25 Apr 2008 - Newsletter

Super Shooters

CONGRATULATIONS to all the children for their super shooting today which meant that our target of over 2000 goals in a day was achieved!  You all looked splendid in your colourful outfits and looked as if you were enjoying yourselves.  Now you just need to make sure you collect all your sponsorship money and bring it into school next week in an envelope together with the sponsor form.  I’m sure you all would like to join me in thanking the School Council for coming up with this excellent idea and helping the PTFA to organise it. 

Rachel Banning

Chair of PTFA

Housematches

The house competitions for Football, Netball and Tug-of-War are on Wednesday, 30^th April. The football and netball matches commence at 10.15am and run on until 12.10pm .  The Tug-of-War starts at 2.30pm and will last until 3.00pm .  The timings are all approximate but the events normally run on time.  We welcome all parents or friends to support this event and cheer our children on.

Hotstuff

Hotstuff has had a very successful year and we would like to inform you that we have now £221.00 in our account.  This will be going towards the something to develop the school even more and we will let everyone know this later on in the term.  We are now publishing our final copy of Hotstuff this school year.  We would like to thank you for all your support so far.

Daniel Hill (on behalf of the Hotstuff Team)

  PTFA KS2 Adventure Playground

The PTFA have been investigating possible ways of improving the KS2 Playground.  After carefully looking into various possibilities they have decided to build an adventure trail.  Shortly, plans of the play equipment due to be developed in the Summer holidays are going to be put in the entrance hall to the school for you to view.  Please feel free to pop in and take a look.  Feedback sheets will be available for any of your comments.  Thanks to all the PTFA members who have worked on this project.

  Year 3 Plea

Year 3/4 Swimming

Due to the Year 3 trip on Thursday, Year 3 and 4 swimming sessions will be swapped this week. Year 4 will swim on Thursday afternoon and Year 3 will swim on Friday afternoon, for one week only.

Year 3 Trip to Essex Food and Farming Day

Many thanks for the offers of help from parents.  We will be in touch to let you know if we need you to come. If it is wet on Thursday, children will need to wear their wellies and a waterproof coat as lots of the activities are outside.  Thank you

Coats

Obviously the weather is still very changeable but we still need to give our children the opportunity for fresh air and to run off steam!  Many of them have been without coats this week, please encourage them to bring one in.  Thank you

MDA Needed

We have a vacancy for a full-time Mid-Day Assistant in school.  If you are interested in joining our team please call at the office for further information.  The hours of work are 12 noon – 1.15pm Monday to Friday. 

Cleaner Aquired

We have now employed a new cleaner to assist Mr Baker with addressing the cloakrooms and toilets within the school.  They are working extremely hard to make sure that our children have the best possible conditions within school.  We would like to welcome Mrs Gafney to the team.  We will keep you posted with future developments by our Premises Committee.

  Monday Football Training

There will be football training on Monday after school, due to the cancellation of the football fixture away at Feering   Primary School which had been scheduled for this day.  The new fixture against Feering   Primary School is Thursday 5^th June.

Mr Taylor

Honywood Football Tournament

On Tuesday afternoon Kelvedon went along to the Honywood Football Tournament with two teams (as one school had dropped out).  This meant that more children in Year 5/6 got a chance to represent the school. Kelvedon A Team managed to win 3 matches and draw 1 to reach the final.  Kelvedon B Team managed to win 2 matches and lose 2 matches which saw them progress to the 3^rd/4^th play-off final.  Kelvedon B met Earl’s Colne in this match and ran out comfortable winners to secure 3^rd in the tournament by winning 3-0 with Jack Kearton scoring all three. Kelvedon A won their final 3-0 with Jack Tyrer, Daniel Whittle, Billy Catchpole scoring. The overall play by all the regular and new players was of high quality and the children made the supporters very proud.

Team A: Martin Lilley, Joe Goodchild, George Chappell, Daniel Whittle (Captain), Sam Whitehead, Billy Catchpole, Michael Tye, and Jack Tyrer.

Goals scorers: Jack Tyrer 5, George Chappell 3, Daniel Whittle 3 and Billy Catchpole 1.

MOT: This is impossible to pick – the whole team for the way they work together and cover each other when needed.

Team B: Michael Cook, Michael Challis (Captain), Luke Rawson, Amy McFadden, Duncan Bradley, Alec Scott, Lewis Ward and Jack Kearton.

Goals scorers: Jack Kearton 5 and Luke Rawson 1.

MOT: Jack Kearton for his excellent finishing when asked to play up-front for the first time this year.