Newsletter 6th June 2025

Dear Parents/ Carers, 

Wow! What a busy week with some unseasonal rainy weather! This did not dampen the spirits of our Year Six children on their week-long residential to Dorset. Despite the rain and the windy weather, our children showed resilience and demonstrated our school values as they persevered with the planned programme of adventurous activities. The adults saw teamwork, laughter and some quieter characters really stepping up and shining. A week to be proud of for all involved! 

Huge thanks to the six staff who gave up a week of their time to accompany the children and make these life-long memories: Mrs Toms, Mrs Chapman, Mr Stockham, Miss Luca, Miss Bayes and Mr Morris. 

Meanwhile, life in school has been busy too! Our Year Two children have enjoyed the experience of spending lunchtimes on the Key Stage Two playground to help them prepare for the transition into Year Three in September. 

Year Five are busy finessing their singing ahead of their performance of “The Tales of Jason and the Golden Fleece” at The Castle Theatre on 18th June. Tickets for this event are open to all; the stall seats have sold out already! They are only £5 per seat so if anyone would like to attend, please see the Castle Theatre’s website. 

Reception children also enjoyed their first experience of Forest School this week which will continue throughout the summer term. 

Attendance 

Attendance this week was 95.55%. Our top three classes were: Primrose with 98.93%, Poppy with 99% and this week’s class with top attendance is Violet class with 99.33%. Well done! 

Celebration assemblies 

Well done to the chosen Stars of the Week today for demonstrating wonderful writing, showing integrity, being a kind friend and developing confidence and self-belief. 

Our reading 5 times at home percentages have really dropped lately so we are having a renewed focus on this. Please encourage your child to read (anything!) at home 5 times and for an adult (or sensible, elder sibling) to initial in their planner to prove this has happened. 

Reading is the gateway to success in so many areas of life; imaginary worlds, information, vocabulary, broadening horizons... the list goes on! The more a child reads and loves reading; the more successful they will be. 

Weather! 

With this unpredictable weather, please ensure children have a waterproof coat (named) in school as well as a named sun hat and possibly sun-cream applied in the morning too! We try and get the children outside for breaktime and lunchtime daily following the mantra: there is no such thing as bad weather – only bad clothing! Please check weather forecasts and ensure children have what they may need each day. 

Bartonian Blooms 

Special thanks to the Year Sixes who remained in school this week who have been excellent ambassadors and role-models. They have “interviewed” all of the younger children who had completed any seven activities in their Bartonian Blooms passport to verify this and these children will all receive their certificates for their “Red petal” in assemblies next week. 
We will ask for passports to be brought in again just before the summer break to review and see if any more certificates can be awarded. 

Children will get a coloured certificate for every 7 activities completed from within the booklet (from any of the categories). Once a child has all 7 petal colours (so 7 x 7 = 49 activities completed), they will be awarded their Barton Blooms badge and a gold certificate. We want this to do done well and be meaningful so keep reminding the children it is not a race! 

Sports Day 

Apologies for any confusion about sports day timings... I am not quite sure how this has arisen! Sports Day for the whole school will take plan on Wednesday 25th June from approximately 1:15pm on Earls Barton Rec. The back-up date in the event of unsuitable weather is Wednesday 2nd July at 1:15pm. The event will run in exactly the same format as last year with track events then field / spring races. Children will participate as classes and will be supervised by their class teacher, teaching assistants and we will also ask for parent / carers to volunteer to chaperone the walking to and from the Rec. The events will last all afternoon and children will need to be collected from their usual classroom door at the end of the school day. 

NCT magazine 

Please find NNC Stay Connected magazine here. It is full of amazing events, clubs and groups that families, children and young people can access across the county that are free or affordable to attend. 

 Wishing you all a lovely weekend.  

Miss Lally & Mr Morris 

Co-headteachers 

Letters home this week 

Celebration of the Arts – Y4 only 

Thank you for volunteering to support Y2 seaside trip 

Violet class message from Miss Lally 

Junk modelling items, please – EY only 

Spare uniform, please – EY only 

Curriculum overviews and spellings – Individual year groups 

Performance of The Tales of Jason and the Golden Fleece – Y5 only 

EYFS Forest school permission 

Update on travel to Rockley – Y6 only 

Deadline to order Kingswood meals 

PSHE curriculum next term and parent information sessions 

Attachments 

Ofcom media report 2025 

What parents-educators need to know about emojis 

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