Class Stars 🙂 Well done to…
Our Early Years… Cicely Rampe
Class 2… Eli Griffiths
Class 3… William Hill-Dymond
Class 4… Belle Bray
This ½ term’s school value is…
We are Kind.
Together with our parents and our church, we provide a caring and nurturing environment where we learn to value and respect others by being valued and respected ourselves.
‘Do to others as you would have them do to you.’ (Luke 6 v31)
Attendance so far…
School average for this week: 98.9%
School average for the term so far: 97.6%
This is really good and such an improvement on last year… and will be, for the children’s learning too!
(Please have a look at our Attendance page on our website for more information.)
Class 1 & 2 spent a lovely lesson with Chloe Inkpen… and Classes 3 & 4 had a great session learning about storytelling with Dave Cousins yesterday. The children were very enthusiastic showing me the signed postcard they had in their classroom, so I hope they were equally excited when they came home and told you all about it.
Bikeability, for our year 5 children, is next week… Please refer to the paperwork that came out last week about ensuring your bike is safe and your helmets fit.
New-to-Class Parents’ Evenings … (for those new to class)
These are being organised to take place over the next couple of weeks (dates on a previous newsletter) and you may have already been in contact with your child’s teacher. We’ll be putting these on after the half term break too, to ensure we can squeeze everyone in.
These are an opportunity for you to talk to your teacher about how your child is settling in with the class, and in their learning. These are for the parents of children who are new to the classrooms, but our school staff are always open to meet and talk if you’d like to.
Forms also went out today for the Year 5/6 Girls’ Football Festival being held at Kingsacre School on the 20th.
Have year group ‘reps’ been finalised yet? We would love to have a point of contact for each of the year groups, to help us spread the word via WhatsApp or messenger groups etc. Do you know who yours is? If you could help… please email Lucy.wright@georgeham-primary.
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Clubs Webpage for more info…
French Club … Sarah Cox is planning an after school French Club after the 1/2 term break – years 1 and 2 on Tuesday, and years 3 to 6 on Thursdays, after school. Please get in touch with Sarah by clicking the link below…
Basketball Club … Rob from Devonshire Tennis Academy is planning to start a Basketball club for years 2 to 6, on Friday mornings, starting on the 4th November. Please contact Rob if you’re interested by emailing bookings@devonshiretennisacademy.com
Piano… a message from Sophie Kerslake…. We have space for children to have piano lessons at school. Please phone her directly on 07799 719865
Guitars… a message from Sarah Cox.
I teach children from Year 2 and onwards. Preferably they would have their own guitar, but this is not essential as I have some I can loan out for the short term. Parents can email me to get in touch: sarahcoxtutoring@gmail.com
Attendance… We frequently report the attendance of individual year groups as it’s a really good way to see if school attendance is at a good percentage… with it as high as possible of course! The DfE have a target of 96.5% but sadly, we finished the year, last July, being slightly below this.
Attending school regularly is vital to help children achieve and to give them the best possible start in life. It’s also a legal requirement of parents once children are of school age and enrolled in mainstream education. Ofsted has a strong view about attendance of course and, therefore, too many absences can lead into difficult discussions about how we can support children to achieve and do well – we could even be downgraded for our current Good status as a result.
Absenceswill only be authorised if they meet exceptional circumstances. With only 190 statutory school days in the year, there are 175 days (weekends and school holidays) left to plan for family visits, non-urgent medical/dental appointments, holidays etc. School holidays are published well in advance and parents are expected to plan and take family holidays at this time so as not to disrupt their child’s education. We also try to arrange our Inset (training) days to provide time for travel… such as this term’s October 21st.
Holidays… are almost always not recognised as meeting ‘exceptional circumstances’ and therefore an absence would be unauthorised. This could result in a penalty notice being issued by DCC.
Punctualityis important too, and the earlier we get our children into the right habits, the better. You may not realise that being just 5 minutes late every day equals 3 days of school lost a year. Please bring your child for 8.45am when they door is open and the classroom has a learning activity ready for them.
Dates in the diary… bottom of the front page…
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Our school’s Designated Safeguarding Lead is Julian Thomas
You can contact us on dsl@georgeham-primary.devon.sch.uk
If you have any concerns that you’d like to discuss, please call through to Lottie and ask for an appointment. You may also find some useful or helpful information on our Safeguarding webpage… https://georgehamceps.wpengine.com/staying-safe/
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