Peartree Spring Primary School Newsletter — 15/02/2019

W/c 25th February 2019 is Lunch Week 1

of the menu

The lunch menu is available to peruse on our school website. The cost

of a school meal is £2.40 per day, £12.00 per week. Meals must be paid

for in advance via schoogateway.com. Please note - Week 1 green

option will be Pizza and NOT Pizza Wrap as indicated on the menu.

REMINDER - Due to some of our children having severe nut allergies,

please do not put items in your child’s packed lunch box that contains

nuts.

PE Noticeboard

Sports Hall Athletics - Well done to the Year 6 students that took part

in the indoor Athletics competition this week. Both boys and girls came

2nd in their heat and overall the girls came 6th and the boys came 8th

out of 15 schools. Well done!

Netball - Well played to the mixed netball team who played against St

Ippolyts last night. The team worked well and battled hard, but

unfortunately lost 8-11.

Notices

Half Term - School finishes today, Friday 15th February at 3.15pm for the Half Term. The school will be closed from

Monday 18th to Friday 22nd February. Children return to school on Monday 25th February at 8.50am.

Year 5 Cycle Training Course - w/c Monday 25th February (this is only for children who are booked and paid on the course).

Book Week - A flyer regarding our ‘dressing up’ day will be emailed to parents the w/c 25th

February. Children are able to dress as their favourite book character on World Book Day on Thursday 7th

March 2019. Please note, it is not compulsory for children to take part.

Children will be given a £1 book token on Monday 25th February 2019. They are able to use this token at our

Book Fair which is being held from Wednesday 27th February to Tuesday 5th March from 3.20 to 3.45pm in the Atrium (Breakfast/After

School Club entrance). We will also be running a second-hand book swap shop at the same time. Children can bring in a book they no longer

want from Wednesday 27th February 2019 and swap it for a Peartree book token that they can later ‘spend’ at our second hand book swap shop

at the book fair.

Marie Curie (Daffodil Appeal) - From Monday 25th February your child will be able to purchase a daffodil for a minimum

donation of £1.00 in aid of Marie Curie nurses. The last day for donations will be Friday 29th March 2019.

Recyling Batteries - The Big Battery Hunt is a nationwide battery recycling challenge run by Duracell. They want to encourage children to

recycle their batteries as opposed to putting them in the bin because battery waste can pollute the land and water. Children have already received

a free battery collection box. Once the box is filled with batteries, they can be brought to school and placed in our battery bin. The bin is in the

walkway between Year 4 and the Deli. When our school bin is full, Duracell will collect our batteries and recycle them for free.

Lost Property - Year 1 to Year 6 parents will be able to look through lost property during Wednesday Workshop mornings.

This is also available to Reception parents on Thursdays.

School Nurse Team - Reception parents have been emailed a letter from the school nurses team to take part in an online health

assessment of their child. The assessment is confidential between parents and the school nurse team. Further information is available on their

website: https://www.hct.nhs.uk/our-services/schoolnursing. The assessment should be completed by Friday 15th February. To access the online

questionnaire please follow this link: https://hertfordshire.hapi-system.com/school-entry Password: Jupiter1

Message to parents from Hydean Dental Practice - We are the practice next door to your school. There is currently a national increase in the

number of children with tooth decay. There are also statistics from the NHS that around 40% of children were not seen by an NHS dentist in

the last year. Statistics also show that 42% of children aged 2 to 11 develop a cavity in their baby teeth. Being one of the larger NHS dentistry

providers in Stevenage we are able to see many patients and wish to encourage more parents and their children to register. We are a very caring

practice and aim to make the visit to our practice a relaxed one. We educate all of our patients on good dental hygiene, as well as diet advice to

help prevent tooth decay.

Below is a link to our website, our email, our address and telephone number:

https://www.hydeandental.com

info@hydeandental.com

1 Hyde Green South, Stevenage, SG2 9XU

Tel: 01438 351548

Whole School Attendance

1st Butterfly 99%

1st Rainforest 99%

2nd Starfish 98.7%

3rd Caspain 97.5%

4th Amazon 97%

5th Rockies 96.6%

6th Alps 96.4%

7th Java 96%

8th Rainbowfish 95.9%

9th Jellyfish 95%

9th Desert 95%

10th Coral 94.3%

11th Nile 94.2%

12th Savannah 93.6%

13th Ladybird 92.9%

13th Pyrenees 92.9%

14th Thames 92.8%

15th Squirrel 92.1%

16th Hedgehog 90.4%

17th Mole 88.6%

18th Bumblebee 88%

February 2019 Mon Tues Weds Thurs Fri Sat Sun

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Half Term

(school closed)

Half Term

(school closed)

Half Term

(school closed)

Half Term

(school closed)

Half Term

(school closed)

Half Term

(school closed)

25 26 27 28 1st Mar 2nd Mar 3rd Mar Children back to

school.

Year 5 cycling

proficiency.

World Book Day flyer

will be emailed to

parents.

Children will be

bringing home a book

token which can be

used at our

Book Fair.

Year 5 cycling

Proficiency.

Year 5 cycling

proficiency.

Rec Family Library

@ 3.00pm.

Book Fair in the

Atrium (BC/ASC

entrance) from

3.20 - 3.45pm.

Year 5 cycling

Proficiency.

Nile Class

Assembly @ 9.15am.

Year 3 swimming.

Book Fair in the

Atrium (BC/ASC

entrance) from

3.20 - 3.45pm.

Year 5 cycling

proficiency.

Year 3 swimming.

Book Fair in the

Atrium (BC/ASC

entrance) from

3.20 - 3.45pm.

Payment/consent for

Year 6 RAF museum

visit to be made by

this date.

March 2019 Mon Tues Weds Thurs Fri Sat Sun

4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Book Fair in the

Atrium (BC/ASC

entrance) from

3.20 - 3.45pm.

Book Fair in the

Atrium (BC/ASC

entrance) from

3.20 - 3.45pm.

Year 6 visit to RAF

Museum.

Coffee Morning from

9-10am.

World Book Day

Dressing Up Day.

Year 3 swimming.

Year 3 swimming.

Payment/consent for

Year 4 West Stow

Visit to be made by

this date.

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Science &

Technology Week

Year 4 visit to

West Stow

Starfish Class

Assembly @ 9.15am.

Year 3 swimming.

NO teacher led ASC.

Science Evening @

5.00pm.

Year 3 swimming.

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 After School Clubs

finish this week

Year 2 visit to

Gulliver’s Dinosaur

and Farm Park.

Year 3 swimming.

Year 3 swimming.

Stars of the Week

Mole Aria C

for her beautiful letter formation when making a comic book.

Squirrel Jack P

for writing his own Supertato comic using onomatopoeia and speech

bubbles.

Hedgehog Daniel T

for the care and detail he put into designing his own character for

our Fairy Tale display.

Butterfly Harrison C

for using key vocabulary to describe length and mass.

Bumblebee Emmie B

for working really hard to publish her very own pirate book.

Ladybird Tommy H

for his positive attitude to his learning this week.

Jellyfish Tiani R

for successfully telling the time to 5 minutes.

Rainbowfish Samuel B

for his always working hard to learn his spellings.

Starfish Tife B

for his brilliant work in Maths when telling the time.

Desert Lexis S

for his amazing model of the rainforest constructed out of Lego.

Rainforest Ben G

for his enthusiastic approach to our work on different types of angles and

different names of shapes.

Savannah Addison S

for planning a hilarious twisted fairy tale based on the 3 little pigs.

Amazon Cameron J

for creating a brilliant playscript about the damage of plastic in the oceans.

Nile Molly S

for all her super effort working on symmetry this week in Maths.

Thames Beth G

for an excellent effort in Big Reading to identify an author’s vocabulary

choice.

Caspian Cosan T

for working hard to improve his tanka space poem using figurative language.

Coral Evie-Mae R

for superb participation and engage-ment during our trip to Air Bus.

Java Callum R-H

for his imagination and effort creating his own planet.

Alps Kadie P

for working so hard on your SATs this week and achieving your top scores.

Pyrenees Thomas W

for his outstanding efforts to show off all his knowledge this week in our

mock SATs week.

Rockies Georgie B

for representing the school extremely well at the indoor athletic competition

by being a fantastic competitor.

Star Reader Reception - Colby B, Daisy D and Logan W

Year 1 - Aadhya A, Rhys S and Jethro R

Year 2 - Alfie D, Isabelle L and Paige D

Year 3 - Harry R, Grace D-D and Lenny D

Year 4 - Grace B, Jake L and Sam M

Year 5 - Tierney A, Daisy P and Alfie S

Year 6 - Archie P, Aivy A and Alfie P

Star Mathematician Reception - Eveline V, George L-S and Evie W

Year 1 - Myla E, Lilly A and Joshua B

Year 2 - Lily R, Lottie C and Onyi O

Year 3 - Brodie W, Tammy D and Poppy P

Year 4 - Aston H, Netas M and Josh C

Year 5 - Logan H, Riley I and Isabelle W

Year 6 - Matteo M, Chloe B and Jayden B

Lunchtime Star Reception - Jaycob M, Scarlett C and Struan F

Year 1 - Oliver P, George N and Ada A

Year 2 - Ronnie P, Jack S and Bradley M

Year 3 - Leighton C, Lacey R and Dylan P

Year 4 - Megan B, Finley L and Thai C

Year 5 - Sophie H, Harry T and Kimberly H

Year 6 - Billii-Mae D, Gaia D and Jacob S

Birthdays

Reception - Phoenix A, Harris S, Helen M, Kaitlyn K, Alfie S

Year 1 - Tommy H, Albie P, Jethro R, Mia W

Year 2 - Bradley M, Ronnie P, Megan W, Megan S

Year 3 - Harry C, Reece C, Lacey R, Sidney W

Year 4 - Lexie H, Josh C, Esmay S

Year 5 - Kai R

Year 6 - Charlie T, Ethan N-S, Riley D, Emma-Louise T

Star Children

Aadhya A, Oliver P, Imogen B, Aadil S, Baileigh E, Myla E, Daria L, Demi

O, Blake I, Lacey H, Ada A, Harrison C, Lily-May D, Jasmine R, Brogan L-N

(Yr 1), Sapphire W (Yr 3), Alex K, Ruby-Summer C, Foram P, Jake L, Ryan

Z, Corey C, Finley L, Roni D, Ryan V, Sienna B (Yr 4), Rehan A, Josh C,

Riley K, Kayla K, Emma M, Meso O, Alfie S, Tyler S, AlannaW, Ryan S,

Ruby H and Elise D (Yr 6)