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January 2025

Issue 45

A very warm welcome back to all of you! I hope you all enjoyed a restful and festive Christmas break and are ready to embrace the new school year.

This week, I led assemblies focused on celebrating the positive moments and achievements of 2024 and setting new goals for 2025. It was wonderful to hear about some of the children’s proudest moments and their aims for the year—lots of them aiming to improve their handwriting!

We also had a fantastic day on Friday with FAB First Aid delivering engaging and informative training to our Year 2 and Year 6 students. Well done to all the children who participated!

We have contacted the council about the Tillingbourne Green Road, the lack of drain covers, confusing road markings and the absence of any gritting! Please do just be careful when walking or driving along it. Please also remember that the school street is a shared area. Disabled badge holders are entitled to drive down the road but we do ask that all pedestrians and drivers are respectful of each other on the roads around our school. 

As we move into the new year, it's a great time to try something new! We have a wide variety of school clubs starting up, and I encourage you to explore the opportunities available. Visit the Sportacus website to see the full range of clubs on offer and sign up. Remember, if your child receives pupil premium funding, we can help with club costs. It's important to sign up promptly, as clubs need minimum numbers to run. We don't want to lose any of the exciting options available!

Next Thursday is Census Day. This is a very important day for the school as we only receive funding for the children in school on that day. As I am sure you are all aware, every penny counts when we aim to provide many exciting learning opportunities, so please prioritise coming to school on Thursday.

Have a great weekend

Focus Week - Year 6  

Year 6 are really excited about the coming term and the New Year.  We have hit the ground running and have come back to school, alive, alert, awake and enthusiastic! (A bit of a PGL joke!).  We have so much planned for the coming term, with trips to enhance and bring to life our learning, particularly in science where we are studying Evolution and Inheritance.  More on that later…

During December we were lucky to be invited by Kemnal Technology School to attend a fabulous workshop in robotics and woodworking.  The experience allowed us to see a secondary school and meet some of the wonderful teaching staff.  We were given the opportunity to program a moving vehicle and make our own keyring out of wood.  Having read ‘The Tempest’ by William Shakespeare, we had great fun writing our own playscript and acting it out for our friends in class, who were very keen to offer their feedback.  

As part of the Christmas celebrations in school, we were excited to receive our tickets for the Poverest Express and particularly enjoyed the hot chocolate.  After our experience we used poetry and rhyme to re-tell this lovely Christmas story.

Our Christmas party was a fabulous end to the term and allowed us to showcase our karaoke skills as well as play some Christmas games.

Happy New Year to our school community from all of us in Year 6.

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Attendance

Class Attendance 
Walnut  92.5%
Willow 100%
Hazel  97.41%
Holly 95.42%
Cedar  98.33%
Chestnut 96.67%
Beech 96.67%
Birch  92.24%
Fig 95.54%
Fir 93.1%
Elm  93.52%
Elder 95.83%
Oak  98.33%
Olive  94.58%
The Orchard  84.09%
Whole School  95.14%
Fab First Aid Yr2 & Yr6
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