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Friday 19 December 2008

Christmas

Parties are on Thursday afternoon. Your child’s teacher will be writing about arrangements for individual year groups parties to try and ensure they don’t end up with 90 packets of cakes. (As we are a healthy school some of you might think of sending in fruit or chopped up carrots and the like.) Thursday will be a non-uniform day.
We finish for the term on Friday 19th December at 3.20 p.m.
We start for the new term on MONDAY 5th January at 8.55 a.m.
Lots of other local schools don’t start until the Tuesday so please remember Gateway starts on the Monday.
I won’t be sending out a newsletter next Friday so I’d like to take this opportunity of wishing you all the very best for the break and to wish our Christian families a happy and holy Christmas.

CLUBS

There will be no clubs next week. This includes the after school homework and morning breakfast clubs as well as all the usual after school clubs. However, the ‘walking bus’ to Playcentre will still continue.

Attendance

Can I thank the majority of families who got their children in on Tuesday. Lots of children have managed to come in every day since September which is a terrific achievement. The great majority of children have very good attendance and this reflects in their work.

However, overall attendance for the school is still poor and is being kept this way by a small number of families. I have tried to be as supportive and understanding as I can be of their circumstances but am now left with little choice to put matters in the hands of the Educational Welfare Service and ask them to start issuing penalties. I urge us all to work for improved attendance in the New Year.

 

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