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The Fortnight That Was…. 30 June — 10 July 2014 T
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T 25th Anniversary
Junior Prize Giving Proud families and friends were pleased to take part in this year’s Junior School Prize Giving. In keeping with the School’s tradition, Jon Mundy, Head of School presented the prizes; for academic, sporting and musical achievements over the year.
The hall was decorated with flags which the children made for World Cup Day.
See page 2 for full details.
The full list of Prize Winners will be printed in the next issue of The Pitsfordian, which is due out in September 2014.
Kelmarsh Kitchen Garden
Kits, Squirrels, J1 and J2 all had a fabulous time at Kelmarsh Kitchen
Garden and they were very lucky with the
weather too!
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World Cup Day Junior School pupils were rocked by World Cup Fever when they held their own World Cup Day in the penultimate week of term. The children were put into groups to represent a country in the tournament. They then spent the morning painting their country flags and designing their all important match tops, whilst they learnt about the country they represented. In the afternoon the teams competed in a World Cup Tournament, whilst wearing their new match tops. The matches were taken very seriously by all the players and the winners were as follows: Italy – Kits and Squirrels Greece – J1 and J2 USA – J3 and J4 Netherlands – J5 and J6 Well done to everyone who took part for putting in such great effort and enthusiasm and for excellent sportsmanship throughout.
Summer Solstice
On Saturday 21 June, Summer Solstice, Pitsford School held its first Family Fun and Sports Afternoon. Current pupils and parents joined with staff and Old Pitsfordians to make the most of the fantastic weather in the School’s beautiful grounds. Many of the children brought their bikes and were able to enjoy the freedom of cycling around the School grounds. After the BBQ, everyone enjoyed toasting marshmallows around the campfire. Some families chose to camp the night and many of the families who did not camp, said they would like to do so next year. The event was very successful and will definitely be repeated next year. The Pitsford Post will have details nearer the time.
English Speaking Board Lessons are available from J2 to Year 8.
Please contact the School Office for further inform ation
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Moving Up Day Friday 27 June was ‘Moving Up Day’ at Pitsford School and what a busy day it was too! Our Junior School pupils spent time in the classes they will be in from September 2014. Pupils who are joining the Junior School in September were also invited in, so that everyone could start making new friendships and could also meet their new class teachers. The youngest children in Kits and Squirrels went on a Teddy Bears’ Picnic and they all brought in a favourite teddy from home to join in the fun. The children moving up into the Senior School were joined by the pupils who are starting Pitsford School in Year 7 and together they spent the day exploring the Senior School’s buildings and facilities, getting to know one another and meeting the teachers. At the end of the School day, everyone’s parents were invited to join their children for an informal BBQ in the School grounds. Unlike much of the country, Pitsford School managed to avoid any rain until the very end of the day: the sun was certainly shining down on us and we were all able to have a great day. We’re sure all the children will be very happy in their new classes in September and we extend a warm welcome to all the new pupils who are joining us.
Musical Inspiration Last week, a string quartet from Northamptonshire Music and Performing Arts Trust (NMPAT) visited Pitsford School and performed for years 3-7. The quartet comprised of two violins, a viola and a cello and together they played a superb range of pieces, some of which you would not have expected to have been played on stringed instruments. The children thoroughly enjoyed the experience and could be seen tapping along to music which ranged from Jungle Book’s Bare Necessities to the theme tune of Star Wars. The performances were to give the children a taster of what these instruments could offer and judging by their enthusiasm in response to questions at the end of the ses-sions, they obviously did just that!
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Speech Day To mark Pitsford School’s 25 year Anniversary, Malcolm Robinson MBE was the Guest of Honour at this year’s Speech Day. Mr Robinson was one of the founders of Pitsford School and Pupils, Parents and Governors sat with rapt attention, while he talked about some of the events which led to the successful opening of the School. In 1987 Mr Robinson, a University Lecturer living in Pitsford, became disillusioned with the education on offer to his two sons by the state sector. He believed in the idea of setting high standards, a strong work ethic and the role of family values and along with a small group of like minded people, he set about creating an independent grammar school for boys. In September 1989, Pitsford School, then known as Northamptonshire Grammar School opened its doors for the first time to 47 boys, with a headmaster, Dr Malcolm Tozer and six members of staff. In 1999, under the Headmaster Simon Larter, girls were admitted for the first time. The School has continued to grow in strength over the years and still offers the same excellent education and sense of family to all of its Pupils today. In addition to Mr Robinson, other Founders present at Speech Day included Lesley Allitt, Sally Bevan, Lady Morton, Judith Robinson, Jeanie Turner, Keith Turner and Joan Tice. Mr Robinson and Mr Turner took great pleasure in presenting prizes to this year’s Prize Winners. Full details of the winners and their achievements will be published in the next issue of The Pitsfordian. After the formal proceedings, everyone was invited to stay for refreshments in the School’s grounds and to have a look around the state-of-the-art Duckworth Building which houses the Junior School.
Senior Sports Day Senior School Sports Day was hugely enjoyed by everyone who took part. It was a fitting year end for Year 11, who had returned to School last week for an A Level course induction week. Congratulations to House Athletics 2014 winners: Robinson.
Mr Toone was pleased to present the Robinson House Captain, Josh Whittingham, with the Sir William Morton Cup in recognition of this achievement. The Cup will be on display in Pitsford Hall for the next year, decked in Robinson House’s blue ribbons.
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Congratulations!
Siân Eaves Grade 8 Flute Merit Peter Smith Grade 4 Piano Merit Benjamin Vramsmo Grade 2 Piano Pass Amelia Judd Grade 1 Piano Pass Loui Partridge Grade 1 Piano Pass Harriet Stevens Grade 1 Piano Merit Laura Bullen Grade 3 Violin Merit Tatva Galgali Grade 1 Guitar Pass Connie Westaway Initial Grade Guitar Pass
Musical High Notes
Masters Over 40’s World Cup Mrs Chacksfield travelled with the England Squad to play in the World Cup in Rotterdam. The event took place at Rotterdam’s Hockey Club which boasted 4 water based and 4 sand based astroturfs along with 23,000 members. The tournament started with pool matches: Ireland w 3-1 New Zealand w 5 –2 Holland w 2-0 The team faced Wales in the quarter-finals winning 4-0. After a rest day Australia were the opposition in the semi-finals with a member of their squad boasting gold medals from previous Olympic Games and a large number of international caps. It was an exciting end to end game with Australia eventually winning 2-0. Australia were gold medalists in the tournament final. England played Russia in the three quarter play offs winning 4-0 and a bronze medal. Mrs Chacksfield and the England squad are now in training for next year’s European Championships in London and the World Cup in Australia in 2016.We wish her and the Squad the very best of luck!
Farewell and Good Luck! Everyone at Pitsford School will be very sorry to bid farewell to Mrs Peck (Junior School Class Teacher) and Ms Garcia Claramonte (Deputy Head). Both will be sadly missed but we wish you both the best of luck in the next chapters of your lives….
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Dear Schoolblazer Customer The summer is finally here and we are beginning our back to school season, with 80% of our annual orders expected to be placed during the next 10 weeks. We’d love you to shop early to help remove the stress for all of us from the end of August. To encour-age you to do this we’re offering Free Delivery on all orders delivering to the UK, placed between 30th June and 13th July. We're delighted to announce that we have upgraded our courier service to DPD Next Day for our higher value orders. You will be given a 1 HOUR DELIVERY TIME SLOT which means that you won’t need to wait in all day for your parcel! In addition to this, via the DPD Mobile website you will be able to: track your parcel, receive regular alerts via text and email informing you of the status, ask for the parcel
to be le� in a safe place or with a neighbour and to rearrange your delivery to a more
convenient date. Ensure that your mobile phone number and email address is correct
and up to date on our website to receive all these new benefits.
Low value orders will con�nue to be sent via Royal Mail Packet Post.
We look forward to serving you over the summer.
Yours faithfully, The Schoolblazer Customer Service Team
We warmly wish all our Pupils and their families a great summer and we look forward to
seeing everyone again on Wednesday 3 September at 8.40am
If you are moving up into Year 7,
we look forward to seeing you at 2pm on Tuesday 2 September
If you have a message for other parents at Pitsford School, please let me know and I will include it in the next Pitsford Post.
Email: [email protected]
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