Children In Need – Spotacular 17th November
On Friday 17th November we raised funds for Children-in-Need by holding a non-uniform day and coming to school wearing something stripy and/or spotty. Thank you to everyone who dressed up and made donations. Have a look at Woodpecker Group’s fantastic Pudsy Bear masks. Mrs Mahadevan took some photographs and has taken the ‘spotacular’ event to new heights as she now has chicken pox; she is covered in real spots and will be off school all week!
Never mind going to a laser quest experience, the Master Blaster mobile laser tag arena is coming to our school hall on 23 November! Our KS2 children have the opportunity to experience an exciting range of games either as individuals or as part of a team.
Funding for this activity has been provided by P4YP ‘Positive For Young People’ who are a non-profit organisation based at the Hub, Gladstone Buildings in Clay Cross.
The Action Sports activities provided by the Extreme wheels team, are fast, furious and a huge amount of fun for anyone age 7+. See Bolsover District council’s website; for information.
All schools have a duty to promote British Values – See our British Values statement. We also want all our pupils to connect their work on British Values with their RE and with the values the school promotes. We used an activity from the book RE and British Values ( 2015, Birmingham: RE Today) to explore what it means to be British. We were then invited to send photographs and information about the school to the editor of ‘RE Today’, Lat Blaylock and we are pleased to be able to share the article, published in the Autumn edition, here on our website.
‘RE Today’ – Stretton Handley CE (VC) Primary School RE and British Values
On Thursday 12th October, the year 4, 5 and 6 cross country runners went up to Tupton Hall School for North East Derbyshire cross country event. A team of 9 children attended from Stretton Handley with over 150 children at the event!
The year 4 course was 1500m, the year 5 course, 2000m and the year 6 course 2500m, all across fields and up and down steep slopes.
Stretton Handley had their best ever results at this event and they were as follows:
Year 4 boys race – GT 2nd out of 26 (silver medal!!)
Year 4 girls race – BP 5th, FT 6th, LK 7th out of 28.
Year 5 boys race – RJ 17th out of 27.
Year 5 girls race – LH 1st out of 24 (gold medal!!!)
Year 6 boys race – LM 1st out of 25 (gold medal!!!)
Year 6 girls race – IT 5th, MT 15th out of 24.
The children did a fantastic job representing the school and shocked and surprised many with their incredible results showing great determination and fitness!
Well done Stretton Handley!
Harvest Festival
Thank you to everyone who attended and supported our Harvest Festival service. All the children took part – singing, sharing Harvest poems and readings and we even enjoyed some dancing for the Harvest Samba Song! This year we again collected non-perishable goods for the Clay Cross Food bank, a local charity supporting local people. Thank you for all the contributions – the Food Bank staff were delighted to see how much we had collected and would be happy for anyone to visit the Food bank and see how it operates and distributes to families in crisis.
Click here to learn more about the local cluster of schools working together as the George Stephenson Learning Community
GSLC George Stephenson Learning Community
BBC Terrific Scientific has had a brilliant year! Pupils all over the country, including Stretton Handley, have carried out investigations and up loaded results onto the BBC interactive website and to university scientists. Children have: tested their taste buds; found out about different types of water in the UK; explored forces, including wind resistance; investigated how the clock changes affect response times and explored trees in the school grounds, carrying out their own research. By taking part, children have collected and submitted vital data. Without this data, universities would not be able to further their research so we have been making an important contribution to science!
As a result of the hard work and dedication of our staff and children our school has been awarded Terrific Scientific ‘School of Excellence’ status.This award is supported by the Primary Science Quality Mark and the BBC. We have received the BBC Terrific Scientific Certificate of Excellence and a digital logo to use on our website/ letterheads etc.
For further information please see our Terrific Scientific page.
Clay Cross and District Music Festival 2017.
Children in KS2 in September have the wonderful opportunity to take part in the Clay Cross & District Music Festival, working with children from the local cluster of schools performing as a choir in a fantastic venue. Rachel Wilkes from the School Music Partnership is leading rehearsals and each school in the festival is contributing and subsidising the cost of the event. Some money is raised through ticket sales and raffle. (Details for tickets nearer the time – last year tickets were £3.50 each). There is no charge for children for to take part.
There will be rehearsals during school time at local schools and commitment to the day rehearsal at the Winding Wheel, Chesterfield. Click here for a list of dates and venues: Clay Cross and District Music Festival dates 2017 Parents will need to be able to arrange transport to and from rehearsals. We hope some of you may be able to arrange car sharing. Parents will also need to be able to arrange transport to and from the rehearsals at Tupton Hall and the Winding Wheel.
We do hope your child will take advantage of this opportunity and support our school by joining in. Our school often receives comments about the wonderful singing voices and musical talent of the children.
Please check your child’s book bag for letter, dates /arrangements and permission slips to sign etc.
Rehearsals: Wednesdays
Wed 20th September 1.30 pm-3.00pm @ Ashover Primary
Wed 27th September 9.15-10.30am @ Parkhouse Primary
Wed 4th October 9.15-12.00pm @ Tupton Hall
Wed 11th October 9.15-12.00pm @ Tupton Hall
Wed 18th October 9.15-2.30pm @ Winding Wheel, Chesterfield.
The photographs show children working on the scarecrow for the Woolley Moor Village Show. This year the scarecrow theme is ‘occupations’ and we have made a ‘lollipop person!’. Thank you very much to governors, Mrs Gill and Mrs Cooke, for helping us with the scarecrow.
Stretton Handley school children have sent entries for the Stretton Handley art class – judged in three age groups. The theme is ‘Circle of Life’. Younger children have created a close-up views of nature and mini-beasts using pastels and older children have created their own ‘Four Seasons Tree’ pictures using mixed media.
There are also classes for all children to enter. See details here………..
For further details, please visit the Woolley Moor Show website.
KS2 enjoyed a great afternoon of water fun at the end of term. Take a look at these ‘wet n’ wild’ photos!
