NEWSLETTER Issue 7 July 2018 Staffing Health and Safety DATES The staffing arrangements Earrings: If your child is to have pierced ears during the 2018/19 for September are as holidays, please ensure the earrings have been taken out INSET 3.9.18 follows: before the children return to school in September. School opens –4.9.18 Y6 Mrs Wright, Mrs Burden HALF TERM Y5 Mrs Ashcroft, Mrs Sports News School closes – 19.10.18 Boots Netball: We were very proud of our Year 6 netball team INSET 29.10.18 Y4 Mrs Baker, Mrs Rees who won a match against Gayton Primary. The Y5 netball School opens – 30.10.18 Y3 Mr Snow, Mrs Johnston team are due to play in the Braddock cup next week. CHRISTMAS Y2 Mrs McHale, Mrs Healy, Football: Our Y6 team have entered the Cole cup and School closes – 21.12.18 Mrs Bradley, are due to play this evening. Y1 Mrs Thornborough, Mrs Our Y5 footballers played very well in the Dodd Cup but Uniform Healy, Mrs McCormick. they were not the overall winners this year. Our winter uniform is a red F2 Mrs Fraser, Mrs The Y3 team enjoyed their first match and beat Lingham polo shirt, grey sweatshirt or Houghton. Primary 6-3. cardigan (NO HOODIES Mrs Baker, Mrs Boots, Mrs Rounders: A Y6 team played extremely well in a please), grey trousers, skirt or Burden and Mr Snow will tournament, winning three, drawing one and losing one. pinafore and black sensible teach additional lessons in We are very proud of all of the children who have shoes. NO TRAINERS please. KS2. Mrs Healy and Mrs Cui represented our school this year. Thank you to all of will teach additional lessons Please note that trainers the staff members for taking the children to these in KS1. are not part of our school events. uniform and should not be worn. Pride of Irby Primary For PE white or black shorts Staffing Changes Well done to a group of Y3 singers who visited The Croft Care Mrs Collins will be leaving us home to sing for the elderly residents. and white T shirt for indoors at the end of this term. We and dark track pants for outdoors. would like to thank her for Goodbye and Good Luck her contribution to our Please ensure all items are We will really miss our lovely Year Six class as they move named. school, especially in KS1. on to their next schools. The children have been a We are also sad to say delight to have in school. They have achieved extremely goodbye to Miss Collins who well and made excellent progress and we are very proud Swimming has completed her placement of all of them. We will miss them and would like to thank Wirral Leisure are offering a with us and has a teaching them for being such fabulous role models for our Junior Cash Pass for just job in another Wirral school younger children. £15.00 per month available starting in September. We They leave us to go to: Calday Grange Grammar School, throughout the Summer for all wish her every success in her Hilbre High School, Neston High School, Pensby High Juniors living on the Wirral, up future career. School, St Anselm’s College, St John Plessington Catholic to and including age 17. The We are pleased to welcome College, Upton Hall School FCJ, West Kirby Grammar Pass gives access to all Wirral Mrs Rees to the KS2 team. School, Wirral Grammar School for Girls and Leisure Swimming Pools We are also pleased to Woodchurch High School. including: West Kirby announce we have two We wish them every success in their new schools, hope Concourse, Leasowe Leisure Associate teachers, Miss they will be very happy and remember to come back and Centre, Oval Leisure Centre, Ridgeway and Miss Hall, who visit us. Woodchurch Leisure Centre, will be also joining us from Guinea Gap Pool September. Europa Pools (*£2 supplement Secondary transfer 2019 to swim in the Leisure pool There will be a meeting to explain the procedures with the flumes and slides). Arrangements for the involved in secondary transfer on 5. 9. 18 at 5.30 pm See www.wirralleisure.co.uk end of school: for parents of the new Y6 class. Children will be in school uniform until the end of Sponsored Mile term but may bring in a toy Congratulations to all of the children who The PIPS committee (not expensive or electronic successfully achieved the sponsored mile. Thanks to are pleased to announce that the please) to play with for the all parents, friends and families for their support. So Summer Fair raised £2483.00. last day. far we have raised £1290. We hope you have a wonderful summer and look forward to welcoming you back on Tuesday 4th September. .