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WHAT A WAY TO ARRIVE IN STYLE ON YOUR LAST DAY MRS TRIGG.....
Mrs Trigg arrived in style in a black limo, staff getting to school very early, cheering as she arrived. She was treated to a ladden table with fresh fruit, croissants and jam in breakfast club with the staff. Mrs Dix, Mrs Long and Mrs Lovell-Meade were there to share their last day as well with the staff and children at breakfast club. A sad farewell but a lovely breakfast enjoyed.
GOODBYE TO OUR LOVELY YEAR 6'S - WE WISH YOU ALL MUCH LUCK IN SECONDARY SCHOOL.
You have been a very special year group and we hope you come back to let us know how you are getting on at Wood Green or Henry Box. Enjoy your summer holidays.
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Friday 13th July
The choirs sang for us, the musicians played for us and the children sang for us.
Certificates were awarded to:
Tinika in Yr4: Record of achievement for stagecoach.
Stagecoach Awards for: Lisa D, Laren M, Ellie M and Lucy M in year 4.
Emily M yr 3 for Horse Jumping
Hannah H Yr3 for Olympic skills at her church.
Year 3 were awarded swimming certificates for this term
Year 4 & 6 children were awarded certificates for a swimming gala.
2 Headteachers awards this week.
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Staff and friends are running in RACE FOR LIFE in memory of Julie Jellings on Sunday 15TH July.
If you would like to donate and support us please follow the link below.
follow the Race for Life link above to see how the total grows.
Raised so far: £865.50
WELL DONE GIRLS.
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Friends event: Mrs Trigg's Leaving BBQ
DESPITE THE RAIN THE PARENTS, THE FRIENDS OF THE BLAKE, TEACHERS AND CHILDREN ALL TURNED OUT FOR THE BBQ TO SAY HOW MUCH WE LOVE HER.
Every child in the school left their fingerprint on the jug and bowl.
WHAT A WONDERFUL HEADTEACHER WE HAVE.
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What a fantastic day we had yesterday, despite some rain showers, at our school fete orgainised by our wonderful hard working Friends Assocation. Lots of people turning up to have fun on the go-carts, penny slots, infatables, archery, enjoying the BBQ and strawberries, beat the goalie with the Witney Vikings, year 6 stalls, raffle with great prizes, cakes and plants, bric a brac and much much more. The entertaining tones of Mrs Martin and Mrs Bott could be heard all afternoon introducing the great events around the arena including irish dancing, maypole dancing, Year 4 Olympic Dance, recorder groups, singing from our KS2 and KS1 choir, Wintey Vikings football skills and Ballet.
The afternoon ended with a fantastic all inclusive Tug-O-War event.
What a great day was had by all. Well done.
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What a great afternoon KS2 children had watching a visiting theatre performing "Tom's Midnight Garden"
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Tanika, Asha, Lucy and Rebecca in year 4 got together and held a cake sale in aid of GET TOGETHER FOR GUIDE DOGS raising £70. Well done girls.
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Lord Lieutenant Tim Stevenson, OBE said: “Blake School’s efforts have been hugely impressive and really are such a wonderful example of what can be achieved when everyone gets involved.
“What makes it even better is the Oxfordshire Community Foundation has been able to increase the money raised by allocating some their match funding so the total amount raised is actually now £2,080.50.”
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29.6.12 4FH assembly shared: Haiku poems, Information on Monet paintings, Explorers- Abbie S. wrote a letter to Helen Skelton from Blue Peter inviting her to our school to talk about her fundraising. The class watched and reviewed the film - Princes Quest. This week Year 4 went to WG to do dance and Olympics.
Extremely well done to Josh S. got the best scores throughout the day.
* School council - counted 18612 tesco vouchers which will be used for playground equipment. Thank you everyone who bought in vouchers..
Awarded Certificates and Trophies were celebrated with the following children:
Ellie B - year 6 for football.
Jack B - year 6 - for football.
Taylor H - year 6 for football
Moez H - year 5 for football.
Logan B - year 5 football.
Alex R - year 4 for football.
Sophie R - year 6 for running.
Chloe R - year 4 for street dance.
Katie C - year 4 for street dance.
Karolina P - year 6 for swimming.
Year 4 sports team A,B,D won cups for the school.
There were no Headteachers Awards today but lots and lots of birthdays!
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Today we had a very important visitor to The Blake School - The Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire Tim Stevenson OBE. He came to collect our final cheque for SMALL CHANGE BIG DIFFERENCE which was a whopping .........
Thank you so much for your fantastic support. Tim Stevenson said that he was very impressed with the huge efforts of everyone at the Blake and he will mention us personally to Her Majesty The Queen when he sees her in Henley at the end of the month.
A big well done to Mrs Stevenson and the various teams for making fond memories for all the staff, parents and children.
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This week Mr Fane's class shared their knowledge of the Olympics. They told us all about the work they have been doing on the Olympic Values and finishing with a prayer.
Lots of MINI OLYMPIC certificates were handed out to the children which included:
Gold, Silver and Bronze awards were gained in Mini marathons and Olympic football.
LOTS OF ACHIEVEMENTS TODAY
Emily in year 4 gained rosettes for horse riding.
Stephanie J in year 5 in swimming
Maddie G in year 4 in swimming
Jack B in year 6 for coming 1st in Banger Racing with his mini
Jaden in year 5 for football
Sophie G for swimming
Finlay in year 4 for football
Emma M in year 6 achieved her yellow belt
Charlie in year 5 for freestyle dance.
Lots of birthdays were celebrated this week.
SEVEN HEADTEACHER AWARDS this week.
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TERM 5 2012
Our street party
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THE PRIME MINISTER VISITS THE BLAKE
27th April
Having watched our video message we made with Clare, The Prime Minister dropped in to The Blake School this morning to catch up with all our preparations for the Diamond Jubilee. After meeting with the School Council he watched a mini busker's break time, which included Nat H. playing the french horn, Karolina P. and Maya H. with an excellent display of Irish dancing, and a heart warming rendition of The sun will come out tomorrow by the key stage one choir. Following an update of our main fundraising project - Small change, Big difference, Mr Cameron talked to year 3 children about The Great British Blake Off. Then a tough question and answer session followed with the school council after which Mr Cameron toured the whole school. We really appreciate the fact that he spent a lot of time talking to both children and adults and made the morning a very memorable occasion for all. The oldest and the youngest children in the school presented Mr Cameron with presents for his children and some cakes for tea. As he left school year 5 and 6 and the School Council cheered and waved flags.
Watch the days events on Witney TV
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Wednesday 2nd May - yet another successful buster's breaktime is planned - please come and support different children entertaining you for small change. The last event raised just over £100 towards the Diamond Jubilee coins for all the children in the school.
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Friday 27th April.
Sam M. - Year 2 won player of the match in rugby.
Jess S. - Year 6 is a finalist in the Rotary International Young Writer of the year competition. 2012.
Congratulations to Year 3/4 who played really well in a tennis tournement.
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DON'T MISS OUT .... download the details and registration
LETTER
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Friday 20th April.
Hugo J - Year 3 for "Player of the Match" in football.
Olivia L - Year 6 for completing a 56k bike ride.
Alex R - Year 4, recieved a medal for tennis.
George H - Year 2 for "Player of the Match" in rugby.
Tanika B - Year 4 for achieving Level 9 in trampoline and gynastics.
Year 4 for learning latin.
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Wednesday 18th April is one of our first exciting busker's break time. Please come and support the children and staff as they perform for small change around the playground, raising money for the Diamond Jubilee.
Event starts at 2.40pm.
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Don't forget to wear your jeans and bring in a small contribution to help purchase a Diamond Jubilee Commemorative medal for every child in our school.
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26th March 2012.
Some children were given a special invitation to attend a tea party with Mrs Trigg. One child from each class were invited and chosen because they reflect the values we feel are important at The Blake School.
Well done for being invited to: Isobel M. from Year 1, Milena from Year 1, Thea C. from Year 2, Charlotte C. from Year 2, Poppy G. from Year 3, Emily M. from Year 3, Tyler H. from Year 4, Claudia M. -from Year 4, Max E. from Year 5, Taylor C. from Year 5, Olivia C-J. from Year 6 and Emily H. from Year 6.
image - http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/4434/romantic-rose-cupcakes
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What a fantastic assembly we had on Friday 23rd March - Special Visitors came to present Jess S. in Year 6 with a very prestigious award, having won not only the region but the district Lions Writing Competition. She was presented a plaque and a certificate for her fantastic poem.
Huge congratulations from us all Jess - Read the poem here.
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Another fantastic achievement for our school - Maya H, in Year 6, won the poster design for the Witney Carnival 2012. There were over 200 entries this year.
You will see the poster all around Witney advertising the Carnival. Well done Maya who received book tokens for herself and the school too.
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Yet again we had fun in Book Week in school. Photos to follow.
Can we say a huge thank you for the fantastic support at the book fair this year.
We raised just over £1000.
image: http://bookfairs.scholastic.co.uk/what_is?nt=t
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21st March - Last night The Blake Year 6 children joined other local Year 6 pupils, at Wood Green School for a concert. The children learnt over 7 songs with harmonies and actions performing to a full hall of relatives and friends. They did exceptionally well and will be performing some of the songs to the school on Friday in assembly.
The children having tea in a Wood Green classroom.
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GREEN FLAG SUCCESS !
We are delighted to announce the The Blake Primary School have yet again been awarded the Green Flag for their fabulous environmental work. After a very thorough inspection on Monday 19th March Mrs Tudge received the wonderful call that everyone's hard work had paid off. A huge thank you to Mrs Tudge and the Eco Council of 2011/12 and Mrs Pike and the Eco Council of 2010/11 and to all the children, parents and staff that have contributed to our wonderful school environment - we will fly the green flag with pride !
Tuesday 13th March we celebrated with an Eco afternoon.
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CALLING ALL YEAR 5 PARENTS TO OUR FIRST
MEETING. Where: YEAR 6 classroom ON MARCH 6th AT 6:00pm.
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The children have made fun invitations to invite you all to join in
to be held in The Barn at Cogges Farm on Thursday May 31st.
Entries are in 4 categories: Best decorated cake, Best Cup cake display, Best Victoria Sponge and Most Royal Cake for both adults and children. (Just to let you know ....the staff are frantically making cakes for the adults entries to get perfection! Good Luck.)
Cakes need to be dropped off at The Barn between 8:30am and 9:00am and will be judged by a mystery judge.
Images with thantks -: http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=cup+cake+royal&hl= http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=cup+cake+royal - http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=victoria+sponge&num
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Find it on Diamond Jubilee pencil.
ON FRIDAY 2nd March Mrs Trigg and Mrs Stevenson went off to Radio Oxford to promote all our exciting projects we have planned for the Diamond Jubilee. Mrs Stevenson was live on the Radio promoting our great school and sharing lots of information about our up coming Diamond Jubilee events. Year 6 heard the live broadcast.
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Mr Langley came into school to talk to the school about Fairtrade Fortnight. He bought with him some divine chocolate eggs to share with all the children. And a friend of his....
...... A GIANT DUBBLE BAR OF CHOCOLATE.
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We had a special visitor to the school last week who made a professional video of the school council and the children in the school hall. We will be sending it to the Queen to inform her what a great school we are. We have invited her to the school - Now that would be exciting if she accepted and visited us to say thanks for all the great things we are doing for the Diamond Jubilee. We are also sending a film to David Cameron too!
FILM MESSAGE TO THE QUEEN FOR HER DIAMOND JUBILEE from the children at The Blake School.
Invite to Mr David Cameron to help us raise money for the Diamond Jubilee charities.
Thanks to Mrs Stevenson for all her hard work organising the films.
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Monday 6th February 2012.
STARTING OFF THE EVENTS FOR THE DIAMOND JUBILEE, THE SCHOOL COUNCIL ESCORTED MRS TRIGG, MRS TATTAM, MRS STEVENSON AND MRS HARWOOD TO THE OPENING DIAMOND JUBILEE CEREMONY.
JOINING THE MAYOR OF WITNEY, THE CHILDREN WAVED FLAGS OUTSIDE THE TOWN HALL IN WITNEY.
WITNEY TV WERE THERE TO RECORD THE MOMENTUS EVENT. click the link to see the video.
The Witney photo Group was on hand to record the launch. They will be photographing and
displaying pictures of the events as they unfold on a day by day basis over the Jubilee weekend. Witney TV will be documenting the celebrations in a series of films and hope to produce a DVD which will be available shortly afterwards.
Monday night's Oxford Mail also had a picture of the school children waving flags.
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Jeans Day - Friday 3rd February 2012
Don't forget to wear your jeans and bring a small contribution for the Diamond Jubilee fund.
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Goodbye to Andrew Sweeney
On Wednesday 18th January we had a very special occasion at The Blake School which was a mixture of sadness and joy.
After 10 years of wonderful weekly Assemblies with Rev. Andrew Sweeney we sadly said goodbye to him as he leaves for his new Parish in Northern Ireland.
We wish him well and remember all the joy he has brought to us through fun, laughter and times of reflection that have helped us understand more of God’s great love for us.
Immediately after his final Assembly, the whole school shared Andrew’s dedication and blessing of the stunning oak cross in the corner of our field which will be part of an outdoor prayer space.
Mrs. Laithwaite
On Wednesday Andrew took his last school Assembly and we bade him a very fond farewell. All the children had written or drawn a picture for him which Mrs. Harwood kindly collated into a beautiful book. Contributions from staff and parents were used to purchase a beautiful picture of The Priory and Langel Common. We wish him and his family much happiness in Northern Ireland.
Marilyn Trigg
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School Council
As always the School Council have been very busy. Yesterday we had a ‘working’ lunch when we drafted a letter to the Queen and David Cameron telling them about all the exciting events we have planned for the Diamond Jubilee.
We also looked at the website of Christ the Sower Primary School in Milton Keynes. Their School Council (all 24 of them) will be visiting us on 24th February. We are looking forward to showing them around our school
The School Council and Mrs. Tattam
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WELL DONE TO SOPHIE RAVEN in Year 6 who won the Witney Town Christmas light competition.
Thursday 12th October WITNEY TV & THE MAYOR VISIT THE SCHOOL!
Today the Blake school were delighted to invite the Mayor and Witney TV in to the whole school assembly to surprise Sophie Raven with the news that she had won the 'Design a Christmas light' competition in Witney. Her design is currently being made into a light and will be able to be seen on the town hall in Witney from the end of November. Click hereto see the film on Witney TV
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Monday 10th October INSET DAY
Just a quick reminder that Monday 10th October is an inset day so only teaching staff will be in school. The children will enjoy a days holiday.
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Sunday 25th September CARBOOT SALE
This Sunday the Blake Primary school are hosting an open carboot sale. Sellers are requested to turn up at 10am on Sunday 25th September, and buyers will be let in at 11.00.
Pitches cost £5
Why not declutter and pop along with everything you are hoping to sell ... or if you are looking for a bargain it may be the perfect place to browse this Sunday?
11.00am - 1.00pm
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Tuesday 27th September SCHOOL PHOTOS
Don't forget to shine your shoes and wear your smartest uniform on Tuesday for the school photos. These will be taking place all day in school time.
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Tuesday 27th September - 8pm FRIENDS AGM
Would you like to play a greater role in the school? Would you like to meet some like minded parents and enjoy a chat over a glass of wine and nibbles. On Tuesday 27th September the friends will be holding their annual AGM. It is an informal chance to chat to other parents about the social events and activities they hold at school to raise fund and get involved. There is no time commitment you can give as little or as much time as you want and are able. We would be delighted to see some new faces so please pop along if you are able.(Library)