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Another week has flown by with lots of fun and active learning. The Reception classes had a fabulous pirate day, the Year 4's have been learning alongside a school in Ethiopia (via Zoom) and Year 6 have 'enjoyed' their first mock SATs, to name but some of the activities.  

The weather was pretty wet and cold this week and although it is meant to change again next week, it's worth starting to send in coats and jumpers, please. 

As a school, you might be aware that we have a slipper policy for wet weather and encourage all children, and staff, to either pop on slippers or indoor shoes during the muddy winter months. While this is optional all year round, I feel like it won't be long before we move into slippers or socks!

We encourage the use of the school field all year round as long as welly boots are put on. As these are kept in school for forest school, it's easy to access them as needed.

Please be reminded to label everything that comes into school so that we can always return it if it goes missing. Thank you. Please also take up the opportunity to come and help yourself to the pre-loved uniform at any time. This is all stored in boxes in the Admin area.

School lunches and Census Day

We are trying hard to increase the number of children that take up the offer of school lunches across school. Our drive comes from the fact that the lunches are delicious, there are multiple options on offer, they don't cost you a penny for children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2, and you don't have to take any time making them! In KS2, there is a £2.50 cost for the lunch. 

Although many of you have signed up for Fresh Start lunches, many of you still send in packed lunches. As one of the lunchtime offers is the deli bar i.e., a choice of bread, rolls, wraps, baguette with cheese, tuna, ham, or egg, and then full access to the salad bar and a dessert, it replicates pretty much what most of you put in lunch boxes. 

What you might not know is that on school census days, the next one is Thursday 5th October, the take-up of universal free school meals, is a major factor in the funding that we receive in the following school year.

We obviously want to receive as much money as we can possibly get to feed back into supporting your children's learning. When your child brings a packed lunch on census day (in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2), we miss out on vital funds for the year ahead. Not only this, we think your child is missing out on a great free meal option. 

If your child was going to have a packed lunch on this day, please consider having a meal from Fresh Start. There are two ways to do this.

1. Set up an account with Fresh Start – we will be sending you the login details if you have not signed up previously. This is the preferred option.

2. If you forget or find this more difficult, your child will be added on to the packed lunch option.

Thank you very much for supporting us if you can. 

Does anyone have contact with a vending machine company? We would like to have one in school and stock it with books as an incentive for reading. Thank you for all and any possible contacts.