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| Partnership books 2011/12 |
12/09/2011 |
| Our partnership books have now been issued free of charge. They will continue to be an invaluable source of communication between home and school. If you feel yours is not being used productively please let your teacher know as soon as possible.
Partnership and reading books will be distributed from Monday 5th September.
A home school agreement is within the partnership book. Please read this through with your child and then could you please both sign it.
Spellings are not provided as a weekly spelling list but will be linked to topics, spelling rules and the Government's National Strategies and their recommended phonic systems.
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| New School Toilets |
12/09/2011 |
| As you may be aware the builders have been busy over the summer and the new toilets are nearly completed. Y3/4 will have to use the foyer toilets for the first few days but the wait will be worth it. They are really delightful and a major improvement!
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| School Dinners Price Increase |
12/09/2011 |
| Leicestershire County Council has advised us that the price of a school lunch from 1st September 2010 will be £1.95. School lunches are to be paid for in advance so please remember to send in your child's dinner money for the week on a Monday morning in a named envelope. Dinners may also be paid in advance on a half termly or termly basis. |
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| Topics for September 2011 |
12/09/2011 |
| 4+ Being Healthy
Year 1 Ourselves
Year 2 Famous People
Year 3 Roald Dahl
Year 4 Future/Space
Year 5 Indonesia
Year 6 WW II
Thank you to all of our parents and friends who supported our topics last year. We will need your help this year so please don't disappear!
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| SCHOOL GATES |
12/09/2011 |
| In spite of many reminders in newsletters etc some parents still persist in using the main entrance and staff car park to pick up their children from after school activity clubs. This presents a danger to the children leaving due to parents entering the car park and reversing into the path of children leaving the clubs. Only individual parents picking up their children from Planet Play are permitted to use the main entrance. As a consequence of this, the school has no alternative but to lock the gates until 4.45pm. This will cause unnecessary inconvenience for staff leaving the premises and parents picking up from Planet Play, but the safety of the children is paramount.
Parents picking up from Planet Play before 4.45pm, when the gates will be locked, should ring the school on arrival and a member of staff will let you in.
Please also note that parents and children are not permitted to climb over the gates.
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| School Uniform |
12/09/2011 |
| Below is a reminder of the school uniform for St Pauls, which is available from The School Wear Centre in Loughborough or www.exampleschooluniforms.com.
• Blue sweatshirt/cardigan with school logo
• Blue polo shirt with school logo
• Grey school skirt/pinafore/trousers/school shorts
• Sensible school shoes with white/grey/black socks
• Sunhat in the summer (these can be purchased from the office)
• In addition girls may wear black tights in the winter and blue gingham dresses in the summer.
• A school fleece or outdoor coat in the winter
PE Kit:
• Plain black shorts
• Plain white t-shirt
• Plimsolls
• (KS2 children only- outdoor games) Trainers and blue or black jogger bottoms for when the weather is cold
Please replace all white polo tops or shirts with blue logo uniform when buying new for September. We may be able to offer financial support if you are in receipt of free school meals or experiencing financial hardship. Please contact the school office for confidential advice.
Uniform may be purchased from The School Wear Centre in Loughborough or from www.exampleschooluniforms.com. If you choose to purchase from The School Wear Centre, you may do so online. Contact the office for the username and password for our school.
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| Enterprise Day |
12/09/2011 |
| At the end of last term our children once again took part in an Enterprise Challenge based around an understanding of money and economic well being in support of the Government's "My Money week" and the Every Child Matters Agenda. 4+ sold ice cream and handled real money in their role play shop. Y1 held the tried and tested penalty shoot out. Y2 made and served jelly and squirty cream, held a bric-a-brac sale and a raffle! Y3 designed and ran super hero games and Y4 made and sold designer jewellery made from recycled materials. Cupcake wars was the genius idea from Y5 with the "Boys in Suits" competing with girls in the "Snack Shack." They sold out in record time! Year 6 held a very popular (actually it was the prize that was popular!) "Dodge Ball" event.
All these events were ran by the children for the children. They were amazing and raised the following amounts:-
4+ £88.50
Year 1 £50.15
Year 2 £54.61
Year 3 £68.34
Year 4 £51.98
Year 5 £121.72
Year 6 £51.16
Total £486.46
WELL DONE CHILDREN |
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| Welcome Staff |
12/09/2011 |
| September 2011
We warmly welcome Mrs Hallam to the teaching team (Y2), Mrs Pattison to the teaching assistant team and Mrs Goddard to the mid-day team.
We are looking forward to working with them in the next phase of our school's journey.
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| PTA Annual General Meeting |
12/09/2011 |
| Sincere thanks go to the PTA for all their tremendous support last year. They have organised many events throughout this academic year in order to raise funds for the school and we are extremely grateful for their help. If you would like to be part of the committee this year, please contact Mr Bailey (Chair) or Mrs Swanevelder (Secretary) to see how you can help.
The AGM for the PTA 2011/12 will be held after school on 30th September. Look out for details soon.
ALL PARENTS/CARERS AND SCHOOL STAFF ARE MEMBERS OF THE PTA.
Please attend the meeting if you are able and have your say on events for the year and ways to support your child and the school. You will receive a letter soon to remind you of this meeting.
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| Forgotton Lunch boxes / PE Kits |
12/09/2011 |
| Some children seem to be regularly forgetting their packed lunches and PE kits and these are kindly being brought into the office by parents and carers to be passed to the children throughout the day. Due to the increasing number of such items being brought into the school, the office staff are spending a lot of time reuniting the children with these items. Please encourage your child to remember their belongings and lunches each morning.
From September, there will be a box in the office for forgotten items brought in after the school day has started to be deposited and the children will be able to collect PE kit and lunch boxes from the office when it is apparent to the teachers/children that they have forgotten these items.
Office staff will no longer be available to receive or distribute forgotten items.
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| Goodbye Mrs Stephens |
12/09/2011 |
| I am sure you will join us all in saying good bye and good luck to the wonderful Mrs. Stephens. She deserves an enormous thank you for her amazing contribution to the lives and education of so many children and families over so many years.
Have a fabulous retirement – We will all miss you!
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| Welcome Governors |
12/09/2011 |
| Congratulations and a warm welcome on board for our two new parent governors.
Mr Nick Dean (Daddy of pupil in Y2) and Mrs Nikki Rusby (Mummy of pupils in Y1, Y4, Y7 and Y8) |
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