Newsletter For Friday 9th May 2025
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Newsletter for Friday 09th May 2025
Year 6 SATs
Our year 6 pupils have been working exceptionally hard, revising for SATs tests which take place from next Monday 12th May until Thursday 15th May. We wish them all the best! The children will be well supported by staff to ensure that they are mentally well prepared for each day. Please help us by ensuring that your year 6 child has plenty of sleep each night. We have offered all year 6 pupils’ free breakfast at our club, starting from 7.45am. This has historically been very popular as staff join the children and boost morale, and the children feel a real sense of community.
VE Day 80th Anniversary
Today Pupils and parents came together for a delightful celebration marking the 80th anniversary of VE Day. The event was filled with joy as families shared delicious party food, played traditional 1940s games, and enjoyed spending quality time together.
We would like to extend a big thank you to everyone who kindly donated food for the celebration, your generosity made the day even more special!
After School Sports Clubs
If you would like your child to attend an after-school sports club, please contact the school office. We can only, safely, accommodate 15 pupils per club, so the places will be issued on a first come, first serve basis. Reception children are unable to attend. 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 – Football boots and shin pads must be worn
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.
Celebration Assembly
Squirrel Class for being amazing on our school trip to Dover Castle! Your behaviour, curiosity and enthusiasm made for a wonderful day!
Franek for fantastic recognition of Castle features on our trip to Dover Castle.
Marnie for being inquisitive and asking great questions on our trip to Dover Castle.
Rory for working with purpose whilst writing his recount of the Fort Bourgogne visit, taking care to include all the details.
Donya for working with purpose with her recount of Fort Burgoyne taking care of her spellings.
James for perseverance whilst writing his recount of the class visit to Fort Burgoyne, endeavouring to include all the vital components for good piece of writing.
Grace for fantastic progress in writing this term. For using a range of punctuation and sentence structures. Always working with purpose.
Gavin for participation in all lessons this week- especially the year 6 practice sessions.
Term 5
Monday 12/05/2025-Thursday 15/05/2025- SAT exam week
Thursday 15/05/2025- 15:15-17:15- Movie night- Whole school
Friday 16/05/2025- Class 2 Exhibition. Information to follow
Thursday 22/05/2025- Class 1 Exhibition. Information to follow
Monday 26/05/2025-Friday 30/05/2025- Half term
Monday 02/06/2025- Staff development day- No children in school
Term 6
Tuesday 03/06/2025- First day of term 6.
Thursday 05/06/2025- Wingham Wild Life Park trip. Whole school-Information to follow.
Thursday 12 /06/2025- 10/07/2024- Class 4 swimming at Dover Leisure Centre
Wednesday 18/06/2025- Sports Day- All day- Information to follow
Wednesday 09/07/2025- 14:00-15:30 and 18:00-19:30- Year 6 Play
Friday 18/07/2025- Leavers BBQ
Monday 21/07/2025- 13:00-15:30- Summer Fayre. Information to follow.
Tuesday 22/07/2025- 09:30-10:30- Leavers Assembly. Information to follow.
Wednesday 23/07/2025- Start of summer holiday.
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