Helme Headlines 26 February 2016 Email: office@helmeschool.com Website: www.helmeschool.com Follow us on: twitter@helmeschool This Newsletter can also be viewed on the school website Welcome Back! AWARDS Helme Values Class 1: Determination Alice Bridgstock for thinking carefully and finding good resources for her mud creature. Class 2: Excellence Jessica Rhodes for having an excellent attitude towards her work and for trying hard. Class 3: Excellence Everyone for a fantastic performance at Strictly Pennine. Class 4: Excellence Zach Bissolati for stepping up and supporting Class 3 at the Strictly Pennine Festival. Class 5: Excellence Oscar Burrow for his willingness to volunteer answers and the ability to answer detailed questions, which showed good listening. Headteacher s Award Class 1: Lewis Milner- Hussain for his love of singing. Class 2: Scarlett Green for being responsible, thoughtful and kind towards a friend who was doing some challenging work. Class 3: Jack Crossley for supporting his peers. Class 4: Joseph Sherwood for a fantastic attitude to all his work. Class 5: Alfie Burrows, Daniel Malsom, Libby Rhodes, Lucy Jones, Oscar Burrow, Abigail Turner, Rebecca Higgins, Aimee Scholefield and Katie Smith for being a credit to Helme School on their trip to London to plant the Paradice Gold apple tree.
Attendance Champions Congratulations to Class 3 who are the attendance champions with a fantastic 100%. School attendance overall for that week was 96.44% After School Clubs Monday Choir, Gymnastics Tuesday Karate, Year 6 Reading Club Thursday Tennis, KS2 Film & Animation Club, Class 4 Shakespeare Club, Year 6 Grammar Booster Friday BodyRockerz A reminder that we expect your child to attend all sessions where possible as, although some clubs are not charged, the school still has to pay for professionals to run them. If your child is not able to attend a session, please inform the school office. Club registers are taken and absences are chased up. School Milk Summer Term Order Milk order letter will be sent out shortly for the Summer term i.e. after the Easter holidays. Please note that there is a price increase to 11 for the term. I n addition KS2 children will now be able to have milk and this can be paid for by Parentpay. Letter will be sent home at the beginning of next week. Boys Football League Report for Thursday 25 th February 2016 @ Newsome High School. Please see Mrs Hutson s reports at the end of the newsletter. Opportunity for girls aged 8-11 to be part of a new piece at the LBT Please find information at the end of the newsletter sent from the Lawrence Batley Theatre about a very exciting opportunity for girls aged 8 11 to audition in March to be part of a contemporary dance piece, Men & Girls Dance, taking place at the LBT in June. Perfect Paralympic Challenge Tournament - Friday 12th February Please see Madame Brian s report at the end of the newsletter. FOHS Bags2School To help us raise funds for school, children have been given bags which can be filled with unwanted clothes and items listed on the bag. Please fill the bags and return them to
school first thing on the collection day Thursday 3 March. Bags should be placed under the school notice board outside the playground. Thank you. Tempest Photography Order forms for the contemporary style class photos have been sent home with children. If you wish to place an order please return them with payment and completed form by Tuesday 8 th March. If you miss the school order, they can be sent separately but will incur a postage/late order charge. Coat Sale We have a small number of brand new, good quality coats and fleeces for sale in school which we are prepared to sell at a small cost. Please call at the school office if you are interested. FOHS Raisin Challenge We hope you have enjoyed the challenge. Thank you to all those who have sent in their raisin boxes and sponsor forms.,we are extending the deadline to Monday 29 February and the contents will be counted on Tuesday 1 March. Don t miss out on the fun! FOHS Summer Fair The summer fair will have an Olympic focus and be held on Saturday 9 July. Please put the date in your diaries and start collecting items for the tombola! Thanks Important Dates Monday 29 February at 9.45 Governors Finance Drop-in meeting Tuesday 1 March at 9.10 in Church Class 2 Lent Service Thursday 3 March after school Netball tournament Friday 5 March pm Gymnastics competition Best wishes, Julie Dempster, Headteacher
Boys Football League Report Thursday 25 th February 2016 @ Newsome High School. The team for this fixture was: Alfie Burrows (c), Jake Rhodes, Joseph Sherwood, Tom Barker, Daniel Broadly, Bailey Mallinson, and Owen Smith. Whenever we play other teams in the league, we always have a battle on our hands, as we play in the Year 6 League. Today was no exception, as our Year 6 boys were away at Castleton. Our first match was against Fixby. A couple of the boys in their team were nearly as tall as our supporters. Initially, we were a little intimidated by their physical size and unfortunately they scored an early deflected goal which gave Jake in goal no chance. However, that was the catalyst which was needed for our captain, Alfie, to lead by example, attacking down the wing showing great skill and determination. We eventually lost the game Fixby 4 Helme 0 Next we played Reinwood Juniors. We started this game in a much more positive manner, putting passes together with everyone working and supporting each other. Bailey made a few great saves in goal which lifted our spirits even further. Alfie, Tom and Owen played some great attacking football, while Jake, Daniel and Joseph worked hard in defence to close players down. In the end we were lucky to concede 2 goals making the final score Reinwood Juniors 2 - Helme 0. The Reinwood coach (who coaches at Manchester City) commented on how skilful you all were and was particularly impressed by Bailey in goal and Alfie down the wing! Finally we played the host side Newsome Juniors. Their coach didn t see us much of a threat as commented on the size of our players. But our pocket rockets soon got stuck in. Daniel played well in goal and Jake took on the role of lone striker up front. We came close to scoring several times forcing their keeper to make a few good saves. In the final couple of minutes, we were really unlucky to be awarded a penalty against us for an accidental hand ball (I would have said ball to arm ) in the box. Daniel stood tall in goals, but had no chance against an extremely powerful shot. Final score Newsome 1 Helme 0.
Everyone played extremely well, showing a fantastic team spirit, along with skill, determination and courage by the bucket load. Thanks as always to our supporters, you are always there for us come wind, rain or freezing temperatures! Mrs Hutson Are you a girl aged 8 11? Do you love dancing? Would you like to take part in a brand new performance piece with professional performers? COME ALONG TO AN AUDITION AT LAWRENCE BATLEY THEATRE ON 18 or 19 MARCH 2016 Internationally renowned performance company Fevered Sleep (feveredsleep.co.uk) are looking for enthusiastic young performers, with some dance experience, to devise and perform in our major new project, Men & Girls Dance. We re running a series of free, creative audition workshops in March. These will be fun, informal and led by the Artistic Director of Fevered Sleep. Following these workshops, we will invite ten girls to join the performance company for a four-week period of creation and rehearsals in May-June, which will lead to two performances at the Lawrence Batley Theatre. Enthusiasm, commitment and a sense of adventure are more important than dance experience or technique. The rehearsal period will be SUNDAY 15 MAY and then SATURDAY 21 MAY ONWARDS. Everyone who attends a session in May needs to be available to rehearse full time (Monday to Friday) from 21 May 3 June. PERFORMANCES ARE: FRIDAY 3 and SATURDAY 4 JUNE, 7.30pm AUDITION TIMES & DATES (you only need to come to one session) 18 MARCH 4.30PM 6.30PM 19 MARCH 11AM 2.30PM
Places at the audition workshops are limited please visit https://feveredsleep.wufoo.eu/forms/lbtaudition-workshop-with-fevered-sleep/ to apply online. If you have any further questions contact Rose Condo, Head of Community Engagement at 01484 4844458 / rose@thelbt.org or contact Fevered Sleep directly on 020 3815 6430 / admin@feveredsleep.co.uk Perfect Paralympic Challenge Tournament On Friday 12th February, our Paralympic Challenge sessions were celebrated in style with a KS2 intra-school tournament. The children worked in 6 mixed age teams, named after 6 inspirational Team GB Paralympians. They had 6 different Paralympic Challenges to visit where they worked as a team to score as many points as possible. During Boccia Shrinking Circle the children aimed their Boccia balls at a target circle that got smaller each round played! On to another Boccia challenge Target Ball. Here the children were trying to score points by moving the football with their Boccia balls. Whichever numbered square the football finished in was the team score. Two Sitting Volleyball challenges next. The first was Spike to Score which
involved serving a partner who would spike the ball towards 4 different target spots to score points. The second was Over the Net where the children worked as a team to hit the ball over the net to each other. The rally was counted up as the points scored.
Goalball Challenge Zigzag Team Pass was lots of fun. The children had to use their listening skills to send the bell ball up and down the team zigzag. Goalball Shoot to Score involved shooting the bell balls into a net to score. Team Sarah Storey 171 Team Gordon Reid 162 Team Ellie Simmonds 138 Team Hannah Cockcroft 135 Team Aled Davies 131 Team Jonnie Peacock 131 When all results were in, the top two teams competed in a mass Sitting Volleyball match final. The other teams spectated and cheered on the finalists so much that the hall roof nearly lifted off! The match was close but Team Gordon Reid came out on top with a score of 35 to 34. Libby was chosen as a Goalball star, Baden as a Boccia star and Tom as a Sitting Volleyball star. All three demonstrated the Helme values all afternoon and were great team players. They were awarded mini Mandevilles, the London 2012 Paralympic mascot. Once again, the Helme children performed at their very best - a joy to watch and be part of! Thank you all! Mme Brian