Dear Parents and Carers, Here are the final details for the singing at the Christmas event at Edgcumbes on Saturday morning. Due to unforeseen circumstances, I am unfortunately not going to be there. The children will need to meet Mrs Huggett and Mrs Bayliss at 10:45am by the Cube (the large windowed room near the cafe). They do not need to wear school uniform, but will need to wrap up warm as it is going to be quite chilly on Saturday morning! Christmas hats or other accessories can be worn. The children will be singing for about 20 minutes. Please can you make sure you stay and watch. If your child needs any medication (for example an inhaler), please make sure this is brought along as well. Thank you for your continued support. Kind regards Chris Hughes Deputy Headteacher |
Month: November 2022
Arundel Cathedral Christmas Concert Tickets
Dear Parents and Carers, The tickets for the Christmas Concert at Arundel Cathedral on Saturday 10th December will be released at the end of the week. Please can you make sure any outstanding payments, including those for the requested additional tickets, are made. Only those tickets that have been paid for will be sent home with your children. Reminder about the details for the concert will be sent out in the near future. Kind regards Chris Hughes Deputy Headteacher |
Young Voices Concert Video
Dear Parents and Carers, A video of the Young Voices concert in January is available to pre-order. Please use this + lin+k to make your order. The very next day after the concert, you will receive an email so you can watch it straight away. Using the discount code SCHOOLS23 will reduce the cost of the video to £9.99. Kind regards Chris Hughes Deputy Headteacher |
Christmas Discos
Dear Parents/Carers, This is just a reminder that there will be a Disco for the children on Thursday 15th December. EYFS/KS1 Disco will be from 3.30pm – 4.30pm KS2 Disco will be from 4.45pm – 5.45/6.00pm A payment has been set up on Parentmail fror £2 per child, if you could please log on and pay this before 12pm on 14th December that would be much appreciated. Kind regards, Katy Lawson School Secretary |
Christmas Dinner Orders
Dear Parent/Carer, Just is reminder that the children will be having their Christmas Meal on Friday 16th December. The school will order a hot meal for all children entitled to Free School Meals and those children in Years R,1 and 2 whose parent/carer has completed the Parentmail form to request a meal. If your child is not entitled to Free School Meals but you would like them to have a Christmas Dinner, you will need to go online and order/pay for this on the Chartwells website. https://chartwellsparents.myschoolmealorders.com/register
Alternitively, if you do not want your child to have a Christmas Dinner you can send them in with a packed lunch as normal. Kind regards, Katy Lawson School Secretary |
WEEKLY NEWS FOR FAMILIES – 25.11.22
Dear Parents and Carers,
What a wet and soggy week this has been! However, the weather has not dampened our spirits!
St. David’s House enjoyed their ‘DISCO’ on Wednesday. They had achieved the most ‘merit’ points for the half term. The disco seems to be a popular choice from the ‘Merit Menu’. Well done to all of the children in St. David’s House. WEDNESDAY 30TH NOVEMBERAs this is the feast day of St. Andrew, we have asked all of the children in St Andrew’s House to wear something blue. They will be in non-uniform on this day. The two House Captains have prepared a Worship for the whole school about the life of St. Andrew. Thank you to Toni and Harmony for their hard work in preparing this. The dates for all of the saints days have been sent out on a previous ParentMail. We will remind each house nearer the time. A COUPLE OF THANK YOUSWe have received a card from The Royal British Legion thanking us for the donations to the Poppy Appeal. We raised an amazing total of £377.72. Thank you to everyone who donated and/or bought any of the poppy merchandise. Thank you to all of the families who took part in our ‘Book Share’ event on Tuesday. It is great to see so many families donating and choosing books to share at home.QR CODE SYSTEMFrom Monday we will be introducing a new system for both visitor sign in and pupil sign out with the use of QR Codes. You will notice in the window by the office there are now 3 QR Codes, two of which are for visitor sign in/out and one which will be used if you are collecting your child early from school for an appointment or they are being sent home because of illness. If you simply open your phones camera and hover it over the relevant QR Code it will then pop up with a short form for you to complete. We hope that not only will this make signing in and out easier for you, but it will also increase the privacy of your data collection. STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Maths)Mrs Groves, our Science Curriculum Leader, is keen to develop the profile of STEM within the school. She will be running a STEM Club at lunchtime in the Spring Term and is eager to create community links within the subject as well.Please see the attached flyer.CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY CAMPSAlso attached to this letter are details about some Christmas Holiday Camps.
Have a lovely weekend.
Take care
Kim Huggett
Dance House Performance Information 2023
Dear Parents and Carers,
Please see below information from Mrs Cummings about the upcoming Dance House Performance.
We are pleased to confirm that your child will be performing in the Dance House competition on Tuesday 7th February 2023 at The Alexandra Theatre, Bognor Regis.
Tickets will be going on sale from Saturday 3rd December and are priced at £12 for Adults and £6 for Children.
Please make sure that you buy your tickets sooner rather than later as this event is extremely popular and can sell out very quickly.
Tickets can be purchased here from Saturday 3rd December – https://alexandratheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows
Alternatively you can call the Box Office on 01243 861010.
There will be a daytime rehearsal on Tuesday 7th February from 3.15pm – 5.00pm at The Alexandra Theatre, Bognor Regis. Children will need to be collected from school by their parent/carer at approximately 2.30pm-2.45pm to take them to the theatre where Mrs Cummings will be waiting to meet them.
Children will need to bring a packed tea with them as they will be staying at the theatre between the rehearsal and the performance.
The Performance will commence at 7pm on Tuesday 7th February and will finish at approximately 8.30pm.
Children will then need to be collected by a parent or (named adult in advance) from the theatre at 8.30pm.
The show organisers will be coming into school to film the children rehearsing and take photos for the programme on Monday 12th December.
Please look out for the relevant ParentMail forms in the next few days as we will require both consent for your child to take part in the performance and photo permissions ahead of the show organisers visit on Monday 12th December.
If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact the office or speak to Mrs Cummings.
Kind regards,
Katy Lawson
School Secretary
School Individual Photos
Dear Parents and Carers,
Your child’s photo order form will be coming home with them either today or tomorrow.
Please bring your completed order form back to the school office.
Please note that the deadline for all orders is Tuesday 6th December, any orders after this date may not be counted.
Kind regards,
Katy Lawson
WEEKLY NEWS FOR FAMILIES 18.11.22
Dear Parents and Carers,
we finally saw some sunshine as we reached the end of this week!
We have ended our week with much to celebrate.
Attached is our ‘Learning Pit-Stop’ for the learning journey this half term.
At our THINK Worship this afternoon we were so proud of Maisie Y6 for achieving her Chief Scout Silver Award.
It was exciting to introduce our ‘Future Flyers’ for this year to our school family. Congratulations to Sofia, Zofia, Bailey, Lucas, Theo and Evan who have been selected as ‘Future Flyers’ because of their commitment to sport and exemplary participation in P.E lessons.
BOOK SHARE
We are looking forward to our next ‘Book Share’ on Tuesday 22nd November in our school hall at the end of the day. Remember to bring a book to swop !
CRAIG BARTON-DEDICATED SCHOOLS TEAM
Craig will be in school from 12oclock on Friday 2nd December for the afternoon. I have attached his information again for you to read and think about if you would benefit from coming in to see him. Please contact us using our office2@yaptonschool.org email to arrange a meeting with Craig. If you would like Mrs Browning to be there to support you, then please just ask.
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY CAMPS
I have attached a flyer detailing ‘Christmas Holiday Camps’.
PARKING
Please be considerate to other families when you are parking to bring your children to school. Parking on the ‘zig-zag’ lines is dangerous and not permitted. Thank you.
Have a fabulous weekend.
Take care
Kim Huggett
Individual School Photographs
Dear Parents and Carers,
Just a reminder that it is Individual Pupil photos tomorrow. Please make sure that children are dressed in smart uniform.
There will be no P.E tomorrow so if you would normally send your child in their P.E kit please do not do this tomorrow, all children will need to be in full school uniform.
Kind regards,
Katy Lawson
School Secretary