Newsletter For Friday 30 January 2026

Newsletter for Friday 30 January 2026

Cake Sale

On Thursday 5th February 2026, we will be holding a cake sale in school to raise money for the NSPCC, as part of Number Day on Friday 6th February 2026.

The cake sale will take place at breaktime and lunchtime, with items priced between 20p and £1.

To help us run the sale, we would be very grateful for any store-bought donations such as cookies, brownies, cakes, or similar treats. Unfortunately, we can only accept shop-bought items due to children with allergies.

We really appreciate your continued support and hope to raise lots of money for this wonderful charity.

Number Day

Number Day will take place on Friday 6th February 2026.
It’s a maths-inspired fundraising day and a great opportunity for us to celebrate Maths.
The day will involve exciting tasks inspired by famous game shows, as well as plenty of teamwork. This will be a non-uniform day. If possible, we encourage you to help your child dress as a number. This could be as simple as sticking a number on an item of clothing.
This is in return for making a donation to the NSPCC.

After School Sports Clubs

After-school sports clubs will commence during the week beginning Monday, 12^th January 2026. Still some places are available

The clubs available are as follows, along with the year groups they are open to:
 

• Monday: Gymnastics – open to Years R–2
• Tuesday: Football – open to Years 3–6
  (Football boots and shin pads must be worn)
• Wednesday: Multi Skills – open to Years R–2
• Thursday: Multi Skills – open to Years 3–6

The Multi Skills clubs will include activities such as dodgeball, golf, archery, and basketball. These sessions are child-led, allowing children to explore and enjoy a variety of sports based on their interests.
All sports clubs will finish at 4:15 pm, and all children must be collected by an adult from the school office.

Celebration Assemblies

Talia for showing great kindness and care to our new friends in Squirrel class.

Jayden for participating in phonics and maths this week.

Bettie for working hard with her phonics and spelling.

Mia for perseverance when adding across a ten.

Daniel for his participation in our history lesson this week. Lots of great answers!

Rupert for being resilient whilst planning for a piece of writing.

Oliver for his perseverance when sewing in DT.

Ellis for his excellent participation in class.

Dates for your diary

Term 3

Thursday 05/02/2025- Cake sale.

Friday 06/02/2026- Number Day- Dress up as digits.

Monday 09/02/2026- Class 4 Exhibition from 2.30-3:00pm. Parents are invited.

Friday 13/02/2026- Last day of term.

Term 4

Monday 23/02/2026- First day of term 4

Bikes and Scooters on the school site

Could we ask that children who ride their bikes or scooters into school, push them up to the bike rack once they are on the school grounds and push them back down to the pedestrian gate after school.  We have had a couple of instances whereby younger children have nearly been hit by children riding their bikes and scooters down the hill.

School Uniform

Please ensure that all children return to school in the correct school uniform.

The school uniform is as follows:

Black/Grey Trousers/Shorts/Skirt/Dresses

Blue/Red/Marron/Green Polo T-shirt

Blue/Red/Marron/Green logoed Jumper/Hoodie/Cardigan

Black/Grey Socks/Tights

Black Shoes (no heels, boots or trainers)

These items can be purchased from any retailer or through The Schoolwear Centre. 

You can order the uniform through ‘The Schoolwear Centre’ by calling them on 01843 293555 or visiting their website www.schoolwearcentre.net.

A Polite Reminder

Please can you ensure that if your child brings a water bottle into school, that it contains only water to be sipped throughout the day.  Of course, children may bring in juice/squash to have at lunchtime to have with their lunch.

Reading Incentive

The children continue to engage in our new reading incentive to encourage reading for pleasure, both at home and in school.  Please see our Facebook page for photographs of children selecting their gifts. We should be grateful if you could remind children of the incentive and encourage them to read for a period of time in the evening and weekends.  Books read at home will need your signature please.  Once your child returns to school, they will be given a raffle ticket for each book they have read which will be posted in the class raffle box.

School Dinners

Please activate your parent pay account on www.parentpay.com .

All meals have to be ordered before 8am every morning, otherwise your child will not receive dinner. Please contact the office if you haven’t received the activation code.

Driving onto the School Site

Under our safeguarding rules, we have a duty to control the public access to our site.

Under our risk assessment, we have a duty to control the movement of vehicles on our site.

For insurance purposes, we are required to limit vehicular access to staff, essential visitors and – under certain circumstances - blue badge holders. Access to the school is clearly signposted to notify all non-essential visitors that they must not drive on site.

Essential visitors are required to make prior arrangements with the school.

Any parent/guardian driving their vehicle on to our secure site, without prior agreement, is trespassing, and their insurance will be invalid.  Knowingly ignoring our rules is therefore putting staff and pupils at risk. Should an accident occur, the driver will not be covered by their insurance.

Finally, the school gates and car park are checked periodically by our caretaker. Anyone ignoring our rules, could find themselves delayed for some time and inconvenienced by not being able to leave the site. We would therefore appreciate your cooperation in keeping our staff and pupils safe whilst they are at school.

Home packed lunch

Just a polite reminder that no sweets, chocolate bars or fizzy drinks are permitted in children’s packed lunches. If your child has a yoghurt in their packed lunch, please remember to pack a spoon in there too.

Wellington Boots

Please can you ensure that all children have a pair of wellington boots in school with them.  Every class will attend the Woodland Area for a weekly planned lesson and it can be muddy depending on the weather.

Free School Meals

If you have access to the internet and would like to apply online for Free School Meals, please use the following website:

http://www.kent.gov.uk/education-and-children/schools/free-school-meals .

Late arrival at school

When your child arrives late at school, he/she misses the teacher's instructions, their morning task and possibly the introduction to the mathematics lesson. Your child may also feel embarrassed at having to enter the classroom late. School begins at 09.00am.  Please help your child to be punctual.

School opening hours              School Office opening hours

08.45am - 3.15pm                   08.30-12.30 and 13.00-15.30