Dear Parents, Grandparents and Carers

Fresh Direct kindly donated seven crates of delicious peaches this week and the DfE sent four mornings of tests. The entire school enjoyed the peaches and the year six children devoured the tests: excellent. We continued the theme of celebrating achievement in this week's Achievement Assembly, in which Mrs Wakelin (Chair of Governors) presented the awards instead of class teachers doing so. All the awards this week were for making excellent progress in maths, and for representing the school values.

Sports day will be held on 11 July: Willow Class, Chestnut Class and Oak Class in the morning, and Ash Class, Rowan Class and Beech Class in the afternoon. We have decided to organise it in two parts again as the experience was much better for the children this way.

In support of the Parish Poppy Fete, entry forms and details of the fete are attached. The children will have the opportunity to make their entries for the craft competitions in school. Art work for the fete has already been sent to the fete organisers and the children have been hugely complimented on the quality of their entries and Rob Cornford is on standby with his camera to photograph them.

Have a lovely weekend,

Best wishes

Jane Paterson and the staff team

Information for Oak, Chestnut and Willow Class Parents

Children took home a letter on Tuesday about the forthcoming educational visit to Waddesdon Manor; a copy is attached. Please return by Thursday 24th May to one of the post boxes.

Message from Rev'd Peter

Community Cafe - can you help?

The Community Café runs every Tuesday in term time in the Parish Hall next to the school, with a morning session 9.00am-11.00am and an afternoon session 2.30pm-4.00pm. The Café has been staffed by volunteers from Launton church, but needs new helpers to keep running. Help is needed particularly at the following times:

• Morning Session

o Setting-up approx. 8.30am-9.15am

o Serving refreshments during the session 9.00am11.00am

• Afternoon Session

o Setting-up approx. 2.00pm-2.30pm

o Serving refreshments during the session 2.30pm-4.00pm

o Tidying up and putting away 4.00pm-4.30pm

If you would be interested in being part of a rota to cover these sessions please email Rev Peter (revpeterwright@gmail.com) for more information, or call him on 07966 531921.

Message from Friends of Launton School

Thank you again for supporting Lolly Friday where we sold 99 lollies! Lollies will be available for sale in the playground this Friday.

Please find below links to this week's letters and some updates and reminders. All of these letters are on the school website under recent letters.

Kind Regards

Kirsty Staker

Please see information from the National Online Safety Team as part of the #WakeUpWednesday campaign and Mental Health Awareness Week - we have created a FREE guide for schools to share to its community about 'Screen Addiction' - an issue which is affecting young people across the globe.

Our guide informs parents about the issues associated with smartphone and screen addiction amongst children and how they can help to control the associated risks and stop their children becoming 'Screen Zombies'.

Please see link below for information about a Working with Wool Day at the Green Dragon Eco Farm on Bank holiday Monday!

Please see link below for information from Bicester Lawn Tennis Club about a Tennis Club on Wednesday 30th May.

Message from Fresh Start

Meal Manager for Term 6 Orders now open.

The deadline to order meals for the first week of term is Tuesday 29 May.

The link for Meal Manager is below. We have had some site maintenance and below is the best way to get to Meal Manager directly.

Dates for the Diary -

• Year 6 Kwik Cricket Festival - Friday 18th May 2018

• Theatre Production of Treasure Island - Monday 21st May 2018

• National Walk to School Week - Monday 21st May 2018- Friday 25th May 2018

• Year 6 Cycling Proficiency starts - Friday 25th May 2018

• KS2 Educational Visit to Waddesdon Manor (more information to follow) - Wednesday 6th June 2018

• Launton Fete - Saturday 9th June 2018, Launton School Cheerleaders will be performing at the start of the fete (more information to follow)

• Sports Day - Wednesday 11th July 2018

May Half Term at Studi02 with OYAP Trust

Get stuck in and learn to make a mini-festival with music, graffiti, zine-making, garden activities and kites. Take part in a traditional Ceilidh dance.

Over the course of 2017, OYAP Trust consulted with young people across Bicester about what cultural activity they wanted to see taking place in their town. They wanted five simple things; more opportunities to take part in high quality art and cultural activities, a space to run these creatives activities, performances and exhibition out of, more events they are to attend as young people, more opportunity to access green spaces in the town and lastly affordable activities that everyone can take part in.

In response the manifesto, OYAP Trust has invited Tandem Collective (a not-for-profit organisation that engages and empowers new audiences to tackle environmental and social issues through music and the arts) to work in partnership to plan a Tandem Takeover event at Studi02 for the half term. The festival inspired event will provide fun, high quality and eco-friendly creative arts, gardening and music activities for all ages.

We hope you find an activity you enjoy!

Weds 30th May 11am - 3.30pm:

Paradise Paints with the Big Orange M

(Ages 11-17) | £10 (Concessions Available)

Get your graffiti on and make your mark on Studio2. Explore different mural and wall-art painting styles, including spin painting, stencils and collage to cover OYAP's new space in unique large-scale artwork!

Thursday 31st May 10.30am - 3pm:

Growing Creativity with Bicester Grassroots

(Ages 7+ )

Join Bicester Grassroots for a morning of outdoor and plant-based creativity inspired their new community garden at Studi02.

1pm - 3pm:

Kites of Kindness

(Ages 7+) | £5 (Concessions Available)

Work with professional artist Miranda Bence-Jones to design and decorate your own kite that tells a story of kindness, as a part of larger community arts project. Share your kindness story with other kite makers at the Bicester Festival Kite Day in June for a grand kite flying event.

Fri 1st June: 10.30am - 3pm:

Scratch Ceilidh Band with Steph West

(Ages 11-17) | £10 (Concessions Available)

Make a band in a day! Get the low-down from professional musicians on how to make people dance with your music, learn some folk music, make some grooves, and write and call your own dances. Be part of the band for our Friday night ceilidh party!

10.30am - 3pm:

Wild Zine with Merlin Porter and Nina Brown (Ages 7+) | £10 (Concessions Available)

Make a zine in a day! Zinesters will write poems and stories, paint and draw images plus collage or stencil about any aspect of wildlife to help create an amazing 'zine' celebrating nature. Tackle some big issues and get creative in your response with creative writing and illustration. Check out the first issue of 'Rise' zine to see what it's all about!

6.00 - 8.30pm:

Community Ceilidh!

(ALL AGES - family, friends and neighbours welcome)

£2 entry per person

Join us to celebrate, dance to music made by your very own OYAP Scratch Ceilidh Band, and see the results of the week's workshops! Snacks and drinks will be available!