Newsletter 12 01/12/23

This is the season of songs ringing out from the hall as children prepare for the upcoming celebrations; it makes a lovely background sound from my office nearby. We are looking forward to seeing you over this period of Advent, beginning with the Christmas Market on Sunday, and hope that you can join us at some time between 12 and 3. Thankyou for your donations of bottles and other items - also to the members and supporters of FOSH, our fundraising parent body.

The festivities continue next week as the children make decorations and other items on Monday afternoon and take part in Advent services on Thursday. The parents of Early Years pupils will be joining us for a singalong on Wednesday and on the same day we will start collecting to support families in need, working alongside the SVP charity. It is important at this time of year that we think of those less fortunate than ourselves, some going through difficult times in these times of financial hardship, reflecting a core Catholic value of loving and caring for others.

There is always lots going on at school, organised and provided by a whole range of staff and other adults, for which we are grateful. This week have seen lots of bike activity on the playground as Years 6 and 4 have some Bikeability training. We also had late availability for a 'Mighty Minds' coding and computing workshop yesterday which was enjoyed by Year 4 and 5. Another busy week awaits...

Enjoy your weekend.

God bless,

Mr. Beazeley

4th Dec -  Year 6 Respect Workshop
4th Dec - Christmas Decoration morning
6th Dec - EYFS Sing Along at 9.30am and 2.00pm
6th - 8th Dec - SVP Foodbank Christmas collection
7th Dec - KS1 Advent Assembly (KS1/Reception)
7th Dec - KS2 Advent Reconciliation Service (KS2)
11th Dec - KS1 Nativity in school hall at 2pm (KS1/parents)
12th Dec - KS1 Nativity in school hall at 9.30am (KS1/parents)
12th Dec - Year 6 Victorian Christmas Day
14th Dec - KS2 Christmas Concert in church at 1:45pm (KS2/parents)
14th Dec - KS2 Christmas Concert in church at 7pm (KS2/parents)
15th Dec - EYFS and KS1 afternoon party
18th Dec - KS2 afternoon party
19th Dec - Christmas Dinner (Whole School)
20th Dec -  Last day of term
21st Dec - 3rd Jan - CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS
4th Jan - CHILDREN RETURN TO SCHOOL

Our Year 4 and 5 pupils had an exciting day with RAF Mighty Minds Maths, learning how to build and code a robot

Year 6 have been completing their level 1 Bikeability on the playground before learning how to ride on the road. 

This week our road markings got a freshen up by the council. Could we all try to remember to leave these areas clear to ensure safety of all pupils and adults at drop off times.

As the season of Advent approaches, we wanted to share our Christmas plans with you. As always, at this special time of year, we are really looking forward to giving our children the best experience possible this term.   To read more about all these events, please click here

Is your child’s birthday between 01 September 2019 and 31st August 2020? If so they will be starting school in September 2024 and you need to apply online to the Council and also complete a Supplementary Information Form (SIF) for Sacred Heart school. The closing date for all applications is 15th January 2024. 

Dear Parents and Carers,

We are writing to inform you that due to the increase in the price of whole-sale food and the cost of living crisis, we will now have to increase the cost of snacks on the snack trolley to 30p. 

In addition, to maintain the healthy status of the school, the snack trolley will now only stock ‘healthy snacks’. For example, a variety of fruit, vegetables and yoghurt drinks.

Thank you

We would like to remind all our families using breakfast club of the importance of booking in advance.  We have noticed an increase of children not booking in advance and this effects our staffing ratio.

All bookings must be made at the beginning of each week so we can ensure we have enough staff available.  Priority will be given to children who have booked in advance and those who have not booked may not be able to stay.

If you need assistance making a booking please email annemarie@sacredheart.southend.sch.uk

Mr Jarvis would very much appreciate it if parents could donate any old shin pads to the school for PE lessons. 

Please see the office if you are able to help.  Thank you.

We have a lot of unlabelled school uniform.  We have respectfully asked that all our families take the time to label all items of uniform so we can ensure uniform is reunited with their owners, we will now start to label items in school if they do not have names on to try and help with the retuning of items to pupils. 

We are reminding parents/carers that the school has a strict ‘no earrings’ policy, as we have had a number of children arriving back at school wearing earrings.

Please can we ask you to ensure that your child adheres to our policy by ensuring that earrings are removed each day before school.  If a child does attend school with earrings, they will be asked to remove the earrings and parents/carers will be contacted.

This policy of ‘no earrings’ is quite clearly written in our school prospectus and website.  Parents/carers are advised on this policy within application materials and reminded regularly through school communications.  The school and its governing body expect parents and carers to adhere to this policy please.

The NHS has produced guidance to help you make a decision as to whether to send your child to school. Please see this at the following link NHS Guidance: Is my child too ill for school?  

If your child has sickness or diarrhea remember that ALL children must remain at home until they have had 48 clear hours after the last bout of illness/symptoms. This Government requirement to prevent the spread of these highly infections illnesses. Please do not send your child back to school too soon, thank you.

A reminder to parents... we are a nut free school, so that means no Nutella/chocolate spread and peanut butter etc. should be bought in to school, including in packed lunches.  This is due to the fact that we have pupils severely allergic to nuts.  Thank you.