Dear Parents and Carers,

As we head into the final 3 weeks of term, there is so much still to do and achieve. Not only do we have our Christmas nativity next week but we also have the Theatre club production on Tuesday 10^th December. I would like to say a huge thank you the staff members who have worked incredibly hard to prepare the children. The productions are going to be amazing!

Class 4 parents and carers – On Thursday 5^th December at 4pm, Martin from Spirt of Adventure will be hosting a parent/carer/child session to discuss next year’s residential (The River Dart Expedition). This will be used to discuss the residential and any questions that you have.

This week, we have been learning:

Class 1 – “We have been learning about birds and making bird cakes in the forest school area” (Noa)

Class 2 – “We have been learning to make scones! They were yummy!” (Zephyr)

Class 3 – “This wee, we have been exploring the Creation Story in the Bible” (Koa)

Class 4 – “In maths, we have been exploring factors, multiples and prime numbers” (Ned)

Congratulations to this week’s class stars of the week:

Class 1 – Daisy

Class 2 – Rosamund

Class 3 – Molly W

Class 4 – Leo

A better week for attendance at Georgeham Primary – thank you for reminding the children to wear appropriate clothing when coming to school. We are reminding the children to cover their mouths when coughing and to wash their hands after. A massive well done to Year 3 for having the best attendance this week with a perfect 100%!

I hope you all have a fabulous weekend!

Kind regards,
Mr Kevin Fry

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CLUBS

Cross Country Running Club – This was the last Wednesday session for this term. Something else will be on next term, probably netball.

Football – Mondays and Wednesdays – will continue to the end of term (3 more session). Thank you to our volunteers 🙂

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Arbor

87% of parents have signed in to the new Arbor parent app. THANK YOU !  If you have not yet registered please look in your inbox for a sign up email to get started. (Resent on Thursday 28th November.)

All trips will now be entered into Arbor; an email will be sent with information each time they are added. ‘Sign up’ is required every time.
At the moment there are 2 trips that require sign up – the whole school panto, and for those in C4, their Residential in 2025.

Please log on and sign up for the panto trip, this should be 100% of school aged pupils, it is a no cost whole school activity for all children paid for by FROGS. We have 39 replies thus far.

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Spirit of Adventure –  C4 residential

C4 only, please log in to Arbor to sign up and pay the deposit for the C4 residential.  The deadline is 12 noon on 13th December.
A paper letter was also sent home so please return that too. We are double doing this one as it has a deadline for deposit payment and sign up that is needed to secure the places.

Thursday 5th December 4pm – Spirit of Adventure are coming into school to talk to parents and children about next years trip.  All welcome. Children will be supervised after school until the meeting time.  Please let us know if you cannot attend.  (30 mins, depending on number of questions!)

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Nativity Tuesday 3rd December

Parents and grandparents are warmly invited to attend either the afternoon performance at 2pm,  (arrive from 1.45) and/or  6pm in the evening (arrive 5.45pm).

All children will return to school after the matinee for collection at 3.15pm as usual. 

Return to church at 5.45pm, in costume, or still in full school uniform for Class 3 and 4 i.e. red school jumpers, grey skirts tights or grey trousers, sensible shoes.  Every child is a representative of GHM SCH at this event.  The church will be warm. 6pm start.

There will be no ASC on this day.

FROGS will be selling refreshments and Christmas treats at the back of the Church so do come along a bit earlier, warm up, chat, support the school.  cash or card payment.
Please arrive early with your home bakes and donations for this, (mince pies, fruit cake, muffins, cupcakes and cookies are popular with the kids, all donations welcomed, just no nuts please)

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Sunday 1st December – Crib on the Green
Gather at St Georges at 10am to follow the star around the village, hearing the story and collecting the characters, ready to assemble them all at the crib, on the green.

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St George’s Georgeham, and St Mary’s Church in Croyde, also have a number of Christmas services over the festive period,  welcome to all.

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Here is an invitation to an event, at the request of  Mr Kemp, to come and sing at his local Church, The Grosvenor in Barnstaple…Joy to the world flyer

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Spring term clubs run by DTA
Please see letter from Rob Cook re the clubs run by him in the spring term.. Sign up is with Rob directly….   Georgeham Clubs Spring 2025

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Panto – Fri 13th Dec.

The school’s Designated Safeguarding Lead is Mr Kevin Fry
Our Deputy Safeguarding Leads are  Emma Hill and Lucy Rinvolucri
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.
  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.