4th February 2010                                                                        Newsletter No: 20

Dear Parents/Carers,

I need to change the dates of parents’ evening as some staff will be taking part in a Comenius visit to Crete. The new dates are Tuesday 30th March 4-6 p.m and Wednesday 31st March 6-8p.m.

Thank you to everyone who came and supported Elena and Freya’s tea parties. They raised £357 and chose Oxfam as the agency that would best use this money in Haiti- well done girls.

I hope you all enjoyed the Language celebration service, thank you everyone for coming.

Following feedback from school council we have now extended the tyre area by adding more tyres, vertical tyres to climb through and wobbly tyres to try and balance on. Hopefully the children can try these out very soon.

After ten months, endless form filling and countless site meeting - we are ready to submit our application for planning and conservation area consent to enable us to rebuild the wall at the bottom of the hill.  Alongside this we are submitting plans to create two play mounds and a spiral garden in the field. Hopefully these will go through and in 8 weeks we will actually be able to start work.

Thank you to everyone who returned a security questionnaire. Mark Kirkham (Health and safety Governor) is currently looking through these and collating the responses. His initial thoughts are that they are very positive on the whole with some good points made to improve security even further. We will be meeting in the week after half term to discuss his findings and will produce a report to send out.

Stars of the week

Class 1          Katie Fantastic writing  

Class 2          Jasmin Positive attitude to homework         

Years 4 and 5    Shannon Writing 

Class 3        James    Enthusiasm

We seem to have a persistent problem with head lice again in school which seems to be going round in circles.  Please could you check all your families’ hair tonight so we can try and eradicate this problem together. Thank you.

We have a new system for all late arrivals. The school door will close at 8.55am and late arrivals will need to be signed in at the office, including class 1. Children need to be at school by this time as lateness disrupts the class and causes confusion over dinner registers. Teaching commences at 8.55am and learning begins at 9.00am. This is in line with most other schools.

Yours Sincerely

Mrs J Bendeaux

Head teacher

Dates for your diary 2010

12th February

Valentine disco

15th – 19th February

Half term

22nd – 26th February

Book Week

19th March

Inset day

30th March

Parents Evening 4-6 pm

31st March

Parents Evening 6-8 pm

2nd - 16th April

Easter Break

10th – 14th May

SATs week and internal assessments – no holidays will be granted from 19th April until 17th May for children in any year group

21st May

Inset day

7th – 11th June

Year 6 residential trip

5 th   July

Inset day