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Dear Parents and Carers,

The festive season is now in full swing and we are really looking forward to showing all of you, our parents and carers, our Christmas performances next week. This is such a magical time of year and the children and staff are working so hard on rehearsals as well as continuing their day to day learning; impressive work from everyone. On Monday we will have our dress rehearsals which will give the rest of the school a chance to watch each other's performance; I look forward to this day each year, it's very special. It was lovely to spend last Friday evening at the torchlight procession with both the Lark Rise and Ardley Hill children and enjoy the Christmas singing and display with some of our Year 5 and 6 children; we even managed to get up close to Santa this year!

There have been lots of 'magic moments' taking place over the last few weeks including the wedding of Barnaby and Bethany Bear in Reception. It was a special occasion for all the children where they were able to experience some of the customs attached to this type of celebration - listening to the vows, celebrating with cake and music. This week the children in Lower Key Stage 2 went back in time to the Tudors through their 'magic moment' linked to their History topic; they enjoyed a range of events typical of the time including Tudor dance and making pottage. Thank you for ensuring your child looked the part in their costume.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing lots of you next week for our Christmas performances; these moments with the children are so precious and we hope to create some fond memories for you.

Mrs Romina Lang

Headteacher

Attendopoly

Each week in our whole school assembly we celebrate children's attendance by playing a game of Attendopoly (based on Monopoly). The class with the highest attendance figure is rewarded with a class prize.

The winning class for the last week was:

Week of 17th November : Macaws class with 99.7% attendance

Whole school attendance : 95.9%

Week of 25th November : Hummingbirds class with 98.7% attendance

Whole school attendance : 96.9%

Our whole school target attendance for this academic year across all classes is 97%.

Christmas Lunch

We are looking forward to enjoying Christmas lunch together on Wednesday 17th December. Children are welcome to wear Christmas clothing and headwear if they wish for this special day (no school uniform needs to be worn). If your child is due to do PE on this day, please ensure they are wearing something suitable for PE activities.

Christmas Jumper Day

Thursday 11th December is Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day. Children can wear any Christmas related clothing on this day. No school uniform needs to be worn and there is no charge for this day.

Christmas Performances

A reminder of the dates and times for next week's Christmas performancs:

Afternoon Nursery (Ducklings):

Tuesday 9th December 2.30pm

Morning Nursery (Ducks) & Reception (Owls & Robins):

Tuesday 9th December 9.00am

Thursday 11th December 10.30am

Key Stage One (Hummingbirds, Parrots & Penguins):

Tuesday 9th December 10.30am

Thursday 11th December 9.00am

Key Stage Two (Macaws, Peacocks, Red Kites, Eagles, Falcons & Hawks): Wednesday 10th December 6.30pm. The Key Stage Two Christmas performance will take place at Dunstable Conference Centre (opposite Peacocks on High Street South).

Please remember to bring your tickets with you as admission is by ticket only.

Poppy Appeal

Thank you for supporting this year’s Poppy Appeal. Lark Rise Academy raised the grand total of £357.51 towards the appeal.

Christmas Movie Night

Christmas movie night will take place on Monday 8th December immediately after school until 5:00pm. All children from Reception to Upper Key Stage Two are invited to stay in exchange for a book from one of our Amazon wish lists. If you have booked for your child and have not yet purchased a book, please do so from the links sent out by email last week.

After school clubs will NOT be running on Monday evening so if your child is not attending the Movie Night they will need to be collected at 3.30pm.

Children will need to be collected at 5.00pm from the following points :

Reception : from the usual Reception door

KS1 : from the usual KS1 doors

LKS2 : from the main entrance

UKS2 : from the UKS2 block (ALL children in UKS2 will need to be collected).

FALLS - Santa's Float

Thank you to those parents/carers who have offered to help on the Santa's float on Sunday 14th December.

Please meet at the school at 4:30pm ready to leave by 5pm at the latest. Unfortunately, due to safety reasons, we can not have children accompany us.

Thanks in advance for your continued support.

The FALLS team and Santa

Sustainability Update

The children have had two exciting sustainability-themed assemblies recently. This week, the eco-reps introduced 'Energy Sparks' to the children: a platform that will track our energy usage and give us practical energy saving tips! The children have also been introduced to a sustainability-themed reading challenge where they can select books to read which link to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This is another way to encourage children to read for pleasure while giving them the opportunity to learn more about sustainable development. Your child may bring one of these books home to share with you before returning it to the sustainability library.

Christmas Week Menu

The kitchen will be covering a special menu for the last week of this term (week commencing 15th December). This is a change to the advertised menu. All meals will need to be ordered via MCAS (whether paid for or not).

Notifying Absence

Please ensure that you notify the school (via the absence line on the school phone rather than by email) if your child is absent from school for any reason. If we are not notified of the reason for a child's absence, the absence will be recorded as unauthorised and will count against overall school absences for the year, culminating in a fine if a child misses 10 or more sessions (5 days) of unauthorised absence.

Writing to be proud of (Year 2)

Aria (Year 2)

Hanna-Khezia (Year 2)

Isla B (Year 2)

Max (Year 2)

Sofia (Year 2)

Frankie (Year 2)

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