Newsletter 13 - 5th December 2025

Learning This Week

Early Years

This week in Early Years the children have been inspired by superheroes! They dressed up as superheroes and took part in superhero 'training'. They used their super strength to climb obstacles and defeat the villains! They have created superhero posters writing about their superpowers.

Key Stage One

This week the children have had been really successful finishing re-telling the story Excitable Edgar’. Last week they made beautiful glitter snow globes and this week they wrote the label and gave it to one of their friends to take home. We also explored different materials in Science and tested which materials made the tallest towers. In DT, the children looked at features of different houses, their materials and how to best join them. What a fun and busy week!

Santa Dash!

A Santa Dash will be taking place on Friday 12th December! This is a fun and festive event where children get the chance to run, walk, or jog in their Santa hats or festive headwear and spread holiday cheer.

Event Details:

Date: Friday 12th December during the school day
Location: The Playground
Dress Code: Children are encouraged to wear festive headwear

The Santa Dash is all about having fun and staying active while celebrating the holiday season. There is no competition—just smiles, laughter, and a great way to get into the Christmas spirit!

Thank you for your support, and we look forward to seeing everyone join in the festive fun!

Warm regards,

Mrs Rigby, PE Leader

Christmas Performance

This year's Christmas performance will be A Miracle in Town! There will be two performances on Tuesday 16th December (at 9.10am and 2.00pm) and one on Wednesday 17th December at 9.10am.

As in previous years, each child will have 2 tickets, which can be used for any performance. This is 2 tickets total, not 2 tickets per show.

Tickets are free, but need to be booked online here by Monday 8th December. You will need to provide the name of the child the tickets are allocated to, as well as the name of each guest. Younger children will need a ticket if they cannot sit comfortably on an adult's lap for around an hour, and unfortunately we do not have space in the hall for pushchairs.

If there are tickets remaining after the 8th December, these will be released on a first come, first served basis for up to 2 more tickets per family.

Please note this is a whole school performance, where every class is included in the show.

Donation buckets will be available at all performances for our chosen charity this year, Mission Christmas Cash for Kids.

Christmas Lunch Menu

Festive Fun.pdf

Christmas Dinner Day will be on Thursday 18th December. As we usually have a roast dinner on Wednesdays, the menu that week will swap as follows:

Wednesday 17th December - Sausages & Mash, Veggie Sausages & Mash, Jacket Potato or Hot Tomato Pasta

Thursday 18th December - Christmas Menu or Jacket Potato

Dishes will be adjusted to be suitable for children on an allergy safe menu.

Don't forget, Christmas Dinner Day is also Christmas Jumper Day in aid of Mission Christmas! If you would like to make a donation towards Cash for Kids Mission Christmas you can do so here.

CAMHS Events 2026

HCAMHS events 2026 2.pdf

Cash 4 Kids / Mission Christmas

Thank you so much to the families who have already donated to our Mission Christmas toy donation box! We'll be able to accept new, unwrapped gifts and toys until Friday 12th December, the donation box is in the main office.

Our Christmas Jumper Day on Thursday 18th December will also be raising money for Cash for Kids - you can donate online on the day or in advance via our fundraising page.

FISHES News

Thank you

We hope you all enjoyed the Christmas Fayre! Thank you to everyone that came along it was lovely to see so many school families and also families that we did not recognise. We are just totting up the final figure and hope to share this with you next week. Thank you to all the volunteers that helped on the day and for the wonderful donations we received for our stalls and special thank you to Wenzels and Fodder Mongers for the incredible cake donations and to one of our parents who amazingly helped us with cooking the gammons.

We would love to hear any feedback from you positive or constructive. We like to know to know your views to help us shape future events.

The children had a wonderful time doing their Christmas shopping, we hope all the presents made it under the tree and weren't opened on the walk home from school! Thank you to everyone that joined in and thank you to the volunteers that helped on the day.

Pop up shop - Friday 12th December

Our final event of the year will be next Friday, we will be selling presents leftover from the Christmas Shopping event and we will be selling hot chocolate, drinks, mince pies, crisps and sweets in the school hall. Please do pop along, we will be accepting cash or card. Please come through the fire exit door from the playground by the adventure trail.

Thank you for supporting all our events through the Autumn term.

Nut Free School

We would like to remind parents that we are a nut free school. We have members of both the staff and student community who are anaphylactic to nuts of all varieties. This includes obvious things like hazelnut spread in sandwiches, but also many types of cereal bars and biscuits also contain nuts. Please check the ingredients list of all food items that you send into school.

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