We already have thriving violin / viola group lessons in school and this week all chidren attended a guitar demonstration. Please see separate letter sent out Thursday 23rd January for information/ costs about guitar tuition. Contracts and payment are organised directly with the tutor who is accredited with the Derbyshire School Music Partnership. There is a subsidy on the first six sessions of 20 minutes or longer. Please contact the tutor directly if you have any questions or need further information. Thank you.
Whole school
Woolley Weather Goes Live!
We’ve had a weather station running in our Learning Garden for around a year now although we have only been able to upload data to the web site intermittently. Today it was finally hooked up to an old computer which allows us to upload the latest weather information to our Woolley Weather pages every 10 minutes. (A link to Woolley Weather can be found down the right-hand side of our home page.) While short term data is displayed on the web site, full historical data is stored at school.
Wildlife Hotel – WOW!
The children have had a great time working on the Insect Hotel with support from the Wild life Trust. The final product looks great and many parents who collected children at the end of the day were able to go and have a look and admire the children’s efforts.Thank you for all the donated items; pallets, bricks, canes etc. Remember each child can bring in an item to place on top eg. shell, stone, piece of pottery etc. We look forward to seeing what creatures take up residence over the next few days and weeks. Mrs Mahadevan will be posting some photographs soon so keep a look out on the web site.
Whole school trip November 26th
Whole school visit Derby Open Centre / Places of worship
Tuesday 26 November 2013
(Open Centre, mosque, Sikh gurdwara, Hindu temple, Baptist church.)
Please check your child’s bag for information, contribution details and slips about the visit to Derby Open Centre and places of worship on 26th November.
As a Church of England school, we are keen to develop in our children Christian values of tolerance, understanding , respect etc. Each term we choose to focus on a different value and to recognise these in action in school and out.
It is also important for children to realise that other faiths and other Christian denominations eg Catholic, Methodist, also promote these values and that there are many similarities as well as differences in places of worship and ways of worship.
Children will need a packed lunch (no glass bottles please). If your child receives free school meals – please let the office know if you would like a free packed school lunch on this day. Children should wear school code of dress, sensible footwear and a coat as we will be walking between some of the buildings. Everyone must wear TROUSERS and have some form of respectful HEAD COVERING eg scarf or hat (not base ball cap). Shoes and socks may need to be removed in some places of worship. No spending money is needed as we will not be visiting any shops.
The coach will depart from school at 9.00am prompt (register 8.45am) and we will return to school for 3.30pm. Children will need to be collected as usual by an adult.
Please return slips to school as soon as possible. Thank you very much.
Ofsted Inspection 24th to 25th September
Inspection of Stretton Handley Church of England Primary School by Ofsted
We have just been informed that our school will be inspected on 24–25 September 2013. The lead inspector will be Michael Phipps. The inspector would like to know what you think about the school. Please take a few minutes to read the leaflet and letter which are coming home tonight – Monday 23rd Sept. It explains why schools are inspected, and what happens during an inspection.
Your views about the school are important to us
If you are a registered parent or carer of a pupil at the school you can tell Ofsted your views about the school by completing Ofsted’s online survey, Parent View, at: http://www.parentview.ofsted.gov.uk.
Parent View asks for your opinion on 12 aspects of your child’s school, including the progress made by your child, the quality of teaching, dealing with bullying and poor behaviour. The inspectors will use the online survey responses when inspecting your child’s school.
To register your views, you will need to provide your email address, which will be held securely. It will not be used for any purpose other than providing access to the online survey. Neither schools nor Ofsted will have access to any email addresses.
Please complete the online survey by 11am on 24 September 2013 as this will give the inspection team more time to consider your views. However, we will consider all online responses that are completed during the inspection. Should you wish to provide written comments these should be sent to the school in a sealed envelope, marked confidential and addressed to the inspection team.
Thank you in advance for taking the time to complete the online survey.
Insect Hotel – Materials Wanted
The Wildlife Trust will be visiting the school, on Wednesday 25th September, to work with the children to build an Insect Hotel for our Learning Garden.
The main structure of the hotel will be made from 4 or 5 pallets which need to be of the same size. If you think you can source some, please let us know asap. We have also been given a list of materials which we need to collect before the day:
48 bricks – of the same size.
About 10 stones of roughly same size as bricks or smaller.
Lots of pine cones
Lots of interesting and colourful old/chipped crockery – especially cups, saucers
Old small terracotta pots, can be broken
Large bin liner of Straw
Large bin liner of damp leaves
Small straight -ish sticks – lots
Bamboo canes – lots (at least 30 x 6ft canes)
Old roofing slates (enough to cover a pallet) or roofing felt and tacs
Small stones/decorative gravel – the more interesting the better
Shells
About 10 logs about 8- 10cm diameter and up to 1ft long
Lengths of old piping –of not more than 10cm diameter and cut into 0.5ft lengths, – about 10-12. (The piping and logs need to be able to fit into the sides of the pallets so diameter is dependent on size of pallets). Drainpipe – sections 6”/15cm – is suitable.
Piping of different diameters to fit into larger pipe.
Hazel (or other) coppiced poles.
If you can help with providing some of these materials, please get in touch asap. (In school or by leaving a message on this post)
Each child may also bring in something precious/decorative to put on the top such as unusual natural objects such as feathers, stones, fossils, etc.
Code of Dress Policy
A copy of the dress code Policy is available on the school website under ‘Information’ – school dress code.
School Dress Code Policy
Introduction
At Stretton Handley CE Primary School we believe it is important our children come to school dressed smartly and appropriately, in a way that shows they are a part of our school community.
Clothing
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All clothing should be clearly named. Sweatshirts, polo shirts and items with the school logo are available to order through school. Bookbags and PE kit bags are also available |
PE kit forms part of our school Dress code
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We are the ‘Dragon’s Den’ competition winners!
Dragon’s Den competition winners! Dragon’s Den competition winners!
Fantastic news – our school has won the Cluster Primary School Dragon’s Den Competition! The £250 prize money will be presented to our school by members of the Dragon’s Den Panel in the next couple of weeks. Well done to everyone who contributed ideas and a special thank you to the three children (one Year 6 and two Year 4s) who went along to pitch the winning idea for a ‘learning garden’ to the Dragon’s Den. Our team spoke clearly and well and answered questions confidently. The Dragon’s Den panel were impressed with the way the children talked about the plans and also loved the fact that the ‘Learning Garden’ is building on and developing what we already have. They thought it was great that, as a school, children have already organised Enterprise fund raising activities to support putting plans for the ‘learning Garden ‘ into place.
CONGRATULATIONS – What exciting news!
Well Dressed!
We managed to complete our contribution to the Brackenfield Well Dressings on schedule; it will be on show with the rest of the well dressings over this Bank Holiday weekend. It’s been hard work but we’re sure you’ll agree it was worth it! For the first time the boards were put together in school which meant the children could see the board develop over the week from start to finish. As always, they were involved in all stages of its design from the initial drawings, assisted by Anne Robson, through to adding the variety of natural materials needed to complete the well dressing.
Visit our well dressing page to find out how we make our well dressings and for pictures of our earlier ones.
Well Dressing Materials Wanted
During next week we will be putting together our contribution to the Brackenfield Well Dressings, “The Parting of the Red Sea”. We need natural materials:
Fresh materials such as flowers are added last and should be brought in from next Wednesday.
Pictures of our well dressings from previous years can be seen on the web site’s well dressing page.