Dear Parents and Carers,
INSET
Our first day back after the Christmas break, Tuesday 4th January, will be an inset day for staff professional development and as such school will be closed to all pupils.
We look forward to welcoming the children back on Wednesday 5th January 2022.
Christmas Performances
Key Stage 1
The children have recorded some wonderful Nativity performances. These will be shared with you all online next week.
Key Stage 2
Due to the new Covid-19 variant, and ongoing concerns, this year we are planning to hold out Key Stage 2 carol service outdoors during the last week of term. Weather permitting, we would like to invite parents to the playground on Tuesday 14th December at 2.15pm to listen to the beautiful carols our children have been working hard to learn. Should the weather be unfavourable, we will move this date to Thursday 16th December.
We encourage everybody to wrap up with wooly hats and scarfs for a very special Christmas celebration.
Details will be confirmed via text on Monday 13th December and we will keep our fingers crossed that everything can go ahead as planned.
Other Christmas Events
Christmas Dinner Day
This year, we will be serving Christmas Dinner for pupils on Wednesday 15th December. Hopefully you have already let the school office know if you would like your child to have a Christmas Dinner on this day.
Christmas Jumper Day
We would like to invite children to wear their Christmas jumpers into school for the final day of term on Friday 17th December 2021.
New After School Clubs
A reminder of our new after school clubs:
- Wednesday Years 3-5 - Basketball
- Wednesday Year 5 - Art (every fortnight - see below for further details)
- Thursday Years 1 and 2 - Multi Sports (focussing on balls skills, including Netball & Basketball)
- Friday Year 6 - Archery
These clubs are being offered as part of paid after school provision, which is £2 for clubs until 4pm. Please book as soon as possible, to guarantee your child’s place. If you would like your child to attend Chill, after their club, the total charge is £3.50. Your child can then attend Chill until 4:30pm.
Art Club
As you may know we are now running a fortnightly Art Club on Wednesdays for Year 5 pupils. We would like to be able to offer children the chance to create an ongoing art project, and as such we would like to ask that when booking into Art Club, bookings be made for a few weeks at a time to enable them to complete the work they have started. Bookings should be made through the School Gateway App, however if you have any difficulties with this, please contact the school office.
Should there not be enough uptake of Year 5 pupils for Art Club, we may consider opening the sessions up to Year 6 pupils in the new year, please let the office know if your child is in Year 6 and would like the chance to participate.
Reception Applications
If you have a child that was born between 1st September 2017 and 31st August 2018, or you know someone that does, admissions are now open for Reception Class applications.
We are very proud of our Reception Class, and our Early Years Team works very hard to create a welcoming and exciting environment for our new pupils.
Applications close on 15th January 2022 and we will be holding open events on the following dates:
- Thursday 9th December - 2.30pm and 4.30pm
- Monday 10th January - 9.30am and 4.30pm
If you would like to attend one of these open sessions, please contact the school office to book a space. Each session will take about 30 minutes. If you would like to arrange a visit, but are unable to make one of the above sessions, please contact the office to arrange an alternative time.
Attendance
Unfortunately none of our classes managed to achieve over 97% attendance this week. Due to the change in weather we have noticed a lot of children off of school with general cold symptoms - please be reminded that children can still come to school with a cold, and we are able to provide Calpol for minor illness if necessary.
Thank you for your continued support in helping us to improve attendance. We hope next term we can celebrate more and more classes achieving that 97% and above!
Headteachers Awards
The following children will receive an award in next week’s Celebration Assembly. Videos of Celebration Assemblies are now shared on our Facebook page.
Year 1 -
- Isla - For independently writing a fantastic innovation based on the story of The Three Little pigs.
Year 2 -
- Olivia - For always being a very kind and helpful friend to other children in our class.
Year 3 -
- Rubie- For settling into Year 3 and making lots of new friends this week. We are lucky to have her!
- Toby- For writing fantastic ideas in his storyboard and completing his work to an incredibly high standard.
Year 4-
- Freya- For immersing herself in our class text and describing a character using language which suited the purpose perfectly.
Year 5 -
- Des’Arai- For cutting down her speed tables time from 10 minutes to 5 minutes 26 seconds. Fantastic perseverance!
- Fidel - For his superb solo singing in class when we were practising, teaching us all by example.
Year 6
- Year 6 - for representing our school to the highest standard. They embraced the London trip with enthusiasm, asking appropriate questions and supporting each other - well done!
Dates for Diaries
Monday 10th January - New parent’s open event - 9.30am and 4.30pm
Tuesday 14th December - Key Stage 2 Christmas performance (outdoors - weather permitting)
Friday 17 December 2021 - End of Term 2
Tuesday 4th January 2022 - INSET (school closed)
Wednesday 5th January - Start of Term 3
Tuesday 8th February - Safer Internet Day
Friday 18 February 2022 - End of term 3
Monday 28th February 2022 - Start of Term 4
Friday 8th April 2022 - End of Term 4
Monday 25 April 2022 - Start of Term 5
Friday 27 May 2022 - End of Term 5
Monday 6 June 2022 - Start of Term 6
Thursday 21 July 2022 - End of the school year
Yours sincerely
Matt Condon
Headteacher
