Upcoming Dates

8th September 2023S Office

Dear Parents/carers

Please find below events that are happening over this term and other important dates for your diary:

INSET/Bank Holiday

School will be CLOSED on:

 

Friday 26th January 2024 – INSET

Monday 6th May 2024 – Bank Holiday

Friday 24th May 2024 – INSET

Friday 14th June 2024 – INSET

 

Thursday 14th September 2023 – Reception Phonics Talk – 9.00am

Friday 15th September 2023 – Individual Photographs

Thursday 21st September 2023 – Year 6 visit to Open Zone

Wednesday 4th October 2023 – Flu Vaccinations Reception – Year 6

Friday 6th October 2023 – E-Safety Coffee Morning for parents 8.30am-9.30am

Monday 9th October 2023 – Nursery Parent Interviews

Tuesday 10th October 2023 – Reception – Year 6 Parent Interviews (1.30pm Start)

Tuesday 10th October 2023 – World Mental Health Day – Wear Yellow

Wednesday 11th October 2023 – Reception – Year 6 Parent Interviews (1.30pm Start)

Wednesday 11th October 2023– Year 6 visit RAP

Friday 27th October 2023 – Halloween Dress up Day

Friday 27th October 2023 – School Closes for Half Term

Monday 6th November 2023 – School reopens

Thursday 9th November 2023 – Year 4 visit to Open Zone

Monday 13th November 2023 – Attend to Achieve Week

Monday 13th November 2023 – Bikeability Year 4

Friday 17th November 2023 – Children in Need Day – Non Uniform Day, all monies raised to the CIN Charity

Wednesday 29th November 2023 – Year 3 visit to Open Zone

Friday 8th December 2023 – Christmas Dinner in school

Productions

Due to space, only TWO parents/Carers/Guardians per family are invited to a production and numbers may have to be capped. We ask that parents/carers or guardians DO post any photographs taken, onto their personal social media pages. We also ask that everyone attending remains SEATED throughout the duration of the performance. Any young children who become upset, it would be appreciated if they can be taken out of hall to avoid disruption to the performing children.

Tuesday 12th December 2023 – Nursery Production (AM and PM)

Wednesday 13th December 2023 –  Reception Production (AM only)

Thursday 14th December 2023 – Key Stage 2 Production (AM only)

Friday 15th December 2023 – Key Stage 1 Production (AM only)

As usual, there will be our Christmas Café, which will be open from 9.00am during production week. The productions themselves will begin at 10am.

Christmas Parties

Tuesday 19th December 2023 – Reception Party

Wednesday 20th December 2023 – Year 1 to Year 6 parties

Thursday 21st December 2023 – Nursery Party (AM and PM)

PLEASE NOTE – CHILDREN MUST COME TO SCHOOL ON MORNING OF THEIR PARTY, IN THEIR PARTY CLOTHES AND WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BE COLLECTED AT LUNCHTIME.

 

Friday 22nd December 2023 – Christmas Jumper Day – Christmas clothing or non-uniform

Friday 22nd December 2023 – School closes for the Christmas Holidays

Monday 8th January 2024 – School reopens

As always, more information will be given to individual events, prior to them taking place.

Non Uniform Day

23rd May 2023S Office

NON UNIFORM DAY

This Friday, the children are able to come to school wearing non uniform. We would like to thank the children for their outstanding behavior during our recent Ofsted inspection.

We would like to reward the children with a surprise treat in school this Friday.

Although it is non uniform, please dress your child appropriately for the weather and they must have suitable footwear.

Please look out for our Ofsted report, which will be out very soon.

 

 

Change in Year 4 PE

23rd May 2023S Office

YEAR 4 PARENTS

Your child will take part in PE on WEDNESDAY this week. Your child must come to school in their PE kit.

There will be no PE on Thursday.

Thank you

South Tyneside Active Challenge

19th May 2023S Office
💚 South Tyneside Active Challenge 💚
As you are all aware we took part in the South Tyneside Active Challenge last year and won 1st Prize!! 🎉🥇🏆
We won a whopping £2,000 and the money was used to invite Everyone Cycling into school to work with the children.
We would love to take part again and hopefully, with all of your support come 1st.
💚💚
South Tyneside Council’s climate change team have once again invited us to take part in the active travel challenge during the month of June. This will also run alongside our “walk to school week”
Lets make this fun and educational for our children! We have set challenges for them to find certain things on the way to and from school, all we need is you to send some photos of them to
Each day they walk to school we are asking for them to find one or more of the following:
#Treasures – Something you loved on your walk to school.
#Colour -Something colourful on your walk to school.
#Weather – Take a photo of the weather. Clouds, sun, puddles etc.
#Animals – Walk your pet to school or did you see any animals on your way to school?
#Vehicles – What modes of transport can you see on your way to school?
We would LOVE to have you and your children on board! If you do use public transport try and use the time walking to take what photographs you can!
Simply email the photographs to school and we will do the rest. Please remember all photographs will be added to our Facebook page, therefore please do not email any photographs’ you DO NOT wish to be shared.

Road Safety Information

11th May 2023S Office

Information

The school crossing patrol who operates on Stanhope Road/ Ashley Road will not be on duty until further notice.

We ask that all of our children and their families take care when crossing.

Thank you

Nature Rangers Club

19th April 2023S Office

We are running a nature rangers one off club on Wednesday 26th April 2023 at 3.30pm until 4.30pm. Its a free club which will be exploring the outdoors, with Mrs Ali and Julie Ross, a Northumberland Nature Ranger.

The children will complete activities based around nature and the outdoors.

Children will need a coat and reasonable footwear for being outside in forest school.

Please contact the school office if you would like your child to attend.

Thank you