Dear Families, 

This half term we are launching our ATTENDANCE initiative. 

Every class team will have the letters of the word 'attendance' laminated. Each time that the whole team is present the team will add a letter from the word attendance to their wall display. After ten sessions (and the word has been completed) the class team will be rewarded with a non school uniform day. This is something that every team can achieve.  We are going to challenge the children to see if every team can have at least one non school uniform day by the end of this term! 

Thank you, as always, for your continued support when it comes to positive attendance at school. We know this half term can be tricky with sickness bugs and colds and sometimes sickness absence cannot be helped.  If you are unsure if your child should be in school please contact us so that we can offer support. 

Next week (week commencing 13/11/23) is Anti-Bullying Week. The focus of this year's anti-bullying week is 'Make a noise about bullying'. In school we will be kick starting anti-bullying week with Odd Socks Day which is on Monday 13th November. On this day we are encouraging the children to come into school in odd socks to help us to celebrate what makes us all unique! Throughout the rest of the week, the children will be spending time in their PSHE lessons focusing on anti-bullying where their class teachers will work with them to discuss what bullying is and what we can do about it. If you would like to find out more about this year's anti-bullying week please see the Anti-Bullying Alliance's website by clicking here. 

Thank you to all of our parents and carers who attended parents evening this week.  If you were unable to attend please contact the school office to arrange a meeting with your child's class teacher.  During parents evening we shared attednace data, if you did not receive this we will send it home next week so that you have an up-to-date copy of your child's current attendance.  We also asked parents to complete our parent questionnaire during these meetings, we have added the link to this below, if you were unable to complete it please can we ask that you do this using the link.  Your feedback is very important to us, we know we can always be better and so it's important to hear from you as parents and carers as to how this may need to look. 

Have a lovely weekend.

Best wishes

Mrs. Winter

CHILDREN IN NEED