Creative Week

• Deadline: Monday 15^th July

We are creating a large school mural made of recycled materials, and we would love to gather a rainbow of colours. Please could children bring in any small recycling that could be collaged to our canvas? We will be using a rainbow of colours so we will not need any blacks, whites or greys. 

Sunflower competition

• Deadline: Friday 19^th July

How are your sunflowers doing? Don't forget to let us know your sunflowers' height before Friday 19th. Please send us a photo of your child standing next to it.

School-run clubs

As we only have a few weeks left of term, the last dates for our school-run clubs are listed below. We will send out information on how to sign-up to these clubs again in September.

• Tidy-up team: 8^th July
• Sandygate Stars: Finished last week
• Book Club: 10^th July
• Mindful Colouring: 10^th July
• Art Club: 11^th July
• Bible Bricks: 18^th July
• Maypole: 11^th July
• Science club: Today
• Sandygate Singers: will run until the end of term but not  necessarily on Friday's

Lost property

From Monday morning, lost property items will be laid out on a table inside our Eco-Barn, every day next week. This will allow parents to have a look through unnamed items that have made their way into our lost property tub so far this term. After Friday, any items unclaimed will be donated to charity.

It is really important that all items that come into school are clearly named. All named items will be returned to their owners as soon as possible.

Library books

Next week will be the last library session of the year for all year groups. We will be collecting library books and bags during the week. If you have any library books at home, please send them in next week.

Reading books

Reading books will continue to come home next week, but we will collect them all in on Friday 19^th July so that we can do a stock check.

Please check at home for any reading books that might be left there and send them into school.

Nothing this week

Change to library day

As we will be going to Kew Gardens next Friday, our library day will be moved to Thursday next week. Therefore, please could all Reception children bring in their library bags on Thursday.

What a difference a week makes. After a glorious Sports Day, the Open Afternoon was a more drizzly affair, but you all came out in force to visit classrooms old and new and watch your little ones perform; we hope you had a lovely afternoon. Thank you to Vicky Merrilees and Leila Choleva who organised a tuck shop and pizza delivery, to Gemma Hurley who held a beautiful plant and flower sale, and Del Simon who organised second-hand uniform.

Thank you to all the parents who volunteered their time to help Vicky and Leila raise around £500 for school.

The small change challenge reached an end last Friday. A massive well done to Dragonfly class! We hope you enjoyed your mufti day today and commiserations to Butterfly class, you came so close. We think the children really enjoyed this challenge, especially on bucket emptying day! 

Your pounds and pennies raised an incredible £790!

Date: Sunday 22^nd September

The circus is returning to Sandygate this September; for any parents in Reception and Year 1 who haven't had an opportunity to see the show, this is a great afternoon out. For year 2 parents who have been before, never fear, as a parent who will be attending their 4^th Sandygate circus this September, the show is different every time!

Tickets are available on Eventbrite. It's great fun for all the family and open to the whole community, so feel free to share with friends and neighbours.

There just a few pitches left for this years camp night. Join us for a relaxed and fun camping experience like no other.

Pitches are available on ParentPay for £30, which includes breakfast, and you can now order pizzas on ParentPay (large Domino's, Pepperoni or Margherita, £15 each)

Date: Saturday 13^th to Sunday 14^th July

The PFA AGM will take place Thursday 18^th July at 7pm at school. This is a shorter meeting than usual, legally required to take place each year.

We will have drinks and snacks to celebrate our achievements over the last year and would love to see as many people as possible. We are looking for new committee members to start from next year, so please come along or talk to us if you're interested.

The events the PFA puts on are valued by everyone in the school and the money raised is really necessary for the daily running of the school as well as funding a lot of the school trips etc.

Please feel free to speak to Rachel Bourdillon, Lauren King, Caro Robinson, Mandy Rooney, Charlotte Thompson or Claire Robinson for more information.

• Date: Thursday 18^th July at 7pm

• Dates: 5^th July, 12^th July