Harvest Festival

Thank you ever so much for all your wonderful contributions to our Harvest Festival recently. We had a wonderful morning and it was fantastic to have so many parents join us for our celebrations.

The Wellspring and Stockport Food Bank have now collected our donations and they are being distributed across our local community. Thank you again for all your support.

Please accept our apologies for the delay in sending out the calendar, it will be with you after half term.

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We have also have a Facebook account Parents and Carers of Tithe Barn Primary School where we share information and events that have occurred in school.

Fond Farewell

Today was a very sad day for everyone at Tithe Barn as we celebrated Bob’s time at Tithe Barn. The children sang a special thank you song. We shared memories of Bob’s time at school and presented him with cake, cards and a wonderful collection.

We are extremely grateful for everything Bob has done for our school so we presented him with the key to our school. We have invited Bob back to join us for some special occasions but if you’d like to visit him, he will be supervising the road outside Heaton’s Library.

Key Dates

October 29^{th (Tuesday)} – Children return to school following half term.

October 30^th and 31^st– Parents’ Evening

7^th November- Google Evening 6 pm

Book Bus

We will be visited by the Book People’s Book Bus on Friday 6^th December. The bus will contain a wide array of books at discounted prices for parents to buy. In addition to this the school will receive 15% commission in free books. If you wish to visit the bus it will be in the school car park between 8.30 am and 4 pm

Google Classrooms

On Thursday 7^th November at 6 pm we are inviting parents, particularly those from KS2 to join us for an information evening regarding how we use Google Suite and how you can support your child at home. The session will include a short presentation from our Digital Leaders. We hope you can join us for this informative session.

School Admissions

31 October 2019 and parents will be notified about their child’s place by the 2nd March 2020. Places for children who were born between 1st September 2015 and 31^st August 2016 for Reception 2019 must be made by 15^th January 2020.   Parents will be notified about their child’s place by 16^th April 2019. Further information and the online application is available at –

https://www.stockport.gov.uk/apply-for-school-place

Flower Festival

On Tuesday 9^th October we had our annual school Flower Festival. The children brought an array of flowers and resources in to school and created displays on the theme of ‘Celebrations’. The results were fantastic and more of the creations can be viewed at

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mUokels9x6SJpri8jCgY83b65Om_MdEJ/view

I would like to say a huge thank you to Mrs Osborne for organising such a wonderful event which raised £144.04 for Francis House.

Thank you for taking the time to read the newsletter. The newsletter will be sent out every fortnight and I hope to give you a snap shot of all the exciting things that are happening in school. Hope everyone has a wonderful half term break, we look forward to seeing you on Tuesday 29th October.

Katherine Muncaster

 

Headteacher

 

 

Busy Term

The children have all been working very hard and our new Reception children have settled into life at Tithe Barn.

I would like to say a huge thank you to all the wonderful grandparents who joined Year 1 recently to talk about their childhood and answer the children’s questions.

I would also like to thank our wonderful volunteers who attended our Safeguarding training this week and are helping to ensure that we keep all our children safe.

We are looking forward to our Flower Festival and our Harvest Festival and hope that you can join us for our celebrations.

Thank you for your continued support

Katherine Muncaster.

Sporting Adventures

We were delighted to have Kiera Byland return to school last Friday to receive a fantastic cheque for £904.45 to support her trip to compete in the next Special Olympics. We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who helped to raise the funds through our sponsored cycle last term.

We also presented Kiera with Martin the Monkey who is one of our characters from our Learning Jungle. Martin’s learning power is to continuous improve and we felt that this reflected Kiera’s amazing attitude to life.

We are looking forward to continuing to work in partnership with Kiera. She has now become our first Sporting Ambassador and will continue to be an inspiration for all of us.

Key Dates

Thursday 10^th October – Flower Festival (Year 2 upwards)

Friday 11^th October- Harvest Festival

Friday 18^th October- Book Bus to be in school

Friday 18^th October- Surprise celebrations for Bob!

 

Giving Machine

As part of the Friends of Tithe Barn efforts to raise money for our school they have set up an account with the Giving Machine. This is one of the easiest ways to support our school in raising much needed funds. All you have to do is register and shop. What could be simpler!

The site is supported by a number of big retailers including John Lewis, Amazon and Waitrose- to name just a few. Also you can pay for Car insurance, house insurance holidays. Please have a look if the company you are buying online from is listed with Giving Machine. The easiest way to raise money.

Visit the link below to support us-

www.thegivingmachine.co.uk

 

Book Bus

The Book People’s Book Bus will visit us on Friday 18^th October. The bus will contain a wide array of books at discounted prices for parents to buy. In addition to this the school will receive 15% commission in free books. If you wish to visit the bus it will be in the school car park between 8.30 am and 4 pm

Nut Allergy

Please be aware that we have children in school with severe nut allergies. Therefore we kindly ask that you refrain from sending any nuts or products such as snack bars in containing nuts.

Thank you for your support with this matter.

Celebrating 50 years of Tithe Barn

We are all very excited to be celebrating 50 years of Tithe Barn Primary School this year and want to make the year extra special for our school community.

We would like to invite you to a meeting on Friday 11^th October at 2.30 pm to discuss plans and ideas. We do hope you can join us. If you are unable to please send any ideas or offers of help to headteacher@tithebarn.stockport.sch.uk

We will be consulting with the children to gather their ideas through our school council. We are all looking forward to an exciting year.

Thank you once again for your support .

Harvest Festival

This year our Harvest Festival will take place on 11^th October at 9.15 am.   We will be collecting donations for both the Wellspring and Stockport Food Bank. They are keen to collect the following-

• Tinned fruit
• Tinned puddings
• Tinned meat, vegetable and potatoes
• Long life milk and
• Long life orange juice.

Please bring your donations to school from Monday 7^th October 2019.

 

Welcome Back

Welcome back and a special welcome to all our new children and families who are just starting their journey at Tithe Barn.

We have had a busy first week and the children have all settled into their new classes and are working hard.

School Calendar

We are currently putting together a school calendar that will provide an outline of events for this academic year. We hope you will find this useful and will be distributing it to every child as soon as it is finalised.

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We have a school Twitter account, which is used as an additional method of keeping you up to date on key events and information.   Please follow us.

School Crossing

We are delighted that over the summer the council has installed a puffin crossing outside of school. For the first half term Bob will be there teaching the children how to use the crossing safely. We will also have Stockport Road Safety team in working with the children and delivering an assembly. We are sure that the crossing will enable our children and local residents to cross the road safely throughout the day.

We would appreciate your support with teaching your children how to use the crossing safely. Please ensure that you-

 

• Do not cross when the Red Man is showing.
• Stay within the two sets of studs on the road when crossing. (Sensors are detecting you and therefore will give you time to cross to the other side)
• Do not follow other pedestrians into the road without checking it is safe to do so especially when crossing in large groups.
• Do not cross if a car has stopped on the crossing and is blocking it. Press the button again and wait.
• Do not cross if a driver tells you to do so, check the Red/Green Man box first.

Key Dates

September 13th Year 4 start swimming

September 20^th Jeans for Genes day.

September 21st  FOTB have made the decision not to have the Family Festival this month, instead it will be rearranged and become part of our 50 year celebrations. We will send out further details this term about our plans for our celebrations.

Pupil Voice

As practically every single decision we take in school will ultimately affect one group of people (the children), we believe that it’s vital that they have a voice in the decision making and that their voice is heard. Tithe Barn’s school council aims to be one way of doing this. Classes from Y1 to Y6 hold annual elections to vote for a girl and boy who will best represent their class.

Any child who is interested in standing for the position of school councilor is asked to think carefully about how they can effectively represent their class and how they can contribute to developing their school.   The children will be asked to share their ideas with their classmates prior to the confidential elections taking place next week. I will let you know the outcomes of the elections in the next newsletter.

Celebrating Bob

After October half term, Bob will be relocating to cross children near the library. We are extremely grateful for his dedication and the time he has given to our school and we are planning a special celebration later this term.

We will send out further details nearer the time. However, please keep it a secret as we want to surprise him!

In the meantime, we are starting a collection for Bob to show our appreciation of his time at Tithe Barn. If you would like to make a donation please send it in a sealed envelope clearly labelled with Bob’s collection. We will be creating a book of personalized messages, If you would like to include one please also send it in an envelope to the school office.

Thank you

Jeans for Genes Day

Friday 20^th September is Jeans for Genes Day and we are inviting your children to come into school wearing jeans. We would be grateful for a donation of £1 to support this worthwhile charity. If you would like to find out more about the charity, please visit www.jeansforgenes.org.

Medical Needs 

It is very important that you let us know if your child has a particular medical need such as asthma or allergies. If your child needs to take medicine whilst in school, please speak to our medical needs co-ordinator, Mrs Ceri Barrett You will need to complete a form to enable her to administer medication which must be given to her in a clearly labelled pharmacist’s packet or container with your child’ name, dosage and date printed on it.

Aldi Kit for Schools- Please help us…

How it works… Get involved!

Every time you spend over £30 in any Aldi store you’ll receive a Team GB sticker. Bring your stickers to school to help us complete our poster. Once we have 300 stickers on our poster we can send the poster back to receive an exclusive sports kit and to be in with a chance to win £20,000 for your school.

Thank you for your support.

 

 

 

 

Tithe Barn Reading Challenge

Over the Summer, we are asking every child to read a book selected by their new teacher in preparation for September 2019! These books will be used as the basis of your child’s English work and often also relate to their topics. They have been carefully selected by the teachers. We hope you enjoy the books and look forward to discussing them in the new school year.

 

Year 1- ‘Five Minutes Peace’ by Jill Murphy

 

Year 2- are doing an author study on Julia Donaldson so please read any of her books.

 

Year 3- ‘The Boy Who Grew Dragons’ by Andy Shepherd

 

Year 4- ‘Roman Myths’ by Geraldine McCaughrean

 

Year 5- ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’ by Shirley Hughes

 

Year 6- ‘When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit.’ By Judith Kerr

As the summer term is drawing to a close, I have been reflecting on all the different things we have done throughout the year. It has been a fantastic year and it has been a privilege to be the head-teacher of such a wonderful school.

 

I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you; thanks to all of the staff for their hard work and support this year, the governors, who work tirelessly to support the school, the children for working hard and being a pleasure to teach and to the parents for being so supportive and working in an effective pa

rtnership with the school.

 

I am looking forward to September and all our exciting plans but in the meantime I hope you all have a lovely summer break.

 

Katherine Muncaster

Sponsored Cycle

On Tuesday 23rd July Mr Blackburn arranged a fantastic morning to raise funds for Kiera Byland to travel to the next INAS Games in Brisbane. Kiera is a young woman with a medical diagnosis of Rubinstein Taybi syndrome, Dyspraxia and autism traits. She is a double gold medal winner. It was a fantastic day, Kiera ran balance bike workshops with the younger children and the children also participated in a sponsored cycle around the field.

 

I would like to thank Mr Blackburn for organising such a successful day, along with Mr Wych and to our parents and school community for supporting this great event.   We look forward to Kiera visiting school again in September.

Key Dates

 

4^th September- School reopens for all children

20^th September- Jeans for Genes Day

21^st September- FOTB Family Festival (4pm -7pm)

Mauldeth Road

 

Over the Summer holidays will see some changes to Mauldeth Road. Stockport Council will be relocating the bus stop, installing new street lighting and a puffin crossing.

The crossing will be operational from September and will enable our children and local residents to safely cross the road at any time. At our request, Stockport Council has agreed that Bob will remain at the crossing for half a term to teach the children how to use it safely.

Following this, Bob is being relocated in the local area and we will continue to ensure he is part of a school community. We are currently planning a special event in Bob’s honour for the Autumn term.

Information regarding the works from Stockport Council-

The improvement works are due to commence from Sunday 28/07/19 and will last for approximately 6 weeks. The construction works will be undertaken by George Cox & Son’s. The anticipated operational working hours are Monday to Friday, 8am – 4pm. Traffic management measures will be in place to maintain safe passage for pedestrians throughout the works. Two-way traffic will be maintained during construction so as not to disrupt traffic flows. A road closure will be applied on Sunday 28/7/19 to allow the contractor to remove the existing refuge safely.

A Fond Farewell

 

It is with great sadness that I have to inform you that two members of staff will be leaving us at the end of term. Miss Edwards (TA in Year 1) is moving to Durham to become an Assistant Psychologists.

 

Miss Heap (Year 1) will also be leaving us this year to take up a teaching post at Bridge Hall. Miss Heap has found a job that enables her to develop her specialism of PE across a whole school and she is very excited about this opportunity.

 

We would like to wish both the ladies all the best for the future and thank them for all their hard work.

Summer Fair

 

On Saturday 14^th July FOTB organised an amazing Summer Fair. We were particularly proud of our budding entrepreneurs Annie and Iqra from Year 5 who made their own pompoms and origami animals. The fair raised a fantastic £2765.96!

Reading Challenge

Last week we had a visit from Stockport Library who came in to school to share this year’s exciting reading challenge.

 

This year’s theme is Space Chase, an out-of-this-world adventure inspired by the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. The children have to read six books over the summer holidays to complete the challenge. Along the way the children will receive exciting rewards and very smelly stickers. This is a fantastic opportunity and I hope that many of our children will participate and visit their local library.

Thank you for your all support.

 

 

Busy, Busy

It is another busy term at Tithe Barn and time seems to be flying by! This week Reception had an amazing afternoon at the Town Hall and joined with lots of Stockport schools to sing a range of nursery rhymes. I would like to say thank you to Mrs Gholinia for organising such a lovely opportunity.

We are very proud of how we have developed our children’s knowledge and skills in IT, the development of our computer suite and the use of chrome books across the curriculum. In KS2 our children use a variety of Google Apps to enhance their education further and we will be hosting an evening for parents after half term to share the practice in school and ways parents can support their children at home. I do hope you can join us!

Katherine Muncaster

Key Dates

13^th – 16^th May – Year 6 SATs Week

17^th May – FOTB Cinema Evening

21st May-, Bags 2 School Collection

24^th May- Big Breakfast and break up for half term

10^th June- School reopens

17^th June – Year 5 Bikeability

Big Breakfast

 

On Friday 24^th May we will be having a Big Breakfast at school as part of Christian Aid Week. Heaton Moor Methodist and United Reform Church members and school staff will be serving a range of delights for breakfast in return for a donation.

Breakfast will be served from 8 am until 8.40am. Please enter school through the front door and come and join us.

Polytunnel

We would like you to helpus to purchas a new polytunnel to enable us to grow our own fruits and vegetables and develop our outdoor learning further.

Please can you nominate us for an award of £1000 from Ecclesiastical. In order to do so you will need FOTB’s charity number 1088769. Please click on the link and help us to achieve our goal.

www.ecclesiastical.com/movementforgood

Sickness

Please can parents remember that if your child is sick or sent home because they have been sick in school they must remain absent for school for 48 hours. This is part of the protocol agreed by the LA.

Thank you for your support with this matter.

Bags to School

• Bag2School will be collecting from us again on Tuesday May 21st. Please make time for a clear out in the next few weeks and either drop off your donations w/c13th May or bring them with you when you drop the children at Cinema Night. We will send Bag2School plastic bags out in book bags today.

FOTB Cinema Night

On Friday 17th May we are having a FOTB Cinema Night. We will be watching Missing Link doors open at 5.30pm for 6pm start. The letter for tickets will be sent home next week.

We’re on the hunt for a volunteer to oversee the event on the night (with lots of helpers of course). If you can help us out please contact Steph Dawson.

 

 

Thank You

It is wonderful to be back at school and I am extremely grateful for all the lovely messages I received during my absence.

I would like to say a huge thank you to Mr Blackburn and the wonderful team for taking care of the school in my absence.

We had a lovely final few weeks of term. We had our annual Road Safety week ‘Operation Eagle Eye’ which began on the 1^st April. The children took part in different activities, which promoted their awareness of road safety.

We also had one of my favourite days of the year, our annual Eggstravaganza. We had some wonderful stalls from nail painting, to ice cream making to hunting eggs. The children made a fantastic effort to raise funds for school and our chosen charity Beanstalk.

This year’s charity was chosen in honor of our teacher Mrs Kelly who sadly passed away last year. Beanstalk is a national charity that helps children in the UK to learn to read and develop a love for books.   Further information is available at –

https://www.beanstalkcharity.org.uk

Thank you for your continued support

Katherine Muncaster

Keeping Safe On-line

E-Safety is an important part of keeping children safe at Tithe Barn Primary School. We have extensive security measures in place at school, which are monitored both internally and externally, to help safeguard pupils from potential dangers or unsuitable material. Any e-Safety incidents are recorded and managed.  E-Safety is taught to all pupils explaining and demonstrating how to stay safe and behave appropriately online.

We can only be successful in keeping children safe online if we work with parents to ensure the e-Safety message is consistent. It is important that parents speak to their children about how they can keep safe and behave appropriately online.

As part of our participation in the Speak Out Stay Safe programme, our colleagues from the NSPCC delivered an online workshop session for parents. Please follow the link below for further advice and guidance on how to keep our children safe online.

https://www.nspcc.org.uk/what-we-do/about-us/partners/nspcc-o2-online-safety-partnership/

Following requests from parents we will be regularly sharing websites to support our families on how to keep safe on line. We hope you find them useful.

Key Dates

Tuesday 23rd April– School re-opens

Friday 3^rd May- Year 3 begin swimming

Monday 6^th May– May Bank Holiday

Monday 13^th May– Year 6 SATs week

Friday17^th May– Year 4 Class Assembly and FOTB Cinema Night

Operation Eagle Eye

 

Operation Eagle Eye

1^st – 5^th April 2019

 

We worked in conjunction with the Local Authority and had a week focused on road safety in school. There were various activities including learning how to cross the road safely, cycle safety and Year 6 were out patrolling the streets looking at speeding and parking in the local area.

 

The week began with our

Scoot Fit and Scooter Safety workshops. Every class participated in a session learning how to scoot safely. It was wonderful to have so many parents joining in with these sessions.

During Headsmart, the children in Year 4 investigated what would happen to an egg if riding a bike without a helmet.

Year 6 spent some time looking at the parking in the local area and monitoring the speed of the vehicles. They then analysed the data they collected.

Children in Year 5 worked in small groups to create vehicles and to investigate what would happen on impact.

I would like to thank Mr Stamper for co-coordinating these events and Mr Blackburn for organising the Scoot Fit session.

Recycling

Our recycling program continues to go from strength to strength. Led by our Eco Warriors we have recently recycled –

• 2048 crisp packets
• 1530 pens
• 260 tooth brushes

What an amazing effort, which has raised £44.16. Please keep sending in your donations – we are making a difference!

Safeguarding

As a school we are committed to the Safeguarding of all our children. Our school policy can be found on our website. All staff have recently attended Safeguarding training and both Mr Blackburn, Miss D Vose and myself are trained Designated Leads for Safeguarding.

If you ever have any concerns regarding safeguarding please do not hesitate to contact myself, Miss D Vose or Mr Blackburn

Holiday Club

‘Energy Kidz are delighted to be launching their exciting & engaging Holiday Clubs for children aged 4-11 at Tithe Barn Primary School in Stockport! The club offers your child a fun filled, action packed school holiday, delivered in a safe and supervised environment. Each week throughout the school holidays, children can enjoy an exciting range of themed activities designed to cater for a variety of interests. In addition, all children are encouraged to try something new!

As part of our launch we are giving you an exclusive 20% discount on all bookings for our brand new Summer Holiday Club at Tithe Barn Primary School. You can find all the information you need and even take a look at our fun packed activity schedules at www.energy-kidz.co.uk/holiday-club.

Book using the code – 20SUMMER19-1 before midnight on Sunday 2^nd June to grab a 20% discount on your Summer Holiday bookings.

Our themes for the Summer include – Astro Adventures, Island Hopping, Ingenious Inventions, Mission Survival, Big Top Adventure & Marvelous Mythology…  We look forward to seeing you all there!’

Energy Kidz Holiday Clubs

Energy Kidz run exciting & engaging Holiday Clubs for children aged 4-11.  We can offer your child a fun filled, action packed school holiday, delivered in a safe and supervised environment. Each week throughout the school holidays, children can enjoy an exciting range of themed activities designed to cater for a variety of interests. In addition, all children are encouraged to try something new!

All prices and timings are on the website at: https://www.energy-kidz.co.uk/holiday-club/stockport-holiday-club-tithe-barn-primary-school/

Make sure you keep an eye on our website for the Early bird offers saving you 10% on our Holiday Clubs when you book more than 3 weeks in advance of the start of the holiday.

All our clubs are Ofsted registered and we accept childcare vouchers and tax-free childcare.

For further information call 0333 577 1533, email info@energy-kidz.co.uk or visit our website at www.energy-kidz.co.uk.

A few exciting things that have happened in the sporting arena for our children…

SPLASHING AROUND: Tithe Barn tackle the SWIMMATHON:

A small team of children from Y6, Y5 and Y4 – Isla, Lewis, Edie (Y6) Annie, Lilly (Y5), Sonny, William, Maryanne, Pippa, Abby and Amelie (Y4) entered a sponsored swimming event – hosted by Stockport Grammar and put on by The Rotary Club of Stockport Lamplighter. The basic idea was the more lengths they swam as a team then the more money they would raise for charity.

Each team was allocated an hour to swim and WOW did they swim! When combining their totals, both teams swam a magnificent 362 lengths. Impressive!

We thank them (and Miss Heap who organised the swim) for all their efforts.

RUN TO IT!

2 Tithe Barn sisters -Ellena and Megan- put their best foot forward this term to make up part of a new winning team. They joined 2 girls from Moss Hey School to run in a Manchester Harriers Primary School Relay race.

The format of the race was a relay. Each of the girls took a turn at running the course. With Megan setting a fantastic early pace, Ellena brought home the team in magnificent style – 1^st place for the newly formed team.

Just shows what you can do when you are all fixed on the same goal!

Running is good for you I am told – I appreciate the many benefits to this sport. To this end, the girls are going to be the Running Ambassadors for Tithe Barn. I really want to pick up the challenge of smile for a mile. Clearly we have some hurdles to get over to achieve this aim. However, with this pair of talented runners leading the way, we will not be short of enthusiasm and drive.

Watch this space!

If you would like to explore running a little more, take a look at the website below…

http://www.stockportharriers.co.uk/club-events

WRAP UP, IT’S COLD OUT THERE! Off to SLOVAKIA to train… Tom (Y5) has spent a few days away from school at an intensive Ice hockey training camp in Tréncin. Tom was representing The North of England. Lots of practise and a few games played. His team won 2 of the 3 matches they played – Tom getting on the score sheet too. If you ever get the chance to visit Altrincham, take a look at the Ice Rink. You might find Tom flying around with his team mates – Manchester Storm Academy.

Well done Tom – lots of brilliant memories for you to take away from the trip I am sure.

 

Keep it under wraps…

Some of our talented athletes like to keep their talents under wraps.

When I find out about it, and with their approval obviously, I like to share their stories.

Below you can see Grace in Year 6 in her Lancashire lacrosse kit. Grace was selected to play for Lancs U13s Girls Lacrosse Team at an Inter Counties Tournament. This is very impressive seeing as she is 2 years under that age group.

The B Team she played on finished second in the tournament which again is very impressive.

Interested in Lacrosse? Talk to Nicole Smith ( Year 3 parent)

If you have sporting stories to share then please let me have the details /photos: alistair.blackburn@tithebarn.stockport.sch.uk