Staffing News
Mr. England is still absent through illness and Mrs. McGrew is still teaching each morning and Mrs. Hamilton is teaching 4 afternoons a week. Mrs. Summers is still absent from work due to illness.

Easter Holidays
Don’t forget school finishes at 3.10pm on Friday 3 April and re – opens at 8.45am on Monday 20 April. Kool Dudes will be open during the Easter holidays and are now taking bookings. Places are limited so please book early by speaking to any member of the Kool Dudes’ team. Places MUST be booked for the Easter holidays. Kool Dudes have organised for the A1 Premier Football coaches to be at Kool Dudes on the afternoon of Tuesday 14th and Thursday 16th April. There will be no cost to children attending Kool Dudes on those days but places are limited and need to be booked in advance.

Hampshire School Meals
With effect from Monday 20th April the price of school dinners will increase by 10p to £2.00 per meal.

Samba Concert
Parents of Y4/5 children are invited to attend a concert from 9.30 until approximately 10.15 on Tuesday 31 March. Refreshments will be available after the concert – if you have not returned your slip to let us know you are attending, please let the office know.

School Council Easter Raffle
Our school council have arranged an Easter Raffle with lots of prizes – to raise funds for playground equipment. Tickets are on sale every day and cost 20p each.

Wizkid
We will be starting to use Wizkid in the near future. This is the learning platform that Hampshire County Council recommends for schools and is an online resource that brings together a range of technology into one place.

Wizkid is a safe environment in which children can work together across classes, year groups and beyond. Wizkids enables us to have video and audio lessons, it is simple to link into websites and documents and is also safe for the children to chat and discuss their learning. Wizkid has a huge potential for sharing resources across the county and will benefit the teachers and children in working together in lots of different ways.

There will be photographs of the children on Wizkid but will only be available within our school community. However, if you do not wish your child’s picture to be on the learning platform please notify the school in writing of your objections. We will be holding a parent information evening next term where further details will be available, however, we would also be grateful if you could inform us if you do not have internet access at home as soon as possible.

Car Parking
As you are no doubt aware parents are not permitted to park in the school car park unless they are displaying the correct pass. We have changed the colour of the passes and anyone in receipt of a green one needs to collect their new pass from the school office as soon as possible. Thank you for your support in this matter. We would like to ask parents using the church car park to take extra care at the beginning and end of each day when there are lots of children milling around.

Forthcoming PFA Events
Easter Disco - Friday 27 March KS1 from 6.00pm to 7.15pm and KS2 from 7.30pm to 9.00pm. Tickets will cost £1.50. There will be an Easter Bonnet Parade with prizes for the best bonnet. There will be lots of fun and games with prizes to be won!!
Summer Fayre - Saturday 13th June The first meeting for the summer fayre will be on Monday 30th March at 7.30pm. The PFA need volunteers to help organise this big event and all help is extremely welcomed. We need ideas for stalls etc, help in writing to companies to ask for donations of prizes for the raffle, stamps will be provided, or maybe you have contacts for providing entertainment in the show. If, however, you are unable to attend the meetings we still need your help and ideas. This is our main fundraising event of the year and benefits our children at St. Jude’s. Therefore, we would be grateful for any help you can spare.

Brownies
2nd Fareham Brownies have vacancies for girls aged from 7 – 11years. They meet on a Monday evening from 5.45pm – 7.15pm in St. Philip Howard Hall. If your daughter would be interested or you would like more information please speak to Mrs. Fry in the school office or telephone 01329 285779

Gosport Gangshow takes place on April 15th until 18th 2009. Performances take place at 7.30pm with matinees on Thursday and Saturday more details can be found on www.gosportgangshow.co.uk

ACHIEVEMENT SECTION
All of the Yr 1 to Yr 4 children for taking part in the multiskills festival. Thank you to the Year 5 leaders who did a brilliant job organising the younger children.

WORK OF THE WEEK/KOOL KIDS

Year R - Keira Buckland, Matthew Crouthers Camacho, Autumn Walder, Alannah Nolan for good tidying up.

Year 1 - Amita Benedict and Hester Gleeson for good reading. Jake Reynolds and Sophie Gill for good maths work. Hannah Nixon and Reece Spelling for good sand work. William Beacon, Peter Clarke, Katie Kirkland, Tyler McIntyre-Lewis, Saffron Moore, Maisie Rollins, Adam Stocks and Sarah Stocks for great gymnastic work. Jimmy-Apsey Davis for great discussion work about story planning.

Year 2 - Emma Bolwell, Rithika Bose, Tom Bruce, Andrew Evans, Libby Choularton, Benjamin Llolljowaheer and Sky Millet-Harding for story writing.

Year 3 - Katy Pavey and Lucy Duff for excellent “keeping a gerbil instructions”. TJ Williams and Molly Roxburgh for excellent concentration.

Year 6 - Charlotte Jones, Callum Parsons, Alfie Thomson, Katy Wild, Phoebe Rabbetts, India Campbell-Hall, Nerissa Grant, Georgis Bishop, Callum Garrard and Alex Gill for working hard in maths.

Yours sincerely

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