Leading Parent Partnership - Working Together It's been a busy year and one that has flown. We have so many things to celebrate as we look back across this year... your children are a pleasure to work with and have responded so well to developments, Gold Arts Mark, Creative Partnerships, curriculum redesign to name just a few. School Council members deserve a particular mention - they have had a very busy and productive year. Thank you to: Nassem Assadi, Theo Bebbington, Emer Belshaw, Matt Boreman, Maya Jacobs, Gladys Kenyon, Hassan Khan, Evan Majumdar-Swift, Dylan Norris, Maya Tsoneva, Mac Walker and Isaac Wilson. Hunter's Bar Junior School is an exciting place to be and we look forward to another year ahead and to welcoming our new pupils from Y2 into Y3. To our Y6 pupils, we wish them all well as they move on to their next school. We know they have been prepared well and have every chance of a successful future. Good luck to Y6! To the rest of our pupils I wish a happy summer break and I look forward to seeing you all again in September. Don’t forget... Y6 Leavers Disco: Tuesday 14 July 7:00 - 8:00 pm Y6 Leavers Assembly: Friday 17 July 9:00 - 10:00 am (limited availability of 1 invite per family)
Sports Day 2009
A big thumbs up to everybody who helped make Hunter’s Bar sports day a great success. The sun came out, the races were fun, a great picnic and a picturesque walk back to school FANTASTIC!!
Creative Partnership Celebration
Friday the 3rd July saw the grand finale for the Year 3 Creative Partnership project – ‘Rules and Stuff’. Children, parents, designers and teachers came together to view and celebrate the new structures at Hunter’s Bar Junior school. Following 6 months of pupil led enquiry exploring how spaces can be changed around school, the Creative Partnership artists and designers created the final indoor and outdoor structures.
The three outdoor structures in the playground have been designed by the children to feel more connected to themselves, each other and the wider world. A number of Y3 designed activities, games and props have been installed inside the pockets and in the bottom of each structure to facilitate this connection. The structures can be broken apart and connected in different ways to enable and encourage creative learning and teaching in the school’s outdoor spaces
The indoor structure looks deceptively like a set of ordinary drawers but with further investigation an explosion of creativity is revealed. Hidden inside it are special guides, objects and structures to dramatically transform the use and design of the classroom. Children can develop their drama skills on the collapsible stage; use the friendship umbrellas to solve social problems and even find creative insight underneath the ‘Inspiration Wave’. Please feel free to explore the structures with your children after/ before school.
Finally we would like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you for all the help and support we have received from parents over the year adding to what has been a tremendously successful first year as a ‘Change school’. The most important outcome is that the children have come to the conclusion that they can change the school for themselves!
Special thanks come from:
The Year 3 children, Mr. Beauchamp, Mr. Jenkin, Mr. Bywaters, Miss Miller, Lisa Proctor, Nicky Ward, and Ruth Ben-Tovim
Kwik Cricket - Sheffield Finals Congratulations to the eight Y5 boys who represented our school in the Sheffield finals that took place at Abbeydale sports Club on Tuesday 30th June. The competition was for all the teams that had won their local kwick cricket festivals (Hunters Bar won the Hallam festival) and involved 21 teams across the city. All the games that were played were extremely close, our best result being a victory over Abbeydale Primary. The festival was won by Mosborough Primary who will be representing Sheffield at Headingley next year. Congratulations to: Tom Blacksell, Laurence Jeffrey-Badger, Louis Marven, Suleyman Ahmed, Raheel Nasir, Lewis Charles, Joe Fleischmann, Henry Chan. Sheffield Children's Book Award The annual Sheffield Children's Book Award is being judged at the moment by a diligent group of our Y5 pupils! Each summer, 6 books are nominated for the award and Sheffield children are asked to read all six books and vote for their favourite. We are on a tight schedule this summer so we asked for any children who could read 6 books in a fortnight. Unbelievably, 20 children volunteered and are at present working their way through the selected books. Some of our children are reading at the rate of a book a day! Thank you to all of those Y5s who volunteered to read - we will let you know the book that they voted as the best.
All parents should by now have received a copy of the report about our recent Ofsted inspection, if not it is available to view on the Ofsted site at www.ofsted.gov.uk; our School Profile is also available at http://schoolprofile.parentscentre.gov.uk.
We would appreciate any feedback you may have.
Sheffield Star 2 July 2009:
'Corus staff help youngsters learn about steel recycling'
Corus employees visited Hunters Bar Juniors to help the children in their work on recycling and sustainability. "Sustainability and the environment play an ever more important role in day to day life and will play an even bigger role in generations to come," said Nicola Bennett, one of the Corus representatives. "We believe that educating students is the key to securing a sustainable future and it was good to hear the views of Sheffield's future voices."
If you missed the article you can still read it at:
http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/Corus-staff-help-youngsters-learn.5422228.jp
Find out more about steel can recycling at www.scrib.org
Staffing update
Staffing for September has been finalised and I am confident of a strong team of staff. Further additions to the teaching team are Sarah Banks and Naomi Aistrop who will both cover teachers' PPA (Planning, Preparation and Assessment) time during the autumn term until arrangements for the TLR post, a senior leadership position, are finalised for January. We also welcome Jacqui Stockley who will be part of our teaching team on a permanent basis from September.
Susannah Sollitt will be taking on an HLTA role (Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday) from September. Additional to the TA team will be Rachel Johnson and Lucia Kempsey.
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Year 3 J1 Mr Bywaters J2 Mr Beauchamp J3 Ms Herbert |
Year 4 J4 Mr Watson / Mrs Stockley J5 Ms Lunn J6 Ms Lovett |
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Year 5 J7 Mr Murch J8 Mr Jenkin J9 Ms Panter |
Year 6 J10 *Mrs Walton / Mr Wright J11 Mrs Baillie / Mrs Brocklesby J12 Ms Saunders * until arrangements for the TLR post are finalised
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Outdoor Athletics Finals
Well done to all the athletes that competed in the outdoor athletics finals at Woodbourn Road on 25th June. The evening was a great success with many children improving on their personal best times and distances. We hope that the Y6s will continue with athletics at Secondary school. Many ex-Hunter’s Bar runners are doing really well for their schools and Sheffield.
We also hope to see the current Y4s and Y5s running, jumping and throwing again next season when we can look forward to another strong team.
If you didn’t compete this year why don’t you have a go next year?
Enterprise Day
Wednesday 15 July
2:30 — 4:00 pm
Year 6 pupils will be raising funds for the playground developments. They will be working together in small groups, each group will be given £5 which they will use to run a stall, eg, cakes stall, face painting, games, etc. At the end of the day they repay the £5 and any profit goes to the playground development.
At 2:30 the year 3, 4 and 5 children will be able to visit the stalls so please send them with a small amount of change on the day The stalls will stay open until 4:00 pm so that parents and younger children can visit the stalls.
Don’t forget…..We can email you copies of the newsletter. Please send an email to:-
s.gregory@huntersbar-jun.sheffield.sch.uk with “newsletter request” in the subject field and your child’s name and current class in the message.
The Norfolk Arms ‘Great Outdoors’ Family Fair
Sunday 16th August 2009
11:00 am — 6:00 pm
Free entry
The Norfolk Arms is proudly hosting a fair celebrating and showcasing activities families can enjoy together in the ‘Great Outdoors’. The Norfolk Arms ‘Great Outdoors’ Family Fair will be a free entry, community-based event to be held on Sunday 16th August 2009 from 11-6pm in aide of Bluebell Wood Hospice, Whirlow Farm Trust & The Shepherd Wheel Project. Bradwell’s Dairy Ice Cream is sponsoring the event and sampling their new ice cream flavours too!
Families will be able to try our rock climbing, bouncy castles, inflatable assault course, learn how to make puppets, tools and wood carvings and ride on a fire engine, mountain biking, have a go at photography and learn circus crafts and animal petting. There will be plenty of crafts and activities to entertain the family all day and the West Area Ranger Team will also be involved. Parents may be interested to know that there will be a BBQ with beer tent serving cask ales and Free live Jazz, choir. For more information visit our website www.norfolkarms.com
Our supporters include: Bradwell’s Ice cream tastings, bouncy castle, puppet making, tool making, penalty shoot out, The Friends of The Porter Valley, PACT, Alpacca, Sheffield Tigers RUFC, Whirlow Farm Trust, Pedal Ready, Bluebell Wood Hospice, Demon Wheelers…….
South West Sheffield Primary School Nature Photography Competition
The competition is open to all Primary School children in South West Sheffield who will be in Y1-Y6 in September 2009. Children will be allowed to enter a maximum of 2 photographs each and they should write a short description of the photo together with what inspired them to take the photo. First prize is a digital compact camera. The winner in each school will receive a £10 book token and the runner up in each school will receive a £5 book token. The closing date for entries is Friday 18 September.
Further details from: www.peverilphoto.com
The Quest Seeker - Summer Reading Challenge 2009 Sheffield Libraries The 2009 Summer Reading Challenge will be the 11th annual challenge and children will be invited to embark on a fantastical adventure and become a Quest Seeker. The theme is all about the power of the imagination. It will take young readers into a mysterious and wondrous land where they can discover the joy of reading and nurture a life-long love affair with books. It also promotes the library as a place of wonder and excitement, where librarians can offer children invaluable advice and guidance to help them through their quest. Join FREE at your local library
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