DINNER MONEY COST FOR
SPRING 1st HALF TERM
NEW PRICE £2.30 - Dinner money should be paid on Mondays
Half term payments are due
by the first Monday after each half term.
The cost for lunch every
day will be = £66.70 6 January – 13 February =
29 days
note: Year 6 = 28 days £64.10 (- London
Trip)
Don’t forget you can pay
for the whole term for 1/ 2/ 3 or 4 days per week too.
To pay on-line follow the
link from the ‘Parent Information’ button
on the school website.
Weekly: 5 days £11.50 / 4 days £9.20 / 3 days £6.90 / 2 days £4.60 / 1 day £2.30
Cheques should be made payable to
Suffolk County Council (SCC) with your child’s name and class WRITTEN ON THE
BACK please.
DINNER MONEY MUST BE HANDED TO THE TEACHER IN AN ENVELOPE THAT
STATES: Child’s
Name + Child’s Class + Which days dinner money is for.
***DEADLINE FOR HALF-TERM
PAYMENT IS MONDAY 12 JANUARY***
CLUBS – START OF SPRING
TERM – PLEASE SEE CLUB TIMETABLE
Externally run clubs/lessons starting this week - 6 January:
will be MFSF Wind & Brass, CMS
Flute/Clarinet and Guitar, Violin (Weds as normal plus Friday
9 Jan lesson for those pupils who will
have missed Monday), Premier Sport Gym
Most other clubs will start next week - 12 January:
Hockey, Multi-Sports, Reading, Rugby, Tennis, Country Dancing, Holy
Horrors, Orchestra, Art and all
lunchtime clubs.
NEW “NUMBER WIZARDS” CLUB
Year
3 & 4 children can join a new club on Thursday lunchtime with Mrs Beddow to
become super maths heroes and solve number challenges and much more!
Do you have a child born between 1 Sept 2010 and 31 Aug 2011?
Your child will be due to start in Reception from September 2015. You must make an application to Suffolk County Council or on-line at www.suffolk.gov.uk/admissionstoschools
by 15 January 2015 **YOUR CHILD WILL NOT BE GIVEN A PLACE AUTOMATICALLY**
RECEPTION OPEN MORNING – This Friday
The Reception classes will
be open on Friday 9 January
from 9-10.30am
for parents with children due to start school September 2015. Do pop in to look around and meet the
teachers while the children play. Please sign in at the school office where
admission application forms are available.
CHRISTMAS HAMPER DRAW
The friends are delighted
to tell you that they raised £1490 on the Christmas Hamper
Raffle. Huge thanks go to all parents
who donated gifts for the hampers and to all those families who purchased
tickets. Well done to the lucky winners,
we hope you enjoyed all those treats!
CHRISTMAS JUMPER DAY & CAROL
SERVICE COLLECTION THANKS
The charity collection for
the Christmas Jumper day raised £185 & the staff added to this donation
with a further £47. The Carol service collection raised £104, so the grand
total going to Save the Children Fund is £739 (which included the Christmas
productions minus expenses). Thank you to everyone for your generosity.
MILK IN SCHOOL
In line with recent Government
guidelines, pupils will be offered a small drink of milk during the school day;
this is an entirely optional choice for your child to make. It will
start next week.
TEACHING ASSISTANTS &
STUDENT TEACHER
There are a few staff
movements and new additions on the Teaching Assistant team this term that we
wanted to tell parents: Miss Lamb will be moving to Class CA and Mrs Poacher
will be moving to Nursery. New staff are Mrs Skeggs who will be in Class
NS in the mornings, Mrs Cockle providing additional support in KS2 for this
term and Mr Bennett-King will be supporting classes across the school for PE. Class LC will have Miss Thurlow
as a student teacher from mid-January, she will be teaching the class throughout
the term under supervision of Mrs Cann.
We welcome them all to the
school.
CAKE STALL & DISCO
The Friends would like to
thank the children and families of classes ES & JA who baked for the cake
stall before the end of term, it raised £104. The Christmas Disco raised
a brilliant £480.
BAG2SCHOOL COLLECTION –
NEXT Thursday 15 January
Please
bring your filled bags to the front playground pavilion next Thursday before 9am
YEAR 3 & 4 KAGERA DAY – Tuesday 13 January
The
Diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich has had a link with Kagera Diocese in
the north west of Tanzania since 1994. There will be an assembly and full day of
workshops for Y3 & 4 children, to learn about schools, food, health,
church, worship, animals, tourism and textiles in this country.
PLEASE REMEMBER TO PACK YOUR CHILD A WATER BOTTLE
EVERY DAY -
this
will prevent children sharing bottles and passing on germs.
Captivate Drama
Drama
Classes continue this term at St. Michael’s Rooms from 4pm to 5pm every
Thursday. Why not go along for a free, no-obligation trial session?
Contact Ali – 07867807144 – for more details.
PUBLICATION OF LEAGUE
TABLES
Following the publication
of league tables by the DfE at the end of last year, our Governors have
analysed the data in depth and have reached some exciting conclusions which we
would like to share with parents. As we
are well aware, different pupil numbers between schools can result in some misleading
conclusions with percentages (i.e. for our school one pupil = 2%, but
for a small school one pupil may represent e.g. =10%, so the results from a
single pupil will have a greater effect on the overall percentage). Although there are 322
schools listed in Suffolk LA, only 61 of these we feel can be directly compared
with us (as they had 40 or more pupils in their Year 6, we had 50).
Looking at these similar
schools we achieved:
4th place in the % reaching Level 4 or above
in reading, writing & maths combined
2nd place in the % reaching Level 4b or
above in reading, writing & maths combined
2nd place in the % reaching Level 5 or above
in reading, writing & maths combined
1st place when looking at our Average Point
Score
WE ARE SENDING HOME A REPEAT LETTER TODAY ABOUT APPLYING FOR
PUPIL PREMIUM. THIS IS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT FOR RECEPTION & KS1 FAMILIES. IF YOU ARE ELIGIBLE PLEASE APPLY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
AS THIS WILL SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE THE SCHOOL’S FUNDING
AND ALSO GIVE EXTRA BENEFITS FOR YOUR CHILD. THANK YOU.
