Weekly Newsletter
23.02.2024
Be Safe - Be Kind - Be Your Best
Key Dates
Voices for Life Assembly - Monday 26th February
Rags2Riches collection - Wednesday 28th February
PTFA Break time Cake Sale - Friday 1st March
World Book Day - Thursday 7th March
STEM Week - Monday 11th - Friday 16th March
Year 5 Prague Trip - Monday 11th - Friday 16th March
Year 3 Trip to Root Connections - Wednesday 13th March
Rocksteady Concert - Thursday 21st March
Dance Umbrella - Tuesday 26th March
End of Term 4 - Thursday 28th March
Value of week: Courage
Message from Mr Lyle
Welcome back to Term 4. As you can see above, this term is full of fun and exciting experiences for all of your children in different ways. It has been wonderful thinking about how we can be courageous in every day school life this week and there are plenty of opportunities to showcase different talents this term. Whether you are a performer, love reading books, or just love creating things, there is something for everyone.
Alongside this, we are continuing to improve areas within the school and will be looking for support with this. Take a look in the newsletter to see where you can help. Any help, within school, no matter the size will always be appreciated.
Please keep doing all you can with your children at home: reading, practising spellings or doing Doodle Maths. The time spent doing this is invaluable and we know how much children benefit from this. Even 10 minutes of reading a day can help your children no end.
As always, thank you for your continued support, and if you ever have any questions or would like to find out how you could help, please don't hesitate to speak to someone.
Have a lovely weekend. :)
Illness and Attendance at Welton
As you are all aware, attendance is at the top of our list for a reason. It is important that children are in school as much as possible: they have the right to an education and the responsibility to be in school, learning.
We will continue to be pushing this, this term and have created a little handy poster explaining how much school can be missed if your children, regularly, do not attend.
In recent weeks, many parents have been double checking using the image below on whether their child can be in school. Please continue to do this, or contact the school office for further guidance.
Thank you for your continued support with this.
Attendance Poster.pdf
Book Donation Plea
We are in the process of updating our library. If you have any books at home you are willing to get rid of, please bring them into the office. We would love to freshen up our library and increasing the breadth of books for our children to choose from.
Thank you.
PTFA Break time Cake Sale
On Friday 1st March, there will be a cake sale at break time with all funds raised for the school. We are hoping to run these once a term and will ask different classes to donate cakes either baked or bought in on Friday morning.
This term we are asking for donations from:
Year 1, 3 and 5.
Any donation would be greatly appreciated. All cakes will be sold at 50p and we ask that children bring in exact change where possible. Children will all have the opportunity to buy one cake at break time and these will be sold by the house captains.
Any not sold, will be on sale after school.
Thank you for your continued support.
World Book Day - Thursday 7th March
Don't forget, World Book Day is Thursday 7th March. On the day, we would love children to come dressed as an adjective (a describing word). We will also be doing a book swap in classes, so if children have an old book they no longer want, please bring it in and we will swap them with a peer.
Parents are welcome in at 3:00 to share stories as a family. All are welcome and the more people that come in, the better. Thank you for your support with this.
STEM Week
We are excited to share with you our plans for Welton Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) Week 2024 which will take place w/c Monday 11th March. Throughout the week classes will be planning, experimenting and preparing for our very first Welton STEM Fayre which will be held on Friday 15th March throughout the day. We anticipate that this will be a fun and interactive event led by the children and hope that you might be able to join us? We will be sending out the timetable next week.
In addition to this, we invite families to take part in our Home School Challenge: Create the Ultimate Time Machine.
Have you ever wanted to travel through time or even just wanted to measure the time it takes to brush your teeth with a cool time invention? Now this is the time to create it. We would love to see what you can create that will help you be the ultimate time keeper!
There will be winners for KS1 and KS2 and prizes up for grabs, so get those creative juices flowing and show what fantastic designers, creators and scientists you are. .
You could draw your idea, create a presentation, or even make a model of your time machine out of Lego or junk. The opportunities are endless and we cannot wait to see what you create!
Alongside our STEM Fayre, we need your help to enable us to create a pop up Tech Through Time Museum. From Monday 11th, we invite you to send in any old tech that you would be happy to be on display eg. old mobiles, cameras, computers, games consoles etc. It would be helpful if you could write a few sentences on a piece of paper explaining what the piece of tech is and any memories you have of using it - alongside your name. This will not be played with by the children, simply on display for us all to enjoy.
Clubs for this term
Term 4- Coach led clubs
We are pleased to announce that there will be 2 new clubs starting after the half term holidays and they are very exciting ones at that.
The clubs are run by our Up and Under coach and run from 3.15-4.15. Clubs are bookable via parentpay from today onwards.
Wednesday- Y2-Y6 Laser Tag (£24 for 6 weeks, 20 spaces) FULLY BOOKED
Thursday- KS2 Basketball Club (£21 for 6 weeks, 20 spaces)
NB Laser tag is slightly higher due to the resourcing and equipment needed to run the club.
Bath Rugby Tickets
Please see information from Bath Rugby, regarding discounted tickets.
Bath Rugby is extending an offer to our community, particularly families and children, to enjoy live rugby at The Recreation Ground this March.
We are excited to offer junior tickets for just £5, adult tickets from £5, as well as a discounted family package. We would be extremely grateful if you could share details within your networks and among parents.
The first match, a highly anticipated encounter against West Country rivals Gloucester, will take place on 9th March at 2.30pm. The following week, on St Patrick’s weekend, Bath Rugby will face Irish and European giants Leinster Rugby on Friday 15th March at 7:15pm.
Tickets can be purchased at:
If you have any queries please let us know. We look forward to welcoming members of your school community to The Rec!
Achievers
Well done to all of our wonderful children showing courage this week!
Job Opportunities at Welton Primary School
If you are interested in the following jobs, please come and speak to the office, Mr Lyle or Mr Snell. Thank you.
After School Club Supervisor
Permanent, Part Time
6 hours per week
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We follow safer recruitment practices and appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check.
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and hard working candidate to take on the role of an after school club supervisor to help provide an outstanding provision that promotes and supports a range of positive after school opportunities.
6 hours per week (Wednesday and Thursday 3:00 - 6:00), term time only.
Starting 6th March 2024
Salary - Grade 1, Point 2
Applicants should ideally have experience of working with or caring for children in either a paid, voluntary or domestic environment and will need to be able to show an interest in
children’s development. An understanding of school routines would be advantageous.
You will be a supported and valued member of our motivated and hard working team.
Welton Primary School has a commitment to staff development and training.
‘Staff are proud to work at the school and are grateful for the many training and development
opportunities that are open to them. Staff morale is high.’ Ofsted 2019
For more information about our school please visit our website: www.weltonprimaryschool.co.uk
Please speak to the office/Mr Lyle or Mr Snell about applications.
Closing date: 28th February 2024
Interviews: To be confirmed
Lunchtime Supervisor
Temporary, Part Time
6 hours and 15 minutes
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We follow safer recruitment practices and appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check.
We are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and hard working candidate to take on the role of a lunchtime supervisor to help provide an outstanding provision that promotes and supports a range of positive opportunities for all children at lunchtime.
6 hours and 15 minutes per week (Monday - Friday 11:45 - 13:00), term time only.
Starting 6th March 2024
Salary - Grade 1, Point 2
Applicants should ideally have experience of working with or caring for children in either a paid, voluntary or domestic environment and will need to be able to show an interest in
children’s development. An understanding of school routines would be advantageous.
You will be a supported and valued member of our motivated and hard working team.
Welton Primary School has a commitment to staff development and training.
‘Staff are proud to work at the school and are grateful for the many training and development
opportunities that are open to them. Staff morale is high.’ Ofsted 2019
For more information about our school please visit our website: www.weltonprimaryschool.co.uk
Please speak to the office/Mr Lyle or Mr Snell about applications.
Closing date: 28th February 2024
Interviews: To be confirmed
Doodle Maths
Class of the week
Class - Nightingale
Top Doodlers
Eagles - Kian
Hawks - Jack C
Kestrels - Elsie
Kingfishers - Arthur
Nightingales - Max
Robins - Avery
Keep doodling at home. For most classes, this is part of the homework policy
After School with the Owls
This term, Owls have started in fine form. Children have been busy making and sewing their own monsters. It is so wonderful to see such a hive of activity and great multi-age play going on in our after school club. The children, who attend, are a real credit to our school.
As the weather gets nicer, and the children get outside more, we have a request. If you have any elbow or knee pads that you would be willing to part ways with, we would love them. The PTFA have kindly donated some skateboards and to ensure that we are safe, would love to have these readily available for our pupils.
If you have any that you could donate, please hand into the office or drop them off to Owls.
Thank you!
PTFA News
On Wednesday, we had an extremely productive PTFA AGM where new roles and responsibilities were allocated and it's exciting to say the PTFA is growing from strength to strength.
The new roles are:
Cara Howard and Holly Cleverley - Co Chairs
Gemma Carroll - Vice Chair
Christine White - Treasurer
Jodie Thrower - Secretary
Laura Cottle - Social Media Manager
Alongside this, we will also have other members who work tirelessly behind the scenes to support events. We are extremely grateful to all of them for their support. If you would like to help out with the PTFA, but feel you cannot attend the meetings, please don't worry we would love to have you on board. We will be reaching out for more volunteers in the coming months.
House Point Totals
Well done to all of our children for earning house points by being safe, being kind and being their best. Here are our weekly totals.
Weekly Totals
Huish House - 379
Ludlow House - 365
Tyning House - 399
Old Mills House - 396
Online Safety
We would love to welcome parents to an Online Safety Session on Wednesday 15th May at 6pm. This will be an online session, looking at how we support our children online. This information is invaluable for all and real way of you helping children to stay safe. The more people who attend, the more we will be able to get out of the session. We look forward to seeing you all there.
Class Pages
Take a look here for what your children are learning this term!
Community News
Midlife Work Review poster.pdf
SomerScience Festival
Looking for something free and different this May bank holiday? Then take a look at this exciting event being held locally. Please share photos if you go along - we’d love to see them.
Knife Crime Awareness for Parents and Carers
Knife Crime Awareness Event for Parents and Carers
The B&NES Violence Reduction Partnership (VRP) are running a series of knife crime awareness events throughout February and March.
These events will take place in schools across the area. The first event will be held at Writhlington School on February 22nd (17.30-19.30), followed by Hayesfield Girls School on February 29th (18.00-20.00) and Cameley CEVC Primary School on March 18th (18.00-20.00).
The events are aimed at parents and carers who would like to know more about the dangers of knife crime or are concerned that their children are at risk. They aim to increase awareness of key issues surrounding knife crime, empowering you and your children to make informed and positive decisions to stay safe.
You will have the opportunity to hear from guest speakers with lived experience who have been personally affected by knife crime. There will also be a presentation by Street Doctors followed by a panel discussion with the opportunity to ask questions.
The Bath & North East Somerset Violence Reduction Partnership (VRP) is a multi-agency partnership that aims to prevent and reduce violence in the area. We work to understand and address the root causes of violence, to prevent further violent crimes from occurring in the future. We provide resources and support the work of professionals and community groups who help children at risk or involved in serious violence.
For queries, please email VRU_Events@bathnes.gov.uk. Or book you ticket now on Eventbrite:
Writhlington School, 22nd February, 17.30-19.30
https://KnifeCrimeAwareEventWrithlington.eventbrite.co.uk
Hayesfield Girls School, 29th February, 18.00-20.00
https://KnifeCrimeAwareHayesfield.eventbrite.co.uk
Cameley Primary School, 18th March, 18.00-20.00
https://KnifeCrimeAwarenessCameley.eventbrite.co.uk
Thank you in advance & best Wishes,
Emily Patterson
Business Admin. Apprentice
Violence Reduction Partnership
VRU_Events@BATHNES.GOV.UK
Contact Us
Welton Primary School
Radstock Road
Midsomer Norton
Radstock
BA3 2AG
Tel: 01761 413131
Email: office@weltonprimaryschool.co.uk
