Sponsored Netball

Many thanks to everyone who played or helped in any way with the Mums & Dads Netball Tournament which was held on Monday 28 th June - a good time was had by all!

Sponsored Netball Tournament

We are delighted to announce that we have raised £330 so far (still some to come in!) We have also received a very generous donation of £100 from a family towards the cost of the netball skirts for which we are extremely grateful.

Okehampton Library

We have been asked to publicise the Reading Rollercoaster, which will take place during the summer holidays. It starts on Friday 16 th July and children will need to pick up a collector folder from the library. When they have read and returned their books they are given a sheet of stickers so that the track can be completed on the folder and set the rollercoaster on its way. There are six sheets to collect which also feature different characters. The children will be expected to complete their six favourite books on the folder as their star attraction books. When the collector folder is completed the child will receive a medal and a certificate.

Whiddon Down Village Hall Summer Fete - Saturday 21 st August 2-5pm

Scarecrow Competition - Children's entries welcome, either individual, group or family. Skittles, Bouncy Castle , Barbecue and lots of stalls. Further details: Clare Rowe 01647 231643

Thank You

To Hayley Van Minnen and Patricia Glover for their unstinting work on the garden areas around the school. If anyone else would like to volunteer to share the burden of weeding/watering please speak to Martin Unwin.

North Tawton Chess Tournament
10 of our Y6/Y5 children were taken to this event by Rev. John Smart and Peter Brotherton. They had a very enjoyable and successful day with South Tawton taking 2 nd place overall with 31 points, North Tawton were the winners with 33 points. Individual cups were also won by Nick Hobbs who was 1 st in the Y5 group with Henry Holmes and Jamie Hignett joint 1 st in the Y6 group and Daniel Curtis 2 nd . Congratulations to them all and thank you to our volunteers who run a very popular chess club on Thursday lunchtimes.

Music Workshops - Y3/4

As part of the weeks' events, we are lucky to be hosting two visiting musicians, Owen Gunnell (Percussion, BBC Young Musician of the Year winner 2000) and Magnus Johnston (Violin, BBC Young Musician of the Year strings finalist 1998) through the Two Moors Festival organisation. They will be working with the Y3 and Y4 children on their performance. FOSTPS have funded this visit for which we are grateful.

BARBECUE
SATURDAY 17 TH JULY 2004 5pm - School Field/Playground
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Wanted
Please may we have donations of Dinky and toy cars and other vehicles for outside play and any dressing up clothes - adult sizes (that could be cut down or elasticated), shoes, hats etc.

The children will be making masks out of recyclable materials relating to animals from the Road Safety website www.bmweducation.co.uk We are having a visit from the BZENT Recycling Roadshow on Tuesday 18 th May. We would be grateful if you could send in any recyclable materials, which are suitable for mask making (staff will discuss with children the sort of items which would be best)

Please could we have donations of small (YR/Y1 preferably) clothing which can be used in case of accidents - socks, tights, skirts, jogging bottoms, pants would be most useful.

Class R are collecting wellies between the sizes of 8 and 2. Any spares? Please send them in.
We are collecting Persil stars, which appear on packets of Persil washing powder, please cut them out and send to school to help us obtain free art and craft materials.

Plastic Milk Bottle Tops
We have already taken several sacks to Mr & Mrs Jewell, Rose Cottage, Throwleigh Road, who are collecting these as part of the Lions Club - they advise us that the collection has been tremendous and that one child has already received a wheelchair and they are now collecting again and hoping to find another outlet for them. If you can deliver bags direct to them, please do so, otherwise continue to send them in to school and Sue will drop them off

Sports
Tae Kwondo
If there is enough interest a club could be arranged locally, either in South Zeal of Okehampton (currently in Crediton). Please speak to Sarah Bell on 840424 if you would like further information.

Fitness Kick boxing
Classes open to everyone at Okehampton College 6-7pm on Monday nights. Get fit and have some fun at the same time! For more information please ring Becky: 01363 773934 or 07966 742003.

Tennis Coaching
Bob Weaver will be running a session after school on Tuesdays at the Recreation Ground in South Zeal, starting after Easter. Please contact him if you are interested on 01837 840549.

Okehampton Youth Rugby
Okehampton Youth Rugby are seeking new players in Year 4 to train on Sunday mornings, 10 - 11.30am at Okehampton Rugby Club. Rob Curtis and Martin White will take the training sessions each week. If you are interested, please go along to the club on Sunday. Thank you

Chess Club - Thursday Lunchtime
Rev Smart has a large number of enthusiastic players and would welcome some more volunteers to help, perhaps on a rota basis. If you could spare ½ hour we would be pleased to hear from you.