Welcome Back to the New School Year

Hollesley Primary School

Newsletter September 2014 Thursday or Friday morning so that we can Welcome take the gifts to church. At the start of our new school year we are pleased to welcome back many familiar faces as well as extending a very warm PE welcome to the new families that have Please can you ensure that your child has joined our school this year. a PE kit (shorts, T-shirt, socks and trainers) We also welcome Miss Debenham who is in school all week. All children have a PE teaching Y2/3 and Miss Buckman who is lesson twice a week and in addition we are working as a teaching assistant throughout encouraging the take-up of sport by the school. offering a wide range of sports activities at Mrs Cross has joined our office team on a lunchtime. permanent basis and we have two new PE lessons are on: lunchtime supervisors, Miss Jefferson- Tuesday and Thursday for Y2/3 and Y4 Smith and Mrs McConville. Tuesday and Friday for YR/1 Thursday and Friday for Y5/6 Governors Before the summer break we sought to School uniform recruit a parent governor and Ben Harding At the end of the summer term there was a (parent of Cameron in Y4 and Lawrence in large amount of clothing left behind in Y2) and has been appointed unopposed. In school and in spite of putting it out in the his application statement he said “I would playground on the last day it remained like to be actively involved in the school’s unclaimed. future.” Children do lose clothes in school We are, therefore, pleased that he will be especially when they forget where they left joining the governing body. There are five their jumper etc. but if items are named we parent governors; Sue Palmer (parent of are able to find them and match them to James Y6 and Matthew Y4); Nick Williams their owners. Please make sure your (parent of Sam Y5, Summa Y2 and Sacha child’s clothes are named and let us know YR), Ben Coulter (parent of Mabel Y3 and straight away when something is Billy Y1), Jane Baker (parent of William Y1) misplaced. and Ben Harding. Please can you also provide a “change of footwear” for children to wear at playtime. Harvest We continue to use the field for play unless We hope that you will be able to join us on it is very wet and spare shoes or wellies Friday 26th September at 13.15 in Hollesley help preserve the children’s school shoes church as we celebrate this year’s harvest. as well as keeping mud outside! We welcome the children from pre-school Thank you for your help with this. who will be joining us in church and if you know of anyone in the village who may like Commemoration of WW1 to join us please extend an invitation to At the start of August, our two new School them too. As in previous years, the gifts we Reporters, attended a service at St receive will be distributed to Mary Warner Edmund’s cathedral to commemorate the Homes at Boyton. If you would like to outbreak of the First World War. Their contribute items or produce, please bring commitment to attend such an event during them in to the school on either the the school holiday and their behaviour on Hollesley Primary School

Newsletter September 2014 the day are to be commended not least and walk through the allotments whenever because they were the only children possible. representing a Suffolk school. You can The entrance to the school playground is read their report in next month’s Village very busy at the start and end of the school Voices. day and it is necessary for vehicles to park at the top end of the playground. Please Free school meals help us to ensure your child’s safety by There has been a pleasing uptake of waiting for your child at the lower end of school dinners this year with the younger the playground well away from the gates children being entitled to a free meal each where vehicles may be moving. Similarly in day. We would, however, continue to urge the morning, please bring your child right parents to claim free school meals if they onto the playground. Unless children are think they may be entitled. A significant attending breakfast club, they should not amount of money is added to the school arrive on the playground before 8.30 when budget based on the children who are a member of staff is on duty. Thank you for entitled to a free meal and this money helping us to keep the children safe. continues to go to the school they attend Play equipment for 6 years. So although children in YR, 1 We were very sad in the summer when our and 2 already have a free meal under new play equipment was deemed unrepairable legislation it is very important that parents because of the rotting wood, however it will continue to claim and thus support the be replaced with new equipment thanks to school financially. If you think you may be Friends. We are very grateful to the team entitled to claim please talk to the office of parents who removed the old equipment staff. in the summer and we are now looking forward to the new low-level equipment Congratulations that has been funded by Friends. Congratulations to Stevie Smith, Y5, whose The new equipment is due to be installed poem “When I Grow Up” was commended during the week beginning 22nd September. in the Suffolk Young Poets competition. There may be some disruption during the She has been invited to attend the poetry installation so please be mindful of your reading at Snape with her family. children (especially pre-schoolers) at the start and end of the day. Also well done to the children whose paintings were chosen to decorate the hut Poetry workshops in the community garden – do have a look We are delighted that the children will have at them as you walk through the the opportunity to work with poet Dean allotments. Parkin again this year. Dean will work with the children on a “Poem for Suffolk”, an Playground ambitious undertaking – to create a full- The safety of children at the start and end length poem in response to the history, of the school day continues to be of landscape, people and myths of the concern. County. The project is sponsored by the There are reports of cars parked Arts Council and the finished work will be dangerously in School Lane and on the published in autumn 2015, and adapted for drive to the school. Please park at the pub public performance to tour Suffolk in autumn and winter 2015. Hollesley Primary School

Newsletter September 2014

Sutton Heath Football club We have been asked to let you know that Sutton Heath are starting a new age group, the U7s. If your child is in Y1 or Y2 and interested in attending then please call Steve on 07990505219.

Dates for your diary 19th September Friends AGM 15.15 26th September Harvest celebration 3rd October Poetry workshops with Dean Parkin 6th October RE day 7th October Y3/4 visit to Cineworld 20th October Parents’ Evening 21st October Y6 visit to Crucial Crew 22nd October Tempest photography 27th – 31st October Half term 21st November Non-pupil day