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East Brent Church of England First School Newsletter |
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Newsletter
Number 3 Wednesday,
4th October 2006 |
Life Caravan: All the children thoroughly enjoyed visiting
the Life Caravan many thanks to the PTA for making this possible.
PTA: The
next PTA meeting is on Thursday 5th October at 8 pm in school, all
parents are welcome. Help is at Hand! Please don’t forget to book with Patrick Barber for
Therapeutic/medical massage and manipulation on Wednesday, 18th
October – please telephone for an appointment on 01278 765909.
Promise to
Africa: The Cheddar
Valley Learning Partnership has been working together for 30 years and in order
to celebrate this all the schools have decided to make a contribution to
improving the lives of children in the Masindi District of Uganda. We are initiating a special project under
the aegis of the charity ‘Link Community Development’ and are being led by a
former student of the Cheddar Valley. In
Uganda relatively modest sums of money can make a huge difference. We are going to launch our part in this
project on Friday 6th October by holding a non uniform
day. We will be holding further fund
raising activities throughout the year.
Non uniform
day: Friday 6th October
please send a donation for the Promise to Africa project.
Parents Meeting: Mrs Bowkett will meet the parents of the new
reception children on Monday 9th October at 3.30 pm, play activities
will be provided for children.
School
Development Forum: A
joint meeting of parents, staff and governors on Wednesday, 11th October at 3.30 pm a crčche will be
provided. The areas for discussion will
be site security; travel plan and the revised aims of the school. We want this to be an opportunity for
everyone to share their thoughts and ideas so that together we can take the
school forward.
Bring and
Buy: The school
council are organising a bring and buy sale for Thursday 12th
October following the Harvest Celebration in church. If you have any toys, books, videos, dvd’s, good quality clothes
please bring it into school next week. If you could make any cakes they would
be much appreciated. The proceeds from
this sale will be given to the Kenyan Choir who will be visiting school next
Friday 13th. They will be
here for the afternoon and sharing a singing time with our music club and the
whole school.
School
lunches: There was enough interest for hot school
lunches to begin talks with Somerset Catering Services. They will be sending us sample menus & I
will distribute these with the next newsletter & inform you of the
financial and domestic arrangements. We
have not committed ourselves to this service yet.
Off site
appointments: If you
need to take your child off site for an appointment please let Mrs Currie in
the office know and there is a signing in & out book.
Medicines: If your child needs to medicine during the
school day, please give it to myself or a member of staff and you will need to
sign the medicine record book.
Tea Towels: The children are
busy drawing pictures of themselves and their teachers to put onto a tea towel,
these will be available in time for Christmas.
Christmas
Cards: Plausible
Publishing are a company that can turn your child’s design into a Christmas
card, they personalise the cards by adding your child’s name and that of the
school on the back. They charge Ł3.50
for a pack of 10 cards of each design, 50p going to school funds. Each child
should have
- 1 -
received a leaflet, if you want to take part the
designs and the money have to be back in school by 20th
October. If you want additional
leaflets please let me know.
School Photos:
These will be taken on Monday, 20th November 2006; preschool children are welcome to come from
8.30 am onwards.
New web site: We have just set up a new web site www.eastbrentfirstschool.co.uk
please feed back your comments on it and anything you would like to contribute
to the site.
Cycle
Awareness: Hopefully this
will be third time lucky!! I have
managed to arrange for Dan Coast from Go Ride cycling organisation to run a set
of four sessions in cycle awareness.
This is for YEAR 4 only and
will take place during the last week of this half term. The sessions will be on Monday, Wednesday
and Thursday 3.30 pm – 5 pm and Friday from 9 – 10.30 am. They are free! You do not have to attend all the sessions if they clash with out
of school events, however where possible Dan would like the children to attend
all the sessions. Bikes and helmets can
be left in school if you would like to bring them in the mornings, if your
child does not have a bike then Dan can provide them. Please complete the slip below if you would like your child to
take part. (I will arrange with Miss
Claridge to excuse the Year 4 children from her clubs that week.)
Heather Hector (Mrs.)
Headteacher
Dates for your diary:
6th
October Non school uniform day to
launch the Cheddar Valley Schools – A Promise to Africa – more details to
follow
SUNDAY
8th October Harvest
Service at St.Mary’s Church 10 o’clock
11th
October School Development Forum – a
meeting of parents, staff and governors to discuss the Travel Plan, School site
security and the aims of the school.
3.30 pm with crčche. to follow.
12th
October School Harvest Celebration, at
St. Mary’s Church 2 pm followed by Bring and Buy stalls in school
13th
October Visit of Kenyan School Choir
21st
October – 5th November Half Term