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Fantastic Friday – Friday 15th November 2013

Children who don’t usually have a school dinner during the week have the option to have one on Friday. The cost of this is £1.90. Fantastic Friday menu next week is:

Cheese & Onion Lattice with Chips, Fish & Chips, Jacket Potato, Baked Beans, and Ice Lolly

Free School Meal Entitlement

Schools now receive lots of extra funding in their budgets for each pupil who is entitled to receive Free School meals (FSM).

We believe that we have a number of families who are eligible for FSM but have not applied. We would assure you that pupils receiving FSM are not identified and all

information is strictly confidential.

It could be that your child is eligible for a free school meal if you are entitled to receive one of the following benefits:

•Income support

•Jobseekers Allowance (Income based)

•Income related Employment Support Allowance

•Support under Part VI of the Immigration & Asylum Act 1999

•The guaranteed element of the State Pensions Credit

•Child Tax Credit provided there is no entitlement to Working Tax Credit and have an annual income (as assessed by HM Revenue & Customs) that does not exceed

£16,190.00, this also applies to parents who are working less than 16 hours per week.

•We would encourage you to apply even if your child does not want to take up the meals; as it could make a significant difference to the school’s budget if you make

an application.

•For further information, please contact the Free School Meals Benefits office on the following number – 0845 070 10 66 as soon as possible.

Our year 4 children have been to visit Witton Park City Learning Centre this week. As part of their Tudor topic this term, they had a Crazy Talk and created exciting work on the computer.

We welcome some new staff who have joined our school:

Miss Guys is our new HLTA.

Mrs Dasu and Mrs Shah will be working as Special Support Assistants.

Parent Ambassador

Thank you to all who attended the Parent Ambassador meeting. Our next meeting is on Thursday 5th December

2013 at 9am. All welcome. Many thanks for your continuous support.

Don’t forget to take a look at the Yellow Moon catalogue your child brought home over the holidays for wonderful arts and

crafts. You can also shop online at www.yellowmoon.org.uk . Don’t forget to

use our school code SSA1180, to help raise funds for outdoor activities.

Thank you to all the Reception parents who attended the reading workshop this week. I hope

you all found it informative.

Thank you to the parents who attended the focus group

meeting. Questionnaires are currently being put together and shall be sent out to all

parents as soon as possible.

Gold Book WinnersCongratulations to all the children who were the Gold Book Winners this

week. They are;

Reception – Whole ClassYear 1 – Suhana Akram and Daniyal Hussain

Year 2 – Hibba Irfan and Hasher FarooqYear 3 – Husayn Osman and Iyra IjazYear 4 –Safa Akram and All of Year 4

Year 5 – Nazish Shah and Mohannad JamilehYear 6 – HAdiqa Ali and Alisha Alli

Welfare Stars – Rayan Ali in Year 2 and Ruhina Vaid in Year 3A big well done to all of you.

Teller of the WeekAll our Tellers this week have done a

wonderful job letting the school know who the Gold Book winners were in their class.

The Teller of the Week this week goes to Abdullah Seedat in Year 1. Well done

Abdullah!

Diary Dates

Wednesday 13th November Reception trip to Rumble TumbleThursday 14th November Family Friendly Maths Workshop, 2-3pm. Details to followThursday 21st November Year 4 trip to Samlesbury HallWednesday 27th November School Open DayThursday 5th December Parent Ambassador meetingFriday 6th December Winter FairWednesday 11th December Key Stage 1 performance (AM)Thursday 12th December Key Stage 1 performance (PM)Wednesday 18th December Key Stage 2 Carol ConcertThursday 19th December Key Stage 1 PartyFriday 20th December Key Stage 2 PartyFriday 20th December School finishes at 1:30pm for Christmas holidaysMonday 6th January School re-open at 8:50am for summer term

This week’s attendance award

goes to Year 4. Well done Year 4!

Reading Egg award this week goes to

Year 3! Well done.

Emeralds are this weeks housepoint

winners. Well done.

Top tableThis week’s children on the top table are;

Zaynab Mahmood and Humerah Hanif in Reception, Mustafa Valli and Wasimul Haque in Year 1, Dion Donnachie and Muhammed Faiz Iqbal in Year 2, Amber Raja and Alisha

Khan in Year 3, Rayhaan Saeed and Mobasher Farooq in Year 4, Izza Ali and Saniyah Aslam in Year 5 and Faria Ahmed and Hajra Hasan in Year 6.

Well done to all of you.