Nativity

A huge thank you to all our young children who performed brilliantly and with great confidence in this year's Nativity. We would also would like to thank all parents for coming into school to support the children and for providing beautiful costumes for them to wear. This afternoon, some residents from Alexander care home visited the school to watch the final performance. They thoroughly enjoyed the play and were so grateful to have been invited into school. They said that it was truly a real treat for them. Please look out on our Facebook page for some photographs!

Woodland Christmas Campfire

Christmas campfire sessions will take place across the day on Monday 16^th December 2024. Although rain is not forecast, please would you ensure that your child has appropriate clothing. They will need wellington boats, rain mac in order to take part in this treat.

Thank you

Thank you so much to those of you who donated gifts for our Tombola stall.
We look forward to seeing you at our Christmas Bazaar. Please see below for key dates leading up to the end of the term.

After School Sports Clubs

The sports clubs finish, for the year, on Friday 13 December 2024.  They will restart on Monday 13 January 2025, more information to follow.

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 2

Monday 16/12/2024- Christmas Camp Fire-all classes

Tuesday 17/12/2024- Parent Christmas Workshop- 13:30-15:15

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

Thursday 19/12/2024- Christmas Class Party

Friday 20/12/2024- Christmas Bazar 13.00-15:00- Last day of Term – Day for Change

Term 3

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

Celebration Assembly

Jayden for having an amazing week and making great progress in all areas of his learning.

All of the Penguin class for working so hard on our Nativity and performing fantastically.

Elliah-Mai for working with dedication on all her learning and putting so much enthusiasm into our Christmas songs.

Melisa for being an enthusiastic learner throughout all areas of the curriculum.

Sophia for participation and commitment to our Christmas concert practice.

Poppy R for her positive attitude, commitment and confidence whilst practicing for our Christmas concert.

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