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Christmas is for all children ...

Go! Go! Go on! Give, give! Operation Christmas Child's Shoebox Appeal is underway! What better way could there be to celebrate Christmas than by sending a child a present who would not normally expect to receive one at Christmastime?

A Bumper Harvest!

More children gathered in each day - Attendance up! Conditions ripe for learning - Morning routine excellent! From little acorns ... learning flourishes in first few weeks!!

The 2009-10 season kicks off!

Arriving with true autumnal weather, the new school year hits the road as the children once again breathe life into the school buildings! This first newsletter is full of very important information .. so read on!

Front page splash!

Swimmers basking in glorious weather, heads held very high at District Sports ... But, O NO O'Reilly ... and Gathercole sees through interview and sets sights on September!

Newsletter 66 - The only route for all your school news!

PTA bowled over by fete raffle donations! Lateness ... don't get timed out! Give it some welly - Foundation ask for old wellies! Kwik Cricket Team knock opposition for 6! The latest newsletter gives you the full score on a range of current school issues ...

Bop 'til you drop - it's the adults' School Disco!!

Sadly, Mrs Johnson will be leaving ... BUT, hit the floor pop pickers! Flares, Glam, New Romantics - it's time to all come out of the woodwork and wind the clock back! Will there be Babycham,  Double Diamond, cheesy pineapple on cocktail sticks, Brut 33 and circles of handbags?!!

Egg-tastic!

Thank you! Another great Easter Egg Hunt brilliantly organised and supported by the PTA!

YOUR P.T.A. NEEDS YOU NOW!

A rallying call to all stalwart school supporters to step up to the plate as the Cheese and Wine Party falls victim, crumbles and ebbs away after being cancelled ...

Something Funny for Money!

Anna and Charlotte's' 'Mad Hair Day' to raise money for many worthwhile causes takes the biscuit!

Pyjamarama and panarama dramas!

World Book Day is here again and this year they'll be wearing pink pyjamas - but maybe not all the boys! ... And will you, won't you? The choice for this year's class photos will be yours and will be either the class type or a special class action panarama? But are the the days gone when a child could cleverly appear on each end of the picture?!

Deep Winter News Issue!

Snow now for another newsletter! There's no business like snow business ...

The SUCCESS issue!

Year 6 stars, Ethan, Charlotte and Jacob continue their unstoppable quest for multi-skills glory! Attendance on the up! New morning arrangements bring morning glory! Year 5's Saffron is a writing competition runner-up!! Where will it all end?!

New News New Year 09!

It's all change in the playground first thing in the morning, the drive is on for even healthier mid-morning playground snacks and muscles are needed to move a shed - but not to the playground (and keep eyes peeled because the playground theme is not  exhausted ..!).

The Big Thank You Issue!

Lots and lots of thank yous to all the kind children, parents and staff!

Christmas is Coming!

Busy yourelves, it would be bizarre and santa shame to miss the Christmas Bazaar! 

By a mile, bye a Furlong ...

Today's (heart) breaking news ... the fabulous Miss Furlong will sadly be leaving ...

Breaking News - Eat more beans!

This autumn make half size cans of beans your family's food of choice ... Join Operation Christmas Child ... Coming to school REALLY does make a long-term difference! Read more of a truly full newsletter!

Autumn's first newsworthy harvest!

A Burgeoning Bulging Basket of Autumn Goodness! The latest newsletter flutters gently down like a falling leaf ...

It's Gold All the Way for the First Autumn Newsletter!

Too late for the end of year newsletters, the school's District Sports Team romped to athletics success - Team SD setting Team GB. From gold medalists, to golden days ... the new Autumn Term is here and there's new learning to be harvested - everybody's a winner!

Summer Sizzler!

Wonderful SATs results and excellent whole school writng progress set to seal another successful school year!

'In the Summertime ...

  ... You chase right up and touch the sky' - Imagine that!! There have been sunny days and rainy days, but the pool is open again and it's the final half-term of yet another school year ...

Summer's Here!

Get into Summer with our very own new season collection of news and diary dates!

The Champions League Issue!

Ryan, Ollie, Bryony, Jack, Harvey, Justin and Rhys power Stanley Drapkin through the early rounds to win the larger schools group convincingly. No goals conceded, 11 scored! A right royal romp - but always a game of two halves! The team done good!! No need for sickness or parrots ... just being over the moon!!

The Excitement Issue!

The excitement is barely containable! School extension imminent, mega spelling progress, staff supporting other schools, cross country success ...

Newsletter 46

Year 5 fundraisers, 5-a-day fruit and veg and a plea about muddy shoes and pushchairs ...

A A Atttiiisshhhhhoooooooooooooooo!!!

Coughs and sneezes cannot prevent the raising of in excess of £2100 for the NSPCC!

Fund Raising Fever Grips School!

A busy time for the PTA quiz teams and the children's spelling learning for the NSPCC ...

Happy New Year 2008!

Fancy working here, coming to the next PTA meeting or helping the school build up its Cine-Literacy resources? Then find out more and get 2008 off to a great start by reading the first newsletter of the new year!

Plump, fruity, stuffed with news and coming down your chimney!

Mrs Garwood will return after Christmas and the Carol Service is days away ...

Newsletter Number 42 arrives ...

 WOW! A fabulous £1620 is raised at the Christmas Bazaar!

November - a busy month for Newsletters!

Apparently the number 42 is the key to the universe - this though, is Newsletter 41 ...

OFSTED NOVEMBER 2007 - The full report!

This is not any old report, this is the very special one for Stanley Drapkin Primary - read it, print it, wrap it up and give it to someone special this Christmas who wants to come to a fabulous school!

TICKETS PLEASE! Bus number two!

Not a ticket inspection, but an OFSTED inspection! The very lastest newsletter, hard on the heels of the preceding one

ALL ABOARD! Bus number one!

The first of the two newsletters that arrived almost simultaneously - was it something important, were OFSTED about to hop on board?

Go electronic and save a tree!

The latest newsletter makes you an offer you cannot refuse ... and it's sad news as our Chair of Governors decides to step down ...

All in all, more bricks in the wall (or not as it seems ...)

Newsletter number 2 of the year (and 37th in total!) brings you the new School Development Plan (building learning), news on the building work (no bricks, no builders) and voluntary drivers (no connection with bricks!).

Happy New Year!

The first newsletter of the 2007-8 academic year welcomes all new children and parents to their new school, and of course, welcomes back children and parents from last year, the year before, the year before that ...

I spy ... what is round and yellow and is never seen in the sky at the moment?

Well the sun's not out, but damp July's newsletter is, ready to beam warmth into your heart with latest school news!

Soggy June's second newsletter!

Events, news, events, news!

Scorching June's Newsletter!

Parents' Questionnaire - the results!

Year 6 SATs week newsletter ...

The latest and up to date May newsletter!

May Day newsletter

News that isn't news because it arrived late on the website ... OTHER THAN MISS FURLONG RAN THE LONDON MARATHON IN 3 HOURS 30 MINS ! (WOW!)

Summer's here!

The first of the last term of another year ...

WOW! New Foundation classroom!

Major building project to get underway in the summer!

Science Week and Red Nose Day!

It's really just a newsletter ...

Newsletter - The Fundraising Issue!

February's fabulous fervent fundraising feedback features, feature!

Newsletter - The Statistics Issue!

Freezing February's Fantastic Headlines!

Newsletter 26 - January 2007

Newsletter 26 - January 2007, exactly what it says!

Merry Christmas Everybody!

The plum pudding of school newsletters!

Novemeber News - The Success Issue!

The very latest gossip-less news - all hard facts!

Newsletter for the colder days ...

A newsletter with an important request ...

Late summer newsletter!

Well, early Autumn newsletter really! Whatever, harvest this one!

The first newsletter of the 2006-7 season!

Heaps of useful and important stuff for the new school year ...

July's Summer Newsletter

SATs results and much, much more!

June's a scorcher!

Hot June news!

May newsletter

All that is current and happening!

March newsletter!

The warmer weather edition!

Newsletter time!

The next Spring 2006 edition ...

Spring Newsletter number 1

Not quite lambs and bunnies yet; instead here's the first Spring newsletter of 2006!

Newsletter number 5

A second seasonal offering ... simply jam packed with very important news!

Newsletter Number 4

The Christmas edition!

Autumn newsletter number 2

A welcome to new colleagues, Harvest Festival celebrations and a cry for parents to become part of the PTA!

Autumn newsletter 1 2005

What's new and important as the new school year gets rolling!

Last Newsletter of 2004/5 ...

The end of another year ...

SATS STUNNER!

Summer News!

The very latest news round up!

Newsletter, newsletter, newsletter!

Up to date - brimming with up to date things!!

New News!

All that important information ...

'Health and Happy in School' magazine

HHIS read all about it; HHIS read all about it! Get your high standard now!

Newletter number 8

All the latest for you to read, print or send onto your relatives!

Newsletter number 7!

The very latest news ... lots of it too!

Spring Term Newsletter number 2!

Keeping up to date with the school!

School Clubs Diary

What is on and when!

Mid-Winter Newsletter!

The first newsletter of 2005!

The 2004 Christmas Newsletter!

All the latest news!

November's school news

Emily Kenny and her family are in our thoughts ...

Another newsletter!

School newsletter 2004-5 number 2!

September 2004 - The first newsletter!

Keep up to date with school events and news ...

2003-4 Annual Governors Report to Parents

The school's school report!

Summer Newsletter

The final one of this school year ...

Sad news ... Rosemarie will be leaving

Summer Newsletter

Sad days to come ... BUT LOTS OF INTERESTING STUFF TOO!!

PTA Summer Fete

It's BIG, it's SOON ... so be ready for Sunday 27th June!

S is for Summer - S is for SATs too!

The first summer newsletter!

New Spring Newsletter!

AS SATs approach the Year 6 children will know that the change in season and day length is all about axis tilt - the Earth's!

Spring Newsletter!

The very latest for your diaries ...

Mr. Stanley Drapkin

Happy New Year!

Our school's New Year starts here with the latest newletter - dates, notes and a tribute to the late Mr Stanley Drapkin from the chair of Governors ...

Christmas time ...

The 2004 Christmas Newsletter!

All New Autumn Newsletter!

Be up to date! Read all the lastest school news!

It's here, the new school year!

Get those diaries up to date with the all those key dates in the first Newsletter of the 2003-4 school year!

Governing Body's Report 2002/2003 (text only version)

Find out how the school has worked and performed during this academic year. The report also contains those excellent 2003 SATs results too!

New Summer Newsletter

All the latest news including who will be teaching who in September!

Summer Newsletter

Events and news for the start of the Summer term

Chat Room Safety

If you use chat rooms on the Internet, are you as careful as you should be? Read Bryony Ward's story and also visit our link to Kidsmart to learn more ...

Latest school newsletter

Read on for the latest school news!

Spring Newsletter

Important calendar dates as well as the latest school news!

Fantastic SATs results for both key stages!

SATs 2002