CHELLASTON JUNIOR SCHOOL NEWSLETTER Welcome Back We hope that all our families enjoyed the Easter holidays. Another busy half term lies ahead including our Year 5 Parents’ Lunches, Year 6 SATs Assessment Week, Y6 PGL Parents’ meeting and our PTFA Spring Discos. School Production Once again, we were treated to what has now become a spectacular annual production from CJS pupils, with several lovely performances of ‘Once on this Island.’ Two evening performances were given for parents on 23rd & 24th March, as well as ones for the whole school, Year 2 pupils from Chellaston Infants, and pupils from Homefields Primary School as well as members of Chellaston W.I. The professionalism and the exceptionally high standard of acting and singing produced two very entertaining evenings. Special thanks go to Miss Fogg for all her hard work in putting this production together, to Mrs R Chapman for rehearsal support, to Mr B Jones for technical support, to Mrs Royston-Webb for costume design and props, to Mr Macdonald for the excellent scenery and to all staff for their help behind the scenes. Many thanks to parents for your support with bringing children to rehearsals, helping them to learn their lines and getting their costumes ready. Most of all, thank you to the children who took part in the performances – you were all brilliant! Our photos show:TOP - Little Ti Moune (Aimee Stratton) with Ti Moune (Emmy Jones) MIDDLE - Asaka (Indra McNaughton), Erzulie (Hannah Searby), Papa Ge (Zawadi Odari) and Agwe (James Spink) April 2015 BOTTOM – Daniel Beauxhomme (Sam Evans) and Andrea (Ellie-Leigh Wynne). Pupils Fund-raising for UMBRELLA Congratulations to the following pupils who have been raising funds for our chosen charity, Umbrella:Eva Forrest-Davis, Xenia Neocleous, Tierney Campbell and Jasbeen Sandher who organised a competition to ‘design your own lollipop’ and raised £9.05. Chloe Clark and Ella Peberdy who ran a ‘guess the name of the teddy’ competition and raised £12.10 – Harry Shaw was the winner, correctly guessing the teddy’s name which was Harry! that can be enjoyed by all ages and abilities, and starting young could lead to a lifetime of healthy exercise and enjoyment. The league will be run under the auspices of the Derby & District Table Tennis Association, https://www.tabletennis365.com/derby and Table Tennis England,http://tabletennisengland.co.uk/ . There are also opportunities for those who may wish to undertake a 1stforSport coaching qualification, for which funding may be available. Please reply to derbyjuniortt@gmail.com if you’d like further information. MEXICO QUIZ NIGHT Many thanks to those of you who attended our Mexican Quiz Night last Friday. Our Fayre (Summer Fayre!) is now being held on Saturday, 13th June 1.00-4.00pm and the PTFA are busy organising the events for this day. If any parents would like to get involved (the more, the merrier!), please contact the ptfa@cjs.derby.sch.uk and leave your contact details. Before then, we will be holding our Spring Discos on Thursday, 21st May – more details shortly. It was a fantastic evening with a great turn out of people who all enjoyed taking part and being challenged by some searching questions from quizmaster, Mr B (what a Beast he was!). The half time supper of sausage/fish cake and chips was very welcome too!!! Well done to all the teams, especially our winners, “Universally challenged”. More importantly, we raised a tremendous £260 for The Mexican Wallacea Conservation Project. Thank you all Mr S Beeston Table Tennis for Juniors Term Dates 2015-2016 Derby and District Table Tennis Association are embarking on an exciting new venture for young people in the Derby area. They are proposing to start a junior table tennis league for players up to age 16. They expect the venue to be in central Derby and half day sessions will take place monthly at weekends between the months of September to March. Our terms dates for 2015-2016 will be confirmed very soon. However, we can confirm that Monday 7th September and Tuesday 8th September will be INSET Days and pupils will therefore start back on Wednesday, 9th September. They are inviting individuals or teams to participate within a league structure comprising 2-person teams of mixed abilities. This is a great opportunity for young people to begin playing or to develop their skills in a sport that is at the very least good fun and for some could be much more. It’s a sport Can we ask that parents do not book any holidays that impact on the start of the new academic year as these will not be authorised. Thank you. As always we plan to co-ordinate term dates and INSET Days with Chellaston Infant School.