Newsletter for Friday 02^nd May 2025

Hot Weather- Sun Safety for Pupils

With the weather becoming warmer, we would like to remind you of the importance of keeping children safe in the sun during the school day.

Please ensure your child comes to school wearing sun cream each morning. If you prefer, your child may bring their own clearly labelled bottle of sun cream to school. Please note that sun cream must not be shared between children under any circumstances.

We also ask that all children bring a hat and a refillable bottle of water to help them stay cool and hydrated throughout the day.

Free breakfast club during SATs week

To give your child a really good start for SATs week we are inviting all year 6 children to join us for FREE breakfast from Monday 12 May to Thursday 15 May 2025.

The breakfast starts at 07:45am and the children will enjoy muffins and fruit.

Please let us know by Friday 09 May if you would like your child to attend.

After School Sports Clubs

After-school sports clubs will commence the week beginning 28 April 2025.  If you would like your child to attend an after-school sports club, please contact the school office.  We can only, safely, accommodate 15 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:

Monday – Multi-Sports open to years 1 - 6

Tuesday – Gymnastics open to years 1 - 6

Wednesday – Football open to years 3 – 6 – Football boots and shin pads must be worn

Thursday – Athletics open to years 1 - 6

Friday – Dance open to years 1 – 6

All sports clubs finish at 4.15pm and all children must be collected by an adult.

Celebration Assembly

Lily L for excellent engagement and effort this week!

Sabrina for fantastic participation in our reading time and building great fluency.

Franek for always engaging well in all lessons and working with purpose.

Rory for working with focus and excellent note taking on the school trip.

Henry H for working with focus and excellent note taking on the school trip.

David for excellent running skills in P.E.

Ashton for working hard in all areas. You are a resilient learner and always try your best.

Sophia for fantastic progress in maths and for working with purpose and determination.

Term 5

 

Monday 05/05/2025- Bank Holiday

Thursday 08/05/2025- Dover Castle Trip class 1 & 2

Monday 12/05/2025-Thursday 15/05/2025- SAT exam week

Friday 16/05/2025- Class 2 Exhibition. Information to follow

Thursday 22/05/2025- Class 1 Exhibition. Information to follow

Monday 26/05/2025-Friday 30/05/2025- Half term

Monday 02/06/2025- Staff development day- No children in school

Term 6

Tuesday 03/06/2025- First day of term 6.

Thursday 05/06/2025- Wingham Wild Life Park trip. Information to follow.

Thursday 12 /06/2025- 10/07/2024- Class 4 swimming at Dover Leisure Centre

Wednesday 09/07/2025- 14:00-15:30 and 18:00-19:30- Year 6 Play

Friday 18/07/2025- Leavers BBQ

Monday 21/07/2025- 13:00-15:30- Summer Fayre. Information to follow.

Tuesday 22/07/2025- 09:30-10:30- Leavers Assembly. Information to follow.

Wednesday 23/07/2025- Start of summer holiday.

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.

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.

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