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30.09.2022

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26 Sep 2022

Week of 26.9.2022 at St George's

A few insights into what's excited the kids this week.

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After meeting Author Patrice Lawrence last week at Balshaw Lane, 25 of our pupils were excited to receive their signed copies her brand-new book, 'The Elemental Detectives'. An inspirational experience seeing her in person and hearing the passion with which she spoke about writing. Remember kids, she started out just like you and look at her now!

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ECO Council

Through our environmental efforts over the last academic year we have been accredited with a green flag from the Eco Schools! This is nationally renowned award and something that we are immensely proud to unveil to our whole school community!

Last year, we focussed on Biodiversity, Waste and School Grounds improvements. As part of this we got the Runner Ducks the pond and the bees and improved our waste management. We have now gathered together our new Eco Council Representatives and will be conducting our new year audit and plan so watch this space!

In other news, 75 Jars of honey will arriving at St. George's imminently from our hives at Mossy Lea!

Next week, we officially welcome in Autumn with a week of themed lunches.

‘Hello Autumn’ runs for one week only and celebrates nature’s bountiful harvest.

Below is the menu. Order as you normally would – infant children make their choice at lunchtime, junior children choose in the classroom on the day or parents of juniors can choose in advance through Scopay. Below is the ‘Hello Autumn’ menu:

Monday

Red

Green

Blue

Spaghetti Bolognese served with garlic bread

Jacket Potato with a choice of fillings

Grab and Go Sandwich Bag

Tuesday

Red

Green

Blue

Corned Beef Hash served with Crusty Bread

Jacket Potato with a choice of fillings

Grab and Go Sandwich Bag

Wednesday

Red

Green

Blue

Cottage Pie and vegetables

Jacket Potato with a choice of fillings

Grab and Go Sandwich Bag

Thursday

Red

Green

Blue

Booths Beef and Pork Meatballs with Yorkshire Pudding, Creamy Mashed Potatoes, seasonal vegetables and gravy

Lancashire Cheese and Potato Pie with Baked Beans

Jacket Potato with a choice of filling

Friday

Red

Green

Blue

Sausage, Chips and Beans

Jacket Potato with a choice of filling

Grab and Go Sandwich Bag

Selection of Puddings to be chosen on the day

FLU VACCINE PERMISSION LINK—COMPLETE ASAP PLEASE

If you would like your child to receive the nasal flu vaccine in school please follow this link to complete an online consent form. The link contains the consent form and additional information such as FAQs regarding the vaccine

https://www.nhsimms.uk/FLU/information?Id=119466&Type=FLU

The vaccinations will take place at your child’s school on Friday 21^st October, the link will close on Tuesday 11^th October.

If your child has already had the Nasal Flu vaccine since September 2022 please disregard this message. If you have any problems accessing the link please telephone 0333 358 3397, option 3.

Admissions:

If you have a child who should start school in September 2023 please ensure that you have read the admissions process on the website at school, and at church… all your questions should be answered there.

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Quick Notes

Have you synced the calendar to your phone/tablet?

Have you followed us on facebook? St Georges Primary School

PTFA meeting Monday 3rd October 2022 in school at 7.30pm Hope to see you there.

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Adult Helpers…. We still really do need you!!!!!

Adult Helpers! Can you help us to help you….

We really appreciate, and value help from parents with reading in school. Can you help?

Reading is a life skill, and all the staff at St. George’s work their hardest to ensure that children experience different reading opportunities. We try to get every child in the infants heard read 3 times a week – that’s a huge task, and not one we can achieve without your help! If you can spare an hour or two in the week, for us, ideally in an afternoon – but mornings are better than nothing, we’d be ever so pleased to see you! Please see SLT, Sharon or myself if you can help us out!

If you can offer help in a more general way around the school please see any of our class teachers! It would be great to see you!

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Dragon FM, broadcasting out of St. George's Primary School needs a team of dedicated children to help lead the radio station. The Radio Club, which will be made up of Mr Horne, Y4, Y5 and Y6 children will meet each week, after-school on a Monday 3.15 4.30pm, in the run-up to Christmas, to record segments for the station. After Christmas, we will re-advertise the Dragon FM Radio Club again to allow for some different children to take part in the club. It's early days but I hope for the club to create brilliant weekly broadcasts featuring: local, national and international news updates; School news in the form of School Council, Ethos Group and Eco Council updates; interviews from special guests and Music.

Please see the form below to sign your child up to the Dragon FM Radio Club, meeting each Monday, after-school, 3.15-4.30pm.

The Club will begin on Monday 17th October 2022

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Thank you!

Mr Horne

UNIFORM SWAP AT ST GEORGE'S

How it works:

Come to school during pick up or drop off time and make your way up past the infant playground to the Chalet (our warm wooden shed to the rear of the school). The Chalet is open every single day. Inside, you will find boxes containing all elements of the school uniform. If your child has grown out of some old uniform we would really appreciate you adding that into the boxes as you take out larger items. All clothes in the boxes have been cleaned and sorted.

At the rate children grow, uniform is an expensive and regular purchase so every little does help in this respect. If you are dropping off uniform too, thank you in advance!

Class 3 walk to Duxbury

9:30am – 11:30am

September

SCARF in school

9:00am – 3:00pm

October

PTFA Annual General Meeting (AGM)

7:30pm – 8:30pm

October

Chorley SSP Football league (Mixed, Y5, Y6)

4:00pm – 6:00pm

October

Y6 PGL Trip

All Day

From 07 Oct until 10 Oct

October

Class 8 to Duxbury

1:30pm – 3:00pm

October

Class 5 trip to Lytham

9:00am – 3:15pm

October

Class 6 to church (Drop off)

9:00am – 11:00am

October

Class Call in

3:45pm – 5:00pm

October

Homework Hand In Date

All Day

October

Class 6 Harvest Worship with Parents

9:00am – 10:00am

October

Homework Celebration & Share Day

All Day

October

Flu vaccines

9:00am – 12:00pm

October

Half Term

All Day

From 24 Oct until 28 Oct

October

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Year 6 Notes – PGL

Reminder of information you may find useful

To bring into School by Wednesday 5th September:

· All medical forms - have you sent yours in?

· All medicine to be clearly labelled with name, dosage, etc into Rob please. Remember travel tablets for the return journey, and 2 inhalers please!

Medical/Health

· If your child uses an inhaler, they will need two for PGL – one to be brought into school (as described above) which will be kept in School’s First Aid Kit. Second inhaler to be kept with child at all times – and packed!

· Travel sickness tablets in a clearly labelled envelope with name and dosage (don’t forget return journey!) –

· Water bottle – plenty of places to refill it

Don’t forget!

· Sleeping bag and pillow in labelled black bin bag with labelled spare bag for return journey.

· Small rucksack for use during the day.

· Canoeing kit (the oldest clothes recommended) in an additional labelled black bin bag—”wet bag!”

· No hairdryers, straighteners or aerosols. Aerosols set off the sensitive alarms in the rooms.

· Packed lunch for Friday—in a disposable bag! Let Rob know if you want Leanne to make a school packed lunch! It’s no problem! Please let Rob know by Tuesday to give Leanne enough time to prepare these please.

· Digital devices allowed for use on coach only. Please bring a clear, labelled bag for it as it will be collected on arrival and placed in safe for duration of stay.

Travel Arrangements

· We leave at 10.00 am on Friday and we will send a Groupcall text to let you know of our safe arrival at Boreatton Park.

· Children to arrive in School from 8.30am up to 9.30 with bags to be stored around the hall perimeter please. Register in class.

· We arrive back at school at approximately 3.30pm on Monday but again will send out a text to confirm our arrival time.

Emergency Contacts

· Obviously, we will contact you immediately in the case of an emergency. If you do need to contact us in the case of an emergency, you can:

· E-mail head@st-georges.lancs.sch.uk

· should the situation be critical, phone our base contact – Nic Cook – on DUTY PHONE NUMBER PLEASE

· Phone Boreatton Park directly on 01939 260551

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Yarrow Schools Alliance, based here at St. George's, has now successfully trained over 60 teachers over the past 7 years. If you, or someone close to you is interested in joining the profession, let Rob know. Have a look at our teaching staff for proof of the pudding. Those trained by Yarrow include:

Rob Horne, Georgina Berry, Tom Norris, Siobhan Mackenzie, Lisa Towers, Mark Holmes, Angela Makepeace!

If that isn't an accolade and a half to the quality of the provision, I don't know what is...