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8th

September

No. 1

WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL

School Dinners

As you will have heard all Infant aged

children (Recepon, Year 1 & Year 2 )

are now eligible for a free school meal.

During the summer the kitchen was

extended and new sta appointed by

ISS our providers to meet the increased

demand.

Uptake has been slow in the rst few

days but we expect numbers to in-crease. Please talk to the school oce

for more details.

Phase Leaders: There to Help

These are the senior teachers in

each secon of the school. If a

you have a queson or issue

which cannot be resolved by

the class teacher then please

feel free to contact them,

parcularly if it is relateddirectly to an issue within the

class or about the curriculum,

homework etc.

Phase 1Foundaon

Mrs Malone

Phase 2 Years 1 & 2

Mr Steer

Phase 3 Years 3 & 4

Mr Davies

Phase 4 Years 5 & 6

Miss Samsudin

Curriculum

Overviews of what your

children will be learning this

term are available on the

Francis Baily Blog site. Follow

the link in the black bar on the

Year group page.

You will also see a QR code

displayed around the school

which you can scan on mobile

devices to take you straight

there.

Francis Baily News

Parking

We are sll geng complaints from

residents in the Skillman Drive area

about parking in the street. Please take

extra care to ensure you park with con-

sideraon to the householders who

only want to be able to get on and o

their driveways when they need to!

Clubs

Informaon about a few clubs has al-

ready been sent home. As things sele

I hope to add more clubs to the small

starng list.

On behalf of the school Id like to extend a warm welcome to the new families

joining us this year and equally so to all those returning aer the holidays.

Aer a summer that seemed to whizz by September has arrived and weve been

seling back into school life this week.

There has been a tremendous amount of work going on during the summer, all of

which nished just about in me for the teachers and many support sta to get

the school ready for last Wednesday morning.

We are extremely pleased with the new Year 2 classrooms and as soon as every-

thing is organised to our sasfacon we will arrange some me aer school forthose interested to have a look at whats been achieved; it really is a signicant

improvement.

In addion, all of the at roofs were renewed, some drainage issues repaired, the

Year 3 & 4 area decorated, the Foundaon block recongured and the kitchen ex-

tended. These are just the more signicant works undertaken as there were many

others! These improvements all help to provide the kind of environment our chil-

dren deserve. The school Governors and sta will connue to press the Local Au-

thority to provide funds for further improvements.

I am aaching with this leer our annual reminder sheet which hopefully will as-

sist everyone to know our expectaons to ensure that everything can run as

smoothly as possible.

I was very pleased to welcome back the children looking so smart in their school

uniforms. I intend to keep a close watch on how children are dressed for school

and will contact parents where I think children have moved away from what is ex-

pected.

I look forward to this year and hope together we can build on the improvements

made last year.

Mr Davis

Positive Behaviour

Whilst we will expect allbehaviour to be of the

highest standard we willpay particular focus in the

first few weeks to;

Playing nicely and

including everyone

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Mythical Maze Summer Reading Challenge

Rememberyou have until the end of September to complete

the challenge and collect your medal from the Library. We have

been informed that the 4 Kingdoms vouchers for free entrance

must be used by 30September 2014.

Breakfast and Aer School Clubs

Due to the popularity of these clubs please can all parents who

are registered ensure that spaces are booked in advance. With-

out prior booking we may not be able to accommodate your

child. This is because the clubs are already full on several days

each week and we regret will be unable to accept children over

and above our maximum capacity (40 pupils per club).

Secondary School places

Parents are able to apply for secondary school places through

the website: www.westberks.gov.uk/secondaryadmissions

The full parents guide is available on the site and the secondaryschool open evening dates. The open evenings start in Septem-

ber; Trinity schools is the first which is on 11 September.

WB Admissions find the vast majority of parents apply on-line,The main benefits are that you receive confirmation that theapplication has been received and you find out the result of the

application on the offer day, so dont have to wait for the post.

The closing date for applications is 31 October 2014 and par-

ents must apply to their home Local Authority.

Term Dates and Parents Evenings

The Calendar of school events for this term is being sent out

with this newsleer together with Parents Evening slips.

Art at Francis Baily

During last term the children worked under the direcon

of Mrs Clion, a member of our fabulous Support Team,

to decorate a life size model of an Arabian Horse. During

the holidays this was

displayed at the

Dubai Internaonal

Meeng at Newbury

Racecourse.

You can get a close

up look of the intri-

cate design as the

horse has returned

from the racecourse

and is keeping the camel company in the Foundaon

Area.

Whilst not winning we were highly commended and

received a cheque for 500. This will be used to support

other Art-based acvies.

Congratulaons to all involved especially the children,

Mrs Clion and our art co-ordinator Mrs Morley. We so

value arsc endeavours at the school that this year Miss

Barber will be working with Mrs Morley co-ordinang

our Art Curriculum.

Our next project will be to provide work for display at the

Newbury Show over the weekend of 20th/21st Septem-

ber.

You will also noce shortly the addion of the murals to

the walls around the Year 3/4 playground. You may have

seen the following arcle in the local press during the

holidays.

CHILDREN at Francis Baily Primary School put a spin on a

recent art project.

Seventy-ve Year 3 and 4 pupils worked with arst, Steve

Porter, to make a series of murals containing opcal illu-

sions to brighten up the playground.

The children studied a variety of opcal illusions and

experimented with their own designs before selecng

ones that interested them the most, creang three large

rectangular murals and two spinning circular ones.

The school art co-ordinator, Angela Morley, said: We

hope the painngs will inspire our young arsts to conn-

ue invesgang and experimenng with perspecve and

tricks of the eye as well as enjoying the paerns, colours

and the painng process.

Charity Fun Day at KD Gymnascs

14 Bone Lane, Newbury RG14 5ND

In aid of Cancer Research on 14th September

The Day will include:

3x2 hour open sessions throughout the day for dierent

age groups (3 donaon)

Ages 10 and below will be 10am-12am

Ages 7-13 will be 1pm-3pm

Ages 11-17 will be 4pm-6pm

Plus: Tombola, Rae and Cake Sale

For more informaon visit the website

hp://www.kdgymnascs.co.uk

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