Newsletters

Tuesday 28th November, 2023

I was amazed at the kindness and generosity of family and friends last week when we were raising money for Children In Need. The final total for Sprowston Junior School stands at £1974.94 which is absolutely fantastic and arguably a record amount for the school! A massive thank you to everyone and all the sponsor money given to the children for the 'Run Pudsey' event. We are looking forward to receiving the medals and giving them to the children.

With December starting at the end of this week, the season of advent begins! The carol concert preparations have begun, and we have a lot of lovely events coming up for the children. A separate email has been sent to summarise all the events. 

As we mention below, our current attendance is under the target attendance we have set of 94.5%. Please help us to reach that figure by making sure your child is in school as much as possible; we understand children need time off if they are feeling really poorly, but we ask that children attend school as much as they possibly can to help them do their very best. 

We had a number of children represent the school and run for Norwich East at the county cross country championships this week. Please see how they got on below. We're proud of them all!

Apologies that the newsletter is a few days late being sent out. We've changed internet suppliers and this has caused us a number of issues! 

Kind regards

Matt Walton, Headteacher 

November 

Wed 29th - Year 3 lunch (activity from 11:30am)

December

Tue 5th - Friends' Christmas Shop (am)

Wed 6th - Year 5 Reading Cafe (2pm)

Thur 7th - Christmas Jumper Day 

Fri 8th - Cross Country @ Eaton Park - 2pm 

Mon 11th - Friends' of school - Santa Dash (pm)

Mon 11th - Friends' Christmas shop (from 3pm in the playground)

Tue 12th - Year 3/4 at St Cuthbert's for Carols (parents' welcome) - 1:45pm

Wed 13th - Christmas Lunch - all years

Wed 13th - Musical Theatre Christmas Performance - 6pm 

Thur 14th - Year 5/6 at St Cuthbert's for Carols (parents' welcome) - 1:45pm

Fri 15th - Whole school attending Christmas concert at St Andrews Hall (pm)

Mon 18th - Group of children singing at Mousehold View Care Home 

Tue 19th - Christmas Disco - 6:30pm 

Wed 20th - End of term 

Cross-country at High Lodge – Norfolk Games (Wednesday 22^nd Nov)

Six of our cross-country runners qualified to represent the Norwich East Sports Partnership at the Norfolk Games cross-country event on Wednesday 7^th November. They faced stiff competition as they were up against the very best runners from all the School Sports Partnerships across Norwich. A massive well done to them all for not only qualifying but also representing our school so well. A big thank you to all the parents/carers who provided transport and moral support during the day.

Our runners in this event were:

Year 4: Wanye (finished 13^th), Jacob (finished 45^th) and Jack (finished 50^th)

Year 5: Ethan (finished 28^th)

Year 6: Phoebe (finished 18^th) and Talia (finished 21^st).

Cross-country at Falcon Junior (Friday 17^th Nov)

Last Friday our cross-country runners took on children from across Norwich in the second Norwich Primary Schools Athletics Association cross country race of the season. It was a bright but chilly afternoon – perfect for cross-country. Both races had over 100 runners taking part and our representatives did themselves proud.

Well done everyone who took part. Our team for this event was: Phoebe, Talia, Eliza, Ani, Carissa, Amber, Ethan T, Ethan H, Dexter, Jasper, Lewis, Jack and Filip.

A big thank you to all the parents/carers who came to support and cheer the runners on.

The next race will be at Eaton Park on Friday 8^th December.

Year 3 cookie sale

Year 3 have been busy selling cookies to help raise money to go towards their exciting trip to the theatre.

The line stretched the width of the playground this week with children and adults snapping up some delicious home-made cookies.

Thanks to everyone who brought in money to help support Year 3.

Girls' Football - Cup match 

The girls' football team played their first cup match away at St Michael's Junior School. The team went about the task with an excellent attitude and soon found themselves in front. We scored four goals in the first half. Freya (2), Phoebe and Eliza scored to put the team 4-0 up at half time.

In the second half, Freya continued her goal scoring form with another 3 goals and Phoebe scored the last goal to make the final score 8-0 to us.

A massive well done to all the girls for a great win - Freya, Phoebe, Eliza, Ani, Yin-Hei, Lexi, Penny and Bella. 

We look forward to seeing who the girls are playing in the next round of the cup!

Attendance 

We were delighted to see our attendance figures above the national average last year and from September, we set ourselves an ambitious target of 94.5% for the year. At the moment, we have had a slightly disappointing term with our attendance at 93.94%. Attendance at school every day is very important and missing days does disrupt a child's learning and understanding of concepts. Please work with us to support good attendance across the school, and we hope to see the attendance rate rise as we move further into the school year. We will be celebrating excellent attendance and 100% attendance at the end of term. 

Norwich Foodbank Christmas Collection

A huge thank you to everyone who has brought in items for the Norwich Foodbank collection. As you can see, we have an amazing selection already.

The Pupil Ambassadors will be delivering the donations to the Foodbank on Thursday 7^th December, so you still have time to bring something in if you would like to.

Art Club - Christmas Angel 

The art club have been busy making an angel to be displayed at St Cuthbert's as part of a bigger display of angels at the church. Well done to Mrs Pearce and the art club for creating a lovely angel for the display.