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11.11.2022

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From the PTFA

We will have 3 non-uniform Fridays (the 18th November, the 25 November, 2 December) in the run up to the Christmas Fair – Following requests from the PTFA these will be a return to the traditional ‘Non-Uniforms’ For families new to the school – there is no charge for the non-uniform days; but we do ask that you send in a donation please for the Christmas Fair, in exchange for your child coming to school in their own clothes. 

The 1st non uniform day is where we collect coloured hamper gifts - all the details are in the calendar section of the Newsletter.

For the following 2 Fridays would you mind supplying us with bottles, clean/Unused/New re-useable soft toys, books, games, chocolates, toiletries, or any prizes that can be used for the tombola stall. 

Please try to sell the raffle tickets – 5 strips per family! (Sent home tonight) Please put your name on one side of the tickets and return this side with the money to school – keeping the unsigned ticket at home for you when you collect the winning prize! Prizes to be announced…

Raffle tickets are priced at £1.00 per strip and are in your child’s bag tonight!

If you shop through EasyFundraising for St George's. Don't forget your daily 'Spin to Win' this month, you could raise extra cash for School.

If you don't already, please consider signing up, it's so easy to shop and raise cash at the same time. Thank you! 😊

In other news as we prepare for the Fair

Cakes. This was as area of the fair that was strong before COVID - we had a lovely cake sale, with many parents, grandparents, neighbours sending in either baked, or bought cakes on the day of the Fair. In fairs post COVID this is something that hasn't fully reignited, and we would like it to if possible. 

So on the morning of the Fair can as many people as possible send in cakes for us to sell please? We'd love to re kindle the lovely cake stall of old! Hope you can help here. That would be amazing, and thank you. 

Location of stalls. Kelly Beesley, and others have organised a wonderful Fair - it should be amazingly gorgeous. You will enter the friar through the junior yard - hopefully there'll be an amazing queue all the way to the chippy to enter the fair. There will be rides on the junior yard, with the majority of the stall on the junior MUGA. 

Refreshments, drinks, chips and hot dogs, will be served from the kitchen, as will mulled wine, tea and coffee. Along the promenade there will be the year 6 games, on the right, and school council in the classroom on the left - a Christmas photo booth.

Santa will be in the stable - the hut outside class 4. Class 4 will be where you wait to see Santa. 

Can you help set up?

The the day of the fair, can you spare some time to come in and help? As an incentive, we will give you a free school dinner that you can eat with your kids! Please, if you can, do help us out - setting up is a massive, yet enjoyable task. If you can help us out, please email Sharon - we would like between 5 - 10 of you, 1st come, 1st served - literally!

Class 5. Good News - written by class 5

Good news, the Christmas fair is back on 5th December! Bring something in on 18th November that is your class colour and then buy a ticket and you might win something. Class 1 and 2 are red, Class 3 is green, Class 4 are orange, Class 5 are purple, Class 6 are blue, Class 7 is silver, Class 8 is black and white , Year 5 are pink and Year 6 are gold. (Leo, Iris & Jess - Class 5)

Come and have some fun at the Christmas fair! You have to come to the fair on the 5th of December. Bring something that is your class colour on the 18th of November for the hamper. Come and support your school! (Luke, Harper & Jack – Class 5)

The Thrive Programme Roll Out continues...

This week the children have been introduced to the concept of beliefs and the idea that we all look at life through our own 'lenses'. The lenses we look through are our own set of beliefs.

For example, if I believe that 'I'm useless at sport' or 'I'm no good at making friends' then these beliefs can make it hard for me to be happy, healthy and successful. These types of beliefs are called 'limiting beliefs' because they can limit my potential and hold me back in life. 

If I believe 'I'm useless at sport' then I am unlikely to put much effort into PE lessons or get involved, voluntarily, in any exercise of extracurricular activity. I am also unlikely to look forward to PE lessons and may find the experience quite anxiety provoking.  

A more helpful belief would be one that is kind and charitable towards myself. Something along the lines of 'PE is good for my physical health and I try my best in it'. This belief does not provoke anxiety and allows the person who holds that belief to take part and possibly even enjoy doing physical activity. This belief allows the person to lead a healthy and balanced life

We hold beliefs about every part of our lives and it is important that the children recognise them as beliefs and not 'facts'. It is also important that they know these beliefs are not fixed - just like a pair of glasses aren't fixed. We can change a pair of glasses, we can change our beliefs. 

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Book Fair in School
All Day
From 09 Nov until 23 Nov
09
November
Remembrance Service – Friday 11th November 10:45am
10:45am – 11:30am
11
November
World Diabetes Day
9:00am – 3:00pm
14
November
SSP KS2 Intra Competition class 9,10,11
9:15am – 11:15am
14
November
Class 5 walk to Cenotaph Chorley
1:00pm – 2:00pm
14
November
Parent Evening - Face to Face
4:00pm – 7:00pm
16
November
C4 Visit Liverpool Maritime Museum
All Day
17
November
Parents Evening (Zoom)
4:00pm – 7:00pm
17
November
Non Uniform Day 1
All Day
18
November
Y6 to London
7:00am – 8:00pm
24
November
Non Uniform Day 2
All Day
25
November
Class 5 Fairytale Day
All Day
25
November
CSSP Y5/Y6 Sportshall heat 4
4:00pm – 6:00pm
29
November
Non Uniform Day 3
All Day
02
December
History Workshop c3
9:00am – 12:00pm
02
December
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Please enter and leave school through the main entrance. I’ll be there with a cheery greeting, making your way to your child's classroom, and waiting outside the classroom, perusing books, awaiting the teacher to invite them into parents evening. 

Staff will be available at the main entrance to guide you to your waiting area which will be outside your child’s classroom, with the exception of:

Reception (Classes 1 & 2)– Library area

Class 3 – Red floored resource area opposite the calssroom

If your child is in classes 6, 7, 8, or 11 you will wait upstairs in the resource area.

The urns will be set up in the arena (the former music room, or the classroom on your left just before you go up the stairs) Just help yourself to a tea or coffee. The book fair will also be in the Library , and will be staffed by Anne, Anna or Sharon.

Parents will wait outside the child’s classroom, where your child’s books and chairs will be. 

This is the time of year when we:

Update Data we hold on your child. This is done using the SIMSlite app. 

Update our Free school meals and pupil premium information. This form helps fund the school. If you are entitled to the benefits described please please please fill out this form and return it. It will be emailed out with this newsletter.

All forms can be returned on the night simply by throwing them into any grey box near the main exit door. We will sort them out from there.

FOR THOSE PARENTS WHO ARE ZOOMING IN.

Codes will be emailed out separately this evening. 

Our new Scholastic Book Club is up and running! Go to https://schools.scholastic.co.uk/st-georges-pr7/digital-book-club

Autumn Digital Book Club

Your Autumn Digital Book Club is here! It’s quick and easy to browse and shop our fantastic selection of children's books.

schools.scholastic.co.uk

 to browse the latest books and order online. For every £1 you spend on this month’s Book Club, our school will earn 20p in Scholastic Rewards.

Please place your order online by November 21st, 2022.

Moving forward, we will continue to offer zoom as part of parents evening, however this will be by request only. It is massively convenient for some of you, great for parents who are working away etc.... but the majority of you now prefer face to face again. Henceforth we will have as a default 2 face to face evenings, but you will be able to signal a zoom request on your booking. For those of you who are zooming in this term, it should all be fine, however zoom have removed the enhanced access they gave s during covid. This is fair enough, but it could make the evening a little more clunky - we can only hold the meeting for 40 minutes now without closing the meeting, so if you're in the waiting room, and get kicked out, we've had to reset - please just log back in. That said - we do have gaps on the evening, so teachers will be on the ball, and will reset at convenient times - it's just a heads up. 

 

As is now tradition around Parents’ Evening, the book fair has arrived at School. The children will all have an opportunity to visit our library over the next few days and write titles that they are interested in reading and or purchasing. There will be multiple ways to purchase from the Scholastic Book fair this year. Either in person on the Wednesday night, via the Scholastic Book Club Autumn Digital Book Club, details above, or call in school upon pick up, and ADMIN will be happy to help.

 

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And finally, we had a fantastic INSET on Monday, where we hosted over 120 visitors from school's across Lancashire. We listened, in stony silence to the remarkable words of Chris Luube, Nelson Mandella;s body guard when he became President of SOuth Africa. A truly remarkable, educational and inspirational speaker. How they lived through legalised apartheid, legalised racism, yet forgive those who killed and persecuted them.... if you want a flavour of the honour of this man watch the film Invictus. Where you will hear many a haunting line:

Nelson Mandela: Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.

Nerine: [after Francois returns from his tea with President Mandela] So, what's he like?

Francois Pienaar: [pauses] He's unlike any person I've ever met.

Nelson Mandela: You criticize without understanding. You seek only to address your own personal feelings. That is selfish thinking, Zindzi. It does not serve the nation.

And in my favourite dialogue in pretty much any film we witness a dynamic scene that depicts a tense conversation between President Nelson Mandela and Chris Luube. At issue is Mandela’s decision to hire some of the highly qualified white bodyguards who had watched over his white predecessor, FW De Klerk.

When the white guards report in to take up their duties with the Mandela administration, the all black security contingent—who had not been notified of this unprecedented and unforeseen turn of events—reacts with surprise and contempt.

Visibly agitated, the chief security officer, Chris Luube's boss,  storms into the president’s office to demand an explanation. Mr Mandela calmly makes clear his desire to be protected by a multiracial team, one that should—in the president’s mind at least—take advantage of the most skilled and experienced people for the job, regardless of their race or the nature of their previous employment.

Here is a portion of their dialog:

Nelson:When people see me in public, they see my bodyguards. You represent me directly. The rainbow nation starts here. Reconciliation, starts here.

Jason: Reconciliation, Sir?

Nelson: Yes, Jason, reconciliation.

Jason: Comrade President, not long ago these guys tried to kill us. Maybe even these four guys in my office tried and often succeeded.

Luube: Yes, I know. Forgiveness starts here, too…Please, Jason, try.

Jason: Sorry to disturb you, Sir.