St. Peter’s C.E. Primary School Belford Road, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 1JA. Headteacher – Mrs Julia Collins “Learning – Achieving – Caring” 13th December 2019 Dear Parents/ Carers, Fantastic news Congratulations to Mrs. Jones, who had a baby girl this Monday. Both Mum and baby are doing very well! Christmas Tree Festival If you are in town at the weekend, you might want to pop into St. Peter’s Church as the ‘Christmas Tree Festival’ is now on. A big thank you to Mrs Tisick who spent a lot of time on our St Peter’s Christmas tree. Y4 residential The numbers of children have to be confirmed by Thursday 19th December. If you want your child to go, we must have the deposit of £20 by next week. The power-point presentation for the trip is now on the website if you wish to view it. Nativity Thank you to everyone who supported the Nativity this week. We are very proud of the children; they shared their talents with us and shone. They were a-ma-zing! Stray FM – Sleeps to Santa Tune in to Stray FM on Monday 16th around 7.10am and 8.10am, to hear our infant children singing “Sleeps to Santa”. What a great way to start the day! Year 5 Ivy Writing Competition Well done to all the Year 5 children, who took part in the Christmas writing competition organised by The Ivy, Harrogate. There were some wonderful festive stories written to a very high standard. However, we are pleased to announce that Harry Collingwood-Cooper has been selected as the overall winner of the competition. Alongside Harry, four other children will have the opportunity to go to the restaurant to celebrate a successful competition and have their photograph taken by the local Harrogate press. This has been arranged for Monday 16th December at 2pm. Telephone: 01423 569684 Fax: 01423 521080 General email: [email protected] Headteacher email: [email protected]. Part of Yorkshire Causeway Schools Trust, a charitable company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales with company number: 07663935. Registered Office: St Aidan’s CE High School, Oatlands Drive, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG2 8JR. Tuesday Flu vaccinations If you have signed your child up for their flu vaccine, these take place next Tuesday 17th December. Wednesday Christmas dinner/ jumper day On Wednesday 18th December, we have our Christmas dinner and it is Christmas jumper day. For those children in KS2, who usually have a packed lunch but may wish to join us for a hot meal on this day, please ensure you have ordered a meal and paid the £2.35 on Parentpay. The Infants will also have a Christmas party on Wednesday morning in school. Thursday Christmas Service All are welcome to join us at the Christmas service at 9.30am at St. Peter’s church. If you are able to come, please would you help us walk with the children down to church. We will be setting off at 9am and back again at around 10.30am. The children in KS2 will have their Christmas parties that afternoon as well. Friday Last Day of Term If you wish to join us, we will be singing carols to our neighbours across the road from 1.15pm. FOSP will be serving refreshments. We will then take the children back into school to collect their belongings and the term ends at 2pm when the children will be delivered back to you in the normal way on the back playground, ready for the Christmas holidays. Clubs There are no afterschool clubs next week, but lunchtime clubs will still be running. January Training Day The Spring Term training day is 6th January 2020 and we will be closed as staff are committed to training alongside our partner schools at Pannal. The date was wrong on the UCI letter, which should have read 5th January 2021. However having spotted the mistake the governors discussed the closure in September and decided that the UCI day would be taken as an exceptional day as in most schools and would not be taken over to January 2021. The dates were updated on the website and an update sent out in the newsletter on 13th September. I hope this clarifies the situation. Funclub will be open on 6th January 2020. We wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. We look forward to seeing everyone for the start of the Spring term on Tuesday 7th January 2020. Yours sincerely Julia Collins/ Helena Fishburn Headteacher/ Associate Headteacher Telephone: 01423 569684 Fax: 01423 521080 General email: [email protected] Headteacher email: [email protected]. Part of Yorkshire Causeway Schools Trust, a charitable company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales with company number: 07663935. Registered Office: St Aidan’s CE High School, Oatlands Drive, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG2 8JR. .