CROSSING PATROL NEWS
Sadly Mrs Han, our crossing patrol officer, will be leaving us at Easter. We would like to thank her for her sterling work every morning & afternoon in keeping the children safe crossing College Road. If any parent wishes to contribute to a leaving gift for her, please pass it to the school office in a marked envelope. We therefore have a vacancy for this role:
Term time only, from 8:20am – 9:00am then 2:50pm – 3:30pm
Would suit a parent at school; your child can stay in school
when you are on crossing patrol. Half pay retainer added for school holidays. Full training and ongoing support will be given by Suffolk County Council
If you are interested, or know of anyone who may be interested,
please contact the school office on 01728 723354.
PARENT CONSULTATIONS – Wednesday & Thursday this week
IF YOU HAVE booked an appointment to meet with your children’s class teachers for Parent Consultations on either Wednesday 13 or Thursday 14 March from 3.30pm – 6.00pm they will be held in the hall. Please allow some time to collect your child’s work from class to look at in the hall before the consultations.
Parents may park on the back playground, on these afternoons, but please take care with children around. The school takes no responsibility for vehicles parked on site.
PARENT CONSULTATIONS – Other Appointments
If you would like to book an appointment to see Mrs Akerman or Mrs Beddow they will be available to see parents on Wednesday from 3.30-5pm. Mrs Picton will also be available by appointment on both days and a representative of the parent governors will be available on Thursday. Please ring the Office to book an appointment time for any of these.
MAYPOLE DELAYED – NOW STARTING NEXT THURSDAY
FRIENDS EASTER HAMPER RAFFLE – Donations this week please!
The Friends would like to remind parents that donations for the Class Hampers for the Easter Raffle need to be handed in by Thursday THIS WEEK.
Raffle tickets for families to purchase will be handed out tomorrow, the draw will take place next Wednesday.
Red noses can be purchased from the office in preparation for Red Nose Day THIS Friday (15 March). They cost £1 – don’t leave it till the last minute, as we are selling out fast! Bring your nose in on Friday to wear in school for some of the day.
VIOLIN CONCERT – 20 March
The pupils who learn Violin at school will be performing a concert after school on Wednesday 20 March at 3.15pm-3.45pm.
Everyone is welcome to come and listen to them in the hall.
EATs – Easter Lunch – Thursday 28 March
Eats Catering will be providing an Easter Lunch on the last day of term 0f Traditional Roast with all the trimmings or Vegetarian loaf, with Roast Potatoes, Carrots & Peas. Dessert will be Chocolate Cracknell with a Cadburys Mini Egg.
FRIENDS SUCCESS
Another successful cake sale with £128.99 raised at the end of last half term. Thank you to classes PLDD and RV for baking and to everyone who bought goodies.
The Film Night raised £295. Thank you to everyone who supported it, and particularly to Mrs Colchester for her help.
VOLUNTEER HELPERS NEEDED FOR CYCLING TRAINING
If you would like to help with this we need about 4/5 volunteers to help on Thursday afternoons in the summer term. If you will be able to help for any or all of the 5 sessions:
16, 23 May and 6, 13, 20 June, then please let the office know. Thank you
As a way to encourage feedback from parents and volunteers we have some ‘Wow!’ cards at the school office which we would like to ask any parents, visitors or volunteers to fill in when they see or hear something at school that they are impressed by.
They can be completed anonymously and placed in the box by the office. Thank you.
PARKING – Important Message from the Atlas Fram Group:
“It has come to our attention that at the end of a school day, parents who are collecting children from your school are parking in our car park. We cannot allow this to happen as our insurance does not cover us if an accident to one of your children or their parents were to take place, we would be liable under health and safety legislation. We would appreciate your cooperation in communicating this message with parents. If this issue persists we will have no option but to close our barriers between certain periods of the afternoon, and if unauthorised cars are caught in the car park during this period they will experience delays as we will not re-open the barriers until after the school run has ended.
We do fully appreciate the problems with parking on New Road however we cannot accept people parking in the car park and we hope you appreciate our position on this matter and address this with all parents without delay.”
