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Past Headteacher Updates!

Headteacher's Update - Friday 31st August 2012

We are looking forward to the start of the new term!

School reopens on Tuesday 4th September and Nursery reopens on Monday 10th September.

Mrs Turner

Headteacher's Update - Monday 16th July 2012

We had a great Summer Fair on Saturday, despite the rain. Thank you to the PTA of both the Infant and Junior Schools for all their hard work and for raising so much money for the schools!

Nursery closes for the Summer on Thursday 19th July and school closes on Friday 20th July.

School reopens on Tuesday 4th September and Nursery reopens on Monday 10th September.

I would like to wish all our lovely Year 2 children the best of luck in their new Junior schools - we will miss you but we will follow your progress with great interest!

Thank you to our parents for their great support for this school. The children have done you proud in this year's results and we have enjoyed working with you all.

Wishing everyone a happy and relaxing holiday.

From Mrs Turner and all the school staff and governors

Headteacher's Update - Monday 2nd July 2012

We have just finished celebrating a Cluster schools Olympics, hosted by the Coombes Primary School. This was started with a real torch relay between the schools! The children had a very interesting time trying out lots of different sports, learning new dances, looking at aspects of Ancient Greek culture and tasting different foods. They had a memorable time, and it will help them understand the meaning of the London Olympics starting in a few weeks.

Mrs Turner

Headteacher's Update - Friday 1st June 2012

This week the whole school celebrated Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee in a special tea party held at Shinfield St Mary's CE Junior School.

Our special guest the Mayor of Wokingham was in attendance and gave a short speech to us all. We were also very pleased to welcome our other special guests Carole Hughes and Marjory Bisset from the Parish Council, who presented the schools with cheques and the children with commemorative bookmarks. Three cheers were given for the Queen, led by Christopher Young. The children gave us a colourful parade of hats they had designed and everyone had a piece of Jubilee Cake. We all had a wonderful time.

Congratulations and thank you to our Queen who is the cause of such celebrations. God bless you and long may you reign.

Mrs Turner

Headteacher's Update - Monday 21st May 2012

This week Year 2 have been working hard on their End of Key Stage assessments. They really enjoyed their visit to Reading Synagogue. They learnt so much from seeing this lovely place of worship at first hand, trying some Jewish food and listening to the people there telling them about Jewish customs. The F2 team are to be congratulated on their recent external moderation which showed that the children are making great progress - well done! Year 1 have produced some lovely writing this half term - keep up the good work, children! Next week the whole school will be celebrating at a Queen's Diamond Jubilee party with Shinfield St Mary's CE Junior School. The children will receive a special gift from Shinfield Parish Council and the PTA to mark this very special occasion. The Shinfield History Room will be reopened for visits. Please contact the school to arrange an appointment to view the room.

Mrs Turner

Headteacher's Update - Friday 27th April 2012

Thank you to all the parents and staff who gave up their time to help get the Nursery ready for the start of the new term. We are most grateful to you!

F2 are looking forward to their trip to Bucklebury Farm Park next week. Let's hope for some fine weather.

Year 1 have been working hard and have remembered the many new things they were taught last term - well done!

Year 2 had a visit from 'Feathers and Fur' who brought lots of animals including Willow the Barn Owl who flew over the children's heads in the Hall! Year 2 were praised by the animal handler Sadie for their lovely behaviour. Well done to Year 2 for being a credit to their parents and their school.

Mrs Turner

Headteacher's Update – 30th March 2012

We have reached the end of a very busy term!

School closes today at 1.15pm for the Easter break. We are closed for staff training on Monday 16th April.

School will reopen at normal times on Tuesday 17th April and Nursery at the normal times on Thursday 19th April.

Redecoration of the Year 1 corridor and Hall will take place this holiday, and we will also be sorting through all the old library books ready for the refurbishment of our school library. After the holiday, the children will be helping us to choose new books that they would like to read!

We hope that everyone has a happy and relaxing holiday and we look forward to seeing you back next term.

Mrs Turner

Headteacher's Update – 9th March 2012

We have had a lovely Book Week. Thank you parents, for all your support. The children have thoroughly enjoyed it.

The highlights were the visits to Spencers Wood Library, the ‘Gingerbread Man’ show, stories with parents every morning and dressing up as book characters on the last day. The school really did look like a colourful story book had come to life – the costumes created by staff and children were amazing.

The children really enjoyed the staff play on ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ – one child said it was better than a real pantomime!

Each class has also created a new and unusual reading area, which has further encouraged reading for enjoyment.

We are looking forward to our Pyjama Party next week.

Mrs Turner

Headteacher's Update – 23^rd February 2012

On Tuesday we had our ever popular Shrove Tuesday Pancake Day Race which everyone enjoyed very much. Many thanks to the WI for their help with this and for supplying prizes for the winners! In school we cooked our own pancakes and tried out different toppings.

The school has been decorated in the half term holiday and the front office and corridors look very bright and smart.

Thanks to our PTA the Friends of Shinfield, we also have lovely new playground markings! The children have really enjoyed learning how to use these and making up new games to play on them.

We are collecting Sainsbury vouchers so if anybody would like to donate these to us, we would be most grateful for them. We will put them towards new PE equipment.

Mrs Turner

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Headteacher's Update - 20th February 2012

We hope that everyone has had a good half term holiday, especially with the fine weather we have had. School and Nursery reopen today at the normal times.

We look forward to seeing everyone back for another busy and hard working half term! On Tuesday we will be welcoming the Women's Institute who will be helping us with our Annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake Day Race - an event not to be missed!

Mrs Turner

Headteacher's Update - 30th January 2012

We had a really good Healthy Schools week last week. The Junior School children also came and shared their Eco School ideas with us in an assembly. The money raised from our Carrier Bag Sale will go towards a recycling project in the school. The Governors spent 'Happiness Day' with us and learnt a lot from the children about what they enjoy doing in school. They really like doing their best work!

The teachers shared the things that made them happy, including a song and dance , an amusing story and a visit from Mrs Belas' dog Gilbert.

Mrs Turner

Headteacher's Update - 23rd January 2012

This week we have Healthy Schools Week. The children will be learning more about healthy eating, good hygiene, exercise and rest, saving energy and recycling. The Junior School children will be talking to the Infant children in assembly about Eco Schools. The community school nurses will be working with the children on healthy foods and handwashing. On Thursday we have a carrier bag sale for children to bring and buy second hand toys. At the end of the week we will have our Governors in to look at our lessons and work and join in with our 'Happiness Day'.

Mrs Turner

Headteacher's Update - 6th January 2012

We have had a good start to the term. The children have all settled quickly and are working very hard. We have been impressed by all the lovely writing this week. Clubs start again next week. Please note that these are currently for Yr 1 and 2 only and not for Mrs Edwards' class and the other F2 classes as yet. We will let you know if and when spaces become available for F2 children. We are having an ECO day on Thursday 26th January. There will be a Carrier Bag Sale where children can bring their unwanted toys and books and buy different ones! This will teach them a new way of recycling. There will also be second hand uniform on sale that day.

Headteacher's Update - 1st January 2012

Happy New Year everyone!

School will reopen at normal times on WEDNESDAY 4th January and Nursery will reopen at normal times on Thursday 5th January. The next Open Morning will be on Tuesday 10th January at 9.15am. We welcome our new school families and look forward to a busy term ahead.

Mrs Turner

Headteacher's Update - 14th December 2011

The school and Nursery will close for the Christmas holiday

on Friday 16th December. School will reopen at normal times on Tuesday 4th January and Nursery will reopen at normal times on Thursday 5th January. The next Open Morning will be on Tuesday 10th January at 9.15am. I would like to thank the school staff, Governors and all the children for their very hard work this term. We all wish everyone a happy holiday.

Mrs Turner

Headteacher's Update - 30th November 2011

Thank you to all our school families for their support and especially our PTA committee for all their hard work at what was a very successful Christmas Market. We look forward to seeing everyone at the Christmas plays. On Thursday 1st December we will be singing Christmas songs at Dobbies Garden Centre from 5 to 6pm. Come and join in with the fun!

4th November 2011

We are now back into the swing of the second half term and the children have done some lovely writing about their holidays. Reindeer Home Reading awards start next Monday for four weeks, ending on Friday 2nd December. We hope that every child will get a Reindeer badge!

The whole school will be out on School Green on Remembrance Day at 10.40pm for the two minutes of silence. Parents are welcome to join us.

Headteacher's Update - 30th October 2011

We hope that everyone has had a good half term holiday and we look forward to seeing all the staff and children back at school and Nursery at the usual times tomorrow.

Don't forget the Morrisons vouchers finish tomorrow so please bring them in as soon as possible. There will be an Open Morning on Tuesday 1st November at 9.15am for any prospective parents to have a look around the school.

Mrs Turner

Headteacher's Update - 17th October 2011

We are in assembly at the moment and the children would like to send a message to their parents:

'We hope that you are having a nice day. At school we are sitting REALLY nicely and working very hard! We hope you are pleased with our work at parents' evenings. Come and see the Fizzbooks and our Art exhibition. Don't forget we break up for half term holiday on Friday 21st October and we come back to school on Monday 31st October. We hope everyone will have a lovely holiday'.

Mrs Turner and the children

Headteacher's Update - 12th October 2011

We are holding a Harvest Festival soon and have some lovely hampers, a harvest cake and flowers for a raffle. The money raised will go to Guide Dogs for the Blind, a charity chosen by the School Council. Thank you to all the parents for their generous donations for the raffle and to those who helped make up the hampers.

Mrs Turner

Headteacher's Update - 26th September 2011

The children have been out and about. F2 enjoyed an Autumn Walk around our local allotments and spotted lots of signs of early Autumn including some huge conkers. Year 2 are off to visit Windsor Castle this week. They will be taking the school video cameras so look out for some interesting film clips on the Year 2 pages!

More news on what Year 1 are doing to come soon.

Mrs Turner

Headteacher's Update - 19th September 2011

This week we are looking forward to a special visitor. Mrs Williams will be 90 years old on Tuesday 20th September. She and her husband used to be pupils at this school and her family have come here too. Happy Birthday Mrs Williams from all the children and staff at this school!

Mrs Turner

Headteacher's Update - 14th September 2011

This week we are holding Meet the Teacher meetings:

Wednesday 14th September 2.45pm - Year 1

Thursday 15th September - Year 2

Friday 16th September - Foundation 2

Please try and come as information will be given out about topics and other class work.

Mrs Turner

Headteacher's Update - 7th September 2011

School is open for the new term at 9.00am. Nursery starts back on Monday 12th September at the usual times. An Open Morning for prospective pupils and parents will be held on Tuesday 13th September at 9.15am. Please contact the school office to make an appointment to view the school.

We look forward to having everyone back and welcoming all our new children, families and staff. We hope to have another successful and enjoyable year working together.

Mrs Turner

Headteacher's Update - August 2011

We hope that all the children are enjoying the summer holiday. Work has been going on in school to make sure that new classrooms are all ready for next term. School starts back at 9am on Wednesday 7th September 2011, and Nursery starts back on Monday 12th September at the usual times. An Open Morning for prospective pupils and parents will be held on Tuesday 13th September at 9.15am. Please contact the school office to make an appointment to view the school.

Mrs Turner

Headteacher's Update - Monday 11th July 2011

We enjoyed a really good production of 'Pinocchio' by Year 2 last week. Well done Year 2! The Summer Fair and Sports Day were very successful and a good time was had by all. £720 was raised for school funds. Many thanks to the Friends of Shinfield our PTA for all their hard work and thanks to all the school families for their great support. We are moving closer to our goal of a new outdoor classroom, storytelling corner and playground markings!

Head Teacher's Update - 5th June

I hope that everyone has had a good holiday. Foo Foo Fellow Mrs Belas' class bear has had a lovely time on the Isle of Wight with me. Please look out for his holiday news on the Foundation Stage class page! We return to school and Nursery on Monday 6th June. The next Open Morning will be on Tuesday 7th June at 9.30am. We are looking forward to a busy and hard working half term!

Mrs Turner

Head Teacher's Update - 24th May

We held a Family BBQ with the Junior School. Lots of people came and everyone had a good time. On Thursday we will be attending St Mary's Church for the annual Founders Day service. This is a tradition that goes back more than 300 years!

School and Nursery will close for half term this Friday 27th May. We return on Monday 6th June. The next Open Morning will be on Tuesday 7th June at 9.30am.

Mrs Turner

Head Teacher's Update - 27th April

We are looking forward to our Royal Wedding tea party tomorrow. The Junior school children will be joining us.

Nursery will not start back until 3rd May but Nursery children are coming to the tea porty.

OPEN MORNINGS are to be held at 9.30am on Thursday 28th April and Tuesday 3rd May. Please contact the school office to make an appointment to look around the school.

Congratulations to Miss Anderson's class for winning the Royal Wedding poster competition. Their poster is on the front cover of a book of posters presented to Prince William and Kate Middleton for their wedding. Their photo and poster is on the front page of the Wokingham Times and Reading Post today. Well done to you all!

Mrs Turner