Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome to June’s Newsletter, every month we seem to go from strength to strength across the Federation with the mixed and varied events we are enjoying both in school and across the local commu-nity. The newsletter is jam packed with activities such as our World Rec-ord Attempt, Quad Kids, Kwik Cricket, Community visits, and Wells Country Dancing to name but a few. The positive ap-proach to learning that is evident across the school is wonderful and this has definitely over-spilled into the children’s amazing representation of our school during recent visits. To say I am a proud Head Teacher is an understatement. I have thoroughly enjoyed spending time reading reports and reflecting on each of your children’s progress across this year. It has given me the opportunity to revisit many of the wonderful and v aried learning experiences that your children have been involved in, and to celebrate the different approaches that our teachers and support staff have across our staff base. The ladies and gentleman of the PTA are busy putting together the final touches to the School Fete that is being held on Friday July 6th at 5pm. This is definitely not an event to be missed this year!

As we head into the final three weeks please take the time to look at the diary so you don’t miss any exciting end of term events. We are all looking forward to next week’s transition activities.

Enjoy the sunshine this weekend and make sure you keep those hats on and sun cream topped up!

Dates for your Diary

Wednesday 4th July Holly Class Assembly at 2.30pm

4th July

Whole School Cricket experience (am)

Wednesday 4th—Friday 6th July Transition mornings EYFS, Yr1, Yr2, Yr3

Wednesday 4th & Thursday 5th July

Year 4 transistion days at Maiden Beech

Friday 6th July Non Uniform Day for Cakes and Plant

Summer Fair 6pm

Monday 9th—Friday 13th July Year 4 Forest School Transition

Tuesday 10th July

Poetry Slam at Dillington

Friday 13th July Sports Day 9.30am—11.30am at Wadham School

Friday 20th July

Year 4 Leaver’s Assembly at Ashlands 9.00am

Monday 23rd July Ashlands, Misterton and St. Bartholomew’s Leaver’s

Service at St. Bartholomew’s church at 11am

Tuesday 24th July Last day of term

Out of School Achievements

George took part in a Sparton Race and

came 1st in his age group.

He came in 8 minutes before anyone

else!

Well done George.

Well Done to Mrs Barratt and Mrs Chick for completing the Sidling 10k hill run!

Well Done !

PCSO Visit

Attendance

KS1 WOW

Quad Kids Holly class learnt about how to find safe places to cross the road by looking for orange flashing nights to signal a zebra crossing. They were reminded that we have to stop look and listen still as cars may not see us still. They then learnt about traffic lights and how to know it is safe to cross by looking for the green man. They thought about where traffic lights are in town and they were reminded that again that they need to be aware of what the cars around us are doing. Holly Class had a good knowledge about road safety and could answer questions well.

Our school Attendance Policy states that all pupils should achieve at least 95% attendance with the ultimate aim of 100%. We are very pleased to let you know that our whole school attendance to date stands at 96.7%. Please remember that your child’s attendance is monitored weekly and, if their attendance drops below 90% we will contact you to see how we can support you with this. Lateness It is really important that your child is in school and ready to start their day by 9am. Thank you for your support in this.

Children were very excited by the thought of competing on the Yeovil athletics track. One child said ‘is this where they trained for the Olympics’. We all had fun and every child tried their best, competing in the 400m, 50m, standing long jump and vortex throw. Poppy Conroy got fastest 400m girl and came 7th out of all the girls, Lucus came 25th out of all the boys. The rest of the team all put in 100% to gain as many team points as possible. It was a great way to learn how we had to work as a team, cheering each other on and supporting each other to do well together. Thank you to the parents, who supported us on the day. We look forward to next year. Mr Pearse

March Ash Hazel Holly Monkey

Puzzle

Beech

Late

arrivals

20 5

29

6 31

On Friday 8th June Mrs Dawson and Mrs Gosden were furious to find out their classrooms had been messed up! There were books all over the floor, leaves on their computers, drawers pulled out and so much more! They thought that it was a mischievous child who was trying to trick them. When Holly and Hazel Class came in they became detectives to prove to Mrs Gosden and Mrs Dawson that it wasn’t them. They found some clues such as bones, footprints, leaves, a very strange looking machine and even a dinosaur selfie! When they were talking together as two classes Mrs Gosden was reminded about a story she had read to her daughter the previous night called The Dinosaurs Next-door. They read the story and realised that there were lots of similarities. They found out that there had been some full sized dinosaurs in school overnight but that the machine they had found had shrunk them to the size of a toy. We are looking forward to mak-ing some news reports about this and looking at the story in more detail.

Breakfast and After School Club

Monkey World A group of year 3 and 4's took part in a Kwik cricket tournament at Ilminster Cricket ground on Friday 22nd June. Poppy Hawker , James Chatterton, Archie Cummins, Olivia-Jane Carling, Sayer Pilton, Oliver Dobrzynski and Poppy Conroy all took part. Poppy Hawker was our captain and helped set the field when we were bowling. They lost the first game but came off smiling as they had made some good runs and learnt a lot about what they needed to do. The second game was a lot closer as they fielded well and hit some 4's. They grew more confident as the afternoon went on. Their final game was their best. They fielded well stopping the opposition from scoring 4's and bowled well. They all scored 4's throughout the after-noon and were a real credit to the school. They really improved and were very confident by the end of the afternoon.

Country Dancing

What a lovely day, the monkeys were all out and about making noise and swinging around. The children really enjoyed seeing the monkeys doing rude things and playful things; we even made it to the chimpanzee talk which was very interesting. Thank you all those helpers which supported us throughout the day. The children behaved brilliantly and I was stopped two or three times by pedestrians to say how lovely and polite the

children were. Well done all. Mr Pearse

On Wednesday I woke up feeling excited because I was going to Monkey World for my school trip. I arrived at school and Mrs Wills gave me my lunch. My partner was Alfred. We got on the coach. I sat next to the window. Alfred and I talked about what monkeys we were going to see. First we all went to the toilet. After that we walked to see some monkeys. A monkey was holding a bottle and he

banged it on the window. Next we ate our lunch. By Emilio Year 1

On Saturday 16th June, the country dancers from Ashlands took part in the Somerset Folk Dance Festival on the Cathedral Green at Wells. There were a few light showers in the morning but for-tunately not enough to cancel the event. At 1.30pm everyone met at St Cuthbert’s Church eagerly waiting for the start. Ashlands and Misterton danced as a federation and the children mixed together to parade through the town. Once on the Cathedral green the children sat in their allocated space and waited for the dancing to start. The children danced brilliantly throughout the afternoon with both schools mixed together. At one point there was a heavy downpour, but the dancers kept going whilst the parents hid un-der umbrellas. At the end of the event, all the children found their parents and everyone took part in the Circassian Circle dance. Well done to all the dancers.

Mrs Hooper

Year 4 enjoyed a trip to Maiden Beech this week. They used the tech suite to complete activities on the computers, bought snacks from the can-teen (pizza and pasta pots were the favourites) and enjoyed playing on the field (particularly football). The Y7 children who visited Ashlands as part of their transition activities earlier in the term also helped to look after the children whilst playing on the field.

Kwik Cricket

Year 4 visit to Maiden Beech

Poppy Curtain

We were approached by the organisers of the fete to create some art work to commemorate the end of WW1. Mrs Hooper and Mrs Gosden came up with the idea of creating a wall of poppies. Every child made a poppy, using card, wool and shiny pa-per. These were sewn onto a curtain to create our “Curtain of Poppies”. This was displayed at the fete and we won a £10 book voucher.

Bottle Challenge and Water fight

Congratulations to the following children who

have achieved their Pen Licence recently:

50, 100, 150, 200 & 250 Reads

Our uniform suppliers are Tesco and Jazziez. There has

been a lot of confusion with the Tesco Direct website

closing. Tesco will be continuing their uniform sales but

on the main Tesco website.

Well done to the following children who have been awarded a Silver Certificate for achieving six green leaves this year.

Pen Licences

Silver Certificates

Congratulations to the following children who have read 20, 50,100, 150, 200 and 250 times at home:

50 Reads Emily Harwood Keira Jewell 100 Reads

Albert Altzschner Archie Cummins Chloe Richards Savannah Obern

Jayden Bryant Ben Clarke Fred Cox 150 Reads Emilio Tribot Sam Swatridge 200 Reads Emily Hutchings

Poppy Conroy Gracie Lane 250 Reads Mollie Barratt Poppy Hawker Eleanor Haldane Bertie Haldane

Ben Sloper

Corey Foot Olivia Padfield Wilbur Kirton Noah Barratt Sophie Watson Imogen Cremen

Ben Sloper Zac Dabinett Cloda Hyde Amie Parsons

Poppy Conroy Noah Barratt Sophie Barratt Keira Bentham Bryonee Carling Blossom Fisher Alfie Holt Lily Obern Katie Richards Alfie Senior Elsie Swatridge Daisy Wells Poppy Conroy Emily Hutchings Sayer Pilton Nicholas Briggs

Alfie Brown Jayden Bryant Joe Hughes Gracie Lane Jack Loren Savannah Obern Fred Payne Katelin Pearce Michael Pearce Szabika Pomaj Sammy Richards Ana Sousa Sophie Watson Dillon Coombs Storm Ruiters

Uniform

On Wednesday we took part in a Guinness World Record along with 75 number of schools across the country in an attempt to simultaneously float plastic model boats to raise awareness of plastic recycling. We would like to thank Angie Blackmore and Ian Johnson, our volunteer readers for coming along to be our independent witnesses.

Then to end the afternoon the children got wet with a water fight!

BACS Payments

Please can you ensure that you use the following codes for making BACS payments: Pre-fix with 122

71300 Clubs 71504 Trips 71505 Swimming 73109 Meals 75002 Breakfast Club

Followed by surname

Rainbow Olympics Certificates Miss Ball’s Pround Wall

Beech Class Jack Loren Joe Hughes Jayden Bryant Ana Sousa x2 James Chatterton Bobby Everett x2 Savannah Obern Michael Pearce

Alfie Brown Corey Foot Sammy Richards Noah Barratt x2 Nicholas Briggs Szabika Pomaj x2 Alfie Boyd Sophie Watson x2

Wilbur Kirton x2 Mollie Barratt x3 Lucus Dawe Oliver Smith x2 Olivia Padfield x2 Chloe Richards Gracie lane

Hazel Class

Albert Altzschner x4 Chloe Woodbury

Jack Tilley George Broom Harley Terry

Raffy Pilton Amelia Davies

Ashlands & Misterton Rainbow Maths

CONGRATULATIONS

Holly Class James Peters x3 Caelan Lemanx6 Patryk Gawrys x5 Maisie Lane x3 Henry Merritt Keira Bentham x3 Bromley Mapp x3 Milo McGhee x2

Bryonee Carling x3 Bailey Jewell x2 Summer Holt x2 Storm Ruiters x2 Leanne Watson Lily Obern Elsie Swatridge x3 Dillon Coombs x2

James Peters x4 Daisy Wells x3 Blossom Fisher Alfie Holt Sophie Barrett Alfie Senior

Safeguarding

Monkey Puzzle Class Eleanor Haldane Stanley Glover Emily Hutchings Sophie Synakova

Sayer Pilton Kamil Jaskulski Lucus Dawe Oliver Dobrzynski

Kaitlyn Lehmann Zac Dabinett Cloda Hyde Oliver Taylor

Poppy for her football achievements. One trophy for playing with the under 8 Roosters, one for player of the year 2017-2018 and the last one for Fans player of the year! Fantastic Poppy, well done!!!

Stanley for winning a trophy for taking part in the under 8s Rooster Football Club 2017-2018! Fantastic Stan, well done!

Eleanor for entering two dog shows with her dog Rufus, and together they won two 1st place rosettes!!!

Congratulations Eleanor and Rufus!

Ash Class Lila Gorrian Jake Barrett Queenie Quince Bertie Haldane x2 Harley Kellaway Ayse-Naz Ozsevgec Tom King Sophia Dawe

Sam Swatridge Mary Chatterton Joe Kading Chloe Cremen Julian Pool Evelyn Patten Charlie Popham Aurelio Tribot

Freddy Noel-Smith Imogen Buzza Fred Cox Lexi Whitmarsh Ben Clarke Beau Chant

Our Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) is Nicola Ball and our Deputy Safeguarding Leads (DDSL) are Lisa Carter at Misterton and Will Pearse at Ashlands. Please find below some recommended websites:

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe

https://getsetsomerset.org.uk/

https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents

We also have Mrs Barratt, our ELSA (Emotional Literacy, Support Assistant) who is trained to provide emotional and social skills support to the children. If you have an concerns about your child at home or school see the office to book an appointment.

Helpful Contacts

Children's Social Care: 0300 123 2224

Local Authority Designated Officer (LADO): Anthony

Goble (number as above)

Childline: 0800 1111

NSPCC: 0808 800 5000

Milk Bottle Tops

One of our neighbours is collecting the plastic milk bottle tops in

aid of The Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance Charity. If you

have any of these tops please bring them into school where we

can arrange a collection. Thank you.

Bronze Certificates

Well done to Bailey Jewell and

Callum Rushton who have been

awarded a Bronze Certificate for

achieving three green leaves this

year.