NEWSLETTER Issue: 5.04

ARTS WEEK
Please see the attached letter from Miss Higginbotham and Mr Baigent about an Arts Week we are holding the week beginning 29th June. We have added this week to the original calendar. We are really excited by the art work that we see on a daily basis and we are looking forward to celebrating our children’s creativity and talents during that week. We have a number of very artistic parents too and their support for that week, as well as ongoing projects, such as art club and the upper school cloakroom mural, is greatly appreciated.

QUESTIONNAIRES
The feedback you provide in the questionnaires we send out is invaluable and genuinely informs our development planning for the future. We are also aware of questionnaire and survey ‘burnout’ and, with this in mind, we are moving to a two yearly cycle of the full parental questionnaire. We have your input from the last two years to inform our planning and the next one will be sent out in the summer of 2010. We are going to carry out a survey of pupil views this summer and will continue to alternate with the parental questionnaire in the coming years. Now, that’s not to say our parents and carers get off ‘scot free’! We do need your views on particular aspects of our development plan. A little while ago, for example, our Foundation Stage parents were asked for their views on the induction process and the feedback they gave us very much informed the current arrangements. There are two more short questionnaires coming out over the next six months. One is related to the transition process for children moving from one year to the next within the school. This review is being led by Mrs Bartlett and the other is our provision for the gifted, able and talented which is being led by Mr Hempleman. As always the time you take on these is appreciated and they do make a difference in the future.

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY W/B 18/05/09
Monday 18/05/09
- Assessment week
Wednesday 20/05/09
- Year 2 visit to SS Great Britain
Thursday 21/05/09
- Arts Festival @ the Forum 7.00 – 8.30 (All Year 5 / some Year 4 & 6)
- Girls football tournament @ Christchurch School - 4.00pm
Friday 22/05/09
- ‘My Learning’ folders to go home
- Year 3 / 5 cake sale
- Closing date for Assistant Site Supervisor post
- HALF TERM HOLIDAY

SCHOOL FRENZY PROJECT
Newbridge, along with Southdown and Hayesfield schools, are working with the Egg Theatre to put on a production. Isaac, Elliot, Emma, Grace, Ava, Hannah, Hannah and Ben are the actors from our school and are acting out Roald Dahl’s book “The Witches”. Regular reports and up-dates on the production will be available on the school website.

WANTED
Good homes for 4 gorgeous baby dwarf hamsters. Ready immediately. Contact Lawrie 5PB or telephone 01225 422095.

CELEBRATING WRITING
Lily – 4W
One night Amir, who was the son of the richest Brahmin in town, was going home and he saw a small, tatty girl with no shoes. When he looked a bit closer he saw she was crying. So Amir decided to tip-toe over to her.

“What are you doing out here when you could be in your warm house?” he asked.
“My name is Tara, I am an orphan. I do not have a house that I can shelter in and I am very hungry.” The girl replied.
“My name is Amir. I will show you a field full of ripe yellow bananas, you can eat there” whispered Amir, so no-one would know that he was stealing. So Amir took her by the hand and showed her to the banana field. It was gorgeous, rows and rows of ripe, lush, yellow bananas, glinting in the soft moonlight.

After a big and delicious meal, Amir decided to sneak into the farmers house and get some water to wash it down.
“No”, shouted Tara as he walked towards the house, “he will catch you and beat you up”.
“He won’t” answered Amir.

So Tara went and hid behind a big green bush to see what would happen. Suddenly Amir came rushing out with the angry farmer chasing him. Soon enough he caught Amir and beat him with a stick. Slowly but cautiously he dragged himself over to where Tara was hiding.
“Ha, ha, ha” shouted Tara, “you got what you deserve”.
So Amir and Tara walked back to the Banyan tree.
Moral: Trust your friends.

Will – 4P
One day on a hot and humid farm in the forest, a man called Amit, selfish and greedy, lived in a small hut with his animals. He needed a water buffalo to plough his fields. He bought an extremely enormous buffalo. Amit took him to a field and cried to the buffalo, “Get a move on!” It went on like this for a couple of weeks, the buffalo felt tired and lonely.

Amit didn’t let any other people see the buffalo. One day, in the afternoon, the buffalo broke through the cage that he was captured in. Quickly, in the commotion, the buffalo charged over Amit. Amit died a few days later. Before he died he whispered, “I should have not been so selfish.” The end.

FOOTBALL REPORT
On Thursday 7th May Newbridge Football team played Paulton. We got off to a great start when Oscar played the ball to Joe who had a stunning shot which hit the cross bar. Jacob ran down the wing and got fouled and won a free kick and shot and the keeper hit it out and Joe headed it into the box. Paulton suddenly had a counter attack and Jake cleared it to Tom and he played a ball to Jacob but they cleared it. Jacob took the throw in and Joe headed it but the keeper saved it. In the second half Jacob and Joe had great pressure and they lost the ball. Jacob passed to Joe and he played a beautiful ball through to Harry and he slotted it in. Joe then passed the ball to Jacob and he smashed it but it hit the crossbar. Suddenly Paulton came back with two goals and Newbridge lost the match 2-1. We would like to thank Mr Cumpson and everyone else for supporting us. By Jacob, Joe and Max.

NPSA NEWS
Disco – Tonight – Lower School Hall: 8.00pm - 11.30pm
Tonight is the night that Friday Night Fever comes to Newbridge! If you have a ticket, we can’t wait to see you there! If you haven’t then do not fear, you can still turn up and get a ticket on the door! It should be a great night so please come along and support your school!
Cake Sale and Nearly New Uniform Sale- Lower School Hall: Friday 22nd May – 3.15pm
Parents and carers from years 3 and 5 will be receiving plates in their book bags which we would be very grateful if you could fill with cakes or biscuits, homemade or shop bought, big or small but please no nuts! If you could return them full of your delicious offerings to the kitchen of the Lower School Hall on the day of the sale, it would be very much appreciated! Anybody who would like to help set up, serve and clear up, please let your class rep know or, alternatively, just present yourself on the day. None of this would be possible without your help and generosity! And please don’t forget to come and buy the cakes after school! You will also have a chance to stock up on any uniform items you might need!
A Big Thank you!
I would just like to thank all those mothers from Elm who got together for a frock swap recently and raised a very useful £75 for the school. Thank you so much! And remember, if anyone else would like to hold a similar evening, packs are available from Reception.
Poster Competition
Calling all young artists! Have some fun this holiday and design a poster for this year’s Summer Fair! Posters can be painted or drawn but must be in colour and in A4 format. No text as this will be added later. Entry is encouraged from all years at the school from Reception through to Year 6. The theme of this year’s fair is Newbridge Summer Fete and we are hoping to create an old-fashioned feel to the day. The winning entrant will have their artwork turned into a poster which will be displayed all over Bath! So, get out your pens and paper, paints and brushes and be creative! All entries should be placed in a special competition box in Main Reception which will be there from Monday 1st June. The deadline is before registration on Friday 5th June. Thank you and Good Luck!