Upcoming Dates for you Diary (Summer Term 2 2024)

Dear Parents and Carers,

As we near the end of another busy and successful year at school I thought it might be useful to give you a few dates for your diary so you don’t miss any enjoyable end of year activities.

• Sports Day on the playing field  – Wednesday  3^rd July – starting at 9.15am till 10.15am for Nursery and Reception classes only. Then at  10.30am Year 1 and Year 2 classes will have their sports day on the field.

In the afternoon it will be the turn Year 3 and Year 4 starting at 1pm till 2pm. Finally, the Year 5 and Year 6 Sports Day will be 2pm till 3pm. Parents are welcome to these sessions.

• Sports Day on playing field – Monday 22^nd July – Acorn class – 2pm till 3pm – parents welcome

• Wednesday  17^th July at 2pm in Parish Hall – Year 6 leavers production – parents of Y6 pupils welcome

• Monday 22^nd July  - Our FOOTBALL SPECIAL DAY – all children are invited to attend wearing their favourite football kit. There will be football themed activities for different classes throughout the day.

• Monday 22^nd July – Year 6 leavers mass @ 9.15am

• Tuesday 23^rd July – Last day for pupils – the GIANT ATTENDANCE RAFFLE – 2 bikes must be won – you have to be present to win it!

IMPORTANT REMINDER – New earlier start time for all children next year will be 8.45am. First day back in Wednesday 4^th September 2024 @ 8.45am

We hope to see many of you at some or all of these end of year activities.

Yours sincerely,

Mr Deane OBE

01/05/2024

Dear Parents/Carers,

We are pleased to be able to inform you of this year’s sports day, Wednesday 3^rd July. They are scheduled as follows:

Early Years (Nursery & Reception) – 9.15 till 10.30

Year 1 & 2 - 10.30 till 11.45

Year 3 & 4 - 1pm till 2pm

Year 5 & 6 - 2pm till 3pm

The Acorn children will have their sports day Monday 22^nd July 2pm – 3pm.

Kind regards 

School Office

IMPORTANT CHANGE TO START OF THE SCHOOL DAY – SEPTEMBER 2024

Dear Parents/Carers,

In March 2022, the Government introduced an expectation of a 32.5-hour minimum core school week by September 2023. In July 2023 the deadline to meet this expectation was deferred to September 2024 at the latest, in recognition of the pressures facing schools. This applies to all mainstream, state-funded schools in England.

As a result, to conform to Government regulations, starting from September 2024 the start of the school day will brought forward by 10 minutes to be 8.45am, and there will be no soft opening. Children should be ready to start their lessons in the classroom at 8.45am.

Being on time for lessons at the start of each day is vitally important for children. Often in Early Years and the infants,  the first lesson is phonics where children learn the building blocks of reading. Older children frequently start the school day by practicing their ability to complete maths calculations – addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

I do ask for your continued loyal support by doing all you can to ensure your child arrives at the new, earlier start time of 8.45am from September 2024.

God bless

Mr Deane OBE

Head teacher

Dear parents and carers,

World Book Day takes place on Thursday 7^th March 2024 and we are going to celebrate in school with lots of activities on the day.

Every year on World Book Day we are overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of our school community. We know that this year many of us may find ourselves in a difficult financial situation - we don’t want our celebrations to be an additional burden. Dressing up or bringing books into school can be a big part of the celebrations but we would like to do something different this year.

We won’t be dressing up in fancy dress, instead we will invite children to wear their pyjamas and bring their favourite bed time story book in with them on the day so we can share with the class.

We will have many fun activities taking place throughout the day including:

• Reading with the children
• World book day quizzes
• Library competitions
• Live world book day lessons from BBC
• Children receiving a £1 book token
• Writing a shared story
• Book hamper raffle where children can win prizes for being reading role models.

Here are some links to find out more about World Book Day and reading at home:

https://www.booktrust.org.uk/

https://www.worldbookday.com/families/

We’re very much looking forward to celebrating World Book Day, which could not happen without the support of parents and carers - thank you.

Many thanks,

The English Team

(Mrs Abbott, Mrs McGuire and Miss Sale)