NEWSLETTER November 2018

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1 NEWSLETTER 4 20 November 2018 Dear Parents/Carers, The past two weeks in Scargill things have been focused on our Scargill Citizen Value of respect. This was the theme of this week for Anti-Bullying week and it was the watchword as we thought about and celebrated the 100 th anniversary of World War 1. Remembrance Day All classes used the time leading up to Remembrance Day to think about what it meant and to do some work linked to it. On the Friday 9 th November we held a short service of Remembrance outside and I was delighted with the way that the children showed their respect throughout this sombre occasion. On Sunday 11 th November I was delighted to hear of the group of children who attended the local service of Remembrance and read prayers to the congregation. It shows the high levels of respect that the children can have and I was very proud of them Anti-Bullying Week All week the children have been taking part in activities around the theme Choose Respect. The whole week started with a worship led by Merlin class and some of our Anti-Bullying Ambassadors. Classes have been participating in a range of activities but all classes completed an activity where each child recorded one way that they would #ChooseRespect. These will be put up around the school on a number of displays either in corridors or in some of the classrooms. It will be very interesting to see the ways that they have chosen. All children have also been considering how it is easier to say that you will show respect rather than actually putting this into practice. Staffing It is with some sadness that I have to report that Mr Clark (our part time teacher in Owl class) will be leaving us at Christmas. He has decided to make a change and step out of teaching. I am sure that you will join me in wishing him every success in the future whatever that may bring. Mr Clark has worked at Scargill for five years and has been an important member of our staff team. We are working hard to ensure a replacement for Mr Clark is in place for the new year and we will be getting information to you as soon as we can. School Photographs Individual and family group photographs are being taken in school on 23 November We will organise groups during the day for any children who have siblings at school but if you have a child who is below school age that you want in the photograph as well, then please come into the old hall at

2 8.15am so that these can be done first. Access to school at this time will be through the Beech Lane entrance. Website We have been having some issues with our website over the past week and are pleased to confirm that it should now be up and running. PTA Our new PTA are busy organising things for the Christmas Winter Wonderland which will be on Friday 14 th December 2018 from 5pm-7pm. They are keen to retain lots of the great things from previous Christmas Fayres but also to try some new things. I hope that we get lots of people coming along and having a super time. I can t believe that we are already planning for Christmas but I know that these things do indeed take a long time to organise. The next PTA meeting is to be held at school on Wednesday 21 st November at 6.30pm. Anyone who wants to help out is welcome to come along. We are also asking for donations to help out with the stalls run by each of the year groups. All the details will be in a letter that will be sent out separately but just so that you have some notice we will be holding a Dress Down Day on Monday 3 rd December. On this day, children can wear festive jumpers if they want to and instead of paying anything we ask that they bring in a donation for one of the stalls. Scargill Citizen Award Last week we had our first Bronze Award of the year and it was lovely to see how pleased everyone across the school was for our first recipient. I thought that I would take the opportunity of reminding you about what our Scargill Citizen Award was and how the pupils can earn the certificates. We have ten Scargill citizen values that all children are constantly trying to work towards achieving. These include generosity, kindness, hardworking, respect, etc. Teachers award a dot sticker when they see a child demonstrating each quality on a sustained basis. When a child has five dot stickers for any one value then they can claim that particular value. When three values have been claimed a pupil gains a Bronze certificate, when three further values are claimed it results in a Silver certificate and when nine values are claimed then the pupil will get a Gold Award. This year in order to get our highest Platinum Award then all ten values must be claimed. This is extremely difficult to do and is a real achievement for any pupil. These awards start anew each September. School Council School Council have met a couple of times this year already. They have been very impressive in making decisions. A competition was launched in September to create window designs to represent our school's vision. The

3 children have now judged the competition and have asked Class Council discussions to be held to focus on planning a day to celebrate and promote our values. On this day, the competition winners will help put their designs on the four arched windows in the new hall. The School Council are also going to be working with the Y6 Play Leaders to help organise and look after some new playtime equipment. Our School Council Representatives Chair: Miranda, Vice-Chair: Emily-Jayne and Secretary: Oliver Class Dolphins Seahorses Deer Badgers Rabbits Hedgehogs Lions Tigers Panthers Leopards Eagles Owls Flamingos Merlins Nancy Noah Lily Joseph Lily Noah Ella Archer Emily-Jayne Alfie Molly Oliver Lewis Miranda The children have some wonderful reasons for wanting to be a School Councillor and we are really looking forward to seeing what they can achieve over this school year. We will be adding to our webpage very soon to keep parents informed of their successes. Here are the reasons some of the children gave for wanting to be a School Councillor: 'I want to help' Lily 'I like doing group tasks' Alfie 'I like working in a group to improve our school' Lewis 'I want to sort problems out' Molly 'I want to make the school an even better place to be' Ella 'Sometimes in school things go wrong and we can make it better' Oliver

4 Awards Winners of the class award were Hedgehogs, Seahorses and Rabbits in the Infants and Flamingos, Eagles and Panthers in the Juniors. Well done also to Nightingale house who have won the house cup since the last newsletter. Class Scargill Star winners 19/10/18 Scargill Star winners 16/11/18 Dolphins Caris Ava Evie Indigo Seahorses Riley Billie-Mae Nathan Freddie Deer Lily James Una Ryder Badgers Caitlin Elias Mila Noah Rabbits Eleanor George Matilda Cara Hedgehogs Elora Ethan Harry Paige Lions Ben Lacy Percy Thomas Tigers Isabelle Thomas Charlotte Floryn Panthers Liam William Honey Myla Leopards Tomas Evie Brendan Jenson Eagles Rosie Shelby Lydia Harriet Owls Priya Joshua Zak Emily Flamingos Jessica Aaron John Maddison Merlins Emily Ewan Alistair Lewis Community News Andrew Poole Headteacher

5 Diary Dates 2018/19 academic year INSET DAYS Monday 5 th November 2018 Friday 21 st December 2018 Monday 7 th January 2019 Friday 15 th February 2019 Monday 25 th February 2019 Friday 12 th April 2019 Monday 29 th April 2019 Friday 24 th May 2019 Monday 3 rd June 2019 Monday 22 nd July 2019 Monday 19 th November 2018 Monday 3 rd June 2019 Friday 28 th June 2019 Monday 22 nd July 2019 Date Event 23/11/18 School Photographs 29/11/18 Merlin class worship 9.15am 9/12/18 Kaleidoscope Service at St Wilfrid s at 11.00am 10/12/18 Public Consultation Meeting regarding admissions 5.30pm 10/12/18 Y2 production AM 11/12/18 Y2 production AM 12/12/18 Christmas Dinner 12/12/18 Y1 production AM 13/12/18 Y1 production AM 14/12/18 DATA SHEETS out to parents 14/12/18 The PTA s Christmas Winter Wonderland 18/12/18 EYFS Christmas production AM 19/12/18 EYFS Christmas production PM 20/12/18 Tiger class worship 9.15am 21/12/18 School Closes 7/1/19 School Opens 13/1/19 Kaleidoscope Service at St Wilfrid s at 11.00am 23/1/19 OPEN MORNING Y1-6 AM

6 30/1/19 EYFS class worship 9.15am 4/2/19 PARENTS EVENING 6/2/19 Eagle class worship 9.15am 7/2/19 PARENTS EVENING 10/2/19 Kaleidoscope Service at St Wilfrid s at 11.00am 13/2/19 Badger class worship 9.15am 15/2/19 School Closes 25/2/19 School opens 10/3/19 Kaleidoscope Service at St Wilfrid s at 11.00am 21/3/19 Deer class worship 9.15am 27/3/19 Leopard class worship 9.15am 28/3/19 Y3/4 production PM 29/3/19 Y3/4 production AM 3/4/19 Flamingo class worship 9.15am 5/4/19 Data sheets out to parents 8-12/4/19 Y4 trips to Edale 8/4/19 Y1 trip to Butterley 9/4/19 Y2 trip to Butterley 12/4/19 School closes 14/4/19 Kaleidoscope Service at St Wilfrid s at 11.00am 29/4/19 School opens 6/5/19 MAY DAY 12/5/19 Kaleidoscope Service at St Wilfrid s at 11.00am 13-16/5/19 KS2 SATs 22/5/19 Y3/4 Bioblitz Day (RSPB) 22/5/19 Y3/4 Bioblitz Day (RSPB) 24/5/19 School closes 3/6/19 INSET Day 3-7/6/19 IOW week (NB leaving on INSET day) 4/6/19 School opens

7 6/6/19 Panther class worship 9.15am 9/6/19 Kaleidoscope Service at St Wilfrid s at 11.00am 10/6/19 HOSPITALITY WEEK 10/6/19 Cresswell Crags Y4 11/6/19 Cresswell Crags Y3 17/6/19 EYFS Sports day 18/6/19 Y1/2 Sports day 19/6/19 Y3/4 Sports day 20/6/19 Y5/6 Sports day 20-21/6/19 Y2 trip to LEA GREEN 24/6/19 EYFS Sports Day reserve 25/6/19 Y1/2 Sports Day reserve 26/6/19 Y3/4 Sports Day reserve 27/6/19 Y5/6 Sports Day reserve 27/6/19 Hedgehog class worship 9.15am 28/6/19 INSET Day 4/7/19 Arts Day 4/7/19 Lion class worship 9.15am 11/7/19 Reports out to Parents 11/7/19 Rabbit class worship 9.15am 14/7/19 Kaleidoscope Service at St Wilfrid s at 11.00am 15/7/19 Parent Drop in /7/19 EYFS Graduation - AM 17/7/19 Y5/6 Production 19/7/19 Leavers worship 9.30am 19/7/19 School closes 22/7/19 INSET day NB Following a request from parents any changes to previous diary dates sheets will be highlighted in green