Dear Parents and Carers
Top Attenders
As the end of the school year draws closer - we look forward to sharing our Top Attenders for the year. These will be the children who have achieved at least 99% attendance for the entire year. We will be looking forward to sharing some special rewards with these children, so keep your eyes peeled for further news!
Weekly Attendance
Congratulations to Year 3 who have achieved 98% attendance this week! This is a great achievement - keep up the good work!
With only one week left of the school term, we hope to see more classes achieve this next week, and going into next term. Don’t forget, classes that achieve at least 99% attendance will be rewarded with a non-uniform day!
Filwood Library
Leave of Absence During Term Time
We must remind all parents that the Headteacher CANNOT authorise any leave of absence during term time unless for exceptional circumstances. Any requests must be made in writing on a form available from the school office and must be made at least ten days before the leave is due to commence. Any leave taken that has not been considered exceptional will be recorded as unauthorised. There will be two unauthorised absences recorded for each day - morning and afternoon. If there are eight or more unauthorised absences recorded within a ten week period, the school can issue a penalty notice. This will be £60 per child for each parent, meaning a possible penalty charge of £120 per child (which could double after a period of time).
We appreciate that holidays taken during term time can be much cheaper than those taken during the school holidays but we have a legal responsibility to ensure that every child is attending school and receiving their education.
End of school year
With only 6 weeks left of Term, we are quickly approaching the end of the school year. The last day of term for Pupils will be Thursday 21st July.
Dropping Children Off to School
Please can we politely ask that parents do not stop in the middle of the road and allow their children to get out of the car in front of school. Not only is this extremely dangerous, it causes a backlog of traffic in front of the school site. There is plenty of parking available to parents on Filwood Broadway, and we encourage parents to use these spaces and walk their children into school, with the support of the crossing patrol directly outside the school.
We thank you for your ongoing support with this matter.
Late Collection of Children
Occasionally, there are unforeseen circumstances that mean you may be late to collect your child from school, however in recent weeks, we have had a number of children being collected late on a regular basis.
When children are collected late, staff have to come away from their regular duties to supervise them, meaning unplanned staffing costs for the school. With this in mind, from Term 6 onwards we will be implementing a charging system for those children who are regularly collected late. These charges will be as follows:
- After 3.20 - £2.50 charge
- After 4.00pm - £5.00 charge
In the first instance, parents will be given a written warning regarding late collection of children, however should this become a regular occurrence, these charges will apply.
Cancelling After School Clubs
Our after school clubs at Christ the King have become increasingly popular in the past few weeks, and we often have to operate a waiting list of children that would like to attend each day. We understand that sometimes children do not attend booked sessions due to illness/change of plans, however we’ve recently had a number of children being collected after school when they are due to stay, without informing us. This means they have taken a space at the after school club that could have been given to another child.
If you have booked a session and your child can no longer stay/no longer wants to stay for any reason, please inform the school office before 11.00am so that we can offer the space out to another child.
If you do not cancel your session, and your child goes home (for reasons excluding illness), you may still be charged.
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.
Reception -
- Paisley for doing some fantastic reading with Miss Harvey and for moving up book bands!
Year 1 -
- Momar - for his retelling of the story ‘lost and found’ making huge improvements with his spelling, presentation and making a super effort to remember to include finger spaces between words - well done
- All Year 1 - For their incredible hard work and determination in the phonics screening this week!
Year 2-
- Bella - for always being very kind and considerate towards other children when they need a helping hand or a friend to guide them.
Year 3 -
- Roxy- For her amazing independent work on comparing lengths in maths. Keep up the confidence, Roxy!
Year 4-
- Leighton, Emily, Lexi, Reggie and Grace - These children make up our Top 5 for the Year 4 Speed Tables that we introduced this week. The children were timed to write down their tables from 1s-12s, racing against the clock!
Year 5 -
- Ayla - for a brilliant attitude towards her decimals work this week after being away for two weeks of learning.
- Des’Arai and Cheyenne - for their brilliant writing this week when writing a newspaper article.
- Fidel - For his resilience and improvement in maths when adding decimals.
- Angelina - for trying out new ideas when editing her writing
Year 6 -
- Archie - for his mature attitude to phoning the “emergency services” at the Create Centre. He was able to articulate what he needed and why he needed it. Well done, Arch!
- Adi, Serenity & Frankie - for their excellent knowledge in our Kahoot quiz. Well done!
Wellbeing Tips
Dates for Diaries
- Monday 6 June 2022 - Start of Term 6
- Friday 17th June - INSET Day
- Friday 1st July - INSET Day
- Thursday 21 July 2022 - End of the school year
- Monday 5th September - Beginning of new school year (pupils return to school)
Yours sincerely
Matt Condon
Headteacher
