Woodside Junior School Newsletter [12] March 2011

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1 Woodside Junior School Newsletter [12] March 2011 World Book Day It was great to see so many children and staff dressing up as their favourite Roald Dahl characters yesterday. The children have each been given a World Book Day Token worth 1. These can be exchanged for special World Book Day books at most good bookshops. In this technology driven world it s easy for children to miss out on the amazing worlds that books can open up for them. Please encourage your child to read a good book every day. Make sure they go out and spend their token this weekend! Winners of the best costume awards were: Y6 Mia (Mrs Twit) and Callan (Oompa Loompa) Y5 Sam (Danny Champion of the World) Deytona (Mrs Twit) Y4 Jumana (Fantastic Mr Fox), Mia (Oompa Loompa), Emily (Mr Twit), Che-Milan (Willy Wonka) Y3 Tobias (centipede), Caitlin (spider), Olivia and Sophie (Oompa Loompas), Matthew (Muggle Wump). Well Done to everybody who made the effort and came in Fancy Dress You re all Champions of the World. Green Fingers As a Food For Life school we are preparing to start growing our own vegetables in the school garden. We are having some raised-beds built and will hopefully soon be ready to start growing. Garden Organic have been into school this week running planting workshops with some of the children. As the project develops more children will become involved and we aim for each class to be responsible for a section of the garden. Many thanks to Miss Goodwin for all her hard work on this project. Thanks also to Mrs Lawn and Mrs Norman for helping the children during the planting workshops. We are all looking forward to some healthy vegetables very soon. Fair Trade Fortnight Traid- Craft led our Monday assemblies this week focussing on why Fair- Trade makes a huge difference to farmers and producers in the developing world. As a school we are participating in a World Record attempt at the longest ever piece of bunting- all made with Fair trade Cotton. Each child will decorate their own section and Woodside s bunting will join thousands of other schools. Fingers crossed we could all be world record breakers very soon. Friday 18th March is Red Nose Day and it s also a PAWS Mufti Day. We suggest children wear anything red or dress as a monster. All children will be asked to bring something in for the Spring Fayre. PAWS will then make a donation to Comic Relief. We will be selling red noses at school from Monday 7th March, these will be available from the school office and the playground at breaktimes. Do something Funny for Money. Morland Road Croydon CRO 6NF Tel Fax admin@woodsidejun.croydon.sch.uk Dates Ahead 18th March PAWS Mufti Day Red Nose Day 19th March PAWS Spring Fayre 5th and 6th April (pm) Y4 production to parents/carers LS Hall 8th April Last day of Spring Term 26th April Summer Term begins 29th April Royal Wedding Bank Holiday Please do not take any holidays during school term time. A MESSAGE FROM PAWS Mufti day will be on the 18th March, you will need to bring something for the Spring Fayre on the 19th, details will be in a PAWS newsletter coming next week. There will also be a poster for you to decorate and put up in your window at home. The Fayre will have lots of exciting things to do including the Disco Dome, so come along for a fun day out and to support the school.

2 Puffin Book Club The new Puffin Book Club catalogue will be distributed to all children next week. If you would like to purchase any books for your child please complete the order sheet and return to the school office by Monday 21st March. Don t forget to include your card number or a cheque (no cash accepted). You can also order on line and the books will be delivered to school. For every 10 spent the school makes 5 worth of books which will be used to stock up the school Library and class book corners. Give them something good to read! Cine Club Prefects School Website & photo permissions. Now our new school website is up and running we are going to be uploading updates of the events that are happening at Woodside. At the start of the year, parents were asked to sign a photo permission statement allowing photos of the children to be published and used in school. We will be including photographs on the website and we will check the photo permission statements before we include photos of any children. If you signed the photo permission statement, but now do not want your child to be included in any photos, please do contact the school office to sign a no photographs on the website declaration. If you do not want to alter your permission status you need take no further action. Thank you. Swimming After the Easter Holidays we will be moving our swimming lessons for Y3 and Y4 from the Royal Russell pool to the South Norwood Leisure Centre as we had done in previous years. This will mean that we no longer require coach transport to and from the pool, as the children will be walking to the pool. It also means that we will be having more swimming sessions so the children will get more time in the pool over the academic year. Our Y6 Prefects were treated to a trip to the Cinema this week. They went to watch a special screening of films made by Croydon schoolchildren. They watched 4 films and then voted on their favourite film. The most popular film was Drink Me made by Virgo Fidelis Convent School. This went forward to Fluffy Green Crocodile Alert represent Croydon in the Cine Club finals. Other schools that screened films were St A cuddly green crocodile has been found in the playground Mary s High School, Smitham Primary he looks lonely and wants to be reunited with his owner. If School and Beckmead School. Thank you you have lost Crosby the Croc (we had to call him someto all the prefects for their hard work at thing) please come to the school office. lunchtimes playing a very responsible Uniform. role in making lunchtimes a happier and Uniform is no longer available in safer experience. the school office. Please note uniform can be purchased Darryl Summerton Memorial Plaque. through Hewitts in Croydon, 45 As you will have Church Street CR9 1QQ read in the last Sorry for any inconvenience copy of the newscaused. letter Darryl Summerton was laid to rest last week. We 5D s Healthy Tuck Shop h a ve commiswell Done to Mr Phillips and all the children sioned a plaque marking Darryl s contribuin 5D who are all working hard providing us tion to Woodside Junior School and it will with healthy snacks at breaktime. The Tuck be placed outside our new ICT Suite as a Shop is open on the following days at breaklasting memorial to Darryl. times. Tues Y3, Weds Y4, Thurs Y5, Fri Y6 Secondary School Open Days Snacks cost between 35p-45p. Each child will be permitted Christ s Hospital Saturday 5th March to bring up to 50p to school on the day of the Tuck Shop Wilson s School Tues 28th June 4pm (ideally in 5ps or 10ps). They will be responsible for this Contact schools for details. money and any change they receive. All the products are dried fruits and do not include any added sugar or salt. All profits go towards subsidising the Year 6 trips next year.

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