News from EBPS 28th March 2025

Dear parents and carers, 

Bartonian Blooms 

I hope your children have come home and shown you their new “Bartonian Blooms” passport booklet. This was a new initiative we launched this week and the children seemed very excited to get started! 

The activities in the booklet cover a range of areas to help ensure children are encouraged and guided morally to help others and to help make the world a little bit better. This enhancement to our academic curriculum is aimed at ensuring we have well-rounded children who think of others and do their bit to improve their local and global community. The ideas were all generated by a focus group of children, staff and governors and have taken a long time to formulate! 

We need to give special thanks to “Scott Bader” - a business in Wollaston – whose charitable grant has made the design and making of the booklets and the badges possible. Special thanks also to Mrs Stafford who completed all of the design work on the booklets and the badges. 

The “Bartonian Blooms” initiative is a joint one between home and school. It is important to note it is not a race! We want children to take their time and enjoy the activities and to do them well. Each child can only earn one badge in Key Stage One and a second badge in Key Stage Two. The idea is breadth and quality of experience – not speed! 

I hope we can rely on parents and carers to support your child through completing the activities and to sign-off to prove what was done in your child’s passport / booklet. The Easter holidays may be a great time to start! 

Celebration assemblies 

Well done to our superstars of the week who were awarded their certificates in today’s celebration assemblies. We had wonderful writing; marvellous maths; positivity and perseverance; PE superstars and for helping hands! Lots of silver and gold house point certificates were also awarded. Our winning classes for the home-reading challenge were Daisy class and Rose class. Individual winners this week were Bronson in Clover class and Willow in Oak class. 

Attendance 

Attendance this week for the whole school is 94.79%. The top classes this week are Tulip and Clover with 97% and Blubell and Holly with 97.33%.  

Easter egg raffle 

Please see the attached flier from our PTA with regard to the upcoming Easter raffle. Donations of all “Easter treats” welcome; small easter eggs, jellies, chocolate bars, chocolate lollies, etc. The small eggs are currently £1 in some supermarkets. 

Raffle tickets will be on-sale as of Monday. Key Stage Two (Years 3-6) children can buy their raffle tickets from Y6 helpers at breaktime and lunchtime on the KS2 playground. Key Stage One and reception children can buy their raffle tickets in their classrooms next week. 

The Easter Egg prize draws will take place on Thursday 3rd April. Tickets cost 20p each. Please note, this is a PTA fundraiser; there is not a limit on the amount of tickets which can be bought nor on the amount of eggs which can be won. Children are prepared for this before the raffles and we encourage everyone to be a good sport. 

Y3 trip to Caythorpe 

A reminder that a parent / carer meeting for those going on the Caythorpe Residential will take place next Tuesday at 5:15pm in the Infants hall. Access will be via the door opposite EB library (the Primrose and Bluebell class entrance).  

Mrs Levell 

As some of you will know, Mrs Sarah Levell is leaving EBPS at the Easter Holidays as she is relocating to Whitby to fulfil a long-held dream of living by the seaside. We will miss Sarah greatly and I would like to thank her for all of her contributions to EBPS over her 8 years here. Mrs Levell is a much-loved class teacher to the current Poppy class and many children over the years will have fond memories of her leading choirs, recorder clubs, Young Voices, music recitals, concerts, Scrooge, singing assemblies and more! We wish Mrs Levell every happiness for the future. 

Globe surprise! 

This week we had a surprise delivery of six world globes! Our geography lead, Miss Dangerfield, is planning where these can be used most effectively in school. Thank you to the Archer family who won these for us in a social media competition. 

Please follow this link for Family First magazine with lots of articles, ideas for activities, offers and places where ‘kids eat for £1’ over Easter. 

Wishing you a lovely weekend. 

Miss Lally & Mr Morris 

Co-headteachers 

Letters home this week 

Y3 Caythorpe trip medications 

Northamptonshire parent/ carer workshop – SEN pupils only 

HAF activities – FSM pupils only 

Last dates this term for music clubs – Recorder clubs and choirs only 

Recorder club cancelled today – Y4 recorder club only 

Y2 SATS presentation 

Attachments 

Online safety – bluesky app 

House point sponsor – Haversley 

NMPAT open morning flyer 

Bereavement – Seddon legacy Project 

PTA Easter raffle 

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