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Newsletter 13 - 6th December 2024

Dear Parents and Carers,

It was lovely to see so many of you at the Christmas Tree lights switch on last Friday. A huge well done to the choir and Miss Wallbanks for their beautiful singing. And a thank you to our Head Boy, Tom and our Head Girl, Mia for switching on the lights! The tree looks magical.

 

It’s such a busy time of year in school – we have lots of different activities and events that mean the children are ‘off-timetable’ at times.

The children are all busy rehearsing for their Christmas Nativities and Christmas Service at the moment. They’re excited for their Christmas Parties and Christingle and sometimes it can all get a bit too much for them! So, if your child is struggling with all the busyness of this time of year, please do let their class teacher know and we can support them. The Parent Tip around worry and anxiety attached below may be of help too.

 

I’m also aware how hectic it is for parents to juggle everything too so please do see the list of events below to take us to the end of term.

 

Christmas Events

  • Friday 13th December 9.15am Reception Class Nativity in the hall – parents welcome via the back hall door. Cash donations to Holy Trinity Food Bank collection. 
  • Friday 13th December after school Y4 Bake Sale
  • Monday 16th December 1.30pm Key Stage 1 Nativity in the hall – parents welcome via the back hall door. Cash donations to Holy Trinity Food Bank collection.
  • Monday 16th December 6pm Key Stage 2 Christmas Service in Holy Trinity Church. Children to wear school uniform (with a Christmas hat or similar if they’d like!) and arrive at church for 5.45pm. Parents welcome. Cash donations to Holy Trinity Food Bank collection.  Children to be collected from church at 6.45pm if parents are not able to attend.
  • Tuesday 17th December 9.15am Key Stage 1 Nativity in the hall – parents welcome via the back hall door. Cash donations to Holy Trinity Food Bank collection.
  • Tuesday 17th December Key Stage 1 Christmas Party in the afternoon during school time – children come to school in their party clothes. PTA providing a drink and a packet of crisps.
  • Wednesday 18th December – Christmas Lunch. Children order a school lunch in the usual way.
  • Wednesday 18th December Key Stage 2 Christmas Party in the afternoon during school time – children come to school in their party clothes. PTA providing a drink and a packet of crisps.
  • Thursday 19th December whole school Christingle Service
  • Friday 20th December Christmas Jumper Day. School finishes at 1.30pm

 

Enjoy the weekend,

 

Mrs Griffith

Stars of the Week for w/e 6th December 2024

Well done to all of our Stars this week

Reception – Prudence for super kind and helpful behaviour and colourful, creative art work.

Year 1 – Ottilie for always presenting her work so carefully and beautifully.

Year 2 – Freya for working so hard on her addition and subtraction and contributing her ideas in class.

Year 3 – Peyton for an excellent piece of homework explaining why she would rather live in 2024 than in the Stone Age.

Year 4 – Elsie for always being super smiley and such a kind and positive member of the class.

Year 5 – Jake for engaging fully in our Music lessons and singing up in our Christmas song practice.  Flois for being a good friend and always supporting others when they need a helping hand.  

Year 6 - Fraser for working hard in lessons and particularly making an effort with writing and fractions.

House of the Week
The House with the most house points this week is Fire! Well done Fire!

Christmas Lunch

Our Christmas Lunch this year will be on Wednesday 18th December.  Lunch can be ordered on the day.  This is free for children in Reception Class and Years 1 and 2.  Please make sure you have put money on ParentPay to cover the cost for children in Years 3 - 6.  The price is £2.60 which is the same as usual.  

School Lunches

The price for school lunches will increase slightly to £2.75 from January 2025.  Please make sure there is money available on ParentPay in advance of your child having a school meal so that debts are not incurred with our catering provider.  Currently a lot of time is being spent chasing up payments for meals which have been taken but not paid for.  Many thanks for your help with this.  

Head Lice in School

We have reported cases of head lice across school so please do a spot of bug busting this weekend if you can.  All you  need is a nit comb and some conditioner to make the hair too slippery for little lice legs to hold on to.  Comb through from scalp to tip and then swish the comb in a bowl of water.  You might be surprised what you find!  

Cyber Protect Webinars

Thames Valley Police are running free Cyber Protect webinars for parents.  These have proved very popular and the tickets available for each have been increased from 100 to 500 to allow more people to take part.  Please see more details on the flyer below.

Maidenhead Magpies Christmas Holiday Camp

Dedworth Football Camp

https://ticketpass.org/event/EAUYIT/dedworth-christmas-new-year-football-camp

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2nd 3rd January

Autumn Term Key Dates – 2024

Fri 13th Dec - Reception Nativity for Parents - School Hall - 9.15am

Fri 13th Dec - Y4 Bake Sale

Mon 16th Dec - KS1 Nativity for Parents - School Hall - 1.30pm

Mon 16th Dec - KS2 Christmas Service - Holy Trinity Church - 6pm

Tues 17th Dec - KS1 Nativity for Parents - School Hall - 9.15am

Tues 17th Dec - Rec and KS1 Christmas Parties

Weds 18th Dec - Christmas Lunch

Weds 18th Dec - KS2 Christmas Parties

Fri 20th Dec - Christmas Jumper Day

Fri 20th Dec - End of Term 2 - 1.30pm


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