04/12/15
BISHOP MARTIN WEEKLY NEWS
Autumn Term Issue 12
“Inspire, Enjoy, Achieve” Tel No. 01695 724730 Dates for Your Diary
Monday 7th December 6.00pm Full Governors meeting Tuesday 8th December 2.00pm KS1 Christmas Performance Wednesday 9th December 2.00pm KS1 Christmas Performance Monday 14th December 10.00am EYFS Nativity Tuesday 15th December 10.00 am EYFS Nativity 12.00 Christmas Lunch - £2.20 Thursday 17th December Non-uniform day 1.30pm Panto Friday 18th December Non –uniform ‘Wear something RED for Brainstrust’ £1 donation
Headteacher – Mrs A Gray
www.bishopmartin.lancs.sch.uk ATTENDANCE
“Christmas is Forever” - Junior Nativity A big 'Well done!' to our Juniors for their efforts in this year’s performance “Christmas is Forever”. Thanks also to our team of dedicated staff for their hard work in making the performances a success. Thank you to all the parents who brought the children back for the evening performances and for your continued support at this busy time. Contact for Governors We recently conducted a survey at school and the response to the questions was overwhelmingly positive. One of the items we felt that we could improve on immediately was giving parents an easy way to contact Governors. Below is a new email that we have set up to allow you to directly contact Governors. For more information on the Governing board please see the Governors page on the school website. As always Governors can also be contacted through the school office. Governors@bishopmartin.lancs.sch.uk
Attendance figures for week ending 27th November 2015. Congratulations to the Giraffes and Koalas on achieving 98.1% st
1 1st 3rd 4th 5th 5th 7th 8th 9th
Y3 - Giraffes Y5 – Koalas Y1/2 – Badgers Y6 – Lions Y4 - Zebras Y2 - Owls Y6 - Leopards R – Caterpillars Y1 - Rabbits
98.1% 98.1% 97.9% 97.5% 97.2% 97.2% 97% 94.2% 92.6%
96.6% for whole school attendance
Well Done!!
The minimum acceptable attendance is 96%. If a child misses 8 days or more a year they will not achieve 96% this is reportable to Lancashire County Council and may result in a Penalty Notice being issued.
Lancashire Sumdog Competition Well done to everyone who took part in the Sumdog competition Please ensure your children are in school every day and this week. It was great to see so many children joining in. A on time. School starts at 8.55am. th special congratulations goes to Owls class who came 7 place in the competition and Giraffes and Zebras class who came 21st and 1.30pm School closes for 100% Attendance Challenge. Let’s see how many of us can be in 26th. Owls class were the Lancashire daily winners for Thursday Christmas. school without having a day off for the month and we even had one child who made it on to the individuals’ Monday 4th January of December. leader board – well done Kitija (from Owls class) who finished 6th School re-opens for all Prizes to be won!! Good luck. out of 612 players!! A great effort from everyone involved and we look forward to theSchool next contest. Christmas Fundraising for We’re all mad in here! It’s big raffle time! Raffle tickets are now on sale and available from the main and infant entrance’s and are 50p each. Prizes are: a new bicycle, a dolls house, large food hamper, medium food hamper, sweet hamper, Bottle of Wine and chocolates and a small bottle of wine with chocolates and a sports kite. The tickets will also be available at all Christmas performances. The draw will take place on Thursday 17th December and winners will be notified by text. Good Luck!!!
Last Friday the Year 5 Koalas class had their very own wonderfully marvellous Mad Hatter’s Tea party! This linked with our theme ‘Off with their heads’ which celebrates the 150th year anniversary of Lewis Carrol’s Alice in Wonderland. The afternoon started with a riveting riddle hunt around the school, that (once the code was cracked) led us to our final destination of the Koalas classroom. To our surprise we had fallen down the rabbit hole and entered into what could only be described as a fantastically wacky tea party. We had a brilliant afternoon and made some excellent descriptive observations, which inspired us to write superb recounts in our English work.
School Clubs W/C 07/12/2015
Tuesday
Explorers Club Lunch time On
Wednesday
SUMDOG Club Lunchtime ON
Thursday Chess Club 3.10 – 4.30 On Allstars Choir Club 3.10 – 4.10 On KS2 Football Club 3.10 – 4.10 On
Friday
KS1 Multi Skills Club 3.10 – 4.10 On
SHAREs Food Bank We are collecting food for the SHAREs food bank. If you can spare any tinned food please pass to the office. This will then be distributed to families in need. Thank you!