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Helping children be the best they can beDear Parents, Governors and Children,

OUR NEXT HOLIDAY EASTERWe break for the Easter holiday today - Thursday 28th March at 3.30p.m. and we re-open on Monday 15th April at 8.45a.m. There are NOtraining days attached to this holiday.

NEW MILK ARRANGEMENTS

The Local Authority have outsourced and delegated the school milk provision to a companycalled COOL MILK. To enable your child to continue to have milk at school after Easteryou need to read the leaflet sent home with your child today and follow the instructions toregister. The rules of entitlement remain the same children under 5 and those in receipt offree school meals do not need to pay but you do need to register. If you do not register,your entitlement will cease. Milk will only be delivered to school for those children who haveregistered regardless of your circumstances.The only part our school will have in managing this process is to ensure that the milk delivered is matchedto those on the distribution list provided to us by COOL MILK. We have reservations to the success ofthe new system but are reassured by the Local Authority that it is hugely successful in all the schoolswhere it is already up and running. We remain optimistic and urge you to give it your support and ring thenumber on the leaflet if you have any difficulties. On the positive side children in Key stage 2 can now

register to receive milk at school if they wish. The instructions for registration is the same for everyone. Ifyour child is interested in drinking milk at school please register now.

EASTER EGG COMPETITIONMany thanks and very well done to all the children who entered our Easter Egg competition. Thestandard of entries was amazing and almost 200 children entered. The entries were independently

judged by residents of Gresley Road, and the winners and runners-up are as follows;

Class First Second

Nursery Brooke HarryEmerald Riley Coughill Alathea RickwoodSapphire Kayleigh Benns Victoria Markasz

White Lucie Beeson Arron ClarkePurple Isabel Wright Balraj SinghCrimson Maxwell Danby Peter Delves-FinneganScarlet Keira Parkin Tiegan SutherstRuby Ashleigh Bowling George DaviesViolet Ellie Baker Lawrence LaneBlue Gurmere Singh Caitlin LofthouseIndigo Saffron Webster Monalisa MupariwaGreen Caitlin Russell Georgina WelchYellow Jasmine Benns Julia KimickekRed Faith Sutton Josh Challoner

Orange Melissa Hughes Alisha ScottingThank you also to Sainsburys, who donated many of the prizes for our competition. Thank you toeveryone for all their help and support.

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HOLIDAYS IN TERM TIMEPlease be aware that holidays in term time of up to 10 days can only be authorised when a

holiday form has been completed. For a holiday in term time to be approved, yourchilds attendance must be 95% or higher. The Local Authority requires schools toissue Fixed Penalty Notices (fines) to parents if they take their children out ofschool on holidays that have not been authorised. If you would like to know what

percentage attendance your child currently has, please contact Natalie Smith (Attendance

Assistant).

ATTENDANCE AWARDSWell done to everyone who received a 100% attendance certificate this half term.Every pupil who attended school every day this half term has been invited toattend school wearing non uniform on Thursday 28th March. There will be anotherchance for all excellent attenders to wear non uniform next half term, so makesure youre in school every day!Congratulations to White Class who had the best overall attendance of the whole school this halfterm. All pupils in White Class were invited to wear non uniform on Thursday 28th March.Well done to Scarlet Class for having the best attendance in school last week. Scarlet Class are

being rewarded with a visit to TOCKs club on Thursday lunchtime.

SCHOOL START TIMEA kindly reminder - The bell rings for the start of school at 8.45am and if you arriveafter this time then you are running late. By 8.50am all children should be present and

hard at work in class. Children arriving after this time enter via the main entrance as it isimportant that lessons are not disturbed.

PIRATE DAY MONDAY 29th APRILWe are having a special Pirate Adventure Day for children in Nursery, Reception and

Year 1, Year 2 on Monday 29th April. We are going to invite the children to dress up aspirate for this day and we are planning lots of exciting activities. More information hasbeen sent on a separate letter. Extra sponsor forms are available from the school office.We would also appreciate donations of tombola prizes for a forthcoming event pleasehand these in at the office, thank you

APPROPRIATE SCHOOL DRESSWe would like to remind you that children should not wear extremes of fashion

for school. Shoes should be low-heeled and extreme haircuts (with tramlines orwords cut in) are not acceptable, so please save them for the holidays. Thank you

for your support.

UPDATE TO EMERGENCY NUMBERS AND ADDRESSESWe are experiencing difficulties at the moment contacting parentswhen their child is ill, or left behind from an after-school club oractivity. Please make sure, if you change your mobile number, oreven move house, that you let school know. Thank you.

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A big thank you to our Reception families and

friends!!!

We had a fantastic day on Tuesday for our Easter crafts morning.

Lots of Parents, Carers and Grandparents came along and a brilliant

time was had by all as these photographs show.