St. Edward’s CE Primary School

St Edwards C of E Primary School

Summer Fair
This year’s Summer Fair is this Friday 5 July from 3.20pm onwards. If anyone can help either at the fair or setting up on the day from 1.15pm, we would really appreciate it. Thank you for all the pint pots and donations that have already been sent in – please keep them coming!

The fair and raffle is our biggest fund raiser and all money goes back into school funds for the benefit of all children. Thank you.

Stalls
Chocolate Tombola; Bottle Tombola; Face painting; Pint Pots; Tattoos; Come and have your photo taken with the donkeys, Name The Shark; Lucky Dip; Raffle; Refreshments; Jewellery Stall; Lucky Straws; penalty Shoot-out. Splat The Teachers; Mrs. Coxell, Mrs. Farrall and Mrs. Taylor

Cake Stall – we are having a Bun Bake-Off with a Summer theme and then we will be selling the buns at the fair. There will be a prize for everyone who enters and then 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes.

Recycling
Until Friday 5 July, we are still collecting unwanted small electrical items, e.g. toasters, irons, kettles, fan heaters, etc. and you will get a chance to win £200 worth of shopping vouchers. The school who collects the most items will win £500. There are some recycling bins in the foyer at the front of the school. If you bring any items into school, you will need to get a form from the office which you need to fill in and then register online to enter the prize draw.

Year 1 Trip
Year 1 children have gone on a trip to Blackpool Zoo today.

Eco Week w/b 8 July

Monday 8 July
Non-uniform day - dress in green for £1 donation.
Proceeds to go to SUSTRANS www.sustrans.org.uk and the charity that rescues battery hens (this is where we got our hens from).

Thursday 11 July
Come and help us harvest our home grown produce and make some delicious dishes with us! 1.30pm onwards. Please let us know by next Wednesday if you can take part as we need to know numbers!

Fair-trade coffee afternoon between 3.00pm and 4.00pm. Parents, grandparents and members of the local community are welcome to join us.

Everyday Next Week

Lunchtime Crunchtime!
For those children who have a packed lunch we will be having a competition to see who can bring in a healthy green packed lunch (not green in colour but Eco-friendly!). You could consider the following points:
How much packaging does each item in the lunch have? (Try to use as least packaging as possible, you could use tubs instead).

How healthy is the lunch?

Have the food items travelled from far away? (For example has the food come from Egypt or England? The further it has come from the more air miles will have been used therefore the closer the better!).

Could the left over items be composted or recycled?
We will be weighing the waste throughout the week and see if we can cut down on the amount of waste we produce at lunchtimes. 

Bike-It

Next Thursday is the last Bike-It before the raffle is drawn for a new bicycle.

Reception
Reception children are going to Smithills Farm next Thursday. Please ensure all money and slips have been sent back into school. Thank you.

Dinner Money
Lunches are £1.85 per day - £9.25 per week. Please send money on a Monday morning in an envelope with your child’s name and class on.
Next week we will be on week 2 menu.

Music Lessons
Fees for this half term are now due £2.85 per week (£19.95 for this half term).

Link4Life Activity Days
Middleton Big Games, Saturday July 13 Middleton Arena

Heywood Big Games, Sunday 14 July, Queen's Park, Heywood

For more information, see the Link4Life website, Big Games 2013

Bottle Tops
Year 3 are collecting plastic bottle tops for their project work during eco and health week. Thank you.

Reception
The Rhyme Challenge assembly has now been moved from Friday 19 July to Friday 12 July at 2.30pm.