Just to remind parents/carers that if they take their children out of school without authority for 5 or more days (which do not have to be consecutive), they will be liable to receive a penalty notice. Currently the amount payable under a penalty notice is £60.00 per parent/carer per child if paid within 21 days. Thereafter the amount increases to £120.00 if paid between 21 and 28 days. If the penalty notice remains unpaid after 28 days, the Local Authority will consider a prosecution in the Magistrates Court. 

Please note that penalty notices are issued per parent/carer per child so a family of two parents and two children will receive 4 penalty notices. Surrey County Council is not responsible for authorising pupil absence and therefore cannot withdraw any Penalty Notice requests without the written permission of the Headteacher.

Year 5 and 6 Girls Football Competition at Burhill Primary School

Fourteen girls from St James represented the school at an Inspire Football festival at Burhill school on Thursday 9th May. The festival was played in a 7 a side format in two groups. St James had 2 teams, one in each group. Both teams represented the school values throughout the festival, cheering on others and putting in lots of effort on what turned out to be a hot afternoon. 

St James Team 1 played against Cleves 1 drawing 1-1 with Lottie H scoring, Bell Farm winning 1-0 with Ava D scoring, Grovelands with Evelyn S scoring and Burhill ending in a 0-0 draw. St James Team 2 first played Burhill 2 and drew 0-0, then played Cleves 2 and lost 1-0, then onto an excellent 1-0 win against St Charles with Evie B scoring and their final game versus Bell Farm ending 0-0. 

The girls playing were Isobel W S, Ava D, Hettie F, Mia H, Evelyn S, Tula P, Lottie H, Olivia G, Evie B, Sofia C S, Indie B, Dolly Rose S, Summer T, Flora B.

Well done to all.

Recommended reads

Parents are often asking us which books we would recommend for their children to read. The website Books for Topics has just updated their recommended reads for each year group. These can be found here. 

We will aim to get as many of these in our library as we can, but parents may find these useful to guide their next purchase or look out for these in the library. 

Please find below the new Spring/Summer menu from our school caterers, Twelve15. This is a three week rolling menu. All children choose from one of the three meal options at the start of each school day.  

If your child is in KS2 and has a school meal, please remember to pay for and book their meals in advance using the SCOPAY app.

To acknowledge 'World Bee Day' on Thursday 16th May 2024, Twelve15 have organised a special lunch menu on this day. Please see the menu below. 

If your child is in Reception, Year 1 or Year 2, they are entitled to receive a free school meal under the Universal Infant Free School Meals Scheme so you do not need to do anything as you child will automatically receive a meal for that day.

If your child is in KS2 or usually has packed lunches from home, but would like to have the special lunch on Thursday 16th May, you can order your child's lunch by signing into SCOPAY going to Balances, Dinner Money, Top up balance, Calendar and then select the correct day. 

If you are entitled to free school meals you do not need to select top up balance, just go straight to Calendar.

Please can we ask, if you do need to order your child's lunch, you do so by Monday 13th May.