Class Stars 🙂 Well done to…
Our Early Years… Rosamund Tonge
Class 2… Ned Kennedy
Class 3… Hallie Osborne
Class 4… Charlie Mitchell
Could you ensure our teddies come back the following week please? …thank you!
This ½ term’s school value is…
We are Confident.
We help our children lay foundations for the rest of their lives by helping them develop self-esteem and belief in themselves.
‘I know the plans I have for you… plans to bring about the future you hope for.’ (Jeremiah 29 v11)
Attendance so far…
School average for this week
Class 1: 100% Class 2: 95% Class 3: 96% Class 4: 93%
School average for the year so far: 95.73%
Class 1: 93.6% Class 2: 96.3% Class 3: 95.7% Class 4: 95.8%
Illnesses and holidays impact our attendance data and the children’s learning opportunities.
It can also be a trigger for Ofsted, as they expect attendance to be in the high 90’s.
(Please have a look at our Attendance page on our website for more information.)
Last Week…
Here’s a link to the recording of the Internet Safety session that we had from The Two Johns last week. We hope it’s useful.
This week…
We’ve also updated our Safeguarding page and included links to some new Acceptable Use Agreements, to ensure that everyone knows their responsibilities in keeping our children safe.
This week, we emailed parents and carers a link to a Google Form so that you could electronically sign your agreement to the Acceptable Use Agreements. We’d appreciate if you could do this before we break up for half term.
Class 2 had a lovely Australia / Britain Day on Tuesday. Hopefully, we’ll be able to get some photos out to you soon.
And Class 4 also went to the Eden Project today! Again, we’ll try to share some photos with you soon!
Class 3 made more fossils today. We almost layered our birthday-boy Barney between layers of sediment, but we just didn’t have enough salt dough or big enough baking trays. A blog with some lovely photos wil be coming out soon!
Next week…
Well, it’s half term. We hope you all have a lovely break 🙂
…And don’t forget that we’ve got an Inset day on Monday and the children will return on Tuesday 21st.
Get ready… Thursday 2nd March is World Book Day.
Please note that we dress up as a book character for the day, so do please have a think about who / what you could dress up as!
If this can’t go ahead on Thursday the 2nd, it will be rolled over to the Friday. We’ll keep you informed.
Another request that toys aren’t brought into to school please. We’ve spent a bit of time this week helping children sort out lost items and also ensuring that children are able to concentrate on their work rather than fidget with items that are distracting them. Please help us help the children, by keeping them at home instead.
We’ve mentioned a few requests for loose hair to be tied back/ It’ll start to get warmer soon (we hope) and the dreaded head lice really does seem to move fast and jump (they really don’t jump actually) with loose hair not tied back.
And uniform… please use the 1/2 term to ensure that your child has the appropriate uniform. Here’s a link to our unform webpage.
We’re a Nut free school, so that means that most kinds of tree nuts (such as almonds, cashews, hazelnuts, pine nuts) and also peanuts shouldn’t be brought in to school. Sadly, this also means that pesto sauce shouldn’t be brought into school as it contains pine nuts. Sorry if this causes any inconvenience, but I hope you can help us as best as you can to keep our children safe.
David Roper is putting on a Half Term Club Basketball Club. To get involved… email: davidropersports@gmail.com
Clubs Webpage for more info…
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.
Absences will 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.
Punctuality is 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)
Click here to get to the front page
Dinner Menu…
Click here to access everything about school lunches
The school’s Designated Safeguarding Lead is Julian Thomas
Our Deputy Safeguarding Leads are Emma Hill and, our interim SENDCo, Laura Hapgood
You can contact us on dsl@georgeham-primary.devon.
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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