Witheridge CofE Academy

🎉 St John's Fair – This Saturday! 🎉

We're looking forward to taking part in the St John's Fair this Saturday and hope to see lots of our children joining us for this special community event!

📍 Meet at School: 10:30am

👕 What to Wear: Coloured PE T-shirts and brightly coloured bottoms. The brighter and sparklier, the better! Please remember sun hats and sun cream if the weather stays warm.

👧👦 Supervision
✅ Years 1–6 will be supervised by school staff throughout the event.
✅ EYFS (Reception and Nursery) children must be accompanied by one parent or carer.

🎭 Parade & Performance
The children will take part in the village parade before pupils from Reception to Year 6 perform a song and dance at the Village Hall. Children who are parading with another village group are still welcome to join us for the performance – just remember to bring their PE top to change into.

📢 Collection
Children will be dismissed by their Class Teacher after the performance. For safeguarding reasons, please do not collect or call your child from the parade or performance area.

❗ If your child is unable to attend, please let us know.

🙋‍♀️ PTFA Volunteers Needed
If you can spare some time to help on the PTFA stall during the fair, your support would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your continued support. We look forward to seeing you all at this wonderful community event!

Unfortunately, due to the inclement weather we have taken the decision to cancel sports day today.

We will email you with a new date as soon as this has been arranged.

Congratulations to our winners of the David Attenborough 100th Birthday Cake Design! 😀

🌧️☔ Well... the British weather has done it again!

The sunshine has vanished, the rain has arrived, and sadly there will be NO Treat Friday TODAY! 😢

However, there is some exciting news...

🐻✨ Mrs Eastman has a very special visitor in the school office today! ✨🐻

Our St John’s Fayre Bear has decided that, with the weather looking a little too wet for outdoor adventures, a day in the warm office sounds much more appealing! We hear he's already making himself at home and keeping a close eye on things... 👀🐾

While he's busy helping Mrs Eastman, he still has one very important job for everyone:

🐻❤️ HELP US NAME OUR ST JOHN’S FAYRE BEAR! ❤️🐻

For just £1 per name ENTRY, you could be in with a chance of winning:

🥇 St John’s Fayre Bear + Essebeare Farm Meat Box
🥈 Giant Toy Dinosaur
🥉 £10 Amazon Voucher

If you'd like to support our Witheridge C of E Primary Academy PTFA and suggest a name comp, come and visit Mrs Eastman and her furry assistant in the office this morning or after school at 3:30 pm.

We can't promise the bear will do any paperwork, but he is very good at collecting name suggestions! 🐻😂

Good luck everyone! 🍀

📣 🍴 After School Club Cooking Club Reminder! 🍴

Don't forget – our fun cooking sessions take place every Wednesday! 👩‍🍳👨‍🍳

This week, the children will be making delicious pinwheels 😋🌯, so please remember to bring a container to take home your tasty creations! 🥡✨

⏰ Collection Times
🕟 4:30pm
🕠 5:30pm

💷 Primary School Children
£4.00 per hour

👶 Nursery Children
Nursery-aged children are charged at their usual hourly rate from 8:00am – 5:30pm.

🌟 We can't wait for another afternoon of mixing, making and tasting! 🍽️🎉

🧑‍🍳🍅🥕 Happy Cooking! 🥕🍅🧑‍🍳

KS1 reducing, reusing, recycling and recreating!

KS1 had a wonderful visit from Sally, where we learnt all about the importance of reducing, reusing, recycling and recreating. The children enjoyed thinking about the properties of different materials and used their scientific knowledge to sort a variety of items.

We also played a fun game where we explored magnetism and learnt about materials such as steel, silver and aluminium. The children then took part in an exciting activity following the recycling journey of a baked bean can and discovered how materials can be reused to make new products.

To finish the session, everyone made a magnet for their fridge at home to remind their families how to recycle household waste correctly. It was a fantastic hands-on learning experience that the children thoroughly enjoyed!

📸😁❤️

Resource Futures - Recycling Workshops with Sally

We were very excited to welcome Sally Jackson from Resource Futures back to Witheridge on Wednesday 20th May. Sally has visited us a number of times over the past few years and her workshops are always great fun while really supporting our learning across the curriculum.

In FSU, the children enjoyed a workshop all about Plastic Pirates and thinking about the importance of putting waste in the bin and not leaving litter. Children in KS1 considered different materials, and began to think about which materials could be recycled.

In Class 3, children discovered that fruit and vegetables can be used to power batteries, and considered what renewable forms of energy are available to use instead of fossil fuels. In year 5, children had a go at doing their own recycling by making their own paper. All the children really enjoyed their workshops, represented the school brilliantly with their curiosity and attention, and hopefully took home some valuable learning about environmental education.