School Newsletter
Friday 10th March
Dates:
 Thursday 16th March Skylarks trip to Sealife
and Nelson
 Friday 17th March –
Cake stall for Bishop
Lent Appeal
 Wednesday 22nd March
Class Group Photo
 Friday 24th March – Red
nose day/ Non Uniform
Day
 Friday 24th March –
Family learning
workshop instead of
assembly.
 Wednesday 29th March
Easter Service and
crafts.
 Friday 31st March – Last
day of term, no
assembly
 Sunday 2nd April –
Gillingham Village Hall Table top sale 11 -1
 Tuesday 18th April –
Start of Summer Term.
Easter Service
We will be having an Easter
Craft session on Wednesday
29th March before the Easter
service. All parents/carers are
welcome; crafts will begin at
1.30. Location of the Easter
Service TBC
Wellington Boots
We are looking for wellie
donations! If anyone has any
wellies that no longer fit
please could they be donated
to school.
Fundraising
We are pleased to be supporting
local and National causes this
term.
Friday 17th we would like to
support the Bishop's Lent appeal
by holding a cake stall at break
time and the end of the school
day. Donations of cakes would be
very welcome. Cakes will be on
sale for 50p.
Red Nose Day is on Friday 24th
March. We will be holding a nonuniform day, suggested donation
is £1. We will be selling red noses
in the office for £1 each. We do
only have enough red noses for
one per child so children will be
limited to one each until
everyone has had the chance to
buy one. Red noses will go on
sale from Monday 20th March.
Sharing learning
In place of our usual Friday
assembly we will be holding a
family learning workshop on 24th
March starting at 2.40pm. All
families are welcome.
Clubs
We are always keen to expand
our offer of clubs and would very
much welcome anyone who may
be able to offer something
slightly different for our pupils.
The children are keen to explore
other areas of the curriculum
such as arts and craft or maybe
gardening. If you can help please
do get in touch. All adults will be
required to complete appropriate
DBS checks.
Staffing update
Mr Stanners will be leaving us at
the end of this term to work
slightly nearer to his home. We
thank Mr Stanners for all that he
has shared with our two
academies, we will certainly miss
his musical skills.
Breakfast Club
Following parental enquiries, we
are looking at the possibility of
organising a breakfast club. The
club would run from 8am with
food provided by the kitchen and
an adult supervising pupils. The
charge would be £3. Whilst we
explore the feasibility of this we
plan to run a trial for the first half
term. We will be sending out an
expression of interest letter next
week so please look out for this.
Parking
Polite reminder that our carpark is
for staff or visitors only. The car
park should not be used for
pickups/drop-offs unless use of
the disabled space has been
agreed. Please remember to park
with consideration for our
neighbours.
Active Kids 2017
We are collecting Active Kids
vouchers from Sainsbury’s
again this year. These
vouchers can be exchanged for
all different types of sporting
equipment for the school. The
box is outside the office near
the signing in book.