BPS News Sheet no.4 30th September 2016

BPS News Sheet

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No.4

The

Coastal Federation

‘together we are stronger’

What’s happened this week ?

We ended our week with a very successful combined Macmillan coffee morning and story cafe. A huge thank you to everyone who donated cakes for the event and to those who attended. What better way to end the week than working in partnership with parents for a great story, with fun craft activities followed by cake and coffee - and all in support of Macmillan Cancer Support. So far you helped us raise £140. There are still some cakes left and these will be available for children to buy on Monday for the usual snack price of 30p with the funds from the sale of these being added to today’s total. I’ll let you know next Friday how much we have raised altogether. THANK YOU for your support and feedback from the event. Here are a few of the things you said:

“Thoroughly enjoyed by all. Thank you for the extra effort - appreciated.”

“ Another lovely story cafe! Great for all the family.”

Our next planned story cafe is on the first afternoon back after half term - see diary for detail. Hope to see you there!

There were so many lovely photographs from the morning - choosing which to use was very difficult. There are lots more on the website. Why not take a look?

Dates for the diary
Date	Time	Event
1.10.16	9:00-12:00	Sea Sanctuary Gardening Day 1 - Volunteers needed to help build
3.10.16	pm	Dolphins Swimming
3.10.16	am/pm	Years 4 and 5 off road cycle safety course
29.9.16	All day	Dolphin and Sharks Space Topic day
10.10.16	pm	Dolphin Swimming
17.10.16	pm	Dolphin Swimming
20.10.16	2.30pm	Harvest festival
21.10.16	All day	Mufti day - Please donate a prize for the children’s tombola
21.10.16	pm	Break up for half term
31.10.16	2.15pm	FIRST DAY BACK Whole school Hallow Reading Cafe
12.11.16	10am-12	PTFA jumble sale - (Donations can be brought into school the beginning of that week)
15.11.16	pm	Cross country qualifiers at North Walsham High

Family Support Team

Our friendly Family Support Team - Barbara Vanlint and Boo Tumber will be running weekly drop-in sessions for parents at Bacton on Fridays from 8.30 - 9.00. Pop in for a cup of coffee and a chat. Please look out for their poster on the front door

Good work assembly where we celebrate children’s achievements during the week will now take place at 9:05-9:20 on a Friday morning. Parents whose children are nominated will be notified as before by text inviting them to attend. The next of these will be 7th October.

Attendance

Attendance target set by the government = 96.1%

Current updated Bacton Primary School attendance =99.13%

(To the end of this week (23/09/2016)

We have 70 on roll and there are currently 63 children with 100% attendance - Keep up the good work!

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On Monday of this week the PTFA met to organise dates for fundraising events during the current academic year. The have agreed to contribute £1000 to the refurbishment of the outdoor reception learning environment once the new canopy is installed. This is in addition to funds used to purchase a new speaker/PA system and IPod - for playing music in PE and assembly and taking better quality photos and £500 allocated towards the Sea Sanctuary garden grant. Thank you to their hard work raising funds last year and your support attending events.

Sea Sanctuary Garden

Our first volunteer day is here. Work on the Sea Sanctuary garden starts tomorrow. If you can paint, dig, lift or plant we can find you something to do!

Please note for the first few volunteer days for safety reasons it is adults only as we will be using power tools.

Photos from the day will be added to website for you to keep up to date with progress.

Parent/adult volunteers needed for our first gardening day on SATURDAY 1.10.2016 9:00am-12:00am - we’d love your support to help improve the grounds for our children.

This is how the area looks now:

‘together aspire, together achieve, together we are stronger...’