Burlish Park Primary School Newsletter

16th April 2015

School News

Help Please! Nursery are in need of some more plastic farm animals for our 'Farm animals' topic. If anybody is able to donate any we would be grateful.

School is closed on Friday 1st May due to

staff training.

Dates for the Diary

Wednesday 29th

April

Year 5 and 6

Theatre trip

Thursday 7th May Y4 Roman and Celts

Day

W/C 11th May Y6 SATS

Please make sure

your children

attend every day

Tuesday 9th June Summer music con-

cert

Wednesday 17th

June

Y6 trip to Bewdley

Museum

Tuesday 30th

June

KS2 Field Events

Wednesday 1st

July

KS2 Track Events—

parents invited

Thursday 2nd July Nursery Sports Day

am/pm

Tuesday 7th July Reception Sports

Day

Wednesday 8th

July

KS1 Sports Day

Important news

We are delighted to announce that Burlish Park Primary has been selected as Signal

107 FM’s School of the Week.

Dicky Dodd (radio DJ) came into school and talked to a selection of children who will be

on air w/c 20th April everyday at 8.30am. Please listen out for them.

Changes to the Stourport Oscars

As many of you know, the Stourport Oscars is a ceremony that rewards 100%

attendance. Previously and for 2015, attendance has been measured from September

to May. However, from May 2015 attendance will be measured from May to May. It

would be lovely to see many pupils from Burlish receiving their certificate.

Illness

Please could we remind parents to phone school on the morning of their child’s illness

and provide a letter on return to school. Many thanks.

Uniform

Remember, you can now order your uniform for September from the school office.

Children in Year 3 onwards, please wear a V-neck jumper and tie.

Comic Relief

Burlish Park Primary School were busy raising money for Comic Relief 2015. Donations on the day raised £204.85 and £103 was

raised by staff entering “The Great Burlish Bake Off”.

In total we raised £307.85

Achievements Well done to the following for their out of school achievements:

Owen Bird 2H for working really hard on his theory and new pattern to pass his second grading in Taekwondo to receive

his yellow belt..

Massive congratulations to the girls from the AKFC U9 girls team who won the Mercian Development Shield on Sunday with a 1-0 win over the Droitwich Belles in the final at Malvern FC. Well done to the Burlish girls from the team Skye

Owen, Alice Bush, Chloe Guise and Scarlett Holloway who also won Player of the final and was the goal scorer. Harriet Ferris 6J has passed her Grade 2 piano exam.

Well done to Arley Kings Under 7s who played at the Harrier’s football match at half time on 28th March. The team included Charlie Gwilliam 2H, Thomas Wainwright 2R, Henry Slough 2R, Rhys Owen 2R, Flynn Southall

2H, Keaton Rushton 2R

Easter Bonnet parade

Well done to the winners of the

Easter bonnet parade. It was love-

ly to see all your creations.

The winners were:

Charley Smith—Reception

Hymatt Mann—Y1

Yasmin Varley—Y2

Lia Kimberley—Y3

Olivia Calder—Y4

Elizabeth Kingston—Y5

Harriett Ferris—Y6

The chocolate hamper was won by

Beau Welsh. Well done.

The raffle raised £182 which will

be used to buy extra books.

Little Owls Farm

On Tuesday 17th March the Nursery

children visited Little Owls Farm. We learnt

more about farm animals to support our

topic. We enjoyed hands on experiences

feeding and stroking the animals. We were

fortunate to see a number of baby animals.

Oscar Griffiths said “it was funny when the

piglets came running to get their food. I fed

them with a bottle.”

Olivia Smith said “ I liked the baby chick. I

picked it up and it nearly pecked my nose.”

Tia Jones said “ I liked feeding the lamb

milk. It made my arm shake.”

Jaiden Wilson said “ My favourite was the

ride on tractors.”

Thank you to the Nursery staff

Parent Focus Group

There will be a parent focus group on 18th May at 6pm. All welcome.

2014-2015 First Day of Term

Last Day of Term

Summer Term 1

Monday 13th

April Friday 22

nd May

Summer Term 2

Monday 1st June Monday 20

th July

Holiday Dates 2014/2015

Sports News Dance Festival A huge congratulations to all those pupils who performed to such a high standard at the Stourport Schools' Dance Festival on Tuesday night. It was a great evening which showcased the talent the pupils have in Stourport. Burlish performed two dances and were once again left in charge or the mass warm up which the year 6 girls organised independently and very professionally. County Cross Country On a very wet Friday 13th March, four pupils form Burlish were part of the Wyre Forest District team who competed in the County Cross Country event at The Wyre Forest. All the pupils performed well and should be very proud of their achievements. Congratulations to Dan Houghton, Ella Dew, Skye Owen and Max Sellick.

Thank you Mr Lindley What should go into a healthy lunchbox?

A healthy packed lunch should include:

• A good portion of starchy food, e.g.

wholegrain roll, tortilla wrap, chapatti, pitta

pocket, pasta or rice salad;

• A portion of lean meat, fish or alternative, e.g.

chicken, ham, beef, tuna, egg, beans or

hummus;

• Plenty of fruit and vegetables, e.g. an apple,

satsuma, handful of cherry tomatoes or carrot

sticks, small tub of fruit salad or small box of

raisins;

• A portion of semi-skimmed milk or other dairy

food, e.g. reduced fat cheese, yogurt or

fromage frais;

• A drink of water.

Drinks in School As the Summer Term is fast approaching with hopefully some warm weather, we would like to remind our pupils about staying hydrated at school. Pupils should only have water to drink and water should be bought to school in bottles that have a sports top to them, to avoid too many spillages! Healthier Packed Lunches Bored of making cheese sandwiches? Can't think of some healthy ideas to put in your child's lunchbox. Why not try out some of these ideas next term. Let's try to make the dinner hall at Burlish Park a healthy environment.

Attendance %

No. of lates

RM 95 22

RHJ 93.7 11

1B 95.7 11

1C 96.1 43

2H 97 21

2R 96.9 10

3C 96.6 9

3T 97.5 5

4T 96 14

4D 96.2 31

5M 95.1 5

5R 97.3 19

6J 96.3 5

6S 95.4 4

Whole school 95.9 210

Attendance for Spring term We are no longer able to authorise requests for a holiday. The law has

changed.

Well done to 3T

Further ideas for

healthier packed lunches

and more detailed

information on the ideas

shown, together with

lots more information on

healthy eating, can be

found on the British

Nutrition Foundation

website:

www.nutrition.org.uk

Healthier lunchbox tips

The key to a healthy

packed lunch is getting

the right balance and

choosing a wide variety

of foods, which will help

provide all the nutrients

children need to grow

and be healthy.

Well done to the 158

pupils who got 100%

attendance in Spring term.