What happened in school this week:
Year 6 have been on their residential trip to Stone Farm on Dartmoor. It was an exciting trip, if a little wet! See the news and pictures >>
The school held its annual Charity Fair on Wednesday, which was organised by Year 5 and run by children from across Key Stage 2. A total of £279.53 was raised on the day, and this money will be used to support education projects in Uganda. Thank you to everyone who supported the fair.
We enjoyed some of our garden produce at lunchtime. We have had a good crop of onions, potatoes and lettuce, and it has been lovely having this on the menu, particularly as we are keen to encourage children to meat more vegetables. Thank you to Mrs Murdoch and all the helpers who have made our garden so successful this year.
Our local MP, Mr Chris Skidmore, took assembly for the whole school on Monday. He talked about what he does as an MP and what it is like working in the House of Commons. We hope to see Mr Skidmore back in school again next year.
Thursday’s assembly was taken by a member of the staff at
Hanham library, who told the children about all the exciting activities taking place in the library during the summer. Well worth a visit!
Finally, Friday’s assembly was of course the Leavers’ Assembly, and it was a sad occasion, saying goodbye to the Year 6 children and Miss May, but it was also good to know that they are all going on to new adventures.
My reflections on a great year
This is the conclusion of my second year as headteacher and what a great year it has been! We have eaten the produce form our garden, planted new fruit trees, provided cycle storage, built the ‘Crown’ and opened the playpod.
We have taken part in numerous sporting events, being particularly successful in girls’ cricket and boys cross country. There have been wonderful performances, ‘How Eddie the Penguin saved the World’ and ‘The Happy Prince’. We celebrated our carnival arts week and science and inventors week. Finally in classes, we have introduced more accurate ways of checking how children are progressing so we can make sure they all make good progress, whether children find learning easy or need a bit of extra support.
All in all the children and staff have worked together brilliantly this year to make Longwell Green a really successful learning community. I wish everyone a very happy holiday, and look forward to seeing most of you again in September. Good luck to all our year 6 leavers– we know they will do us proud as they move onto pastures new.
Don Sibley
Sorry you are leaving......
As well as saying ‘farewell’ to Miss May this week; Mrs Rosemary Martin and Mrs Mandy Shail, who form part of our dedicated cleaning team, will also be leaving us at the end of August both having spent 3 years at Longwell Green School. We wish all our departing staff good luck for the future.
All of these colleagues will be sadly missed and I hope you will join me in wishing them every success in the future.
Good attendance news
Our overall attendance for the year was 96.1%, which we are very pleased with. We have one of the best attendance records in the local authority and is a good indicator of the importance our parents put on regular attendance. Thank you to everyone for your co-operation.
Thank you from Nicola George ...
A huge thank you to all Parents, Staff and Friends who helped us to raise massive £695.50
Still to add on gift aid. It was a fantastically hot day in Bath, yet our team managed to jog all the way round save for a minute walking up a slope. Finished in 42 minutes. We dressed up for the occasion. I chose a shocking bright pink wig! Thank you to the team including myself, Mrs Bray, Mrs Campbell, Chloe Campbell, Alex Spiller and Val Bretton.
News from the Friends of Longwell Green School
COMING UP - Quality Nearly New Sale 25th September 12.00 until 1.30
How the Quality Nearly New Sale works
Would you like to make some money selling your unused nursery equipment, toys, games and garden toys?
This is not a car boot or a tabletop sale!
Our aim is to help you find a new home for your good quality second hand items of – Nursery equipment and everything for babies and young children.
You don’t need to be a parent at the school to sell, so pass the word on to friends and family.
The sale runs with volunteers, made up of sellers and PTA members selling your items.
A 25% commission on the sold items will be given to the LGPTA.
A single item sold over £60.00 will pay no more than £15.00 in commission to LGPTA.
You will have a seller number and this will be on every item you sell including the amount you want for the item. You will need to attach this before the day.
You can sell up to 50 items of which 10 can be clothes (We have to stick to this due to space)
If you would like more information on how it works please see the school web site or email qualitynearlynewsale@live.co.uk (replies may not be instant during the school holidays!)
//////////////////////////////How YELLOW MOON can help us reach our goal\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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. |
