I would like to say another big thank you to our Early Years staff for putting in a super team effort to make sure our children end their Early Years journey with such a memorable and fun experience!

We will look forward to welcoming our Year 1 and 2 children and families back to school on Thursday 6th September @ 8:45 am. We will be checking in with our new Early Years children and families when they come into school for their visits during the first few days of the Autumn Term and will be delighted to welcome them on their first day at school on Tuesday 10th September @ 8:45 am.

So, as the school year ends, we can look forward to the summer break. Thank you once again for your continued support. I would like to wish you all a very happy, safe and restful summer holiday! :)

With very warm wishes

Jane Indge

Head of School

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Here is a look at what's going to be happening in school at the start of 2024-25...

Tuesday 3rd and Wednesday 4th September - INSET days (school closed)

Thursday 5th September - Term begins (Year 1 and 2) classroom doors open at 8:45 am

Thursday 5th, Friday 6th and Monday 9th September - Early Years School Visits

Tuesday 10th September - Early Years: First Day at School - Morning session only (8:45 am - 12:00 pm)

Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th September - Early Years - Morning session only (8:45 am - 12:00 pm)

Friday 13th September - Early Years - Morning session and lunch (8:45 am - 1:15 pm)

Monday 16th September - Early Years - Morning session and lunch (8:45 am - 1:15 pm)

Monday 16th September - Year 2: Author visit with Simon Mole

Tuesday 17th September - Early Years - Full-time: Morning session, lunch and afternoon (8:45 am - 3:15 pm)

Tuesday 17th September - Year 1: Author visit with Simon Mole

Tuesday 24th September - Year 2: Author visit with Simon Mole

Friday 27th September - Year 1 and 2 (KS1) Excellent Ending event (morning - timings tbc)

Friday 27th September - 2:00 - 3:10 pm Early Years Busy Learning Afternoon

Saturday 28th September - 2:30 pm FPSA Early Years Tea Party

Friday 4th October - Year 1 and 2 (KS1) Superhero Dress-up Day (non-uniform)

Staffing updates and arrangements for 2024-25

A few goodbyes...

We were so very sad to say goodbye to Miss Hare, Dragonfly Class Teacher and Assistant Head (Early Years) today. Miss Hare has worked with such passion and commitment, continuously making improvements within Early Years to ensure our youngest children get the very best start to their journey here at FPIS. As well as being an excellent Class Teacher, Early Years Practitioner and Team Leader, Miss Hare's impact has also been evident across the wider school through her Assistant Head role. She has become a much-loved and respected colleague to us all. We wish her every success as she leaves us to embark upon her new and exciting role at The Lawns Nursery, Windsor.

We have also said farewell to Miss Pocock today who will begin her teaching training programme at Cardiff Metropolitan University in September. We wish her good luck - we are very confident that she has a great career ahead of her!

A further goodbye was said to Mrs Lam, Lunchtime Controller, this afternoon. We thank her for all her care and support for our children during lunchtimes and wish her all the very best for the future.

Our Finance Officer, Mrs Parmar, has also left us today to take up a new full-time post next academic year at Waingels College. It has been a pleasure to have her as part of our Office Team and we know that she will be a real asset within her new school.

...and many thanks

Whilst Mrs Odeniyi and Mrs Ratcliffe will no longer have Class Teacher roles in September, we are extremely pleased that they both remain part of our teaching team. Mrs Odeniyi will be will be returning to her role teaching classes across the school as well as continuing to utilize her considerable expertise to support further development within Maths. We will also be seeing Mrs Ratcliffe in school next year when she provides supply cover for our teachers. Our thanks to both for all their hard work this year as part of the Caterpillar Class team.

Whilst Mrs Jussun will no longer be part of our regular lunchtime team in September, she has kindly offered to remain with us on a supply basis. We would like to thank her for all the kindness and care she has shown our children during lunchtimes over the past few years.

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Say hello to our new team members...

Miss Artemis Evmorfopoulos, our Caterpillar Class teacher, Miss Adele Mahoney, Holly Class teacher and Miss Nadia Midaoui Dragonfly Class teacher will be joining us in September.

We were delighted that both Miss Evmorfopoulos and Miss Midaoui attended our Early Years Induction mornings last month, meeting our newest children and their families. We were also very pleased that Miss Mahoney was able to join us for our transition afternoon and meet her new class last week. We know that they will all be great additions to the teaching team here at FPIS!

Our new Finance Officer, Mrs Emily Sardo will be joining us in the new academic year. We are very much looking forward to working with Mrs Sardo and know that she will be a real asset to our office team.

We are also pleased to let you know that Mrs Asma Rasib will be joining our school as part of our lunchtime team in September.

We are sure you will join us in welcoming all our new staff to our school next year and we wish then every success in their new roles.

Miss Evmorfopoulos

Caterpillar Class Teacher

Miss Adele Mahoney

Holly Class Teacher

Miss Nadia Midaoui

Dragonfly Class Teacher

Mrs Sardo

Finance Officer

Mrs Rasib

Lunchtime Controller

Classes and teaching staff 2024-25.pdf

School Attendance

SAM - our School Attendance Mascot, is our FPIS teddy bear who helps our children think about why it is so important to attend school every day.

Our children are busy learning right from the start of the day, so being in class on time each morning matters just as much too.

Don't forget - timings for the school day will change in September.

Registration will begin at 8:45 am and we will expect all children to be in class by 9:00 am. The end of the day will be 3:15 pm.

Each week, during our Celebration Assembly, the attendance figures are shared. The class with the best attendance overall gets to look after SAM until the following week.

SAM will be spending his summer holiday in Hazel Class as they had the best attendance for 2023-24 overall with a score of 97.2%! Well done!

Our school attendance figures for each class in 2023-24 are shown in the table. Our school attendance target is: 97%

You can read our full Attendance Policy here.

Hazel 97.2%

Holly 96.9%

Willow 96.7%

Dragonfly 96.3%

Oak 96.2%

Bumblebee 95.6%

Caterpillar 95.2%

Silver Birch 95.1%

Beech 92.1%

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Inspirational Athlete Visits FPIS!

We were incredibly excited to welcome Nerys Pearce, Commonwealth and Invictus Games athlete to our school this month. Nerys led an action packed session of physical challenges for our children during the morning, which was followed by a truly inspirational whole school assembly.

Nerys set the task for our children to 'push themselves' during the event - and very kindly left some very special purple wristbands for those children who continued to take on this challenge during the rest of the week after her visit. Well done to Albie (Bumblebee); Ella D (Caterpillar); Salah (Dragonfly); Noah (Beech); Frances (Oak); Seth (Silver Birch); Edith (Hazel); Julia (Holly); Mollie-Rose (Willow) who were all presented with a wristband during our Celebration Assembly at the end of that week.

As you are aware, this was a sponsorship event, organised with the help of Sports for Schools. Thanks to all those who raised money for our school - we have received a voucher worth a staggering £1035.30 to spend on sports equipment!

Thank you!

Early Years

To complete our learning on Journeys our Bumblebees, Caterpillars and Dragonflies have been sharing their learning and favourite experiences during their Reception Journey. Many talked about our visit from Jumpstart Jonny and their exciting trip to Windsor. It was lovely to hear them use phases such as "I've learnt to..." and "I can now..."They also shared lots of experiences about friendships, play and personal achievements.

Last week the children visited their new classes and the Year 1 team. They we able to meet their new teachers, have a go at some activities and ask lots of questions. They all came back full of excitement and looking forward to returning after the Summer break!

Yesterday we celebrated our Early Years Graduation with parents and the Early Years Team. They came in dancing and took turns to receive their graduation certificates from Mrs Indge. The children performed their songs brilliantly and made us all extremely proud. We were particularly impressed with their Taylor Swift dance and rap, inspired by the fantastic Jump Start Jonny!

Well done Early Years, you have been an absolute pleasure this year and we are incredibly proud of you all.

Year 1 Excellent Ending!

What a fantastic way to end our project "We're Going on an Adventure!“. They performed a range of songs sharing the things they have learnt throughout this project. This included; the seven continents of the world, a song about explorers, different ways to say hello and a song from Ghana. All of the songs were performed by the Year 1 children with confidence and enthusiasm.

After this wonderful performance, the children were able to share their group artwork which included different habitats from around the world and their very own murals representing what is important in their world. They were also able to share their very full scrapbooks with their families.

We are so proud of the Year 1 children and all they have achieved this year. Thank you also to all of the wonderful families who came to support this wonderful event.

Year 2 Production

Our Year 2 children did such a fantastic job during our Summer Production called: There's a Sunflower in my Supper! We were so proud of their passion, commitment and determination to put on a fantastic show and they certainly achieved that! Over the last few weeks they have been working hard on their costumes, props, dances, songs and their lines and their hard work certainly paid off!

The children all did a fantastic job; they were brave, passionate and entertaining.

Well done you were udderly moooovellous!!

Year 2 FBBF!

Throughout Summer 2, Year 2's have been busy learning about different ways to join materials together and material suitability for a boat. We linked this to learning about the Dunkirk evacuation rescue mission during World War Two. We designed, made, tested and evaluated our own boats with our very own English Channel (with choppy waves included!).

To celebrate the end of year 2 we invited our year 2 families in for a Family Boat Building Event which we cleverly called: Family Boat Building Fun! All families had 30 minutes to make a boat before it was tested. Our families worked hard to make some extremely creative and exciting boats before they began to test them. Thank you to everyone who came along and supported the event. Well done to the winners and for everyone who took part! We are very lucky to have such brilliant support from our families! :-)

Year 1 Teacher Trail

To celebrate the end of our summer project 'We're Going on an Adventure!', the teachers made their way to Oaken Grove Park for a special family event. Every family had a trail card and they had to visit three different stations, complete three different activities and get all of their trail card stamped to win a prize. The activities included; matching a range of European landmarks to the correct countries and flag, finding which African animals were hiding in Oaken Grove Park and use a range of resources to recreate a famous landmark. A great time was had by all and we want to say thank you very much to all of our wonderful families for their continued support! :-)

Zoolab revisits Year 2!

As mentioned in the last Newsletter, Zoolab came back and visited Year 2 to deliver the workshop: Oceans.

We embarked on a submarine which took us right to the bottom of the ocean! We explored each layer of the ocean with the help of Finley the fish who kept us company on our exciting submarine ride.

We also explored a range of creatures related to animals we would find in each layer which included a python, cockroach, scorpion and a bearded dragon. We were able to touch, stroke and hold some of the animals.

The Zoolab Ranger was very impressed with our vast knowledge about our oceans and the animals we find living in the different layers.

Road 2
Paris Workshops KS1

KS1 had the opportunity to participate in Road 2 Paris workshops. A sporting event where we got to practise sports played at the Olympics and Paralympics! We learnt about the values for the Olympic and Paralympic games and then had a go at playing some. We had a go at Boccia, Boxing, Long Jump and Shooting. We even had the chance to play a Paralympic sport called Goalball where we were blind folded and had to try and score a goal using a special ball with bells. It was important we used our sense of hearing to know where the ball was! We really enjoyed learning about just some of the sports played at the Paris Summer Games and loved learning about the four additional sports that are going to be new in 2024 this year!

FPJS Guitar Concert

It was wonderful to welcome Mr Hastings and children from FPJS with their guitars for a special live performance recently. The children impressed us all with their playing skills and it was wonderful to see so many of our former FPIS pupils once again, of course!

Thank you to all the children and to Mr Hastings for organising this event.

Summer Reading Challenge 2024!

We were very pleased to welcome Laura, Library Supervisor for Boyn Grove Library to our assembly recently. Laura talked to the children about this years Summer Reading Challenge - and was impressed by how keen our children were to get involved!

If you haven't signed up already, it's not too late. You can find out more via: https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/

Wish list book donations - THANK YOU!

We have received more than 20 new books, donated via our Amazon Wish List - which is absolutely incredible! Thank you so much. Your generous gifts will help and no doubt inspire our children to become passionate and enthusiastic readers. We are delighted to let you know that thanks to your generosity, there will be a new 'Sports' reading section in our School Library next year.

Thank you :)

Nurture Group

In the last few weeks, nurture have been busy with lots of activities including making sandwiches. The children could choose jam, marmite or cucumber, they buttered the bread, chose and spread their filling, cut the sandwiches up and finally got to eat them! We have also been decorating biscuits with icing and 100s & 1000s, the children could then choose to eat them at snack time or take them to enjoy at home.

We have been delighted with our growing beds in the front playground, the strawberries and peas have recently ripened and we have picked and enjoyed eating some. We also tried some delicious beetroot which Mrs Indge kindly cooked at home and brought back for us to taste. The courgette plants are getting really big and filling the beds.

It has been a great year in nurture and all of the nurture team would like to wish all the amazing children and their families a wonderful summer!.

Eco Team

Our excellent Eco Team have had a wonderful Eco year helping our school community! We are so impressed with how willing the children have been to get their hands dirty and to come up with really good ideas on how we can encourage everybody to think about our environment, particularly focusing on: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

One of our final sessions was spent creating a short video for the whole school to watch, showing what we get up to in Eco Club and some of our favourite activities that we have done throughout this year. Our children are true troopers and didn't mind the fact that we filmed in all weathers... especially the 'rainy' summer that we have had this year! This video will inspire next years Eco members to come and join our club!

We spent our last Eco club meeting having a lovely time watching the video back as if we were at the cinema with a snack and juice! Some of the children commented on their favourite activities this year:

Max and Mollie-Rose - "My favourite activity this year was to make bird feeders!"

Rafferty - "I loved gardening and weeding!"

Joseph - "Planting sunflowers from the small pots into the big planters!"

Bonnie - "I loved making the movie!"

A few children particularly enjoyed bird watching and using the binoculars.

Well done to our Eco team 2023-2024. We are super proud of you all! Look out for our lovely growing plants when we return from the summer holidays!

School Council

We can't believe another year is over with our School Council team! They have done so much this year to help raise money for our school and we are so proud of their efforts! From helping to sell poppies and red noses after school, to advertising Christmas and Summer Fairs.

It has been wonderful having such an enthusiastic and passionate team who have been excellent role models throughout the year, consistently following our school promises and values. They have brought some fantastic ideas to our meetings and shared our discussions with their classes.

We hope our School Council team continue to bring their excellent ideas wherever they go next and we wish them all the best! Thank you so much for all your hard work, we have really valued your ideas and support.

Awesome achievements!

We love finding out about and celebrating our children's achievements outside of school!

If your child has an achievement that they are very proud of and would like to share with us all, they will get the opportunity to do so during our Celebration Assembly on a Friday.

Edith has been working hard during swimming and has received a certificate and badge for achieving Level Two. Well done!

Arthur received his Level Two certificate for "Doing good swimming." He also received a medal during football for having good football skills and listening carefully. Well done, Arthur!

Amber swam from the shallow end to the deep end and proudly received her Level Two swimming certificate and badge. Well done!

Congratulations to Bryony who is proudly sharing her swimming certificate! What an excellent achievement, well done Bryony!

Well done to Edith who has received two certificates, one for her Level 3 swimming and the other is a Beavers badge for her 'Adventure challenge'. We are very proud of you!

Congratulations to Eva who took part in a mini Olympics event. "I got the medal for being 2nd!" Well done Eva, a great achievement!

Congratulations to Florence who performed in Swan Lake, her first theatre dance show, at Wycombe Swan. Well done, what an amazing achievement and experience Florence!

Well done to Hanna who has received a certificate for completing her Magical Maths. Congratulations, a great achievement Hanna!

Congratulations to Sarayu who has been awarded a certificate for completing her Magical Maths. Well done Sarayu, a wonderful achievement!

Congratulations to Mia who has been working hard to complete her Learn to Swim, Stage 2! Well done Mia, what a wonderful achievement!

Well done to Florence who has received a certificate for completing her Magical Maths. Congratulations, a great achievement Florence!

Well done to Lucy who is proudly sharing two certificates! One for completing Mr Thompson's Games Club and the other for completing a 'push and glide through a hoop' in swimming. Congratulations Lucy!

Congratulations to Ben who is proudly wearing his football medal. He enjoyed guessing how many goals the teams would score!

Max is proudly sharing his medal he was awarded from his football club.

"I got it for going to my tournament and beating a good team." Well done Max, we are very proud of you!

Gigi is proudly sharing her Magical Maths Award. "I had to do maths booklets, played heads and tails and a reading minds game." Well done you superstar!

Isabelle received a medal from Sewing Club for making a beautiful pencil case. She also got a tennis medal for good listening and completing the term.

Well done!

Well done to Dougie who has received a certificate for completing his Magical Maths. Congratulations Dougie, a wonderful achievement!

Congratulations to Frances who has been working hard on her, "Straight handstands and cartwheels." Well done Frances, a great achievement!

Well done to Eva who has received her Swim Kidz certificate and badge for swimming 10 metres. A fantastic achievement Eva!

Congratulations to Florence for receiving her Swim Kidz certificate and badge for swimming 5 metres. A wonderful achievement Florence!

Aarya has been an awesome athlete and worked super hard to gain the Level 2 swimming award. Great job, Aarya!

Aarya has also been an incredible mathematician- super work at Magical Maths, Aarya!

Deekshana has a certificate and medal for completing an art course and taking part in an art exhibition. She has also been an awesome athlete and gained a Level 2 swimming certificate- great work Deekshana!

Hanvitha has been very busy this term and has been awarded a certificate and a medal for her dancing as well as a certificate for being such a brilliant member of Year 2 Games Club- great job Hanvitha!

Lily has been working hard at Rainbows and has been awarded not 1, but 4 certificates and badges. What a busy bee she is!

Isla has been an awesome athlete and shown great levels of determination to receive an award for swimming 15 metres- great going, Isla!

Daisy has received a certificate for her hard work at Sewing Club. Excellent job, Daisy!

Thea should be very proud to have become a member of the Brownies by saying the Brownie promise. Great job Thea!

Oona has been an awesome athlete this term by getting a brown belt at Kickboxing and a distinction in her ballet exam- well done, Oona!

Lily has been an incredible Rainbow this term and has been awarded with the Rainbow Gold Award for completing so many badges- excellent job, Lily!

Well done to Ben who has completed football club at FPIS. "My favourite part is playing matches and keeping focused!"

Congratulations to Teddy who is proudly wearing his football medal for winning a tournament with Maidenhead Braves!

Airah has received two certificates this week, one for completing an excellent drama show and the other for attending Magical Maths this term. Well done!

Congratulations to Roman who won a football trophy for scoring five goals and being a great team player! Super job Roman!

Isla received a certificate and badge for completing level 2 when swimming. She told us that she can swim for a long time now! Well done Isla!

Henry received a certificate and badge for completing level 1 when swimming. He told us that he can jump in and is learning to swim under water. Great work Henry!

Congratulations to Sienna who has been working hard on her swimming skills and achieved a personal best time in the 800m freestyle! A brilliant achievement Sienna!

Well done to Benjamin who has received a football medal for, "Helping my teamates and trying to stop the ball before reaching the goal." Great achievements Benjamin!

Congratulations to Jessica who achieved a medal and a trophy in ballet. The medal was for completing a show and the trophy was for doing good listening in her performance! We are so proud of of you Jessica!

Well done to Casper who passed his grading in Little Samurai's! Casper is now a 'red tag'! He said "I like it because it makes me strong".

Go Casper!!!

A huge well done to Isai who received a medal in Football club for showing off her super skills! Well done Isai, we are so very proud of you!

Olive was beaming with excitement to show everyone her TWO badges from Rainbows! She got one for 'Agility' and the other 'Fruit and Veg!' Well done Olive!

Jack was incredibly proud of himself for receiving a medal for football club! He got it for scoring goals and defending too! What a star, well done Jack!

Elise achieved her swimming certificate for completing level 1! She said "Jumping into the pool is the best bit!" Well done Elise!

Congratulations to Lillie who is proudly holding her Level 9 Swimming Award. "I had to jump in the pool, I had to swim a long way and use my arms for backstroke." Well done Lillie, we are very proud of you!

Delilah was excited to share four badges that she has been awarded at Rainbows. Well done Delilah!

Willa is excited to share the fact she has been invested in Squirrel Scouts. Well done Willa, you're going to love being part of the group.

Emily has achieved her Level 2 swimming badge. She can now swim for 5 metres. Well done Emily!

Congratulations to Seamus who, "Got this medal for good football, working hard on my skills." Well done Seamus, a great achievement!

Well done to Harriet who, "Completed Level 2 in swimming. I have been learning to hold my head up." Congratulations Harriet, a wonderful achievement!

William achieved this certificate for completing level 2 in swimming. "I have started to swim with no armbands now!" Well done William, keep it up!

Darcey was so chuffed to achieve her swimming certificate for swimming 10 meters in the pool. She told me "it is from the start of the pool to the end!" Well done Darcey, we are proud of you!

Ivy was excited to share her certificate and badge that she was awarded for completing Level 1. She is now able to do star jumps and star floats. Well done Ivy!

Congratulations to Ella who received two badges from Rainbows! She is now very excited to start Brownies. Well done Ella!

House Points

Phoenix win the house cup for 2023-24!

To mark the end of 2023-24 at FPIS, we have added each terms house point totals together to give us the entire number of house points earned by each team across the school year.

With an impressive grand total of 3454 we will be engraving Phoenix house team's name on our house cup for 2023-24.

Our congratulations to all the children and Miss Dexter, Head of Phoenix House - a fantastic team effort overall for this academic year!

Sports Day Awards

Following our recent Sports Day, awards were presented to children demonstrating an excellent attitude and teamwork, perseverance or resilience as well as considering physical skills. Well done everyone!

House team awards 2024.pdf

Head of School Awards

Every Friday, during our whole school Celebration Assembly, Head of School awards are given out to a child or children in each class. The certificates are presented by Mrs Indge to those children who have consistently demonstrated excellent behaviours for learning.

Head of School Awards 24th July 2024.pdf

SuperPoWeR Awards

Miss Dexter pops on her Superhero cape each week during Celebration Assembly to present our SuperPoWeR awards. The awards are given to children who have been demonstrating excellent behaviour through our school values of Passion, Well being and Respect.

Super-PoWeR Awards 24th July 2024.pdf

Book Bingo!

Every week, during our Head of School Assembly, a bingo ball is selected from our special red bag. The bingo balls are numbered 1 - 30. Each child in Year 1 and 2 with the corresponding register number to the ball chosen will have the opportunity to bring their Maths book and Project scrapbook to share with Miss Dexter, Miss Edmondson and Mrs Indge later that week. During the Book Bingo session, the children spend time looking through the books together with the adults, whilst discussing and explaining what they have been busy learning about.

FPSA update

Sports Day (Infants & Juniors) - Friday 28th June

Thank you to the Early Years parents who purchased a coloured sports day t-shirt and cap for their child, they looked great in their red, blue, green and yellow top and caps.

As is tradition, the FPSA provided fruit for the Juniors children in the morning and we also sold refreshments for the watching parents. Together the Sports Day activities raised over £1,100.

Summer Camp (Sat/Sun 13th/14th July)

After a break last year, the summer camp was back. Just under 100 adults and children joined in the fun on the Juniors sports field which included a BBQ, bouncy castle, bar and tuck shop. The Super Mario Bros. film was shown in the Juniors hall. It was great to see plenty of early years children come for their first school summer camp., an event which raised around £670 for both schools. The camp will return in July 2025.

Year 2 Leavers' Disco (Friday 19th July)

80 children from Hazel, Holly and Willow classes came to the year 2 leavers' disco in the Infants hall last Friday. DJ Dexter was joined by guest DJ Lanyon with her amazing deck. Popular songs including 'Shake if Off', 'I like to Move it' and 'Dance the night away' kept the children entertained with some fine dancing on show by the year 2s (and the year 2 staff!). One child was overheard saying "Top banging tunes, I now can't wait until the Junior Disco in December". The event ended with some confetti cannons and we finished with one of the new Jump Start Jonny workouts, 'Amazing'. Thank you to all the parents who bought a ticket, the event has raised around £550 for the Infants school.

Uniform labels

We have an updated discount code for buying school uniform labels from the 'Easy2Name' company. Simply order from the following site: https://www.easy2name.com/stickeasy, quote code 'FR-FPIS-72' and you will get free delivery and the school will get 20% of the money. These labels will help the schools return mislaid uniform and will help cut down on the lost property boxes.

Windsor & Maidenhead Community Lottery

This is a weekly lottery that raises money for good causes in the Royal Borough including the FPSA. Tickets for the lottery cost just £1 and from that 60p goes to good causes including 50p to the FPSA. Each ticket has a 1 in 50 chance to win a prize each week with a top prize of £25,000! So please sign up and buy a weekly ticket or two using the following link: https://www.windsorandmaidenheadcommunitylottery.co.uk/support/furze-platt-schools-association

Fundraising evens in the 2023/2024 School Year

The FPSA would like to say a huge thank you to parents, children and staff for supporting all of our fundraising events in this school year. We have run the following events/activities:

EY tea party, Junior Discos, Year 2 School Quiz, Happy Bags collections, 2nd hand uniform sales, Christmas cards, Christmas Fair, foreign currency collection, quiz nights, adult disco night, Junior sports day refreshments, EY sports day t-shirts/caps, Friday ice-cream sales, Summer Fair, Summer Camp, Year 6 leavers hoodies, Year 6 play refreshments and Year 2 Leavers Disco.

FPSA money has been spent on the following items over the last 12-18 months:

Infants - weighted blankets and covers, pond area redevelopment, books and postcards for workshop area, wicker pods & cushions, classroom resources including ‘Great Fire of London’ themed items, educational blocks and shapes, stationery and construction toys, glockenspiels, phonics books and coronation bookmarks.

Juniors – Library and classroom books, coronation bookmarks, outdoor table football, mental health resources, author visit, interactive planetarium experience, year 6 leavers books, concertina room dividers for hall, development of outdoor tarmac space and iPads.

We wish all of the year 2 children moving up to the Juniors all the best.

We hope everyone has a wonderful summer and we look forward to seeing you in September for more fundraising fun!

Dates for your Diary:

EY tea party - Saturday 28th September

The tea party is back for those families whose child has started in reception in September.

Mr T's Quiz Night - Friday 18th October

The quiz night returns in October with an added 'Play your cards right' game as well as the usual 4 picture rounds, music round, connection round and much more!