Democracy in action! School Council Elections this week.

This week the children in Years 2,3,4,5 and 6 have been voting in our polling booth for their school council. As part of their revision of the Birtish Values, the children have been learning about Democracy. Over the next week all children will receive a free book about Parliament.  

Parents Consultations 

We would like to remind all parents that parent consultation booking has gone live. Next week on Friday 13th October is our book share session for children in Year 1 - 6 from 3pm. If you are unable to make this time, please do get in contact with the Office to see if we can arrange a time for you to view your child's books. 

Parents of Reception, we look forward to welcoming you to the shared learning phonics sessions 8.45am – 10am on 10th and 11th October.  

Holiday club - Bookings open 

Our new holiday club provider, Youngstars Holiday Club,  is running at St James this October Holiday and during the Christmas holidays. They are running whole day childcare sessions for a competitive price. To book, please use this link. 

Harvest 

Kind reminder to parents and carers that we are asking for donations of non-perishable items for our Harvest Festival on Tuesday 10th October. 

The foodbank have specifically requested the following: tinned fruit, tinned vegetables, tinned soup, tinned tuna, pasta sauce, sponge pudding, tinned custard, biscuits, long-life milk and squash. 

Thank you in advance for your support with this. 

Warm Welcome

We would like to welcome Mrs Doe who will be supporting St James in her role as Family Support Worker. Mrs Doe has a wealth of experience supporting families and will be available on Tuesday mornings at St James or via phone following a referral form completion. If you would like to access this support, please email familysupport@stjames-weybridge.surrey.sch.uk  or complete the form here.

There will be an opportunity to meet Mrs Doe at the coffee morning on Tuesday 10th October 8.45am - 9.45am.  

Extra curricular trips and visitors 

Over the last two terms at St James, a number of our school trips and visitors have run at a loss to the school. At St James, we wholeheartedly believe that a school trip, residential or workshop adds to the experience of the curriculum delivery and the teachers and the office team work hard to be able to organise such a range of complementary activities to support our delivery of the National Curriculum.  These are intended to enhance the curriculum delivery so we are priviliged to be able to offer such a range for the children. 

When we plan an extra curricular activity, the voluntary contribution represents the cost of providing this activity, shared equally amongst all pupils in the year group. As there are no extra school funds to cover school trips and visitors, sadly, moving forward,  proposed visits may not be able to take place if there are insufficient voluntary contributions to cover the cost of the visit. If parents are experiencing financial difficulties and are not able to pay for the trips, we always ask that they make contact so that we can provide any support we can.  This can be done confidentially through the office or on the new familysupport@stjames-weybridge.surrey.sch.uk email address. 

Wishing you a lovely weekend. 

Mrs Murphy.

Homework 

The children continue to do amazing home learning!

In Years 2, 3 and 4,  the children have achieved 9131 stars in total on Doodle over the last 7 days. 

Well done to Woodpeckers class who were at the top of the leader board with 67% of the class working in the green zone in Doodle Maths over the last 7 days. 

Congratulations to Merlins class who were leading on Doodle English with 23% being in the green zone. 

In Century, in total over the last 7 days Year 5 and 6 have completed 6048 questions. 

Well done to Hawks who were in the lead in Year 6 with 2301 questions answered over the last 7 days and Falcons who were in the lead in Year 5 having completed 1042 questions over the last 7 days. 

We would like to remind all parents that we are a Nut Free school here at St James. Whilst we appreciate the efforts parents take to support us in maintaining a safe lunch hall, we would like to raise the profile of hidden nuts in some food coming into school. 

The brands outlined below all contain hazelnut spread, which is not allowed in school. Please could all parents consider the ingredients in the snacks they purchase to help us keep all children safe. 

We would also like to remind all parents that we are looking to promote healthy eating and therefore will be reviewing our lunchbox policy over the next few weeks.

We currently have two staffing vacancies at St James. For further information or to apply for one of these roles, please use the links below.

Part Time Teaching Assistant - https://www.eteach.com/job/teaching-assistant-1375204 

Full Time Teaching Assistant - https://www.eteach.com/job/teaching-assistant-1375233 

See website for more dates. INSET Days have been set for the academic Year 2023/4. More information can be found on the website here: https://www.stjames-weybridge.surrey.sch.uk/term-dates-1/  

https://www.familylives.org.uk/how-we-can-help/online-parenting-courses