ALDERMAN COGAN’S CE PRIMARY SCHOOL
NEWSLETTER
SUMMER TERM 2016
No 1. April 14th
Dates for Your Diary
Welcome back after the Easter
break!
Please find below some
dates that we know already for the
summer term - further dates are to
follow.
SUMMER TERM 2016
Tue 12th April 
Breakfast club opens at 8.00am
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Nursery opens at 8.30am
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School opens at 8.50am
Fri 22nd Apr
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Nursery phonics meetings at
10.30am and 2.15pm
Mon 25th Apr
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Nursery behaviour meeting
1.30pm
Tue 26th Apr
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Nursery behaviour meeting
9.00am
Mon 2nd May
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School closed for Bank holiday
Mon 9th May
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Year 6 SATs all week
Mon 16th May
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Year 2 SATs being carried out
during this week
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Year 6 leavers’ photographs bring your comb!
Fri 27th May
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School and nursery close for the
half-term break at 3.00pm
Tue 7th Jun
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Breakfast club opens at 8.00am
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Nursery opens at 8.30am
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School opens at 8.50am
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Big RE Day

Year 1 phonics screening
commences
Mon 20th Jun
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Full Governing Body meeting
Tue 26th Jul
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School and nursery close for the
summer break at 3.00pm
Mon 13th Jun
AUTUMN TERM 2016
Tue 6th Sep
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Breakfast club opens at 8.00am
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Nursery opens at 8.30am
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School opens at 8.50am
There are further details of term dates available on
our website at www.aldermancogan.co.uk.
www.aldermancogan.co.uk
Fundraising
Sport Relief
On Friday 18th March we held a nonuniform day for the Sport Relief
charity. Thank you to all who wore
sportswear to raise funds for the
charity - we raised £249.28.
Readathon
Thank you for supporting the
children in our recent Readathon.
We raised £971.68 for the charity
and received £242.92 In vouchers to
buy books for our school.
Good News!
Attendance
At the end of the Spring Term we
were extremely pleased to award 180
children a certificate for a full 100%
attendance!
We look forward to
presenting even more awards at the
end of the summer term.
Safeguarding
Our school has safeguarding polices and procedures to
ensure that every child, regardless of their age,
gender, religion or ethnicity, can be protected from
harm.
Safeguarding means:
 protecting children from abuse and
maltreatment
 preventing harm to children’s
health or development
 ensuring children grow up with the
provision of safe and effective care
 taking action to enable all children
and young people have the best outcomes
Everyone has a responsibility to keep children and
young people safe. If you have a concern about a
child, staff member or volunteer at our school please
make us aware of it. Our Safeguarding Leader is Mrs
Debbie Barnard.
School Uniform
Hull Foodbank
The following items of school uniform are available to
purchase from our school office between the hours of
8.30am and 12.00 noon and 1.00pm and 3.30pm.
Sweatshirt 2yrs
£7.50
Sweatshirt 3yrs – 13yrs
£8.50
Sweatshirt S - L
Cardi 3yrs – 13yrs
Cardi S – L
£10.50
£9.50
£11.50
Polo shirt 3yrs – 13yrs
£7.00
Polo shirt S – L
£9.00
Showerproof fleece 3 - 13
£15.00
Showerproof fleece S – L
£18.00
Heavy duty book bag
Thank you to all who have been donating to the Hull
Foodbank; here is a reminder of the items that you
can donate. There is a collection box in the school
foyer. Everything you donate is distributed to help
families in crisis.
Tinned tomatoes
Tinned or packet soup
Sugar (500g)
Tinned fruit
Breakfast cereal
Tinned meat
Tinned vegetables
Tinned tuna/fish
Jar of pasta sauce
Dried pasta or noodles
Tinned rice pudding
Tinned rice pudding
Tea bags
Chocolate
UHT or powdered milk
Biscuits
Carton of orange juice
£6.50
Please make payment by cash or cheque.
Appeal for Volunteers
Dove House would like to hear from anyone who can
donate spare time to help them. Please see their
website at www.dovehouse.org.uk or telephone the
Volunteer Department on 01482 785747.
School Closure
Please note that the school will be closed on Bank
Holiday Monday, 2nd May .
Important - Emergency Contacts
It is important that we can contact you if
your child is taken ill at school. If you
change employment or mobile phone
please remember to let us know. If you
would like a new person adding to your
child’s emergency contacts list please let
us know via the school office.
Punctuality
Now that a new term has begun and the
weather is improving we would like to see
all of our school children in the classroom,
ready to learn at 8.50am each morning.
Children can come into school when the
doors open at 8.40am. Learning begins at
8.50am promptly and so it is important that they are
punctual.
REMINDER - Holidays Taken in Term
Time
Following strong advice from both the government
and the local authority, the governing body will not
authorise family holidays taken in term time other
than in exceptional circumstances. An example of an
exceptional circumstance might be if the parent has
fixed holidays from work, which will need
confirmation from the employer.
If you do choose to take unauthorised holidays
during term time you can be issued with a fixed
penalty notice.
Please complete a holiday request form available
from the school office or from the documents section
of our website at www.aldermancogan.co.uk. Thank
you.
IMPORTANT SAFETY MESSAGE
We are very grateful for the job the school crossing
patrol does in ensuring that our children can cross the
roads safely at the beginning and end of the school
day. We must ask that you have consideration for
this difficult job and slow down, preparing to stop if
requested to do so. There have been a couple of
near misses recently, endangering the crossing patrol
staff and our children.
Thank you!
Thank you for your continuing support.
Mrs Jeanette Sutherland
Headteacher