The Courier

Congratulations to Asha whose artwork was added to the School Art Gallery this week.  

Mrs Byrne
Art Teacher

The following children received Certificates of Excellence from the Playground Supervisors in Assembly this morning:

• Lewis for becoming more involved playing with others in the playground
• Lucy for being a wonderful role model in both the dining hall and playground

There has been much press this week about a perceived online threat to children.  We do not intend to warn parents routinely of these  as inevitably they can lead to fear/overreaction.  Instead it is worthwhile to simply remind that, alongside ensuring you have turned off ‘auto play’ on YouTube, the ‘no fill’ option is ‘on’ within Fortnite and all settings within your Xbox and PlayStation are closed, continuing to talk as a family openly about safe online behaviour is the best ongoing protection.

For most of you your child will, ideally, not be accessing social media for some time yet - aspects of use would give us cause to raise Safeguarding concerns in school, but it is still best to feel ahead of the game and forewarned as staff and parents.

https://www.childnet.com/parents-and-carers/hot-topics/social-networking

I hope you are finding these follow up links/advice to Paul Hay's Online Safety Day useful.

Our annual Open Morning is to be held on 30 March 2019. All children are expected to be in school for this important event and every child will have a vital role to play in the success of the morning.

This is a time for you to see your child’s work, visit their classrooms and see them at work whether on stage, on the sports field or in the classroom. The Open Morning is for you, our present parents, and also our prospective parents and we are looking forward to welcoming you, your friends and family.

All the details of timings, activities your child is involved in and uniform expectation will be shared with you a few weeks before the event

Please respond to the Evolve message to confirm that your child will be attending that has been sent out today.

World Book day is next week, as a school we only celebrate this every other year. However we have been given a £1 book token for each child that can be put towards a book of their choice or contribute to the price of a book.  These have been given to children today.

Happy reading everybody.

This fantastic competition is open again for 2019, it is a super opportunity for children to showcase their writing talents. 

Any child over age 5 can enter a story of up to 500 words before the deadline of Friday 8 March 2019.  Your child can write a story at home or even use a story written in school.

Please let me know if your child enters the competition, it is an additional opportunity for me to praise them for extra effort.

For further information on how to enter please follow the link:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00rfvk1

Good luck everybody.