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CHAMPIONS!

What a fantastic morning we had at The Rebecca Adlington Swimming Centre for the Key Stage 2 Swimming Gala 2019.

Our children were a delight to spend the morning with. They showed such a wonderful, supportive team spirit that led us well on the way to success…we won the gala with 119 points!

Every single one of them gave their all and swam their hardest to earn as many points as they could for the team. It was brilliant to hear them cheering each other on as well as the encouraging cheers from the balcony which was full of lots of familiar faces…thank you for your support!

The team should be so proud of their winning medals and trophy. We are incredibly proud of all of the swimmers and thank them for representing our school so brilliantly. We’re already looking forward to next time…!

 

A huge thank you to you all for supporting the PTFA Eco Kids Collection. We collected 302,800 Kg of textiles raising £166.54. Many thanks to the PTFA for their organisation of this and their continued efforts with supporting school.

Due to a fantastic whole school effort we managed to raise £222.24 on World Toilet Day towards twinning a block of toilets in a poor community in Afghanistan. Thank you for your support! 

Did you know that Monday 19^th November is World Toilet Day? This year, with your support, we are aiming to make a difference to poor communities across the world by ‘twinning our toilets’. 2.3 billion people currently don’t have somewhere safe to go to the toilet! On World Toilet Day we are holding a ‘Go Blue for the Loo Day’ and giving our children the option of wearing blue clothes to school in exchange for a small voluntary donation (suggested donation of £1 per child). If as a school we can raise £240 we can twin one of our toilet blocks to help children in desperate poverty to have access to a proper latrine, clean water and the information they need to be healthy.  The more money we raise the more toilets we can twin and the more people we can help. This initiative will also support our children with their understanding of the world, human and physical geographical features, as well as contributing towards our eco efforts to obtain the prestigious Green Flag award.  We thank you in advance for your continued support.

Mansfield BID Garden and Craft Festival 2018

We are entering the Garden Festival’s ‘Our School’ Category again this year as there are cash prizes and garden goodie bags up for grabs for the schools!

However YOU and YOUR CHILDREN could grow something and enter the competition yourself, at home! Just get organised now and plant your peas, beans or any other type of vegetable, fruit or flowers ready to enter them into the Sept competition.

If baking is more your thing, then look up your favourite cake recipe and get practicing.

The competition is on Saturday 1st Sept for fruit, veg and flowers and Sunday 2nd Sept for baking in a big marque in Mansfield marketplace. See website for more information. www.mansfieldtowncentre.co.uk/events/september-2018/mansfield-garden-and-craft-festival-2018.html 

Lots of different categories to enter – lots of fun things for children. We will remind you again just before the start of the summer holidays!

At Berry Hill this week we will be taking part in:

 

‘Autism Awareness Week’

 

This year’s Autism Awareness week takes place from Monday 26th March to Monday 2nd April.

We are hoping to help the Autism Awareness organisation build awareness and help make a difference for people with Autism and their families, a cause close to our hearts.

The children will find out more during circle time activities, then on Thursday 29th March the children will be asked to wear blue for their non-uniform end of term day. The PTFA will be collecting donations for non-uniform as usual and they are donating this to support our sensory room development.

 For more information visit: http://www.autism.org.uk/about.aspx

Thanks you so much for your support and we look forward to raising awareness and having fun.

Sports Relief Week 17-23.03.18

We’ve all had a great, sporty week at school and have been full of energy! From completing our Sport Relief Miles to jogging on the spot whenever the whistle blew during Friday’s assembly, we’ve not stopped exercising!

It’s been great to see the children from nursery to year 6 making the most of our ‘Tom Daley Challenges’ and trying out lots of fun activities during their playtimes. During PE lessons, classes have supported and encouraged each other to record 8 laps of our playground to achieve their Sport Relief Miles. Great teamwork and dedication!

A big thank you for all of the £1 contributions and for dressing up in your favourite sports clothing on Friday. We had swimmers, horse-riders, footballers, gymnasts, dancers, martial arts, bikers and golfers to name just a few! J

Thank you to everyone involved for getting behind such a good cause! Keep up the good work and keep exercising!

 

Mrs Kendall and Mr Wright (PE Leaders)

Nottingham Trent University Visit – 23.03.18

On Friday 23^rd March, a very lucky group of children were invited to take part in an Enrichment Day at Nottingham Trent University at their Clifton Campus.

During the day, the children worked with the students, who are training to be teachers, and took part in lots of creative and interesting art and DT activities.

The art tasks focused on sewing. The children learned how to sew some really tricky stitches and were able to design and make their own house or Easter egg!

The DT activities were all about movement and forces. Some children had to work out how to use wheels and elastic bands to make a model car move and at the end of the session they had a race to see whose ideas had worked the best! The other group of children worked together to make a flying trapeze game where they had to work out how to use elastic bands and wheels to connect to the handle to make their character flip over!

The children all said that they really enjoyed both the art and the DT activities and I could tell that they were having a wonderful time. They were all fully engaged in the tasks, listening to the students, following instructions and really being Berry Hill role models!

The children were also able to experience a bit of what university life is like during their lunch break when they were taken on a tour of the campus and shown some of the amazing facilities such as a lecture theatre, the library, the sports centre, the new science and technology building and the halls of residence blocks. They were also treated to lunch in the student cafeteria which most of the children said was the highlight of their day!

The whole day was marvellous and we are all really grateful to have been able to take part in it. Thank you to Mr Ashton at Abbey Primary School for making the arrangements and for inviting us to join in. All of the children said that they would love to go again next year if another visit is organised and I agree! The children that took part in the visit this year behaved absolutely wonderfully. They were a credit to themselves and to our school and I was extremely proud of them all!

School councillors will be holding a book sale on Monday 26th March 2018 3.30-4pm. We have a selection of new and pre-loved books for sale in order to help raise money towards a new tyre park for the Playing Together Playground. We hope you will come to show your support for the School Council fundraiser

Message from the PTFA: 

Who's wanting a win on the chocolate tombola? Monday 26th March 3.30pm alongside the book sale!! Donations from Tesco and Asda! Cake sale also..we'll be touting for your home made cakes too...! You'll have next weekend to create something.