It is hard to believe September has almost gone, and that we now all need to dig out those shorts for the first weekend of October. Our attendance figures remain impressively high, and are only being damaged by those people who still creep in a few minutes late. Please remember school starts at 8.55 – children should be here before this time.
Let’s share some positives though. Attendance for the first two weeks was well above the national average, and the best class last week, Mr Davies’ class, recorded 99.6% attendance, which is staggering. I am really keen that we start to break the national average for longer periods, so let’s all keep it up. Our prize winners wore their gold, silver and bronze medal – quite rightly – with pride last week at their parties, and a great time was had by all.
Uniform remains impressively smart, and key stage 1 look outstanding in their new PE kits. I would like to raise two small issues: first, a lot of toys seem to be coming into school; could they stay at home please? Second, there is a lot of confusion arising over lunches as children don’t arrive with their packed lunch boxes; can we make sure they arrive with children before 8.55 please?
Apologies – I know I didn’t put a return slip on the year 5 / 6 camp letter. Don’t worry about the slip, please just bring your deposit to Miss Lee in reception and ensure you hand it over personally, making sure it gets recorded.
Message for parents and carers of our new reception children: the Evening Post will be taking photos of our new friends for the special supplement about starting school next Monday at 10.00. Best uniforms please! If you do not wish for your child to be included, please see the class teachers.
Finally, staff at the school will be running the Speakeasy course at school next term. For full details see the reverse of this letter.
I am so glad that this second newsletter records a positive start to the school year. Let’s keep it going everyone.
Zak Willis