Dear Parents and Carers,
What a term it has been! Thank you so much for making it a memorable one as we take the next step as a school community. From 1st April, Georgeham CofE Primary School will join Ventrus Multi Academy Trust which we are very excited about. During our time in managing partnership, Ventrus has provided us with so much support and guidance and we look forward to continuing our journey together.
Thank you to those who have been able to attend a parent/carer evening session with your child’s class teacher – it is such a valuable session to inform you of how well your child is progressing and what we can do to support their learning for the rest of the year. If you haven’t met your child’s class teacher I would actively encourage you to arrange a meeting.
Shortly after the Easter holiday, I will be sending out a formal letter confirming our partnership with Ventrus as well as feedback from the recent parent/carer survey. Thank you to those who have completed the survey as it will give us ideas on how to improve the school for our children and wider community.
Although it was the last day of term, we had lots of exciting things for the children to do in science morning! The children swapped classes through the morning to engage in different experiments. Thank you Mrs Smith for coordinating this!
I hope you all have a wonderful Easter holiday – stay safe and we look forward to seeing you all again on Monday 15th April.
Kind regards,   KF

If you are doing a spring clean then our pre school are looking for the following items please…

  • Wooden play kitchen
  • Wicker baskets any shape or size
  • Real side plates, mugs, metal tea pots, small saucepans, wooden spoons
  • Cushions and beanbags (good condition and clean)
  • Fabric doilies
  • fake flowers
  • Fabric any size
  • Children’s wooden table, with or without chairs
  • Decorative rocks, gems or shells

If you can help please contact Kay by email kstevenson@georgeham-primary.devon.sch.uk

Village Easter Trail

All are welcome to attend the Good Friday Easter trail on 29th March. (click on link below for poster)

Collect your map at Georgeham Chapel from 10am and follow the trail around the village to end at St Georges Church where you will receive a chocolatey, egg shaped prize!

There will also be some fun Easter crafts for children plus hot drinks and refreshments available.

Georgeham Easter Trail Friday 29th March 2024

Time to cook !

Discover the joy of cooking with our after school children’s cookery club! Your child will learn essential cooking skills while creating lots of tasty dishes and bakes to take home. The cost is £10 per session which includes all of the ingredients, equipment and your child’s creations to take home to cook.

Here is what we will be making!
Friday 19th April – Loaded Mac ‘n’ Cheese
Friday 26th April – Cherry and Chocolate Chip Shortbread
Friday 3rd May – Veggie Bean Chilli
Friday 10th May – Fabulously Fruity Flapjack
Friday 17th May – Loaded Nachos
Limited places available – classes must be booked as a block.
Email claire@timetocook.uk to book.

School Photographs.

We are returning to Tempest for this years school photographs. Whilst it was lovely to try something different,  it showed the amount of work required to run this sort of service, for which Tempest are totally set up, and we unfortunately were not. The take up did not support the cause either so we will be putting it back in Tempest’s hands.  Emily will be here on Thursday 9th May. More info on that nearer the end of April which also = a reminder to book a hair cut 😉

Diary Dates :

lick here  for the school calendar which can be found at the bottom of the website home page.

Monday 15th April – return for the Summer term !

Thursday 9th May – Tempest school photographs

Mon 13th May – year 6 SATS week

Mon-Wed May 20 – 22 – Class 4 Residential

FRI 24th MAY – INSET DAY 

Half term – Friday 24th May to Friday 31st May

Fri 28th June – Summer Fair (3.30-5.30)

Fri 12th July – Sports day

Thurs/Fri July 18th/19th – Class 3 SGH residential

Click here  for the school calendar which can be found at the bottom of the website home page.

The school’s Designated Safeguarding Lead is Mr Kevin Fry
Our Deputy Safeguarding Lead is  Emma Hill
Our SENCo is Mrs Lucy Rinvolucri.
Make contact with us via  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/

Attendance… We report the attendance of individual year groups as it’s a really good way to see if school attendance is at a good percentage…  as high as possible of course! The DfE have a target of 96.5%
Attending school regularly is vital to help children achieve and to give them the best possible start in life. It’s also the legal requirement of parents once children are of school age and enrolled in mainstream education. Ofsted has a strong view about attendance of course. 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 Friday October 20th.
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.