School News & Events

Our Vision

We believe that our children should have the aspiration and opportunity to ‘Live life in all its fullness’ and ‘Shine like stars in the sky’.
 
New this week…
 
Football Club & Nativity Thursday 12^th December
Football club is taking place on Thursday 12^th December at 3.30pm (weather permitting of course).  Any children from Oak and Acorn class who are involved in the Nativity performance at 2pm and 5pm will still be able to attend Football club, if they wish.  A snack will be provided at school prior to the 5pm performance for children from Acorn and Oak class who attend football club.
 
Christmas Cards 
It is that time of year again! Our Christmas card post box is set up in the hall ready to receive cards. These will be collected and sorted by school council and delivered to classes. If your child would like to send cards to children in school using our post box, please help them to clearly write names and the class (Acorn, Oak, Palm, Cedar) on the envelopes. (This helps with confusion across school when there are multiple children with the same name.) 
 
Sharing Celebration Worship
Our next sharing celebration for parents will be just before February half term. If your child has anything they would like to celebrate over the coming weeks and leading up to this time, please ensure these come into school for sharing in class. This will then automatically be added to the list for the sharing worship. This will help us manage the amount things to share on the day and plan ahead for this.
 
Found Property
If anyone has lost a delicate gold coloured chain with a small pendant which was found in school on Thursday evening, please contact the school office.
 
Netball Super Cup
Payment for tickets and/or transport for the netball super cup visit in March next year have been loaded onto Parent Pay and are now due.  Thank you to those parents who have already made payment.
 
Early Finish on the last day of term
A reminder that we finish at 2pm on the last day of school, Friday 20^th December for the Christmas holiday.
 
Class PE days
The days for PE this term for each class are as follows: 
Acorn - Wednesday
Oak - Tuesday
Palm - Tuesday
Cedar - Monday
 
Acorn class are to come in their PE kit. Oak, Palm and Cedar classes are to bring a kit with them for those days (they can be brought in earlier in the week and kept on their peg). 
 
Forest School Wednesday
This half term Palm will have their forest school sessions EVERY Wednesday. Children need to bring with them appropriate clothing and footwear to be outside all afternoon. They will need long trousers, water proofs and wellies. Please make sure that these items are named.
 
Forest School Friday
To support our Golden Thread further, Helen will be running a morning forest school session for each class on a Friday morning based around confident communication. Dates are as follows:
 
Friday 6^th December – Palm
Friday 13^th December – Cedar

Children should come in comfy, warm clothes suitable for forest school. They will need long trousers, water proofs and wellies. Please send uniform in a bag for the afternoon session. 
 
Reminders…
 
Parent help - Postcards  
As part of Geography and helping the children understand place and locational knowledge could I ask that if any parents or relatives are visiting places of interest or travelling to other destinations on day trips or on holidays that they pick up a postcard. They can either send to school by post or send the postcard with their child on return to school. We can then, together as a class, find, locate and investigate locations around the world. I am sure they will be eager to learn about who has been where and this will enthuse and encourage them to further their skills in using world maps, atlases and globes. 
 
Enrichment Clubs
Mondays - Guitar/Rock Club
Tuesdays - Netball
Wednesdays - Kidslingo at lunch time
Thursdays - Football 
 
 
Safeguarding, Health and Wellbeing Updates…
None this week

 
News from the Wider Community…
 

Message from the Clothing Bank charity  We just wanted to say a huge ‘thank you’ to all the families for your amazing donations towards our Christmas Donation Appeal.  It was a wonderful response. Please see the photographs below.