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Dear Parents and Carers

VE Day Celebration – further details

Tickets will be available to purchase on ParentMail.

Our Summer Fair, last year, was a great success and raised £1600 to go towards our outdoor classroom. To make it even easier this year, we are going to put our ticket sales on ParentMail.

£5 = 10 tickets
£10 = 20 tickets

You should be able to do most things (splat the rat, hook a duck, arts and crafts) and buy cakes for £10 per child. Most activities will cost 50p – 1 ticket. Your tickets will then be counted, popped in an envelope and given to your child on Friday 9 May 2025.

Cakes – 1 ticket Ice-cream – 3 tickets with all the toppings! You will be able to buy more tickets on the day if you run out (cash and cards excepted).

The raffle will be extra, and cash and cards will be accepted for this on the day.

Hot and cold drinks will also be available at 3 tickets.

Raffle Prizes organised by the PTA

£75 cash
£25 cash
Fairytale Farm family pass
Hampers of Woodstock – wine
Blenheim Palace family pass
Park Fair tickets
Cotswold Wildlife Park family pass
2 x massage at Chipping Norton Golf Club
1 x family swim at Chipping Norton Leisure Centre
1 x family swim at Kingham School

Thank you to those parents who have signed up already to join us for so much fun. All the children will be singing some war time favourites and Mrs English has been working very hard with the school Singing Club. There will be lots of games, crafts and music.

All children are expected to dress as they would have in 1945, so please have a think about this over the weekend. Lots of children have already organised their costumes already so that’s great. Parents and carers can also dress up too, although this is optional. We’d just love every family to be represented in school.

If you can’t make it, please ensure you have bought your child some tickets so that they can also enjoy the afternoon.

Outdoor Classroom

As you can see, our outdoor classroom is on its way to being installed and ready to use very soon!

All things Roman

We secured a grant for £592.26 for all things Roman. Well done, Miss Philpott!

Parent Forum – have your say!

We will be running our first parent forum, where you will be able to have your say on a variety of different matters that affect your child at St Mary’s. We will look at attendance, our behaviour policy, learning in the classroom, parental engagement, the new nursery, The Orchard (provision for children with special educational needs)…….. the list in school is endless and I am sure you will have lots of your own ideas.

If you’d like to know more, have a niggle that you’d like to share or are just genuinely interested in what goes on at St Mary’s, please join us for our first meeting on:

Wednesday 14 May 2025 at 2.00pm to 3.00pm.

The first meeting will address what we are doing well at St Mary’s and how we can make St Mary’s even better with your help and support. If you can’t make it but would like us to discuss something, please drop the school office an email.

Attendance

Class with overall best attendance	Year 1 – 98.82%
Overall school attendance	96.67%
Unauthorised attendance	0.67%

Have a lovely bank holiday weekend and we look forward to welcoming you back on Tuesday.

Best wishes

Mrs Christine McQueen