Monday 29th January 2018

Monday 29th January 2018 News from The Three Schools Dear Parents, The fun and frolics have continued this half term, including; Year 3 at discovering a mysterious den that appeared on the school field, Year 1 and 2 at Mursley visiting the Milton Keynes Museum to find out more about their communication topic, children in EYFS having a fantastic time meeting a real-life superhero and enjoying a super-hero breakfast and I have really been tested on my Maths skills this week; Year 1 have challenged me to a very tricky Number Bonds challenge, while Year 2 were measuring my height and converting the units of measure - Lots going on as always, I m sure you ll agree. Yours Sincerely, David May (Acting Headteacher) Holiday Clubs Once again our Christmas holiday club was a huge success. The children had a fabulous time; enjoying Christmas craft activities, cookery and sport. My thanks go out to Mrs Venturi and Mrs Underwood for making the club a huge success. I am delighted to say that, subject to demand, we are offering holiday care during the Easter Holidays, May Half Term and Summer Holidays. The Holiday Club will run from 8.00am - 4.00pm at Mursley School on the following dates. Easter Holiday - please book by 16th March 2018 Tuesday 3rd April 2018 Wednesday 4th April 2018 May Half Term - please book by 18th May 2018 Tuesday 29th May 2018 Summer Holiday - please book by 13th July 2018 Wednesday 25th July 2018 Thursday 26th July 2018 Friday 27th July 2018 Each day costs 25 The clubs will be offering a range of sport, craft and cookery activities. A link to book places will be circulated from the School offices via email or ParentMail. Dates and INSET days for 2018 Please see the dates attached for some of the events planned so far for the Spring and Summer terms. Just to remind you, the 2 remaining INSET Days for 2018 are as follows; Monday 19th February 2018 and Friday 29th June 2018

NSPCC Number Day We are delighted to be supporting the NSPCC by once again taking part in their Number Day on Friday 2nd February 2018. We will be doing fun maths activities throughout the morning to help raise money for the NSPCC. Here a just a few of the activities we have planned: Reception will be making digits out of blocks and skipping ropes on the playground and going on a shape hunt. Year 1 and 2 are playing Who wants to be a maths Millionaire and doing a maths treasure hunt. While KS2 will be completing a variety of activities including: a scavenger hunt, countdown number rounds and the 1 minute challenge. Children are invited to dress up as a digit or something associated with number for a donation of 1. We had some great costumes last year. We would also like children to bring in any loose change. The aim is to collect enough coins to surround the playground. In KS1 the Year 2 children will be making cakes and then selling them at the end of the day to Reception/, Year 1 and Year 2 children. Cakes will be 25p. If your child goes to wrap or a club they will get the opportunity to buy one before they go. In reception the children will be making mathematical munchies. Please can the children bring in a donation of 1 please. In KS2 we will have a cake sale so please could you bring in your yummy cakes/biscuits for us to sell at break time. If we have any left over you will be able to purchase them at the end of the day. Cakes will cost between 25p and 50p. Both KS1 and KS2 pupils will also be able to challenge Mr May in a competition. We re looking forward to all the fun of Number Day, and we really appreciate your support. All the money we raise will make an enormous difference to children today and help change the lives of children tomorrow. Thank you Mrs Martin Reading Breakfast at Drayton Parslow and Mursley On Friday 23rd March 2018 at 8.30am - 9.00am, we would like to invite you to join us for breakfast! We ll provide the tea and croissants, you come and read with your child! If you can t make it then an aunty, uncle, grandparent or friend is welcome in your place. Please let us know that you can make it by booking through Google form which will be sent to you after half term.

Amazing Archaeologists in Year 3 As part of our Stone Age to Iron Age topic Year 3 have been considering how people today know what prehistoric life was like. This led the children to consider the job of an archaeologist and they spent the afternoon in the role, carrying out their own excavations. Year 3 dressed for the occasion and then explored their trays filled with sand and hidden objects. The trays were split into grids with string so that the children could carefully locate and record the position of any artefacts they discovered. All items were bagged and investigated in more detail later in the afternoon, when they completed their 'artefact logs'. Mrs Goodman Year 3 s Den Discovery In English, Year 3 have been learning about story settings and have based this on 'Stig of the Dump'. To their surprise, the children discovered Stig's den on the field behind the Year 3 classroom one morning! The children used this to help them write their descriptions of the den and to use more prepositions within their writing. Year 3 were also able to suggest ways in which the den could be improved in the future. Mrs Goodman

World Book Day Celebrations (March 2018) Drayton Parslow and Mursley Thursday 1st March 2018 Friday 2nd March 2018 The teachers are busy preparing exciting activities to celebrate World Book Day and as part of the fun, children are invited to dress up as their favourite book characters. We will be celebrating at on Thursday 1st March and at on Friday 2nd March. We can t wait to see what outfits the children come up with this year. Exciting times in EYFS (Mursley) We have had a wonderful time with our Superhero topic. We met John, a real-life superhero who volunteers as a blood courier and helps save lives! We also talked about making healthy choices and enjoyed a Superhero breakfast at school. We have made shields, masks, cuffs and even designed and named our own superheroes. We are also looking forward to a superhero obstacle course in the next week or two! And of course, we all loved dressing up as our favourite superheroes on our WOW Day! Mrs Smuts

Sport News from the Three Schools Sporting Success! Last week we were presented with the plaque for the Gold Sports Mark Award. Only 4 other schools in the Buckingham School Sports Partnership received it due to the tough criteria and we are the smallest school so it is an amazing achievement. We were externally validated for the award back in October, and are very proud to get recognition for all the hard work and dedication that goes into sport at by all the staff and children. We have also had it confirmed that our netball team have got through to the Level 3 games later in the year after being one of the top teams from the festival last term. We are lucky to have Mrs Wilford at the school who helped the team prepare for their matches. Sports Skills! We have started a new sporting session at during lunch times. It is a child led initiative and sees children from all year groups become mini-coaches. The year 6 sports captains oversee the sessions, and 5 children from each class take turns to set up, coach and run each one, which can be attended by anyone. The idea is to give children increased confidence in their sports skills, and to encourage more activity during lunch times. It also gives us an opportunity to train up sports leaders within the school. On 8th February, ten Year 4 and 5 children have been chosen to take part in a Primary Sports Leadership conference at Stoke Manderville Stadium to learn the skills an ideas that they will need help them with the sessions. Basketball Matches We recently took part in two basketball festivals - one for Year 3/4 and one for Year 5/6. We were so proud of both teams for their sportsmanship and determination with each match. These were the most schools we have had at any festival in the last 5 years as two areas have merged together this year. They are looking to limit the number of teams in the future to prevent the competitions over running. In the Year 3/4 festival we won our first match, lost our second (to the eventual winners) and drew our third match. We were up against some pretty tall competition, but our team jumped high to get the ball, got into spaces and quickly passed, allowing us to score well in each game. They improved with each game they played and did an excellent job, coming 8th overall! Our next match is a hockey competition and we need to keep our title as we won it last year and got through to the Level 3 Games - no pressure then! Luckily Coach Tony is going to work with the team before the game and I know they are putting in lots of practise at lunch times. Mrs Hill

Date School & Year Group Event Monday 29th January 2018 Monday 29th January 2018 Monday 29th January 2018 Tuesday 30th January 2018 Thursday 1st February 2018 Friday 2nd February 2018 Friday 2nd February 2018 Monday 5th February 2018 Tuesday 6th February 2018 Friday 9th February 2018 Drayton Parslow and Mursley (Year 2) (Year 3) (Year 3 and Year 4) Drayton Parslow (Year 1 and 2) (KS2) (Year 5 and 6) Drayton Parslow and Mursley Internet Safety Talk (At Drayton Parslow) (10.30am 12.00pm) Internet Safety Talk (At ) (1.30pm 3.00pm) STEM Rocks Workshop (1.30pm 3.00pm) Year 3 and Year 4 Hockey Festival (3.30pm 5.30pm) MK Museum Trip (9.00am 12.00pm) NSPCC Number Day (AM Only) Popcorn Night (3.30pm-5.30pm) Young Voices Concert (The O2 London) Safer Internet Day International Day (1.30pm 3.00pm) (Greenacre Hall Drayton Parslow) Friday 9th February 2018 Break up for Half Term Monday 19th February 2018 INSET Day Tuesday 20th February 2018 Spring Term 2 Starts Wednesday 28th February 2018 Thursday 1st March 2018 Friday 2nd March 2018 Friday 9th March 2018 Wednesday 14th March 2018 Friday 23rd March 2018 Wednesday 28th March 2018 (KS2) EYFS and KS1 Bedtime Stories (5.30pm 6.30pm) EYFS and KS1 World Book Day KS2 World Book Day Mother s Day Tea Parties (2.30pm) Science Day EYFS and KS1 Reading Breakfast (8.30am) History Wow Day

Date School & Year Group Event Thursday 29th March 2018 Easter Bonnet Parades (9.00am) Thursday 29th March 2018 Easter Service at St Swithun s (10.30am and 2.00pm) Thursday 29th March 2018 Monday 16th April 2018 Tuesday 17th April 2018 Wednesday 18th April 2018 Wednesday 18th April 2018 (Years 4, 5 and 6) Drayton and Mursley (Years 1 and 2) (Year 3) Break up for Easter Summer Term 1 Starts Years 4, 5 and 6 Parents Evening Late (3.30pm 8.00pm) KS1 Parents Evening (3.30pm 8.00pm) Year 3 Parents Evening Late (3.30pm 8.00pm) Thursday 19th April 2018 Friday 20th April 2018 Monday 23rd April Wednesday 25th April 2018 (All KS2) (Year 4) Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 Parents Evening Early (3.30pm 6.30pm) EYFS/KS1 and KS2 Discos (Mursley Hall) Woodrow Residential Trip Monday 7th May 2018 Bank Holiday Monday Monday 14th Thursday 17th May 2018 Wednesday 16th May 2018 Monday 21st May 2018 Wednesday 23rd May 2018 Year 6 SATs Week Bags 2 School Collection Year 6 French Breakfast (8.30am 9.30am) KS2 Music Concert (6.30pm) (KS2) Mursley Hall Friday 25th May 2018 Break up for Half Term Monday 4th June 2018 Summer Term 2 Starts

Date School & Year Group Event Monday 4th June Friday 9th June 2018 Thursday 14th June 2018 Friday 15th June 2018 Tuesday 26th June 2018 Thursday 28th June 2018 Drayton and Mursley (Year 2) Drayton and Mursley (Year 2) Skern Lodge Residential Trip Year 2 Maths Fun afternoon with Year 6 Skern Lodge Assembly (9.15am) Y2 Extra Transition Day Speech Cup Finalists announced Friday 29th June 2018 INSET Day Tuesday 3rd July 2018 Wednesday 4th July 2018 Friday 6th July 2018 Wednesday 11th July 2018 Wednesday 11th July 2018 Thursday 12th July 2018 Friday 13th July 2018 School Monday 16th July 2018 (Year 2, 3, 4 and 5) Transition Day 2nd Transition Day Speech Cup Final at (1pm) Year 6 Summer Dress Rehearsal (1.30pm) Year 6 Summer Performance (7pm) Year 6 Summer Performance (7pm) KS1 and KS2 Discos (Mursley Hall) Sports Day at House (KS2 AM and KS1 PM) (Picnic lunch with parents) Tuesday 17th July 2018 Reserve Sports Day at House (KS2 AM and KS1 PM) (Picnic lunch with parents) Tuesday 24th July 2018 Break up for Summer