Newsletter 18
W/c 22nd January
2024
FOSS UPDATE - PAGE THREE
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DATES AND REMINDERS
(DATES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE)
Friday 2nd February - FOSS Comedy Night
Monday 5th - Friday 9th February - Children’s Mental Health Week
Monday 5th February - Year Four trip to British Musem
Monday 5th February - FOSS - The Great St Stephen's Bake Off
Tuesday 6th February - Safer Internet Day
Thursday 8th February - Attenborough class assembly (this is a change of date)
Friday 9th February - Year 2 Scooter Training
Monday 12th - Friday 16th February - Half term
Wednesday 14th & Thursday 15th - Sports Club with Mr Cain
Thursday 29th February/Friday 1st March - FOSS Silent Discos
Tuesday 5TH March – Year 1 Turners House Takeover
Wednesday 6th March - Reception trip to Polka Theatre to see ‘Tidy’ 1.15pm performance
Thursday 7th March - World Book Day assembly
Thursday 7th March - Lau class assembly
Thursday 14th March - Mandela class assembly
Friday 15th March - Red Nose Day
Fridaty 15th March - FOSS Bounceathon
Monday 18th - Friday 22nd March - Neuro Diversity Week
Wednesday 20th March - Curie class assembly
Thursday 21st March - World Poetry Day
Friday 22nd March – Year 5 trip to The Science Museum
Wednesday 27th March - Easter Service St Stephen’s Church (tbc)
Thursday 28th March - End of term. School closes 2.15pm
Monday 15th April - INSET day
Tuesday 16th April - Summer term - Children return
FOSS BUYS £27K WORTH OF EQUIPMENT FOR SCHOOL
This week FOSS has given us an enormous £27k payment (yes, 27k) to pay for many services and resources that will make such an enormous difference to the daily education of our children. "With our budgets ever tighter, the support of our amazing FOSS and parents is so crucial. As a staff team we are staggered by the ongoing contributions FOSS and our parents make and cannot stress enough how grateful we are," enthused Liz Bachour, our headteacher.
We will bring you photographs of some of these resources in situ in coming editions. In the meantime, here is a little glimpse of some of the things these funds have bought for our children: Shelves and reading sheds, art equipment, cooking and nutrition wokshops, resources for puppet making, music technology classes, history books, literacy resources, singing festival fees, repairs to our school piano, annual subscription fees for our online learning programmes and medical incident recording systems. And, on top of all that, funds have been provided for our hall PA system and laptop hardware. It is the most staggering list. Thank you, thank you, thank you. By supporting FOSS, our parents make such a difference. For more FOSS information, see page three.
STOP PRESS ... FOSS HAVE DONATED £500 FROM THE CHRISTMAS RAFFLE TO CHILDREN IN NEED ...STOP PRESS
WE GIVE YOU OUR COUNTY DODGEBALL CHAMPS
We're so proud of our dodgeball team who travelled to Redhill this week to compete in (and win!) the county dodgeball championships. Our Sports Coach, Danny Cain, brought us this report: "Going into the tournament, we were very optimistic as we have been regularly practicing at dodgeball club, as well as in our PE lessons. So, we really felt that we were well prepared. Our team performed so well in their first three games, winning them all and only dropping one point. Then, it was on to the semi final, which was probably our toughest match of the day, winning the first game, losing the second, drawing the third and then, finally, triumphing in the last two games to progress to the final. The final was a supreme performance. We went ahead 8-0, knowing the victory was already secured. There were brilliant performances from all those involved. Well done to Isla M, Isla H, Mila, Sybil, Thomas, Eli, Seb, Oli and Rafferty. I am so very proud of the team."
Well done dodgeballers and Mr Cain, we are all very proud of you. And, for the statisticians among you, here are the score lines below:
Results
10-0
9-1
10-0
8-2
Semi final 7-3
Final 8-2
FOOTBALL RESULTS - WELL DONE TO OUR TEAMS. HERE'S MR CAIN'S REPORT
Last Friday we travelled to North Sheen Recreation Centre, which will be the new home for our football teams. Despite a few absentees in the girls team we put on a dominant display, winning 2-0 against Holy Trinity. The girls were in control throughout and thoroughly deserved the win, with goals coming from Madi and Florence. Well done Annika, Madi, Mollie, Florence, Emi, Hettie and Mila.
The boys took on the same opponent and also showed their progress with some entertaining football. They kept the ball and really frustrated their opponents, allowing us more and more opportunities at goal. It did take a while to get our first goal, but once we managed it, there was only ever going to be one winner and that was St Stephen's! Two Goals from Oli, one each from Seb, Raff and Albert gave us a convincing 5-0 victory. Well done to Aydin, Seb, Peyton, Ali, Albert, Oli, Raff and Freddie.
MAKING SEVEN
Year One has been using counters to see how many ways they can make seven. Paired work doubles the mathematical fun!
MINISTER FOR SCHOOLS GIVES OUR PHONICS TESTING TOP MARKS
