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June 2021
What’s On
New garden area at St Michael’s Primary School
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A chance to show off your baking talents! Could you be the next Mary Berry or Paul Hollywood? Do you love baking as a family? Local charity The Brightwell is challenging residents of the Stokes to show off their baking talents by producing one set item per week over a six-week period starting 9th June. The challenges will include cupcakes, British classics, shortbread, pastry and bread, culminating with a “showstopper” finale. Entry to the Brightwell Bake-Off is £10 and judging will be done virtually via photos. To find out more and enter, visit www.thebrightwell.org.uk/bake-off
fter a year-and-a-half of lockdowns and temporary suspensions, we are at last hopeful that things are on the way up, and we can look forward to a resumption of the full life of the school. At St Michael’s we are very proud of our cultural and sporting activities, which have been severely curtailed in recent times.
Arts and music
After a year of restrictions we are now planning an arts week for Term 6, where children will be able to celebrate great artists and great composers, and we hope that very soon singing will resume. We have already restarted music lessons in school, both individual and whole-class. We offer ukulele to all children in Year 4, and drumming to all children in Year 6. We have had to pause recorder (Y3) and Fife (Y5) for now, but hopefully these will resume in September.
Clubs and sport
Our outdoor clubs have resumed this term, and it’s wonderful to see so many children outside after school taking part in
organised activities. We offer five football clubs for every year group from Y1 – Y6, two separate girls’ football clubs, netball club, two cricket clubs, tennis, multisports and running club. We also have a Reception activity club and a gardening club. Some of our indoor clubs will be restarting in Term 6, including our two musical theatre clubs, table tennis, art club, chess club and dance club. Our gym clubs will be restarting in September. In normal times we have nearly 40 regular clubs and activities every week. Our aim is for all children from Y1 upwards to be able to take part in at least one additional activity; many do several. We also provide a wide variety of performance opportunities, with all year groups putting on a performance or display for parents during the year, with a summer musical performance being the highlight. Sadly these have not taken place during the lockdown periods, although various activities have been shared as videos.
Looking ahead
The process of appointing a new headteacher in under way, and
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