Newsletter 23rd May 2025
Dear Parents/ Carers,
It has been a great week in school with lots to celebrate! Special well done to the chosen children for the Bartonian Awards today who were chosen for showing all of our school values, in particular our term 5 focus value of Honesty. Please see the attached termly round-up for photographs.
We have held our first-ever “Shakespeare week” across the school with every year group from Reception to Year Six learning (and loving!) a Shakespeare play. See further details in the Roundup.
We also celebrated our termly house point winners today which was Fire house and it was the closest contest yet! Fire house won with 440 house points; followed by joint second to Water and Air with 439 points, closely followed by Earth house with 437! Our Fire house children enjoyed an extra playtime in the sunshine with an ice pole treat this afternoon.
“Bartonian Blooms” passport
We have had some lovely feedback regarding our “Bartonian Blooms” passport and lots of children have completed activities already from the range suggested in the booklet. If you are looking for half-term activities, please take a look in the passport and see if there is anything you can “tick off” with your child.
In the first week back, please could all children who have completed 7 activities bring their passports into school for checking. We will then have a chat with the child about what they have done and begin to award our first “Red petal” certificates in assemblies and celebrate this achievement.
Classes for next year
After half term, we will start to talk to the children about the changes for September and preparing all children for the transition to their new year group. In Reception – Year Five, we are “shuffling” all classes for September meaning every child will start a new school year within a changed class group. Our classes will all remain single-age. We will be speaking to the children about this and taking on-board their views; we will ask every child to list three friends they hope to be with in their new class and we will ensure every child is kept with at least one close friend from their list. As I am sure you can appreciate, there are many factors which have to be taken into account when creating new and balanced classes and our staff work very hard on forming the new class groups. Once the classes are revealed, these are final.
Further details of our summer term transition plans will be shared after the half-term break.
Summer term events
A reminder that our “Plan A” sports day event will be in the afternoon of Wednesday 25th June with our “Plan B” even on Wednesday 2nd July.
Year Six parents have been sent the date for the annual leavers’ show performances and details on how to book tickets.
We are finalising our summer music recital date with our peripatetic music teachers and will share this as soon as it is confirmed.
Our EBPS in-school transition day will be Monday 7th July (although Year Six parents, please note secondaries set varying dates and they should have communicated these to you directly.)
Other year group parent / carer events will be shared in the termly curriculum overviews which will be sent at the start of term six.
Year Six residential
Many of our Year Six children are off to Dorset on their residential for a week on Monday 2nd June! It is an early start at school with the coach departing at 8am. I am sure they will have a fabulous time and be excellent ambassadors for our school during this wonderful experience. Special thanks to all of the staff taking them: Mrs Toms, Mrs Chapman, Mr Stockham, Miss Luca, Mrs Bayes and Mr Morris is also joining the trip again this year. Buttercup and Thistle classes will be covered by other staff during this week.
The Year Six children not on residential will have a fun, off-timetable week here in school.
Special thanks to our PTA who have kindly funded the Year Six leavers’ hoodies for every child again this year; they look very smart wearing them around school today!
Attendance
Attendance this week was 92.73%. Our top three classes were: Tulip with 96%, Primrose with 97.5 and Violet with 99%
A reminder that the last week and final days of term include important learning and celebratory events. We always have our house point reward and Bartonian Assemblies on the final day of each term; if children are absent, then they miss these important community events.
Wishing you all a lovely half term. School re-opens on Monday 2nd June at 8:45am.
Miss Lally & Mr Morris
Co-headteachers
Letters home this week
EYFS Forest School
Shoe box for DT – Y4 only
Y6 leavers production
Y3 residential trip next year
Y6 residential information
Monday gymnastics – Term 6
FSM holiday vouchers – FSM families only
Y6 residential information
NNC SEND survey – SEND families only
Attachments
Term 5 Roundup
STARLIGHT poster
Violent content online
News from EBPS 23rd May 2025
HOUSEPOINTS TERM 4
