NEWS AND DIARY
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SCHOOL NEWSLETTERS
- May 2012 - No. 2 (pdf)
- May 2012 - No. 1 (pdf)
- April 2012 - No. 3 (pdf)
- April 2012 - No. 2 (pdf)
- April 2012 - No. 1 (pdf)
- Previous Newsletters
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY - THIS TERM
Here are the important dates for this current term.
| Summer Term 2012 | |
|---|---|
| Fri 18 May | Class 2 Assembly |
| Tue 22 May | Stepping Out |
| Wed 23 May | Tempest Photographer - Class Photos |
| Fri 25 May | Olympic Torch Relay in local area |
| Mon 28 May | Stepping Out Assessed Walk |
| Tue 29 May | Class 1 5-a-side Day at Rushwick |
| Thu 31 May | Non-Uniform Day - Teddy Tombola donation |
| Thu 31 May | Class 1 Assembly |
| Fri 1 June | Diamond Jubilee Celebrations |
| Fri 1 June | Break up for Half Term |
| 4 to 8 June | Half Term |
| Mon 11 June | School Re-opens |
| Tue 12 June | Friends Association meeting, 3.15pm |
| Fri 15 June | Three Counties Show |
| Thu 21 June | Non-Uniform Day - Tombola donation |
| Sat 30 June | Summer Fayre, 12.00 noon to 2.00pm |
| Fri 20 July | End of Term - School closes for Summer |
SCHOOL TERM DATES 2012/13
| Autumn Term 2012 | |
|---|---|
| Mon 3 September | (Teacher Day - School closed to pupils) |
| Tue 4 September | (Teacher Day - School closed to pupils) |
| Wed 5 September | (Teacher Day - School closed to pupils) |
| Thu 6 September | Start of Term - School opens |
| 29 Oct to 2 Nov | Half Term |
| Thu 20 December | End of Term - School closes for Christmas |
| Spring Term 2013 | |
| Mon 7 January | (Teacher Day - School closed to pupils) |
| Tue 8 January | Start of Term - School opens |
| 18 to 22 February | Half Term |
| Wed 27 March | End of Term - School closes for Easter |
| Thu 28 March | (Teacher Day - School closed to pupils) |
| Summer Term 2013 | |
| Mon 15 April | Start of Term - School opens |
| Mon 6 May | May Day Bank Holiday |
| 27 to 31 May | Half Term |
| Wed 24 July | End of Term - School closes for Summer |
IN THE NEWS
Time capsule buried at Malvern Community Hospital
A time capsule has been buried at Malvern Community Hospital so that future generations can get a flavour of what life is like for young people in Worcestershire today.
NHS Worcestershire has created the capsule with help from local schools, residents and community groups. The plan is to open it on the 100th anniversary of the NHS in 2048.
Around 20 people attended the burial on Wednesday, including Girl Guides, children from Callow End and Great Malvern primary schools, representatives from Malvern Library and Malvern Spa Association, Kaleidoscope Breakaway and local historian John Harcup.
Residents Jenny and Greg Lawrence, who have played an active role in the project, also attended.
NHS Worcestershire’s community engagement manager Sonia Spurr thanked everyone who has contributed to the project.
"People have worked really hard to ensure that life in Malvern during the building of the new Community Hospital is recorded for future generations to see," she said. "The submissions for the capsule have varied from scrapbooks, photographs of Malvern, banners, plaques, newsletters to DVDs and CD of local school and groups performing and give a real flavour of Malvern between 2010–11."
Worcester News, 14 November 2011
Let's get some fresh air inside you!
Deputy headteacher Ginny Sharp leads the mass aerobics session for pupils and parents at Callow End CE Primary School.
This is just one of the ways these school children were getting fit as part of healthy schools week.
Pupils at Callow End CE Primary School not only took part in an afternoon aerobics class, but also got together in the morning to eat a healthy breakfast and designed their own healthy lunch boxes as part of a competition.
But it wasn't just a school they were getting healthy: parents also got involved and got their children walking, cycling and scootering to school.
Class teacher Nicola Milton said: "We have been teaching the children the importance of having a healthy, balanced diet and exercise. They thoroughly enjoyed the aerobics class - some of them said it was one of the best days they have had at school."
Worcester News, 26 October 2011
Children have fun with tractors
Tractor fun was part of a school project on food and farming at a Worcestershire school.
Children at Callow End CE Primary School enjoyed a visit from a real-life class tractor and a Bomford's hedge-cutting machine.
The youngsters were able to climb on board the tractor and staff from Bomfords were on hand to answer their questions.
Worcester News, 26 September 2011
Pupils use bags of litter to create 'rubbish robots'
Callow End Primary School children with Andy Williams, who works for Festival Housing Group, building their 'rubbish robots'.
Children from village primary schools joined housing association staff to learn about the importance of picking up litter.
Children from Callow End CE Primary School and Hanley Swan's St Gabriel's with St Mary's CE Primary School, joined Festival Housing Group staff to pick up litter. They later used the rubbish collected to make weird and wonderful robots.
The litter pick was part of Festival's annual 'making a difference' community projects which have seen staff getting away from their desks and organising and taking part in projects to enhance the local community.
Janet Cole, Festival's group finance director, said: "It was fantastic to get the team out of the office and making a real difference in the community. The local schoolchildren were amazing.
"Everyone enjoyed it and we collected a total of 20 bags of rubbish. We then had great fun making the robots and the children taught us a thing or two about how to make the most from a few bits of rubbish."
Nicola Milton, class teacher from the Callow End school, said the children had a good day.
"There were 26 of our children who went to the playing fields in Callow End and took part in the big tidy-up. We were issued with some vests and gloves and litter pickers.
"We couldn't believe how much rubbish there was to pick up. In just an hour we had around 20 bags of litter."
Mrs Milton added: "After we had been outside, we were then joined by the Festival group and with rubbish we had collected prior to the day, the children made their own 'rubbish robots'. This was just a great way for the children to learn about rubbish and the effect it has on their area, and how important it is to be tidy in their community."
Other community projects undertaken by Festival include a community centre makeover, a trip to Buckingham Palace for older residents and gardening at a local school.
Worcester News, 29 March 2010
We had fun with a load of old rubbish
Callow End Primary School pupils with Andy Williams of Festival Housing Group, and their 'rubbish' robots.
Primary school children joined staff from Festival Housing Association for a litter pick with a difference.
Callow End Primary and Hanley Swan's St Gabriel's with St Mary's Primary schools took part in the initiative on Thursday and Friday (March 11 and 12) with the former school creating robots from their rubbish.
Janet Cole, group finiance director at Festival Housing Group, said: "It was fantastic to get the team out of the office and making a real difference in the community. The local school children were amazing, everyone enjoyed it and we collected a total of 20 bags of rubbish. We then had great fun making the robots and the children taught us a thing or two about how to make the most from a few bits of rubbish."
The children collected litter from around their respective schools.
Malvern Gazette, 19 March 2010
Children enjoy their outdoor classroom for the first time
Youngsters at Callow End Primary School are enjoying a new outdoor classroom for the first time this week as it emerges from beneath the snow.
The outdoor play area for foundation stage children includes a large sit-in sand pit, an eco greenhouse, a Tudor-style playhouse and even an outdoor stage.
"It's very exciting. The area outside the classroom has been completely redeveloped. We designed it ourselves and it's just a fantastic place for the children to play and learn," said Sarah Beard, the foundation stage class teacher.
The children can flow freely in and out of the classroom into the play area and there is also access for Year 1 pupils. It was completed at the end of last term.
"This week is the first proper chance the children have had to play in their outdoor classroom. We went out the first week back at school just as it started to snow and since then everything has been covered," said Miss Beard.
The play area also includes a water feature children can play in and a numbers snake and there are plans for raised planting beds.
Malvern Gazette, 22 January 2010
Read all about it! New library is top
Pupils at Callow End Primary School are enjoying reading more than ever, thanks to the completion of a new library area.
Work on the new library and reception area and a new secure entrance to the school started over the summer holidays and has recently been completed.
School administrator Vicky McKeen said the school's previous library facilities had been rather antiquated.
"Everyone is thrilled with the new area, particularly the children who are absolutely overwhelmed by it," she said. "They will really get a great boost from this facility."
Malvern Gazette, October 2009
Time capsule testament of youth
Youngsters from Callow End and Powick Primary Schools with the special capsule.
A time capsule is being put together so that people in the future can get a flavour of what life is like for young people in Worcestershire today.
The project launched yesterday is being run by NHS Worcestershire, and will give a taste of 2009 life when it is opened on the 100th anniversary of the NHS in 2048. It is hoped the project will provide an innovative way to engage with young people in the Malvern area and raise the profile of the new Malvern Community Hospital as the capsule will be kept in the building's reception area.
The items in the capsule will give a flavour of what life is like for children and young people in the area the hospital serves.
As part of the project, all schools in Malvern are to submit a memento of life in their school during the academic year September 2009 to July 2010.
Speaking at the launch of the project yesterday, Simon Trickett, head of communications at NHS Worcestershire, said they were excited by the project and were already getting lots of ideas about what to put inside.
"It is about getting them to think what they can put forward to the time capsule and we have been really encouraged by the response," he said.
Worcester News, October 2009
Our chicks are here!
Children at Callow End Primary School now have their very own chicks to look after, thanks to a local benefactor.
Poultry enthusiasts Tim and Giselle Lockett donated a clutch of 12 eggs to the school, from different varieties of Cochin, a rare breed of chicken.
The eggs were placed in an incubator, and 10 of them hatched successfully.
Class one teacher Sarah Beard said: "The children are fascinated. They are also looking after them, monitoring their food and water."
A parent has volunteered to look after the chicks over the Easter break, after which they will come back to the school until they are fully-grown, when they will go to good homes that have already been chosen for them.
Malvern Gazette, April 2009
How well did your school do?
The latest Key Stage 2 primary school tables show that several schools still have much to celebrate, despite county-wide results slipping compared to others across the country.
The tables, published this week, show how primary schools are performing in the key areas of English, maths and science.
Worcestershire come 96th out of 151 local authorities, compared to 85th last year. That ranking is only based on English and maths results. However, there was still cause for celebration for several local schools.
One of the area's top performers was Callow End Primary which achieved top marks having got 100 per cent of pupils through at level four or above in all three core subjects - the standard benchmark used to assess pupil performance.
Those results gave the school an average points score of 30.9, placing it among the top performers in the county, while the school's value added score (CVA), which measures pupils' improvement, of 101.4 also places it among the top performers.
Headteacher Sue Parker said: "We're absolutely delighted with the results. They are as a result of hard work from all of the children and all the staff involved. Sometimes because we are a smaller school our results don't get published in these tables, so it's really good for us to get recognised."
Malvern Gazette, April 2009