Class Stars 🙂 Well done to…

Our Early Years…  All of Class 1

Class 2…  Molly Wright

Class 3… Marek Baraniak

Class 4… xxx

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: 100% Class 2: 92% Class 3: 97.1% Class 4: 96.2%
Everyone’s attendance went up last week, but well done to Class 1 for gettig 100%
School average for the year so far: 94.8%

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.)

Upcoming… Class 2’s Multiskills event on Thursday 9th.  We’re getting a cach back but details should have come out about getting dropped off at Braunton Academy in the morning.

Class 3  St. George’s Residential – 13th and 14th of March

NEU teacher strike on March 15th and 16th.  Not confirmed just yet… but we’ll try to notify you as soon as we know more about this.

Red Nose Day.  Simply come wearing red.  Non-uniform is allowed, including red noses.  Friday 17th March

Don’t forget, for Monday’s swimming, it’s a really good idea if the children can be dressed in their costume under their uniform, and have everything labelled in a bag. Ilfracombe pool insists that swim hats are worn.

 

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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…

Wrap Around Provision & After School Clubs

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.
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.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/