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LAST YEAR FOSS, OUR FABULOUS PTA, RAISED A RECORD BREAKING £116,000 FOR SCHOOL. THESE MONIES MAKE AN ENORMOUS DIFFERENCE TO THE RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES WE CAN PROVIDE FOR OUR CHILDREN. FOR ALL THE LATEST FROM FOSS TURN TO PAGE THREE ...
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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)
October - Cultural Awareness Month
Wednesday 9th October - Harvest Festival
Monday 7th October – Year Six Talking Hands Workshop
Friday 11th October - Let's Talk About Upstanders (Anti-Prejudice Week) - 9am in the Studio
Monday 14th - Friday 18th October - Anti-Prejudice Week
Tuesday 15th October - Reception Autumn Walk
Wednesday 16th October - Year One trip to Bockett's Farm
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 nearer the time
Monday 21st October - FOSS Second hand uniform sale
Tuesday 22nd October - Individual & Sibling school photographs
Friday 25th October - INSET DAY - School Closed (Stars will be open)
Friday 29th November - Let’s Talk About Friendships - 9am in the Studio
Monday 28th October - Friday 1st November - Half term holiday (Sports Camp open 29th, 30th, 31st)
Saturday 2nd November - FOSS rugby stall fundraiser
Monday 4th November - Children return to school
Wednesday 6th November - Year Five Trip to Hampton Court Palace
Friday 8th November – Attenborough Class Assembly (Y5) - 9 am
Tuesday 12th - Attenborough Class Food Tech Workshop with Mrs Cox
Friday 15th November - Lau Class Assembly (Y5) - 9am in the Hall (this is a date change)
Tuesday 19th November - Lau Class Food Tech Workshop with Mrs Cox
Tuesday 19th November - Year One Trip to Strawberry Hill House
WELL DONE TO RED HOUSE - LAST WEEK'S HOUSEPOINTS WINNER
⚽OCTOBER HALF TERM SPORTS CAMP🎾
⚽OCTOBER HALF TERM SPORTS CAMP🎾
Mr Cain & Mr Ryan will host our half term camp on Tuesday 29th, Wednesday 30th and Thursday 31st of October 9:30-3:30. You can book your place (£32) on ParentPay https://www.parentpay.com
Drop off and pick up will be from Winchester Road gate. Please bring a packed lunch, water bottle and appropriate clothing for the weather including a raincoat. Smaller children may need a change of clothes packed.
⭐STARS⭐
⭐STARS⭐
OCTOBER INSET DAY
OCTOBER INSET DAY
Stars will be open on inset day Friday 25th October from 8:30-4:30pm, breakfast will be provided, please bring a packed lunch and water bottle. You can book your place (£40) on ParentPay https://www.parentpay.com
Drop off and pick up will be from Winchester Road gate. Please bring a packed lunch, water bottle and appropriate clothing for the weather including a raincoat. Smaller children may need a change of clothes packed.
NEXT HALF TERMLY BOOKINGS
NEXT HALF TERMLY BOOKINGS
Bookings will open for the next half term of wraparound care on Tuesday 15th October ay 7pm. For those who pay using childcare vouchers and tax-free childcare, please instruct your provider to credit our account before end of the day Tuesday 8th of October. If you pay using debit card, you may wish to top up your ParentPay account before the bookings go live for a speedier checkout. If you are booking for siblings, you may find it helpful to have both parents, where possible, logged in and booking for a child each.
NEW FRENCH CLUB STARTS NEXT WEEK!!
NEW FRENCH CLUB STARTS NEXT WEEK!!
Our new French club will begin on Thursday 10th October with Madame Bishop.
Year 1 - 2 will be at lunchtime 12:30 - 1pm and will cost £40.50 for the remainder of the term.
Year 3 - 6 will be held after school in Attenborough class 3:30 - 4:30 and will cost £81 for the remainder of the term. Pick up will be from Chertsey Road gate.
Places can be booked on ParentPay https://www.parentpay.com
NEW DROP BOX
NEW DROP BOX
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LOST PROPERTY
LOST PROPERTY
DROP BOX
DROP BOX
If you would like to drop something off for your child during school hours, please label it and place it in our new DROP BOX, inside our Chertsey Road entrance. There is no longer a requirement to come into the building to drop items off during the school day. The box will be regularly emptied and items taken to your child's class. All items must be labelled. We do appreciate that sometimes it is necessary to drop forgotten items off during the school day, but we do ask that this is kept to a minimum, in order to cause as little disruption as possible to lessons. Thank you.
LOST PROPERTY
LOST PROPERTY
Lost property will not be stored in the school building. All named items that turn up will be returned to children as soon as possible. Unnamed items will be stored in a box which will be located near the Reception classrooms, under the Dove mural.
You can check this for missing items at drop off & pick up. We have a large number of items coming into school that are unnamed. This makes it very hard for us to return lost property to the rightful owner. Please ensure all items belonging to your child, from stationery to clothing, are named.
Thank you so much.
PS We have already got some lovely, unnamed coats in the lost property box. If you have lost one, please do check them out to see if yours is there.
NOT RECEIVING SCHOOL EMAILS?
NOT RECEIVING SCHOOL EMAILS?
We have been made aware that for some recipients, our emails have been landing in spam and junk folders. We have escalated this matter to our IT provider who have advised us on the best way to remedy this.
We have been made aware that for some recipients, our emails have been landing in spam and junk folders. We have escalated this matter to our IT provider who have advised us on the best way to remedy this.
1) Open email app on mobile device
1) Open email app on mobile device
2) Open junk mailbox
2) Open junk mailbox
3) Find a St. Stephen's email but don't open it
3) Find a St. Stephen's email but don't open it
4) Hold down on the email itself until a small menu pops up.
4) Hold down on the email itself until a small menu pops up.
5) Click on 'not spam/junk' (may vary depending on email provider)
5) Click on 'not spam/junk' (may vary depending on email provider)
6) This will release school emails back to your inbox/mark as 'safe'.
6) This will release school emails back to your inbox/mark as 'safe'.
THANK YOU SO MUCH TO LEXI CONNOR FOR THE FANTASTIC DONATIONS OF TOYS TO EYFS. OUR CHILDREN ARE ALREADY ENJOYING USING THEM IN THEIR OUTDOOR CLASSROOM
The Changing of the Seasons
Report by Mrs Grosvenor
Over the last two weeks in Year One we have been looking at different seasons and how the weather changes. We looked at two different trees in the playground and observed the leaves over a two week period to give us an indication of which season it is. We also introduced the children to the terms 'evergreen' and 'deciduous' and they loved showing off their new knowledge to their peers and parents!
ALL OUR CHILDREN, FROM RECEPTION TO YEAR SIX, RECEIVE A WEEKLY FRENCH LESSON.C URRENT TOPICS INCLUDE NUMBERS, GREETINGS, COLOURS AND FOOD. HERE, WE GIVE YOU MADAME MORRISON, WHO POPPED INTO YEAR TWO FOR A LITTLE FRENCH CONVERSATION.
Please have a look at the Parentsafe Website. It has fantastic advice for online safety and beyond.
ASD parent support group at Grand Avenue Primary School on Friday 11th October from 9.30 to 11am. If you you would like to attend please use this link to register: https://forms.gle/Lou2FWfKoGxHEhri6
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