Newsletter 4 - 26th September 2025

Early Years

Key Stage One

Booking for Parent's Evenings will open at 8pm on Friday 26th September.

These will be bookable through Arbor for Tuesday 4th & Thursday 6th November. Please see the office if you are having difficulties making an appointment. Bookings must be made by 8pm on Wednesday 22nd October.

Please note there is one slot per child. Separated parents are strongly encouraged to share an appointment, but where this is not possible it will be down to the availability and discretion of the class teacher as to if a second booking may be made.

Yellow class will see availability for Miss Emery on Tuesday, and Mrs Rigby on Thursday - Please only book one slot, to see one teacher, as any duplicates will be cancelled.

We would like to reiterate the following:

• Your parent's evening booking is a 10 minute appointment to discuss how your child has settled in the first term, their current progress in class, and what can be done at home to support them.

• If you need to discuss anything else, this should be arranged at another time with your child's class teacher.

• Appointments cannot overrun, as this throws out not only the next family due to see your child's teacher, but also has a knock on effect for siblings who are due to see other teachers, and so on.

• Please do not be offended if your child's teacher has to end the meeting promptly due to this - each teacher may have up to 15 families to see on one evening!

• If you are bringing your child/ren with you, please ensure they do not disrupt school resources which will be needed for the next day.

Thank you in advance for your support.

Following on from the webinar on Monday 22nd September, please see the accompanying flip book below. We hope you  will find this resource helpful.

The Empowerment Approach 

First aid 

If anyone is still interested there is still an opportunity to sign up for the parent first aid course which is being held on Monday 29th September. This is a 3 hour course (12pm-3pm) run by Paramedics who will teach you the skills to be able to deal with situations such as CPR, bleeding, choking and more. These are issues that you could be faced with at home with your own children or whilst out and about, the aim of this course is to better educate and equip you should you ever be faced with them. The course is £15 and is being held here at the infant school. If you wish to sign up please contact the school office before Monday and you will be advised of the next steps.

FISHES 

We appreciate that not everyone has the time to be able to help at events etc but there are lots of other ways you can help to support your school's PTA.

• Easy Fundraising - Sign up via our link https://join.easyfundraising.org.uk/freegroundsfishes/079D2B/at/ixjes5ko/facebook/ and whilst shopping at home you could be raising money for FISHES.

• Co-Op Membership - If you sign up for a co-op membership and choose us as your charity each time you shop in the Co-Op we will receive a donation. This ends in November but it is never too late to sign up! 

• Empties Please - Bring you empty printer cartridges into school, we can then exchange them for a cash donation. 

• Sponsorship at events - If you own a company, work for a company or know someone that could help with sponsorship at any of our events this helps us to maximise our fundraising. 

• Raffle prize donations - If you own a company, work for a company or know someone that could donate a prize towards event raffles, please get in touch. 

• Donations - Any unwanted items that could go towards tombolas / raffle prizes at future events - please bring them along to the school office. 

Tesco Stronger Starts

We are really excited that we have been chosen as one of the charities for the Tesco Stronger Starts. From the first week of October until mid January every time you shop in Tesco Bursledon Towers, Tanhouse Lane or St Lukes please remember to pop a blue token in to vote for us.  Depending on how many tokens we get we will receive either £500, £1000 or £1500 and this money will be going towards developing the pond area this year. 

Other events

Tickets for the Laser Show, Wreath Workshop and Quiz are all on sale via our ticketing platform https://buytickets.at/fishes 

For the Christmas Fayre we are looking for donations of cuddly toys and tombola items, please bring your items to the school office. 

If your company (or you know of another company) that would be able to donate a raffle prize please do let us know so we can get in contact or please bring any donations to the school office. 

Thank you as always for your continued support.

What YOU must do:

Try to telephone the school before 8.30am each day of your child’s absence.

Tell the school in advance, of any medical appointments and bring in appointment cards/letters.

If you are not sure whether your child is well enough to attend school, send them in anyway as they often perk up on arrival.

If you and your child are experiencing difficulties with school attendance then talk to us as a first step so we can help!

What WE will do:

Check your child’s attendance every day.

Phone home to discuss your child’s attendance with you.

Invite you into school for attendance meetings if we are concerned.

If we cannot establish a reason for absence, then we may make a welfare home visit.