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Dear Parents
We are delighted to welcome all our children back after the summer holidays.
I do hope everyone had an enjoyable and relaxing break.
We extend a particularly warm welcome to the children and parents who are new to Huish.
We are pleased that Miss Seward has joined us as the teacher of Class 7 and that Mr Makepeace,
Mrs Evans, Mrs Clark and Mrs Reeves have joined our team of class assistants and lunchtime
supervisors. We wish them every success and happiness in their new roles.
The school has been a busy place during the holidays. Not only have we had our usual painting
and maintenance work, we have redecorated and refurbished the Elliott buildings for this year’s
Year 3. We have also re-carpeted Classes 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Everywhere looks very spick and
span! My particular thanks to Tony Norris and Manor Builders for all their hard work. Also
thanks to Mr Makepeace for putting up our new shed to house the Infant play equipment.
This term is, as always, a busy one with plans for a ‘Problem Solving’ Challenge Week during
October. We look forward to having a happy and successful year.
Yours sincerely
V E CAMPBELL
Headteacher
Police Clearance - Criminal Records Bureau
You will all have read about the chaos of the police clearance forms
and the tremendous backlog that is still there. However, I would emphasise
that any parent who wishes to be a voluntary helper, either helping
in school, accompanying trips, taking children to sporting events,
will need Police Clearance. We still have the forms at school and
I do urge you to complete one if you would like to help us. To those
of you who have already completed one, a big thank you. The clearance
forms are slowly arriving back in school.Please Note the school will
be closed on Friday 20 September for a Teachers’ Training Day on Information
Technology.
Annual Charity Cake Sale
Following the House Captains’ Elections on 27 September, the School
Houses will be organising this year’s charity fund-raising Cake Sales.
The proceeds from the sales this year will be decided by the children,
but two possible ideas are The Children’s Hospice or supporting the
elderly. We would be most grateful if you can support the children’s
efforts by providing a few small cakes for your child (classes 5 to
14 only) to donate to the cake sale on the DAY allocated to his/her
House. ALL children in the school will have an opportunity to buy
cakes at 20p each on the day of the sales. Please send the money to
school on the day of each cake sale in a named envelope to your child’s
class teacher.
The day allocated to each House is as follows :-
CAXTON Tuesday 1 October
NEWTON Tuesday 8 October
SHAKESPEARE Tuesday 15 October
SCOTT Tuesday 22 October
Meet the Teacher Evening - Classes 3 - 14
On Thursday 19 September we are holding our Parent/Teacher Evening
following the same format as last year. The aim of the evening is
to run through the curriculum for each class for the Autumn Term and
the pattern of lessons and homework throughout the week. There will
also be opportunities after the talk by the teachers for you to share
any concerns about how your child is settling into their new class.
Detailed discussions of your child’s progress will take place in the
Spring Term’s parent consultations. The teachers will be in their
year group classrooms and will give a short talk to all parents starting
at 7.00 pm and another at 7.30 pm We have given two slots for the
talk to enable parents to visit other classes if they have more than
one child in the school. We will also give out our curriculum sheets
at these meetings. If you have more than one child, please remember
to collect any additional curriculum sheets from the other classes.
As this is mainly an ‘information giving’ evening, we hope to avoid
any queues for appointments. Mrs McGrouther (SENCO) will be very pleased
to see any parent whose child is on the special needs register and
will be available throughout the evening in her room. We will hold
our meetings with parents of Reception children in November, when
the children have had more time to settle in.
New School Website
We are pleased to announce the arrival of our new school website.
Huge thanks go to Luke Burgess who has spent many an hour constructing
the site for us. Without his expertise and endless patience the site
would not have been possible. There are still elements of the site
that need further development and updating, but this will be completed
over the next few months. Watch this space! The site offers parents
a range of information including :-
· School Prospectus
· Huish Headlines
· School Events (including holiday dates)
· Activities Gallery
· Vacancies at the School
To ensure safe use of this website can we re-assure parents that photographs
of individual children and names of children will not be used. We
hope you will find the website useful. Happy surfing! Our address
is www.huish.somerset.sch.uk
Dates for the Term
| September |
19 |
Parents’ Meeting 7.00 pm and 7.30 pm (to finish at 8.00 pm) |
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20 |
INSET Day - School Closed |
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27 |
House Election Day |
| October |
01 |
Cake Sale (Caxton) |
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08 |
Cake Sale (Newton) |
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15 |
Cake Sale (Shakespeare) |
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22 |
Cake Sale (Scott) |
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21 |
Problem Solving Theme Week |
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17 |
Harvest Festival Assembly |
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26 - 3 Nov |
HALF TERM HOLIDAY |
| November |
28 |
PTFA Craft Fair |
| December |
07 |
PTFA Magic Show |
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20 |
LAST DAY OF TERM |
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Off-Site Activities
During the year your child will probably take part in activities
that take place away from school as part of his/her class work.
For trips away from our immediate locality that involve the use
of transport, we will seek your permission on each occasion. However,
there may be times when it is appropriate to take your child out
for local trips, eg. a walk to Nine Springs. In these instances
it may not be practical to seek written permission and, therefore,
I would be grateful if you would kindly complete the slip below
and return it to your child’s class teacher confirming your permission
to take your child out of school on these occasions.
……………………………………………………………………………….
Off-Site Activities
Child’s Name : …………………………………………….. Class : ………
I am willing for my child to take part in supervised activities that take place outside school, but within the general locality.
Signed : …………………………………………………….. Date : ………..
Parent/Guardian
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