Congratulations to Steph from our Kitchen team who is having a baby in April. We are thrilled for her and her family.

We will be advertising a maternity post to cover Steph’s leave. Please look out for information on our website if you or someone you know is interested. This will be a kitchen assistants role, working from 11-2pm daily in our school kitchen for approximately 9 months starting after February half term.

As part of our community work, we support Omega in their Pupil Pals programme, sending cards and letters to people in need.

They have contacted us to say that they are desperate for Autumn pictures to send to their clients. They currently do not have enough to send at the start of November. If children would like to create an autumn picture at home before half term, please send in to school and place in the Pupil Pals box in the hall. We have paper in the hall which children can collect then return decorated.

No names on any creations please.

Rev Becky will be joining us in school to lead the Harvest assembly for the children on Monday. Please send any donations for the food bank in throughout the week. We will be taking the donations on Friday 17th, I will be taking some children and to experience the food bank in operation – hopefully helping to process the food and stick on some stickers.

Dried/tinned products only please.

Thank you for supporting local families in need through our Harvest donations.

Mrs Lyall

As you may be aware, Market Drayton swimming pool is due to close next Tuesday for repairs due to a rather large leak. Due to this the swimming plans for KS2 have been amended.

Next week Y5&6 will now have their last lesson on Monday 13th October. There will be no lesson on Friday 17th as the pool will be closed by then. We just managed to squeeze in their session before they closed! Huge thanks to Leanne Bradley who has made this possible for us.

Unfortunately we do not have any new scheduled dates for Y3&4 but it will no longer be straight after half term as originally planned. We await further information from the pool staff and will let you know when lessons can commence when the pool reopens.

Parents/Carers are invited to attend our parents evening after half term to discuss how their child/ren have settled into their new class and the progress they are making. This is also an opportunity to see their learning books and leave them a ‘positive post-it’ to celebrate their achievements. We ask that all parents attend, ensuring that they can meet the teacher/s and therefore work together to ensure a strong educational partnership for the bests interests of the children.

We use an online booking system to enable families to book their own convenient time slots, the times will be available to book via School Cloud from Wednesday 15^th October. Parents need to log in to School Cloud using their first name, surname and email address, this must be the same information registered with school. A letter with the log in link will be sent home next week. Parents will then be able to access the parents evening and book a slot for their child. We ask that separated parents come together and have one appointment per child, unless there is a court order or other safety reason why this cannot take place. If you would like to discuss this further, please contact Mrs Lyall. If you are having difficulty booking a slot, please see your child’s teacher in the first instance.

• The booking system will open for parents on Wednesday 15^th October at 3pm
• The booking system will close for parents on Monday 10th November at 4pm
• Parents evenings are on Tuesday 11^th November 3.30 – 5.00pm and Wednesday 12^th November 3.30 – 7.30pm. Parents only need to book one appointment per child on one of the optional days, we have two days to ensure we can meet demand.

We look forward to seeing you.

Mrs Lyall

Thank you to families who purchased books this week from the book fair. We now have £315 to spend on new books using the commission from the sales.