HALF TERM HOLIDAY
We would like to invite you to a Christmas crafts session with your child on Wednesday 6th December at 9.10am until approximately 10.00am. Here you can work with your child to make some festive crafts to take home. The cost of the session will be £2 to pay for the resources used.
We hope to see everyone there, the children thoroughly enjoyed our previous Easter crafts session and I’m sure this will be as much of a success.
If you have any further questions please speak to a member of staff.
We are excited to announce that this year’s key stage one Christmas performance will be “The Bossy King”. All of the children from year’s one and two will take part. We would love you to come and watch the children perform. The children have all been working very hard to make this year’s performance magical.
The children will perform on Wednesday 13th December at 1.30pm. Due to Health and Safety regulations tickets are limited to 4 per family. Tickets cost 50p and are available from the school office from Wednesday 29th November.
Spare tickets will be available from Friday 8th December so please get your tickets early to avoid disappointment.
Thank you.
We are excited to announce that this year’s key stage two Christmas performance will be “Cinderella Rockerfella”. All of the children from year’s three to six will take part. We would love you to come and watch the children perform. The children have all been working very hard to make this year’s performance magical.
The children will perform on Tuesday 12th December at 1.30pm. Due to Health and Safety regulations tickets are limited to 2 per family. Tickets cost 50p and are available from the school office from Wednesday 29th November.
Spare tickets will be available from Friday 8th December so please get your tickets early to avoid disappointment.
Thank you
Struggling to support your child with maths at home? Not sure of the strategies used to solve those difficult word problems? Help is at hand…
On Friday 24thNovember Miss Hall invites all Y6 parents to a ‘Making Sense of Maths’ workshop. Together, we’ll work through a series of maths strategies taught in Key Stage 2 that will help make maths less daunting and make sense of those tricky homework challenges.
The workshop will be held in Miss Hall’s classroom at 2.00pm until the end of the school day.
Please don’t worry if you find maths challenging – no tests – just an informal workshop to keep up with your child’s learning.
Please return the reply slip sent home with your child if you wish to attend
We look forward to seeing you then.
Thank you.
The children in Year Six have been invited to visit the Safety Works Centre in Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne on Tuesday 21st November 2017.
Safety Works is an interactive centre and visitors participate in a range of realistic situations which could be potentially life threatening, but which are preventable. The children are presented with a number of problems or tasks to solve and given assistance by trained staff.
We will travel by coach leaving school at 12.30pm and will return to school approximately 3.15pm, depending on the traffic.
Please complete and return the reply slip sent home with your child as soon as possible.
Thank you.
The Christmas Fayre is fast approaching and we are now working to confirm our stalls. We hope to have a wide variety on offer this year to hopefully get you into the spirit of Christmas!
If you or any friends or family, would like to hold a stall at our Christmas Fayre please get in touch. All that we ask is for a small donation of your profit to be donated to our school.
We require as much help as possible to raise some much needed funds for our school. We are looking for some donations towards the various stalls and we would greatly appreciate your help and generosity.
Listed below are some of the items that would be greatly appreciated!
Any teddy bears that are in good condition (or even new!) which require a new home
Bottles of wine for the ever popular Christmas bag game
Nearly new stall – books, games, toys etc. (please check they are in good working order and not missing any parts)
Donations for the tombola and raffle – chocolate, toiletries, hampers etc.
Cake stall
We would greatly welcome any donations. Please can we ask that any home- made or bought cakes are brought to school no later than 9.00am on the day of the Christmas Fayre (Friday 8th December) .
If you feel you can help in any way with our Christmas Fayre then please get in touch. Any help is appreciated.
Thank you for your continued support.
Christmas is fast approaching and in line with usual tradition, on Thursday 14th December the school will be serving the children with Christmas Lunch – sliced turkey, chipolata sausage, creamed potatoes, roast potatoes, carrots, garden peas and gravy. Desert will be a Christmas biscuit. The vegetarian option is tomato and mozzarella festive pie with all the trimmings. The cost will be £2.00 as usual and free to those children entitled to free school meals. In order that the school cook knows how many children to cater for, if your child will be staying for lunch on that day please complete and return the eply slip sent home with your child as soon as possible.
Thank you.
I would like to take this opportunity to share some good news. We have become the first school in Gateshead to be given an Early Years Accreditation Award by the National Children’s Communication Charity ‘I CAN’. This award is in recognition of our support for children’s communication and language development.
It is a fantastic endorsement of our school’s ability to support the language skills of all children.
NURSERY ADMISSIONS
We would also like to remind you that if your child will be turning three this academic year and you would like them to attend our Nursery setting; you will need to complete a Nursery admission form as soon as possible. The forms are available from the school office. It is vital that we receive these forms well in advance in order to guarantee your child’s place.
Thanks for your support.
The after-school clubs will continue to run for this half term.
We are also having an additional club starting on Tuesday 14th November for Years Three, Four and Five. This will be a Yoga Club and will be led by a qualified instructor. There are limited places and if your child is interested in joining please complete and return the reply slip sent home with your child as soon as possible.
Thank you.