St George's CE School Parent Portal

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!

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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!

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.