24th February
2012 No. 7
Dear Parents and Children
We hope you all had a good half term break. Interviews took place for our new school administrator/receptionist and we are pleased to say that an appointment has been made. Mrs. Hoey from St Marys and Mrs. Barton will be in the school office for the next few weeks until Mrs. Chadwick starts so please see them if you have any queries regarding dinner money, uniform etc. Parents are reminded that children should arrive for school in time to line up with their teachers on the playground. The teachers bring the children in to start their learning at 8:45am. It was lovely to welcome Deacon Peter who celebrated an Ash Wednesday service with the children this week. This marks the beginning of the season of Lent. The children will be developing their understanding of the season in their RE lessons. Any parents who have small boxes such as cosmetic boxes, food containers that could be used to create furniture for small model rooms for a D&T project in Year 1 please hand them to Mrs. Kidd. Thank you for your help. Mrs. J Anderson and Mrs. M Sanderson
God be in my head and in my understanding. God be in my eyes and in my looking. God be in my mouth and in my speaking. God be in my heart and in my thinking. God be in my life and in my living. Amen
StThomasofCanterburyPrimarySchoolNewsletter
Stars of the Week: Ashima Y6; Tia Y5; Kaja Y4; Jade
Y3; Cory Y2; Thomas and Felix Y1; Raphael YR. Well done everyone!
School dinners: Monday: Pasta bake; Tuesday: Roast Beef; Wednesday: Pork
your school dinner account please supply your child with a packed lunch.
and beef meatballs; Thursday: Roast Chicken; Friday: Fish. If you have not settled
Parents Evenings: These are next week on Wednesday and Thursday. Next Sharing Assembly is on Friday 2 March at 2pm. Please join us. Dress up day! Next Thursday, 1 March, we will be celebrating World Book Day
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in school. There will be different book related activities going on plus we are inviting all the children to dress up as their favourite book character for the day! We are asking for a contribution of at least 50p (but hopefully 1!) if your child gets dressed up and this will go towards prizes and some new resources for the library.
Year 2: On the morning of Monday 27
February Year 2 will be walking to the Lord Louis library as part of their book week activities. Parents do not need to sign a permission slip as this counts as a walk in
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the local area for which you have already given permission. Please make sure your child has warm outer clothing for the walk.
New Reports We are trialling a new interim report which will have come home this week ready to
discuss at the parents evening next week. Your comments on whether you think it is useful or not would be appreciated by the class teachers who have spent time during the half term break putting them together.
Other notices of interest:
Reception Class Parent Activity Afternoons There are still some spaces on the following dates if any
Reception Class parents would like to join the class for some literacy and numeracy topic games: 2 2.45 on 3rd Feb, 10th Feb, 24th Feb, 9th March, 16th March and 23rd March. Please see Mrs. McCraith if you would like to help.
Advance warning! Come and play African Drums with your child week! Please join your childs
class playing African drums on Monday 12th March, 9-10am Y6 Tuesday 13th March, 9-10am Y3 Wednesday 14th March, 9-10am Y5 Thursday 15th March, 9-10am Y4 Thursday 15th March, 2-2.30pm Y2 No hand jewellery can be worn when playing the drums so all rings, watches and bracelets will have to be removed.
