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Abberley Parochial Primary Parent Newsletter 

Newsletter - 07.07.23

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Thank you to our incredible friend's association for arranging a wonderful summer fair for our school and community to enjoy. It was wonderful to see everyone smiling and enjoying themselves and some familiar faces that we don't see so often anymore. We appreciate all of the effort and time that went into organising the event. 

Our reception children had a busy week this week. They enjoyed a wonderful farm visit on Tuesday, joined me for the morning on Wednesday whilst our new reception children settled into their new class, and attended the pirate themed music festival at The Chantry. They have grown so much this year and it has been a pleasure to see them full of excitement and embracing these great opportunities with such positivity.

It was wonderful to meet our new reception children this week. They seemed to enjoy the day and appear well prepared for the whole school transition morning on Thursday. We hope that all of our pupils enjoy the opportunity to get used to their new classes and staff that they will work with.

Yours sincerely,

Joel Turvey

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Sports Day - 17th July

This will be held on the afternoon of Monday 17th July. Parents are welcome to arrive from 12.45pm and enter through the wooden gate onto the field. Please bring your own chairs (and sunshade if it is a hot day) and enjoy the afternoon with us.

Please position you chairs along the fence and end of the field and leave a few metres from the track to enable everyone to see the start and finish. 

The children will be out at lunch until 1pm, so please bring along some ice creams or ice lollies to enjoy with them before they go back into school for registration. We aim to be back onto the field by 1.10pm to start sports day.

Please note that there are no toilet facilities for those spectating and visitors should not go into the school buildings without signing in at the office and being accompanied by a member of staff.

Class teachers and structure for next year

Reception - Wrens - Mrs Lightfoot supported by Mrs Lench

Year 1 & 2 - Skylarks - Miss Rixon supported by Mrs Birch and Mrs Williams

Year 3 - Kingfishers - To be confirmed supported by Mrs Gibbons

Year 4 & 5 - Kestrels - Mrs Gregory supported by Mrs Roberts (new teaching assistant)

Year 6 - Merlins - Miss Harvey

Due to the nature of our school curriculum, during afternoon sessions, year 3 & 4 will be taught together and year 5 & 6 will be taught together.

Due to Mrs Shelley taking on the role of interim headteacher, we will be recruiting a teacher for September to work with kingfishers class. We have had a number of positive applications and visits. The deadline for applications is Sunday evening. It is anticipated that Mrs Shelley will return to work with Kingfishers on the appointment of a substantive headteacher.

Miss Hughes is likely to start the term with us in September, but will commence maternity leave shortly afterwards. 

Mrs Gregory will be taking on the role of SENCO from September for the interim period.

Charity fun run - 20th July

On Thursday 20th July, we will be doing our termly cross country run. We have normally completed this for 'Race for Life'. However, this is not being arranged for schools this year, so we will be collecting sponsorship for a local children's charity still to be decided by the CREW group. As it is a Thursday PE kits should be in school anyway, but children are welcome to come to school in their PE kit and bring a fancy costume (particularly year 6) or bright clothing to wear for the run if they would like to.

There is no specific distance of the run. We are encouraging children to complete at least two laps of the school, which is 1km.

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We are delighted to announce that we have achieved the School Games Gold Mark Award for the 2022/23 academic year. The School Games Mark is a Government-led award scheme launched in 2012, facilitated by the Youth Sport Trust to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community, and we are delighted to have been recognised for our success.

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An easy access video all about the SEND Local Offer:

https://youtu.be/LyEo2FySJiQ

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Here is the LINK to the July/August issue of Families magazine https://issuu.com/familiesonline/docs/famh_w_ja23?fr=sYTRkZDYyMDQwMjU 

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