Dear Parents and Carers

“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.” St John Henry Newman

It was good to welcome so many parents to our parent meetings this week and I am sure that all were pleased to hear about the learning that is taking place in the classrooms.

 

Many thanks to all who completed one of our parental questionnaires as your views about the school are very important to us.

 

It was very pleasing to see that the questionnaires returned were extremely positive about the school. This is very reaffirming for the school staff as they all work extremely hard to support the children in their learning.

 

If you haven’t managed to make an appointment to speak to your child’s class teacher an appointment can still be made via the school office.

 

Dress in Something Red Day

Many thanks once again to all who took part in our “Dress in Something Red Day” to raise funds for Save the Children. This is the third of our charities that the children voted to raise funds for and I thank everyone for their kind generosity. Next week Year 6 will be organising an activity afternoon for the children across the school. This is usually great fun more details to follow early next week.

 

St Simon’s Easter Egg Raffle

Next week tickets will be on sale for our annual Easter Egg Raffle which will take place on the last day of term. We need more donations of Easter Eggs for the raffle as these have been coming in very slowly so please can we keep the donations coming in.

 

Stations of the Cross

On Wednesday 26^th March Year 1 and Year 2 will have the opportunity to take part in The Stations of the Cross in St Simon’s Church. The children will be able to pause and reflect on the events leading up to Jesus’ death on the cross and looking forward to the great hope that Easter brings.

 

Year 4 Passion Reflection 

Year 4 will lead the school in a Passion Reflection on Thursday 3^rd April at 2:00p.m this is usually a very moving liturgy when Year 4 remind us all of the great sacrifice that Jesus made for all of us.

 

Schools Theatre Production Alice in Wonderland

On Monday children from all classes will be able to watch a production of Alice in Wonderland. Seeing a live performance is always a great experience for the children and I am sure they will all enjoy this. After the performance Year 4 children will have the opportunity to take part in a workshop when the cast will give them tips and hints on how to improve their own acting skills.

 

Big Walk and Wheel

Next week is the Sustrans Big Walk and Wheel fortnight. We would like to see as many pupils and adults either walking or wheeling (biking or scooting) to school. This is to promote healthy life styles. We will count the number of “journeys” to school in each year group. Let’s hope we have a great response to this and this will not only be good for the health it will also take more cars off the road which is better for the environment.

 

Parking

This week we had a traffic warden patrolling outside the school who was a very welcome sight as I haven’t really seen any improvement in parking outside the school even after many repeated requests.

 

I spoke to the traffic warden and thanked him for his presence outside the school. He informed me that he was very pleased that so many parents had also thanked him which goes to show that many of our parents are concerned about the actions of the few inconsiderate parents who have been parking unsafely. Hopefully this will help people to stop and think and change their ways.

 

Home School Agreement

Periodically we review our home school agreement which outlines what we agree to do as a school and the expectations that we have of parents and carers and the pupils.

 

Next week we will be reissuing our home school agreement as our old agreement is getting a little dated and doesn’t fully reflect our current practice. If parents and carers could please read and sign the agreement and ask your children to sign their part and return this to school by 28^th March this would be greatly appreciated.

 

If you as a parent or carer feel that you can’t sign the agreement, please don’t hesitate to contact me to discuss this.

 

With best wishes

 

 

Peter McCabe