‘Maximum Effort for

Maximum Achievement’

Friday 26th April 2019

Diary Dates for Next Week School Dinners - Week 2 - New Menu

Monday 29th April

Update ‘Parents Meetings’ for children who are slightly off their target level

Tuesday 30th April

Year 3 visit to Colchester Zoo - children need to come to school at 8am

Swim Team Training (pm) at Mayflower High School

Thursday 2nd May

Year 3 assembly at 9.40am Monday 6th May

May Bank Holiday - School Closed

I hope that you had a lovely Easter break and are feeling refreshed and energised ready for the busy few weeks

ahead! We were delighted to welcome Mrs Felgate to our team this week - she will be teaching 3D for the remainder of the academic year whilst Miss Donnelly is on maternity

leave. I am also very pleased to share the exciting news that Miss Donnelly gave birth to a baby girl on Saturday 20th April. Both Miss Donnelly and her daughter, Ivy

Rose Lily, are doing very well. Our warmest congratulations to Miss Donnelly and her fiancé.

On a staffing note, just before we broke up for Easter, we appointed Mrs Tina Paige as our new Admin Assistant. She currently works in a very similar role at Moulsham

High School so hopefully will settle into her role at Buttsbury very smoothly. She joins us on Tuesday 7th May. Sadly, today we said farewell to Mrs Strickland,

5M’s Teaching Assistant who has decided to take a break from education for personal reasons. We wish her well in

all her future endeavours and thank her for all her hard work and dedication during her time at Buttsbury.

Rev. Fowler joined us for our assembly this morning to pass on her thanks (and the thanks from Lucy and Eric) for

the overwhelming amount of money we raised to help towards the cost of Eric’s life-saving treatment - we raised

just under £1500 which is incredible. Thank you! Today we sent home details of our parent governor

vacancies. Please do take a moment to read the information and consider putting your name forward. Governors play a very important role in the strategic

leadership of the school so it’s a great way to get involved. If you’d like to find out more about the role, please feel free to catch me at the gate, give me a call or drop me an

email.

Year 3 Assembly - Thursday 2nd May You are warmly invited to join the Year 3 children for their

assembly next Thursday at 9.40am - do come along and find out about the children’s recent activities and learning. Please note the slight later start time which is due to a clash with Special

Time at Buttsbury Infant School.

Easter Revision Classes It was lovely to see so many Year 6 children (78 in total) come along to the revision day at the start of the Easter holiday. I hope they found the sessions both helpful and enjoyable. My thanks go to Miss Carroll, Mr Graves, Mr

Yaxley and Miss Cutmore for leading the sessions.

London Lions Basketball Award Well done to Caela McMorris (4U) who has been selected as this month’s recipient of the London Lions Basketball Award. Caela has been training hard and has competed in

several cycling competitions recently, finishing in top three positions too! Caela has been equally industrious at school

and, inspired by Science Week and caring for the environment, has been collecting litter on her walk to school

each day! Well done to Caela - we hope you and your family enjoy

your family pass to a London Lions basketball game!

St. George’s Day On Tuesday we commemorated St. George’s Day with a lovely themed lunch which was absolutely delicious. The

dessert, in particular, was rather popular with the children. Thank you very much to Jo and our Catering

Team for preparing our special themed lunch. The children who are members of uniformed organisations

looked very smart and proud in their respective uniforms and were delighted to be able to represent

their group.

‘Well Done’ to all the children who were awarded MERIT certificates this week.

Billy Brass Skye Greenan Jessica Bowie Lucy Evans Maisie Burcombe James Ferris Esme Pearson Taylor Halfhide Harry Evans Eadie Hatchard Jack Sawyer Oliver Park Millie Coffill Philippa Warhurst Zack Briggs Daisy Barker Joshua Harrington Lana Webb Daisy Spencer Jamie Cooper Theo Kirby Andrew Dmitriev Ellen Hood

This week’s ‘Writers of the Week’ are: Freya Spencer Danni Obery Eloise Minto Izzy Cheesman Aidan Sterry Jie Long He

Jessica Agg Harvey Heathfield Well done to our writing super stars!

This week’s attendance figure is: 97.8%! This year’s attendance target is 97.6%.

A special ‘Well Done’ to Classes 3D, 3M, 3P, 4C, 5M and 6A who all had 100% attendance this week! Congratulations!

This week’s ‘Mathematicians of the Week’ are: Louise Crook Tom Pearce Andrew Dmitriev

Mia Eggleton Harvey Heathfield Holly Farrow Holly Nethercoat Rosie Gould Archie Connolly-Cole

Well done to our magical mathematicians!

This week’s ‘Readers of the Week’ are: Felicity Chiappe Dylan Foley Holly Bubb

Jasmine Briggs Oliver Neathercoat Holly Fox Amelie Rippon Lorcan Curley-Sanchez

Well done to our enthusiastic readers!

Top Table This week, the children chosen by the Midday Assistants to sit

at the ‘Top Table’ were: Jaidon Keily Emily Joshi

Sophie Bohle Oliver Coughtrey

Heidi Webb Well done for being selected!

This week’s winning house:

Jaguars

Magistrate Visit This week, Year 6 were visited by Dawn Roche, a local magistrate and Justice of the Peace, who spoke to the

children about her role. The sessions were really interesting, starting with a history of the justice system in England, and moving on to the current court systems. The children were astounded to find out that the first female magistrate was not appointed until 1919, so this year is a

big celebration for the judiciary system. Another focus of the afternoon was based around: ‘Everything you do

affects somebody else’ and how ‘all of our actions have consequences’. It was a really informative and interesting afternoon and we look forward to welcoming Dawn back

to school next week for our mock trials!

Brentwood School Open Morning Brentwood School will be holding its annual Open Morning on Saturday 8th June 2019. This is the perfect opportunity for

prospective parents and pupils to explore the School and enjoy a flavour of Brentwood life. There will also be an opportunity to

find out more about scholarships and bursaries. Tours of the Senior School campus will be held at 9.30am and 10.30am, with the Headteacher designate, Mr Michael Bond,

addressing parents at 10.30am and 11.30am. Parents can register online at: www.brentwoodschool.co.uk/open-morning.

Bible Explorers Year 5 are fortunate this term to be participating in the Bible Explorer lessons led by Charlotte and Sue,

from the Billericay Schools Ministry Team. Within these sessions the children will be exposed to inspiring lessons

relating to the Old and New Testaments. The first session, yesterday, was fun filled and action packed,

showing the link between the two testaments.

Out of School Success

Well done to Luke Furness (6A) who recently gained his 800m swimming badge.

Congratulations to Megan Lyons (3R) who was awarded the ‘Player of the Match’ trophy in her first proper football match for playing whilst injured and also volunteering to go in goal!

Well done to George and Jessica Elsdon (6H & 5M) who completed their charity bike ride for Action Duchenne over the Easter break, cycling an amazing total of 102km (63 miles) each over two consecutive days. They have managed to raise £1,295 for the charity so far! Thank you so much to everyone who has donated.

Congratulations to Bethan Armsden (4F) who passed her Level 4 gymnastics badge during the holidays.

Well done to Philippa Warhurst (5M) who recently passed her Grade 2 piano exam.

Congratulations to Eliza Hobden (3R) who passed her Grade 1 piano exam with distinction.

Rainbow Awards

Congratulations to this week’s INDIGO award recipients:

Toby Munro and Nikita Moskalonoks.

Well done to our BLUE award winners:

Travis Lapsky, Theo Wakerly, Frankie Anson, Sienna Wiles, Daisy Thompson,

Jacob Kavanagh, Khaled Badwilan and Cece Ross.

Congratulations to our GREEN award recipients:

Ben Wenham, Jack Scales, Juliet Wenborn, Caela McMorris, Elliot Stephens, Sophie

Rendell, Benedict Guthrie-Blunkell, Ethan Ferris, Archie Moore, Eleanor Chaplin, Zion Savage, Edie Rowling, Max Hussey, Zachary Liggins, Eva Tunstall-Legras, Megan Jobbins

and William Rowley.

Well done to our YELLOW award winners:

William Hughes, Harrison Campbell, Lila Eve, Lola Johnson, Mary Alston, Aimee Storey, Sophie Farrow, Amelia Rogers, Hayden Williams, Olivia Cooke, Emily

Harvey, Leila Cable, Amelie Cunningham, Abigail Rivas, Emily Simmons, Grace

Vasiliou, Emelia Dear, Alfie Gray, Cameron Hunter and Laura Simpson.

Congratulations to our ORANGE award recipients:

Skye Greenan, Adam Bubb, Daisy Barker, Jessica Agg, Emily Joshi, Carolina Steven,

Abigail Crawford, Saxon Minto, Amelia Bird and Will Clements.

Well done to this week’s RED award winners who are now working on the

BRONZE POT OF GOLD which requires them to go ‘above and beyond’ to earn a

sticker!

Jessica Bowie, Lucy Sherwood, Daniel Tanner, Ethan Powell, Freddy Crooks, Isla

Joyce and Chloe Bogen.

50 Things To Do Before Leaving Primary School Well done to: Charlotte Seeney, Thomas Hall, Darcey Lister,

Elouise Butler-Russell, Lily Parker-Compton, Jamie Jones and Max Hussey who have all completed 10 things at home!

Congratulations to: Felicity Chiappe, Luke Andrews, Jude Pearson, Anna Seeney, Tilly Cranshaw, Lily Parker-Compton and

Jamie Jones who have completed 20 things!

Year 6 DT Project Last term, Year 6 were learning about South America, and had

the opportunity, just before Easter, to make salsa dips for their final D.T project. The children took time and care

chopping tomatoes, peeling onions, and tearing the coriander in order to make their dips. The best part, of course, was eating their creations with the addition of tortilla chips! Thank you to all the parents who came in and helped and to all the staff for

being so flexible with all the preparing and cleaning up!

JACKET POTATO LUNCH

YOU ARE INVITED TO A JACKET POTATO LUNCH AT CHRIST CHURCH ON:

THURSDAY 16th May

12NOON - 2PM

Various fillings available. Suggested donation £4 including a drink.

Money raised will support the work of SMB

Afternoon Tea Once again, the children really enjoyed coming along to ‘afternoon tea’ and enthusiastically tucked into the chocolate biscuits, cakes

and squash. They were equally excited to talk about their favourite pieces of work this year and shared their art, maths, science,

history and literacy with great confidence.