Newsletter For Friday 13 June 2025
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Newsletter for Friday 13th June 2025
Sports Day
Whole School Sports Day on Wednesday 18 June 2025.
We are looking forward to our Sports Day this year – another opportunity for the community to get together. The pupils have chosen all our sports day events and selected the theme of our team names- Spanish speaking countries!
Our school gates will open at 9.45am so that you can select your picnic space around the edge of our field. Events will begin at 10:00 and at 10:40 the children will have a short comfort break. They will then resume from 11:00 and finish the carousel events at 11:40. At this point we will ring a bell, which will signal all children to line up with their class teacher. We will take the children in to school to use the toilet and wash their hands before joining you for the picnic. The picnic will run from 12:00 until 12:40. During this time, and across the whole day, we would like to remind all visitors that smoking and drinking alcohol is not permitted on the school grounds.
At 12:40 we will ring the bell which will again signal all children to join their class teacher. We will take them inside to carry out afternoon registration. The class running races will begin at 1:00pm and finish with mums’ and dads’ running races – the children always look forward to this part of the day!
Please can all pupils come to school wearing their PE kit. If they are missing a school PE t-shirt, then they can wear their normal school t-shirt instead.
As the weather may be hot, please can you apply plenty of sun cream to your child/children before school and send them in with a sun hat. If you are not able to attend sports day, please ensure that they have sun cream that they can apply throughout the day. We would like your support in reminding your child not to share their sun cream with anyone else.
Please bring some pennies with you. Cold drinks, tea and coffee, lollies and bags of sweets will be sold if you wish to purchase some.
Once the winners of the events have been announced, all children will return to their classes to be dismissed in the normal way. If the Sports Day finishes early and you would like to take your child, please wait for them outside their classrooms as normal. There will be no afterschool clubs on this day.
Finally, an important housekeeping message: the main school will be closed to parents for Safeguarding. The guest toilet facilities in the main entrance (School Foyer) will be available to accommodate all parents.
For additional safeguarding purposes, please ensure that all younger siblings are with an adult at all times during the day and are not left unattended. The playground equipment will be out of bounds also for additional safety.
We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday to cheer on all the children in school.
After School Sports Clubs
After school club will continue as follows :
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 Assemblies
6th June 2025 Certificates
Thalia for increased engagement and confidence in PE.
Bettie for outstanding behaviour and participation during our trip!
Esmae for actively participating in our phonics sessions.
Ajay for overcoming his fear of birds on our school trip and becoming so brave.
Tommy for being so kind all day on our school trip.
Riley for engagement during our school trip and for demonstrating kindness towards other.
Millie for asking good questions and for showing ideas during our school trip.
13th June 2025 Certificates
Sienna for excellent learning this week, including saying new words and engaging with lots of activities.
Dylan for becoming more independent with writing.
Marnie for fantastic effort with all learning this week.
Elodie for an excellent written explanation in science.
Melisa for working so hard to learn her tables using a variety of strategies.
Riley for commitment, confidence and resilience during play practices.
Gavin for commitment, confidence and resilience during play practices.
Dates for your Diary
Term 6
Thursday 12 /06/2025- 10/07/2024- Class 4 swimming at Dover Leisure Centre
Wednesday 18/06/2025- Sports Day- All day-
Wednesday 25/06/2025-13:30-14:30 Stay and Play- New admissions + parents
Wednesday 02/07/2025- 13:30-14:30 New Admissions in alone
Wednesday 09/07/2025- 13:30-14:30 New Admissions in alone
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- 13:30-15:30- 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