‘Maximum Effort for Maximum Achievement’ Friday 5th July 2019 Diary Dates for Next Week School Dinners - Week 3 Tuesday 9th July 4M and 4U visit to Hanningfield Reservoir Year 3 visiting Buttsbury Infant School (am) - Year 2 Music Performance Year 6 Play - 7pm Entrance strictly by programme only - pre-school children are not permitted to attend. Wednesday 10th July 4C and 4F visit to Hanningfield Reservoir Year 6 Play - 7pm Entrance strictly by programme only - pre-school children are not permitted to attend. Friday 12th July Wacky Hair Day Year 5 Isle of Wight payment 2 (£50) due by today please. Ice Cream Friday Thank you very much for coming along to our Celebration Evening on Wednesday. It was great to see so many families join us. I think it is always lovely to celebrate the achievements of the year in such a visual way. Thank you to the teachers and teaching assistants for their hard work in preparing the rooms. Sadly, Mrs Cripps, one of our HLTAs, will be leaving us at the end of the term, after 10 years at Buttsbury, to take up a new position at Quilters Junior School. I would like to thank her for all her hard work and wish her the best of luck in her new role. Summer Bonanza I would like to say a really big ‘thank you’ to all the members of our Friends’ Association and all the other parents and staff who helped to set up, tidy up and run the Summer Bonanza. It was a wonderful afternoon, with lovely weather - even going into The Cage of Monsters wasn’t too bad with the scorcher of a day we had! Thank you also to everyone who came along and supported the event with a very special ‘Thank you’ to Laura Johnston, Andrea Joyce and Claire Simmons and their organising committee. It was a wonderful afternoon with an amazing atmosphere and fabulous weather; everyone seemed to be having a great time enjoying the different events on offer. Overall the Bonanza raised £4000 which is a magnificent amount of money and truly reflects not only the hard work put in but also the amount of fun everyone had! As this was the final ‘big event’ of the year, I would like to say a very special thank you to Laura, Claire and Andrea, for all their hard work. They have given up so much of their own time to lead our Friends’ Association and done an amazing job! I would also like to thank Kelly Furness and Maxine Saunders who are stepping down from the Friends’ Association Committee, after many years of service as their youngest children will be leaving Buttsbury at the end of this term. It has been a very successful year for our Friends’ Association. We are very lucky to be moving into the new year with all key committee positions filled but the new committee will need your support so please do consider helping in some way. We also need to look towards the future and start to consider new officers, who could shadow our current team, so we don’t find ourselves without key roles being filled in the future. Wacky Hair Day - Friday 12th July For a suggested donation of £1, the children may come to school wearing their hair in a ‘wacky’ style! Coloured hair spray is permitted but please be sensible as it tends to leave marks if children lean on things! Please note that, if it is a hot day, the hairspray can tend to ‘drip’ if the children sweat! Also, please be aware that it needs to be temporary and all trace needs to be gone by Monday. All the money raised is for the Friends’ Association. Thank you! Year Group Competition at the Summer Bonanza Thank you very much for your generous donations for the Year Group tombolas and to the children who helped run the stalls. The results are below: Year 6 - Sweets - £307 Year 5 - Sport - £172 Year 4 - Alfresco - £170 Year 3 - Holiday - £163 Overall £812 was raised on the Year Group stalls alone which is amazing. Well done everyone! A special well done to Year 6 who have earned themselves a non-uniform day on Wednesday 17th July!
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‘Maximum Effort for
Maximum Achievement’
Friday 5th July 2019
Diary Dates for Next Week School Dinners - Week 3
Tuesday 9th July
4M and 4U visit to Hanningfield Reservoir
Year 3 visiting Buttsbury Infant School (am) - Year 2 Music Performance
Year 6 Play - 7pm Entrance strictly by programme only - pre-school children are not permitted to attend. Wednesday 10th July
4C and 4F visit to Hanningfield Reservoir
Year 6 Play - 7pm Entrance strictly by programme only - pre-school children are not permitted to attend. Friday 12th July
Wacky Hair Day
Year 5 Isle of Wight payment 2 (£50) due by today please.
Ice Cream Friday
Thank you very much for coming along to our Celebration Evening on Wednesday. It was great to see so
many families join us. I think it is always lovely to celebrate the achievements of the year in such a visual
way. Thank you to the teachers and teaching assistants for their hard work in preparing the rooms.
Sadly, Mrs Cripps, one of our HLTAs, will be leaving us at the end of the term, after 10 years at Buttsbury, to take
up a new position at Quilters Junior School. I would like to thank her for all her hard work and wish her the best of
luck in her new role.
Summer Bonanza I would like to say a really big ‘thank you’ to all the
members of our Friends’ Association and all the other parents and staff who helped to set up, tidy up and run the Summer Bonanza. It was a wonderful
afternoon, with lovely weather - even going into The Cage of Monsters wasn’t too bad with the scorcher of a day we had! Thank you also to everyone who came along and supported the event with a very special ‘Thank you’ to Laura Johnston, Andrea Joyce and Claire Simmons and their organising
committee. It was a wonderful afternoon with an amazing atmosphere and fabulous weather; everyone
seemed to be having a great time enjoying the different events on offer.
Overall the Bonanza raised £4000 which is a magnificent amount of money and truly reflects not only the hard work put in but also the amount of fun
everyone had! As this was the final ‘big event’ of the year, I would like to say a very special thank you to Laura, Claire
and Andrea, for all their hard work. They have given up so much of their own time to lead our Friends’
Association and done an amazing job! I would also like to thank Kelly Furness and Maxine Saunders
who are stepping down from the Friends’ Association Committee, after many years of service as their youngest children will be leaving Buttsbury
at the end of this term. It has been a very successful year for our Friends’ Association. We are very lucky to be moving into
the new year with all key committee positions filled but the new committee will need your support so please do consider helping in some way. We also
need to look towards the future and start to consider new officers, who could shadow our current team, so
we don’t find ourselves without key roles being filled in the future.
Wacky Hair Day - Friday 12th July For a suggested donation of £1, the children may come to school
wearing their hair in a ‘wacky’ style! Coloured hair spray is permitted but please be sensible as it tends to leave marks if
children lean on things! Please note that, if it is a hot day, the hairspray can tend to ‘drip’ if the children sweat! Also, please be aware that it needs to be temporary and all trace needs to be
gone by Monday. All the money raised is for the Friends’ Association. Thank you!
Year Group Competition at the Summer Bonanza Thank you very much for your generous donations for the
Year Group tombolas and to the children who helped run the stalls. The results are below:
Year 6 - Sweets - £307 Year 5 - Sport - £172
Year 4 - Alfresco - £170 Year 3 - Holiday - £163
Overall £812 was raised on the Year Group stalls alone which is amazing. Well done everyone!
A special well done to Year 6 who have earned themselves a non-uniform day on Wednesday 17th July!
This week’s attendance figure is: 98.8%! This year’s attendance target is 97.6%.
A special ‘Well Done’ to Class 5S who had the highest attendance this week - 99.7%! Congratulations!
3PR Results Well done to everyone who managed to collect tokens this
week for walking in the 3PR zone! The results this week are:
Top Table This week, the children chosen by the Midday Assistants to sit
at the ‘Top Table’ were: Thomas Pearce Gemma Lague Millie Coffill
Alfie Woolmer Lara McKenzie
Well done for being selected!
This week’s winning house:
Leopards
Sports Day - 2019 Thank you very much to everyone who was able to join us for this year’s
Sports Day! I think you will agree that it was a fantastic day and that there was a lovely atmosphere - everyone seemed to be having fun! The children were magnificent - it is always great to see them working together in their House teams, encouraging one another throughout the events and as ever, their behaviour was exemplary. Thank you to the staff team for organising
and running the day. Congratulations to all the children - you were all amazing but, sadly there can
only be one winner, so here are this year’s results: Year 3 and Year 4 - Leopards
Year 5 and Year 6 - Lions And this year’s overall winners are the Lions!
Well done to our winning teams!
On Sunday 7th July, our Rotakids group will be at Billericay's SummerFest event at Sun Corner, raising money for our pupil's chosen charity of choice - the RSPCA. The children will be running a stall called the Lucky Ice Cream and would love to see some familiar faces. So do please come along and visit us this Sunday and help us raise some money
for our worthy cause! We are also involved in a penalty shoot out competition, organised by Billericay Town
Football Club which starts at 1.00pm. The event starts at 11.00am and ends at
4.00pm! See you there!
Afternoon Tea Another excited group of children eagerly arrived at the
Staff Room ready to join us for Afternoon Tea on Thursday, armed with lots of wonderful work to share! I am
always very impressed by the children’s wonderful manners and positive encouragement of one another.
School Development Plan - 2019/2020 As you may recall, on Wednesday 26th June, representatives from all our stakeholder groups, met to review the school’s progress in 2018/2019 and identify priorities for 2019/2020. These are then fed directly into our new School Development Plan. The School Development Plan incorporates the ideas and suggestions of all our stakeholders, staff, parents, children and
governors. It also links closely to the Ofsted framework. We hope that our School Development Plan will continue to drive improvement in the school and assist us on our journey to officially becoming an outstanding school. Please find a summary of the key aspects of our School Development Plan
attached with this week’s newsletter. I hope that it is useful to read. Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts and suggestions.
Half-Price Book Sale On Tuesday we held our half price book sale in the Small Hall. All our classes visited the book sale during the day
where the children were able to spend their money! It was great to see so many of our children choosing new books to
enjoy at home and browsing the new titles. Overall, we earned £200 in commission from the sale, which will be
used to provide further new books for class reading areas. Thank you to everyone who supported our book sale.
Out of School Success
Well done to Charlie Cox (6A) who had a successful day at the JKA England National Karate Championships. He fought his way to the brown and black belt freestyle fighting and came second in the country losing out to a former European champion.
Congratulations to the following children who all recently passed their karate gradings - Lucas Ramsden (4M) - Purple One Stripe, Olllie Alsemgeest (4M) - Brown belt, Ben Nash (4F) - Green Belt, Freddie Rayner (6A) - 4th Kyu, Thomas Overton (4C) - Yellow Belt and Emily Simmons (4U) - Purple/White stripe.
Congratulations to Toby Lashmar (5T) who was awarded Swimmer of the Year for his squad at this year’s BPSC Awards Night.
Well done to Toby Munro (4U) who was presented with the Parents’ Player of the Season award for Hannakins Green Football Club.
Congratulations to some of our Year 4 girls - Isabelle Carroll. Emily Hyatt, Edie Rowling and Juliet Wenborn who won the Great Leighs Under 9s football tournament on Sunday.
Well done to Olivia Smith (6A) who passed her Grade 3 drama exam with Distinction!
Rainbow Awards
Well done to our BLUE award winners:
Harry McGee, Thomas Anderson, Gabriel Tanner and Brandon Crees,
Congratulations to our GREEN award recipients:
Owen Anderson, Tommy Hudd, Archie Sinclair, Daisy Thompson, Nikita
Moskalonoks. Arlo Kittridge and Tommy Garwood.
Well done to our YELLOW award winners:
Maxwell Bailey, Mae Saunders, William King, Max Hussey, Lotty Smith, Sophie Rendell, Chloe Birch and Daisy Bassett.
Congratulations to our ORANGE award recipients:
William Hughes, Thomas Hall, Tayla James, Freya Bushell, Luca Poloni, George Hampton, Harry Thompson, Hayden Williams, Abi Rivas, Aimee Storey,
Well done to this week’s RED award winners who are now working on the
BRONZE POT OF GOLD which requires them to go ‘above and beyond’ to earn a
sticker!
Lani Coughlan, Ruby Walsh, Ava Dean, Max Sawyer, Charlie Joyce, Zack Briggs, Alfie
Mills, Freya Agate and Elouise Butler-Russell.
A HUGE ‘Well Done’ to: Charlotte Sell, Ella Bogen, Jack Cook, Mia Garnett, Isla Vinton
Smith, Alex Gilbert, Jie Long He, Hattie Garlick and Amy Tear
who have all achieved their BRONZE POT OF GOLD!
50 Things To Do Before Leaving Primary School Congratulations to Holly Breathwick
who has completed 20 things at home!
Parents to Lunch On Wednesday, we were joined for lunch by the parents and
grandparents of the children in 5M. Everyone seemed to have a great time, enjoying the company as much as the tasty food! Thank you to our Catering Team, Midday Assistant Team and Mrs Risley,
who all played a part in the organisation of the event.
Out of School Success - Left to Right Top Row: Charlie, Lucas, Ollie, Ben
Middle Row: Freddie, Thomas, Emily, Bottom Row: Year Four footballers, Olivia, Toby Lashmar
County English Competition On Tuesday afternoon, four of our English superstars from Year 6
competed in the final of the English Competition. After 7 heats from across the county, seeing over 50 school compete for a place, the final saw 15
schools from across Essex compete in a number of spelling, punctuation and grammar exercises, such as Apostrophe Catastrophe and Odd One Out!
The team, consisting of Torsten Greenan, Adam Havis, Lana Tseayo and Lila Eve, showed excellent teamwork throughout. Their level of
conversation about the activities showed a deep understanding of the areas tested. Overall, the team placed a very respectable 9th position, with only
12 points between them and the winners! A huge well done to the team and thank you to Miss Carroll for accompanying them.
Rotary Club Presentation On Wednesday, we were joined by Les Sheppard, President
of Billericay Rotary Club and Mike Sinclair, Chair of the Youth Section of the Rotary Club. Mike and Les enjoyed watching the children having a great time undertaking the
‘Hula Hoop’ challenge and also presented our Rotakids with a cheque for £250 which was raised through the Soapbox
Derby. We are very grateful for this generous donation which will be used to support our Rotakids in their future
charitable work and community service!
Sponsored Hula Hoop Challenge for the RSPCA On Wednesday 3rd July 2019, Buttsbury Junior School supported their chosen charity (RSPCA) by
completing a sponsored hula hoop challenge. The children were given a sponsor form to collect as many sponsors as they could from their family and friends. The children were sponsored either per hula hoop or by the total amount of hula hoops in a minute. The children hula hooped within their year group and worked in
pairs to count the amount of hula hoops performed. A prize was awarded to the child who performed the most hula hoops (from each class). Buttsbury was even lucky enough to have some press coverage supporting this
fantastic event from The Billericay Rotary Club which will feature in their next newsletter! The Rotary Club also awarded Buttsbury with a cheque for £250 for all the fundraising we have done throughout the year. Thank you to all of the staff for helping to organise the event, especially to Miss Pretty! The total amount
raised is yet to be revealed as the children will now collect in all their sponsor money. Well done Buttsbury for another successful and exciting fundraiser for such a worthy cause!
