Just a few reminders and notifications from us at this busy time of the year.

Firstly, Thursday 4th December is last day to bring any ‘tagged presents’ back as part of the 'Giving Tree' project. There is still time to pick up a tag from our tree in school reception and to return it with a gift. Thank you so much to everyone who has done this so far, there is an amazing pile of gifts under and around the tree.

Attached is a flyer from Lincolnshire's Stay Safe Partnership for a Microsoft Teams event this coming Wednesday 3rd December at 6.00pm entitled Discover the Digital World Your Child is Navigating! It offers you the opportunity to:

✅ Understand what your child experiences online
✅ Use parental controls effectively
✅ Navigate age-appropriate apps, games, and social media
✅ Ask your burning questions about online trends and risks

If this is of interest to you, please sign up via the QR code on the flyer or through this link: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/staysafepartnership/1929114

Don't forget, this coming Friday 5th December sees our annual PTA Christmas Fayre between 5pm and 7pm. It's shaping up to be an amazing evening with lots of great stalls, refreshments and raffle prizes (and much, much more). Please send in all sold raffle tickets and money by Friday morning, also do return any unsold tickets.

We appear to have a lot of lost property again - five bin bags full including winter coats, shoes and PE kits. We will be sending all items that are not named or reclaimed to the clothes bank on Friday, so please get the children to check in with Mrs Barbosa who is holding on to the items in her room. To make this easier, here is a video of all of our unnamed items, recognise anything?

https://youtube.com/shorts/A_45igEd5nw?si=dXaaWTGiyWyQu8ir

And finally, I attach an updated list of key dates for the rest of the school year, which hopefully allows us all to plan ahead and gives us lots to look forward to.

The key dates for the rest of term are below with further details to follow shortly.

Friday 5^th December – Christmas Fayre 5pm – 7pm

Thursday 11^th December – Y3 Christmas play 6pm

Friday 12^th December - Y3 Christmas play 6pm

Saturday 13^th December – School Choir singing at Alive Church 6.30pm

Tuesday 16th December – Y6 children singing at Buddies Dementia Café – 12.45pm

Tuesday 16^th December – School Christmas Carol Service 6pm

Wednesday 17^th December – Party Day - no hot meals on this day

Thursday 18^th December – Chrismon service in church 11am

Friday 19^th December – Last day of term – 3pm closure

School reopens for pupils on Tuesday 6^th January 2025

With very best wishes

David Gibbons

Head Teacher