Tea with the Bishop!
Clay Cross and District Music Festival – Winding Wheel 23rd October
There is one more rehearsal for the Clay Cross and District Music festival.
Wednesday 22nd October 9.30 – 2.30pm – Winding Wheel , Chesterfield
Thursday 23rd October – evening performance at Winding wheel.
See separate letter for further information.
House of Lords – Monday 13th October
‘My C of E School’ competition winners!
Stretton Handley Church of England Primary school in Derby diocese won the national MyCofESchool competition. The contest launched last June, invited pupils at Church primary schools to celebrate what their school meant to them in a three minute film.
Children have been selected by prize draw to visit London to join the Bishop of Oxford, Chair of the Board of Education, for tea in the House of Lords. The children will be accompanied by Mrs Knight,Mrs Mahadevan and Mrs Riggott. Children will be ambassadors for our school, going on the visit to represent all our children. We are sure they will have a great time and come back and share their experience with the rest of the school. We will then add photographs and information to the website.
Start Collecting Tubs4Tablets
This autumn Flora and Stork, in partnership with Tesco, are running a scheme called Tubs4Tablets. We need to collect as many tokens as possible, these can be found on promotional 500g tubs of Flora Original, Light and Buttery and Stork in Tesco from the beginning of October.
Hand us your tokens… Just 50 tokens will get our school one brand new Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0” Wi-Fi 8GB tablet.
As a small school we need all the help we can get so spread the word and enlist the help of friends, neighbours, work colleagues and family.
Church video competition winners
Stretton Handley Church of England Primary school in Derby diocese has won the national MyCofESchool competition. The contest invited pupils at Church primary schools to celebrate what their school means to them, in a three minute film.
The Christian ethos is at the very heart of our school at Stretton Handley. In the video the children wanted to show how Christian values weave through our daily lives and why this makes our school a really great place to learn, laugh and have fun!
The Peak District winning team will join the Bishop of Oxford, Chair of the Board of Education, for tea in the House of Lords.
The Bishop of Oxford congratulated all the entrants: “We were delighted to see the wide range of entries in the competition. The children’s enthusiasm for their schools and the values they find there are inspirational. Their entries are a tribute to the staff, parents and governors and all those who have helped lay the foundations of our church schools over the centuries. My congratulations to the children for their hard work and imagination creating their entries. It’s always hard to pick one winner but I’m very much looking forward to meeting pupils from the winning school over tea in the House of Lords.”
The video can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU-zAvwhiGE&feature=youtu.be
School photographer – Mon 29th Sept
The Tempest school photographer will be visiting on Monday 29th September in the morning for group, individual and family photographs. Please bring any younger siblings in for family photographs at 8.30am. Children with brother/s and sister/s already in school will have family and individual photographs after 9.00am so there is no need for them to come to school early. Thank you.
Clay Cross and District Music festival rehearsals
Clay Cross and District Music Festival rehearsals.
Rachel Wilkes has already been into school to introduce some of the songs for this year’s festival. We would like as many of our KS2 children – September Year 3, 4 , 5 and Year 6 to take part as possible. Please return permission slips to Mrs Dunbar or the school office.
We are part of Choir A and, this year, the first rehearsals in the autumn term are being held at our school – Stretton Handley, so there is no need to organise transport. However parents will need to organise to transport their children to and collect from the two rehearsals at Tupton Hall and the dress rehearsal and performance at the Winding Wheel in Chesterfield. Last year many parents shared transport between themselves. See details and further information on separate letter.
Wednesday 24th September 9.15- 10.30am Stretton Handley
Wednesday 1st October 9.15- 10.30am Stretton Handley
Wednesday 8th October 9.30 – 12.00pm Tupton Hall.
Wednesday 15th October 9.30- 10.30am Tupton Hall
Wednesday 22nd October 9.30 – 2.00pm – Winding Wheel , Chesterfield
Thursday 23rd October – evening performance at Winding wheel. Tickets available soon.
Chesterfield festival of Cricket – Photography competition winners!
On Wednesday 9th July, many of our children, accompanied by Mr Cooke, Mrs Roberts and Mr Sanderson, visited Queen’s Park as part of the Chesterfield festival of Cricket. The children had a great day watching cricket, and also had the opportunity to go onto the pitch and have a go themselves.
We are very pleased and proud that a photograph of our children, taken by Mr Cooke at the Cricket festival has won the photography competition, which was for the best photo of what was happening during the festival. The school receives a cricket bat signed by all the Derbyshire cricket club players. A fantastic well done to Mr Cooke and the children. The Cricket bat will be on display soon.
Playground development – Tuesday 24th June
We are delighted to inform everyone the our bid for lottery funding through ‘Awards4 All’ has been successful and we have been awarded the maximum £10,000 towards developing our outdoor provision. The company ‘Play Force’ will be installing an outdoor decking / staging area at the side of the upper playground, a covered wooden seating area for quiet reflection and for use as an outdoor classroom on the lower playground and an ‘imagination bridge’ in the EYFS play area. Installation begins on Tuesday 24th June and we ask that everyone is extra careful during the next few days when coming onto the playground and to keep their younger children well away from any materials and equipment when waiting for pupils at the end of school.
We would also like also remind parents and adults collecting children after school, that no children should be using the school equipment, entering the EYFS area, or using the trim trail on the lower playground etc during or after school even if parents are watching them. Children only have access to the equipment and outdoor areas under staff supervision during school time, at play-time and lunch-time. This is for insurance and health and safety purposes. Thank you for your understanding.
Red carpet movie premiere – Thursday 26th June 2.00pm
RED CARPET MOVIE PREMIERE – Thursday 26th June 2.00pm
Parents of all children in school are invited to bring their cameras and join us for the ‘movie premiere’ on Thursday afternoon. This is the exciting culmination of several weeks work and we would like all children to join in by coming to school in their smart clothes (or getting changed at lunchtime).Boys might like to wear a tie or dickie bow and girls their party dresses.
At 2.00pm parents will be able to come into the hall and photograph the children as they enter from the classrooms and walk down the red carpet to present their work.
Y4, Y5,and Y6 will be sharing/ presenting the work from their Arts Award Project. This joint project with Ashover Primary has been funded by a grant from ‘Mighty Creatives’. Sara Giddens from’ Mighty Creatives’ will be joining us during the afternoon to see the children’s work and to meet with staff to evaluate the project.The children have taken part in various workshops including film, animation and photography. They have then worked in groups to plan and make either a short film, animation or photographic slideshow. These have been edited together into a short film presentation to be shared on Thursday afternoon. (We are hoping the DVD will be available for parents to order their own copy at £3.80 each) We would like to thank Howard Pratt and Tupton Hall School for sharing their ICT facilities and resources and Tupton Hall students who supported the animation ‘Inspire’ workshops on 6th June.
Rec/ Y1, Y2 and Y3 will also be sharing their short film which is being entered into the National Society Church of England competition. The theme is about what makes a church school distinctive. The children talk about their learning and the christian values that underpin our school ethos eg creativity, perseverance. (After the competition has been judged in July, the film will be available to view on our school website.)
After the presentations there will be refreshments and a chance to look at the children’s Arts Award log books which record the Y4,5,6 children’s Arts Award journey. Children may go home with an adult after the presentations. Any children who do not have a parent attending will stay in school to be collected as usual at 3.30pm. Please let us know in advance if your child will be leaving early with another adult. Thank you.
We look forward to seeing you on the 26th at 2.00pm.