Royal Russell Junior School

Bulletin14th September 2018

Dear Parents,

Year 6 have just arrived back safe, sound and exhausted from their trip to the Isle of Wight. Having followed them on Twitter all week

I’m not sure who had more fun, staff or pupils. Mrs King celebrated her birthday, Mr Ward and Mr Edwards tried to emulate The Hoff,

Miss Frisby captured more spiders than an arachnophobic should ever have to see and Mrs Cane dispensed more first aid than St

John at a music festival. Thank you to the staff for giving up their time and to the children for making the trip such great fun. Back to

real work now Year 6, not just ‘team’ work.

Mr Footring packed the Hall on Monday evening to talk about E Safety and if you missed the excellent presentation this week or last

then all the slides are available on the parent portal.

Tomorrow we are hosting a large U11 football festival here at school and we have two teams entering to try and bring home some

silverware. Matches start at 9.00am on North Pitch and all support is welcome. Good luck to all those playing and my thanks to staff

and 1st XI players who are running the event.

Further into the bulletin you will see all our classes this year and three slides about events happening this coming week on Friday and

Saturday. Please pay close attention to the details and we look forward to a bumper denim themed harvest on Friday and a sunny

Open Day on Saturday.

Year 4 are also off on the inaugural residential trip on Tuesday and I’m sure there will be lots of exciting news next week from the trip

to Flatford Mill.

Please don’t forget we have whole school photo on Monday and so it is time to brush the hair, polish the shoes and make sure the best

smiles are ready for the camera.

Best wishes for the weekend.

James C Thompson

LOOKING AHEAD

WEEK COMMENCING 17th September 2018

Monday 17 September10.00AM Whole School Photo

Tuesday 18 September9:00 AM Year 4 Flatford Mill Residential Trip departs

Wednesday 19 September11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Zoolab Mini Beasts Visit to Year 13:00 PM Year 4 Flatford Mill Residential Trip returns

Thursday 20 September2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Football: U10ABC vs Downsend (H) 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Swimming: U8 -U11 Girls Gala vs Croydon High (A)

Friday 21 SeptemberAll Day Jeans for Genes Charity Mufti Day 11:00 AM Harvest Festival 3:30 PM - 4:40 PM Football: U11A vs Parkside (H)

Saturday 22 September8.30AM – 1.00PM Open Day 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Football: U8 Royal Russell Tournament (H) 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Netball: U8AB Royal Russell Tournament (H)

Nursery

RCS

RCW

1P

1R

2F

2S

3E

3N

4C

4T

4U

Year 5 (5AF, 5JB and 5L)

6E

6F

6K

BowlesYear 5 started this term with an incredible three-day residential trip to Bowles!

The children enjoyed a vast range of exciting activities including archery, raft building, rock climbing and skiing. They also practised some very important life skills such as bed-making and cleaning which we're sure they will want to continue

working on now they are back home.

Well done Year 5 for all of your many achievements over the course of our trip!

Bowles

Computing Club

This week in Computing Club the children learned to make 8-bit GIFs

using a website called Piskel. Great fun was had by all, especially as we were

using our brand new smart Chromebooks!

Second Hand Uniform

The next Second Hand Uniform sale will take

place at the Coach House Shop between

3.00 – 4.15 pm on:

Wednesday 19th September

Harvest Festival

On Friday 21st September, we will be celebrating Harvest Festival in our Chapel.

From Lower Juniors, we would welcome a decorated shoebox, or similar, filled with

non-perishable food. Upper Juniors should bring their non-perishable donations in

a carrier bag or box.

These will be offered by the children during the Chapel Service and then donated

to the Purley Food Hub. All donations for our Harvest Festival should be brought

into school by Thursday 20th September please.

Thank you in anticipation.

Items currently needed:

Long life whole milk • Small jars of coffee or small boxes of tea bags

• Small bags of sugar • Meat and fish paste • Tinned meat meals

• Tinned tomatoes • Packets of dried potato • Tins of rice pudding

• Jellies and puddings • Non-bio washing powder tablets/sachets

• Shower gel/shampoo • Tin openers

Friday 21st September 2018

Jeans for Genes Day - Friday 21st

September

Friday 21st September will be 'Jeans for

Genes Day' and as per usual, we are

inviting the whole school to don their

denim to help support the half a million

children in the UK who are affected by a

life-altering genetic disorder.

If your child would like to support this

brilliant cause, they may wear jeans with

their school uniform on their top half and

school shoes on Friday. To support the

charity, we ask that they bring in a

minimum donation of £1 on this day.

To find out more about Jeans for Genes

day, you can visit

www.jeansforgenesday.org.

Saturday 22nd September‘Open Morning’ 8.30am – 1pm

It is expected that all Upper Junior Pupils will be available to support Open Morning and any requests for absence should be submitted by email to Mr Thompson well in advance.

All pupils in Year 6 will be required to act as guides for our visitors on the day. All Year 3 will be involved in Football and Netball festivals and Years 4 and 5 will be taking part in activities in school as well as supplementing the guiding of prospective parents.

This is a very important day for us to ‘showcase’ the school and having the pupils involved in that process has proved to be a resounding success. It provides prospective parents with an honest view of the school and offers our pupils the opportunity to take on an important role of responsibility for the morning.

We are always on the lookout for parent ambassadors to help on the morning of the event with refreshments and chatting with prospective parents.

If you are able to help please email mjones@royalrussell.co.uk.

Jack – 1PXavier – 2FKota – 2S