Dear Parents and carers,                                

 

It is the end of our autumn half-term and I know the children will all be ready to have their week’s break.

 

Thank you to Mrs. Armstrong for hosting our ‘Cuppa with SENCO’ event last night. I know we have one more of these this year and it does offer a great chance to find out what we do to support our SEN children in school.

 

We took our greatest number of children ever to cross-country on Wednesday and they did us exceptionally proud across the board. I was privileged enough to go with them and the effort and determination I witnessed was staggering. The results came in this morning and I must say, given the much larger schools we were competing against, Clatford did exceptionally well!

 

Lower KS2 Boys: 2^nd Place

Upper KS2 Boys: 1^st Place

Lower KS2 Girls: 3^rd Place

Upper KS2 Girls: 1^st Place

 

There were some impressive individual performances with one child coming 2^nd overall in the mixed Year 3/4 boys race and another winning the Year 5 boys event.

 

Year 3 visited Stonehenge yesterday and were filled with stories from their visit when I chatted to them today. Thank you to all the parents who volunteered to help on the day to make the trip possible.

 

 

 

We held an open morning for prospective Year R children this week and, as usual, Year 6 and Year 5 children gave potential parents of the school their first tours of Clatford. Words like ‘articulate’, ‘confident’, ‘polite’ and ‘helpful’ were used in abundance when I asked parents on the way out how their tours had gone. We had our largest ever turn out for an open-morning at the school. Thank you so much to those children who articulated their views of the school so well for the people they showed around.

 

I hope you all make it out to support the bake sale later. I can’t think of a better way to end the half-term than with a slice of cake.

 

On the 8^th November we will be holding a school remembrance service in the afternoon. If any children are associated with cubs, scouts, cadets, brownies, beavers, rainbows or other similar organisations then please feel free to come to school in your appropriate uniform that day.

 

Wishing you all a happy and healthy half-term and looking forward to see you all when we return on the 4^th November.

 

Mr M Kirk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dates for your Diary

 

28^th October – 1^st November: Autumn Half-Term

5^th and 6^th of November: Face-to-face Parents Evenings (Y6)

6^th and 7^th of November: Face-to-Face Parents Evening (YR-5)

8^th November: Remembrance Service

11^th – 15^th of November: Anti-Bullying Week

12^th November: School Bookfair

15^th November: Children in Need

18^th November: Y4 Tree planting

21^st November: Y6 Trip to Steam Museum

21^st November: School Disco

25^th November: Y4 Trip to Ufton Court

26^th November: Whole School Flu Immunisation

29^th November – School Christingle Service

2^nd December: INSET Day

11^th December: Year R Nativity (9:30am) Y1/2 Nativity (2pm)

12^th December: Y1/2 Nativity (9:45am)

12^th December: Cuppa with SENCO

18^th December: School Carol Concert (end of the school day)

19^th December: Pantomime Day

20^th December: School Christmas Dinner

23^rd December – 3^rd January: Christmas Holiday

6^th January: Return to School

15^th January: Y5 Trip to Intech, Science Museum

5^th February: Y3 Fishbourne Roman Palace

17^th February – 21^st of February: Spring Half Term

10^th March: Y2 Windsor Castle

19^th March: Y3 Orchestra Unwrapped

26^th March: Y3 Pizza Express

3^rd – 4^th April: Y6 Bikeability

7^th April – 21^st April: Easter Holiday

29^th April: YR Trip to Hillier Gardens

26^th May – 30^th May: Summer Half Term

10^th June: Y2 Living Rainforest

17^th June: Class photos

18^th June: Y3 Trip to Kew Gardens

19^th June: Y6 Leavers Service at Winchester Cathedral

30^th June – 2^nd July KS2 Play

6^th – 9^th July: Y6 Residential to Osmington Bay

21^st July – 2^nd September: Summer Holiday (including 2 INSET days on 21^st and 22^nd July)