25th November 2022
Dear parents/ carers,
I’m going to start this week’s newsletter off with some information from our wonderful PSA:
PSA Update
Key diary dates
Friday 2nd December Crazy Hair Day, please bring in a donation of a bottle (to be used for the bazaar).
Wednesday 7th December- raffle prize deadline, do you run/own or know any local businesses who would like to contribute a raffle prize in return for advertisement. If you can help, please reply to the PSA’s WhatsApp. Please can these be in by Wednesday 7th at the latest.
Friday 9th December Christmas Jumper Day, come to school in your favourite Christmas jumper or Christmas wear. In exchange please bring in a donation of cakes. All ingredients must be clearly labelled.
Friday 9th December Christmas Bazaar 3:15 – 6:00pm, don’t forget to book your Santa slot. Entry is free but please bring lots of change for all the exciting festivities!
Amazon Smile
Thank you to everyone who has already signed up. If you haven’t, please sign up to Amazon Smile. Amazon will donate 0.50% of most purchases to the school.
1.In the app click on the
- Click ‘Gifting and Charity’
- Find ‘Amazon Smile’
- Search and select: ‘Henham & Ugley Primary School’
Thank you all so much for your generosity over the last 2 weeks:
Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal: An incredible £262.19 was raised for this very important cause; thank you!
Children in Need: So far, a wonderful £181.25 has been donated; thank you all so much!
Travelling Book Fair: From your purchases, the school gets 60% commission to spend on books for the school – so far the commission total is £783.14; what an incredible amount! Thank you all so much.
Sports News: This week we hosted an archery competition. What a fabulous day it was! Congratulations to:
The Year 3 & 4 team (Remi, Joseph, Lucas and Isla) who finished 2nd overall out of the eleven teams.
Some additional great achievements on the day with:
Ben M finishing 1st with highest score for the boys (86) overall, representing Year 5 & 6
Molly B finishing 1st with highest score for the girls (86) overall, representing Year 5 & 6
Remi B in yr4 finishing 3rd highest score for the girls (57) overall, representing Year 3 & 4
Well done to everyone who took part!
Cross Country: You will remember I mentioned 2 weeks ago that we attended the cross country event at Howe Green. I am now able to confirm the children who have qualified for the next round.
Year 3 girls in their finishing order: Thea, Scarlett, Juno, Evie, Daisy G, and Primrose.
Year 5 girls in their finishing order: Olivia H, Leah, Dot, Holly, Lara and Jasmine.
Year 5 boys in their finishing order: Harry M, Ben M, Seth L, Teddy, Alfie and Harry W.
Year 6 girls in their finishing order: Lyra, Isla, Willow, Lacey-Mae, Molly and Alexis.
Year 6 boys in their finishing order: Franklin, Rupert, George, Thomas H, Louis and Stan.
Additionally, we had some superb individual performances on the day.
Kofi in Year 3 finished 1st overall for the Year 3 boys out of all the schools taking part and has therefore qualified for the finals as an individual runner – well done, Kofi, an incredible achievement!
Although the team didn’t qualify, a special mention to Joseph and Marlie who were our highest finishing Henham runners for Year 4 out of all the schools taking part.
In Year 6, Franklin finished 1st overall for the Year 6 boys out of all the schools taking part – well done, Franklin, what an achievement!
Also in Year 6, Rupert finished 2nd overall for the Year 6 boys out of all the schools taking part – well done, Rupert, superb!
There were so many outstanding performances at this event that we were able to congratulate in our celebration assembly this afternoon. We are so proud of all of the children who took part. Well done everyone!
House Points: Well done to the BLUE Team who have taken first placed position this week!
| BLUE | PURPLE | GREEN | RED |
| 40 | 30 | 20 | 10 |
Headteacher Awards: Congratulations to the children who were awarded my Headteacher’s Award this week:
| Nursery Class | Nia |
| Reception Class | Casey-Rose & William |
| Year 1 | Jesse V & George L |
| Year 2 | Poppy & Patrick |
| Year 3 | Archie & Evie |
| Year 4 | Emily & Jack Gu |
| Year 5 | Holly & Olivia S |
| Year 6 | Callum & George M |
A report from Lexi and Leah in Year 5: England vs Iran. On Monday we were lucky enough to watch England’s victorious first match in the World Cup. The atmosphere was electric in the classroom as students collected their chairs and gathered in front of the screen to watch England’s big game. England’s first goal was scored by Bellingham in the 35th minute. Sterling and Saka also helped pushed England into the lead by scoring 2 goals in total bringing the final score in the first half to be 3-0 to England. After a 24-minute break, Saka, Rashford and Grealish also scored in the second half. Both Iran goals were scored by Mehdi Taremi making the final score 6-2 to England.
Stansted Airport Writing Competition: Have you got an aspiring author in Key stage 2? Stansted Airport has launched its brand-new writing competition for World Book Day 2023. They are inviting Key Stage 2 students to write a short story or poem to be in with the chance of featuring in their new published book – ‘Little Book of Travel Tales’, set to launch at the airport in February 2023. Budding artists are also invited to submit a drawing for the chance to be chosen as their front cover design.
The deadline for entries is 13th December, but please get your entries into school for us to submit by Friday 9th December – good luck!
Christmas trees! We have been contacted by Follies to let you know that for every Christmas tree purchased from them, they will donate £5 to the school if you mention Henham and Ugley Primary School. No voucher is required, just mention the name of the school and £5 will be automatically donated!
Finally, I love it when children come to my office to share super examples of their work, and this afternoon I had the pleasure of hearing 3 examples of brilliant writing from Elise, Nate and Penny from Year 2. I was blown away with their use of vocabulary to describe a winter scene; well done!
That’s it for this week, have a super weekend everyone,
Kim
Kim Hall
Headteacher
Coming up:
Friday 2nd December Crazy Hair Day, please bring in a donation of a bottle (to be used for the bazaar).
Santas in the Square event – Sunday 4th December:
Wednesday 7th December- raffle prize deadline, do you run/own or know any local businesses who would like to contribute a raffle prize in return for advertisement. If you can help, please reply to the PSA’s WhatsApp. Please can these be in by Wednesday at the latest.
Friday 9th December Christmas Jumper Day, come to school in your favourite Christmas jumper in exchange please bring in a donation of cakes. All ingredients must be clearly labelled.
Friday 9th December Christmas Bazaar 3:15 – 6:00pm, don’t forget to book your Santa slot. Entry is free but please bring lots of change for all the exciting festivities.
9th December 2022: The deadline for entries for the Christmas card competition – Kemi Badenoch MP
Uttlesford Community Travel Christmas Concert: Saturday 10th December
Tuesday 13th December: KS1 Christmas production performances to parents/ carers: 9.30am and 1.30pm
Wednesday 14th December: Christmas School Lunch day
Friday 16th December: Nursery and Reception class Christmas performance to parents/ carers: 9.30am
Tuesday 20th December: Christmas celebration at St Mary’s Church, Henham – 9.15am start – children and parents to meet us at the church. Children that attend breakfast club or any parents not able to meet us at the church to be walked up by staff from school. All children and staff will be walking back to school after the service, volunteers to support the walk back welcomed!
Tuesday 20th December: Last day of the autumn term 1- 1.15pm finish. Please note, there will be no after-school provision on this day.
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