Newsletter Three

W/c 16th September 2024

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FOSS UPDATE - PAGE THREE

DATES AND REMINDERS

(Dates may be subject to change. For a full list of our yearly dates please check our 'Summary of Dates' page on our website)

Friday 20th September - FOSS cake sales commence - school playground (more details on page four)

Wednesday 25th September - FOSS AGM - 8-9pm - School Hall. Come along and hear about plans for this year's fundraisers and what last year's monies were spent on

Monday 30th September - Friday 4th October - Scholastic Book Fair

October - Cultural Awareness Month

Wednesday 2nd October - Nasal Flu Immunisations - Whole School

Thursday 3rd October - Year Six Junior Citizenship (further details to follow)

Monday 7th October – Year Six Talking Hands Workshop (further details to follow)

Wednesday 9th October - Harvest Festival

Thursday 10th October - French Club starts (change of start date)

Monday 14th - Friday 18th October - Anti-Prejudice Week

Wednesday 16th October - Year One trip to Bockett's Farm (further details to follow)

Friday 18th October - Lau Class Assembly (Y5) - 9am

Friday 18th October - FOSS Favourite Top Day (tbc)

Friday 18th October - FOSS Quiz Night – Battle it out against other classes at the school quiz night! Tickets will go on sale soon

Monday 21st October - FOSS Second-hand uniform sale

Tuesday 22nd October - Individual and Sibling school photographs

Friday 25th October - INSET DAY - School Closed (Stars will be open)

Monday 28th October - Friday 1st November - Half term holiday

Saturday 2nd November - FOSS rugby stall fundraiser

Monday 4th November - Children return to school

Friday 8th November – Attenborough Class (Y5) - 9 am

RECEPTION IS IN THE HOUSE

The sun was shining, (indeed it may just have got in their eyes), but we are thrilled to bring you the first image of our marvellous Reception cohort, complete with their wonderful staff team. The word on the corridor is that these young scholars are settling in beautifully. Starting school is such a momentous milestone, so we ensure we take lots of time to settle our children in before they start their learning journey. Home visits, short classroom stays and staggered entry are designed to ensure the smoothest of transitions to becoming a full time learner. They are all settled into their carpet spaces, lining up beautifully and building on many more school routines. As well as that, their academic journey has begun. Turn to page two for the first of this year's Reception Round Ups...

FLYING THE FLAG AT HOOKE COURT

We have missed Year Six in school this week but know the children have been having a ball (literally, by the looks of these lovely photos) on their final school journey to Hooke Court. Back in the classroom, they are learning about the First World War. So a stay at the Hooke Court Residential Study Centre, where they can take part in a programme, geared to their current learning, is perfect. The centre has purpose built, mock trenches, which gave the children a feel of life during the First World War, although their experience was so much safer. They completed some firing practice, marching and a good old fashioned knees up and sing song in the Officers' Mess. Check out those sparkling chandeiers. More pictures on page four and we will bring you further photographic evidence of this spectacular school journey in next week's issue ...

Weekly House Points Tally

Blue – 58 points

Green – 69 points

Yellow – 76 points

Red – 80 points

Well done Red House

SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR

Monday September 30th - Friday October 4th - 3.40pm - 4.00pm (school playground)

We are delighted to announce that we will be holding another Scholastic Book Fair. This not only gives our children and parents a chance to buy some wonderful reading matter, but it is also a great way to support reading in school. Every time you buy a book you notch up reading credits for school, as Scholastic give us free books for our classrooms and library. This is the perfect way to help promote our bid to get each and every one of our children reading good quality books in and out of school. There is also a three for two book promotion on all books.

You may pay by card at the fair, via a card reader machine, or by using the online payment link at https://bookfairs.scholastic.co.uk/pay/1329995 and simply selecting your school from the drop down menu. If you are in receipt of additional pupil funding and would like your child to choose a free book, please contact your child’s class teacher.

The event will be held in our school playground (see above for timings). However, if it is raining on the day, we will move the book sale into one of the downstairs classrooms.

Thank you so much for your continued support of reading in school. We hope you get some fabulous books for your home libraries.

🛑Parking Safety🛑

Please could we remind all parents to be considerate about where they are parking in the mornings and after school. If cars are parked outside of the marked bays (eg at the end of roads or on corners), this poses a serious safety risk to our families walking to school, as their visibility is severely affected when trying to cross the road. It also poses difficulties for larger vans and lorries, causing them to mount the pavement, leading to increased traffic in the surrounding roads. Thank you for your support with this matter.

Chertsey Road Drop Box

If you need to drop off items to school for your child during the school day that have been forgotten to be packed in the morning - packed lunches, trainers, recorder, reading books etc, please ring the buzzer at the Chertsey Road gate, the office will open the gate and you can place the items into the labelled 'drop box' by the office entrance. The items will be collected regularly throughout the day and brought to classes.

Thank you

New French Club

We will be launching a new lunchtime French club from Thursday 10th October. Year 1 & 2 Thursday lunchtime & Year 3 - 6 also on Thursday 15:30 - 16:30. Spaces can be booked on ParentPay.

Class assemblies

Here are the dates for our class assemblies. Please note that each assembly starts at 9am. Please drop off children as normal on the Winchester Road at 8.50am, then walk to the Hall entrance on the Chertsey Road to enter directly into the hall. Please note that these dates are subject to change. We will notify classes of any changes via email, with as much notice as possible.

9am Friday 18th October - Lau Class (Y5)

9am Friday 8th November – Attenborough Class (Y5)

9am Friday 17th January – Turing Class (Y4)

9am Friday 24th January – Earhart Class (Y2)

9am Friday 7th February – Rashford Class (Y4)

9am Friday 14th February – Yousafzai Class (Y2)

9am Friday 7th March – Curie Class(Y1)

9am Friday 21st March - Mandela Class (Y3)

9am Friday 2nd May – Thunberg Class (Y3)

9am Friday 9th May – Pankhurst Class(Y1)

9am Friday 5th June – Anning Class(R)

9am Friday 6th June – King Class(R)

Wednesday 9th July and Thursday 10th July 7.00pm – 9.00pm Year 6 Production (Both Y6 classes)

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