St Edward's CE Primary School

St Edwards C of E Primary School

Years 2 and 3 Youth Club
This Youth Club will restart on Thursday 25 February – apologies for the wrong date on the recent letter.

School Photographs – Reception and Year 6 only 
School photographs are being done for Year 6 and Reception children only on 25th February. If anyone would like younger children to be photographed with their child, they need to be at school by 8.30am on that day. If you do not wish your child to have their photograph taken you need to notify school.

Swimming 
Swimming Team Training for Years 5 and 6 is on Friday mornings at 8.30am. Year 4 swimming is on a Friday afternoon – please ensure children bring their swimwear to school.

City Learning Centre
This week Year 2 have been to Rochdale CLC to do their topic work.

Stars of the Week 
Well done to this week’s Stars of the Week
Sam Hobson RM; Mia Charnley RP; Sophie Mills 1B; Aidan Baron 1P; Jaden Ellison 1B; Caira Turk 2G; Mohammed Tayyab 2G; Reece Fielding 2B; Harrison Chappell 2B; Ki’ell Hogarth 3D; Paige Phillips-Brady 3D; Ilsha Elahi 4P; Millie Barry 4S; Stephanie McCormick 5F; Callum Heywood 5F; Megan Swallow 5S; Courtney Walsh 5S; Rebecca Higson 6G; Chloe Sabella 6G; Daniel Aspinall 6G; Babar Khan 6G and Chloe Brown 6C.

Contact Forms 
Please make sure you have filled a contact form in and also that you let school know of any changes in address or phone numbers. This is really important as we need this up-to-date information in case we need to contact you in an emergency. Thank you.

Year 5 
After half term, Year 5 will be making some junk pictures for their garden and outdoor classroom. We would be grateful if you could donate any of the following:
screws, nuts, bolts, shells, pebbles, wire, metal bottle tops, springs, mosaic tiles, small mirrors or mirror tiles, beads and buttons. Thank you.

Fair-trade Fortnight
Fair-trade Fortnight starts after half term – why not come and sample some fair-trade tea, coffee and cakes at our Café after school. Check posters around school for days and times.

E-Safety
Following on from Safer Internet Day, Unit 2 will be performing a brief production for parents on this subject.
Monday 15 March – Year 5
Tuesday 16 March – Years 3 & 4
Wednesday 17 March – Years 3 & 4
Thursday 18 March – Year 6

Castleton Children’s Centre
The free ‘Stay and Play Sessions’ are here at St. Edward’s School every Wednesday morning 9am-10.15am. These sessions are really well attended and there are lots of activities for the children to do.

Dinner Money
Please send dinner money in on a Monday morning in an envelope with your child’s name and class on. Lunches are £1.70 per day - £8.50 per week. Thank you.
After half–term it will be Week 1.

Half Term
School closes for Half Term on Friday 12 February and re-opens on Monday 22 February.

FEBRUARY ECO NEWS

Clothes Recycling
A big thank you to everyone who brought clothes to school to be recycled. We collected 661kg which will give us £200. We will use the money for our Eco Projects in school. We plan to have raised beds built in our vegetable garden.
The clothes and shoes will now be reused in countries in Eastern Europe and they will be greatly appreciated.
We will have various collections throughout the year. Our next collection will be in the summer term.

Mobile Phones
With this newsletter you will have received a leaflet regarding recycling mobile phones. For every 200 phones collected school receives £300 and you can choose a prize for recycling your phone. If you need another leaflet please ask at the office. You can also visit www.fones4school.co.uk for further details regarding prizes available.
We need to collect 50 phones before Fones4School will collect them. So far we have about 20, please have a good look at home to see if you have any you could send into school.
Just put the phones in a carrier bag along with a completed form which is on the leaflet provided.
Thank you for your support!

The Big Schools’ Birdwatch 2010 18 January – 1 February
Thank you for collecting yoghurt pots and milk cartons for our bird watch.
Year 1 and Year 4 had a fantastic time taking part in The Big Schools’ Birdwatch this year. They made recycled birdfeeders and bird cake for the birds to eat.
The bird watch took place over two afternoons and the children spotted house sparrows, blackbirds, black-headed gulls, robins, starlings, chaffinches, magpies and long-tailed tits.