High Stile, Great Dunmow, Essex CM6 1EB Telephone Facsimile E- mail

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1 Dunmow St Mary s Primary School 1 High Stile, Great Dunmow, Essex CM6 1EB Telephone Facsimile E- mail admin@dsmprimary.essex.sch.uk Dear Parents, February 11 th 2016 Book Week Please see the letter which is attached alongside this newsletter detailing events in book week. Highlights include: dressing up as a book character, a book fair and an author visit. We would like to thank Mrs Wood for all the work she has put into organising these events. Swimming Sessions We are really pleased to confirm that our swimming sessions will start again after Easter for all year groups. As many of you are aware the school is in a fortunate position of being able to offer an enhanced programme of swimming provision due to having our own pool on site. The swimming sessions for each year group run for 6 weeks with children receiving two lessons per week. We are delighted that Nicole Clarkson our experienced and qualified swimming instructor is joining us once again as she already knows many of the children well and is able to assist them in making real progress through these lessons. The timetable for after Easter will be as follows: Monday afternoon Year 3 Tuesday morning Year 2 Tuesday afternoon Year 1 Wednesday morning Year 3 Wednesday afternoon Year 4 Thursday morning Year 1 Thursday afternoon Year 2 Friday morning Year 4 Years R, 5 & 6 will swim after the May half- term. Children will of course need a swimming costume (for girls this needs to be a one piece and for boys fitted swimming trunks), a towel and a hat must be worn for hygiene reasons. Hats can be purchased from the school office for Please note that earrings have to be taken out for swimming lessons so any recently pierced ears will preclude your child from lessons. As you are aware swimming is heavily subsidised by the school and the parental contribution is key to our ability to provide this opportunity which is so popular with our children. We have really appreciated the strong support shown by parents in recent years and would ask that you continue to demonstrate this by paying the contribution for your child/ren this year as soon as possible. Please complete the slip below. School Photos On Tuesday 1 st March the photographer from Tempest will be in school. The children will have individual photos taken and also photos with their siblings. Please make sure that children have their correct uniform on this day.

2 2 Class Assemblies Wednesday 24 th February 10.45am 6SS Thursday 25 th February 2.45pm 2LH Wednesday 2 nd March 10.45am 5LO Thursday 3 rd March 2.45pm 2AC Wednesday 9 th March 10.45am 4KE Thursday 10 th March 2.45pm 1CA Wednesday 16 th March 10.45am 3LC Thursday 17 th March 2.45pm 1KF/AM School Target Awards This week we would like to congratulate the following children: For using talk for writing skills to improve their writing : Samuel Cook 2AC, Michaela Platfoot RLB, Isabella Evans- Barlow RLEB For getting better at working out different calculations: Brandon Hopwood 6BH, Sydney Upson 6SS, Lizzie Lear 5LO, Oliver Penny 5EW, Isabelle Sargeant 4KE, Sadie France 3LC, Jackson Hopkins 1KF/AM, Mac Herd 1CA For improving their understanding of what they have read: Elena Nikolova 4RS, Bryoni Jordan- Love 2LH For helping to make behaviour in the playground and lunch hall outstanding: Jasmine Goodey 3RG Attendance Trophy This week the attendance award goes again to Miss Godsafe s Y3 class. Last week they had 100% attendance and no lates well done 3RG! Online Safety During half term please make sure that your children are safe on the internet. Please remember that even whilst playing games such as Minecraft and Clash of Clans children can be communicating with strangers. The advice from professionals is that it is better not to stop your child playing (unless it is not age appropriate) but to play alongside them, watch them sometimes or have a conversation with them about being safe whilst playing the game. These games are being used for grooming children. Strangers offer to buy items to improve their game skills as a way in. For more information about online safety please look on the school website: safety/ Half term Holiday Tomorrow is a non- pupil day and we look forward to welcoming children back to school after the half term holiday on Monday 22 nd February. Clubs will run in the first week after half term. Yours sincerely Clare Griffiths

3 3 Swimming Y1,2,3 and 4 Child s Name Class Swimming lessons starting week beginning 11 th April I enclose 18 towards the cost of the 12 lessons I am unable to contribute 18 towards the cost of the lessons Signed

4 4 Library newsletter World book week and more! To give everybody a chance to sort out any costumes, this year we shall be celebrating World Book Day onfriday 4 th March and would like all the children to dress as a book character. We shall also be asking all children to bring in 1, which will be donated to Book Aid International, a charity that helps communities in Africa to have access to books every 2 raised buys a new book. During the day all classes will have a book related workshop with the Just Imagine Story Centre teamand will have lots of opportunity to share and discuss books together. Just Imaginewill also have a book fair after school where you can use the world book day 1 vouchers on any purchase. They will not, however, be stocking the world book day books but these can be purchased in most book shops. Author Visit We are very excited (and thankful to the PTA for funding it) to welcome the popular children s author KesGrayto our school on the 8 th March. He has written one of this years WBDbooks,the Daisy books and Billy s Bucket along with many others. He will be in school all day and selling and signing some of his books after school. They will be approx He is also very willing to sign books from home. With that in mind, I have asked Just

5 Imagine to have a large stock of KesGray books so that parents will not have to fork out twice. 5 Please come and see me in the library if you have any questions. March hopes to be a very eventful time book-wise. Mrs Wood (School Librarian)