Dear Parents and Carers,

I don’t know about you but we’ve had a brilliant first week back after the half term break. Children have come back calm, happy and ready to learn – they have been a credit to themselves and to their families.

Building Update

We expect that the hall will be finished and that we will take possession of it on Monday 24th November.

We put some pictures of the interior online in our last newsletter which you can see here.

Nursery Expanding

We want to expand our nursery provision to five days a week. Can you help?

Perhaps you know of someone with a two, three or four year old who needs a nursery space – if so, can you let them know about our provision and encourage them to get in touch for a visit and a chat – w would love to show them around.

Readathon

Next week is our Readathon, raising funds to purchase books for our library as it moves to its new home in the hall. If you haven’t collected sponsorship pledges yet, please do. Every penny counts, especially as the brilliant KSPA have said they will double whatever we raise.

Children in Need

It is Children in Need next Friday, November 14th. |We will have some fun activities on the day and talk about what the day is for in assembly. Children are invited to come to school wearing clothes that are colourful and, if possible, spotted. Of course, if your child would feel in any way uncomfortable with that, they are more than welcome to come to school in their normal school clothes – that’s fine too. We will be collecting donations for Children in Need on the gate at arrival and pick up.

School Meals

Thank you to everyone who has ordered their school meals through Arbor this week. It genuinely makes things so much simpler.

We know that there was a mix up on the menu items on the app – that was outside our control we we sincerely apologise for the inconvenience this caused. Just to reiterate what I think yu have already been told through other channels, next week the system will repeat this week’s ‘week two’ menu. That means the main meals should be BBQ chicken or Roasted vegetable Pasta Bake on the Monday, Beef Burger or Five Bean Enchilada on Tuesday, Roast Chicken or Cheese and Onion Quiche on Wednesday, Creamy bacon pasta or jollof rice on Thursday and Fish fingers or butternut squash burger on Friday

Number Club

We have been given a membership to a really powerful maths platform for children to use at school and at home. The platform is called ‘Number Club’ and is shown to really significantly improve childerns sense of number and instinctual understanding of multiples and factors in quite a short time. We have been piloting Number Club in school this week and the children seem to have really taken to it and to be making really rapid progress.

We will be using the platform at school and all children will have access to it that way. Your child’s teacher will also let you have their log in code so that they can play at home if they wish. I think that a lot of children will learn more through number club than they are currently gaining from Times Tables Rock Stars or Numbots so if you want to try this new platform instead for a while that is absolutely fine by us.

We will host a meeting in the next few weeks so we can walk you through Number Club and explain why we think it has the potential to be so powerful, In the meantime, this video gives a quick explanation.

Biscuit Questionnaire

Our last biscuit challenge was won by Marusya’s family – enjoy those biscuits!! For some reason, there were very few entries for that draw so I am putting the same questionnaire back up and hoping that more people will have a go. It asks for quotations that we can use in marketing about what you like about the school – it should only take a minute or two, it will help us out and you could win top quality biscuits! Just click this link.

Christmas Decorations

As we will have our new hall soon, we want to make our school as Christmassy as we possibly can this year. If you are looking for an excuse to update your own Christmas decoration collection at home, could you given us your old stuff? We want to absolutely transform the place if we can and nothing, and I mean nothing, is too tacky or gaudy for a primary school Christmas!

Dates for your diary

Year Five and Six Bikeability – 24th to 27th November

KSPA Christmas Fayre – Friday December 12th

Carol Concert in the Church – Thursday December 11th, 5:30 p.m.

Nativity Play in the Hall – Thursday December 11th, 10:30 a.m.

School Christmas Lunch and Christmas Parties – Thursday December 18th

End of Term – Friday 20th December

Spring Term Begins – Monday 6th January