It is the time of year when there is a final push for progress, writing reports, planning sports days, end-of-year events, saying goodbye to our Y6 children, welcoming a huge group of Reception children to the school, saying thank you and goodbye to highly regarded staff and arranging a new staffing plan!

Next Thursday, the children in Reception to Y5, will be having a 'going-up' afternoon to meet their new teacher for the year ahead, voting on a new class name (on the theme of story characters) and getting to know more about the learning for their new school year. They will be finding out their new class teachers on Tuesday. The Y6 children have also got transition sessions planned with their new secondary schools. 

Whilst our class staffing plan for September is not quite complete, this is attached to this newsletter for your information. Where there is a gap at the moment, information will be shared as soon as possible so that the class currently in Year 3 meet their new teacher before the end of the summer term. The support team working hard around the class teams remains the same as now.

The sports days are coming up and we are pleased that these can be back to the format that we know and love with just a couple of tweaks.  You are warmly invited in for these events and are also welcome to bring a picnic to enjoy with your family on the field at lunchtime before heading home. Mr Paragreen will be compering the days again - can you believe this year will be his 40th year of doing this for us!!!! 40 years!!! WOW 

Both sports days will start at 9am. Bring a picnic rug or chairs, sun cream, waterproofs and refreshments for whatever the weather might have in store.

Assessments

As you may all be aware many of your children have been taking assessments over the past couple of weeks. In the early weeks of May, our Year 6 children sat their Key Stage 2 SATS (Standard Assessment Tasks). Following this, our Year 2 children have sat their SATS and Year 1 children have undertaken their phonics screening assessment. This week children in Years 3, 4 and 5 have been completing their assessments. We are also still assessing our youngest children in Reception. The main areas that the assessments are focusing on are: maths, reading, writing, science and SPaG (spelling, punctuation and grammar). You will shortly be receiving your child's end-of-year report which will give you details of how well your child did in these assessments and areas that they need to develop to improve further.

All the children have done incredibly well to participate in these assessments and have shown real determination and resilience. If you would like to find out more, please speak or email your child's class teacher. They will be happy to help.

Racism Workshop at DPS

It was a real shame that no one was able to join the Zoom meeting that we planned last week to talk about racism and how we can support our children and the wider community, to be fully inclusive and proactive in this very important area.  It is an area that is crucial to focus on and one that we hope to reschedule for another date. 

 

Father’s Day Event

Huge thanks to Dan Coroy, Sarah Conroy and Michael Robins for supporting us with a great BBQ to recognise Father's Day. It has been a couple of years since we have been able to run this event, so it was very special to get it back up and running.

We recognise that some of you did have to wait a long time, and for this we apologise, but hopefully, the quality of the burger made up for it! They did such an amazing job keeping up with huge amount of dads and dad figures.

                               News from Deanshanger Village Library                                                             

 GADGETEERS!

2022 Summer Reading Challenge starts Wednesday 13^th July 2022 in Deanshanger Village Library. Partner: Science Museum Group.

Illustrator: Julian Beresford.

Looks at the science and innovation behind everyday objects.

This is a national incentive sponsored by the Reading Agency aimed at keeping children reading over the school break. The aim is to read 6 books. Books can be non-fiction, fiction, poem books, comics, manga, graphic novels, adventure stories, audio books, fantasy, sci-fi and shared books that you read with some one else. Sign up for a GADGETEERS! log to record the books you read.

• Collect stickers along the way.
• Get login information for countless online games, quizzes and information linked to the challenge.
• Complete the challenge to read six books and get a certificate.
• Visit the library for more details. Or watch out for a special school assembly soon.

Library Open Hours:-

Wednesdays and Fridays 10am-1pm, 2pm -5pm

Six characters, use their skills, gadgets and interests/hobbies to put on a great party to celebrate ‘reading over the summer'. Their skills include communication, teamwork, imagination, problem solving, experimentation and perseverance.

Leo mad about music and learning to play the drums. 

Aisha loves sport especially skate boarding and football. Uses non-Newtonian fluid for protective gear when on her skateboard.  

James (in a wheelchair) likes fashion and drawing, owns a holographic generator!

Eddie (she) likes games and dance, tries out kinetic tiles on the dance floor.

Ajay loves gardening and the environment.

Maggie (wears sensory earphones when things get too noisy), loves cooking and stopping food waste...

 

Also at Deanshanger Library ...

Friends of Deanshanger Library (FoDL) supports GADGETEERS!

These activity and craft sessions will make signing up for

GADGETEERS! even more fun!

Linking into the SRC theme discover a micro-world of patterns, fingerprints, microscopes and magnifying glasses. Use junk modelling to build moon buggies, satellite stations and rockets. Join in our Mad Scientist fancy dress day, become Inspector Gadget and design you own crazy invention and have fun thinking about the intriguing area of communication! Create paper planes, coke bottle rockets… so many things to explore!

Dates (please note change of day from Friday’s regular term-time craft sessions)

Wednesday 27^th July 2pm-4.30pm

Wednesday 3^rd August 2pm- 4.30pm

Wednesday 10^th August 2pm-4.30pm

Wednesday 17^th August 2pm-4.30pm

Wednesday 24^th August 2pm-4.30pm

Wednesday 31^st August 2pm-4.30pm

All sessions are free, drop in, no need to book. Under 8’s must be accompanied by an adult. You can join SRC without attending the craft sessions they simply offer more fun and are unique to Deanshanger.