Newsletter for Friday 28 February 2025

World Book Day

We would like to remind you that Thursday, 6th March 2025, is Book Day. We invite the children to dress up as book characters for the day.

We look forward to a fun and special day!

Polling Day

On Thursday 1st May 2025, school premises will be required from 6:00am until 10:15 pm, as a polling station. This means that the school will be closed to pupils on that day. Please be assured that teachers will set work to be done at home that day.

This has been decided and confirmed by the local authority. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

After School Sports Clubs

After-school sports clubs will start as normal on week commencing Monday 24^th February 2025. There are some places still available. If you would like your child to attend an after-school sports club, please contact the school office.

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

• Monday – Multi-Sports (Years 1 - 6)
• Tuesday – Gymnastics (Years 1 - 6)
• Wednesday – Football (Years 3 - 6) – Football boots and shin pads must be worn.
• Thursday – Athletics (Years 1 - 6)
• Friday – Dance (Years 1 - 6)

Term 4

Monday 03/03/2025- Parent/ Teacher meeting- class 4.

Tuesday 04/03/2025-Parent/Teacher meeting -class 2.

Wednesday 05/03/2025-Parent/Teacher meeting- class 3.

Wednesday 05/03/2025-Inclusion Coffee Moring 09:00-09:45.

Wednesday 05/03/2025- Inclusion Coffee Afternoon 14:15-15:00.

Thursday 06/03/2025-Parent/Teacher meeting- class 1.

Thursday 06/03/2025- World Book Day.

Friday 21/03/2025- Red Nose Day.

Wednesday 26/03/2025-02/04/2025- Travelling Book Fair.

Friday 28/03/2025-School Health Service-Hearing and Vision screening/NCMP for Class 1 and NCMP for Class 4.

Tuesday 01/04/2025- Parent Open Afternoon- Information to follow.

Friday 04/04/2025- Easter Egg Trail- Information to follow.

Friday 04/04/2025- Last Day of Term

Term 5

Tuesday- 22/04/2025 Start of term 5

Celebration Assembly

Squirrel Class for being resilient and such good friends to each other.

Mia for showing resilience during our maths learning during our maths learning.

Emilie for excellent participation in all learning this week.

Daniel for always participating in class discussion about any subject.

Jacob for excellent thinking skills through all areas of the curriculum.

Max for participation and enthusiasm in maths.

Preston for perseverance and improvement in maths tuition.

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