Headteacher: Mr R Stead Tel: 01823 400439

New email: office@milvertonprimary.co.uk www.milvertonprimary.co.uk

School and Office Opening Hours

School - 8.45am - 3.15pm Office - 8.30am - 4pm Morning club - 8am

Sports clubs 3.15pm –4.30pm

Toasties 3.15pm –4.30/5.45pm

Dear Parents and Carers, As the weather improves it is fantastic to be able to make full use of our wonderful school grounds. Please remember that the field is needed for clubs after school and are out of bounds. If you are staying with your child, they are welcome to use the adventure play-ground with your supervision. Mr Stead

Diary Dates

Class 6 Photos Monday 13th June

Class 5 Sports Festival at Kingsmead Weds 15th June

Eco Art Day Thursday 23rd June

Eco Day & Carrymoor Workshops Art exhibition of the children’s work at

3pm in the hall Friday 24th June (please see over for

more information)

Year 5 Outdoor Education Festival Weds 29th June (more info to follow)

Year 4 Orienteering Thursday 30th June

Move Up Day Thursday 30th June

Sports Day Monday 4th July

Summer Fete Saturday 9th July

Year 6 Play ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’

Thursday 14th July at 6pm

Year 6 Leaver’s Assembly Last Day of Term Tuesday 19th July

House Points Weekly

Total

Half Term

Total

Horse Chestnut 116 116

London Plane 120 120

Blue Cedar 110 110

Cork Oak 134 134

Friday Flyer

10th June 2016—Issue No. 33

Sharing Assembly Dates

Class R: Teddy Bear’s picnic Thurs 14th July at 2.30pm Class 1: Friday 1st July Class 4: Friday 8th July Class 5: Friday 17th June Class 6: Leavers’ Assembly Tuesday 19th July

Well done to Class 3 for an enter-

taining and brilliantly

performed sharing

assembly all about

Ancient Rome.

Over the last few weeks, Class 4 have been making Roman helmets. We made the hel-mets out of cardboard cereal boxes which made a good base. After that we used pa-per mache in four layers. When it was dry we chose a colour and painted it and added all the details.

by Crystal, Hattie and Evie, Class 4

Well done to London

Plane for receiving the most house points last half term

and winning the House

Cup.

OUTSTANDING LEARNERS OF THE WEEK! Class R Imogen for fantastic understanding and use of tricky vocabulary.

Class 1 The Whole of Class 1 for working so well with multiplication.

Class 2 Georgia for her consistent hard work and effort in everything she does. She brings a great attitude and smile to the classroom each day.

Class 3 The Whole of Class 3 for their amazing performance in their play about the Romans.

Class 4 Isaac for his poem (see below). Class 4’s poems were entered into a poetry competition and Isaac’s poem was commended out of 906 entries! Fantastic work, well done Isaac!

Class 5 Charlotte for the support, leadership and ability she has shown during our morning of athletics with Maths.

Class 6 Maura for being really focussed and working hard this week.

Before half term 11 Year 4 children, their parents

and Mrs Nicholls went to Somerset College to take part in a rounder’s tournament. This was the first tournament that the team had taken part in so nerves were running high! On arrival the teams were talked through the rules and then the matches began. As you can see from the results there was no need for any nerves as the team played exceptionally well!

On Wednesday 8th June some Year 5 & 6s

went to Taunton Vale Cricket Club to compete in the Kwik-cCicket playoffs. We all did very well. Our first match was a friendly against St. Andrews and we lost this by quite a large margin. We still held our heads high and went into the next match against Creech St. Michael. After the 12 overs, Milverton won it by just 2 runs off the very last ball of the game. This meant we moved to the semi-final! This was against Wiveliscombe (our rivals) and yet again we beat them quite convincingly allowing us to move forward into the final! Unfortunately, we came up against last year’s winners, Parkfield, and we lost the match in the very last over – it was so close! However, we still received our silver medals and won a place at the Somerset Kwik Cricket Finals to be held at Somer-set County Cricket Ground on June 22nd. Well done to everyone that played and thank you to the parents for their help with transport and cheering and Mr Coupe for umpiring. We are really looking forward to the next tournament. by Josh, Class 6

Blackbrook 12 Milverton 19

North Town 3 Milverton 41

Bishops Henderson 13 Milverton 25

Wiveliscombe 18 Milverton 18

Rockwell Green 3 Milverton 19

On Tuesday 7th June 2016, Milverton School Year 5 Cricket team took part in the Tone Schools Primary Year 5 Kwik Cricket Tournament. This took place at Taunton Cricket Club at Tone Vale. The weather was really hot and sunny and perfect for cricket. In the squad we had 8 players, each game had 3 pairs with one pair having a rest. We played 4 games, winning 3 and losing just 1. Unfortu-nately, the match we lost meant that we didn’t get through to the semi-finals, however we all played really well and competitively. We would like to thank all the parents for taking us and cheering us on, SASP for organis-ing such a great tournament and Mr Coupe and the teach-ers from other schools for umpiring and keeping score. by Jack and Finley, Class 5

Milverton 252 Staplegrove 227

Milverton 246 Trinity 260

Milverton 260 West Monkton 215

Milverton 267 Sampford Arundel 226

Peregrine Falcon

O Falcon fierce and heroic your eyes scan land for prey. Your speed beats night and day. Flying higher and higher. You are a bird that can inspire. Is it a mystery what you eat? Why do you have such a sharp beak? Why are your eyes so filled with fire? Why are your talens like barbed wire? Are you usually in a good mood or bad mood? Are you good at scavenging for food? You must go and feed your chicks now So please go past. Wait one last thing to ask. Really how are you so fast? By Isaac, Class 4

We are holding eco art day next week and

would love the children to bring in next

Thursday any of the following if you have it

at home:

Old CDS Crisp packets (cleaned) Magazines Any recycling such as egg cartons, card tubes, small plastic bottles, bits of wool, yoghurt pots, card boxes, ribbon, old fab-rics. Plastic carrier bags Newspapers For Class 4 any old t-shirts/ thin material for tie-dying.

We welcome bikes and scooters on site, espe-cially if that means that children have not trav-elled to school in the car, but for safety’s sake we have to have a strict policy that they are not ridden on the school grounds. If you are bring-ing bike or scooter on site, please make sure your child is pushing it, not riding on it.

Thank you.

Is your child aged between 2 to 4? Would you like them to attend pre school in the beautiful setting of Milverton school? Milverton Community Pre School is open from 9am to 3pm term time. Rated good by Ofsted we offer a caring and stimulating environment for our children. Check out our lovely web site for more details milvertonpreschool.com, or why not give us a ring and come and have a look around? Call Carol Morris on 01823 400243.