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Dear Parents,
What a busy couple of weeks it has been! We have celebrated Armistice day, taken part in the radio 103
“Be Safe, Be Seen” campaign, had a variety of sports events, installed our new Interactive Whiteboards,
appeared in the JEP linked to our cooking/healthy eating work and taken part in the De Putron Challenge.
Added to all this we have also discovered this week that we have been the most successful school on the
island at recycling old telephone directories—a total of 2250 and have won 15 tablet devices to add to our
computing provision. Phew!! Makes you wonder what we will be getting up to in the next two weeks!
Breakfast Club
We currently have spaces available in our breakfast club.
This service runs from 7.45am and can provide child care as
well as breakfast.
Please see Mrs Hamon for more information.
Sports Update
Athletics
A big well-done to our Y5 and Y6 cross-country
runners who took part in the cross-country run at
Les Quennevais on Wednesday 2nd November. All
children completed the race and their attitude and
behaviour was excellent. Mr Mildren and I were
very proud of how well you did and represented our
school.
Anti-bullying
Anti-bullying
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At St Luke’s we have a very successful zero tolerance
of bullying,
zero
tolerance
in any
of bullying,
shape orinform.
any shape
Our policy
or form.
is to
always
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policy
fullyisinvestigate
to always fully
any investigate
concern or issue
any concern
linked
to bullying
or
issue linked
andto
this
bullying
has been
andvery
this has
successful
been very
in
considerably
successful
in reducing
considerably
incidents
reducing
to a incidents
point where
to a
there where
point
is almost
there
none/very
is almost
few.
none/very few.
In this vain we are supporting the National
anti-bullying week and have planned a number of
assemblies and activities to remind children what
bullying is, remind them of the strategies for
tackling unacceptable behaviours and explore the
potential consequences of power imbalances.
Football
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr
Watson who very kindly donated 10 pairs of navy
blue football socks so that every footballer has the
same colour socks. With such a large number of
children playing football this year, we had to use
some light blue for our first game, however
Mr Watson's generosity means that we will now all
match! Thank you very much, Mr Watson.
Mr Belsey
Year 3 Assembly: Children in Need
Year 3 produced an excellent assembly today
informing us all about Children in Need. It was also great
to see so many children and staff around school who took
part in “dress down day” and donated to this very
worthwhile cause. Today we raised £150.05. well done
everyone!
Parent Survey Results & Actions
Thank you to all parents that took part in our school survey. Your feedback is very important to us and
we add in your views into our future school improvement plans.
The results to the 10 questions were as follows:

The overwhelming majority of you stated that you were made to feel welcome and your children
were happy and enjoyed school.

A very large majority of you stated that you find it easy to approach the school to ask a question
or concern and that we would respond.

A large majority of you were satisfied that your children receive an adequate amount of
homework, however there was a small minority who disagreed.

There were mixed responses regarding the amount of information you receive about the
curriculum your children are following.

A very large majority of parents felt that they were satisfied with their children’s progress and
that the children were taught well and safe at school.

53% of parents were concerned about bullying at St Luke’s school.

A very large majority of parents felt that St Luke’s is well led and managed.
Actions:

The school council are currently investigating homework and gathering views from children, staff
and parents. They will be writing their own questionnaire that will be coming home soon.

The curriculum information letter that comes home at the start of each term will be redesigned
to give more information about the curriculum the children will be accessing. A section on our
website will also be created to provide more detail with possible parent sessions planned
through the year.

Anti-Bullying and our zero tolerance approach (and the success of this approach) to continue to
be high profiled.
PTA Movie Night
Don’t forget that the PTA movie night is fast
approaching: 9th December
See posters around school for more details.
Date of next Newsletter:
Friday 2nd December