Sonning Common Primary School

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General

PTA events – bingo and OYB

Your PTA would like to remind you of the events that are coming up this month: Rags to Riches on Wednesday 11th March – a chance to have a spring clean and bring your outgrown (but still wearable) old clothes for collection at 9am, see website for what is acceptable

World Book Day 2020

Thank you for your efforts in sending your children in dressed as their favourite book character. The day also celebrates reading by having each teacher visit a different class (not their own) and read to the class from one of their favourite books. We are also running a book swap event this afternoon where children […]

The Great SCPS Photography Competition

Following the success of the rugby, the chopsticks challenge, and the Bake-Off, our next team points challenge is the Great SCPS Photography Competition. Your children are invited to submit a photo of their choice for the competition sometime this term, with judging taking place at the end of the final week. Each entrant will receive […]

World Book day – Thursday 5th March

Don’t forget it’s WORLD BOOK DAY next Thursday (5th March). Children are welcome to come in dressed as their favourite book character and please have a good look through your bookshelves for any unwanted books to donate to our book swap. During this event, the children will have the opportunity to swap the books they […]

Safer Internet Day – the Survey

In addition to our focus group posted earlier in the week, we conducted a survey amongst KS2 children to assess three things – their enjoyment of certain internet-enabled apps, their worries about using them, and the support their parents could offer them in using the apps. Eighty-two responses were received and a small selection of […]

Great SCPS Bake Off

Thank you to everybody that took part in the ‘Great SCPS Bake Off’ today. Our Year 6 team captains had the very difficult job of tasting the cakes! With very full tummies, they announced the winners in assembly. It was such a difficult decision that it was impossible to choose just one prize in each […]

What to do in half term

Half-term is NEXT WEEK and WhatsOnReading sent us this link that you might be interested in: Half Term fun in Reading

Reading Well

Reading Well for Children is a charity that supports the mental health and wellbeing of children by providing a list of suggested books that offer information and support for coping with feelings and worries. Please see the link below for more information or visit our school library for a list of books. Reading Well website

Safer Internet Day 2020

To mark Safer Internet Day 2020, we thought it would be good to elicit the views of some of our young Internet users. We ran a focus group, made up of two children from each year group, and we are in the process of running a survey. The objective of both exercises was to understand […]

MIND fundraising

Mind is a National charity helping everyone understand mental health problems, they provide advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. They campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding. SCPS School council decided that the best way to fundraise is to do something as an entire school community. With this […]