St Luke's C of E Primary School, Glossop

St Luke’s CE Primary School Newsletter

9.1.2020

Dear Parents,

Happy New Year I hope you all had a good festive period and haven’t found the return to normal too difficult. It was lovely to see the children excited to be back, even if they were finding getting back into the routine a little tiring. I love this term the children are all very settled and attack their work with gusto, it is always such a pleasure to see how much they learn across this term. But before we know what has hit us we will be talking about Easter.

The children have been very excited to share what they have done over Christmas, it sounds as if you have all had some good times together. They have also been telling us what presents they got; there are lots of new phones and smart watches about. I just want to remind everyone that any devices that can make and receive phone calls or are connected to the internet need to be signed in at the start of the day and be collected at the end of the day. The signing in book and box is usually in Y6 at the beginning and end of the day.

You should have received a clubs letter yesterday. School run clubs restart on Monday apart from Gardening and Netball which will restart when the light improves. PAS restarts next Tuesday to book on this visit www.pas.uk.com and then click book online. Forest Schools will restart on 17^th March to book a place on this visit www.insideoutforestschool.com .

On Monday the children in Merlins and Ospreys will have a talk from the fire service about safety.

Swimming restarts on Thursday 16^th January. Ospreys will meet at the baths as they did last term and Eagles will walk up there later in the morning.

The PTA is sorting out the rota for making toast on Friday mornings. If you would like to help make toast one Friday morning please let the office know or talk to Chika Jones who sorts the rota out.

As I was writing the date on this newsletter I was reminded of a helpful hint I heard this week – this year always write the year in full 2020 rather than 20, as just writing 20 allows for other numbers to be written after it leaving an opening for fraud. This may not be a big risk but I thought I would pass it on to you.

I am attaching the term dates – as usual things may change so do keep an eye on the newsletter for further information. Thinking about dates just a quick reminder that there is an INSET day on Monday 20^th April so the children start back after Easter on Tuesday 21^st April.

Alice Littlehailes

Dates January 2020

January

Monday 13^th       Clubs restart

Thursday 16^th     Swimming Starts

Friday 24^th           Height and weight checks (Reception and Y6)

Thursday 30^th     PTA 7pm

Friday 31^st           Kites leading Assembly

February

Tuesday 4^th         PEGS parents meeting about Maths

Friday 7^th             Harriers leading Assembly

PTA Disco

Friday 14^th           Merlins leading Assembly

Finish for half term

Monday 24^th       School restarts

March

Tuesday 3^rd         Eagles to the Halle

Thursday 5^th       World Book Day

Friday 6^th             Ospreys leading Assembly

Monday 9^th         Class Photos

Friday 13^th           Eagles leading Assembly

Friday 20^th           Kestrels leading Assembly

Friday 27^th           Peregrines leading Assembly

Monday 30^th       Kites and Harriers Production 2pm

Tuesday 31^st       Kites and Harriers Production 6pm

April

Wednesday 1^st Parents evening

Thursday 2^nd       Easter Service

House Netball and Football

Friday 3^rd             Easter Raffle

Finish for Easter

Tuesday 21^st       Term starts