School Trips and Visits 

Lots of classes have been out on visits over the last two weeks. These trips include:

• • Year 5 Legoland trip

  • Year 3 and Year 1 visiting the Synagogue

  • Year 3 Kew Gardens

  • International Women's Day Chelsea Event for some of our Girls Football team. 

We do really appreciate all the support from parents who have come to volunteer to allow us to enhance the curriculum with these visits. Thank you to those parents who have made the voluntary contributions to ensure that these trips can go ahead. We do unfortunately have many school trips that run at a loss to the school, and we do make a decision two weeks before whether all trips can go ahead based on the number of contributions.

I have recently had kind requests from some parents who would be happy to overpay for trips to cover some of the deficit, to ensure that the trip goes go ahead. If you would like to do this, please make your donation through the 'Voluntary Donation' section on SCOPAY. This can be found under 'Trips and Events'.  If you would like to make a regular donation to the School Fund, please email the school office who can supply you with the standing order form. 

There are more exciting trips coming up. Next week, Year 4 are heading on their residential which is set to be an exciting three days filled with climbing, orienteering, archery and much more!   Our school council have also been invited to represent the school at the the opening of Gail's Bakery in Weybridge on Monday. 

Open Afternoon and Parent Consultations 

It was lovely to see so many parents at open afternoon and parents consultations over the last two weeks. We are very happy to see that our uptake was 86.2% on our parent consultation booking system and I know that further meetings have also taken place meaning we are close to hitting our target of 100% parental engagement. Each teacher is aiming to make contact with all their class so if you were unable to make the in-person appointments, they will be sending home target sheets and will make a short call to you to discuss these. 

Parenting Puzzle 

Our Family Support Worker, Mrs Doe, has recently run a weekly Parent Puzzle course at St James and as this course is coming to the end, she wanted to remind all parents that there are other courses running. The next Parenting Puzzle will be run on Wednesday mornings via Zoom, starting on the 1st May from 10.30am-12pm.  There will also be an evening course run via Zoom starting on Tuesday 24th September, 6.30pm-8.00pm. To book, you can click the link here. We are keen that all St James parents, who want to attend this course, have the opportunity to do so. The course is £50, but if this would be a barrier due to financial constraints, please still book on the course and complete this additional form to request school support with payment for this.