Wow! It's all go at the moment at school. Last week, we had a very successful Duathlon as well as visiting the Life Education classroom. Visits to the Life Education classroom continue this week along with preparations of our items for the up coming production. All children from our newest five year old to our year eight children will be taking part in the production. We have productions every two years. Please be in quick to purchase your tickets from our school office as over four hundred children will be involved. We can only have a certain number of people in the hall at one time due to fire regulations so once the tickets are sold there are unfortunately no more.
Staffing
We warmly welcome Gina to room 2 for the next seven weeks. She is a student teacher and is doing a great job already.
After the holidays Mrs Mills-Smith will be back to teach our new five year olds in room 16. She is currently teaching in year 7 and 8 and is joining us on Thursday mornings for the preschool visits.
Production update
All year 0 and 1 children (rooms 1, 2, 3 and 4) will need a plain black t shirt and black footless leggings or trackpants if a girl and a plain black t shirt and black trackpants if a boy. Please send them along to your child's classroom by this coming Monday. Year 2 children will have brought home a separate notice about the clothes that they need for their item. We are making the headgear for the rats and props next Thursday and Friday morning from 9 to 12.30 p.m. so all those people who have kindly offered to help please meet in room 3. Please also bring along any hot glue guns that you have that we could use. If you are not available on these two dates but would like to help by making some things at home could you please email me?
A Friendly Reminder
Over the past few weeks we have noticed that some children are coming to school later and later each day with some not coming till after 9.15 a.m. which means that they have already lost forty minutes of learning. Over a week this amounts to more than three hours while over a school year this adds up to at least five and a half weeks. Some children arrive in dribs and drabs so learning is continually being interrupted with teachers' having to repeat instructions over and over. If your child is late they start off on the wrong foot and are unsettled for quite a large part of the day. Just a friendly reminder that school starts at 8.40 a.m. The morning routine is to arrive at school by 8.35 a.m. so that the children have time to take out their bookbag and drink bottle and be ready on their classroom mat for the day's learning by 8.40 a.m. All classes begin the day with fitness and call the roll at 8.55 a.m. If your child is not in the classroom by then they are marked absent. If you know your child is sick and that they are going to be absent because of this or appointments or are going to be late due to unavoidable circumstances please phone the school office and leave a message on the phone for Carole and Sue. We have to account for the whereabouts of every child and keep records of every child's attendance so Sue and Carole would love to spend less valuable time on the phone tracking down thirty or more children on a daily basis. If your child is late please go to the office and let Carole and Sue know. Please also let us know if you are experiencing any problems getting your children to school in the mornings and we can support you. Some children are also being picked up late at the end of the day. School finishes at 2.55 p.m. If you are caught up and know you will be late please phone our office, Teachers can then inform your child so that they are not worrying.
'Starting School at Five' Information Evening
The next information evening for parents of preschoolers is next Wednesday September 1st at 7 p.m. in the school staffroom. All welcome.
Kind regards
Maureen Buckley
Deputy Principal
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