NEWSLETTER Issue: 6.07

HEAD’S VIEW
This is the briefest Head’s View ever – the epic comes next week! I would like to welcome two new children who joined our school this week: Lorna (2B) and Joshua (1R). Lorna has survived the ultimate challenge: the ‘whole school welcome’ while Joshua’s turn will come! We welcome them both, and their families, to our school. Highlights are arriving thick and fast at the moment and I just want to say to all the children, staff, parents and volunteers, ‘just keep going – you are all fabulous’! Much more next week.

YEAR 6 LEAVERS’ TEA AND DISCO
Our Year 6 are cordially invited to the tea which commences at 5.00pm and the disco which commences at 6.00pm. You then have the dance floor exclusively to yourselves for half an hour before you are joined by the ladies and gentlemen from Year 5. Entrance for our leavers is, of course, free.

AN OPEN INVITATION TO ALL OUR VOLUNTEERS
If you have volunteered to help our children and school in any way this year, you are warmly invited to the Musicians Assembly at 2pm next Wednesday 22nd July in the Upper School hall. Cream teas will be served in the Blue Room afterwards. This is our own small way of saying ‘Thank you’. RSVP The School Office

CALLING VOLUNTEERS FOR THE FUTURE!
Thank you to all our current and prospective volunteers who came to our two coffee mornings held last week during which Mr Day, as Community Links Coordinator, and I gave a talk about our plans to develop the volunteer network at Newbridge. We are aware that a number of interested parents were unable to attend the meetings. There will be further information about this in September but in the meantime, if you are interested in volunteering in any capacity next year, would you please complete and return the attached Information Sheet by the end of this term. This will enable us to start setting up the network. Please be assured that completing and returning this does not obligate you in any way! We will also be setting up a Better Reading Partners programme next year which involves a volunteer working one to one with a child to support their reading. This would be for a ten week block, for one hour on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Two day training is provided. If you are interested in possibly taking part in this excellent programme please indicate on the form. Thank you. Mr Croker

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY W/B 20/07/09
Monday 20/07/09
- Elm and Willow to Folly Farm
- Yr 1/2 Disco – Lower School Hall: 4.30 – 5.30pm
- Yr 3/4 Disco – Lower School Hall: 6.00 – 7.00pm
Tuesday 21/07/09
- Year 6 out at Hayesfield – Forensics Day
- Optional Parents’ Evening
Thursday 23/07/09
- 1R trip to Wagamama’s
- Yr 5/6 Leavers’ Tea and Disco – Upper School Hall
- 2.15pm Staff Leavers’ assembly for Mrs Phillips, Mrs Sheldrake and Mrs Horobin (Parents welcome)
Friday 24/07/09
- Year 6 Leavers’ Assembly @ 2.00pm
- END OF TERM

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING ‘STARS OF THE WEEK’
Foundation Stage
Olivia, Robert
Years 1 and 2
Matthew, Toby, Luc
Years 3 and 4
Emma, Harvey, Lucas, Alex
Years 5 and 6
Louis, Ryan, Caitlin, Paige, Sydney
PPA Art
Jed, All of Year 6
PPA PE
Harvey, Ellie
PPA Music
Ben, Ben

CELEBRATING WRITING - Meg – 2B
Newbridge walk
First we went to school and I sat on yellow table. Then we got into partners and my partner was Sophie. We put our bags on and looked at the quiz tasks. Eventually we went to the school gate and started the quiz. The first question was ‘How many lampposts are there in Charmouth Road?’ Our walk started at the end of Charmouth Road and my grown-up was Mrs Clark. On the first part of the walk we were at the front! We went to Rosslyn Road and spotted lots of bugs and cats. Our groups found the caterpillar, it had 3 balls on the top and an orange face (the balls were red). Soon we got to a field and one of the groups saw a deer! When we sat down we kept going on ants nests! We drew the view through our binoculars and we carried on after a while over millions of stiles. After that we went to Johan’s for lunch. We sat on a picnic rug. The garden was huge and there were at least 11 groups there! We could have a drink of water and stop off to go to the loo. Later on we went across the canal and we (some people) were lucky enough to watch the canal boat go through the locks!

ART WEEK – Fun had by all!
With the end of term fast approaching, we wanted to share with you a quick round up of our fantastic events during Art week. The children were buzzing with excitement all week as there were so many things going on, which included not only our Olympic Artist who worked with a group of Upper School children on a themed mural, but also:
- exciting sessions run by locally based artists
- art sessions based on a range of famous artists taught by all the teachers in school
- a wonderful exhibition displaying some high quality work by children at Newbridge
- art/craft workshops run by our excellent Year Six children
…and many other activities!
The week came to a close with a wonderful house event themed on India, where the children worked with all ages on a range of Indian Art activities. It was a great way of ending the week and we’re sure all the children were talking about it!
The Art theme has continued as the Year Six children are still completing the wonderful mural in the upper school cloakroom and work on the lower school playground mural is well underway. We received great feedback from staff, parents and our children about the week and we feel so pleased that the week was a great success!
(A huge ‘thank you’ to Miss Higginbotham and Mr Baigent for organising such an exciting and rewarding week, to Miss Simpson and Miss Wells for organising the India house event and to all the staff who once again pulled out all the stops to make it happen. We also thank Councillor Loraine Brinkhurst for enabling our children to work with the British Olympic Artist, Kevin Whitney. Last, but certainly not least, a huge debt of gratitude goes to our all our volunteers and in particular, Jane Callan, Carol Hinton, Jo Sutton, Karen Wallis, Sally and Neil McDonnell. Jane and Carol have virtually lived at school working on the two murals! Our gratitude goes to them all and to our excellent Year 6 pupil teachers!’ Mr Croker)

LOWER SCHOOL FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT
Year 2
Red Devils – 4 points
Burping Burger Kings – 6 points
Super Strikers – 7 points
Team Yoda – 7 Points – WINNERS - on goals scored (3:2)
Reception and Year 1
May the force be with you – 4 points
United – 5 points
The Wicked Willows – 6 pointsRangers – 9 points - WINNERS

LOWER SCHOOL FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT REPORT
On Thursday 9th July 56 children from the Lower School played in a 6-a-side football tournament. We all had fun and got lots of exercise. Team Yoda won for the Year 2s and Rangers won for Reception and Year 1. We would like to say thank you to Chris and Jake for being great referees and Mr Cumpson for helping to set up the pitches. Thank you to Cabi and Matt Grosvenor, my mummy and daddy, for organising the event to raise money for the adventure trail. Finally thank you to everyone who supported us.
By Rosie, 2B.
(‘I believe it should be a ‘thank you’ to the Grosvenor family, who found the time amidst a very busy life, to organise a great event (and report on it!). Well done to all our future Frank Lampards too!’ Mr Croker)

Film Making at Oldfield
On Thursday 9th July 18 children from year four 4 went to a film-making day at Oldfield School. When we arrived we got put into groups of six or seven. We had to perform Theseus and the Minotaur, but the great thing was we got to change it. In the morning we wrote our scripts and made props. In the afternoon we got to film our plays. “In my group I was Theseus”, said Lily “and in my group I was a man eating turtle and a guard” said Daniel. ‘We had lots of fun!’’
We would like to thank Miss Wells and Mr Proudman (a teacher at Oldfield) for organising it all and the adults that helped us on the way.
By Lily and Daniel - 4W

DINNER MONEY
All dinners must be taken on a weekly basis. Please note that the cost of dinners has increased to £9.50 per week. Please send the money in on a Monday morning, in an envelope with your child’s name and class on it. All cheques to be made payable to B&NES please. Dinner money for the coming term is as follows:

September - 20 days @ £1.90 =£38.00
October -15 days @ £1.90 = £28.50
TOTAL - £66.50

NPSA NEWS
Summer Fete
A huge big thank you to everyone who helped to make our Newbridge Summer Fete such a fantastic day - you may well have heard on the grapevine, but I can confirm that we made a record-breaking £6 thousand pounds. Over £3,600 of this total was due to the raffle, for which our raffle ladies deserve a special thank you; their hard work, enthusiasm and organisation will be a hard act to follow! I would also like to thank the members of staff who provided the lovely cream teas in such huge quantities; the teachers who ran stalls and helped set up on the day; the organizing committee for all their hard work over the last few months; the mum who produced such a professional and informative brochure; the dad who turned Elise’s beautiful picture into a fantastic poster; the families who ran the stalls so well; the team who ran the barbecue; all the businesses who donated goods to the fair; the fire engine crew and St John’s Ambulance; the families who made the conservation area such a magical place to do crafts; the people who brought in and put up gazebos; the parents and carers who helped on the Friday; all the parents and carers who sent in tombola prizes and donations; the children who performed on the day; the children and adults who entered the competitions and the judges who made the difficult decisions and, last but not least, all of you who came to the fete! And, of course, anyone else I may have forgotten to mention!

Raffle
We would like to thank everyone who bought or sold tickets for their help in raising a record-breaking £3600 in our recent raffle. We have been overwhelmed by the generosity and level of support from all the children, staff, parents and carers! We would also like to thank all the businesses and individuals who donated such wonderful raffle prizes! Thank you!

Now, as you all know, the raffle was also a competition to see which year group could sell the most tickets. The winning year group won a trip to Wagamamas Restaurant. Here are the results!

1st – Year 1, 2nd – Reception, 3rd – Year 5, 4th - Year 3

A big pat on the back to Caitlin Walker 5C and Ellie Sanders 3B, who sold the highest individual amount of tickets – an impressive 45 each! Well done!

Congratulations to our competition entrants
We will publish the names of all the winners in next week’s newsletter.


SCHOOL DISCOS
Please send the money with your child to the disco. Thank you.

Monday 20th July
Years 1 and 2 disco: 4.30 - 5.30pm
Years 3 and 4 disco: 6.00 – 7.00pm
£1.50 entrance to include a juice and chocolate bar

Thursday 23rd July
Year 5 disco: 6.30 – 8.00pm
entrance fee £1.50

Year 6 tea and disco: 5.00 – 8.00pm
entrance free (party tea will be provided)

chocolate bars (15p) and cartons of juice (50p) will be on sale


Lost at the fete
A pair of boys Clark Doodle Canvas shoes (with a grey shark on one shoe and an orange fish on the other) size 8. If found, please contact Bath 429943 or school office.
A pair of silver coloured children's sunglasses - Ben Massie, 2C