Class Allocation for 2025/26

I am pleased to announce the class structure for the next academic year 2025/2026. There will be 10 classes, with 3 classes in EYFS/KS1 and 7 classes for KS2. This has meant that some staff from KS1 have moved into KS2.

The class structure will be:

Year R - Goslings - Miss Beard

Year 1 - Miss Parker

Year 2 - Sparrows - Mrs Rigby

Year 3 - Swifts - Miss Birch

Year 3 - Wrens - Mrs Keeble

Year 4 - Woodpeckers - Mrs Oakley

Year 5 - Doves - Mr Jinkerson/Mrs Hutley

Year 5 - Hummingbirds - Miss Curtis

Year 6 - Kingfishers - Miss Raban

Year 6 - Kookaburras - Miss Yiu

Mrs Deamer will be supporting KS1 next year and Mrs Coates - Reynolds will support KS2. 

The current Goslings will decide their class name when they meet Miss Parker on class swap morning. Class swap day will be on Thursday 17th July.

We also welcome Miss Curtis to the teaching team. She is looking forward to meeting everyone very soon. 

 

As mentioned in last week's newsletter, we will be celebrating the arts in our R-Fest exhibition. We have supersized our annual arts exhibition to include some live acts, video recordings, interactive displays and activities.  Thank you to Katy Frost for the fabulous logo! 

The exhibition will be open Thursday 24th June -  3:15pm - 5:15pm, Friday 25th June - 9am - 10:15am and then Friday afternoon 3:15pm - 4:30pm 

Here is a timetable of events.

Thurs and Friday Live Events (Outside arena)

3.30pm - Groove Crew - KS2 Dance Club

3:35pm Swifts Class Dance

3.40pm - KS1 Dance Squad

3.50pm - Woodpeckers Hip Hop Pop Dance 

4.00pm - Singing Squad

 

Friday 9.15 - 10.15 

Mr Overton's music students will be sharing in the library.

 

Other events and activities will include: 

Video projects including Goslings (main hall), Singing Squad (T&L room)

Doodle Walls - Come and help us 'Create a Buzz'

Arts and crafts activities (for a donation to Farleigh Hospice)

Busy Bee Booklets are available to purchase - exclusively designed by artist Katy Frost.

 

Have a lovely weekend! 

Mr Raraty

 

Summer Fete

Thank you so much to everyone who volunteered, donated and attended the school fete on Saturday. After the initial drizzle the weather was on our side! We hope you’ll all agree a brilliant time was had by all!

A special thank you goes to all the Rodings staff who gave up their Saturday’s to help. It really does mean so much to the parents and children to see how much you care about the school. An extra special thank you must go to Mr Partridge who was on the field first thing Saturday morning putting up gazebos and stayed until the very last thing was away!  

Thank you to all those external companies who helped ensure we made as much as possible for the school including:

Colchester brewery for donating all the Bitter

Matthews Plants for their kind donation and helping source the plants for the plant sale

The Cream Tea Society who donated all the cream and jam for the Tea Stall

Mott and Bailey Vodka for your kind donation

And all the very kind raffle prize donations.

We are still finalising figures but have made over £4k profit which is absolutely wonderful and will go a long way towards our future plans.

The Friends are taking a break for summer now. Our next event will be the AGM in Seltember – more information on that to follow soon. Let me take this opportunity to thank you for your on-going support and commitment to the Friends, your support make our work worthwhile!

For any families leaving the school we wish you good luck for the future and hope to see you at Rodings events very soon. For everyone else, we’ll see you in September! Have a wonderful summer!!

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