Tithe Barn School

The Kid’s Kitchen has been very busy this week as 26 children made gingerbread leaves to take home, celebrating the fact that they have been awarded a gold leaf for the second time. Gold leaves are awarded to children in the Reception class, Year 1 and Year 2 who show consistently good behaviour. To do this they must be able to share, smile and be happy, include everybody, listen and do, and use kind words and actions. The gold leaves which carry the children’s photos, are displayed on the arch at the entrance to the Sapling Centre.

The children who have received their second gold leaf of this year celebrated by baking gingerbread leaves with Mrs. Stanley. They were kind enough to make some extra for members of staff and Mr. Buckley enjoyed his so much (baked by Year1) that he came back the next day to try another one baked by some Reception children!

22 May 2009

Dear Parents

School Dinner Money

Dinner money the next half term is:-

Reception, Year 1 – £57.80

Year 2, Year 3 and Year 5 – £59.50

Year 4 – £54.40

Year 6 – £51.00

Please send the correct amount of money (cheques made payable to Tithe Barn Primary School) to Mrs Jones in a clearly marked, sealed envelope on the first day back after the holidays. Unfortunately due to the computerised system for recording dinner money we cannot accept any other money included on cheques for dinner money. We also require 1 weeks notice if your child is changing from school lunches to packed lunches.

Summer Fair – Sunday 5th July 2009

Arrangements are underway for the Summer Fair. If you can offer any help at all please contact Julie Woosey (Grace Woosey Reception) or Sarah Norton (Isabelle Year 5 and Oscar Year 2).

Jill Rippon
Jill will be going into hospital on Tuesday 16th June for up to 6 weeks. Helen Jones who is our Finance Assistant will increase her hours to be in the Office from 8.00am until 2.30pm. Other members of staff will cover from 2.30pm to 3.30pm. I would ask you to be understanding of the situation.

School Photographs
Class photographs will be held on Wednesday 17th June 2009.

Have an enjoyable holiday.

Yours sincerely

T H Buckley
Headteacher

We have been busy looking carefully at fish as part of our Water topic. Have a look at our creative wax resist pictures and our pencil drawings of mackerel. Then come into school and look at the display outside our classroom!

The morning has gone brilliantly! We’ve been testing our senses and communication skills with blindfold walks, testing our sense of smell by making smelly cocktails out of the plants around us, testing our observational skills by identifying unnatural objects camouflaged on a walk, creating pictures with nature, learning about what plants need to grow, a mirror walk where children had to walk while looking at the sky and lots of other things as the morning unfolded! Lots covered and we’re almost ready to have our lunch!!

A big thank you to everyone for a fantastic start to the morning! We arrived at Brockhole with time to spare and are now in the middle of our environmental education, making smelly cocktails from the plantlife around us! The weather is fantastic and the view from the lake is beautiful! Let’s hope the weather stays like this all week!