Rodings Primary School Parent Portal

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Issue Number: 22

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"Year 2 launched their ‘Castles’ topic this week with a wonderful Medieval Day, involving dancing, archery, making bread rolls, calligraphy, creating illuminated letters, decorating goblets, and enjoying a delicious banquet!"

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On Tuesday we were really lucky to have the award winning poet, Neal Zetter, come to our school for the day. He began the day with a brilliant assembly where he had us all laughing away as he shared several of his poems with us! He then held a workshop with each class which led to a week of poetry writing. It was so lovely to share and celebrate so many fantastic poems in assembly today.

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Book Week is NEXT WEEK and we have some exciting things planned!

We are launching a 'Book in a Jar' competition where your challenge is to choose one of your favourite books and represent it in a jam jar/mason jar. For anyone who would like to take part could you ensure that your jars are returned to your class teachers by Wednesday 5th March.

On Wednesday 5th March we will also be holding a book swap. We would like your child to bring a book that they've read and no longer want ready to exchange it with someone.

On Thursday 6th March we would love for you to come dressed up as your favourite book character for World Book Day.

On Friday 7th March in the afternoon we will be having 'bedtime stories' where the children can bring their pyjamas/slippers/teddy ready to enjoy a story and a hot chocolate.

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Uttlesford Cross Country

On Wednesday afternoon, we had a group of children from KS2 take the trip up ti Carver Barracks in Saffron Walden to race in the USSP Uttlesford Cross-Country. These children had already been successful in their races against the Dunmow schools in October, and now it was time to race against the best in Uttlesford!

Despite pretty awful weather, all the children raced their hardest and put in some very impressive performances, showing great determination and resilience.

Special mentions need to go to Veronica, Eliza, Lochie, Albie, Jack and Felicity for their top-10 finishes (each race had upwards of 50 children in each)!

The best-placed school and those who finished in the top-5 of their race qualified to go through to the county final, racing against all of Essex in April. We're very proud to say that Eliza (Yr3) and Albie (Yr4) made it through to this event. We wish them the very best!

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Upcoming Events

Monday 3rd March- Year 6 Girls Netball

Wednesday 5th March- Year 3/4 Girls Football

Wednesday 12th March- Year 5/6 Hockey

Friday 14th March- Year 5 Girls Football

Good Luck to all those in these teams!

Volunteers (still) Needed!

We have been having a really great year of competitive sport. So far, we have attended 8 USSP events, have 4 more upcoming in the next month and there will undoubtedly be more as we go into the summer term. We have only been able to go to the majority of these because our amazing parents have taken their children there, solving our first difficulty: arranging transport.

Finding adults to accompany the children to these events is a separate challenge and one which we hope you can help us with. We'd love to expand our bank of parent volunteers to include those who could accompany a sports trip. If you have the occasional afternoon free (particularly Fridays) and would be happy to help with these trips, we'd love to hear from you!

If you'd like more information, please email mr.jinkerson@rodingsprimary.co.uk

If you're happy to help, please email office@rodingsprimary.co.uk

Thank you,

Mr Jinkerson

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News from the Friends

Penny Wars

The first week of Penny Wars has got off to a great start, Toucans look to be out in front but how badly have they been sabotaged?!

Some jars are already quite full so will need to be emptied but please rest assured these coins will be safely put aside and labelled ready to be counted at the end of the competition. Stickers will be added to any emptied jars so the children can keep track of how their class is doing.

The children and staff alike all seem to be enjoying this exciting inter-class competition, thank you for you continued support.

Quiz Night

The Rodings Quiz Night hosted by our quiz master extraordinaire, Mr Raraty, will be held on the 14^th March. This is an adults only event so get that childcare organised now. You can get together and form a team of 10 or just book your tickets and will organise your team for you. Tickets are on sale on Arbor now, ensure you book yours before the 11^th March to avoid disappointment! Please see the poster below for more information.

Easy Fundraising

If you are planning on booking a holiday (or doing any online shopping) please consider using Easy Fundraising for your bookings. Many holiday companies are part of Easy Fundraising, allowing you to donate to your school while booking your holiday.

To sign up go to www.easyfundraising.org.uk - download the app or sign up on your browser. When signing up please select “Friends of Rodings Primary School” (there are a couple of other Rodings schools!). Once you are signed up you can access websites through the app or if shopping in your browser Easy Fundraising will ask you if you want to donate, this doesn’t make any difference to the cost of your shopping but a percentage of anything you spend will go directly to the school.

School Lottery

As some of you already know, we are a member of Your School Lottery. If you would like to support this you can sign up here: https://www.yourschoollottery.co.uk/lottery/school/rodings-primary-school. This is an easy way to support the school and you might be a winner!

If you would like to connect with us please follow us on social media:

Facebook – Friends of Rodings Primary School

Instagram - @the_friends_of_rodings_school

Or email us at: friendsofrodings@gmail.com

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