Newsletter Issue 33 Thursday 3rd July 2014

Newsletter Issue 33
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Thursday 3rd July 2014
Not long until the
summer holidays.
How time flies! I
hope everyone has
been enjoying the
lovely weather of late.
Don’t forget to let
me know if you have
anything of note to
go in the newsletter.
The deadline is Tuesday at 9pm.
Thank you.
Lindsay
July
Tuesday 8th: Guided tour 8.15am-12 noon.
Friday 11th: School finishes at 12:30pm
Saturday 12th: Buzy Bee’z work morning
10am-2pm.
Saturday 12th: Festival of Work 2:30pm.
Friday 18th: School finishes 12:30. End of
Term.
Recurring
Monday: 8:30am-9:45am Handwork in the
Handwork room.
Monday: 8:30am—3pm Busy Bee work day,
everyone welcome.
Monday: 4pm-5pm Gymnastics club, class
6+.
Thursday 9am-11am - Homeopathic drop in
clinic.
Friday: 8:45am-9:45am Singing, Eurythmy
room.
Friday: 3pm Friday teas.
Friday: 4pm-5:30pm After school sports
club, class 6+.
Please send any diary dates to newsletter@
michaelhouseschool.com
FOOD HALL
THANK YOU
A huge THANK
YOU to everybody
that generously donated food for the
food hall on Saturday.
It was a roaring success and apparently
their was a queue all
afternoon and the
food kept rolling out,
so well done everyone.
I can safely put the
food file away for
now and stop chasing people round the
playground!
Ralph (Ru’s Dad,
Class 3)
Horticultural
Fair prize winners!
Mundy Junior school
collected craft items we knitted snake! It was a
(around the corner
from us) recently put
on their first ever Horticultural Show. Their
fair was a lovely event,
very much like a miniature County Show
with a poultry tent and
calves and chickens to
view. Several Michael
House folk performed
music for our entertainment with The
Full House Orchestra
and we bumped into
friends on the show
ground, some currently
at Michael House and
some past pupils. We
had made over the last
year and baked fresh
goodies to enter into
the show and low and
behold...Minka won a
ribbon! Second prize
for her nesting toilet
roll penguins in the
recycled creature category. Just pipped to the
post by a magnificent
milk bottle elephant!
We were pleasantly
surprised to bump into
George who also won a
ribbon in the children's
craft category. He won
3rd prize for his magnificent giant green
lovely day out with one
of the funniest show
events being the Parent's Agility Race with
mums and dads being
led by their children
through hoops and
other obstacles...very
silly indeed! It would
be great if they do it
again next year and we
are able to enter more
of our wonderful crafts
that we are so good at.
Just in case... perhaps
start a new project
now?
Zoe Burns
Parent and Teacher
Cake Trolley fund
raiser
Ken Burns (Aidan,
Minka and Romy’s
daddy) is pushing the
cake trolley round at
his workplace in the
last week of term to
raise money for the
school. Any funds
raised will be matched
by the company. If
you have a winner of
a cake that you know
folks will not be able to
resist please feel free to
make it for him. Please
leave all cakes in the
kitchen labelled “for
Ken’s Cake Trolly” by
3pm Monday 14th July.
Thanks! The Last cake
trolley made £300! It
would be great if we
could do even better.
Zoe Burns
Parent and Teacher
Michael House School
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80th anniversary party Buzy Bee’z work morning
Save the Date - Michael House School
80th Anniversary
Party
We will be celebrating
at school on Friday
the 12th of September
2014 from 4:30 pm till
late.
All children, parents,
teachers and friends
are of course welcome.
We will have a bring
and share Tea (Sup-
per) and have dancing
in the Hall after 6:30.
There will also be
other activities, please
approach us if you’d
like to get involved in
organising an activity.
More details to follow.
The 80th Team
Sigrid Black, Imogen
Beeston, Ann Featherstone
Buzy Bee’z work day.
After many “work
days” which have
made a positive
impact on the school
environment, the
Buzy Bee’z have decided to have another
work day on the 12
July, which happens
to fall on the morning of the Festival of
Work.
As our children will
be working so hard
for us in the afternoon, could we come
together as a community in the morning to work for their
school?
It would be lovely
to have all hands on
deck to complete
some of the tasks on
our to-do list.
Please feel free to
bring something
along to help provide
a bring and share
lunch which we will
have before the festival of works.
We will publish a
work list for the day
closer to the time as
we feel this
would be useful,
mainly to help folks
to bring materials to
get the jobs done.
Hope to see many
families and staff on
the day.
The Environmental
Team
Learning support training donations
£900 already
raised - only £660
to go.
Thank to you everyone who has
already donated
so generously
towards the cost
of enabling me to
attend the Learning Support Training starting this
September. The
course takes a year
and involves one
weekend a month
at Michael Hall
and 2 week-long
residentials. It covers, among other
topics, dyslexia,
dyscalculia, dyspraxia and visual
processing problems. The course is
taught by experts
in these fields
from far and wide,
including Sally
Goddard-Blythe,
Mahesh Sharma
and Mark Turner.
The benefit of the
knowledge and
skills I will acquire
on this course
will not be limited to pupils who
receive Learning
Support lessons.
I will be sharing
what I gain with
colleagues in order
to further improve
our teaching of
children with a
diverse range of
abilities throughout the school.
If you would like
to make a dona-
tion towards the
cost of the training, we would be
very grateful. If
more than £660 is
raised, the surplus
will go towards
the travel costs
incurred getting to
and from Michael
Hall each month.
Many, many
thanks.
Sigrid Black
Needle felting for library anniversary
Besides knitting
and weaving,
Class 6 have
been working
hard to needle
felt impressions
of books they
have enjoyed.
These have been
donated to Ilkeston Library
which is celebrating its 110th
anniversary in
August; when
the squares will
be displayed
amongst
other
squares
local people have
contributed. Needle felting
creates felt
without the
use of water
and it allows you to get
greater precision. However,
it needs careful
focus as the nee-
dles are sharp
and barbed. The
children mixed
colours beautifully and created
individual pieces
without injury!
Great work Class
6!
Mrs Black
(Handwork
Teacher)
Dear Parents and Carers,
We have received quite a few enquiries regarding holidays
during the term time. The Government has ceased to allow ‘holidays’ during term time. Authorisation for time taken for things
like holidays will no longer be given unless there are very special
circumstances. You have to get permission from the Class Teacher if you want to take your child out of school during term time.
You can only do this if:
• you make an application to the Class Teacher in advance (as
a parent the child normally lives with) giving at least two
weeks notification.
and
• there are exceptional circumstances
I would also like to emphasise that if leave is not authorised
but is taken, then each parent, of each child may be subject to
a fixed penalty fine issued by the local authority. Local councils
and schools can use various legal powers if your child is missing
school without a good reason:
• Parenting Order
• Education Supervision Order
• School Attendance Order
• penalty notice
Michael House School students enjoy longer holidays than the
state sector students; therefore there is ample opportunity to
have holidays and days out outside our term time. Please remember that our teachers work very hard in order to provide
your children with the best possible education and therefore full
attendance during the term time is important to ensure a full
participation in all our activities.
SHEFFIELD ORGANIC
GROWERS SUMMER
FESTIVAL
Saturday July 12th 2014 11am-5pm
Hazlehurst Lane, Norton, S8 8BG
(1 mile down Lightwood Lane off Bochum Parkway)
www.sheffieldorganicgrowers.co.uk
ACTIVITIES
Art, Music,
Poetry, Storytelling,
Children's activities, Yoga for Gardeners,
Pick your own, Cream Teas,
Bring your own picnic,
Bee Keeping Demonstration.
Free Entry, donations to the
Soil Association’s Bee Campaign.
Hosted by Hazlehurst Fruitery,
Matt West, Moss Valley Market Garden
and Full Circle Farm at
Sheffield Organic Growers.
A WEEKLY DROP ON FRIDAY
MORNINGS TO MICHAEL HOUSE
READY FOR
COLLECTION!
FOR EVERY BOX WE DELIVER WE WILL
DONATE £1 TO MICHAEL HOUSE!
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0115 944 2545