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Farr Brew Beer and Cheese Evening

A huge thank you to Nick and Matt from Farr Brew for the fun and informative beer & cheese tasting evening on Friday.  A great time was had by all!

Many thanks also to Katie Farr for organising the event to raise funds for our PTA.

The Harpenden Trust Community Fund

We were delighted to meet Steve Pryor from The Harpenden Trust and receive our Community Fund grant today. The very generous grant has enabled the PTA to support the transformation of the Resources Room. Steve Pryor was impressed with the work carried out so far and we discussed plans to improve other areas of the school for our children’s benefit. Our resources room has gone from a ‘dumping ground’ to a great learning space. Watch this space for the next stage. Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen!

Spotlight on Governors

We have a busy couple of weeks coming up for the governors as they will be meeting for this terms committee meetings. In addition to this, the governors will also be reviewing the first draft of the school budget for the new financial year which the governors have responsibility for approving. This will require a lot of input and thought as we move into a period of budget uncertainty due to changing school numbers and national school budget cuts. Many of these issues will be touched on at Mr Berry’s workshop on school funding on Thursday 9th May.

School Clubs

A letter giving information about the school clubs being run this term was sent out in book bags yesterday. The online booking system will be available from 7pm today (Friday 26th April). Please visit http://www.thelea.parentseveningsystem.co.uk to book. If you do not have access to the internet or have problems logging in, please contact the school office as soon as possible (a limited number of places are held back for this eventuality).

All clubs will begin next week (w/c 29th April 2019).

Clubs letter Summer Term 2019

Year 5 Ancient Greek Day

Year 5 enjoyed a fantastic whole day history workshop at The Lea yesterday, run by History Off The Page. They dressed as Ancient Greeks, took part in theatre, dance and craft activities and learned a huge amount about everyday life 2500 years ago! A great introduction to their Ancient Greek topic work.

Huge thanks to all seven parent volunteers who joined us at different points during the day; the workshop could not have happened without you!

Resources Room

As you will know, we redeveloped our resources room over the Easter holidays. It has been totally transformed and now looks fantastic.

The works could not have been done without the grant awarded to our school from The Harpenden Trust. Huge thanks to our amazing PTA for their help in obtaining the grant, and also to all parents and carers who gave up their valuable time to assist with the works; some came in to help empty the room at the end of term, some painted the room with Mr Berry and Mr Harris, and some came in on the inset day earlier this week to help put the resources back. THANK YOU!

Easter Event

Thank you for supporting our Easter event yesterday – whether donating goods, setting up, manning stalls or simply just attending, it is much appreciated. The event raised just over £600 for the school, which is great! Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and we had a really generous collection of cakes and Easter eggs – thank you.

Well done to Kitty in Rec on winning the Early Years Easter bonnet competition, to Aston in Y2 for winning in KS1, and to Juliette in Y4 for winning in KS2 – some brilliant bonnets on display!

Congratulations to Alex in Y6 on winning the fabulous Easter hamper and to Phyllis in Y2 for winning the delicious Easter cake donated by Kate’s Cakes (katepullman@live.co.uk).

Sporting Achiever

We are delighted to share the news with you that one of our pupils, Matthew in year 5, has been selected to represent Hertfordshire at cricket. This is a great achievement and well deserved.

He will be playing against Bedfordshire on 27th May at Knebworth Park CC and also against Buckinghamshire and other home county teams over the summer period. Good luck Matthew!

Team Points

Well done to Sapphire, who were our spring term winning team. They were rewarded with a fun time taking part in various activities on the school field this morning.