Ferncumbe Friday

friday 18th March 2022

upcoming events

It has been really lovely welcoming so many of you into school over the last few weeks, when you have visited to look at your child’s books. Please do take a look at the interactive calendar at the bottom of the home page of the school website which details a host of upcoming school events for the remainder of this term and beyond… https://www.ferncumbefamily.cuk/

You are warmly invited to come and hear some of the songs the children have been working on during their Singtastic sessions with Kieron from Warwickshire Music. The performances will take place in the school hall on Tuesday 5th April 2022. Please come to the red door at the front of school.

Key Stage 2 - 9am

Reception and Key Stage 1 - 9.30am

Message from the Friends of Ferncumbe

Following recent successful fundraising events we have been able to support costs associated with Enrichment activities and the recent Bird Man visit, as well as providing class Christmas gifts.
We have a number of exciting events and activities coming up, here are some dates for your diary:

- Wonderful Women Sweet Treats, deadline to order is 6pm Friday 18th March. Orders to be handed out on Friday 25th March.

- Easter Bingo returns on Friday 1st April! Tickets can be booked using the following link:
https://buytickets.at/thenewfriendsofferncumbeschool1997

- Non-uniform day on Friday 25th March. Children can come to school in their own clothes in exchange for an Easter related donation (to be used as prizes on bingo night).

- Friday 13th May is Break The Rules Day! We will be working with School Council and Mrs Webb to agree a list of rules that can be broken and the fines to pay! More info to follow.

- Friday 20th May, Evening BBQ at School. Save the date!

- Friday 15th July, 2022 Summer Fun Day! After the great success of last summer's event we will be planning another fun day for the children.

Thank you for your ongoing support.

The Friends of Ferncumbe

A class full of botanists

Wroxall Class worked really hard dissecting a Daffodil during Science this week. The children carefully removed each part of the flower, labelling each part and learning about its purpose. They linked their learning to the process of pollination and fertilisation. The children were able to explain how bees and insects can transfer pollen from one flower to another to being the process of pollination. The children showed a great understanding about the processes and asked some great questions.

Mrs Eaves

Speed stacking county finals

Yesterday, 12 Year 4 pupils represented Ferncumbe and Central Warwickshire at the County Finals for Speed Stacking. In a highly competitive event, we came 5th overall out of 13 teams! We competed in 3 different events, 1 individual and 2 team relay events. Our times were then combined to give us an overall team score. All our pupils performed well under pressure and enjoyed their success in the afternoon’s events. Speed stacking was entirely new to us all before we participated in the competition for the first time last year, but given the children’s success I’m sure this won’t be the last you will hear of the sport! Well done again to all of the children and thank you to parent helpers for your support.

Miss Reid

REPORT FROM GOVERNORS

On behalf of all of the existing Governors, I would like to welcome Jake Thompson as the new Parent Governor. Jake will be joining us for his first formal meeting next week. Jake has a daughter in Reception and has already thrown himself fully into school life with the Ferncumbe Family. He is keen to play a greater role supporting the Ferncumbe Family and representing parents on our governing body.

Jake has replaced our previous governor, Georgina McCarthy. I would like to thank Georgina for her time and support to the governing board, during her role as a parent governor.

We are pleased to confirm that this term the governors have been able to carry out face to face monitoring. The vice chair, Sarah Asprey, and I attended school on different days to sit in and monitor a number of classes. I also had the pleasure of meeting with, and talking to, children at the School Council meeting. Following on from visits, we report back to other governors and work with the leadership team on any objectives going forward. Both Sarah and I would like to thank all staff for their ongoing hard work and commitment to the school and to the children for their positive input to the monitoring process.

Donna Bothamley, Chair of Governors

With very best wishes for a lovely, sunny weekend!

Tracey Webb, Head of School

Newsletter Issue 12