Newsletter 19- w/c 30th January 2023
FOSS NEWS - PAGE FOUR
STOP PRESS ... GOOGLE PAY AND APPLE PAY COMING TO SCHOOL SPIDER
Google pay and Apple Pay will soon be coming to School Spider! Please keep an eye out for this feature which will speed up and simplify payments on the app. In the meantime, to save time, avoid the cumbersome checkout process, you can top-up your account balance in advance. Each booking you make can then be deducted from your credit at checkout, rather than using card payment every time.
ARE YOU FOLLOWING US ON TWITTER?
For regular updates on all the exciting things we are getting up to in school, you'll need to follow us @StStephensCofE. Don't miss out!
AFTER-SCHOOL ART CLUB - PLACES AVAILABLE FOR YEARS 3/4 (WEDNESDAY) AND YEARS 5/6 (THURSDAYS)
If you are interested please contact Mrs Curran, our Clubs Administrator, at the front desk. Check out next week's newsletter for more exciting information on the wonderful projects completed by our Art Clubs.
DATES AND REMINDERS
Saturday 4th February - FOSS - Rugby cake sale
Monday 6th February - FOSS - The Great St Stephen's Bake Off - Winchester Hall
Monday 6th February - Children's Wellbeing Week
Monday 6th February Year Six - Mock SATS week
Wednesay 8th February - Year Five Group Swimming Starts
Friday 10th February - Year Six - Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Monday 13th - Friday 17th February Half Term Holiday Monday 20th February
Monday 20th February - Inset Day
Tuesday 21st February Children Return
Thursday 23rd February - Year Six - Buddhapadipa Temple
Monday 27th February - Year Two - Great Fire of London workshop (further details to follow)
Thursday 2nd March - World Book Day
Monday 6th March - Year Five - Science Museum (further details to follow)
Friday 17th March - Year Two - National Archives - Great Fire of London Workshop (further details to follow)
Friday 24th March - Year Six - Junior Citizenship, Holly Lodge (further details to follow)
Friday 31st March - End of term. School closes 2.15pm
Wednesday 3rd May - Friday 5th May - Year Four - residential trip to Juniper Hall
WHICH MEMBER OF STAFF ONCE TRIPPED OVER GORDON BROWN WHEN HE WAS PRIME MINISTER?
Turn to page two to find out the answer
We have lashings of lost property in our Reception area. Do you recognise any lost items?
We are a little overwhelmed with lost property at the moment. If you have lost any items, please come and peruse our lost items stash. We have coats, sweatshirts, hats, gloves, scarves, water bottles ...
FOSS IS ON THE RIGHT LINES
You may have noticed something different upon walking into the playground on Monday morning!
To improve our football and netball pitches, FOSS has paid for proper, fresh demarcation lines to be painted on the playground. This will make such a difference when our children play netball and football - at breaks, lunchtime and during PE lessons. Thank you FOSS. Aaron Downes, our sports coach, is absolutely delighted! He said: "We are grateful to FOSS for funding the cost of the newly painted lines on the football/netball pitch as they will contribute to our PE lessons and sport clubs. A massive thank you to FOSS, we are very lucky to have you."
TRAVELLING IN STYLE WITH RECEPTION
For your first school trip on a coach, you most definitely want to go somewhere exciting and where better than Brooklands Museum.The home of the first ever purpose-built racing track, Brooklands was also the site for pioneering aviation development - Vickers built Gunbus aircraft there, which were deployed on the Western Front during WW1. So, all in all, a perfect location for our Reception children to climb aboard a variety of vehicles as part of the current topic which just happens to be on Transport. They enjoyed a guided tour and got behind the wheel of a racing car, climbed aboard buses old and new, as well as getting a close up view of Concorde. Phew! MORE PICTURES ON PAGE THREE.
