23 Nov 2007 - November 2007 (2)

 

FARNHAM COMMON INFANT SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER

23rd November, 2007

Dear Parents,

PLANTING BULBS TO SUPPORT MYASTHENIA GRAVIS ASSOCIATION

Many thanks to all those who sent in sponsorship money. A total of £364.00 has been raised, which we will now forward to the Association. In the Spring we will send them 'before' and 'after' photos so they can see the result of the bulb planting.

FOOTSTEPS TRAINING

The Year 2 children have been enjoying this Road Safety training over the past three weeks. The children are taken out in pairs by trained volunteers to cover different aspects of keeping safe. To enable us to maintain the momentum of training the Year 2 children and later on the Year 1 children, we would like to encourage a few of you to train to work with the children. This training takes about two hours and working with the children involves about six afternoons a term. Please let me know if you could help or need more information.

PARKING PROMISE

Well done to the many families that are walking to and from school. Once again, the 'Walking on Wednesday' and 'Friday on Foot' schemes have been very successful. There are times when you need to bring a car to school and to encourage everyone to take responsibility in the car park, please find attached a Parking Promise Agreement. This is not a legal document, but as with the Home-School Agreement, we hope many of you will sign the Agreement as a commitment to what we are trying to achieve in the school.

CHRISTMAS ARRANGEMENTS

# Christmas Fair - Friday, 30th November, from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. Children may be collected from 2 p.m. via the outside classroom door. They must be signed out. All children must be collected by 3 p.m. as usual.

# Christmas Assemblies - Tuesday, 18th December at 9.15 a.m. Children younger than school age admitted.
-Wednesday, 19th December at 9.15 a.m. No children younger than our school age children will be admitted.

# Christmas Party - Thursday, 20th December. Children may wear party clothes for the whole day or bring party clothes in a named bag to change into at lunchtime. Please ensure they have proper outdoor shoes and coats. The children do not need to bring their lunch box. Instead they should bring something from the suggested list over the page, which will be shared by everyone. Please avoid peanut butter sandwiches. Drinks and plates will be provided. Nursery children should not come to Acorn in the morning but come at 12.30 p.m. ready to join in with the party lunch.

~ Beech Class- Savoury biscuits, sandwiches, crisps, cherry tomatoes, party eggs.

~Oak Class - Sausage rolls, small cakes, large cakes for cutting, satsumas.

~ Silver Birch Class - Biscuits, sausages, chopped carrots, other savouries, raisins.

~ Sycamore Class - Sandwiches, crisps, chocolate biscuits, chopped carrots.

~ Willow Class - Sausages, sandwiches, slices of pizza, other savouries, cucumber.

~Acorn Class - Sandwiches, small cakes, savoury biscuits, chopped veg.

# Christmas post box will be in the entrance from Monday, 10th December. Please make sure envelopes have class names as well as child's name. This helps the 'Postmen'.

At the beginning of December, we will pleased to welcome a new member of staff - Mrs. Holder. She will be working in the school office on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Yours sincerely,

Mrs. J.R. Coleman,
Head Teacher.