Autumn Newsletter 07 ‘Hand in hand we love, laugh, learn’ 1 Corinthians 16:14 “Do everything in love”

Welcome to the latest edition of the newsletter!

This week’s awards go to…

CELEBRATING ACHIEVEMENT SCHOOL VALUES AWARDS

Camilo Moral for care and pride in all his

work Robins Amy Boyling for selflessness and Will

Higgins for helpfulness

Archie Jackson for a fantastic piece of

writing on the laptop Wrens Thomas Edwards for perseverance

Ryan Jones for an excellent understanding

of the 4x table Sparrows Kaya Howards for perseverance

Alfie Adams for excellent effort in maths

and super reading Goldfinches Seren Brammer for kindness and

selflessness

All Year 5 Goldfinches for patience

Holly Gifford for working as hard as she

ever has especially in maths Hummingbirds Sam Millichap for kindness and

selflessness

We also congratulated Lewis and Emily Fuller for fantastic achievements at the North of England Ju Jitsu

championships and recognised the performance of the tag rugby team this week (picture at the end of the

newsletter).

Autumn Newsletter 07 ‘Hand in hand we love, laugh, learn’ 1 Corinthians 16:14 “Do everything in love”

Some dates going forward for you…

Please make a note of these dates. The website calendar has been updated as well so keep an eye on that

as well.

• Thursday 26 November – PTA Coffee & Cake 2.30pm

• Friday 4 December – PTA Christmas Fair 6-8pm

• Wednesday 16 December - Whole school disco 6-7.30pm

• Tuesday 8 December @ 2pm - Ks1 Nativity

• Wednesday 9 December @ 6pm – Ks2 Nativity

PTA Update

First of all the school would like to thank the PTA for

fundihg the installation of the all-weather surface under

the adventure trail in front of the forest area. It is great

that we can now use this throughout the whole year.

At this year's Christmas Fair (Friday, 4th December) we

will be having 'Santa's Workshop' - a Christmas shop for

the children to buy Christmas presents for their family

and our 'elves' will wrap them for them ready to put under

the Christmas tree.

All the presents will cost £1 each and we are hoping to get

most of the gifts from donations from yourselves. We're

sure you've all got unwanted gifts (toiletries, candles,

ornaments, books, etc.) at home which would make

perfect gifts for the children to buy so please can you all

have look at home and if you have anything please bring it

into school. There will be a box in school reception where

you can leave donations or just pass them onto Sallie

Ehlen or one of the class reps in the playground. We will

be having gifts for Mums, Dads, Grand-parents, siblings and even pets so we will be able to use almost

anything you don't want (new gifts only).

For the raffle this year we are hoping each class will be able to source TWO main raffle prizes, things like

restaurant vouchers, hair/beauty vouchers, tickets for attractions etc. so please if any of you think you

could help with this and know anyone you think might help us out please let Sallie know.

We are currently updating the list of helpers for the night to man the stalls and to help set up in the

afternoon. Please can you let Sallie or your class rep know if you're able to help and when.

Thanks - The PTA

Autumn Newsletter 07 ‘Hand in hand we love, laugh, learn’ 1 Corinthians 16:14 “Do everything in love”

Harvest Appeal 2015

This week the JAM (Jesus and Me) group led the Harvest appeal

worship focusing on the story of the poor widow who gave all she had.

We collected the Christian Aid envelopes in and the total counted

came to £223. Thank you all for your generosity in helping refugees all

around the world.

Punctuality for the start of the school day

We have noticed over the past few weeks that a large number of children are regularly arriving at school

after the whistle has been blown in the playground. I would like to draw parent’s attention to the following

paragraph from our attendance policy.

School starts at 8.50am. Children arriving after that time must come into school via the main entrance and

parents must sign the Late Book stating the reason for lateness. The register is recorded at 8.50am and at

9.20am the register is closed. Children arriving after this time will receive an unauthorised absence.

Persistent unauthorised absences may result in the Local Authority issuing a Fixed Penalty Notice.

As a school we wish to be a little flexible around this so will not be enforcing the signing of the late book

for children arriving between 8:50am and 9am, but we will be marking the register with a lateness code.

Children arriving late MUST be brought to the school office by a parent – not sent in alone.

Lessons start promptly in the morning and lateness causes disruption to the teaching of all children and

isn’t conducive to a good start to the working day.

Thank you for your support in this.

Pilgrim Day

Year 5 attended the Pilgrim Day at Chester cathedral this week accompanied by Mr Wallace and Mrs

Rowe. AS always it was lovely to have Mrs Rowe back with us and she really enjoyed spending time with the

Year 5 children again.

Autumn Newsletter 07 ‘Hand in hand we love, laugh, learn’ 1 Corinthians 16:14 “Do everything in love”

Safari Park

Last week the Wrens and Robins classes had a

great day out Knowsley Safari Park. Some

pictures below.

Bag2School Collection Look out for the blue Bag2School sacks which

will be given out to the children next week. Fill

them with your unwanted clothes, shoes, bags

and soft toys and bring them back into school on

the collection day of Thursday 5th November. It’s

a great way to have a ‘sort out’ and raise money

for school.

Diary dates for the next 2 weeks:

• Monday 19 October – Andy Avery leading collective worship

• Thursday 22 October – Stephen leading worship

• Thursday 22 October – Choir club ON

• Thursday 22 October – School closes for half term at 3:15pm

• Thursday 5 November – Bag2School day

• Thursday 5 November – Stephen leading worship

• Thursday 5 November – Bonfire Lunch

• Friday 6 November – Y4 swimming

The Year 3/4 Tag Rugby Team