Holy Trinity CE Primary School

Illness

It’s the time of year for bugs and illness, please remember our school procedure if your child is ill.

If your child is unwell and unable to attend school please telephone the school office before 9.30 am to let us know they will not be attending school. We have an answer machine which allows you to leave a message for this purpose. It is useful to let us know what the illness is so that if necessary we can alert other parents. If we do not hear from you we have a first response system following checking the registers which means we contact you to check where you child is.

Please be aware that a child who has had an upset stomach should not be sent back to school until 48 hours  after sickness or diarrhoea has cleared. This is health guidance for everyone’s benefit so that there is the reduced risk of a bug being passed on.

Latest events has information about Science month.

See below for updates on current events and the next two terms.

Look out for the Year 3 and Year 4 pages in Pupil Pages…. coming soon!

Spring Term

The new adventure play equipment ‘Trail Blazer’ is due to be officially opened on Monday 23rd January at approximately 9am as long as the weather is fine. Parents are welcome to attend and need to come to the main entrance once they have dropped their children off. You will then wait in the hall and move from there to the KS2 playground for the opening.

Summer Term – Key Dates

Literacy Theme

Literacy focus and Book Fair

Our school curriculum focus this month is Literacy and we have already planned a number of activities to improve speaking and listening, reading and writing across the school:

Thursday, 3^rd November : No Pens Day.
Children will be learning primarily through speaking & listening activities in their lessons.

Wednesday, 9^th November: Years 5 & 6
theatre visit to see ‘The Tempest’.

Thursday, 10^th November: Cheshunt Library
visit for Years 1 & 2.

Tuesday, 15^th November: Pirates Day.
Children and staff dress up as pirates and Heather Butler, a children’s author, will be visiting the school to deliver story-writing workshops with a pirate theme.

Wednesday 16^th November – Tuesday 22nd November:

Scholastic Book Fair open for everyone to visit.

Tuesday, 22^nd November:

Parents’ Reading & Phonic Workshop at 9am ( a letter will be sent out in due course).

Before half-term I sent out a letter asking for your suggestions and/or participation in celebrating our many wonderful cultures during Literacy month. Any ideas would be most welcome and we’d be thrilled if you came in to read a story, talk about your job/culture/country, teach some words in your language, play a game, sing a song, showed your traditional costume to the children. Please let your child’s class teacher or myself know – or perhaps you can help your child to prepare something about their culture to share with the rest of the class.

We’re really looking forward to hearing from you, and, don’t forget to get the pirate outfits ready for the 15^th November, me hearties!

Emma Devally

Literacy letter 1

Maths Month!

Our theme for last month was Maths. Miss Rich has produced a newsletter about the activities that were organised.

Maths Newsletter October 2011