22 June 2017

Dear Parents

Summer Fair

Thank you to FOFS for organising and running last week’s fair. I was so pleased it stayed dry so we could all be outside. Thank you for all who helped and all who donated something. The fair raised approximately £1400 which is great for resources for school. Thank you.

Thank you for your patience when arriving to collect your child. You know that the safety of over 450 children is my priority. It would be easy to open the doors and have a complete free for all to stop the queuing, waiting and rota system; however, our safety could then be compromised. If I thought it would stay dry everyone could come at 1.30pm but the good old British weather is far from reliable and we would not all be able to fit in the hall at once if it rained. One solution is the fair is just for children but it would be a shame for the rest of the family to miss out. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know. If not we will continue as we are and continue to be patient with smiles.

Sports Week

The children have really enjoyed the sporting activities this week. They have looked great in their red and black PE kits and it has also helped to keep them cool!

School Shoes for September

Kelly Lowrey is the store manager at Clarks in the Metro Centre . As they prepare for their biggest event in their retail calendar, she has been contacting all local schools and nurseries to ask that they might kindly support them by letting parents know Clarks offer an appointment service and earlier appointments when the store is closed to support children who have autism and might struggle with the hectic environment.
To book an appointment
Contact the store 0191 460 4516
Or 0844 248 8408 for another store - Or visit Clarks.co.uk

Old Shoes

Did you know that your old shoes can be part of an amazing story?
Bring your old pairs of shoes to school on Friday 14th July to support the Unicef Shoe Share partnership; children may wear any sensible shoes they wish in the last week of term.

Check out the following website

Citizens of the Future

As part of our British Values curriculum we need to teach the children about tolerance, equality and rights. We do this to prepare them to be good citizens of the future.

British Values are taught through RE: e.g. our recent Sikhism Day, visits to other religious places of worship, assemblies and lessons in class. Next week we will be holding a Show Racism the Red Card Day as well. The atrocities in the news recently have sparked much conversation and questions in school. Teachers deal with this openly but sensitively to ensure that their understanding is factual and not biased. We have a multi-cultural school and live in a multi-cultural society and therefore, teaching about tolerance is a high priority.

Nursery

Thank you for coming along to our Sports Day this week. We think the children did extremely well. Next week we are planning on making boats with those children who wish to do so. If you have any junk modelling items that you think would be useful please send them in. (margarine tubs, corks, foil, yogurt pots, plastic lids etc..) Form now until theend of term we will be going over the previoussounds of the week so there will be no more things to send in! If you have not returned your child's library book please do so. Thank you.

Article 31, 28, 14

Reception

Daisy:Rights Respecting Mascot

Well done Scarlett(Reception) and JackRobson(year 2) who were rights respecting role models by teaching their family about their rights at home this week.

Mason (Reception) has been chosenthis week to take home Daisy,to teach his family about children's rights. Mason was nominated because his awareness of children's rights has been incredible. Mason has been linking his learning to the UNCRC articles! Well done Mason.

Year 6

Leavers’ party ticket deadline Friday 30th June, please ensure money is sent in next week.

A girl’s green bomber jacket has been lost, please can everyone look at home to see if they’ve pick it up by mistake.

Reminder

SCHOOL CLOSED TOMORROW

SCHOOL CLOSED MONDAY 3RD JULY

Just to remind you this is a Safeguarding School and we have a duty to pass on any concerns to Children’s Services.

Our staff are also trained in Team Teach techniques in order to ensure the safety of everyone involved.

Yours sincerely

HJ Gladstone

Headteacher

Friends of Front Street Newsletter – 22nd June 2017

Summer Fair

A massive thank you to everyone that donated, helped run a stall and attended the school fair last week – we managed to raise a MASSIVE £790 for our school!!!!

A big thank you to our external stall holders – Stella, Sweet Surprise and

Artventurers

the winner of the

art competition was Holly aged 5

The “crack the code” was won by Luke Collins – well done!

Summer Raffle

The raffle was drawn on Monday and all winners notified,

Please collect your prize from the school office asap.

Thank you to everyone that bought tickets – the raffle helped

raise over £600!!!

The full list of winners is below (as published in the facebook group)

A special thank you to all the following parents / companies for your generous donations -

?Our school staff ?Alnwick castle and gardens

?Causey Arch Inn?@the castle soft play

?One Eyed Stag?Milligans bakery

?Lisa Newton from Usborne books?Lacey's Beauty and Tanning

?Adventure Valley?Diggerland

?Pink bear cakes Rachel Shreeve?Sweet Surprise Ben Smith

Raffle Winners

1 - £100 metro centre voucher - L Murphy

2 - £35 metro centre voucher - Tracy Eltringham

3 - Sunday lunch vouchers for 2 South Causey Inn - George Robb

4 - Sunday lunch vouchers for 2 South Causey Inn - Louise Leonard

5 - One Eyed Stag voucher - Olivia Saxby

6 & 7 - Milligan's Bakery tea for 2 vouchers - Cynthia Zhou and Sophie Stewart.

8 & 9 - Milligan's Bakery £5 vouchers - Lukas Thompson and Taylor Scott

10 - £20 Usborne Books voucher - Kaye Wilson

11 - Swedish massage voucher - Lisa Newton

12 - Alnwick Castle family pass - J Crawford

13 - The Castle Soft Play ticket - Lynn Castro

14 - Adventure Valley family ticket- Heidi Gill

15 - Alnwick garden family ticket - Louise Leonard

16 - Diggerland ticket - Val Cavradus

17 - Pink Bear Cakes voucher - Helen Little

18 - bottle of Cava - Angela Walker

19 - bottle of Cava - Jackson Hetherington

20 - prosecco gift set - Allan Short

21 - chocolates and wine set - Lee Munro

22 - Bottle Draw - 14 winners

Niall Mahic

Ruby Blenkinsopp

Jayden Campbell

Sonia McClellan

Sean Waite

Gillian Johnson

Pauline Gallimore

Ethan Morrison

Imogen Gray

Keira Swanston

Cheryl Mallaby

Lucia Ferriday

Ryan Short

Elizabeth Short

23 - Toiletries gift sets x 4

Keira Swanston

Michaela Aitken

Martha Tafirejeyi

Lewis Ormston

24 - Chocolate draw x 5

V Parkin

Jonathan Newton

Lee Munro

Mrs G Lee

Austin Saxby