Celebration Assembly – Parents Welcome After Half Term
The first Celebration Assembly where we will be welcoming parents, carers and other family will now be on the first Friday after half term, Friday 8th November, not from next week as advised previously.
Universal Infant Free School Meals
Universal Free School Meals is an initiative which is to help all children in “infants” (reception, Year 1 and Year 2) with access to school dinners. The contribution from the DfE (Department for Education) is £2.53 per child. Our school dinners are under the control of an external company (Edwards and Ward) and the dinner price is £2.83. Therefore, a very small charge of £0.30 per meal was having to be paid by parents for any pupils in infants having meals.
More recently, this was something as a school that we felt needing reviewing as we felt school meals for infants should be entirely “free”. Therefore, it was proposed to the FPGP (Finance, Personnel & General Purposes) Committee of the school’s governing body that the additional £0.30 per meal would be covered by the school budget. The committee have fully approved this decision – and we have been in touch today with ParentPay to change this amount for all children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2. Once they have made their changes, this should be reflected when making a booking – and no additional 30p charge should be added to infant pupils’ bookings.
This does not affect pupils in KS2.
Special Menu – Thursday 3rd October
Laura and Carla will be serving a special menu on School Census Day next Thursday, please see the poster below. If your child would like Fish & chips, please click on the meat option for that day. If your child would like the Quorn Dippers, please click on the vegetarian option.
Census Day Menu
Unused Lego/Toys Donations
If anyone has any lego and/or toys (particularly farm-themed – i.e. tractors/trailers etc.) that they no longer need, we would very much appreciate any donations to school.
After-school Club Survey
We are currently reviewing our after-school clubs (not care club).
We would appreciate if you could fill in the following form regarding this: https://forms.office.com/e/JpB5GsnCey
Parent Governor Election
We will currently have an opening in our governing body for a parent governor.
Please read the letter below from Margaret Buckingham, our Chair of Governors, on information on nominating a person (or yourself) for this position:
Governor Election – Sept 24
The link for nomination can be found here: https://forms.office.com/e/KSLNcKS05H
Brown Clee Benefice Weekly Pew Sheet
Please find below the Weekly Pew Sheet for the Brown Clee Benefice detailing the Church Services in the Benefice and other events taking place. We have been asked to remind you about the coffee morning tomorrow at The Old Rectory, Cleobury North 10.30am to 12pm, £5 entry and also the MacMillan Coffee Morning being held on Friday in the Pavilion, Ditton Priors 11am until 1pm.
29.09.24pewsheet
School Photographs – Tuesday 1st October
Chris Maddox, School Photographer, will be in school on Tuesday 1st October to take the individual and sibling photographs.