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Monday 18th – Friday 22nd February: HALF TERM, school closed

Monday 25th February: SCHOOL CLOSED, teacher training day

Monday 25th February – 10th March: Fairtrade Fortnight

Monday 11th March – Friday 15th March: Science, Family Learning Week

Thursday 14th March: SEN Working Party Meeting

Tuesday 19th March: Year 5, Passport to Dance

Wednesday 20th March: Film Night for Early Years and Key Stage 1

Wednesday 10th April: Film Night for Key Stage 2

Friday 12th April: Holy Week Eucharist at Christ Church, 9.30am start

Monday 15th April – Friday 26th April: SCHOOL CLOSED,

Easter holiday

Monday 29th April: Summer Term begins.

15th February 2019

Learning with God and Each Other to Be the Best We Can Be

Respect: Endurance: Friendship

Teacher Training Day and Half Term Don’t forget that school is closed to all

children on Monday 25th February for

teacher training and it is the half term

between 18th and 22nd February.

Fairtrade Fortnight (25th February to Friday 8th March) To support our work on Fairtrade our school Fairtrade shop will be open

again during Fairtrade Fortnight. There will be a number of items for sale

including Fairtrade crafts, snacks and chocolate. Any food purchased from

the shop must be eaten after school. Prices range from 5p to £3 with

many items costing less than £1.50.

Attendance Our attendance for the spring half term can be seen below.

Well done to Reception, Year 2, Year 4 and Year 6 who all achieved above

96%. A special well done to Year 2 for achieving 98.4% - top of the school!

Our whole school percentage is 96.1% so we are still on track to achieve our

target.

School Uniform and Overall Presentation The vast majority of our children attend school correctly dressed for the

school day with appropriate footwear, no earrings or other jewellery and

hair tied back. All pupils with medium to long hair should have it tied back

each day to reduce the risk of head lice spreading and for health and safety

purposes earrings, necklaces and bracelets should not be worn. We are

seeing a number of our younger children wearing earrings – these SHOULD

NOT be worn in school. If your child is having their hair cut during the

holidays, please remember that tramlines should not be shaved into hair. If

you are buying new shoes these should be all black – we are seeing a

number of children wearing trainers or shoes with thick white soles. Can we

also ask that your child’s name is written inside all school uniform so that we

can return misplaced or forgotten items to children quickly and easily.

World Book Day – Thursday 7th March We will once again be supporting World Book Day this year and are inviting children to come dressed as

their favourite book character. During the day we will also be having book quizzes for each key stage. The

questions for the quiz will be taken from the books listed below:

KS1 books to read: KS2 books to read:

Peppa Pig Winnie the Pooh Mr Men and Mr Tickle The Very Hungry Caterpillar Dr Seuss Peter Rabbit Humpty Dumpty Horrid Henry Rainbow Fairies The Gruffalo Spot the Dog Topsy and Tim The Odd Egg

The Twits Paddington Rainbow Fairies Where’s My Teddy? Lost and Found Pom Pom books Hairy Maclary The Owl and The Pussy Cat Hey Diddle Diddle Charlie and Lola Clifford Guess How Much I Love you

Harry Potter Matilda 101 Dalmatians Alice in Wonderland How to Train Your Dragon Winnie the Witch Magic Story Wonder Journey to the River Sea Tintin Diary of a Wimpy Kid Tom Gates Mortal Engines Tom’s Midnight Garden James and the Giant Peach The Railway Children Marigold

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe The Famous Five Winnie The Pooh The Wizard of Oz Peter Pan Lemony Snickets – a series of unfortunate events Skulduggery pleasant Mary Poppins Mrs Doubtfire Thomas the Tank Engine Liar and Spy The Secret Seven Inheritance Cycle Guess How much I Love You Charlotte’s Web

This is sure to be another fun packed day in school which will help support our children in improving their

reading skills and enjoying books. We cannot wait to see the amazing costumes which always appear.

Be Activities Wise - Helping to keep children safe in sports and social activities during school holidays in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Are your children getting involved in sports or social activities in the school holi-days? It’s okay to Be Activities Wise and check your children will be safe with the people leading the activity. Find out more: https://bit.ly/2Rf3yxg This campaign has been developed by Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Stoke-on-Trent Safeguarding Children Board. For further information, visit the Be Activities Wise page at www.safeguardingchildren.stoke.gov.uk

25 Day Reading Challenge Following feedback from some parents and children there will be a new reading challenge in place after half term. We are now setting children the challenge of reading at home for at least 25 days during the next half term. This means if the children miss a day they do not return to zero to try again. Hopefully this will see more of our children reading regularly at home enjoying a wide range of books. Maybe a great place to start will be some of the books on the World Book Day list.

Parking Parking is once again causing problems for children,

parents and staff. The number of cars parking out-

side the school on William Street has increased to a

dangerous level again. Staff members arriving back

to school or who have to leave before the end of

the day are finding it difficult to access the car park

due to the number of parked cars by the gates and

sometimes blocking the school exit. The parked

cars make it very difficult for our walking families

when they leave or enter school as well as making it

difficult for other drivers to see any pedestrians.

We need everybody’s help to reduce the number of

parked vehicles outside of the school at the busy

times during the day.

SEN Working Party The next meeting of our SEN working party is taking place

on 14th March at 9am. This is your chance to ask any

questions you may have about our SEN provision and help

us ensure that we are providing the very best education for

your children. Refreshments will be available so please

come along.

Wanted Our foundation stage are in need of

spare clothes in case of accidents in

school. If you have any unwanted

underwear, skirts, shorts, trousers or

socks that you could donate which

would be suitable for our foundation

stage children they would be greatly

received. Could we ask that all

borrowed clothes are returned to

school so they can be used again.