Author Archives: Howard Lake

Win an iPad 2 in the Christmas Bazaar Raffle

Posted on 28 November 2011 by Howard Lake

Enter this year’s Christmas Bazaar Raffle and you could win an iPad 2 (16 Gb and wi-fi version). Not bad for £1 a ticket.
Not impressed? Well, second prize is a Kindle, and third prize a Samsung digital camera.
Your children will have brought a book of raffle tickets home at the end of last week. Want [...]

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Smarties for class treats

Posted on 21 November 2011 by Howard Lake

We’ve sent your children home with a tube of Smarties, kindly donated by Waitrose and Bookers Wholesalers in Colchester.
Once they’ve eaten them, we’re inviting you and your children to try and fill them up with loose coins from home. You’ll spot that most small coins fit in nicely.
The tubes can then be returned to their [...]

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How we spent your money

Posted on 14 November 2011 by Howard Lake

What did with do with the money you gave and helped raise last year? At the AGM earlier this month (to which any parent/carer or staff member is welcome to come), we voted how to spend the money.
This is what we have committed to:

£3,000: replacement of safety surface for the KS1 playground equipment
£750: Pantomime costs [...]

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Thanks for the Tesco vouchers

Posted on 24 July 2011 by Howard Lake

Thank you to all those who collected and donated Tesco for Schools vouchers this year. Over 16,000 were donated, and the school has used them to purchase some new Easi-speak microphones and a Lego Mindstorms Robot Kit.
We’ll let you know when the next voucher collecting period starts.

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Summer t-shirt competition theme is animals

Posted on 27 May 2011 by Howard Lake

The PSA will again be running a t-shirt competition at this year’s Summer Fair, with the theme being ‘animals’.
The PSA will run various workshops after school so that the pupils can make their t-shirts. The fabric paint/pens etc. plus the t-shirt will be included in the price of the workshop.
The Workshop booking forms will be issued [...]

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