Newsletters from the Head

April 2012

From the Head Teacher

Welcome to the Summer term. I hope everyone had an enjoyable Easter break, despite the disappointing weather.

Those of you who have visited School today will have seen the beautiful stained glass window in the access to the Office. This has been designed and crafted by Catherine Manford and is a wonderful present to the School. We are very fortunate to have such a talented artist in our midst, and I would like to thank Catherine for her generosity in donating the window to Bourn Primary.

This is going to be a very busy term, with a lot of activities associated with the Olympic Games. The first event is the Opening Ceremony, which you are invited to attend. This will take place on Monday 23rd April at 1.30pm.  We are hoping that the weather will be fine as the whole event will take place outside on the back field.  Your children should have already told you which the team they are in and the colour of T-shirt we are hoping they will wear for the event.

You may be wondering how and why we selected 4 particular sportspeople to represent our four teams.  We first selected the sports, which were amongst those in whichGreat Britain had excelled in recent years, and then chose contestants in those events who were certain of an Olympic place. We took care to select people with surnames that were not the same as any child or adult in our school.  A similar process will take place in a few weeks when we partner each team with a Paralympics sportsperson.

The swimming pool was commissioned during the Easter break and we are hoping to start using it the week beginning 30th April.  A class timetable will be sent home later this week. As in previous years, each class will swim three times a week with the exception of the children in Maple and Cherry who will swim twice a week. Additional lunch time swimming sessions have been added to make up for this.  Please refer to ourHomeSchool policy on swimming requirements, which can be found on the School website.

Some of you may have already guessed that Mrs Robinson is expecting a baby. She will be taking maternity leave at the end of term and we are currently advertising for someone to cover for her in September.

I look forward to meeting many of you over the coming weeks.  Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any issues that you would like to discuss.

Christine Page
Head Teacher

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