Newsletter For Friday 26 September 2025
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Newsletter for Friday 26 September 2025
Harvest Festival
We are delighted to let you know that it’s time once again for our Harvest Festival – a very special occasion in our school calendar, where we come together as a school community to reflect on the importance of giving, sharing, and showing gratitude for the things we have.
As part of our celebrations, we will be holding a Harvest Festival Assembly on Thursday 16 October 2025, and we would be thrilled to have your support.
Please send any donations with your child between Monday, 29th September and Wednesday, 15th October 2025. Please see the attached leaflet.
Reminder/Trip to the Pantomime, Folkestone
The school has arranged a whole-school trip to The Leas Cliff Hall in Folkestone to see the pantomime Peter Pan on Wednesday 17th December, 2025. We will be travelling by coach and will be leaving school at approx. 9.15 a.m. and should be back to school by lunchtime. The children will be able to order and have lunch in school in the usual way when we return, although it may be slightly later.
Before the visit can take place, however, we would need a contribution of £23.50 per child. Please could money be paid in to the school account via BAC’s by Wednesday 1st October,2025. Please use your child’s name as the reference when making a payment.
Aycliffe Community Primary (NatWest)- Account number: 48073105-Sort code- 60-60-08
We wish to point out that if insufficient funds are raised, then the visit may not be able to go ahead.
If the trip does go ahead, your child will need a small back pack with a water bottle and a few sealed snacks to eat in the theatre. E.g. a small bag of sweets, bag of crisps, raisins etc. They will also need to bring a coat for travelling.
Aycliffe Open Day/ Wednesday 29th October 2025, 13.30-14.40
It is our pleasure to invite you to our Open Day at Aycliffe Community Primary School, so that you are able to see what our school has to offer.
During your visit you will be given a tour of the school to experience, first-hand, the wonderful curriculum and great teaching on offer to children in our school.
Once the tour has concluded, we will provide refreshments and activities for you and your child/ren. For more information, please call 01304 202651 or office@aycliffe.kent.sch.uk
Celebration Assemblies
Sienna for being so kind and caring towards her friends.
Alby for being independent and resourceful.
Ezra F for showing resourcefulness in all learning.
Ronnie for excellent knowledge recall and participation in science this week.
Elliah-Mai for great participation and ideas in science this week.
Peyton for her perseverance when rounding in maths.
Oscar for producing an excellent diary entry in English. Well done!
After School Sports Clubs
After-school sports clubs will commence the week beginning
15th September 2025. If you would like your child to attend an after-school sports club, please contact the school office. We can only, safely, accommodate 12 pupils per club, so the places will be issued on a first come, first serve basis. Reception children are unable to attend. Please see the clubs below and the year groups they are available to:
After school club will continue as follows:
Monday – Archery open to years R – 3
Tuesday – Football open to years 3 – 6 – Football boots and shin pads must be worn
Wednesday – Multi Skills open to years R – 2
Thursday – Dodgeball open to year 3– 6
All sports clubs finish at 4.15pm and all children must be collected by an adult.
Dates for your diary
Term 1
Thursday 02/10/2025 – Autumn Census
Friday 03/10/2025 – Individual Class Photo
Monday 06/10/2025- Wednesday 08/10/2025- Year 6 Residential
Thursday 16/ 10/2025- Harvest Festival Assembly for children only.
Friday 17/10/2025 – Teacher Training – School closed to pupils
Monday 20/10/2025 -Friday 24/10/2025- Half Term holiday
Monday 27/10/2025 – Teacher Training – School closed to pupils
Wednesday 29/10/2025-13:30-14:30- New admissions open day
Term 2
Tuesday 28/10/2025 – First Day of Term 2
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.
Breakfast Club
We shall be operating our breakfast club as normal from 7:45-8:45 am. We would like to remind parents to book their child’s place the day before. We have had a number of children arrive at the club without notice.
We also ask that you accompany your child/ren to the breakfast club entrance.
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