St Dunstan’s, Cheam,

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4th May 2018 Newsletter No. 085

It has been another very busy fortnight here at school, which you can read about below.

Well done especially to all of Year 5 who had a very happy and successful school journey to Dalesdown this week.

It has been a very special week here at St Dunstan’s as we saw six of our Year 6 children confirmed into the church by The Right Revd Jonathan Clark, Bishop of Croydon. Huge congratulations to Peter Bennett, Hannah Cook, Charles Dennington, Eboni Kennedy, Joshua Thorne and David Williams. It was a beautiful service and we are all so proud of you!

Within the next fortnight Year 6 will be sitting their SATs. Our prayers are with them and we all wish them GOOD LUCK!

On Tuesday 1st May, Year 3 had their RE day!

We learned lots

about the Bible.

We acted out part

of the story of

Moses and learned

about the Ten

Commandments.

We also acted out some stories from the New

Testament. We learned about William Tynsdale,

a man who worked hard to translate the Bible

into English so that more people could read it for

themselves. We had a go at some code breaking

activities to see just how difficult it would be to

translate unknown text into English! We had an

amazing day of drama, crafts and singing!

Summer Fayre Brochure Competition: Hopefully you will all have received the flyer or read the parent mail regarding our summer fayre brochure competition. We are really looking forward to seeing the children’s entries!! Entries are to be returned to the school office by Friday 11th May and please ensure your child’s name and class are noted on the back. Judging will take place the week after and the winners

will be announced in Worship by the end of May. Children’s School Party: As you are aware from messages from your class reps, we were hoping to host two school parties at the end of June for children in KS1 and KS2. This was following on from the success of our family party. Unfortunately, we were unable to get the support of enough parent helpers for the proposed date so we are looking to organise something in September at the start of the next academic year. We really need and value your support for such events which we are keen to run, to bring the school community together for some fun. Cheam Charter Fayre: The Cheam Charter Fayre will be taking place on Saturday 12th May in Cheam Village. The PTFA will be having a stall at the event and so we look forward to seeing lots of you there. School Uniform Extravaganza: Don’t forget we will be holding a large school uniform sale on Wednesday 9th

May in the school hall from 3.15pm. All items will be 50p each and we are looking forward to clearing lots of the stock. If you have any school uniform you wish to donate then please can you leave it in the school foyer from Monday 7th May.

Year 3 RE Day

On Wednesday 25th April eight Year 6 children took part in the Area Heat of the KS2 Mathematics Quiz

Championship 2017-2018. Our two teams competed against 6 other teams from local schools and impressed everyone with the mathematical understanding and application. Well done to William Le Serve, Diya, Maryam, Samyak, Thaksan, Samuel Nelson, Hattie and William Kirk. We are very proud of your achievements! Well done to St Dunstan’s Team 2 for coming 1st! We await to hear who and where we play next.

On Tuesday 25th April, Year 1

visited Nonsuch Park! We had a

fantastic time

and really enjoyed our walk. We wrote

a accounts of our afternoon;

“On a windy Wednesday, we walked out

of our glorious school onto smoky Ewell

Road.” “Next, we were getting closer

to Nonsuch Park

and we had to write down things we

could touch, smell, hear and see.” Darcey and Elisabeth, Mercury

“After that, Miss Webster read us a

fantastic, wonderful book. It was called ‘Where the Wild

Things Are’. Then we acted out and there were lots of

scary, creepy monsters.” “My favourite part was reading

the book and acting.” Isabella J and Maximilian, Neptune

Year 1 Woodland Walk

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ST DUNSTAN’S, CHEAM, C OF E PRIMARY SCHOOL www.stdunstans.sutton.sch.uk Tel No 020 8642 5463

‘Stars’ of the last two weeks…..

The attendance figure for w/c 29/03/2018 was:

97.6% Our target is 96.4%

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY (Dates may be subject to change)

May

Mon 7th School Closed—Bank Holiday

Tues 8th School Nurse ‘Drop-In’ - 9.00am-10.00am

Weds 9th Matrix Theatre—’Mini Beast’ Workshop

for children in Reception

Third of five tennis sessions at Peaches

Close for Orion & Pegasus

Class Photographs

PTFA Good as New Uniform Sale 3.15pm

Thurs 10th St Dunstan’s School Prayer Group meet in school library—8.45am

Class Assembly—Orion 9.00am-9.15am

Health Education Meeting for Parents/Carers

- 1.45pm

Fri 11th Year 3 visit to Cheam Park

w/c Mon 14th Key Stage 2 SATs. NB Leave will not be

authorised during this period.

Weds 16th Four of five tennis sessions at Peaches

Close for Orion & Pegasus

Future Dates

Fri 25th May INSET Day

w/c Mon 28th—Fri 1st June Half Term

House Points

St George

318

St David

219

St Andrew

288

St Patrick

286

Attendance

As you may be aware our School Library is

manned by volunteers. We are very grateful to

those parents/carers who give up their time to

help out in our library to ensure that the

children are able to access the valuable

resources we have.

Unfortunately, due to changes in circumstances, some of our

volunteers are having to step down from this role. We are,

therefore, looking for some new volunteers to help out in the library

- particularly on a Monday and Wednesday.

We have a fairly new system in our library which is nice and easy to

use, as well as a lovely, friendly group of parent helpers on hand to

help any newcomers. If you would like to help out in the library to

ensure that the children can all still visit the library on a weekly

basis, please contact the School Office.

Any helpers will need to hold a current DBS check and this can be

arranged by the School. Thank you.

The Fair Residents of Cheam will celebrate the 759th annual Cheam Charter Fayre in

Park Road, Cheam on

Saturday 12th May 2018 from 9am to 1pm

Venus Harry Brown Maisie Herron

Pluto Dolly Rowles Scott Ovesen

Neptune Chloe Galleni Shelomi Selvarajah

Mercury Micah Abrahams Julia Lesniewska

Jupiter Cobi Bahiti Seam Kabembula

Saturn Louise Rayner Bachir Naayem

Delphinus Cicely Merciar Noah Karlsson

Phoenix Dylan Kinsey Hadee Rohilla

Orion Max Wasif Emily Swain

Pegasus Fraser Howden Nancy Ballard

Unicorn Scarlett O’Connell James Purton

Hercules Luke Gunton Alfie Carter

Aquila Lucy Balcerak Joshua Thorne

Cygnus Diya Patheja Dylan Gygax

Huge congratulations to all of the

children for being voted in by their peer group.

We look forward to working closely with them

during the summer term.

We are pleased to announce the House Captains for the Summer

Term:

St Patrick’s Alex – Aquila Olivia- Cygnus

St David’s Ognjen– Aquila Valeria- Cygnus

St Andrew’s Eujean– Aquila Dylan- Cygnus

St George’s Ayesha – Aquila Stanley - Cygnus