LOYALTY CARDS Due to our recent inspection clashing with Open Evening, some parents did not get the chance to collect their loyalty card stamp. Please bring you card

with you after half term and your class teacher will give you a stamp. You may approach your child’s class teacher before or after school– they will have their

stamp to hand! You will be able to do this Monday 31st October—Friday 4th November.

Head teacher’s awards For READING, TEACHER’S CHOICE & FANTASTIC BEHAVIOUR

Have a happy half term

See you on Monday

October 31st .

Festival of Music This week our school choir attended a festival of music at ST Nicholas church in Guisborough. They joined five other schools to create an amazing sound. Truly the voices of angels were heard. Lots of our families came along to listen to the music and we are sure they were very impressed. It sounded as if the applause would never end when we finished singing. Thank you for your kind support and we look forward to our next choir event.

FS1

Mrs Douglas

Afie Keeler Grace Leighton

FS2

Mrs Bateman Mrs Bonas Miss English

Amelia Lynch Lucy Jones Esme Burgess Y1 Mrs Chapman Miss Solomon Mrs Duck

Isaac Codling Hollie Ramsay Olly Moor

Y2 Mrs Sayer Miss Bentley Mr Booth

Faith Jackson Finlay Turner Theo Briggs

Y3 Mrs Cox Mr Asquith Mrs Heaney

Ella Hodgson Kaden Greenaway Lilly Bartram

Y4 Mr Woolf Miss Evans Mr Bearpark

Ellis Holmes Ebony-May Bowers Hayden Grey

Y5 Mrs Norris Mr Railton Mr Campbell

Kyle Barnes Connie Peacock Millie Peacock

Y6 Mrs Allington Miss Shields Mrs Rowe

Morgan Rhodes Oliver Clarke Mason Day

Safeguarding Slot We only release children at 3pm to contacts listed on the SIMs form that you register with at the office. On occasion, we are told by a friend or relative that they will be taking a child home instead. We are happy to permit this but please can we remind you that you must inform the class teacher or the office beforehand. After half term, class teachers will have a form to register any changes, alternatively you can drop in at the office.

Thankyou for helping to keep our children safe.

A big thankyou to Y3 children and staff for their entertaining & informative

class assemblies.

WELL DONE!

Well done to this week’s winners!

East Cleveland Hockey Competition On Tuesday our Y5/6 hockey team were victorious in a 24 team com-petition at Thornaby Academy. They beat off challenges from White-cliff and St Peter’s in the semis and final with a great team perfor-mance. Thanks to Calum Caroll for his final-winning penalty but well done and well played to all the team: Reuben, Huckle, Amber Winspear, Erin Lax Harrison Booth, Jack Shaw, Thomas Bean, Calum Carroll, Sam Etherington, Lewie Wnek and Rhys

Wright. We wish them luck as they represent all East Cleveland schools in the County Finals next term.

Many of our children disco’d the night away yesterday. Thankyou for your support. We are very aware that for the first time, we had some sell out sessions and some disappointed children. Please be reassured that we will reconsider the age group / year group sessions next time.

FAMILY SUPPORT WORKER Please look out for Mrs Joy Smith who joins us on October 31st. She will be available to support you with any family concerns and will be setting up a walking bus on Monday November 7th from Sainsbury’s each morning from 8.25. TRANSPORTER

A new year group, a new side of school but our Y3 children have made a promising start to KS2. It’s been a busy one especially with our class assemblies on the Stone Age. We’ve done everything from building Dino a shelter, to drawing on walls and under tables like cavemen. We can’t wait to round off our topic with a fossil hunt after half term!

Our Year 4 children had an amazing trip to Alnwick castle this week to conclude our topic on ‘Magic and Mysteries’. We made potions and rode on broomsticks just like Harry, Hermione and Ron!

Year 6 have definitely started this year with umphhh! From ordering and operating with fractions to penning heartfelt letters from the trenches… Year 6 have it all going on! We are incredibly impressed at how our children have settled into Year 6 and the maturity they are already exhibiting. We are very much looking forward to visiting Beamish in November and delving into the history of World War II.

Year 5 are all “spaced out! ” As well as the visiting Planetarium (many thanks to all those who donated), we have been learning about the distance between the planets, their orbits and sizes. This has helped us to write our own Non-Chronological reports. ATTENDANCE

Our target for the year is 97%+

Well done to Blue 2, Blue 3, Yellow 2,

Yellow 3 & Purple 3 achieving 100%

Whole School Attendance

97.5%

What’s for Lunch Next Week?

Next Week At A Glance

Monday Breakfast club 8am £1.20, no need to book SCSS Football Fun Centre Rec-Y4 3 - 4.15 SCSS Football Training Y5-Y6 3 – 4.15

Tuesday Breakfast club 8am £1.20, no need to book Crochet Club Y6 3 - 4 Y4 Parent meeting 3.10 Y5 residential meeting

Wednesday Breakfast club 8am £1.20, no need to book 442 Multisports Rec- Y2 3 - 4.15 FILM CLUB: TBC

Thursday Breakfast club 8am £1.20, no need to book 442 Multisports Y3-Y6 3 - 4.15

Friday Breakfast club 8am £1.20, no need to book Choir 8am Parent Drop In 1.30 – 2.30 Running club 3 – 4.10 SCSS Football Training Y3-Y4 3 - 4.15 SCSS Dance Club Rec-Y6 3 - 4.15

Our children have settled beautifully into FS1. This half term we have talked about

our homes and our families. We have also enjoyed learning the names of our basic

shapes and some of our children have even started to describe them too! Well

done nursery!

Year 2 continue to dazzle us with their amazing literacy, numeracy and reading skills. This term has seen us learn some fascinating facts about minibeasts and show off what amazing performers we are in our Harvest Musical Extravaganza! We can’t wait for Autumn 2.

We visited lots of shops along Skelton High Street. We saw

slithery snakes, a bearded dragon and a hairy rabbit in the pet shop. We bought bread and jam and had jam on toast when

we returned to school.

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Halloween Menu

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Guy Fawkes Menu

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Vote for us!

We have been very fortunate to have been shortlisted for a grant of up to £5,000. However, it now falls down to the public vote. The more votes we get, the more money we receive. Please, please, please can you ask everybody you know; friends, family, colleagues to spare a few minutes visiting the website below and voting for Skelton Primary School. We would love to be able to provide every single child with the opportunity to go on an amazing FREE festive trip! The voting window opens at 9am on Saturday 22nd October and closes at 5pm on Monday 7th November

www.teessidecharity.org.uk/

School Photographs The deadline for ordering school photographs is Friday 4th November. Mrs Mckenzie and Mrs Bentley would like to thank Aimee Brewster, Nicole Cox, Ella Jackson, Ethan Stone, Grace Turner and Thomas Wright for all their help on photograph day!