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Clanfield Junior School’s Book Week: March 4th -8th 2024
Throughout the week, all children will have opportunities to engage in fun, reading-related tasks to celebrate our love of books.
Book-themed lunch
During Book Week, our brilliant school kitchen staff will be offering a specially themed lunch to support our celebrations. More information to follow separately.
Vouchers
All children will receive a £1 book voucher to celebrate World Book Day. There are even some books that have been specially released that are only £1 to buy in shops. More info: https://www.worldbookday.com/
Character dress up
On Friday 8th of March, we would like to invite all children to come to school dressed as their favourite book character.
Get involved
We would love to invite parents/carers/grandparents in to share some reading time in the hall with the children. You can snuggle up and share a good book together.
Each class has a time allocation - please arrive via the school office. We hope you can make it!
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Year 3 – Monday 4th March |
Year 4 – Tuesday 5th March |
Year 5 -Wednesday 6th March |
Year 6 -Thursday 7th March |
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Ash class: 9:15-9:45 Elm class: 10:30-11:00 Oak class: 11:00-11:30
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Hazel class: 9:15-9:45 Cedar class: 10:30-11:00 Maple class: 11:00-11:30 |
Willow class: 10:30-11:00 Aspen class: 11:00-11:30
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Juniper class: 9:30-10:00 Hawthorn class: 10:30-11:00 Beech class: 11:00-11:30 |
Competition time!
Children are invited to take part in our book character paper plate competition! There will be winners across each year group for the most creative designs. Plates will be provided and sent home.
Don’t forget to check out https://www.worldbookday.com/families/ for more fun ways to get involved with World Book Day from home. Your child also has access to a wide variety of e-books and audio books on our electronic platform, Sora! Children will have their own username and password for this.
If your child is currently in Year 2 and starting Junior School we invite you to come and view our lovely school.
There are a number of dates and times available please do contact the school office on 02392 593209 who will be happy to help.
Friday 1st September
Monday 30th October
Tuesday 2nd January
Monday 15th April
Friday 21st June
Please note that in exceptional circumstances these may be required to change.
Sports Day and Family Picnic – Tuesday 27th June 2023
Dear Parents and Carers,
Our school sports day will be held on the morning of Tuesday 27th June. The children will be taking part in a range of sports activities, led by CM Sports where they will be able to earn points for their house team. Should we experience inclement weather, a Scopay message will be sent to parents and carers by 8:30am. The reserve Sports Day date is Tuesday 4th July.
Arrangements for the Day
Please be aware that while shade will be available for the children, it can be limited for the outer areas of the field where parents will be positioned. Chairs will be set up for parents and carers to watch the races, however there will also be a carousel of activities and you are welcome to walk around the outside of these to see your child competing.
If you wish to take pictures of your child, please can you make sure that you take pictures of just them and do not post any pictures on social media where other children might be visible.
We anticipate that the events will finish at approximately 12:00pm.
Following on from this, we would be delighted if you could join us for a family picnic from 12:00 – 12:45.
Please send your child to school with a water bottle, hat, and sun cream (name labelled) that they can apply themselves. It is vital that the children keep themselves hydrated so they may wish to bring a second bottle of water on the day. Pupils are also permitted to bring banners to support their house team if they wish.
If your child suffers from hay fever and may find that sitting on the grass aggravates their condition, they may bring a small blanket or cushion to sit on.
We look forward to welcoming you at our Sports Day event, and celebrating the children’s sporting achievements with you.
Thank you for your continued support.
Ms Kate Lawrence
Headteacher
The flu immunisation team will be in school Monday 12th December. Please visit https://www.southernhealthimmunisations.co.uk/forms/flu to accept or decline this nasal vaccination for your child. School code SH115876 Thank you/
The powerpoint presentation from this interesting workshop has today been sent to parents via SCOPAY.
As you may be aware, the school is working very hard to try to reduce congestion at the school gates. We hope that by doing this, the school gates will be a safer place, thus enabling more parents to walk their children to school.
We understand that not all children are able to walk the whole way to school, due to distance, parental work commitments or a variety of other reasons. One way in which we hope to help you is by setting up a Park and Stride scheme. This is a simple initiative, where parents/carers are encouraged to park their car (no more than) a 10 minute walk from school and then walk the rest of the way with their children.
We are therefore asking parents to park at Peel Park (look out for our Park and Stride banner- see image below) and walk the rest of the way to school. If for some reason this is not a suitable parking place we encourage you to choose another suitable place 10 minutes away from the school gates and walk the rest of the way.
If you have any queries regarding the Park and Stride parking point, please don’t hesitate to come in and speak to the office.
We have received notification from Hampshire County Council that the Met Office Weather Warning has been upgraded to a red alert - threat to life. School will therefore be closed today.
Children can complete chosen activities on our learning platforms of Purple Mash, SATs companion (Years 5 & 6), Times Table Rockstars, Mathletics and Readiwriter.
The school office will be unmanned today however if you have a safeguarding concern, please email that admin office email which will be checked periodically throughout the day.
Please stay safe and take care. Have a restful, relaxing half term.
We have an exciting week of events and activities planned for Book Week this year including a visit by Nick Arnold, author of the Horrible Science books.
Please look out for our letter containing much more detail sent via your SCOPay account.
We are writing to inform you of the clubs that we will be offering after half-term February half term. Due to the current Omicron variant, clubs will be restricted to specific year groups at this time. If you would like to sign up for a club, please do so via Scopay.
Clubs for Years 3 and 5 will begin at 3:20pm and finish at 4:20pm, clubs for Years 4 and 6 will begin at 3:30pm and finish at 4:30pm. Children should be collected from the hall doors at their finish time. As the school crossing patrol is not in place at the finish time, children must be collected rather than leave site alone. Alternatively, if your child is booked onto After-School Club on the club day, they will be taken to this once the club has finished. We anticipate that the clubs will be popular and if they are full, we will run them again next term for different children.
CM Sports’ sports clubs and Year 6 booster sessions will continue to run as usual.
*Pupils currently attending these clubs will be carried forward to next half-term.
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Thursday |
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*Times Table Rockstars – Year 3, run by Miss Peacock (ICT suite)
*Homework Club – Year 5, run by Miss Steyn (Aspen classroom)
Tennis Club – Year 4, run by Mr Radmore (Hall / Playground) |
Art Club – Year 4 (new pupils), run by Miss Roulston (Hazel classroom)
Cookery Club – Year 5, run by Mr Griffiths (Cookery Room) Please note that there is a small charge for this club |
*Book Club – Year 3, run by Miss Brown (Ash classroom) |
*Boomwhacker Club – Year 4, run by Miss Harrold (Cedar classroom)
*Ukelele Club – Year 5, run by Miss Greenham (Rowan classroom)
*Computing Club – Year 6, run by Mrs Parker (ICT suite) |