Renee's cake- a worthy winner of The Bake Off. Ashburnham figures, logo and values!
Action shot from Y5 and Y6 competing with over 900 pupils at the Westway Multiskills Festival this week
Monday
History week
Tuesday
Reception Phonics workshop 9am
GAV Y6 workshop
Wednesday
EYFS KS1 birthday assembly
Nasal flu vaccination
Thursday
Parent Chat 9am
History workshops Y3,4,5,6
Friday
MEND workshop for parents in Y1 and Y3 Whole School Assembly 1.45pm; School finishes 2.15pm;
Upcoming dates for the diary
11th December
EYFS KS1 Winter performance 2.30pm
14th December
Winter disco
18th December
KS2 Winter Concert 3.45-4.45pm
19th December
Christmas Lunch
21 December
Last day of Term, school closes at 2pm
8th January
All pupils return
Well done Year6: leading the school from the top. We look forward to Y1 and Y3 pulling their numbers up next week.
Fact: so far this year 40% of all our pupils have had 100% attendance!
Your School Needs You!
Please click the link below for the letter about setting up a new parent-teacher association: Ashburnham School Association - to organise and fund-raise for the school. ASA LETTER
Christmas Lunch
All pupils who normally have school lunches will be getting the Winter Feast, including Christmas crackers and three courses of classic roast dinner. If your kids normally have packed lunch but would like to join us on Decemeber 19th, please sign up with the office so you can be set up with a £1.85 (bargain!) payment request via the usual School Gateway payment method.
Speaking of lunches...
If you are changing your lunch schedule in any way, please give the office two week's notice so that the kitchen can adjust their provision.
Christmas Cards
As an eco-friendly school, please can we avoid paper Christmas Cards. If each child bought a card for the whole class, this would equate to roughly 6500 cards across the school. Please put your time and money towards supporting a local charity instead.
Year6 Journalist Report by Iva Good afternoon Ash! This week has been all over the place! Ton Tuesday, someone Chelsea FC came to teach us abut how to play right!. als on that day, Y5 had their 1st Roots of Empathy session with baby Archie. On Wednesday, Y5 and Y6 went Westway to play hockey, boccia, dodgeball, football, basketball, trigolf and tag rugby. On Thursday, the Bake Off happened. All the cakes look amazing. To top everything off, the Y6 maths team found out if they got through or not.
Have a great weekend!
Eco Science Committee Report
Greetings Ashburnham! We hope that you have all had a great week. The Eco Science Committee have been busy working on a new display for the school. This will be made entirely from recycled materials and can be seen in the school lunch hall. In Science, Year 2 have been learning about properties of materials and have been carrying out experiments by testing different materials. Year 4 have also been busy in Science, learning about forces. We hope you have a nice weekend, and remember to reduce, reuse, recycle!
By Anna and Zaina, Year 4
Thank you so much to all parents, carers, and pupils who brought in such an amazing array of cakes for the Bake Off. The judges (Ms Chu and Ms Roberts) were highly impressed with the offerings. £190 was raised, and everyone left with delicious cakes.
Congratulations to all the winners.
School Council Report
This week, pupil council met to talk about the Winter Productions and how to raise some money for the school. If you have any ideas please come and speak to your pupil councilors!
Additionally, the JTA will be announcing the final results of the school travel survey in assembly next week!
History Week is next week!
Throughout the week, the whole school will be learning about the incredible Suffragettes.
On Thursday, Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 will have drama workshops and on Friday they will have a speaker come in.
Everyone will participate in many other exciting activities next week. Get your History Hats on!
Thanks for your recipes- Keep them coming! Have you heard? We’re making an Ashburnham Cookbook!
Click here for the recipe template But we need your recipes! We want a collection of your family's favourites (along with some recipes from staff and local restaurants) to make an Ashburnham community cookbook that we can all use. We want it to be full of artwork by our kids – it could be a drawing of their favourite meal, a family picnic, digging up potatoes – you could make clay food, stick on pasta shapes, anything to do with food. We want photos of pupils cooking, gardening, and of course, eating… And most importantly we need your recipes. What meal does your child plead with you to make? When is the plate always licked clean? It can be a main, a dessert, a starter. It can be from any country, and even in another language (we can get it translated and print the two versions side by side). Just write down how you make it, and hand it in to Ms Lindsay (with pictures if you can, and Ms Morgan can also take photographs of any artwork). There are recipe forms to fill in at the front desk if you don’t have one, or email your recipe to rubybaker@me.com (remember to include ingredients list, quantities and why it’s a favourite).
And don’t forget – all money raised from the sale of this book will go towards fun, inspiring experiences for your child, like the Exotic Animals Encounter last year. But if we don’t get enough recipes, there’s no book, no money, no experiences! Spread the word. [from Parent Chat group]
The Great Fox Federation Charity Ride: Cycling to raise money for the schools this Summer
If you are interested in participating in the ride please register on www.greatfoxride.com This will place you on the mailing list and ensure you are involved in up coming events. Please register family and friends on the site as well.
Book Recommendation:
The Afterwards by AF Harrold.
This is a touching reworking of the Greek myths, with well-handled themes of friendship, death and heaven. Recommended for ages 8 and up.
Recommended App
Endless numbers is a great app to reinforce counting, sequences and number awareness. Free on Android and Appstore
We are having a MEND coffee morning on two themes:
9am 30th November: Eatwell Guide
9am 7th December: Fats and Sugars
Come along and find out more from the nutritionist.
Staff Training:
Staff had training from Breda McKinney on supporting dyslexic learners.
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