St Luke's C of E Primary School, Glossop

St Luke’s CE Primary School Newsletter

5.9.19

Dear Parents,

Welcome back I do hope you all had a great summer. It is always a delight to see everybody back and ready for the new school year, though they all (and the staff) find getting back into the routine tiring.

There is a PTA meeting after the Friday morning assembly tomorrow– with cake! Every Friday we have an open assembly which everyone is welcome to attend. Following the assembly this Friday there will be a PTA welcome meeting for new and existing parents. Please do attend if you can, pre-schoolers are welcome.

The start of the school year is a good time to remind you all that attendance and punctuality are really important and make difference to your child’s education. Holidays in term time can only be authorised in exceptional circumstances. Here is the official statement from Derbyshire:

In September 2013 the Education (Pupil Registration) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 came into force. These regulations make it clear that Headteachers should not grant approval for any leave of absence during term-time, including holidays, unless there are exceptional circumstances. These regulations also state that holidays cannot be authorised retrospectively.

Any requests should be on an official school absence request form and handed into the school office for consideration prior to any holiday/leave arrangements being made.

You may be issued with a Penalty Notice should leave be taken which is not authorised. If unpaid this could lead to prosecution under section 444(1) of The Education Act 1996.

I am also including the information about our facebook page again just so you have it. I will try to get better at remembering to use it!

if you are a Facebook user we would welcome you to ‘like and follow’ the St Luke’s Church of England Primary School official Facebook page. The Facebook page has been established by the staff and governors to share information and events about the school to the school and local community. Its aim is to be a source of information, it is not to be a page for queries and/or concerns regarding your child/children. If you have any questions regarding school matters then these should be directed through the traditional channels of the school office or your child’s class teacher. The School staff will of course respond to comments as soon as possible should a response be required but this may not be immediate. We would be very grateful if you could respect this page and the users who use it – we will have to delete inappropriate comments should this be required. The staff and school governors hope that this will be a great new additional communication tool for the school, all the other communication channels will remain in place.

The school Facebook page can be found using the following link: https://www.facebook.com/StLukesPrimaryGlossop/

We recommend that you set up the St Luke’s Facebook page as a ‘favourite group/page’ by following these simple steps (from a desktop computer):

1. Like and follow https://www.facebook.com/StLukesPrimaryGlossop/ on your personal Facebook profile
2. When on the St Luke’s Facebook page. Click the ‘following’ button and under ‘in your news feed’ section, tick the ‘see first’ button. This will ensure that when a new item is posted on the official page you will see this first in your newsfeed.There will be toast tomorrow. On Friday mornings we have toast as a treat. The children bring in 20p and for this they get a slice of toast. It is part of our economic education so once the children reach Year 3 if they forget their 20p they do not get toast. This is not us being mean but us helping them understand the relationship between money and food. If you are available on a Friday morning and would like to help make toast we would love to hear from you.
3. We thank you in advance for your cooperation.

I am attaching the dates for this year. We do sometimes have to change dates so please keep an eye on the newsletters for updates.

Alice Littlehailes

Dates 2019-20

September

6^th                           PTA Coffee Morning

9^th & 10^th             Bikeabilty

13^th                        Plastic collection starts

16^th                        Clubs start

17^th                        Library visits

18^th                        Pinochio in school

19^th                         Phonics Workshop

20^th                         Bring Plastics in

Scoot and Skate

23^rd                         Y6 online safety

27^th                        St Luke’s Sculpture Park

October

1^st                           Online safety training for parents

3^rd                           PTA AGM

6^th                           Glossop Jog

9^th-11^th                  Whitehall

11^th                        Eagles leading Assembly

16^th                         Individual Photos

18^th                         Peregrines leading Assembly

PTA disco

23^rd                         Parents evening

24^th                         Children finish for half term

November

4^th                           Children return to school

5^th                           Flu vaccinations

7^th                           Visit to Parliament

8^th                           Ospreys trip

Merlins leading Assembly

15^th                        Ospreys leading Assembly

22^nd                        Kites leading Assembly

Y4 Sleep Over

29^th                        Harriers leading Assembly

December

10^th & 11^th           Christmas Production

13^th                        Kestrels leading Assembly

17^th                        Eagles & Merlins party

18^th                        Harriers & Kites party

19^th                         Ospreys, Peregrines & Kestrels party

20^th                        Carol Service

Christmas Dinner

Finish for Christmas

January

6^th                           Children return to school

31^st                         Kites leading Assembly

February

7^th                           Harriers leading Assembly

14^th                        Merlins leading Assembly

Finish for half term

24^th                        Children return to school

March

6^th                           Ospreys leading Assembly

9^th                           Class Photos

13^th                        Eagles leading Assembly

20^th                        Kestrels leading Assembly

27^th                        Peregrines leading Assembly

30^th&31^st              Y3/4 Production

April

1^st                           Parents Evening

3^rd                           Easter Service

Children finish for Easter

20^th                        Children return to school

22^nd – 24^th           Whitby

May

1^st                           Eagles Assembly

8^th                           Bank Holiday

15^th                        Sports Day

22^nd                        Children finish for half term

June

3^rd                           Children return to school

8^th                           PEGS music concert

12^th                        Kites leading Assembly

26^th                        Harriers leading Assembly

July

3^rd                           Ospreys leading Assembly

W/B 6^th                 Merlins & Eagles Production

10^th                        Peregrines leading Assembly

17^th                        Kestrels leading Assembly

21^st                         Levers Assembly

Children finish for summer