St Luke's C of E Primary School, Glossop

Dear Parents,
Just a short newsletter this week as it is all about the Fair! Yes, the much anticipated Christmas Fair is tomorrow.

Please come along at 5.30 – 7.30. Hand your quiz sheets in, buy your raffle tickets, and get thoroughly Christmassy.

Also tomorrow, the Harriers will be leading our Assembly; please join us if you can.

Yesterday the children produced some amazing, thought provoking Christmas trees in their houses. The Fair is a great time to see them.

Next week is the last week of after school clubs.

If your child would like to join in our Christmas dinner on Thursday 15 December, do let the office know.

If you haven’t yet sent in a request for tickets to see your child’s play (Kestrels, Peregrines and Ospreys), they are going like hot cakes.

See you at the Fair.

Alice Littlehailes

Dear Parents,
Thank you to everyone who sent in a donation for Children in Need last Friday we raised over £250. It was a busy Friday as we then had Film Night and Year 4 Sleep Over. I know there were some issues around tickets for Film Night and the PTA are going to discuss this at their next meeting. Year 4 sleep over went well with all the children actually sleeping! A great time was had by all.
The rehearsals for the Kestrel’s, Peregrine’s and Osprey’s Christmas Play are coming on well. You should have had a ticket letter come home last night, if it hasn’t made it home just let us know. All the children will need their pumps in school for this.
Tomorrow 25th November is Non Uniform day for donations for the Christmas Fair. Children in Kestrels, Peregrines and Ospreys are asked to bring in chocolate tombola prizes and the other children are asked to bring in items for the wrap stall. This is a stall where children can buy their Christmas presents and the staff will wrap any purchase for them. They are asked to bring in different colours, but any colour will do. Kites colour is silver, Harriers is gold, Eagles green and Merlins red.
This Friday 25th November Kite’s are leading our assembly and the week after on the 2nd December Harriers will be taking the lead. Please join us if you can.
The children are still enjoying the special class menus and this Friday it is Kite’s menu, Friday 2nd is Osprey’s and Thursday 8th is Peregrines. Christmas Dinner is also coming up on 15th December, this where just about everyone has a dinner. Staff and children eat together and enjoy each other’s company. If your child normally has packed lunches but would like to join in this very special event just let us know and send £2 in a labelled envelope into the office if your child is in Key Stage 2.
Next week is the last week of swimming for the term.

Friday 2nd December is our much anticipated Christmas Fair 5.30-7.30pm, everyone is welcome. If you can not make the fair but would like to participate in the raffle, tickets can be purchased at the school office. Tickets are £1 a strip and prizes include; a bumper Christmas Hamper, £20 voucher for The Sett Valley Trail cafe, and prizes from Forever Love, Harvey Leonards, Row House, Barbarella and Active Tameside amongst others. This year we are also running a quiz, attached is the quiz sheet have a go at it and if you want to enter your attempt send it in with £1.

Alice Littlehailes

Dear Parents,
We have had a busy few weeks, thank you to the children from Harriers who stayed after school and helped with the staff training on science. The staff got a lot out of the session. The footballers have made a good start in the league, they are unbeaten at the moment. They play again this Friday so good luck to them.
We have now had three of the special class dinners and I must say the children are excellent at choosing a menu. Next week it is Kite’s menu on Friday. As always if your child normally has sandwiches but would like to have a dinner on that day that is fine. If you just let the office know and send in £2.
Thank you to everyone who sent in textiles for our bag to school collection it raised over £55 for school fund.
We were lucky enough to welcome the National president of the NUT to school on Wednesday. She visits lots of schools all over the country. She was effusive in her praise for the school, the children and the work they were doing. She quickly picked up on how engaged the children all are and the clear progress they are all making. She was particularly impressed with the year one children’s understanding of what they were doing and why and the vibrant working atmosphere across school.
We have started practicing for the Christmas Production with kestrels, Peregrines and Ospreys. Performing in a big play like this is invaluable for speaking and listening and performance skills which are some of the skills industry is looking for, however it does take a lot of time and a lot of memory on the children’s part. Performances will be at 2pm on Tuesday 13th December, 6pm Wednesday 14th and 4pm on Thursday 15th.
I am so sorry Year 4 sleep over had to be postponed last week. We will be holding it this Friday after film night, so the children will go home from school have their tea and return with their sleep over stuff at 5.30 if they are coming to film night or at 7.30 if not. I know some children have a football event and won’t be able to return until 8pm and that is fine. Pick up will be at 9am on Saturday morning.
Year 5 are leading our assembly this Friday and Year 3 will be leading it on 25th November. It is always lovely to welcome you to these.
We are in the middle of prime illness season and a number of parents have asked me to clarify the rules. If your child has been sick or had diarrhoea they cannot return to school until 48 hours after the last incident. If your child has been prescribed medicine that they need to take during the school day we will either administer it or help the child as we know it is difficult for you to get in to do so, but we need you to fill in a form to authorise us. I know it can be difficult for some parents to get in to fill in this form so I will look into putting it on the website. If your child needs non-prescription medicines such as cough medicine the same rules apply. Pain relief such as Calpol contains paracetamol so we cannot have bottles in school. If your child needs this type of medicine please bring in sachets and a form. We ask that an adult brings all medicines down to the office except for inhalers which are kept accessible in classrooms. I hope this clears up any confusion.
Tomorrow is Children in Need so come in something spotty, that can be uniform or non-uniform and spots or all spots. Please also bring a donation.
Alice Littlehailes

10.11.16
Dear Parents,
It’s newsletter day again.
Please remember to bring in your Bags2School donations on Monday. The bags have details of what can be donated; please do not include anything that is not appropriate, as this will spoil the donation.

Friday sees the dinner hall turning into Eagles Eatery as we get a chance to choose from the Eagles’ Menu. If your child is normally on packed lunches and would like to try a dinner on that day, just let us know. Dinners are £2 per day and can be paid for individually where necessary.

Merlins are leading our Assembly this Friday; do join us if you can.

There is a PTA film night next Friday, 18th November. It runs from 5.30 to 7.30, and the film is The Secret Life of Pets. Tickets are available from the office; they are £3, which includes refreshments.

The Friday 11th Year 4 Sleep Over has sadly had to be postponed, but fear not! It has been rescheduled to Friday 18th, and begins straight after the PTA film night

This year’s Children in Need is also fast approaching. Keep your eyes peeled for more information soon.