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East Brent Church of Newsletter |
Newsletter Number 8 Wednesday, 13th
December 2006
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Mrs Kelly is still
not well enough to return to school and so we are looking to appoint an extra
teacher for the spring term to support Koalas class. Mr Chapman will be
teaching Koalas class until the end of term and Mrs
Young is able to begin the spring term until the appointment is made.
The new Parent Governor is Mr
I Beretvas, who was elected unapposed.
Thank you Mr Beretvas.
Christmas Celebration: Friday 15th December in St.
Marys Church 6 pm start. Please could
children be in their classrooms by 5.30 pm in school uniform unless they have
been told otherwise. We are not using the
Lady Chapel this year, we will use the central part of
the church. There will be a retiring
collection that will be split between The Childrens
Society and Promise to
Christmas Parties: Monday 18th December We will
have a buffet lunch followed by games and dancing. In order to spread out the range of food
please can we suggest that the following foods be brought in:-
Reception Crisps
or biscuits
Year 1 Sausages,
sausage rolls or cheese and pineapple
Year 2 Sandwiches
or filled rolls
Year 3 Cakes
Year 4 Bottles
of squash, lemonade or fresh fruit
This list is just a guide and all contributions
will be welcome. Children will not need
a packed lunch that day. Children are
welcome to wear play clothes on party day, but nothing too special!
Pantomime: Tuesday 19th December The whole
school will be attending the 10 am performance at The Playhouse, Weston super
Mare. Please ensure that all children
are in school uniform. We will be back
in school for lunch. We will provide
fruit and a drink for the interval. Everyone should be in school by 9 am.
Christmas Fayre:
Thanks again to everyone who helped and supported this enjoyable event.
Assessmeent
Books: Can you please send all assessment books back
to school as soon as possible. Thanks.
Bags 2 School: We had a good response to this and all the
bags were collected late on Thursday night.
We will know how much we are getting after Christmas. Many thanks to all who
contributed.
Santa Letters: Santa has been so busy writing all his
letters, a big thank you to him and his helper!
Our Christmas
Tree in the hall looks fantastic.
It was lovely to have so many new decorations made by the children to
put on the tree this year. The year
group winners were Timothy Lee, Olivia Dolcezza, Matthew Dalton, Harry Maund and
Sam Dalton and the overall winner was Olivia and she switched the lights
on. A big thank you to
Mr & Mrs Tremlett for donating the lovely tree.
Christmas Concert: Thank you to the children who performed &
the parents who supported them with their practising
& watching them. It was amazing to
see the amount of concentration that is needed to read and play music.
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Premier Trees are
once again offering a payment to schools for trees bought from them, please support them if you can.
Kilve Court run a series of extension weekend courses for children in years
3/4. Henry & Tom have recently been
on a maths challenge weekend and will tell you all
about it. Please ask at the office for
more details.
Spring Term: Key Stage 1 are
working on the topic of Space which will include a visit to Techniquest
for a special Space exhibition.
Key Stage 2 will be looking at The Romans and
Timelines.
After school
clubs: There will be no more after school clubs this term.
Sports Club with Miss Claridge will continue on Mondays 3.15 4.15 pm
Music Club with Mrs Bowkett will continue on
Tuesdays 3.15 4.15 pm, this term she will be concentrating on entries for
the Burnham and Highbridge Festival of Arts.
Mrs Plummer will
work with children at lunchtimes on their poetry entries for the festival.
PE Club with Miss Evans
will continue on Wednesdays 3.15 4.15 pm, the cost for this club is £20 for
the whole term. Please complete the slip
below if you wish your child to take part in this club. If there are any Year 3 or 4 children who
would like to join this club please feel free to join this term.
Thursday Club with Miss Claridge is for Years 3 and 4 will continue on Thursdays
3.15 4.15 pm.
Music lessons with Mrs Steady are continuing and will begin again on Thursday
11th January.
Outstanding
monies for photos, pantomime and The Beacon Centre, if there are any
difficulties with payments please let myself or Mrs Currie know.
As we occasionally have the odd case of head lice
can I please remind you that all girls with shoulder length hair should have it
tied back.
Severe Weather In the case of
very severe weather conditions please listen to Orchard FM who will give
regular updates on school closures. For
school information please telephone the following numbers between 8.15am and
8.45 am. Please dont ring before 8.15
as we have to get the correct information to the contacts.
If your child is in Breakfast Club and Year 4 please phone Mrs Holmes on 01934 750592
Year 3 please phone Mrs
Karen Wright on 01278
781996
Year 2 - please phone Mrs. Pearman on
01278 782846
Year 1 please phone Mrs
Dolcezza on 01278 769009
Reception please phone Mrs Lloyd
Jones on 01278 760218
School closes on Wednesday 20th
December at 3.15 pm and opens on Wednesday 3rd January. There will be no church service on the first
day back, we will have our church assembly on
Wednesday 10th January. May I
thank you all for your support this term, and wish you and all your family a
very happy and peaceful Christmas.
Heather Hector (Mrs)
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TO:
I would
like my child
. to take part and enclose £20.00 for the
Spring Term.
Signed:
Date:
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