The annual Year 6 Winmarleigh Hall Residential visit will run from 9 June to 13 June 2008.

The details are as follows:

Date of Residential: 9th June 2008 - 13th June 2008

Departure time from school: 10.30am

Arrival time at school: 3.00pm

Total cost of visit: £302.00

Breakdown of cost: Board and Lodging = £140.00, Activities and Instruction = £134.00, Transport Cost (Coach) and Insurance = £28.00. Total Cost = £302.00

A non-refundable deposit of £40.00 is payable. The LEA run a Remission Scheme, which entitles Parents/Guardians who are in receipt of benefits e.g. Free School meals to claim the Board and Lodging costs back for the visit. If you think that you are entitled please call into the school office for a form to claim.

If you have any queries, would like more information or if you would like any advice on assistance with payments, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We have all recently been recording stars at school. We were recorded by The School Recording Stars singing and performing some of our favourite songs. They are now going to produce compact discs for us to buy.

If you would like to order a copy of the Southfield CD in time for Christmas, then please contact Mrs Lee in the office. The CD costs £9.99.

Year 5 will be going on a residential trip to Castleton on Wednesday 7th to Thursday 8th May 2008. This will be in conjunction with our learning on 'Contrasting Localities'. The trip will be a one night overnight stay at Castleton Youth Hostel.

The cost of this trip will be approximately £53.00 (presuming 25 children participate). This includes transport, insurance, accomodation, food and entrance to Treak Cliff Cavern.

Please contact Mrs Hogg in Year 5 if you require any further information.

Our festive Christmas Menu 2007

Wednesday 19th December

Our Christmas dinner will be on Wednesday 19th December. Check out the mouth-watering menu below...

Roast Turkey, Cocktail Sausage, Stuffing and Gravy, Festive Selection of Vegetables, Roast and Creamed Potatoes

or

Vegetable Carbonara

Christmas Pudding and Custard

or

Christmas Chocolate Pudding and Custard

or

Ice Cream Christmas Tree and Biscuit

or

Mandarin Cheesecake

or

Fresh Fruit Salad with Milkshake

Orange or Apple Juice will be served with the meal

Season's Greetings

The dates and times for this year's KS2 Performances are, Monday 10 December at 6pm and Wednesday 12 December at 1.45 and 6pm, there are also a small number of tickets for the dress rehearsal on Thursday 6 December at 9.30am.

Each family can have a maximum of 2 tickets in the first instance. If you would like to be considered for further tickets the please let Mrs Lee in the office know.

PLEASE NOTE THAT ANY CHILD NURSERY AGE OR ABOVE COMING TO THE CONCERT WILL REQUIRE A TICKET, BABIES AND TODDLERS MUST SIT ON AN ADULT'S KNEE AND NOT TAKE UP A SEAT.

All tickets will be numbered to correspond to a seat number so parents will not need to arrive too early on concert days. Please ensure that you bring your tickets, as no-one will be admitted without one, to ensure that we comply with strict Health, Safety and Fire regulations on numbers. We thank you in anticipation of your co-operation in this matter to aid us in making sure everyone can be seated and enjoy the concert.

Please ensure your child has their costumes ready for the dress rehearsal which will be Thursday 6 December.

The infants are currently practising very hand for our Christmas Concert, 'The Tale of the Little Donkey.' As usual though, we need your help with costumes! Unless your child has a specific part, White Base (F1s and F2s) will be dressed as angels, Green Base will be dressed as shepherds or inn-keepers and Blue Base will be dressed as Kings/ Wise men. Narrators will be given a choice this year and can be any of the above. The children who have special paers will be told about their costumes individually. Please could all children bring their costumes in a named carrier bag.

Thanks for your support.

Our Year 5 and 6 children have been invited to Carol sing in the Frenchgate Centre on Wednesday 5 December from 10.00am until 11.45 am. Children will be back in school for their lunch as normal. If you would like to go and support them we have been advised they will be standing near the new food court.

We look forward to seeing you all there!

Young Voices in Concert: Christmas 2007: Hallam FM Arena, Sheffield: Wednesday 28 November 2007

Southfield will be participating in the annual Young Voices Christmas Concert again this year, after the huge success of last year. Watch this space for news from the concert!

In Year 5 we have been conducting a Secret Agent project called Mission: Possible.

We all dressed up as spies for the project and looked like mini James and Jeanette Bonds for the day! You might even have spotted us in the Free Press or the Armthorpe Gazette! Here are two pictures of us all in Spy mode...

This was our mission:

There is an organisation known as A.D.U.L.T.S. (Ageing Dudes that Usually Like To Shout) that are in need of our help. We have a common enemy - (B.U.G.S.) too small to see and known as bacteria. Some bacteria are friendly, others are not so friendly and if eaten they can make people feel poorly.

First fill in your secret agent Identity Card and join Agent B. Clean and Agent B. Safe to find that pesky bug.

Before we can send you on your mission you will need to undergo training and complete a number of exercises. Each exercise will give you a letter to discover the name of the enemy bacteria in the picture...

GOOD LUCK!

Check out the pictures below of us having lots of fun being spies for the day. We found out lots of information about bacteria and even got to take swabs in our mum's kitchens! It was great!