‘In the News’ Weeke Primary School Fortnightly Bulletin Friday 27th September 2019, Issue 2 www.weekeprimary.com

Next Issue: Friday 11th October 2019

Whole School News

Birthday treats As a school we have made a decision to stop cake/sweets being brought in on children’s birthdays. This is for a number of reasons including food allergies and a significant number of comments and suggestions from our community. We will of course ensure we continue to celebrate birthdays in school, but feel that sweets and cakes are best enjoyed at home and at birthday parties. Please ensure that from week beginning 30th September, birthday sweets, chocolate or cake are not brought in to school. Thank you for your support.

Attendance (attached) We are always looking at ways to support parents and families in ensuring your child attends school as regularly as possible. Our attendance policy and approach in school is supported by Hampshire County Council. Whenever we receive changes to policy or legislation we will inform parents of this through the school newsletter or via email. Please take time to read the attached document ‘Information on Penalty Notices’ in order to support us in ensuring you are fully informed. If you wish to speak to anyone regarding attendance, initially have a conversation with your child's class teacher. Communication

As part of our review of systems and processes and in the event of recent concerns raised through social media, we are looking closely at the communication approaches and systems that we use in school to inform parents. If there are any particular approaches you feel have been most beneficial in working with you to support your child, please come and have a chat to me on the gate. Towards the end of the half term we will be sending out information clarifying our approach as a school. We hope that the information given will make it easier and clearer for parents to be more aware of who to contact and speak to. External Clubs - Safeguarding

If your child attends an external (not run by the school) after school club and is either absent or no longer attending please can you ensure you contact the club directly. Whilst the club take responsibility for the safeguarding and welfare of the children throughout the time they are with them, it is important as a school we highlight any concerns raised which may lead to a safeguarding risk. If you do not have the contact details for your child's club please get in touch with the office and they will give you the correct information. Winchester Live at Home Scheme - Dress As You Please - Tuesday 1st October As a school we will be supporting the Winchester Live at Home Scheme this year by holding a dress as you please day on (National Older Person's Day). Funds raised will go to MHA Winchester Live at Home, who work to reduce isolation and loneliness in older people within the Weeke area. During the last academic year, our Early Years team set up a link with the Sunrise Care Home in Winchester which proved to be beneficial for both the children and the elderly residents. As part of the day, teachers will talk to the children about the project, why we are raising money and what children understand by loneliness. We would be grateful if children can come in to the school dressed as they please in return for a small donation towards the charity. Many thanks for your support.

Whole School News continued

New space for social and emotional learning Following our message asking for donations towards our new space for social and emotional learning in the last newsletter, we have been completely overwhelmed with the reaction from our families. We are very grateful for every donation and it will go a long way to helping us support the staff and children who will benefit from this fantastic new space. Crochet club – Years 5/6 Resources are running low in our crochet club, if you are able to contribute unwanted DK yarn and hooks to the club it would be most appreciated, please drop in any donations to the office. Scopay App Reading this on your mobile phone? Want to pay for dinners? There is an app for that! Scopay have released an app for paying for school dinners etc. making it easier and making payments within seconds. If you were already using the online website, you can log in with the same details. If you have never used the website, please contact Jenny in the office who can send you a link code and get you going! Download Scopay here from the Apple App Store or here from Google Play. Rotary Club – Shoebox Appeal Again this year we are supporting the Rotary Club Shoebox appeal. If you would like to help disadvantaged children by filling a shoebox please pop into the office to pick up a form which will give you details. Please return your shoeboxes by Friday 19th October. Thank you for supporting this popular appeal.

Saints October Half Term Club (attached) Please see attached the latest booking information if your child would like to attend the Saints October half term club. Birdhouse Art & Design Club The Art & Design club running after school on a Wednesday from 3.30-4.30 pm still has places available for Years 3-6. If you are interested please contact designclub@birdhouse-studio.co.uk for further information or to book a place. Piano Lessons - £10 per half hour External piano lessons available, if you are interested please contact Jacob Hartley 07751 676680 or jacobhartley10@gmail.com

Shooting Stars Congratulations to those children who were awarded a shooting star w/e 13th September & w/c 20th September:

School Values

Value Name Class

Excellence

Carter M Esme A Oliver K Niyati P Noah H Penny K Judah L Sira M-P Harry P Jude B Maria H Hannah D Phoenix S Cassius E Afee L Rafferty O Flora A-M Joe F Lucas B Monty B

Holly Holly Holly Rowan Rowan Yew Yew Elm Elm Elm Elm Larch Maple Cherry Cherry Maple Cedar Cedar Pine Pine

Community

Yannick B-F Rohan J Esme B Ethen R Toby C Emily F Issy S Laura S Thea W

Cherry Cherry Maple Cedar Sycamore Sycamore Sycamore Sycamore Pine

Kindness Lottie P Tom C Abbie L

Yew Maple Sycamore

Respect Barney M Archie S

Elm Cherry

Responsibility

Leo C Peter N Millie G Lexie D Freddie R Archer T Daisy B Zac M Ben W Honor S Josh J

Holly Yew Yew Willow Larch Larch Cherry Maple Sycamore Pine Pine

Learning Values

Value Name Class

Enjoyment

Jasper H Riley G Ayla H Jacob H Joshua C Darsh P Ethan A Sami B Mya P

Holly Rowan Rowan Willow Elm Larch Beech Beech Pine

Perseverance

Suri B James H Lorna B Rosa W Josie P Leon H Sophie B Zia C

Holly Rowan Rowan Yew Larch Cedar Cedar Beech

Collaboration

Luke D Morgan H

Willow Larch

Curiosity Charlotte S Beech

Creativity Kian R Poppy B Felix W-N

Maple Cedar Sycamore

Letters and emails sent since the last newsletter

16.9.19 Termly newsletters/curriculum information – all years 16.9.19 WPSA birthday book scheme – all years 16.9.19 Winchester Live at Home scheme - dress as you please – all years 18.9.19 Change of venue ASC – all years 19.9.19 Tennis & squash volunteers – Year 5 19.9.19 WPSA update – all years 20.9.19 Year R hearing & vision – Year R 23.9.19 Prospectus photo & video update – all years 23.9.19 School lunch questionnaire 24.9.19 Unwanted brick request – whole school 25.9.19 School lunch account – whole school

Attendance Congratulations Holly Class who had the best attendance in EYFS/KS1 with 99% and Larch & Elm Class with the joint best attendance in KS2 both with 98.7%. Other classes with good attendance were Oak Class 98.5%, Rowan Class 97.9%, Maple Class 98.6%, Cherry Class 98.0%, Cedar Class 98.0% and Sycamore Class 97.2%. Well done everyone.

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Year Group Information

EYFS What a brilliant start to school all of the children have had. We have been so impressed with how independently the children are coming into school, and how settled they are during the day. They have made many new friends and have been very busy learning the expectations and routines of the unit. We have made a start on our ‘Three Little Pigs’ topic, looking at 2D shapes, and exploring which sounds we already know. We have had our first welly walk too. Please can we ask parents/carers to stand back from the hall doors at drop off and pick up, so we can clearly see you all and ensure a safe handover at both times. Thank you for your cooperation. Year 1 The children have settled wonderfully and have been working incredibly hard. We have been looking closely at numbers and using outdoor resources, Numicon, pictures and songs to help strengthen our understanding of numbers to 10 and 20. We have already had some amazing shooting sheriffs! In literacy, Binky Bear has been up to some mischief and the children have used their imaginations to help get him in all sorts of trouble. The year group has worked hard on letter and number formation and we are incredibly pleased with how hard the children have worked. Please let us know if you have any spare time to listen to readers, any help is greatly appreciated Year 2 The children have been having great fun hunting for a mysterious little creature on the school grounds and although they found evidence of the creature’s den and the mischief that it has been up to they couldn’t find him! As a result, the children set about designing traps to capture it this week and when that didn’t work they decided to write their own capturing potions and are hoping these will be successful. In maths, the children have been ordering numbers and thinking about whether number sequences are increasing or decreasing in value. The children have also started to find out more about the Solar System this and have become experts about one aspect of it. We have booked our trip to the Winchester Science Centre and will be going on Monday 11th November a letter with further details will be sent home with your child shortly. Year 3 The children have been working very hard in Year 3 and the teachers are so proud of the way the children have settled in. The children are thoroughly enjoying our Topic. We were fortunate enough to welcome Magnus McCabe (Harris in Year R’s Dad) who came to speak to Year 3 about growing up in the Benbecula in the Hebrides - thank you. We have been writing travel brochures about the Isle of Coll, exploring inference questions linked to Katie Morag stories and locating countries, counties and capital cities in the UK on maps. In maths, we continue to cover place value and are using dienes, place value counters and place value arrow cards to support this learning. In art, we will be painting Isle of Coll landscapes onto pebbles. We would be extremely grateful if you could provide a hand sized, smooth pebble for your child for Thursday 3rd October. Thanks for your continued support. Year 4 The children have fully immersed themselves into our WW2 topic with the evacuation to St Paul’s church and the Hobgoblin theatre and drama experiences. They have experienced what happened to children from large cities during WW2, who had to be evacuated to the countryside, from what they would have packed, meeting their host families and what they would do for entertainment. In literacy, the children have written letters to Dad linking this to our class read ‘The Lion and the Unicorn.’ In maths, we are continuing to explore place value, ordering numbers and placing numbers on a blank number line. Times Table Rockstars has now been updated with your child assigned to their new class. We have sent home logins in homework books this week. Year 5 The children have been working extremely hard in Year 5; we are all suitably impressed with their attitude towards

learning so far. In maths, we have been exploring and rounding very large numbers up to 1,000,000. We have also been

looking at negative numbers and thinking about when we need to use these in the real world. We received a mysterious,

empty package, which was supposed to contain a prototype from America. We decided to write a letter to the sender to

investigate what may have happened to the prototype. Our class book, The Templeton Twins, may contain some clues.

In RE, we have looked where Buddhism all began and linked this to a range of art activities. Twelve children were

randomly selected to attend a kayaking session provided by Sparsholt College. Although it is a shame we cannot take

everybody, there are enough extra curricular activities for all the children to have an opportunity to partake in at some

stage throughout the year. Thanks for your continued support.

Sport

Danone County Finals Football Tournament Congratulations to our Year 5 and 6 girls football team who took part in the Danone County Finals football tournament at Toynbee School last Thursday. They started slowly, drawing their first match, but soon hit their stride winning every other match in the first round to top their group. This took them straight to the final and, after a tense 0-0 draw came an even tenser penalty shoot out - which they won! Their reward and next challenge, the regional qualifiers, representing Winchester and Eastleigh against Hampshire on 3rd October, we wish you lots of luck!

Year Group Information

Year 6 Another week has flown past with many exciting projects on the go and lots of new learning underway. We have moved

on to addition and subtraction in maths including decimals and negative numbers, calculating intervals across zero. In

Literacy, the children have written some amazing complaint letters from various coloured felt tip pens! They will be

completing these this week and typing them up for final publishing over the next few days. We are looking forward to

our trips to St Cross Water Meadows next Thursday and Friday; please could we ask that all permission slips and

donations are returned as soon as possible.

WPSA

Thank you to everyone who helped out today at the MacMillan Coffee Morning and the Year 6 Cake Sale. Also, thank you to those who signed up to the Birthday Book Club scheme, you have provided at least 50 new books for school in the process! Our next big event is the popular Family Games night on the 4th October, in school from 5.15 – 6.45pm. KS2 children can come with friends but KS1 children should be accompanied by a parent/carer. Games TBC but likely to include a round of bingo, a quiz plus more. If you would like to suggest some please contact us! Food and drink will be available to purchase during the event. Tickets online here Also next Friday there will also be a Halloween Costume swap during the games night. Children outgrow costumes so quickly, why not bring it in and let someone else make use of it. Pick another one up for a small donation. Reuse, rather than recycle! Bring in costumes any time in the upcoming week. Thank you to those of you with a paediatric first aider qualification who got in touch with us after our appeal last week. We still need cover for the following events in orange. If you can help please email us.

Family Games Night – 4th October 17:15 – 18:45 Christmas Disco KS1 – 5th December 17:00 – 17:45 - covered Christmas Disco KS2 – 5th December 18:00 – 18:45 - covered Christmas Bazaar – 13th December 15:45 – 18:00 (can be split into two halves) Pyjama Party / Movie Night – 6th February – 17:00 – 19:00 Spring Disco KS1 – 19th March 17:00 – 17:45 Spring Disco KS2 – 19th March 18:00 – 18:45 Summer Fete – 27th June 12:00 – 15:00 (can be split into two halves) Weekefest – 17th July 15:45 – 19:00 (can be split into two halves)

Do you have a birthday this term? Throwing a party for up to 20 children? Then why not save on all the disposable waste and hire our reusable Party Pack! Contact us for details.

Shopping online, please, please sign up to these initiatives (Details are on our website):

Easyfundraising. It does what it says on the tin, it’s a very easy way of raising funds for school.

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Your School Lottery – raise £ for school and be in with a chance of a weekly prize and £25000. This year our wonderful team who have organised the Summer Fete for the past 5 years are stepping down to let others have a go. Thanks again to them all for their wonderful contribution over the years, they have brought a huge amount of joy and money into the school community. This means we have an opportunity for others to help shape the event in the summer. All would be welcome, but it would really suit a group of friends who would like a fun challenge! We can sort all the boring bits (risk assessments, licences etc.) and leave you to the fun, creative side, providing support along the way if required including a helpful handover from the previous team. But without a new team of volunteers this event may not happen. Please let us know ASAP if you’d be interested.

Regards Steve & Lara

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Dates for your diary NEW DATES ARE IN RED Term Dates Friday 6th September – Friday 25th October 2019 Inset Dates Friday 31st January 2020 Friday 14th February 2020 Monday 20th April 2020 School Open Events Thursday 3rd October – am Henry Beaufort Thursday 17th October – am Henry Beaufort Tuesday 23rd June – am Henry Beaufort Parent Teacher Consultations Tuesday 22nd October & Thursday 24th October – All years Upcoming trips/events Dress as you please day supporting ‘Winchester Live at Home’ scheme – Tuesday 1st October 2019 Paultons Park – Year 5 – Friday 25th October 2019

How do I pay?

Details of payment arrangements are included in the Penalty Notice. You must ensure that you include your Penalty Notice reference number on any payment method so the payment can be tracked. Failure to do so may result in the Penalty Notice being recorded as unpaid. Full payment is required within prescribed timescales - see ‘What Happens If I Do Not Pay?’ below . Payment in part or by

instalments is not possible. Late payments will not under any circumstances discharge criminal liability for the offence and you may be liable for prosecution. Any late payments received will be refunded.

What happens if I do not pay? From the date of posting you have up to 21 days to pay £60 or failing that a further 7 days to pay £120. If you fail to make any payment with the 28 days provided the local authority will consider commencing proceedings in the Magistrates’ Court for the original offence of failing to ensure regular attendance under s444 Education Act 1996. If convicted there are a number of possible sentences, including a fine of up to £1,000 (in the case of a prosecution under section 444(1)) or a fine of up to £2,500 and/or a period of up to three months’ imprisonment (in the case of a prosecution under section 444(1A)).

Can I get help if my child is not attending school?

Yes. The school is available to provide advice and support and signpost you to other support agencies in the locality.

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www.hants.gov.uk

Information on Penalty Notices

for non-attendance at school

Education Act 1996, section 444A

Advice for parents and carers

Applied from February 2019

SERVICES FOR SCHOOLS

Penalty Notices and the Education Act 1996

Section 444A of the Act gives powers to the local authority, and headteachers to issue Penalty Notices in circumstances where it is believed that a person has committed an offence under Section 444(1); that is, where a child fails to attend regularly at their registered school.

What is a Penalty Notice?

A Penalty Notice is a fine which may be issued as an alternative to prosecution. If it is paid it does not require a court appearance and does not result in a criminal record.

Who can be issued with a Penalty Notice?

Where absence warrants the issuing of a Penalty Notice, anyone with Parental Responsibility, or having day to day care of the child can be issued with one Penalty Notice for each of the children with unauthorised absence. If two parents have two children this may result in four Penalty Notices, 2 Penalty Notices per parent.

What if my child has further unauthorised absence from school?

If you pay the Penalty Notice and your child has further unauthorised absences additional legal action may be taken. For example, in the event that a Penalty Notice has previously been served to you due to unauthorised holiday, should your child have any future unauthorised leave this may result in further legal action for you, such as prosecution or an Education Supervision Order.

How is a Penalty Notice issued and how much is the fine?

Penalty Notices are either posted to your home or delivered to you by hand. Each Penalty Notice fine is £60 if paid within 21 days of the date of posting and £120 if paid after this but within 28 days of the date of posting.

When are they issued?

As set down by the Department for Education, Penalty Notices can be issued for unauthorised absence. In Hampshire, Penalty Notices are issued when a pupil has had 10 or more half-day sessions (equivalent

to five school days) of unauthorised absence, in the last 10 school week period.

Unauthorised absence is absence not approved by the school and will

be coded on your child’s attendance record as one of the following:

O – unauthorised absence

U – late after close of registration

G – non-approved leave of absence (holiday).

Persistent Lateness (L) code which reaches the threshold may result in

the issuing of a Penalty Notice.

Is a warning given?

If your child has an ongoing pattern of unauthorised absence then you will normally receive a written warning of the possibility of a Penalty Notice being issued. This warning will advise you about the extent of your child’s absence and warn you that if your child’s attendance does not show a significant improvement and if this improvement is not maintained thereafter, a Penalty Notice may be issued without further warning.

Further support, advice and guidance is available from:

The Department for Education

• www.gov.uk/school-attendance-absence/overview

• www.gov.uk

Hampshire County Council

• https://www.hants.gov.uk/educationandlearning/behaviour-attendance-parents

Is there an appeal process?

There is no statutory right of appeal. Once a Penalty Notice has been issued, it can only be withdrawn if it can be shown that it was issued in error.

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