Weekly Bulletin:Friday 28th March 2025
Headteacher’s message to parents/carers
Dear Parents/Carers,
Mrs Austin’s highlight of the week… This week, I visited our Reception classrooms. Our youngest children have made excellent progress since starting school in September, so it is lovely to see how far they have already come! When I visited, all of our children were engaged in their learning, for example exploring numbers through the concepts of ‘one less’ and making number bonds to 5 or 10, as well as making some beautiful Mothers’ Day cards. Outside, children were exploring pipes, tunnels and shelters, working collaboratively with their peers to play and learn together. Fabulous!
Reminder: Tunbury is united against bullying. This year, we’re repeating our Anti-Bullying survey three times, in November, March and July. This is an individual survey for children in Years 1-6, asking whether they have experienced or seen any bullying in their class. In our March Anti-Bullying survey, we were pleased to find a significant drop in the number of children reporting worries about bullying. We do build support for children so that they always have trusted adults they can talk to, if anything is worrying them. Also, children can always report any bullying concerns in our STOP boxes, so they don’t have to wait for the next survey to speak out. Please support your child by talking to them about Anti-Bullying. In school, we have found that the survey does help to get children and adults talking about this important subject. At home, if you have any concerns, please tell us via our STOP@tunbury.kent.sch.uk email address for parents/carers (your version of the in-school STOP boxes), so that we can help you and your child.
Whilst bullying remains very rare, we do maintain a high level of vigilance and immediate intervention in any suspected or alleged cases of bullying. We have modelled our approach on best practice in Anti-Bullying, using the Ten Key Principles of preventing and responding to bullying, as identified by the Anti Bullying Alliance. For your reference, here is a reminder of Tunbury’s Anti-Bullying communications:
Tunbury Anti-Bullying leaflet for parents/carers
Tunbury Anti-Bullying poster for children, by school council
Thank you for your support.
Have a lovely weekend everyone. For everyone celebrating Mothers’ Day on Sunday, we hope that you have a wonderful day!
Best wishes
Ruth Austin
Headteacher
Our Learning: Year 2
This term in Year 2 we have been learning about castles in our history lessons, describing the features, defences and life in medieval times. We are answering the key question ‘How do castles compare to other buildings?’ The children had a visit from Jeremy who works at the Guildhall Museum who told us all about the raid on Medway in 1667 and how it involved Upnor Castle. The children tried on uniforms and held artefacts from the battle including a real cannonball!
In art this week we have been practising the techniques of rolling, pinching, pressing, cutting and carving clay. We then used these techniques to help us sculpt a castle tower and added detail by carving in a brick texture to the outside of our towers. Some children added windows, arrow loops and stairs!
We have also enjoyed comparing and measuring the mass of objects using grams and kilograms. The children have explored holding different weights and objects and looked carefully at balance and circular scales to determine the mass of real life objects including a sack of potatoes and a bag of flour.
Notices
Sandpit: Exciting news! We are building a giant sandpit, around the boats on the edge of the field. This will be open for children to play in during lunchtimes, along with other zones and options for play. We have marked out the area for the sandpit this week in preparation for the works to be started during the Easter break. This work is funded by the TSA – thank you!
We would like to open the sandpit straight after Easter. More information on this will be shared with children in due course. Please could you help us get ready for this by donating any play items that children could use in the sandpit? All donations need to be in good condition (not broken/cracked/sharp) and will be collected at the gates next week, from Monday. Please see below our sandpit ‘wishlist’. Thank you so much for your help.
Tunbury Primary School Facebook: At Tunbury we like to showcase the wonderful activities and work that children take part in which means that at times we like to display children’s work and/or photographs on our Facebook social media platform. This week on Facebook, we have posts on the TSA present room, Spring concert and learning in Lavender class, all at Tunbury Primary School | Chatham | Facebook
We can only share photos of children where we have specific parental permission for Facebook photos. If you are happy for your child to feature on our Facebook page, please use this link to update your image consent: Facebook Consent /form or return the paper consent form sent home via your child earlier this week.
Easter Disco: Thursday 3rd April. Please support the TSA and buy tickets at The Tunbury School Association (TSA) if you wish your child to attend. Please note, Year 2 will be on their trip to Upnor Castle on this day. They need to wear school uniform to the trip, so if they are going to the disco as well, they will need to bring in a change of clothes.
After School Clubs: Due to Thursday’s disco, Scrapbook club will not be taking place next week. Dance Club and Coding Club will still be on. Next week is the final week for this series of clubs. Details of the new clubs for Term 5 and 6 will be sent out to parents as soon possible.
Online Safety: We’re sharing Online Safety information, using resources from the National College’s #WakeUpWednesday program. This week’s guide is on the Bluesky app. Please see Parents>Letters and Forms section of our website.
SEN support: Please see SEN support detailed below that you may be interest in.
Comic relief: Thank you for your support for last Friday’s Red Nose Day. Team Tunbury raised a huge £400!
Weekly Class Attendance: This is a weekly feature on our bulletin to highlight and celebrate good levels of attendance. Our KS1 winners for this week are Yellow class. With a fantastic 96.46%. Great work from Yellow Class! Our new KS2 winners are Indigo Class with a brilliant 97.03%. Well done everyone and keep up the good work!
|
Class |
Weekly Attendance Percentage |
|
Indigo |
☆97.03% ☆ |
|
Amber |
96.64% |
|
Yellow |
☆96.46%☆ |
|
Sapphire |
96.30% |
|
Orange |
96.01% |
|
Crimson |
95.98% |
|
Emerald |
95.95% |
|
Violet |
95.87% |
|
Azure |
95.41% |
|
Scarlet |
95.35% |
|
Pink |
95.23% |
|
Magenta |
95.19% |
|
Ruby |
94.91% |
|
Bears |
94.84% |
|
Lavender |
94.69% |
|
Lilac |
94.22% |
|
Red |
94.17% |
|
Blue |
93.60% |
|
Owls |
93.17% |
|
Turquoise |
92.87% |
Team Points: With just one week to go, Rowling team are still in the lead. Great work red team! With next week’s Golden Team points to come, could this change everything?
|
Rowling |
Attenborough |
Holmes |
Hawking |
|
3138 |
2955 |
2918 |
2642 |
Dates for your Diary
Term dates for 2024/25: www.tunbury.kent.sch.uk/Parents/Term-Dates-24-25/
Term dates for 2025/26: www.tunbury.kent.sch.uk/Parents/Term-Dates-25-26/
Tuesday 1st April – Year 3 visit to Wingham Wildlife Park
Wednesday 2nd April - Year 4 Journeys Day (no dressing up)
Thursday 3rd April – Year 2 visit to Upnor Castle
Thursday 3rd April – TSA Easter Disco / Non-uniform Day
Discos: Year R/1 2-3 pm, Year 2/3 3 3.15-4.15 pm, Year 5/6 4.30 – 5.30 pm
Friday 4th April – Last day of term for pupils
Term 5
Tuesday 22nd April – Start of Term 5 for pupils
Monday 5th May – BANK HOLIDAY – School Closed
Monday 12th-Thursday 15th May – KS2 SATS Week - Year 6
22nd May – TSA Tunbury's Got Talent
Friday 23rd May – Outdoor Learning Day
Friday 23rd May – Last day of term for pupils
Term 6
Monday 2nd June – School closed for pupils– INSET Day
Tuesday 3rd June – Start of Term 6 for pupils
Tuesday 3rd -6th June – STEAM Week
Monday 9th June-13th June – Multiplication Times Tables Check Year 4
Monday 9th June-13th June – Phonics Screening – Year 1
Monday 16th June – New Entrants meeting for 2025 Reception intake – 3.30-4.30 in school or 5.00-5.30 online - NEW
Tuesday 10th & Wednesday 11th June – TSA Gifts for Him
Wednesday 25th June – Class group photos – Tempest photographers
Friday 27th June – Sports Day
Thursday 3rd July – TSA Summer Disco
Friday 4th July – Reserve Sports Day
Thursday 10th July – Transition Day (all classes move up to new teachers), with Open Classroom session for parents/carers 3.15-3.45 - NEW
Saturday 12th July – TSA GlasTUNBURY Summer Festival
Thursday 17th July – Year 6 Production 14.00 and 18.00
Friday 18th July – TSA “Dare to be different day”
Friday 18th July – Year 6 prom
Tuesday 22nd July – Year 6 Leavers’ assemblies – Violet 9.00, Crimson 9.45, Emerald 10.30
Tuesday 22nd 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 28th March Azure Class Assembly
Friday 25th April Pink Class Assembly
Friday 2nd May Red Class Assembly
Friday 9th May Yellow Class Assembly
Friday 23rd May Blue Class Assembly
Friday 13th June Sapphire Class Assembly
Friday 20th June Owls Class Assembly
Friday 4th July Bears Class Assembly
