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Absence Phone Line

To report your child absent please phone the following 24-hour number before 9.30am 01268 244292

Please respect our neighbours and park in the church car park when collecting and dropping off your child—thank you

March 16th Y6 Football V Great Berry away, kickoff 3.15pm 20th Various Governor Committee meetings 23rd Gifted & Talented Writers Day (by invitation) 26th Y3 Mass in hall 9am—parents welcome SAL Smile Day-children can wear blue to show they are against any bullying in our school-event organised by our anti-bullying ambassadors 27th Full Governors meeting 7pm 28th Children’s Station of the Cross service (school only-sorry, no room available for parents) Y3-5 Parent’s Consultations 1.30-6pm-appts to follow 29th Disco—Keep the date free!!! 30th Easter Assembly 9am Stubbers “Team Building & Challenges” Y5 @ 4.15pm April 16th SCHOOL CLOSED (Training Day for staff) 19th School Instrumental Concert Evening 7pm-details to follow

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NO MORE FILM CLUB UNTIL

NXT TERM-DATE TO BE ADVISED

WEEKLY AWARDS

STARS OF THE WEEK

Trish R, Grace C

Dominic K, Alex R

Ethan S

WRITERS OF THE WEEK

Ellie J, Rebekah T

Holly A

SPELLER OF THE WEEK

Jermaine H, Holly A

Monica C, Lillie L

Chloe S

MATHS WIZ OF THE WEEK

Ben Bester, Glonavie D

Emma C

NON-SQUAD FOOTBALL

There is NO non-squad football training after school on Thursday 22nd for Y5 & 6.

INSPIRE YOUR CHILD TO READ WITH THESE BOOKS OF THE WEEK!

7+ Noah’s Rocket by Tony Frais 9+ Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo 11+ The Penalty by Mal Peet

GYMNASTIC NEWS

ALL CLUBS BACK TO NORMAL!! I know the last few weeks have been very confusing-thank you for understanding and patience. Tuesday 8-8.35am Beginners Wednesday 3.05-4.15pm Intermediates Wednesday 3.05-5.15pm Squad Thursday 8-8.35pm Intermediates & Squad Thursday 3.05-4.15pm Orange group 15/3/12 Green group 22/3/12 Orange group 29/3/12 Festival date 24th May—more info to follow

GYM FUSION

Jessica, Courtney, Chontel, Ayo, Ayanna, Esther, Ciara, Isabelle, Taiyese, Adrian, Fortune & Aidan all gave a fan-tastic performance at the Basildon Sporting Village on Saturday. It was a very exciting day as the children per-formed alongside world class gymnasts including our fa-vourite Reece Beckford. If you would like to see some of the magical performances go to BGTV on British Gymnas-tics and click on the link “National Gym Fusion”

BASKETBALL CANCELLEDBASKETBALL CANCELLEDBASKETBALL CANCELLEDBASKETBALL CANCELLED

There is nononono basketball at all

next week

due to the

hall being

used for

other events.

Please send any Easter Egg donations into the Office for our upcoming school raffle-any donations kindly accepted! Also, we will have Easter Egg raffle tickets on sale next week for 20p each. Thank you

Please keep sending in large containers such as Coke/Lemonade bottles, large milk cartons & if you have any spare large pots we would love to have them to pot young trees-thank you

DINNER MONEY

Please, please ensure your child has enough money in their account before they order one at school. The office has had to make in excess of 30 phone calls this week alone, reminding parents to pay for their child’s dinner, causing embarrassment for both ourselves and yourselves

BRING YOUR MUM TO

MASS

After you have cooked your

mum breakfast, what

better way to continue

Mothers’ Day (Sunday 18th

March) than to come to

Mass! The 10.30 at Holy

Trinity and 12.00 at St

Basil’s will be special family

Masses, and at all of the

weekend Masses there will

be a little gift for mothers.

So come and celebrate

together in our lively and

friendly parish—coffee and

cakes after the morning

Masses too!

Fr Dominic

DINNER MENU-WEEK THREE

MONDAY

Cheese & tomato penne pasta

Sticky Toffee Pudding & custard

TUESDAY

Minced beef hotpot with sliced potato topping Chocolate cornflake cake

WEDNESDAY

Roast gammon, roast potatoes, new potatoes

Strawberry mousse

THURSDAY

Chicken Curry with fluffy rice Pineapple upside down cake with custard

FRIDAY

Salmon fish cakes, chips, new potatoes

Rice pudding with jam

BOOK DONATIONSBOOK DONATIONSBOOK DONATIONSBOOK DONATIONS

If you have any books you

would like to donate to the

school please bring them in for

Miss Hare

DISCO!!

Please put £2 in a named envelope with permission slip addressed to Mrs Burkett, to the Office

RESURECTION ROCK

A reminder to parents & grand-parents to come and join us on Monday morning 9.15-10am-it will be an exciting event!!

MOTHERS DAY SALE MADE £140

Chapter Four: Friends don’t remain friends forever

Without warning, his watch beeped loudly. It could be called the perfect wake up call. “Time to pick up Thomas from The Royal Jaguar Academy!” Chuckling at her confused expression, he continued. “Don’t worry; it’s just for the Christmas Holiday!” “Oh.” She sighed, angry at the fact she had forgotten. Grabbing his hand tightly, they walked down the steps of the mansion together. After an hour of flying, they finally reached The Royal Jaguar Academy. The wide doors open. The marble steps sat predominantly in the scorching sun. Annabelle led the way. After all, this was her old school and she was once the Head Girl! Christopher at her heels. Both eagerly waiting to see their son - who they hadn’t seen since Christ-mas. As fast as lightning , Thomas came running down the steps, his suitcase trailing behind him, his robes short-er than before (he must have had a growth-spurt). “Yay, Mummy!” He yelled. “Hello Father, pleasant to see you.” He said with a nod. “Hello Thomas! Let’s go home” Annabelle said, squeezing him lightly. “I missed you so much.” They said, both at the same time. Before they got onto their cloud though, Thomas was scooped up into his father’s arms and slowly drifted off to sleep; he was tired after a long day… Thomas awoke in his bed. His pyjamas hugging his body. Oddly, he felt something heavy sitting on his leg. As he sat up, panicking he saw his mother; his journal sat in her hands. “MOTHER!” Screamed Thomas. Suddenly, his father entered the room. “What’s wrong?” He said. “Mum is reading my diary!” Thomas said, his eyes tearing up. “Seems that our little Tommy has a crush on…Sophia, who’s that?!” Annabelle said whilst giggling. Christopher snatched the diary out if her hands, to inspect what Thomas had written. Giggling as he said, “Here Tom!” After this Thomas turned away and silently wept into his pillow. “Shhh, no Tom, there is no need to cry!” Annabelle said soothingly, gently patting his back. Eventually he stopped crying and got back to his bed. Then checked the clock: 7:00 pm, ‘Had I been sleeping only that long?’ he thought. Suddenly he yawned. “I think Tom’s tired. It’s time for beddy-byes!” Annabelle said. Tucking Thomas into his bed and kissing him on the head. Walking out the door, she whispered in a soft voice (loud enough for Tom to hear) “G’night!” Then he drifted off to sleep and had a nightmare. Thomas awoke in the morning to his alarm bleeping loudly. “Thomas, it’s time for breakfast!” Annabelle called. “I’m coming Mother.” Replied Thomas, as he walked down the stairs and into the kitchen. The thin aura of cook-ies punctuated the room. “Here.” Annabelle said, whilst handing Thomas a plate. He picked up two pancakes and placed them onto his plate. “Yummy!” He said, with a mouth full of food. Causing his parents to chuckle simulta-neously. “Well, I’ve got to go now, bye!” Said Annabelle. Walking out the front door, only to be greeted by her good friend Rosie. They travelled by limousine to Rosie’s three-story house in Burbershire. As soon as they arrived they gathered around the kitchen table and continued their previous conversation. “You don’t understand Ann.” Rosie said irritably. “You don’t know what it was like to come home and see masked men surrounding your house, you weren’t here when it happened. I used to come home every night and see fire burning around my house. I used to be scared that my family and friends could be dead!” “Rose, Chris doesn’t do that anymore, you know that.” Annabelle said annoyed at the way Rosie was talking. “But he used to. And that is bad enough!” Rosie said, weeping into her folded arms. “Oh get over yourself!” An-nabelle screamed. “Well at least I don’t walk around killing innocent people.” Rosie roared. “You know what, I’m done, and I don’t need to be friends with the likes of you!” Annabelle shouted. Slamming the door on her way out… She opened the door and collapsed against the wall sighing. Sure Christopher was an evil man, but that was what she liked about him. The late Headmaster Butterfang had said MANY times: “Evil is nothing worse than good, the good kill, and the bad kill, what is this difference? Power is the difference, evil may start to rule but they how-ever cannot sustain the power to remain in power.” Despite his noble speech, he quit his job as Headmaster and became a loyal Hawnet. During his day he worked as a double agent, transferring the good side’s secrets over to evil Hawnets (Christopher Hawthorn and his followers).

MR LARRETT’S TIMES TABLES CHALLENGE—100/100!

Shone Jonathan Christopher Meenu Jacob Jobin Caitlin Lauren Joe Arun Chido Andrew Achu Allen Ryan-Daniel Remi Rosie Camylle Ellie Next week Mr Larrett is giving everyone an extra chance by increasing the time by 2 minutes. So if you haven’t yet made it, practice over the weekend!!

BARRETT HOMES JUDGE AT SAL!!

Over the past 3 weeks, Class 6 have been taking part in a very special project with Barrett Homes. The project, “My Ideal Place to Play”, involved the children researching, designing and making 3D clay models for a new play-ground at Gloucester Park. Today, the architects came in to judge the children’s designs. They have all worked really hard and enjoyed presenting their models to the judges. It was an extremely tough decision but the winners were as follows: 1st -Jack H, Jack L, Nathan 2nd- Robert, Sonny, Billy 3rd– Krithy, Charlz, Caitlin The winners all received WH Smith vouchers. Well done to everyone! The models will be displayed at Parent’s Evening for everyone to look at!

VIRGIN LONDON MARATHON

Mrs Hodnett will be running the Virgin London Marathon on Sunday 22nd April in aid of the Royal British Legion. If you would like to

sponsor her the “Just Giving” website is www.justgiving.com/nicolaclairemarathon2012, or feel free to leave any donations at the office.

PUFFIN BOOK CLUB ORDERS

All book club orders need to be returned by Friday

23rd March. Payments should be made by cheque

not cash (as stated on the order form in the puffin

book club

magazine sent out this week) Please return your

order forms to the school office.

A PRAYER FOR MOTHERS

Loving God

We thank you for our mothers Mothers who lift us up when we fall Who help us take our first steps Who encourage us to go on

Mothers who teach us values and show us faith Mothers who weep with us and laugh with us

Mothers who never give up on us Today we remember that every child

Is a precious gift Every child has a mother

And every mother is somebody’s child We pray for mothers, for fathers, for families

We pray for mothers who bring up children alone We pray for those who mourn the loss of their mother And for mothers who mourn the loss of their child

We pray for expectant mothers About to bring new life into the world We unite our prayers with those of Mary

Who knew the depth of a mother’s struggle And the radiant joy of a mother’s love

Amen

LETS GET COOKING COOKATHON

All of you who cooked our Chilli Con Carne recipe,

please could you return your names to Mrs Hartnett by

Monday 19th March. Thank you!

MY LEARNING & Y6 REVISION

My Learning is now up and running. The children have lots of homework via this site. Some homework will still remain as paper form. Not all worksheets can be completed on line and we are working to fix this. The site will include further information from parents & governors etc. Y6 revision can be done using the BBC KS2 Bitesize revision sites for Maths & English. Please endeavour to do these for 30 minutes a night and make this a regular

BASKETBALL TICKETS

Leopards V Worthing Thunder at Basildon Sporting Village on 8th April £5 adults £3

children. For tickets call Steve 07850 282984