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IN BRIEF:
You should have received your child’s school photograph via book bag. If you would like to order a copy, please make sure you respond by the deadline date. Thank you.

DIARY DATES—JULY

29	INSET day
2	Y6 sailing
3	Y6 workshops at the Abbey with SAST schools (leavers)
4	Leavers’ disco 6pm-7.30pm
6	Y6 meal for parents
12	Oxley Swimming gala
13	Rounders and cricket tournament 12-4pm
16	Dress rehearsal KS2 performance
17	KS2 matinee and evening performance
18	KS2 evening performance
21	Leavers’ service 1.30pm—school ends 2.30pm
23	Year 6 skit for Y6 parents pm
24	Leavers’ service 1.30pm in church

BA NEWS JUNE 2018

Emotional health week
Our emotional health week was a great success and the feedback from the pupils has been very positive.
During the week, children experienced presentations from the Samaritans, relaxation strategies from Hollie Barber of Relax Kids and mindfulness activities. It would be fantastic if the children were able to keep practicing some of these strategies at home. The week ended with the children sharing their learning in an assembly for the rest of the school.

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PTA Summer fair
Thanks to everyone who came to our summer fair whether it was in a volunteer capacity or as a visitor on the day. It was the first time we had held it on a Friday after school and we are pleased to see it was a great success and approximately £1100 was raised! Much of the success of the day should be credited to Jenny Pennock, Lucy Elford and Jemma Dempsey as part of the PTA—thank you very much.
Sports
Congratulations to all the children on a brilliant sports day. I have had lots of positive feedback from parents, staff and governors who were present and I am glad that everyone enjoyed themselves. Congratulations to Yellows (again!)
Huge congratulations to all the children who represented the school at the Sherborne area athletics. Everyone did their absolute best.
Special congratulations goes to:
Honor -3rd - 60m Sharmila - 1st -60m Charlotte T - 3rd -60m Ossian - 3rd -60m Dylan -1st -75m Alistair - 2nd -Throwing
Congratulations to our Quadkids Team who came 4th in the North Dorset competition.
You all performed to the best of your ability and were a credit to the school.
An extra well done to Tyrese, Joseph, Sharmila and Jemima who came in the top 20 in the individual rankings.
Musical performance
We welcomed an orchestra from Sweden recently who are touring England. They played an amazing concert for the children. This was arranged through the Sherborne Douzelage partnership.
Dorset Sumdog online maths contest
Underdown Hollow class is currently 6th out of 45 classes across Dorset!
Well done to Charlie who is 3rd, Matilda -4th, Kaja -13th, Lily H -15th, Jessica -25th, Sophie - 37th.
There are 548 students and 45 classes playing so this result is fantastic. Well done Underdown Hollow class!

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Staffing news
I am very pleased to announce that we have appointed Mrs Jenny Pennock to the role of Support staff as of September. Mrs Pennock will be running the new Breakfast club, supporting in class and acting as a Lunchtime Supervisor. She will be an excellent addition to our team. We have also appointed Mrs Amanda Kemp as a Teaching Assistant and Lunchtime Supervisor on a year’s contract. Mrs Kemp has a wealth of experience at Reckleford Infants School in Yeovil. We look forward to welcoming them both to our fantastic staff team.
Mrs Bailey will be developing her role next year as Parental Support Advisor as well as Emotional Literacy Support Advisor.
Summer disco
The Leavers’ disco will take place on Wednesday 4th July at 6pm-7.30pm in the school hall. As usual, a letter will come home nearer the time for you to complete and for your child to bring on the night. Please could we ask you to drop your children off quickly, unless you are helping by prior arrangement so that the hall does not become too congested; thank you. £1.50 per child and Year 6 will be free.
Leavers’ service
Please join us for the leavers’ service in the church from 1.30pm. The service will last approximately 30-45 minutes and school will finish afterwards.
Reports
Reports will be sent home in July. We encourage the children to write reflective comments on their year; we would also welcome your comments. In the future, we will be sending our questionnaires prior to parents evening so that any concerns can be discussed with staff. We feel this would be more useful to parents than an end of year comment.
Next year
INSET days 3/4th September 2018
School commences again on Wednesday 5th September 2018. Term dates can be found on the website.
BREAK UP FROM SCHOOL 24 July 2018 at 2.30pm.

The roots to grow,

The wings to fly.

Congratulations to all our children who received Headteacher’s certificates this month.