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| January 2003 |
Dear Parents
Happy New Year! Another year with lots to look forward to in school. Year 5 will be
visiting Mill-on-the-Brue at the end of the month for their residential activity week.
We do hope it will be warmer by then!
Our choir will be taking part in the South Somerset Music Spectacular - we will give
you more information later this term about dates and times. We will also be holding
our Parent/Teacher evenings this term and our information sessions for parents of children
in Year 2 and Year 6 about the national tests they will be doing in the summer. As usual,
a busy time ahead of us.
Yours sincerely
V E CAMPBELL
Headteacher
Reminders
- Please do not send children to school before 8:40 am. As you are aware, they are
not supervised before that time.
- A number of children are also consistently arriving late. Children are registered
at 8:50 am and some are missing the start of their first lesson which upsets them
and disrupts the rest of the class.
- PLEASE do not bring cars onto the school site. It endangers both your child and
others in the school. There are parking facilities in the public car park to enable
you to drop children in the morning and collect them in the afternoon (free of charge
if you display the green card available from the school office).
Staffing
We are delighted to welcome Mrs Bland to our school. She is working with Class 5 to cover
Miss Stott's maternity leave. We also welcome back Mrs Patterson to Class 6 on Monday
20 January. I would like to thank Mrs Redman and Mrs Hockley who I know have enjoyed working
with the children since November.
Phab - Integrating people with and without physical disabilities
As you may remember one of our parents, Miss Michelle Brown, ran a stall at our PTFA Craft
Fair to raise funds for the charity Phab. She has recently written to me to say she was
delighted to be able to donate £68. She is also running in the London Marathon to
help this worthwhile cause. She may approach you to see if you will sponsor her. I know
we all wish her every success and will make every effort to support her.
Thank You
Thank you for all the compliments we received about our Infant Nativity Play and our Carol
Concert at St John's. They were beautiful occasions and reflected the spirit of Christmas
so well. We have been able to donate because of your generosity £199 to Children
in Need and £183 to Help the Aged.
Update of Information
Could we please remind parents that it is important that we are kept up to date with essential
information. If you have changed address or telephone numbers (this happens more frequently
with mobile phones,) please be sure to let the school office have that information. This
is particularly important when a child is ill and we need to contact you. Also can you
please let us know if your child requires any particular medication, e.g. an Epi-pen for
a nut allergy or an Asthma inhaler.
Our School Nurse has asked us to include her number should you wish to contact her
about any concerns or advice :
Carrie Hartley, Preston Road Clinic - 423981
INSET Days
As you will remember, the school will be closed on:
- Friday 17 January for teacher training on ICT
- Friday 21 February for teacher training on Citizenship
Emergency Procedures - Extreme Weather
With the onset of the colder weather, we would like to remind you of our emergency contact
numbers in the unlikely event of school closure. The school office will be manned from
8:00 am to 10:00 am and from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm on 474984. Emergency information will
also be given on local radio broadcasts on Orchard FM (102.6 FM); Radio Bristol (95.5
FM) and Somerset Sound (1323 MW).
Dates for your Diaries
| January |
17 |
School Closed - Teacher Training Day - ICT |
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20 |
Meeting for Year 6 parents re National Tests - 7:00 pm |
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27-31 |
Mill-on-the-Brue residential trip - Class 12 |
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(Meeting for Year 2 parents on National tests - date to be confirmed.) |
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| February |
3-7 |
Mill-on-the-Brue residential trip - Class 11 |
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13 |
Year 5 and Year 6 PTFA Disco - 7 pm to 9 pm |
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17/18/19 |
Parent/Teacher Consultation Meetings |
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21 |
School Closed - Teacher Training Day - Citizenship |
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24-28 |
Half-Term holiday |
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| April |
7 |
Yeovil Library - Display of Art |
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12 |
End of Term |
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14-25 |
Easter Holiday |
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28 |
Start of Summer Term |
Curriculum Information for the Spring Term 2003
We enclose for you this term's Curriculum Information for each year group. We do hope
you will find it useful and informative.
Music Tuition
We have spaces in the following Somerset Music Tuition sessions:
- Brass
- Flute
- Drums
- Singing
- Violin (Years 3,4,5)
Tuition fees are as follows:
Individual 15 minute lesson - £69.00 per term
Individual 20 minute lesson - £90.25 per term
Shared (2) 20 minute lesson - £52.75 per term
Group (3) 30 minute lesson - £65.25 per term
Group (4) 30 minute lesson - £50.25 per term
If you are interested in discussing this with tutors of those areas of music, please
complete the attached form and return it to the school office.
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