Jan/Feb - Piddle Valley Community Website

Piddle Valley First School ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It’s that time of year again, the decorations are up and children are writing
Nativity stories. The sound of singing can be heard coming of every
classroom as we prepare for our Christmas production. This year it is called
‘Prickly Hay’ and is described as a Nativity Hoedown. We have invited
members of the community to watch dress rehearsals so we are looking
forward to playing to a full house!
London’s burning ! The Robins and Buzzards have been learning about the
Great Fire of London this half term and children enjoyed a spectacular
outcome to their topic. Each child made a Tudor house out of an old
shoebox which were then put together to replicate London in 1666. Our
Y1/2 teacher Mr Higgins then set fire to them, outside of course, and with the
children a safe distance from the flames ! Edward in Year 1 said ”It was really
cool”; Lilianna in Year 2 said “It burnt really easily and there was lots of
smoke”.
We’d like to say a well done and thank you to our fabulous PTFA who
organized a superb Christmas Fayre on the evening of 30 th November. We
are all extremely grateful for all their efforts.
As always we are looking for volunteers to help out in school. If you think you
have a particular skill you would love to share or if you would like to listen to
readers please contact Claire in the office. Also we are going to be
reapplying for Artsmark Award in the New Year so if you are an arts
practitioner (visual artist, actor, singer, musician etc) and you feel you can
offer some time to share your work with our pupils then we would love to
hear from you. Thank you for your continued support
Cath Rothman, Assistant Head teacher
The Friends of Piddle Valley CE VA First School would like
to say a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who has supported
them at their events this term. Our annual Bonfire Night was
once again a big success, which raised a magnificent £1,800 for the school so
thank you to all the volunteers who helped out on the evening, to everyone
who came, to Becky Green for a delicious BBQ and to Mr & Mrs Keen for
providing us with a huge amount of wood for our bonfire. But we especially
want to thank our sponsors who so generously supported us and made the
event such a successful fund raiser. Our wonderful sponsors include:
Abbot’s Taxis, Mrs Susan Belgrave, Brooklyn House Dental Practice, the late
Mr Tony Downton & Mrs June Downton, Mr & Mrs Edwards, Mr Graham
Giddings, Mr Rex Goddard, Mr & Mrs Grainger, Grassby Funeral Services,
Jackson-Stops & Staff, Mr & Mrs Mitchell, Mr Peter Old, Mr Jack Osgood,
Piddle Valley Vets, Mr Philip Ralph, Mrs Judy Steven, Mr John Waterman,
Weatherbury Roofing
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