Friday 17th March 2017

Annual Parental Questionnaire
The Parental Questionnaire is in your child’s Friday bag today, please can you complete and return to school no later than Monday 27th March 2017. Thank you.

Go Orange for Orangutans
We would just like to take the time to thank the year 5 & 6 children who put together a brilliant assembly and cake sale, they’ve raised a fantastic amount (£59.65) for the ‘Go Orange Appeal’!
Also, thank you to all the parents who came along to the assembly and joined us for some refreshments afterwards.

Life Education Bus
Once again, the Life Education Bus will be visiting school on Monday. Parents are more than welcome to attend a specifically planned session on Monday 20th March at 8.55am to 9.10am to hear more about the programme. Charity wristbands are available for the children to buy on the day.

Sports Kit
We have a lovely new sports kits – funded by the PTFA – which will be getting its first outing next Tuesday for the ‘Tag Rugby’ event at Wray. The new kit will be signed out to each pupil, and needs to be signed back in to school by parents after being washed and laundered at home – please bring it back to the school office or Mrs Makinson (on a Wednesday).

Rewind to Easter
Our year 5 children have been invited to a “Rewind to Easter” workshop at High Bentham Methodist Church on Tuesday 21st March. Parents of those children involved will find an information sheet in this week’s bag.

Easter Activity Day – 5th April 2017
The children will need to bring in their decorated egg entry. There will be prizes for infants, lower juniors and upper juniors. They will also need a hardboiled egg for pace egging in the afternoon.
As usual there will be activities in the morning and in the afternoon there is the egg challenge, followed by the Easter Egg Hunt. With a separate Easter Egg Hunt for toddlers, nursery and reception children.
Any pre-school children that might want to join in the Easter Egg Hunt are welcome to join us at 2.30pm. The day ends with our pace egg competition.

Decorated Egg Competition
On Easter Day this year our decorated egg competition theme is Sci-Fi.

PTFA Easter Bunny Drive
Thursday 6th April at 6.30pm. We would be grateful for any donations for the Easter Raffle to be held at the bunny drive. Raffle tickets will be available to buy in the school playground for the draw, £1 per strip – please see Diane, Vanessa, Hayley, Bryony or Rachel to purchase tickets.

Thank You
We would just like to thank all the parent helpers who came up to school on Saturday 4th March for the parent help morning, with your help we managed to get a few jobs ticked off our list, which, as always, is greatly appreciated.

Reminder: Drop off and Picking up times
Please may we remind you that any children dropped off who aren’t joining our Early Bird Morning Club must be dropped off in the church car park, not the school car park, and will remain unsupervised in the playground until the bus children arrive and come out at approximately 8.50am.
All children should be collected at 3.15pm unless they are joining the After School Club, where children can stay until 6pm at the latest. Prompt pick up is greatly appreciated.

Sainsbury’s Active Kids Vouchers
We’re still collecting Sainsbury’s Active Kids Vouchers, please drop them in the box outside the office or via your child’s Friday bag.

In this week’s bag

Dates for the rest of March

Looking ahead to April