The parents of Year 6 organised a leavers 'beach party' toward the end of term which the children really enjoyed, even if there were a few tears at the end of the evening! Thank you Year 6 parents for all your efforts and
for supplying the pictures.
Year 6 visited the 'Poineer Centre' for a residential visit.
After 3 days at the centre the children had found out just how much fun the visit was. All the children loved the centre and were delighted with the activities, the bedrooms and the food! The children all has great fun taking part in the activities that included: caving, raft building, rock climbing, abseiling, archery, fencing, initiative games and high ropes. Some of the activities like the high ropes really challenged the children to overcome their fear of height, but everyone felt good about themselves when they had tried climbing the very tall pole!
School council started a gardening club this term. It has been run by Mr Joe Taheri, who is the local School Council adviser. The children have planted radishes, beans and sunflowers, as well as making beautiful pots with a selection of summer flowers in them. The school council team did a great job of planting and watering… although they sometimes needed reminding!
It is hoped that the club will continue in the Autumn term.
Thanks to our parents and carers for their support with our book fair, we sold over £1,000 worth of books! Our percentage of the profit was around £500 which went towards buying books for our school.
We have had various family and school discos during the year and a very successful barbeque and thankfully no rain this year! Thanks as always to Mr Turner (DJ) for supplying music!
Sports Relief We enjoyed keeping fit on Sports Relief Day. During the day we did lots of fun activities including using the huff and puff equipment, dancing, kick boxing, exercise videos, and lots of sporting activities out on the field.
The School Council organised a lovely treat of a fresh fruit salad at play time which helped give us the energy to jog around the field which was very tiring!
Egg Care Challenge Week - Barnardo's
Our school took part in an Egg Care Challenge to support the work of the Children's Charity Barnardo's. A fundraiser from Barnardo's spoke to the children in an assembly about work being done to help children, young people and their families. The children were offered the chance to decorate and look after a hard boiled egg for one week, while collecting kind donations from family and friends
giving our school the opportunity to make a BIG difference to the children and young people being helped by Barnardo's. All children who returned their envelopes were given a special 'Thank you' certificate and a 'Barney' key ring. All envelopes returned were entered into a draw to win a special Barnardo's cuddly bear. Phoebe Potts was the winner in the infants and in the juniors it was Megan Webb.
School Council
Christmas Fair
Our school Council representatives organised a fund raising event on Friday 11th December. The event was run during the school day and was open to all children and organised completely by the School Council. Children from Key Stage 2 ran a variety of stalls and competitions to raise money for School Funds and School Council activities. We had an excellent response from children and parents who sent in a variety of good quality DVD's, Videos, toys and books, not to mention the delicious home made cakes that were sent in and were hugely popular as by mid morning we were all very hungry! This was also the day that Father Christmas joined us! All in all this was a very enjoyable day for the pupils and raised over £350 pounds!
Also towards the end of December we had another visit from Santa during our Christmas parties - their is a video of Santa's visit on our video link!
School Council organised a “D’Eyncourt’s Got Talent” competition for
CHILDREN IN NEED
on Friday 20th November. The children were really busy all week singing, dancing, reciting poems, telling jokes etc... either solo or as a group to try to go through to the finals on the Friday.
Going by some of the performances - D'Eyncourt really does have talent! It was really hard for the children to pick one finalist from each class to qualify for the Friday afternoon performance, where the whole school watched and then vote for their favourite act using electronic voting key pads.
To generate funds for this Charity we ask both spectators and performers to bring into school 50p, which gave us a grand total of £112 to donate to Children in Need! Thank you for your support!
School Council.
The highlight of the day had to be our
X Factor panel of judges Mr Bull - Cheryl Cole, Mr Taylor - Dannii Minogue, Mrs Sozeri - Louis Walsh and last but not least Miss Williams - Simon Cowell! Thank you all very much for been such good sports!
WEAR IT PINK Our own clothes day event for October was organised to support the
“Wear it Pink” Cancer Campaign.
School Council encouraged children to wear something pink to school on the 23rd October - even the boys!!
The 50p own clothes day donation went to this fund.
We also sold pink wafer biscuits at 10p each during playtimes on that day.
We raised £150 by the end
of the day!
At 11 o’clock, on the 11th day, of the 11th month, we held a two-minute silence in honour of those who died during conflict.
Remembrance Day Key Stage 2 have been learning about the significance of Remembrance Day.
During PSHE, Years 3 and 4 learned what remembrance means, why poppies are sold each year, and what and who we are remembering.
Years 5 and 6 looked at the causes of the First World War, what life was like for soldiers in the trenches, famous WWI battles and how the war ended.
All the children in Key Stage 2 wrote either a message, poem or historical fact, which they wrote on a poppy for display on a class wreath.
In October we all walked to St Gregory's Church to celebrate Harvest Thanks Giving. We began by singing a selection of Harvest songs which reminded us that this was a time for being thankful for all the wonderful food we eat everyday. Reverend Colin then spoke to us, reminding us that there are many people in the world who are not as lucky as us, some have very little to eat. He told us that the food contributions we had given would be going to people in need in our own community.
Harvest Service at St.Gregory's
This term we have introduced a new video link area on our Learning Platform. These videos will be updated and added to each new term.
Click on the link button to view our current school videos!
To return to our web site click on the browser 'Back' button.
Year 5 and 6 have studied Ancient Egypt in their topic work this term. They wanted to perform a show that was linked to this aspect of their learning. They have staged Joseph and his Technicolor Dreamcoat this term. This involved learning many songs and dances!
Well done to all of Year 5 and 6 who have worked so hard to make this performance one of the best D’Eyncourt has ever done!!
To view the pictures kindly taken by
Mr R Perry
click on the link button.Press F11 for full screen view and use the arrow buttons on your keyboard to scroll through pictures. Press F11 to return to normal view and the browser (back) button to return to this page!
We had a mixed bag of weather when it came to our sports days, we just about managed to stay dry on both morning sessions. Thanks to all parents who came to support and cheer their children on!
Well done to all the children that took part in the races and to our very competative fathers who ran the dad's race!
Thanks as always to
Mr Turner (DJ) for supplyingmusic!
Comic Relief -
'Red Nose Day' Friday 13th March
Our School Council organised a day of fun by asking all the children to come to school dressed in their ‘nightclothing’ for Comic Relief.
All the children were busy baking small cakes and biscuits with a ‘Red Nose’ theme during the week starting the 9th March.
There was a charge on the day of £1.00 which was donated to the Comic Relief charity.
The final total for the day was £400!
1.Cream fats and sugar together thoroughly.
2. Add sieved flour and mix well.
3. Divide into required number of biscuits.
4. Shape into balls and roll in rolled oats.
5. Flatten balls and if you have a cutter - use to make a perfect cookie shape.
6.
Place on a greased baking tray.
Bake in a moderate oven, temp mark 5 for 15-20 mins.
Click on the Red Nose Day Logo to view pictures of our chilldren during the day! Use the arrow buttons on your keyboard to scroll through pictures.
When the biscuits are cold mix together 3 heaped teaspoons of icing sugar with a small amount of warm water until it forms a smooth paste. Carefully ice each biscuits and add a cherry on top for decoration!
Book Fair
At the beginning of March we held a Book Fair giving each child the oppportunity to buy a book. Many thanks to the parents who purchased a book for their child. We hope they enjoy reading it! A total of £1194.60 was spent on books. This helped generate £700 worth of new books to be used in school!
World Book Day 2009
The main aim of World Book Day is to encourage people to explore the pleasures of books and reading.
On Thursday March 5th D'Eyncourt Primary School got involved with World Book Day by dressing up as their favourite Fictional character.
Click the World Book Day logo to view pictures. Press F11 for full screen view and use the arrow buttons on your keyboard to scroll through pictures.
Fizzog Theatre Company
On Friday 23rd January a theatre group came into school and put on a performance that was all about World War 2. It was brilliant. They showed us what the war was like for children. At the beginning they were dressed up as old ladies and they were being interviewed by a girl who had been asked by her teacher to ask them some questions. They acted out lots of different scenes. It had some very funny parts and some sad moments. Lots of children thought it was very sad for the evacuee boy who came from London.
It was really scary when they put the siren on and the girl hid under the table. Some children thought the siren was too loud and it hurt their ears. It was really quiet in the hall when the siren went off.
The girls from the theatre company made us laugh a lot but it made us think that it was not very nice to be a child in the war. The funniest bit was at the end when Alexander and Sarjan danced with the ladies. Even the teachers were laughing. Everybody left the hall with a big smile on their faces and lots to think about. We were all glad we were not children in the war.
Some more children's comments: Sophie Matthews - I thought the play was really interesting.
I learnt a lot from it, the actors made it seem as though I’d travelled back in time.
Rhianna - The WWII show was really great. It was so funny when a woman was playing a boy with no manners and the old people characters were great. Some of the language they used we did not understand because it was old fashioned but our teachers are old and told us what some of the words were, like 'suck' which is actually the old word for sweets!
Miss Townsend says, ‘We are not that old, just very knowledgeable of the English dictionary!’
Many thanks toSusan Hawkins, Jacky Fellows, Deb Nicholls and Louise Stokes.
Keerthan - I thought the play on Friday was extremely funny. The best part was when they sounded the air raid siren,
it was really loud!
To find out all about the Fizzog Theatre Company
and all about different plays they perform click on the link button below to
their website!
Fund Raising Event The School Council Fair raised £350 which will used to fund any future ventures they may have on their agenda.
The event ran during the school day on the 5th December and was organised completely by the School Council and
children from Key Stage 2 who ran a variety of stalls and competitions to raise money for School Fund and School Council activities. Find out more about our School Council and to view pictures from the day Click Here In addition to this very busy and productive day we also had a visit
from Santa!
Discos for Children The PFA Halloween disco was a huge success, enjoyed by all. Thank you to all who came to support the event. To view more pictures click on the link button below.
Press F11 for full screen view and F11 to return to normal view and the Back button to return to
this page.
As you know, Mr Arnold sadly retired as Headteacher last year and
we like to offer our best wishes and full support to Mr Bull
who filled the position in September.
The final week at D'Eyncourt last term was spent trying to show Mr Arnold our love, respect and appreciation for his long service to our school, pupils and staff.
Along with the School Council we held yet another activity day; this time the weather was kinder to us, the sun provided a beautiful day which allowed us to do lots of exciting activities, as well as the traditional jog round the field!
Another big 'thank you' to Joe Taheri (Council Development Worker)
who organised the visit to the local fruit farm to pick fresh fruit with some of our year 6 pupils
(note: who ate more than they picked!) Click the link button below to view pictures - Then click F11 for full page view.
Below are some pictures of the Year 6 leavers' assembly. It was called 'Rocky Monster' and was based on traditional horror stories!
Sorry the pictures aren't very clear but it was dark!
Also are some pictures of the children signing each others' shirts before they left. Good bye, I will miss you all, wish you well best wishes Miss Townsend
'Arts Week' during June was our main event, this was a very successful, restful week! Click on on the Arts Week link button on the menu under the year group's buttons on the right hand side to see what the children have
been doing.
Sports Day June 2008 Slightly wet and windy, but we managed to run the races when ever the sun came out!
Thanks to the parents that turned up to support their children and Kevin the DJ for supplying the groovy music!
