01.03.2024

Another fab week in school has whizzed by! At the start of the week, we welcomed Emma to the junior class, in Year 5, she has settled in beautifully and we are sure she will be very happy here at Leck. On Monday, we welcomed the ‘Ladies in Pigs’ team to school who ran two different sessions with children to teach them all about farm to fork, learn about where food comes from and how farmers work to produce British high welfare food. The infant class made sausage rolls and the juniors made pork, sage and plum pasties – the smells were amazing! We hope the children all enjoyed the session as much as we did!    
On Tuesday, our upper juniors enjoyed their caving day. The children worked together as a team, many pushing themselves further than they thought and overcoming fears. Well done Y5 & 6. 

Parent Meetings – an email has been sent to all parents with their appointment time for our Spring term round of parent meetings. We expect to meet all parents in school at their allocated time unless we hear from you otherwise.
Teachers really do value this time to speak to parents/carers, however they are on a strict time schedule of 10-minute slots to ensure they get round all the children in school.   

Walk 2 School – our next Walk to School is this Tuesday. As always, any children taking part will enjoy breakfast together when they arrive at school. We will meet at 8.20am in the carpark at the back of Cowan Bridge Village Stores.

Infants Forest School – the infants will be resuming their Forest School Adventures on Tuesday with a visit to the wooded area here at school. They should come to school dressed in appropriate outdoor clothing suitable for the weather including waterproofs and wellies.

Bikeability Training – all our Y5 & 6 pupils will be undertaking Bikeability training on 6th & 7th March. A letter was attached last week – please us the ‘M’ checklist to ensure your child’s bike is roadworthy. Thank you to those who have returned the consent form, we are just awaiting the last couple – children won’t be able to take part without one so please ensure it is returned on Monday.

Football Practice – Mrs Jones has led a couple of football sessions at lunchtime as we prepare for the cluster event at Arkholme in a few weeks time. Another session is planned for 7th March – any children interested in joining in the practice session will need to bring football boots and shin pads into school. Football Boots – if anyone has any spare football boots – in size 10, 1 & 3 please can we borrow these? They will be well looked after and returned after the tournament. Thank you in advance.

After School Clubs –
Junior Golf – thank you to everyone who has registered their interest in the after-school golf club, this will be starting on Wednesday 24th April – 3.15pm – 4.15pm – Y1-Y6 – until the end of Summer term. Places are still available so please email me if your child/ren would like to join. Payment has been made available on SchoolMoney to all those who have already signed up.
Gym Club – Mrs Jones will be running an after school gymnastic dance club for children in Y2-Y6 on a Thursday from 3.15-4.15pm. Places are limited to 14 children, the cost for the half term is £18.00 and has been added to SchoolMoney. The system will close once the maximum capacity has been reached.

Monthly Reminders / Financial Year End – end of month reminders were sent earlier this morning.
As we come towards the end of our financial year, please can we ask that all SchoolMoney accounts are up to date. If you are having problems logging in please let us know.   

Personal Achievements – this week in assembly, Mrs Davison was pleased to celebrate:

Well done to both these children.
All children are encouraged to bring any recent outside of school achievements into school, be that for sports, swimming, cubs, brownies etc.
We look forward to seeing what the children get up to and enjoy outside of school.

World Book Day – all children will be coming home with a World Book Day token today.
We will not be celebrating World Book Day on Thursday, due to bikeability, but we will be celebrating in the Summer term. Details will be shared nearer the time.

SEEKING: Welfare Assistant – we are still looking for a welfare assistant, are you or do you know anyone who may be interested?  Please share with friends and family.
We need someone to help serve meals and supervise the children during their midday break.  The vacancy is term time only covering Monday-Friday from 11.15am – 1.15pm – this includes collection of meals from Melling.  Please contact the office for more details.

PTFA News –
Mufti Day – Friday 15th March – children can come to school in their own clothes in return for a chocolate item for the Easter hampers which will be drawn at our Bunny Drive. Raffle tickets to sell to family and friends will be coming home on Monday and any sold or unsold tickets should be returned to school by Monday 25th March.
Bunny Drive – Thursday 28th March – refreshments available from 3.15pm onwards – Bunny Drive starts at 3.45pm. Tickets now available from the office, please email bursar@leck-st-peters.lancs.sch.uk to book.
Spring 200 Square – each square is £1 and the winner will win £100!! (or 50% of the number of squares sold) and the other £100/50% will go into PTFA funds!
Please speak to Rachael Booth or send money to the school office in a clearly marked envelope and we will pass it on to the PTFA.

Coming up this week

Coming up next half-term