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8th July 2021
Overthorpe Road, Banbury,
OX16 4SB
Tel: 01295 262507
Head Teacher: Neil Blackwell
Enough has been said about all the challenges of this year. It’s time to look forward to September!
We will hopefully be reverting to our ‘usual’ school day, though that seems so long ago that
nobody can remember what it is! The times of the school day will be:
You will most likely be able to enter and leave by whichever gate is most convenient for you, but please remember to
leave enough time to get here and be considerate to our neighbours if parking. School starts for Years 1 to 6 children on
Thursday 2nd September and for Nursery and Reception on Monday 6th September.
Lunchtime will revert back to one hour long which will be great for children (and teachers!). Activity Clubs will also restart
and we will write to you again about this in September. We hope that many children will challenge themselves to try
something new – it’s all part of preparing for Life in all its Fullness!
Wishing you all the very best,
Neil Blackwell
From the Head Teacher
“Life in all its fullness”
John 10:10
Newsletter
“If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books” (Roald Dahl)
Reading Rainbow
Yellow
R2 - Afsha, Subhan 1A - Musab 3/4C - Evie
3/4C - Rhianna
Orange
Start of day Collection time
Nursery morning children 8.30 11.30
Reception 8.40 3.00
Year 1 8.40 3.05
Year 2 8.40 3.05
Year 3 8.40 3.15
Year 4 8.40 3.15
Year 5 8.40 3.15
Year 6 8.40 3.15
Nursery afternoon children 12.15 3.15
2A - Olivia
2B - Louie, Arisha
3/4A - Emily B
3/4B - Emily BF, Emily DS
6A - Alexa
2A - Yahya
2B - Ibrahim
3/4C - Sapphire
5A - Gracie, Luke, Riley
6B - Immanuel, Umar
Blue
Violet
1A - James
2B - Nimrah, Arisha
3/4B - Rhyliee
3/4C - Kacper
5B - Aiden
6B - Daisy
Indigo
R2 - Amna
1A - Husna
3/4A - Lena
3/4 B - Jayden, Elise, Hafsa, Stefan
Reading Bingo
Reading Rainbow continued...
Green
R2 - Jimmy, Ayronn 2A - Dylan 3/4A - Ethan
There will be two Holiday Clubs at St Leonard’s this summer:
Banbury United summer football camp 2nd-5th August and 23rd-26th August, based in the Diamond Building and
on the field
Linguatots 23rd-27th August, based in the Hall and on the KS1 playground
The former has already been advertised on Class Dojo and we’ll make sure that all details are on the school website.
Holiday Clubs
We are also relaunching our After School Club in September. We are pleased to announce the appointment of Michelle Bliss as Manager and she is looking forward to working with Rosie and Tasha to make provision even better for our children. We have listened to feedback and there is an option to attend up to 4.30pm next term, instead of paying for the full session to 5.50pm. We are improving food, too; snacks will be provided pre - 4.30pm and a meal at around 4.45pm. All the details have been sent out to the whole school by email this week, please speak to the office if you have not received it so we can check your contact details.
After School Club
One small change that we are introducing for September is
that no indoor shoes will be needed in Reception. This is
something which we are trialling and, if successful, we may
extend this across the school.
Uniform
The PTFA is our Parents, Teachers and Friends Association. It does an excellent job at supporting the
children of our school and has historically arranged lots of fundraising activities such as discos, film
nights, Easter competitions and Christmas and Summer fayres. Even this year, during COVID, it has
bought hoodies for Year 6 and donated over £500 for the Nursery children to have new furniture.
Next year we have a full programme of events planned, and the Circus arrives in town on Friday 17th September which will
have room for 600 children and parents to experience the show on our school field (in 3 different sittings). Tickets will be
£7 each, which means that a family of 3 will pay less than the cost of ONE ticket at some of the larger circuses.
If you would like to join, help, or offer ideas then please get in touch with [email protected] or come along to the AGM (Annual General Meeting) on Monday 6th September at 7.00 pm in the Diamond Building. You can even join via Zoom if you prefer!
PTFA
Friday 9th July
Sunday 11th July
Thursday 15th July
Friday 16th July
Friday 16th July
Wednesday 21st July
Wednesday 21st July
Thursday 22nd July
Wednesday 1st September
Thursday 2nd September
Monday 6th September
Friday 17th September
Friday 1st October
School annual reports sent
home
Memorial service St
Leonard’s Church 6.00pm
Year 6 Leavers picnic
Year 6 Awards assembly
Class transfer afternoon
Nursery closes for Summer
Party day - children can
wear party clothes
School closes for Summer
break 2.00pm
INSET Day
School reopens for Years 1-6
School reopens for Nursery
and Reception
Circus!!
Grand Opening of the new
Library
Dates for your diary ...
It has been lovely to see some of the new Reception
children visiting school ready for September. Mrs Pratley
and Mrs Pendle held a lovely Zoom session for new
parents, too, and we hope to be able to give you details of
an extra Stay and Play session on the school field towards
the end of the summer holiday so that children can meet
each other and make new friends. We’ll keep you posted!
New Reception Children
We are making great progress on getting our new library
ready for September, when we hope we will be able to
have visitors into school again. The Official Grand Opening
is pencilled in for Friday 1st October and this will be a
chance to have drinks and cake in the school hall, which is
handily placed next door!
If any of our leavers’ families feel able to give a donation to
help us purchase new books for children to enjoy then this
would be greatly appreciated, so that others can also
benefit from a great start to life at St Leonard’s.
If you don’t ask…!
Donations for Library
Next week is Global Learning Week
when children will be learning about all
different countries and cultures around
the world. Respect and tolerance are
important values at St Leonard’s and
Year 3 and Year 4 had a visitor last week,
Ibrahim, who told the children about
Hajj, the great annual pilgrimage to
Mecca, and demonstrated the clothes
that every pilgrim wears. Hajj takes place this month, as
does Eid-ul-Adha of course. All schools in Banbury are
pleased to authorise 2 days absence for this important
religious festival.
Eid-ul-Adha
