We are delighted to announce the safe arrival of Miss Ford’s baby son, Lucas.  We wish her and her fiancé Graham all the very best as they embrace this new chapter in their lives!

Congratulations to Miss Nicole Watt who was successful at interview and will join our fantastic ELC staff team to cover Miss Ford’s maternity leave, Wednesday to Friday.  She will be responsible for the Yellow Team on these days with Mrs Logan continuing to have responsibility on Mondays and Tuesdays.  

Our St. Andrew’s Hospice Ambassadors Ayleigh (Rm 9) , Henry (Rm 10), Louis (Rm 10) and Poppy (Rm 10) recently launched their first fundraiser, The Kindness Challenge, a brand new initiative that they came up with themselves. Children were challenged to choose an act of kindness that they would like to do, either at home or school. They were then asked to write down the act of kindness on the slip of paper inside the envelope provided, and if able to, include a small donation.

We're delighted to say that we raised well over £250 for the hospice. Thank you to everyone who took part!

Together our small acts of kindness can make a BIG difference!       

Reminder:

We operate a weekly Book Club that is run by a volunteer and former parent.

The Book Club involves children in the school and ELC bringing in 50p each week for three weeks. Once £1.50 has been saved*, children can choose from a wide range of books. Money is collected every Friday and we are delighted that it started again.

The Book Club allows children to purchase high quality books at a low price which encourages a love of reading; supports the cost of the school day; and promotes a habit of saving (for this reason we do ask that children do not bring any more than 50p in any one week so that they are saving towards their chosen book). If younger children who are taking part, could bring their money in a bag/envelope, purse or wallet, this would help. ELC learners can leave money in their tray and let the 'door' member of staff know. 

We will update the app to let you if the Book Club is not running on a Friday for any reason, so please assume if you do not hear from us, that it will be on.

Happy Reading!

Please remember this is not a compulsory initiative so there is no pressure to take part.*Any money saved towards the £1.50 last session will be carried over.

As you may recall, we asked parents/carers to vote for how we would spend our Participatory Budget (£2430) to help our children and families disadvantaged financially. The results of the vote shown above and have been combined with votes from staff and children to indicate the most ‘popular’ areas to spend the money on.

This session, the money will again be used to support low/no cost trips and on arranging and purchasing resources that can be used for extra-curricular activities. As the vote was a bit closer this session, we will also look to finance some play equipment too.

Many thanks to Mrs Gracie for all her work on this.