FOWS will be having a donation day on 19.01.24. Bring your unwanted gifts for FOWS and wear your funkiest socks to school.

OWN Trust Professional Days

After the October half-term, OWN Trust held joint professional days for Teaching Assistants, Support Staff, and Teachers across the three schools. It was an opportunity for staff to meet their counterparts in the other schools, share good practice, undertake training, and hear from keynote speakers Steve Russell and Shonette Bason-Wood. You can read more about the professional days by clicking on the links below:

• Teaching Assistants and Support Staff Professional Day
• Teaching Staff Professional Day

We are currently collecting used stamps in school for the RNIB. You can send the stamps into school with your child and place in the box in the school entrance.

The RNIB raise £20 for every kilogramme of stamps they receive. Stamps are sold by weight, so whatever you can send will add up to much-needed funds for their services. They accept all stamps: new or used, first or second class, foreign, first day covers, presentation packs or albums.

The School Christmas Fair will soon be upon us, and we are looking forward to seeing you and the children there.

• Raffle tickets – Please don’t forget to sell your raffle tickets and hand in the stubs and cash.  The Raffle will be drawn at the end of the school fair on the 8^th December, so there is still plenty of time to pick up additional tickets should you need them, from the school office.

• Cakes – We are still looking for bakers who can make some treats for us to sell at the fair.  Cupcakes, Brownies, Victoria sponge, whatever your speciality, any donations are welcome.  We ask that you drop your cakes of prior to 1.30 on the 8^th to the school office along with a list of ingredients for allergen purposes. Please note that we are a nut free school, so no cakes with nuts please.

• Fair set up and break down – Many hands make light work and if anyone is free to help set up the fair from 1.30 on the 8^th or hand around to help us tidy up at 5.30 (ish) it would be much appreciated.

• Match Funders – If you work for an organisation that match funds, we would love to hear from you as match funding can give our fundraising a huge boost.  Please get in contact with the FOWS Team fows@owps.org.uk

Here at Orton Wistow Primary School, we recognise that success comes in all different shapes and sizes! We celebrate the children's achievements in school in the Achievements section of the newsletter and website.

Many of the children, however, are also achieving things outside of school.  We would like to recognise these successes too.

It might be that your child has passed a music or dance exam, gained a karate belt, starred in a show, volunteered, taken part in a sporting event, or done something that they didn't think was possible!

If you would like to share your child's achievements with us so that we can celebrate their success, please complete the Celebrating Success form which can also be found below.  Contributions will be considered for inclusion in upcoming editions of the newsletter.

We look forward to hearing about your children's extracurricular achievements!

This Week's Successes!

This pupil in flamingos has had an outstanding weekend in her Irish dancing competition in Coventry:

She achieved 1st place, 2 x 3rd places and 1 x 4th place all in the higher ranked category.

Well done, we are very proud! 

By Jo Watson, Chair of FOWS