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COVID-19 UPDATES Tuesday 17th March 2020 2pm

Tue 17 Mar 2020

Please ensure your child remains at home for 14 days if they, or anyone in their household, has a high temperature or cough. All after school clubs are cancelled.

Uplifting Singing

Tue 17 Mar 2020

The children have been rehearsing and we would like to share this beautiful video taken today of the children singing ‘For God, so loved the world’

Vision Evening at Polebrook CE Primary on Thursday, April 23rd at 6.30pm- all invited

Mon 16 Mar 2020

I am writing to inform you about the progress of Polebrook CE Primary School in its collaboration with Glapthorn CE Primary School and the Rutland Learning Trust (RLT). As you are aware, we have shared an Executive Headship for the past 14 months and have had access to significant support from RLT.

The governors and leaders of Polebrook School are delighted with the improvements this has stimulated and hope to further this partnership by formally joining the Rutland Learning Trust and converting to an Academy. You may also be aware that Glapthorn School has recently completed the conversion process and has become an academy.
We received the consent of the Department for Education for our conversion to academy and they issued an Academy Order for Polebrook School last week. This means that we are now able to begin the conversion process.

We would like to invite you to a Vision Evening at Polebrook CE Primary on Thursday, April 23rd at 6.30pm, to hear more about our plans for the school. The executive headteacher will share our revised school vision, values and aims, which build on the strengths of Polebrook School and align us with those of RLT. Rob Gooding, CEO of RLT, will present on the vision, values and aims of RLT. There will also be opportunities to talk informally to the speakers.

We have secured the agreement of Northamptonshire County Council and of the Peterborough Diocese Board of Education, both of who currently oversee the school, for our conversion to an academy and will be undertaking a formal consultation with the community, especially parents and carers. The consultation opens with this letter and closes on Thursday, 30th April 2020. We invite you to submit any questions, comments or concerns you may have about our conversion to academy to the school by email or letter. The email addresses of the Chair of Governors and the Executive Headteacher are given at the end of this letter, alternatively responses can be sent to us at the school office. Responses submitted before 23rd April will be addressed during the presentations to the Vision Evening.

The Vision Evening on 23rd April also forms part of our consultation with you, so please do come along to find out more about these exciting developments for our fantastic school.

Sports Relief

Fri 13 Mar 2020

Sports Crew held a “Come in your Kit” day where children and adults could wear sports clothes if they donated £1 to Sports Relief.

We had a great range of outfits, showing our children’s many interests outside of school including dancing, horse riding, football, rugby, running and biking.

They also racked their brains and raided the PE shed to organise different physical activities for break and lunchtime.

Success at Oundle Festival of Literature

Mon 09 Mar 2020

A huge congratulations to one of our Year 5 students who won first prize in the Year 5 & 6 poetry competition at Oundle Festival of Literature.

The finalists in the writing competition came from eight local schools and they were invited to an event on Saturday 7th March, with author M.M. Vaughan entitled Tips for Young Writers. This was a very informative event enjoyed by all and then the eager finalists were presented with certificates, book tokens for the 1st and 2nd places and Easter Eggs for everyone, kindly donated by Waitrose.

Well done, we are all so proud of you!

Here is her winning entry:

Us Humans

In the future I can see,
A crumbling building that belonged to me,
My house is now a pile of rubble,
All because the robots were causing trouble.

Water is scarce, food is in ration,
Everybody’s emotions have a lot less passion,
My troubled mind is bending,
I think the world is ending.

I rethink this thought,
The villains that have done this must be caught,
I’m being driven round the bend, I think about this more and more,
Then I realized who caused this horror

It was us humans!

We humans are selfish,
Just think of all the fish,
We have dragged from the sea,
But if my friend was asked to help save our earth, she’d say: No, no not me!

World Book Day 2020

Thu 05 Mar 2020

What an amazing effort all of our children (and parents) made for World Book Day 2020 here at Polebrook.

It has been a fun packed activity day.

In assembly, the teachers shared with children which story they are going to be reading at the end of the day so that they can choose which one to attend.

Later in the morning was the Big Book Swap
Red Class swapped with Blue Class
Green Class swapped with Purple Class
This gave the children the opportunity to share a book with a child in another class, talk about it and read a section to them!

Then the children who received this month's Headteacher's Hot Chocolate award spent their time chatting about their reading with her whilst enjoying a drink.

Lunchtime the library and KS2 reading corners were open to share reading

At the end of the day all coming together in the hall to get ready for ‘Sharing a story

Blue class have a science class with a difference

Tue 03 Mar 2020

Wow! What an amazing science lesson the children from Blue Class had yesterday. Bugtopia came in to school with a number of creatures for the children to learn about and hold! These included a giant African millipede, Madagascan hissing cockroach, African stick insect and a tarantula.

The children were totally engaged with learning all about these creepy creatures and this set them up for continuing their investigations into bug life in our playground as they went off hunting for bugs and describe their habitats.

The children were joined by Glapthorn children and the whole group worked amazingly together and new friends made ahead of the residential in May.

Thank you to all our parents in supporting this ‘hands on’ learning for our children.

Why can't a meerkat live at the North Pole?

Thu 06 Feb 2020

Earlier this month, Green Class had a fabulous time visiting Hamerton Zoo for the "Sparkling Start" to their new topic "Why can't a meerkat live at the North Pole?"

Not only did they have great fun observing the meerkats and learning about their lives, but also watching other wild animals first hand and discovering interesting facts about them.

Particular favourites were the tigers, cheetahs, camels and flamingos.

Many thanks to FOPS and cakes for coaches for subsidizing the trip, giving all the children the opportunity participate in this wonderful experience.

Great team work at the basketball tournament

Thu 06 Feb 2020

Our Year 4 and 5 children have had the opportunity to polish up their basketball skills this term, practising at break times and lunchtimes.

Eight children volunteered to play for our Year 4 & 5 team and went along to the Cluster Competition at Prince William School on Wednesday after school.

All the team played extremely well and were great ambassadors for the school with their sportsmanship. After some challenging matches, we achieved a well earned second place.

Well done, we're very proud of you all!

Year 3 and 4 go to Young Voices 2020

Thu 30 Jan 2020

After months of build-up and rehearsals the day of the Young Voices finally came. Children in Blue Class took part at the World Resorts centre (formally the NEC) in Birmingham.

Everyone was feeling slightly nervous as they did not know what to expect but once they arrived for the afternoon’s rehearsals all those butterflies flew away and the children relaxed and enjoyed the moment. The children became part of a mass choir of over 6000 children for the evening!

It was an amazing day and the children did us proud. They had a lot to learn, but all the hard work paid off as every single child sang their heart out! They got to sing with Ruti, Tony Hadley and The Shires, but the highlight of the night was getting to watch the parents show off their moves with the dance group Urban strides!

Thank you to all the parents for allowing your child to take part and to those parents that were fortunate to go to watch and those who have helped their children learn all the songs.

Thank you also to Mrs Bryant and Mrs Coulthard for supporting the children on the day and lots of admiration from pupils and parents for your continued singing and dancing!

We are super proud of all the children that took part, and hope that will be an experience that will stay with them forever!

We can’t wait for the next one!