Class Stars 🙂 Well done to…

Our Early Years… Bryony Bargery

Congratulations to Poppy for completing 5 rhymes as part of preschools nursery rhyme challenge

Class 2… Jesse Matthews

Class 3… Henry Carlino

Class 4… Eli King

This ½ term’s school value is…

We are a Community.

We encourage a sense of belonging and responsibility towards each other, our environment and the world we live in.

‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ (Matthew 22 v39)

Attendance so far…

School average for this week
Class 1: 100% Class 2: 93.2% Class 3: 86.5% Class 4: 95.4%
Lots of illness in Class 3 is completely understandable, but it does go to show how numbers decrease quickly.  Holidays, on top of this, impact our attendance data and the children’s learning, lots.

School average for this week alone: 92.4%, which has reduced the School average…  for the year so far: 95.2%

Well done to Class 1 for 100% attendance this week! 

Illnesses and holidays impact our attendance data and the children’s learning opportunities.
It can also be a trigger for Ofsted, as they expect attendance to be in the high 90’s.

(Please have a look at our Attendance page on our website for more information.)

One of our Football teams, the Year &4 team, came 3rd and all got award broze medals!

We may be a small school, but the ref spotted that we were driven and ambitious, and very much wanted to win some medals!   Well done boys!    Click here to read more 

Thanks very much to our coaches for the hard work that they’ve freely given to our footballers, and for organising time to support them at the tournament too.  Thank you!

Next week, we’ll be at the church for our Easter Service.  Do come along at 2.45 to be with us (and have some tea and cake to help our FROGS funds), or come along at 3.15pm to pick up your child from the door.

FROGS (Friends Of Georgeham School) are planning to run a cake stall at the church on the last day of term before & after the Easter service.  We’d really appreciate any baking donations to help raise funds for the school.  Cupcakes/ biscuits/ whatever people can manage.  We’d also really appreciate anyone coming along to the service to bring plenty of change to buy some goodies 🙂

Get your party clothes ready – FROGS is organising a disco!

SAVE THE DATE!…
WHEN: Friday 21st April
WHERE: Georgeham Village Hall
Further details to follow soon…

We’re looking at the potential for travelling music teachers to join our school with the ability to start up a school rock band!

‘Rocksteady‘ are well trained music teachers who will teach your children how to play a range of instruments – including live performances for grown ups too!  Currently, we’re looking for how much interest there would be.  Please follow the link to see what they’re about and let Mrs Parker know if you’re interested!

Our Infant Music Festival took place on Wednesday at Braunton Academy.   It was lovely to see class 2 taking part in a celebration of singing with the local schools.  There’s a blog coming out shortly.

Another blog from today, will be Class 3’s science experiemnt that got them very excited – a real example of the full workings of food digestion!  What a class!!

Please login to your SCOPAY account to ensure dinners are paid up please, as we’re at the end of the financial year now, and it makes Lottie’s tasks much easier.  Thank you!

 

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We’re a Nut free school, so that means that most kinds of tree nuts (such as almonds, cashews, hazelnuts, pine nuts) and also peanuts shouldn’t be brought in to school. Sadly, this also means that pesto sauce shouldn’t be brought into school as it contains pine nuts. Sorry if this causes any inconvenience, but I hope you can help us as best as you can to keep our children safe.

Clubs Webpage for more info…

Wrap Around Provision & After School Clubs

Attendance… We frequently report the attendance of individual year groups as it’s a really good way to see if school attendance is at a good percentage… with it as high as possible of course! The DfE have a target of 96.5% but sadly, we finished the year, last July, being slightly below this.
Attending school regularly is vital to help children achieve and to give them the best possible start in life. It’s also a legal requirement of parents once children are of school age and enrolled in mainstream education. Ofsted has a strong view about attendance of course and, therefore, too many absences can lead into difficult discussions about how we can support children to achieve and do well – we could even be downgraded for our current Good status as a result.
Absences will only be authorised if they meet exceptional circumstances. With only 190 statutory school days in the year, there are 175 days (weekends and school holidays) left to plan for family visits, non-urgent medical/dental appointments, holidays etc. School holidays are published well in advance and parents are expected to plan and take family holidays at this time so as not to disrupt their child’s education. We also try to arrange our Inset (training) days to provide time for travel… such as this term’s October 21st.
Holidays… are almost always not recognised as meeting ‘exceptional circumstances’ and therefore an absence would be unauthorised. This could result in a penalty notice being issued by DCC.
Punctuality is important too, and the earlier we get our children into the right habits, the better. You may not realise that being just 5 minutes late every day equals 3 days of school lost a year. Please bring your child for 8.45am when they door is open and the classroom has a learning activity ready for them.

Dates in the diary… (bottom of the front page)

Click here to get to the front page

Dinner Menu…

Click here to access everything about school lunches

The school’s Designated Safeguarding Lead is Julian Thomas
Our Deputy Safeguarding Leads are Emma Hill and, our interim SENDCo, Laura Hapgood
You can contact us on dsl@georgeham-primary.devon.sch.uk

If you have any concerns that you’d like to discuss, please call through to Lottie and ask for an appointment. You may also find some useful or helpful information on our Safeguarding webpage… https://georgehamceps.wpengine.com/staying-safe/