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‘Maximum Effort for
Maximum Achievement’
Friday 18th October 2019
Diary Dates for Next Week: Well-Being Week School Dinners - Week 2
Monday 21st October
3Mc ‘Parents to Lunch’ event at 12.00pm
Friends’ Association Meeting at 8.00pm in the Meeting Room (accessed via the staff car park)
Wednesday 23rd October
Year 6 visit to Layer Marney Tower - 8.10am arrival for children please.
3R ‘Parents to Lunch’ event at 12.00pm
Parents’ Evening reply slips due back by today Thursday 24th October
#HelloYellow day (wear non-uniform with some-thing yellow for a suggested £1 donation)
Friday 25th October
School closed for joint staff training with Buttsbury Infant School
Monday 28th October - Friday 1st November (inc.) Half Term
Monday 4th November
Children return to school
Next week is, unbelievably, the final week of this half-term! As per the letter sent out on 7th October, we are once again organising a special healthy-schools themed week, which will focus on Well-Being. During the week, there will be lots of activities linked to promoting well-being, which will include: yoga (have you completed the consent form?), first aid and
mindfulness (although the latter two activities may span other weeks), our Healthy Tuck Shop and #HelloYellow day. This
week’s homework also has a well-being theme. Please do check the letter sent home for further information (it’s also on the
school website). We are looking forward to a very ‘happy’ week. Sadly, next Friday we will be saying ‘Farewell’ to Mrs Adams, one of HLTAs, who is based in 4C. Mrs Adams has decided to step back from Buttsbury to enable her to spend more time
with her family. We wish her well in the future.
School Discos - Reminder Don’t forget to come along to the discos tonight -
Year 3/4: 5.45pm - 7.15pm Year 5/6: 7.30pm - 9.00pm
Just a reminder that there are refreshments on sale and lots of glow stick goodies too.
(NB - to ensure safe collection of children, please come into the hall from the Main Entrance, but exit through 6C. All children need to be collected by an adult as they are
not allowed to walk home alone. Please use the playground for parking as Norsey View Drive becomes
very congested.) Please note: mobile phones are not permitted
Assessment Week Well done to all the children in Years 3, 4 and 5 who
admirably rose to the challenge of the various tests they faced this week. We were very proud of their positivity and
commitment. Thank you to the year group leaders and teachers for all the time spent planning the complex
timetables and to all the teaching assistants who supported individual children. Thank you also to the other teachers in the school who released their own teaching
assistants as required. A very successful week all round.
Midday Assistant We are still looking to recruit additional Midday Assistants
to join our lunchtime team for 2/3 days per week. If you are interested in this vacancy, please contact Mrs
Byfield, in the School Office for further details. Thank you.
JACKET POTATO LUNCH
YOU ARE INVITED TO A JACKET POTATO LUNCH AT CHRIST CHURCH ON:
THURSDAY 28th November
12NOON - 2PM
Various fillings available. Suggested donation £4 including a drink.
Money raised will support the work of SMB (Schools Ministry Billericay)
Homemade cakes on sale too!
After-School Clubs and Inclement Weather As the weather seems to have taken rather a permanent turn for the worse, I thought it might be helpful to remind you (and reassure Year 3 parents) that we don’t cancel clubs at
short notice due to poor weather. We have inside alternatives which can used such as the hall and classrooms.
Colchester Castle Last Friday Year 4 had a fantastic day visiting Colchester Castle where they got to explore the museum and hunt for the answers to their quiz. The children loved seeing all the different artefacts from the Roman empire and exploring the underground tunnels which was the highlight of the
day. They also enjoyed the opportunity to be Roman architects and build their own roundhouses and villas.
Year 4 would like to thank all the parents who helped on this trip.
‘Well Done’ to all the children who were awarded MERIT certificates this week.
Abigail Povey Robert West Alexander Borg Riley Anderson Georgina Nunney Mia Eggleton Emily Henderson Jamie Cooper Robyn Brass Dylan Foley Lucy Evans Stephanie Kharbouche Ben Mesnard Jessica Elsdon Phoebe Thompson Archie Moore Darcey Wallis Amy Tear Jessica Toll Sophie Trainer Harrison Campbell Holly Fox Fatima Ahmed Katie Woods
Girls’ Football On Wednesday afternoon we took two teams to the Girls’ Football Partnership Finals at William De Ferrers School.
There was an air of excitement amongst the girls as for many of them it was the first time representing the school at foot-ball. The B team lost their first game and then went unbeaten in their final four games and finished 9th overall. Some of the
girls were disappointed with their position but everyone present was extremely proud of them to go four games un-
beaten! The A team won all of their group games 2-0 which saw them qualify for the final. It was 0-0 after extra-time which then took the girls to a dreaded penalty shoot out. Thanks to
some great saves and excellent penalties, Buttsbury A won the shoot out and go on to represent the partnership at the County
Final – an amazing achievement. Thank you to everyone who came along to support the girls and assisted with transport.
This week’s ‘Writers of the Week’ are: Sophie Hill Maxwell Bailey Bray Harris
Christopher Markham Ben Markham Poppy Dackombe Alex Hill Harry Weston
Well done to our writing super stars!
This week’s attendance figure is: 98.8%! This year’s provisional attendance target is 97.8%.
A special ‘Well Done’ to Classes 3Mc, 4F, 4P and 6A who all had 100% attendance this week! Congratulations!
This week’s ‘Mathematicians of the Week’ are: Holly Nethercoat Eloise Minto Emma Hughes
Elodie Domien Amy Norman Alex Hill Leon Knight Ana Sutton Archie Henson
Well done to our magical mathematicians!
This week’s ‘Readers of the Week’ are: Jasmine Briggs Ethan Lewis Daisy Judd Louise Crook Emma Hughes Henry Webb
Felicity Chiappe Gene Sullivan
Well done to our enthusiastic readers!
3PR Results Well done to everyone who managed to collect tokens this
week for walking in the 3PR zone! The results this week are:
1st - 4U - 32 tokens 2nd - 6C - 30 tokens 3rd - 6F - 28 tokens
Top Table This week, the children chosen by the Midday Assistants to sit
at the ‘Top Table’ were: Leo Sunderland Felicity Chiappe Isabella Shipway
Millie Brown Sophie Trainer
Well done for being selected!
This week’s winning house:
Jaguars
Afternoon Tea We hosted another lovely Afternoon Tea on Thursday
which was attended by the children who are Number 4 on their class register. The range of work to choose from is getting more diverse and the children enjoy listening to others chatting about their work. I particularly love the comments made by older children as they reflect back, happily, on completing that piece of work themselves.
Out of School Success
Well done to Archie Sinclair (4P) who won the Bronze medal in the men’s artistic Challenge Cup at South Essex Gym Club in the U10s category.
Congratulations to Amy Norman (6A) who performed her Modern solo for the first time this weekend at the Starz Talent Competition and was placed 3rd!
Well done to Megan Mecham (6F) who played in a friendly foot-ball match for her team on Friday and won 2-0, with Megan scoring both the goals, including a penalty!
Congratulations to Millie Coffill (6R) who came third in the Rose Cup Gymnastics Competition last weekend at Grade 6, competing against girls up to four years older!
Rainbow Awards
Well done to this week’s VIOLET award winners:
Liam Alger, Erin Barnes, Leon Dearlove, Callum Pearce, Joel De Groot, Khaled
Badwilan, Ethan Boyce, Austin Harris, Alex McKenna, George McCreery, Travis Lapsky,
Harry Showell, Thomas Anderson, Alfie Hodges, Archie Sinclair, Logan Ellis,
James Hogarth, Arya Sudheer, Aidan Sterry, Daisy Thompson, Megan Lyons, Rocco
Simpson, Liam Winch, Jack Green, Jacob Pickworth, Sam Havis and Thomas
McIlquham.
Congratulations to this week’s INDIGO award recipients:
Maci Behn, Charlie Doman, Jamie Weddell, Isabel Cheesman, Aisha Sarfraz, Jasmine
Briggs, Emma Shelley, William King, Bethan Armsden, Ollie Carter, Ava Harlow,
Caela McMorris, Ooviya Loganathan, Harrison Dempsie, Harry Phillips, Joey
Hatchard, Isla Fitch, William Barrett, Alfie Healy, Michael Clements, Ben Pentecost,
Henry Murphy, Hugo Daniels, Daniel Natusch, Alex Rowe-Goodey, Betsy White,
Ethan Lightfoot, Gia Wilkins, Matilda Chaplin, Joris Pranevicius, Tom Gill,
Leo Meza-Bullock, Alya Brewer, George Waters, Oliver Chandra, Megan Jobbins, Ollie Stroud, Honey Phillips,
Laura Simpson, Tilly Walsh, Daisy Mears, Juliet Vinton-Smith, Luke Andrews,
Oliver Sargood, James Ferris, Erin Kelly, Darcey Lister, Lily Lauder, James Blyth-
Tancock, Elsa Ward, Dominic Glover, Olivia Huggett, Oliver Baker, Michael Wragg,
Poppy Barker, Olivia Joshi, Thomas Pearce, Danielle Obery, Elodie Domien, Amber
Harbrow, Louise Crook, Zakk Harris, Jacob Collins, Joshua Cooke, Taylor Hayes, George Dear, Abhir Kandagiri, Ruby Collier, Amelie Fairhead, Amelia Johnson, Russell Salvatore,
Jessica Toll, Will Clements, Sam Hughes, Theo Kirby, Toby Lashmar, Tyler Mitchell,
Shezan Mushabe, Ruby Rumsey, Elena Stent, Molly Wright, Buddie Blewitt, Eleanor
Chaplin, Frankie Anson, William Rowley, Lenny Batchelor, Roxy Hartman,
Sienna Coffill, Harry Alsemgeest, Gemma Lague, Isabella Howlett, Isabelle Carroll,
Grace Vasiliou, Theo Wakerly, Elliot Stephens, Lola Johnston, Athina Mitchell, Archie Cushing, Zion Savage, Alfie Mills,
Emelia Dear and Megan Langshaw.
Well done to our first BLUE award winners:
Thomas Carter, Elsa Reason, Edie McLellan, Chloe Wang Gao, Georgina Harris, Maisie Anderson, Batoul Tarraf, Isabella Shipway,
Hattie Walsh, Taylor Halfhide, Max Sawyer, Miya Tyler, Fatima Ahmed, Naomi
Clements, Harry Weston and Amelia Bird.
Year 6 Football - Parish Cup Last Friday afternoon saw Buttsbury play their first game of the
Parish Cup at home to Long Ridings. Buttsbury started the better of the two teams with some slick passing and solid defending and when half time arrived they were 3-0 up. After half time, Long
Ridings put the Buttsbury goal under increased pressure and eventually they managed to break down our defence to score a
goal. Buttsbury then picked up the pace of the game once again and went on to score a further two goals and the match finished 5-1. An
excellent and well deserved win for the boys who now progress into the second round of the cup. Thank you Mr Nation for
refereeing the game and to Mr Graves, our team manager/coach.
Some more pictures from Colchester Castle
Please email ‘Out of School Successes’ to
Shakespeare Comes Alive for Year 6 On Wednesday, Year 6 were joined by the Young Shakespeare Company who performed a production of Macbeth as part of their Literacy work on stories from
our literary heritage. As well as being part of the audience, the children were actively involved in many of the scenes as actors, which included taking on the
role of Banquo’s son, King Duncan’s sons and also acting as very scary murderers! The children helped create the atmosphere of the
witches’ entrance by creating the sound effects of the bears, wolves, wind and rain. Each group also then learnt a section of the witches’ opening speech. A highlight for all of the children was definitely the slow-motion battle between Macbeth and Macduff where they performed as soldiers in each army. The
children thoroughly enjoyed the performance and it has most definitely inspired them with their writing.
Inter-house Cross Country This week saw the arrival of our annual inter-house cross country event. All the
children competed within their year groups and showed great determination
and resilience! No one gave up and everyone tried their very best. Year 3 Winners: Panthers
Year 4 Winners: Lions Year 5 Winners: Lions
Year 6 Winners: Leopards It was very close overall too with the competition being won overall by the
Panthers. Well done to everyone who took part -
you were fantastic!
Buttsbury’s Official Christmas Card As you may recall, all the children’s Christmas card designs were entered into
an internal competition to decide which one would be this year’s official school Christmas card. Our competition judges found the task impossibly hard
as the quality of all the cards was extremely high. However, after much discussion, they selected the design by Ruby Toll (6F) to be sent to the
printers and made into our official card! Well done Ruby!
50 Things To Do Before Leaving Primary School Well done to: Hugo Daniels who has completed 10
things at home! Congratulations to Caitlyn Rae and Maisie Burcombe who have completed 20 things!
Dodgeball Tournament Yesterday afternoon, 16 children from Years 5 and 6 competed
in the Billericay Family Dodgeball event at Mayflower High School. The teams had been training hard and this was evident in their confident and focused play. Our A team played very well and won all their matches bar one, which they drew. Our B team
also played extremely well, demonstrating great commitment and determination. Overall our A team won the tournament and now progress to the Partnership round and our B team finished
in 5th place. Well done to all our players and thank you to Miss Pretty and Miss Roe for accompanying the teams and to Mr Mynard, our
coach. Good luck in the next round!
Parking Problems Please can I once again remind you not to park on the hatched lines at the front of our school and at the front of Buttsbury Infant School. Please also be
considerate when parking and don’t block driveways or garages. This is a particular problem in Bush Hall Road
and Springfield Road. Thank you.
