Class Stars 🙂 Well done to…
Our Early Years… Ben Sanders
Class 2… Myla Blake
Class 3… Amelie Crossman
Class 4… Sadie Goodson
This ½ term’s school value is…
We are a Community.
We encourage a sense of belonging and responsibility towards each other, our environment and the world we live in.
‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ (Matthew 22 v39)
Attendance so far…
School average for this week
Class 1: 87% Class 2: 96% Class 3: 89.1% Class 4: 88.5%
Everyone’s attendance went up last week, but well done to Class 1 for gettig 100%
School average for this year
Class 1: 92% Class 2: 95.6% Class 3: 95.6% Class 4: 95.5% School average for the year so far: 95.3%
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.)
Red Nose Day brought us only £45, but I’m aware of several parents who have told us that they have donated personally. We’ve had a discussion in the staffroom today about TAX relief, Gift Aid and how to support charities through the year. We didn’t get very far with finding a good solution, so if you’ve got some thoughts please let me know!
However, here are some numbers which you could use.
Is this the simplest solution?
| DONATE to 70205 | £5 | |
| DONATE to 70210 | £10 | |
| DONATE to 70220 | £20 |
We’ve got our Infant Music Festival on Wednesday morning, with Class 2 being part of a big festival with the Braunton Schools at the Academy’s Isaac Hall. I wonder if we can post video or sound on our blog??
Thursday, we have the Boy’s Football tournament too, with many teams playing at Kingsacre for the day. We can’t facilitate parents coming to see the final match as what used to happen many years ago as the school needs to be aware of site security, safeguarding procedures and supervision of the children during a very busy day. Again – we’ll blog photos!
We’re heading towards our financial year-end in the next couple of weeks, so could we ask our families to login to your Scopay accounts and ensure that everything is paid up to date please.
You’ll need to pick up your child from St. George’s Church on Friday 31st please, as we’ll be heading over there at 2.30 for an Easter Asembly / Easter Service / Collective Worship before we break up for the Easter. You’ll be welcome to join us… or you could come and pick up from the church at 3.15pm if you’d like.
Apologies – school reports never got printed this week and so we’ll endeavour to get them out next week.
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Petroc College would like to share with our parents a beneficial and free programme aimed to help demystify maths which would hopefully help parents to support their children through primary school.
Two main areas of the programme are:
- Understanding the language used in Maths
- Understanding Maths through fun activities and games
The flyer / picture, gives details of how to get in touch if you’re interested.
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.
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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