Dear Parents and Carers,
I do hope to see many of you at our Praise and Celebrate assembly this afternoon at 14.55, which will be an outside affair, due to the setting up of the jumble sale. So please do pick up a chair on your way down to the field from outside the hall.
Year 6 will also be selling bags of sweets after the assembly, as they start to raise money for their end of year activity.
NOTICES
Parent Governor Vacancy
Our parent governor vacancy is still open so do please get in touch if you would like to find out further information. Alternatively please contact our clerk to the governors Catherine Dunkley-Jones, who will willingly share what is involved. clerk@stowerprovost.dorset.sch.uk.
THIS WEEK
Oak Class
My thanks to Mrs Lewis who has prepared the SATs breakfasts all week for our Year 6 pupils. I have no doubt the bacon rolls, croissant and other delights tasted as good as they smelt!
My congratulations to all our Year 6 pupils who approached the SATs papers with determination and worked so hard towards achieving the best results they can. I am sure you will all agree that the children have been readied so well by Mrs Clasby. I thank you Mrs Clasby, as I am sure we all do, for your dedication and the additional hours preparing the children, be this in the classroom or during the multiple after school clubs which have run since February.
My thanks also to those governors and members of staff who also assisted with the administration of the tests, be this working on a 1:1 basis or helping with papers and ensuring the tests were carried out as detailed by DfE guidance. Thank you all!
Gardening Club
Gardening Club certainly enjoyed planting wild flower seeds, kindly donated by Dorset Garden Trust. We now look forward to seeing what grows!
Coding Club
Coding Club this week has been incredibly exciting! The children were challenged to make a banana keyboard. This involved connecting wires from the MicroBit to a banana and a clementine, and then coding the MicroBit to make sounds or noises when the clementine is held in one hand and the banana is tapped (the electrical current passing through the person). We had some astounded faces when their first musical sounds were heard, and then they worked to create some brilliant music.
Lego Club
Lego Club decided to build as a whole on Monday and collaboratively constructed the amazing Empire State Building, photographed – quite a build I’d say! (Miss Buxton)
14th May – Hero Day for World Vision
Our school council were keen to raise money for the World Vision charity, who help children all over the world. Pupils were encouraged to dress up and come into school dressed as a hero, this could be a fictional character or real life. There was a real variety of costumes and heros – from children dressing up as their dads or teachers, to doctors and super heroes! My thanks for the donations received which will be sent to World Vision.
Just a quick reminder that Year 6’s will have their Hero Day on Tuesday 20th May.
TESTS
Chestnut Class
I have explained the importance of times tables and how we can work the times tables facts down from 144 down to 34 facts. The children are being given time in class to retain their times tables facts, any help at home would be most appreciated, as all Year 4 pupils will sit their statutory multiplication test in the week after half term. This test is administered online, on a 1:1 basis. Children have 5 seconds to answer 25 random times table facts.
Beech Class
Year 1 pupils in Beech Class, and those who did not pass the test last year, will sit the Year 1 phonic assessment during the week of 9th June. These are administered on a 1:1 basis.
Year 2 pupils in Beech Class will be sitting their SATs during next week. Please see the table below for an outline of the week.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
| Reading Paper 1
Arithmetic |
Reading Paper 2
GAPS – grammar, punctuation and spellings |
Maths
|
Reasoning
Spelling |
Year 1 pupils will continue with their lessons, separately, while tests are administered.
Clubs
Summer Term Clubs
| Day | Club | Time | Children | Cost | Booking Information |
| Monday | Lego Club | 15.30 – 16.30 | Open | Book via https://kwbclubs.ecwid.com/Lego-Club-Bookings-c61790078 | |
| Monday | Gardening | 15.30 – 16.30 | Open | £10 per 4 week block | Book via Mrs Pike |
| Tuesday | Athletics | 15.30 – 16.30 | KS2 | Free | Book via Prime Sports website |
| Wednesday | Athletics | 15.30 – 16.30
First half of term only |
KS1 /EYFS | Free | Book via Mrs Pike |
| Wednesday | Lego Technics | 15.30 – 16.30 | Invitation | Free | Invitation by Mr KP |
| Wednesday | Coding Club | 15.30 – 16.30 | LKS2/KS1 | Free | Book via Mrs Pike |
| Thursday | Lego Club | 15.30 – 16.30 | Open | Book via https://kwbclubs.ecwid.com/Lego-Club-Bookings-c61790078 | |
| Friday | Tennis/Cricket | 15.30 – 16.30 | KS2 | Free | Book via Prime Sports website |
NEXT WEEK and BEYOND
14th May – Hero Day for World Vision
Our school council are keen to raising money for the World Vision charity, who help children all over the world. Pupils are encouraged to dress up and come into school dressed as a hero, this could a fictional character or real life. A donation of £1 is suggested, which will be donated to World Vision.
As Year 6’s have their SATs on Hero Day, Mrs Clasby would like to hold Hero Day for Year 6’s on Tuesday 20th May. 14th May – Hero Day for World Vision
Our school council are keen to raising money for the World Vision charity, who help children all over the world. Pupils are encouraged to dress up and come into school dressed as a hero, this could a fictional character or real life. A donation of £1 is suggested, which will be donated to World Vision.
Uniform timetable
I thought it would be helpful to highlight days the children should be doing sporting and/or Forest School activities. If swimming kit could be in school daily this would be helpful, as we may well take the opportunity to swim on days not shown on the timetable below.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| Oak Class | PE Kit if PR swim gym
PR swim and gym for selected pupils. PE kit to be worn in school. |
School uniform
|
School uniform
Swimming |
PE Kit
PE
|
School uniform
Forest School (boots and waterproofs)
Swimming |
| Chestnut Class | PE Kit if PR swim gym
PR swim and gym for selected pupils. PE kit to be worn in school. |
School uniform
Forest School (boots and waterproofs) |
School uniform
Swimming |
PE Kit
PE
|
School uniform
Swimming |
| Beech Class | PE Kit
Forest School (boots and waterproofs) and PE |
PE Kit
PE |
School uniform
Swimming |
School uniform
|
School uniform
Swimming |
| Hazel Class | PE Kit
Forest School (boots and waterproofs) |
PE Kit
PE
|
School uniform
Swimming
Forest School (boots, FS clothes and waterproofs) |
School uniform
|
School uniform
Swimming |
Sports Day
Sports Day will occur on Friday 23rd May. Pupils are encouraged to wear a t-shirt in their house colours, along with school PE shorts. If you or your child are unsure of which house they belong to, then please ask your child’s class teacher or in the office.
Hambledon – blue
Duncliffe – red
Melbury – green
As with last year parents and carers are invited to picnic with their on the field between 12.15 – 12.45.
If you are picnicking your child/ren will be your responsibility during this time.
Key Stage 2 (Oak and Chestnuts) sports day will run 13.00 – 14.00, followed by Key One and Early Years (Beech and Hazel classes) 14.00 – 15.00.
All children will gather for results between 15.00 – 15.15.
Parents, carers and friends are welcome to come and spectate.
FRIENDS OF STOWER PROVOST
Donations of clothes, plants and cakes would be warmly welcomed and can be dropped off at the school office. Any parental support on the 17th May would also be welcomed!
| 17th May | 9.30 – 11.30 | Jumble Sale |
| 19th June | 15.30 – 17.00 | Friends of Stower Provost Summer Solstice Disco |
| 4th July | 15.15 – 17.00 | Summer BBQ |
Easy Fundraiser
There is no time like the present to download the Easy Fundraising app on your phone, and raise funds for the school without having to do anything, other than going through the app to make online purchases.
Remember friends, family and businesses can all use our Easy Fundraiser page too. Larger items like insurance and travel can also be purchased through the Easy Fundraiser page.
You can raise even more money by asking others to join the community fundraising effort – use the QR code!
How it works: easyfundraising partners have over 7,000 brands who will donate part of what you spend to a cause of your choice. It won’t cost you any extra. The cost is covered by the brand.
So why not help the school raise money and make your online purchases through the Easy Fundraising app?!
https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/panel/
COMMUNITY AND OTHER NEWS
Prime Sports Half Term Sporting Opportunities
Please find attached flyers for half term activities starting on Tuesday 27th May offered by Prime Sports.
Rockley Point Holiday Camps
Rockley Point Holiday Camps. Rockley point are holding holiday camps for just £50pp. Please see information below:
Get organised this may half-term with our very popular Multi-Activity Kids Holiday Camps! Available daily at our three Dorset-based centres, your kids get to have fun outdoors, taking part in a range of water and land-based activities.
Available daily
Just £50 per person per day
Great range of activities
Early drop off and late pick up available
We accept childcare vouchers
Please contact – Courtney, Jack, Sara, Nathaniel and Lucy, if you have any questions regarding any of the courses and activities we offer at Rockley. Call 01202 677272 or drop us an email – hello@rockley.org.
CLASS NEWS
Oak Class
Well – what a fab week we have had. While Year 5 have been busy working away on Black history topics and number work with Mrs Rowley, the Year 6 children have been enjoying our annual SATs festival! We have loved Mrs Lewis’ SATs breakfasts – we even had a table cloth and napkins. We have been tested on our SPAG, reading and maths – to the extent that we have had 3 maths papers. Wednesday was busy! In science we have been looking at evolution. We learned that
all life on Earth has evolved from simple life forms to more complex ones over time; all life on Earth has common ancestors and is therefore related, and; living things with characteristics most suited to their environment are more likely to survive and reproduce. Next week, we are looking forward to finding more about the Kumbh Mela. (Mrs Clasby)
Chestnut Class
Our historical exploration delved into the agricultural practices of Sumerian citizens. We investigated their farming techniques, the types of crops they cultivated, and the impact of their nutritional intake on various aspects of their lives.
In PSHE, we engaged in discussions choices. Children considered decisions individuals make daily, while also identifying choices that should be avoided due to potential negative consequences.
Our mathematical focus this week continued to build upon the relationship between fractions and decimal numbers. We specifically concentrated on understanding hundredths, quarters, and halves as their decimal equivalents.
The English curriculum this week encouraged vivid and descriptive writing. Students employed similes and expanded noun phrases to create detailed portrayals of a pharaoh participating in a chariot race.
The children thoroughly enjoyed their swimming lesson. They demonstrated a positive attitude towards pushing their personal boundaries and showed further progress in becoming more confident and capable swimmers. (Mrs Sanda)
Beech Class
This week in Beech Class, the children have written their own versions of ‘The crow’s tale’ with some beautiful descriptions and great use of repetition for effect. In Maths, the children have been doing superb work with finding 1/2, 1/4 and 1/3s of amounts and shapes.
During the afternoons, Beech Class have learnt about Edward Jenner and the benefits he has given society. In addition to this, we have been swimming this week with Mr Lowe, which the children thoroughly enjoy as well as starting to adorn fabric flowers in DT. (Mrs Whelan)
Hazel Class
This week Hazel Class have been very busy comparing and contrasting animals from around the world and their features or adaptations. We watched a video about animals in the Serengeti and how these animals differ from the ones found around us. We talked about animals that live in hot and cold climates and how their appearance changes – for example animals that live in very cold places may have white fur or feathers for camouflaging in the snow. We have investigated how animals communicate and listened to the loudest animal in the world – the howler monkey. We created lion masks using our collage, cutting and sticking skills, and we moved like lots of different animals. (Miss Buxton)
Diary Dates
| 16th May | All day | Chestnut class trip to Tutankhamun Museum (letter to come) |
| 16th May | 14.55 | Outdoor Praise and Celebrate assembly |
| 16th May | 15.20 | Friends VIP Jumble Sale slot |
| 17th May | 09.30 – 11.30 | Friends Jumble Sale – clothes, crafts and collectables! |
| 19th May | 13.00 – 14.00 | Gym / Swim for selected pupils |
| 20th May | All day | Year 6 Hero Day for World Vision (children to dress as a hero) |
| 21st May | 10.00 – 14.30 | Y3/4 Mini Tennis Festival at Port Regis (selected children) |
| 23rd May |
12.15 – 12.45 13.00 – 14.00 14.00 – 15.00 15.00 – 15.15 |
Sports Day – Wear your house colour
Picnics on the field Oak and Chestnuts sports day Beech and Hazel class sports day Results |
| 23rd May | 15.20 | Half Term – No After School Club |
| 2nd June | 08.40 | Second half of term starts |
| 5th June | 12.30 – 16.00 | Athletics Meet at Yeovil (selected children) |
| 10th June | 09.00 – 14.30 | Years 4 & 5 Poetry and Music Experience at the Larma Tree Gardens |
| 16th June | Hazel Class trip (details to follow) | |
| 19th June | 15.30 – 17.00 | Friends of Stower Provost Summer Solstice Disco |
| 21st June | Flower Festival at Stour Provost village | |
| 3rd July | 10 – 12.00 | Mini Olympics at St Mary’s (Beech Class) |
| 4th July | 9 – 9.25 | P&C assembly – morning time due to Summer Fete |
| 4th July | 15.20 – 17.00 | Friends of Stower Provost Summer Fete |
| 7th July | 9.15 | School play dress rehearsal |
| 8th July | 16.00 | School Play |
| 9th July | 14.00 | School Play |
| 10th July | 12.00 – 15.00 | KS2 Swimming Gala at Riversmeet Sports Centre. |
| 11th July | 15.20 | Reports out to parents |
| 15th July | Timings tbc | Samba and Poetry at the Larmer Tree Gardens (Year 5) |
| 22nd July | 14.30 | Leavers assembly |
| 22nd July | 15.20 | Last day of term – no After School Club |
| 23rd July | All day | INSET Day |
Best wishes,
Ailsa Boardman-Hirst