Sports Day - Monday 1 1th July Our sports day this year takes place on Monday, please ensure your child arrives at school wearing their PE kit wearing their house colour t-shirt if possible. Parents are invited to come along for all or to drop in for part of the day. The schedule is as follows: 9.30am meet on the school field 9.40am start with sprinting races heats and finals- reception first Then year 1,2,3,4,5 and 6 10.30am Break for 15mins 10.45am Meet back at field 1 1.00am Hurdling races- year reception first then year 1,2,3,4,5 and 6 LUNCH 1.00pm Back to class register and come back out to field for 1.15pm 1.15pm-2.00pm different activities to take part in trying to earn points for your houses again top 3 in each event gets the points or top team. 2.00pm announce winning house!! We look forward to seeing you there. Foundation Teddy Bear Picnic Our Foundation Unit children would like to share some pictures of their teddy bear picnic held this week. A fantastic time was had by all and the children and their teddies were very lucky that it was a beautiful sunny day.

Friday 8th July 2016

Wilcombe Primary School

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Lazenby Road Tiverton Devon

EX16 4AL 01884 253025

Diary Dates.

08.07.16 & 11.07.16 7pm - Year 4 The Little Mermaid 11.07.16 Sports Day 14.07.16 KS2 Production “Ye-Ha!” 15.07.15 Leavers Disco 20.07.16 Leavers Assembly

Happy Birthday this week to:

Herbie Baker

Bryn Moore

Neve Maynard

Billy Saunders

Attendance Bunny This week, it’s Boudicca class at the top spot with 98.4% attendance. Well done Year 2.

End of Year Reports All children have brought home their end of year school report today. If you require duplicate copies, please ask at the school of-fice.

Ye-Ha! Tickets are now available for both the evening and matinee performances from the school office, Adult tickets are £4.00 and Child tickets are £2.00. Please come along and sup-port the children and enjoy their fantastic production.

Little Mermaid - Year 4 Final arrangements for this evening are as follows: 5.50-6.10: bring your child to the main reception at THS where they will be met by Mr Jenkins 7pm- Performance starts 8.15 Collect your child from the main reception. Please ensure you have told a member of staff that you are taking your child! Clothing-Make sure your child is wearing dark coloured trousers and their sailor T shirt. School will look after the hats and bring them on the night. Tickets– These are still available from the school office, however, if you do not have a ticket, there will be tickets on sale at the door.

Woodlands Trip On Tuesday 19th July we have arranged a trip to Woodlands for all children in year 6. Please ensure that payment, permissions and SOE3s are re-turned to the school office by Thursday 14th July. Thank you.

Mid Devon Show Children form Wilcombe will be taking part in performances at the Mid Devon Show on Saturday 23rd July. The deadline for re-turning slips to the school office is today.

Our Attendance Goal: 95.5% This Week’s Attendance: 96.3%

In accordance with our Safeguarding Policy, from time to time school may need to make a referral to Children & Young People Services

Year to Date: 94.8%

Message from the Head of School We are so busy at this end of term that it is difficult to keep track of everything that is happening! Please help us by reading the newslet-ter and other letters that come home and re-sponding quickly to any requests for permissions and other information.

This week we are sending home your child's end of year academic report. The children have worked so hard this year to rise to the challenges of a new more challenging curriculum. It has been a year of uncertainty in the teaching profession as all teachers across the country struggled to get to grips with a new curriculum and new assessment procedures that changed more than once across the year! Please take the time to read and re-flect on your child's report and please come back and ask us any questions. The ideal time for this is the Meet the Teacher evening on Wednesday 20th Juy 5-8pm where there will be the opportunity to talk to your child's current teacher and their teacher for next year. It is a really informal and friendly event where we can all relax with a burger and take the time to catch up. Please come along.

Louise Oxenham Head of school

Watersmeet Trip We had a super day pond dipping eating ice cream, having a guided walk of the east Lyn valley with the love-ly ranger Dan and a paddle in the sea. Thank you very much to the family holiday association and the national trust for making it happen. Thank you to the lovely fam-ilies that signed up for it! Look out in the newsletter for similar trips over the year. This one was totally free and there were spare seats on the bus! It was the best day ever!

Permaculture and Play The schedule for permaculture and play days next week is as follows:

Monday 1 1th July: No P & P - Sports Day Tuesday 12th July– Year 3 Wednesday 13th July – Year 1

For the remainder of this term, we are only running morning sessions. Children will then have their normal school dinner. As it is sports day on Monday there will be no Permaculture and Play that day..

Leavers Disco The leavers disco takes place next Friday 15th July. This is a whole school event, further details will be sent home next week Leavers Assembly A note for your diary—the leavers assembly will take place on Wednesday 20th July in the afternoon. Further details will be sent home next week.

Meet the Teacher Evening We will be holding our annual informal ‘meet your child’s teacher’ evening on Wednesday 20th July from 5pm to 8pm. The school will be open from 5pm -8pm and during that time there will be the opportunity to attend a whole school meeting where we will discuss school expectations and general routines as well as class meetings where you can hear what your children will be doing next year. When you are not in a meeting we will be providing a BBQ and you will be able to chat informally to your child’s teachers both from this year and next. During the class meeting there will also be the opportunity for you to meet the parents of the other children in your child’s class and begin to put names to faces and start to network. To give us an idea of how much food to provide, please indicate on the slip below if you would like BBQ on the evening.

Meet the Teacher Evening - 20/07/2016 Chiild’s Name _______________________________ We will be coming to the meet the teacher evening and would love to enjoy some delicious BBQ!

No. of people attending:

Adults: ________ Children: ________