'Kidz have your say' is now Cooper's Creations!

Following the last two single page editions of Kidz Have Your Say, Helen has now built her own website - Cooper's Creations (currently five pages) which you can link to from this site. The intention remains the same, to give the youth of our area a chance to 'have their say', either in words, drawings, photos or whatever. It is their chance to swap ideas and messages about the things that interest them. If your child has something to be proud of or would just like to take part get them to e-mail Helen: helen@beacon-villages.co.uk

Belstone Village Fair and Cosdon Run - Sunday 10 th July from 2pm

To be opened by Judi Spiers. Fun and Games for all the family including: Maypole Dancing, Pony rides, Plant Stall, White Elephant, Egg Throwing, Ice Creams, Skittles, Bouncy Castle.

Sponsored Rounders - Thank You

Thank you to everyone who took part in this fun event - We have been able to purchase: rounders bats, rounders balls, hurdles and donate £100 to the Tsunami Education Appeal.

Meal Time Assistant Required for September

We require a Mealtime Assistant for one hour a day (12noon - 1pm ) from September to cover a Special Needs child who is starting in the Reception Class. Please speak to Sue in the office if you require any further information or would like to apply.

(Whatever happened to "Dinner Ladies"? ed.)

DDS Vacancy - Cleaner

We require a cleaner to join our team for 10 hours per week, 3.30 - 5.30pm , 41 weeks per year. Monthly pay is £187.20. Uniform is provided and full training given. Please ring Martin Aspinall on 07836 342449 or Jobsline 01392 384358 quoting ref. no. CL725 if you are interested in finding out more.

Car Boot Sale in aid of Devon Air Ambulance - Saturday 16 th July

Eastlake Farm, Belstone, Okehampton. £5 per car. Sellers to arrive at 1.30pm . Buyers 2 - 4pm . For further information ring Clare 01837 52513 or 07966631895

Race For Life

FOSTPS 100 Club for 2005-2006

As you may know it has been a bit of an uphill struggle to get the 100 Club off the ground and running for 05/06 as we seem to have had a hiccup with getting the forms out, people have been joining more slowly and it is therefore taking time to get the numbers up so that the prizes are more worthwhile. On top of this I am having a rather pressured and difficult time myself personally and I don't have the time right now to chase folk up and get it all set up to run. So I have taken the decision along with my co-chair Theresa Weaver to give it a break and to restart the club from the end of September. Thus, the 05/06 club will run from Sept 05 until August 06 (no draw in August as usual and a double draw at Christmas, usually at the Auction in December). Those of you that have signed up and paid already have no need to worry - your £12 will cover you from September onwards for the year. Those of you who haven't joined yet but would like to can join in readiness for September - just fill in a yellow form (available from school or from me) or just give in details of your name and address and £12 for the year's membership. If anyone is concerned or unhappy about this or would prefer to have a refund now rather than leaving their money in the club's bank account until September, please speak to me.

Hopefully we will gather a few more members between then and now including new parents from the next Reception class and the prize money will be more. I hope this is acceptable to everyone and that we can go on to raise yet another £900+ for school, perhaps even a £1000 if we are lucky.

Ursula Jewell Joint Chair FOSTPS & 100 Club Promoter.

Yellow Woods Challenge

We have received a certificate for recycling 212 old yellow pages. West Devon schools collected 5092 copies. The winning school, Gulworthy collected 12 directories per pupil, obtaining the Gold Oak Award and £300. Meavy were second with £200 and the Silver Birch Certificate and third were Mary Tavy and Brentor who win the Beech Certificate and £100. Meavy also received an extra £100 for collecting the most directories overall - 1021 copies! West Devon have thanked us for helping to improve the recycling facilities in Devon by taking part in the scheme.

Reminders

COLLECTIONS - We would be grateful for any Box Tops from Nestle Cereal packets, Stars from Persil Washing Powder and used printer cartridges, all of which can be exchanged for cash/educational equipment.

UNIFORM - We have reversible coats (waterproof/fleece) with our logo for just £15 each, available in the office, all sizes available.

Persil Stars
Persil are running an arts materials scheme again this year, which we are taking part in. Please collect the stars from packs of washing powder, bring them into school over the next 10 months and we can use them to receive free arts resources for school. Please encourage your family, friends and neighbours to collect for us.