Weekly Bulletin:Friday 27th June 2025

Headteacher’s message to parents/carers 

Dear Parents/Carers,

This week, we’ve had two school trips, with Year 5 going to Wildwood and Year 4 going to Rochester, both as part of their curriculum studies.  I love hearing what children say when they return from these type of experiences.  Children in Year 5 said:

“I liked the rainforest workshop.  It was fascinating to learn about the cool animals.”

“It was a little scary to walk through the wobbly bridge over the bears.”

“The artic fox was so cute!” 

Children in Year 4 said:

“I’ve just walked 11,590 steps!”

“My 14-times Great Grandad is on a plaque in Rochester.”

“We were complimented on our behaviour in the sweet shop.” 

Today, we’re currently all outside on the field enjoying our Sports Day.  This is one of our favourite events of the school year, as it’s an opportunity for our whole school community to come together, supporting our wonderful Tunbury children.  I know that days like this are memorable - I can remember my own primary school sports days as a child, even though they were a long, long time ago! 

Sports Day is important for lots of reasons, including strengthening our teamwork and developing positive character traits.  To explore this, in Monday’s assembly, children thought about what teamwork means.  Can you (or your child) find 4 teamwork truths and 2 teamwork myths in the following list of 6?

1. Teamwork means together everyone achieves more.
2. Teamwork means you always win.
3. Teamwork means everyone brings different strengths to the team
4. Teamwork means we all need to join in.
5. Teamwork means I have to go first.
6. Teamwork means I have to listen to other people.

Thank you for being part of Team Tunbury.  We hope that you all have a great day at Sports Day today.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Best wishes

Ruth Austin

Headteacher 

Notices

TSA Summer event: The Tunbury School Association are proud to present their summer event - GLASTUNBURY!
This is going to be a huge event with something for everyone, so please come along and support our TSA in raising as much money as we can to enrich the experiences of the children at our school.  This year, TSA funds have paid for the OPAL project, which has been fantastic for all of our children.
 

Online Safety: We’re sharing Online Safety information, using resources from the National College’s #WakeUpWednesday program.  This week’s guide is about Nintendo Switch 2. Please see the letters and forms section on our website.

Weekly Class Attendance: This is a weekly feature on our bulletin to highlight and celebrate good levels of attendance. Our KS1 winners from this week are Yellow and Bears class with a brilliant 100%.  Great work from KS1! Our KS1 winners are Indigo class with an amazing 98.33%. Keep up the good work!

Tunbury Primary School Facebook: This week on Facebook, we have posts on this week’s school visits and Sports Day.  Please take a look at Tunbury Primary School | Chatham | Facebook 

Team Points: Attenborough team have held onto their lead. Well done!

Dates for your Diary 

Term dates for 2025/26: www.tunbury.kent.sch.uk/Parents/Term-Dates-25-26/

Monday 30^th June – Year R visit to Tyland Barn

Thursday 3rd July – TSA Summer Disco 

Friday 4^th July – Reserve Sports Day

Monday 7^th July – Open Afternoon, Year 5- Rainforest art, 2-3pm

Wednesday 9^th July – Open Afternoon, Year 1 - Coral collage in the style of Courtney Mattison, 2-3pm

Thursday 10^th July – Transition Day (all classes move up to new teachers), with Open Classroom session for parents/carers 3.15-3.45

Friday 11^th July – African mask and dance workshop, Year 2

Saturday 12th July – TSA GlasTUNBURY Summer Festival

Thursday 17^th July – Year 6 Production 14.00 and 18.00

Friday 18^th July – TSA “Dare to be different day”

Friday 18^th July – Year 6 prom

Monday 21^st July – Open Afternoon, Year 6 – End of term event, 2-3 pm

Tuesday 22^nd July – Year 6 Leavers’ assemblies – Violet 9.00, Crimson 9.45, Emerald 10.30

Tuesday 22^nd July – Last day of term

Class assemblies

Class assemblies will be held in the school hall on Friday afternoons.  Parents/carers and family members from each class are warmly invited to join us in school for these events, as our children love to share their learning with you.  Please come to the front of the school and wait outside the hall entrance doors. You will be invited in just after 2.45pm.  The assembly will begin at 2.50pm and last for about 10 minutes, finishing in time for you to collect your children at the end of the school day, as normal.

Friday 4^th July Bears Class Assembly