Parents Open Afternoon

We are excited to welcome you into the school to share a reading book with your child. This could include a recipe book, TV magazine, a favourite book from your own childhood or any other form of reading material, providing it’s appropriate for the age of your child. If you don’t have a reading book to bring in, we have a large library in school from which you can select a book of choice.

We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday 22 October 2024 at 2.30pm. Once you have finished reading with your child/children you are welcome to take them home with you.

Parents meeting

Parent teacher meetings will take place from the week beginning Monday 11^th November 2024.  The meetings will be with your child’s class teacher in school from 1.30pm.  Please enter through the main school office area where you will be shown into the hall. Each teacher will hold their meetings on a specific day, please see below:

Monday 11 November 2024 –Giraffe (Class 4) – Mrs Coade

Tuesday 12 November 2024 – Penguin (Class 2) – Ms English

Wednesday 13 November 2024 – Otter (Class 3) – Mr Price

Thursday 14 November 2024 – Squirrel (Class 1) – Mrs Silverton

To book a meeting with your child’s class teacher please see Mrs Hussein in the office.  Each meeting will take approximately 10 minutes.  If you need more time, please make an additional appointment to speak to your child’s teacher one afternoon at the end of a school day.  Please try to arrive on time for your meeting so that the afternoons run smoothly and on time.

After School Sports Clubs

Please see the clubs below and the year groups they are available to:

Monday – Multi-Sports open to years 1 - 6

Tuesday – Gymnastics open to years 1 – 6

Wednesday – Football open to years 3 – 6

Thursday – Athletics open to years 1 - 6

 Friday – Dance open to years 1 – 6

All sports clubs finish at 4.15pm and all children must be collected by an adult.

Term 1

Tuesday 22/10/2024- Parents Open Afternoon- Reading- 2:30pm

Wednesday 23/10/2024 – Last Day of Term 1 - Day for Change

Thursday 24/10/2024 – Teacher Training – School closed to pupils

Friday 25/10/2024 – Teacher Training – School closed to pupils

Term 2

Monday 04/11/2024 – First Day of Term 2

Thursday 07/11/2024- New Admission Open Day- 10:00-11:00 and 13:30-14:30

Monday 11/11/2024- Class 4 Giraffe Parents meeting

Tuesday 12/12/2024- Class 2 Penguin Parents meeting

Wednesday 13/12/2024- Class 3 Otter Parents meeting

Thursday 14/ 11/2024- Class 1 Squirrel Parents meeting

Tuesday 26/ 11/2024- Year 6 Mini Cadets Workshop Award Ceremony

Wednesday 11 /12/2024- Nativity for Parents- 14:00-15:15

Thursday 12/12/2024- Nativity for Parents- 14:00-15:15

Friday 13/12/2024- Nativity for Alexandra Residential Home- 14:00-15:15

Wednesday 18/12/2024- Christmas Dinner and Christmas Jumper Day

Thursday 19/12/2024- Christmas Class Party

Friday 20/12/2024- Last day of Term – Day for Change

Term 3

Monday 06/01/2025 – First Day of Term 3

Celebration Assembly

Dominik for always being such a wonderful friend and good role model in Squirrel Class.

Sienna for an amazing first term at school. Sienna has settled so well and made huge progress.

Well done. We are all so proud!

Emilie for improved effort and participation when writing.

Yozlem for using phonics knowledge and resources to support her writing.

Donya for working with enthusiasm in all areas of her learning.

Tate for working with a very positive attitude towards his learning.

Jet for working really hard with his times tables and for perseverance with his maths learning.

Chelsea for working with enthusiasm and purpose across all areas of the curriculum.

School Uniform

Please ensure that all children return to school in the correct school uniform.

The school uniform is as follows:

Black/Grey Trousers/Shorts/Skirt/Dresses

Blue/Red/Marron/Green Polo T-shirt

Blue/Red/Marron/Green logoed Jumper/Hoodie/Cardigan

Black/Grey Socks/Tights

Black Shoes (no heels, boots or trainers)

These items can be purchased from any retailer or through The Schoolwear Centre. 

You can order the uniform through ‘The Schoolwear Centre’ by calling them on 01843 293555 or visiting their website www.schoolwearcentre.net.

A Polite Reminder

Please can you ensure that if your child brings a water bottle into school, that it contains only water to be sipped throughout the day.  Of course, children may bring in juice/squash to have at lunchtime to have with their lunch.

Breakfast Club

We shall be operating our breakfast club as normal from 7:45-8:45 am.  We would like to remind parents to book their child’s place the day before.  We have had a number of children arrive at the club without notice. 

We also ask that you accompany your child/ren to the breakfast club entrance.

Reading Incentive

The children continue to engage in our new reading incentive to encourage reading for pleasure, both at home and in school.  Please see our Facebook page for photographs of children selecting their gifts. We should be grateful if you could remind children of the incentive and encourage them to read for a period of time in the evening and weekends.  Books read at home will need your signature please.  Once your child returns to school, they will be given a raffle ticket for each book they have read which will be posted in the class raffle box.

School Dinners

Please activate your parent pay account on www.parentpay.com .

All meals have to be ordered before 8am every morning, otherwise your child will not receive dinner. Please contact the office if you haven’t received the activation code.

Driving onto the School Site

Under our safeguarding rules, we have a duty to control the public access to our site.

Under our risk assessment, we have a duty to control the movement of vehicles on our site.

For insurance purposes, we are required to limit vehicular access to staff, essential visitors and – under certain circumstances - blue badge holders. Access to the school is clearly signposted to notify all non-essential visitors that they must not drive on site.

Essential visitors are required to make prior arrangements with the school.

Any parent/guardian driving their vehicle on to our secure site, without prior agreement, is trespassing, and their insurance will be invalid.  Knowingly ignoring our rules is therefore putting staff and pupils at risk. Should an accident occur, the driver will not be covered by their insurance.

Finally, the school gates and car park are checked periodically by our caretaker. Anyone ignoring our rules, could find themselves delayed for some time and inconvenienced by not being able to leave the site.

We would therefore appreciate your cooperation in keeping our staff and pupils safe whilst they are at school.

Bikes and Scooters on the school site

Could we ask that children who ride their bikes or scooters into school, push them up to the bike rack once they are on the school grounds and push them back down to the pedestrian gate after school.  We have had a couple of instances whereby younger children have nearly been hit by children riding their bikes and scooters down the hill.

Home packed lunch

 

Just a polite reminder that no sweets, chocolate bars or fizzy drinks are permitted in children’s packed lunches.

If your child has a yoghurt in their packed lunch, please remember to pack a spoon in there too.

Wellington Boots

Please can you ensure that all children have a pair of wellington boots in school with them.  Every class will attend the Woodland Area for a weekly planned lesson and it can be muddy depending on the weather.

Free School Meals

If you have access to the internet and would like to apply online for Free School Meals, please use the following website:

http://www.kent.gov.uk/education-and-children/schools/free-school-meals .

Late arrival at school

When your child arrives late at school, he/she misses the teacher's instructions, their morning task and possibly the introduction to the mathematics lesson. Your child may also feel embarrassed at having to enter the classroom late. School begins at 09.00am.  Please help your child to be punctual.

School opening hours                   School Office opening hours

08.45am - 3.15pm                            08.30-12.30 and 13.00-15.30