Dear Parent / Carers,
Amendment to Term Dates for 2024/2025
We have had to make a change to one of our INSET days for 2024/2025. We have moved an INSET day from 2nd June 2025 to 4th November 2024.
Unwanted Keyboards
Do you have a piano keyboard that your child has grown out of? We are hoping to collect any spare keyboards so we can lend them out to children who are learning the piano but have no instrument at home to practice on. Currently we have none spare! We need to build up stock. So over to you. Start the spring clean early!
Easter Holiday Club
You can find details of activities which are being planned for the Easter Holiday Club in the following link / attachment. Easter Holiday Holiday Club Timetable 2024 You can book places on Scopay. https://www.scopay.com/login
Tax Free Child Care Vouchers
You can also use tax free child care vouchers. To check if you are eligible and to create an account please click on the following link. https://www.gov.uk/get-tax-free-childcare . If you pay with tax-free childcare, please make the payment and then contact the school office to reserve the days’.
School Uniform
Thank you to everyone who has ensured that their child was wearing the correct school uniform this week. If you need some uniform then please contact the school office as we have pre loved uniform which you can collect should you need some.
Please remember that it is not fair on other children whose parents respect the policy and send their children to school in the correct uniform when other children don’t.
Children are expected to wear a school t-shirt / polo shirt and a school cardigan or jumper all of which should have the school logo on. Children are allowed to choose what they would like to wear on their bottom half. If they would like to wear a dress it needs to be a blue pinafaore dress such as the one opposite. This does not need to have the school logo on.
Parents of children who do not wear the correct uniform will now be emailed a letter to remind you that we expect them to be in the correct uniform. Thank you for your cooperation with this.
The latest from the HSA
Read-a-thon
Please remember to return all reading logs to your class teachers – the deadline is Friday 15th March. Bank transfers can be sent to the HSA account or cash can be given to Jasmine Hyman (year 3 & 6 parent). We are looking forward to calculating the overall amount and handing out those well-earned bumper bundles of prizes to our top-minute reader winners!
Spring Egg Hunt
Tickets are selling fast for our Spring Egg Hunt next Saturday 23rd March. Make sure to grab yours on the following dates in both playgrounds:
– Monday, 18th: Drop off
– Wednesday, 20th: Drop off
– Friday, 22nd: Pick up
Card or cash payments are available
World Book Day
We are extremely excited as we build up to World Book Day 2024, which we will be celebrating on Friday 22nd March, due to our Year 6’s being on their residential on the national date for WBD. We have lots of activities planned and of course we will be dressing up. This year we thought it might be nice to go with a theme…….’Goodies and Baddies’ so we would love to see children dressed up as either a hero or villain from a story (dressing up is optional and children are not restricted to dressing up as a goodie or a baddie).
As part of the WBD celebration, we will be running a ‘decorate a paper plate’ competition for EYFS and KS1 where every child will be given a paper plate to take home this week and decorate following the theme of a book. The deadline for entries will be Friday 15th March and winners will be announced in our assembly on Friday 22nd March with some great prizes up for grabs! Please ensure your child’s name and class has been written on the back of their paper plates.
For KS2 the children’s competition will be a ‘Story Jar’. The children will need to source their own jar and begin to collect items which could go inside their jar to represent a book. The children will need to make sure they have their jars in school on Friday 22nd March when they will be creating their jars in the classroom. They will have the opportunity to design anything they want to add to their jar, together with any other objects they have already collected. The winners will be announced the following week in our final assembly of the term.
Parents Evening Portal Now Open
Parent evenings are taking place after half term. As with last year two evenings are devoted to children without special needs and 2 evenings are devoted to children with special needs. The dates are:
Children without Special Needs
Monday 18th March
Wednesday 20th March
Please note that Year 1 Ofili Class meetings will take place on Monday 18th March and Tuesday 19th March.
These meetings are taking place online. The portals to book your meetings are now open. There is a portal for the Infants and a separate portal for the Juniors.
| Infants | Juniors |
| https://campsbourneis.schoolcloud.co.uk/ | https://campsbournejr.schoolcloud.co.uk/ |
To access the portal you will be asked to put your details in. To login the parents first name, surname and your child’s date of birth must match the details we have on our system. You can find a guide on how to login attached to this email.
NSPCC Resources to Support Keeping Children Safe Online
Understanding online safety is tricky for all ages. The NSPCC have advice to help you learn about staying safe online as a family.
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/online-safety
Weekly Attendance and Punctuality
Congratulations to Hepworth and Moore class in the Infants and Cameron and Kapoor Class in the Juniors for registering the highest attendance! Well done to Gwen John in the Infants and Kapoor Class in the Juniors for 99% punctuality! THANK YOU!
| Infant Class | Attendance | Punctuality | Junior Class | Attendance | Punctuality |
| Gainsborough | 94.00% | 99.33% | Cameron | 96.43% | 98.57% |
| Gwen John | 95.33% | 99.67% | Hockney | 91.03% | 98.63% |
| Ofili | 93.70% | 99.26% | Kapoor | 93.08% | 99.23% |
| Riley | 96.43% | 98.93% | Whiteread | 97.50% | 97.50% |
| Hepworth | 99.66% | 97.93% | Thompson | 98.57% | 97.14% |
| Moore | 96.67% | 99.67% | Turner | 92.38% | 98.57% |
| Himid | 100% | 100% | |||
| Shonibare | 99.63% | 99.63% |
I hope you have a lovely weekend.
Jonathan Smith
Head Teacher
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