School Events next week
SCIENCE WEEK - see preview at the end of the newsletter
Thursday, 9th February - Barnardos Day - Wear badges and return sponsor money
Friday, 10th February - 2.15 pm, Coffee and Cake afternoon for Foundation Stage and KS1 parents
Friday,10th February - End of Term 3
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Governor News
Mrs Hatcliffe (Teaching Assistant and Family Mentor) has just been reappointed as Staff governor representing Support Staff. The Governing Body has 3 Staff Governors. One of these places is automatically reserved for the Headteacher. Miss Wood (Year 2) is the Staff Governor for Teachers.
The 2 Staff Governor appointments are for a 4 year term of office and the governors are nominated and elected by those they represent. Elections are held if more than one per-son is nominated. Staff Governors serve on Committees and also take part in the Governor Training Programme to assist them in carrying out their roles.
Elaine Skidmore, Chair of Governors
Uganda quiz
Thank you to all the children who took part in the Uganda quiz. 34 children returned their entries and one lucky person had their sheet pulled out of the hat – Emma in L3 received an atlas for her prize, so she can find out more facts about different parts of the world!
Note from School Council - Sport Relief 2012
Just to let you know our plans for the rapidly approaching Sport Relief 2012 (Friday 23rd March). The children will be invited to come to school dressed as a sports player and bring a coin donation to raise money and help change lives. We will be taking part in a mile event. Details to follow (as children are currently voting in their classes to decide the exact fun content of that Mile)!
Many thanks, Miss McElroy
Clothes for a Cause
In your Friday folder this week you will find a collection sack and a leaflet giving details of the items which can be donated.
Donations can be brought into school on Monday, 27th February and before school only on Tuesday, 28th February, donations will be collected on the 28th.
These donations provide valuable additional school funds as we get a financial donation for every kilo collected; the clothes are then sent to other countries. If you do not receive a sack or need more please use any bin bag.
News from the office
The school office staff are available from 8.00 am until 4.30 pm Monday to Thursday and 8.00 am until 4.00 pm on Friday. If we are unable to answer the telephone please leave a message and it will dealt with as soon as possible; alternatively you can e-mail school on head@longwellgreenprimaryschool.co.uk.
Please feel free to come and speak to us if you have any queries; if you would like to speak to us on a confidential matter away from the main reception area please let us know.
We are delighted to be able to have available a bottle green fleece jacket, with school logo, at a cost of £12.50. Orders are now being taken and there is a sample available to view in the school office. There are also warm school hats for sale at £3.50.
Next week children will be celebrating Science Week. The theme of the week is ‘INVESTIGATION’. Our aim is to improve children’s scientific enquiry skills.
Each class will be carrying out an investigation and feeding back their findings to the whole school in an assembly on Friday 10th February. There will also be an award ceremony: two children from each class will be awarded a certificate for demonstrating excellent investigative skills.
During the week there will also be Science events taking place:
Monday 6th to Wednesday 8th: Explorer Dome will be in school. Every class will have an interactive Science show inside the inflatable planetarium.
Thursday 9th Morning: Bionic ear show is visiting and putting on a show for all Key Stages. Children will learn how sound travels from the ear to the brain and get to see the world’s largest model ear at over 22ft long.
Thursday 9th February Afternoon: We have Peter J Davidson, a fossil hunter, dinosaur enthusiast, inventor and author visiting to talk to the children. If children are interested in buying his book, he will be in the hall at 3:15pm on the day.
FOLGS—2012 CALENDAR
MARCH
Monday 5th March—Events Meeting 7:30pm
Friday 23rd March—Easter Family Disco
APRIL
Saturday 28th April—Nearly New Sale
MAY
Tuesday 22nd May—Olympic Torch Event
Friday 25th May—Second-hand book sale
Saturday 26th May—Second-hand book sale
JUNE
Saturday 30th June—Summer Fayre
NOVEMBER
Saturday 24th November—Festive Fayre
DECEMBER
Friday 7th December—Xmas Family Disco
More details about each event will follow shortly
INVITATION BOOKS
Look out for the order form in your child’s Friday folder for a chance to purchase an Invitation Book—a chance to save money on days out and meals etc. and raise funds for the School
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Simple really. For every purchase you make from the Yellow Moon fundraising catalogue, we will receive up to 25% cash-back (excl. VAT and p&p). So the more you, friends and family order, the more cash-back we’ll receive. And if you think the products from Yellow Moon are expensive, you’d be wrong. Browse through the catalogue and you’ll see hundreds of quality creative products and toys from just £1.99.
Here’s how you can help us – and your child
- Browse through the YELLOW MOON catalogue, choose from the hundreds of wonderful products and place your order direct with YELLOW MOON by phone, fax, post or online (please see page 3 of your catalogue for full details) – perhaps share the P&P cost with a friend and order jointly…
- YELLOW MOON will send your products direct to your door
- All orders placed using the unique Source Code for The Friends Of Longwell Green School will have the cash-back amount pooled.
- YELLOW MOON will send us a cheque for the collective amount
- IMPORTANT – when placing your order, please remember to quote the unique Source Code on the back of your catalogue to ensure the cash-back amount is attributed to us.
We hope you enjoy purchasing from this fun-packed educational fundraising catalogue and would like to thank you in advance for your valued support. Yours sincerely, Chris Pring - Friends of Longwell Green School
SCHOOL FUNDS - A great way to help build school funds with NO cost to you!
 The School funds Reward Scheme is an online shopping reward scheme which involves not one, but over 500 of the leading companies including Boots, B&Q, Currys, John Lewis, Littlewoods, NEXT, Tesco and Woolworths to name but a few. Every time a person uses the schoolfunds directory to shop online the school receives points, which can be exchanged for educational equipment.
The idea was to bring together all of the leading online retailers in one scheme to achieve greater rewards for schools whilst promoting online shopping. There are significant savings for companies who trade online with lower staffing levels and deliveries direct from warehouses etc. What better way to use part of those saving than to provide extra educational equipment to benefit children (their future customers)? Many companies who would not otherwise be able to run a successful independent scheme are now involved in the Schoolfunds Reward Scheme.
Using the scheme is easy with no personal registration, logins or passwords required. There are no extra costs involved, all the prices, terms and deliveries are the same as going directly to the individual websites. Simply select the school, which will be remembered for future visits and use the links to shop online with your favourite retailers. CLICK HERE to join School Funds. |
