October - Newsletter 4 (2nd October 2012)
Dear Parents/Carers,
School Photos – the photographers will be in tomorrow (Wednesday 3rd) taking individual photos of the children. Please send your child in full school uniform. Thank you.
Harvest – thank you very much for the superb support for our Harvest collection for the Wellspring kitchen and well done to the Year 3’s for their lovely Harvest assembly. Some volunteers from the Wellspring Kitchen are coming this week to collect the food. Well done to our Young Entrepreneurs from last year who will also be presenting the Wellspring Kitchen with a cheque for £96.15 which are their profits from their Marvellous Mini-Market.
Children’s Charity Sale
During our assemblies about Harvest we spoke to the children about how important sharing was and how charities helped to share amongst those who needed it most. We talked about charity events school has had in the past and how well supported they were. We also discussed how it would be good for the children to think for themselves about charities they would like to support and ways that they could do that.
During the breaktime after the assembly, I was happily inundated with ideas for different sales or events from children from across the school! We’d like to harness the children’s enthusiasm and good spirit for this and give individual children or groups of children a chance to raise money for a charity of their choosing. After discussing this in assembly, we’ve decided to have some charity sales during Golden Time on the first three Fridays after the half term holidays. Each group or individual who wants to take part will need to complete an application form (which I will give to class teachers this week) which will say which charity they are supporting, where the money will go to and what they are going to do at the sale. Once these have been collected we will give each group one of the Fridays to hold their sale on (so they will only need to do it once!).
The children who are taking part can do a short presentation in assembly on the week of their sale to say what their charity is and what they will be selling (cakes, secondhand children’s books, something they have made etc.). They can also put two adverts up in school during that week and are welcome to bring decorations/posters and a pricelist for their table on the day. We really appreciate your support with this and hope that it will give all of the children a fuller understanding about raising money for charity; a greater understanding of some different charities and what they do and a desire to help others – the enthusiastic and thoughtful response so far has been very heart-warming.
Rotary Presentation – thank you to the Cheadle and District Rotary Club who, after enjoying a visit to the school, chose Lane End as the school they wanted to receive their donation of 32 Osbourne Illustrated Children’s dictionaries. These were presented to us in assembly after a presentation from the Rotary about their charity work – again fuelling our enthusiasm to help others!
Reception Reading Meeting – a reminder that this meeting for Reception parents is at 6:30pm tonight (Tuesday 2nd October) in the school hall – we hope to see you there.
Messages from the PTA
Christmas Cards & Tea Towels
We will be running our personalised Christmas card ordering service again this year, order forms will be available from the end of the month so children can design their cards over half term.
If you are looking for a personal gift for friends and family then why not buy one of our school tea towels. Each tea towel will have a picture of each child on which they will have drawn themselves. On sale in November.
Friday 19th October – PTA Quiz Night – a letter has already gone home about this event. Don’t forget to return your slip ASAP if you’d like tickets. Thank you!
Friday 16th November - Children In Need Disco - Our Infant & Junior discos to raise money for Children in Need – a letter with details will be coming home nearer the time. Infants – 6:00 – 7:00pm, Juniors – 7:15 – 8:15pm.
Thursday 22nd November - Body Shop Party - Need ideas for Christmas presents or just looking to treat yourself? Then join us for our Body Shop party. As well as facial and makeup demonstrations we'll have great offers on products with discounted gifts.
Saturday 1st December - Christmas Fair, 12:00 – 3pm - Preparation are under way for our Christmas Fair. If anyone runs their own company or has a friendly boss or knows of a business that would like to donate a raffle prize or have stall please let Kate Godfrey or Bev Sangster know. Non uniform days start on Friday 16th November with children bringing in a donation for the children’s tombola.
Saturday 15th December – PTA Christmas Disco (for parents)
We've booked the Cheadle Hulme Conservative Club on Mellor Road for a Christmas disco. So get your glad rags on and dance the night away with the bonus of knowing you can walk home!
More details about all of the above events and projects will be sent home nearer the time – we really appreciate your support for these events which all raise money for school.
PTA Meeting – PTA AGM Wednesday 7th November 7:30pm – 8:30pm – everyone is welcome and we’d love to see you there.
We aim to be approachable and work in partnership with parents, so if there is anything you wish to discuss, please do not hesitate to come and talk to us.
Yours sincerely,
James Twigg
Ramillies Avenue, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, SK8 7AL
0161 485 8071
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