Newsletter for Friday 12 December 2025

Information about up-coming Christmas events:

Christmas Decorations afternoon and KS2 Christmas Concert on Tuesday 16th December, 2025. Further details:

1.15-2.00- Parents making decorations with their children in classrooms. Whole-school arts and crafts activities.

The school hall will be available for families to work together, if you have siblings across more than one class. 

If you are unable to attend this event, the children will still be able to make decorations with their friends and school staff in their classrooms.

2.00- Key Stage 1 parents can take their children home with them early at 2pm.

If you are unable to attend or take your child home at 2pm or you are staying for the Key Stage 2 concert, Key Stage 1 can stay in school to watch a Christmas film with their class teacher in their classroom until the end of the school day. Taking children in Key Stage 1 home early is optional. All of Key Stage 2 children will need to stay until 3.15 for the concert.

2.00-2.15—Key Stage 2 Parents- move out of the hall for it to be set up for the concert. All children back to classrooms.  

2.30-3.15- Key Stage 2 Christmas Concert for parents. Key Stage 2 parents only please due to space restrictions in the hall. Key Stage 1 siblings will not be able to attend but will be cared for instead within their classrooms.

NB- Key Stage 1 refers to Class 1 and 2

Key Stage 2 – refers to Class 3 and 4

Pantomime Trip- Peter Pan on Wednesday 17th December, 2025

Our trip to see Peter Pan at the Leas Cliff Hall will take place on the morning of Wednesday 17th December, 2025. We will be travelling to the theatre by coach. Coaches will leave school at 9.15am, so children will need to be on-time for school on this day.

This day is also our Christmas lunch day in school, so after the pantomime, we will be returning to school for our Christmas lunch. Lunches can be ordered in school on the morning or online in the usual way.

The children will need to wear school uniform on this day please and will also need to bring a coat. Additionally, we suggest that they bring a small rucksack or bag that will fit under the seat in the theatre. This will be to carry their water bottles and any snacks that they would like to bring. The theatre is not selling or providing snacks for the performance but they do allow pupils to bring their own. For example, small bag of popcorn, small bags of sweets, crisps etc. (Please nothing too messy or difficult to eat in the theatre). Pupils will be responsible for their bags and for taking home their rubbish.

Christmas Class Parties on Thursday 18th December, 2025.

The Class Christmas parties will take place next Thursday afternoon. The school are providing snacks for the children and their will be a small disco in the hall during the afternoon for them to enjoy. This will all take place during the school day and no food is required, as it will be provided. Could children please wear their school uniform to school on this day but they can bring a change of clothes for the party in a named bag, which they can change in to later in the day before the party.

Christmas Bazar on Friday 19th December 2025

More information to follow.

Celebration Assemblies

Talia for always being a fantastic role model to her friends.

Bailey for fantastic enthusiasm and participation when writing a penguin report.

Danny for having great recall and sharing facts for our penguin reports.

Isla for enthusiasm and participation during our Christmas concert work.

Misha for his focus and participation during maths lessons this week.

Rory for his resilience in maths. Well Done!

Elodie for being a valued member of our school community.

After School Sports Clubs

No school club for Next week. Clubs will restart on Monday 12 January 2026, more information to follow at the start of term 3.

 

Dates for your diary

Term 2

Tuesday 16/12/2025- Christmas workshop- Key stage 2, parents are invited -1:30-3:15pm.

Wednesday 17/12/2025-Whole school pantomime trip.

Thursday 18/12/2025-Christmas class party.

Friday 19/12/2025-Christmas bazar- 1:30-3:15pm- Last day of the term 2.

Term 3

Monday 05/01/2026- First day of term 3

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