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Headteacher’s Newsletter – 4th July 2025

Written by Mrs McQueen on . Posted in Headteacher Newsletter.

Dear Parents/carers,

Transition Day on Thursday

As we said goodbye to the Y6 who were transitioning to CNS today, the rest of the school spent time with their new teachers. Everyone is looking forward to what next year will bring.

St. Mary’s Unplugged

Thank you to everyone for their contributions. If anyone has anything further to collect, please make sure it is at school by Monday 7th July. The children are very proud of what they achieved!

Dolce Dinners in September

I am pleased to announce that our new school lunches will be provided by a firm called Dolce. You will be required to pre-order your meals online (more information to follow) whether you are entitled to free school meals or you pay for lunches. School lunches have been £2.10 for many years and currently the school has been subsisidising these meals by paying 82p per meal, per child, per day. Unfortunately, as you can imagine, this does not make financial sense. If you receive free school meals, your child will continue to do so but this does mean that if you pay for your child’s school lunch we will now need to increase this. The cost for a delicious school meal will now cost £2.95. Dolce cook with fresh ingredients and your child will get a choice of four options online – a meat, a vegetarian, a baked potato with choice of fillings or a sandwich bag. Many of our free school meal children were choosing to bring in a packed lunch but with this new company, your child will be able to have great choice. Before the end of term you will receive further information about this so I hope you’ll ditch the homemade packed lunch and choose one of the many delicious meals on offer.

Guitar Lessons

We are hoping to begin guitar lessons starting in September 2025. The lessons will be available for the children from Years 3-6. The lessons are held in small groups (between 3- 4 children) and cost £9.00 per lesson. If your child would be interested in this, please contact the school office or Dojo Mrs English.

Super Assemblies from Y2 and Y3

Y2 taught us all about Space and Y3 talked about all their Egyptian learning – fascinating stuff!

Attendance

Class with overall best attendance98% EYFS – Acorn Class
School overall attendance96.42%
Unauthorised attendance0.57%

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Have a lovely weekend and we look forward to seeing you on Monday.

Kind regards,

Mrs McQueen

Headteacher’s Newsletter – 25th April 2025

Written by Mrs McQueen on . Posted in Headteacher Newsletter.

Dear Parents and Carers

iRock rocks at St Mary’s

It was the first week of iRock this Thursday and every child taking part thought it was amazing! We had singers, guitarists, drummers and keyboard stars. We have decided to take the musical theme to our Friday Celebration Assembly. We all sang Count on Me by Bruno Mars today. Each week, the children will put their favourite songs into a raffle and we will choose one lucky winner. The songs will be upbeat and positive to give us a good Friday feeling.

We have four bands currently. If you would like to take part, please let us know and we can speak to iRock.

VE Day Celebration

Please join us from 12 noon on Friday 9 May 2025, for a VE day celebration. There will be a picnic lunch – please bring your sandwiches, picnic blanket and chairs. There will be prizes for the best dressed children and adults. We will have games, a raffle, a tombola, cakes, music and songs. Please support your child and the school and celebrate like they would have in 1945. All welcome.

Year 2 Literacy Launch

Yes, Year 2 launched into space this week with their new book, Man on the Moon (a day in the life of Bob) by Simon Bartram. They had some very special visitors, all the way from… yes, you guessed it… the moon! I wonder what will happen next week in the story!

A shout out

Thank you to the parents that have donated prizes for our raffle. The PTA still need tombola prizes. Please check your cupboards for an unused Christmas gift or when you are shopping at the weekend, if you can afford to slip something extra in your basket, we would be very grateful.

Here comes the sun

The weather is set to be very sunny next week. Please ensure your child has a water bottle, sun hat and sun cream in preparation for this.

Attendance

Acorn class and Y1 were our winners this week with 100%. We were only in for 3 days this week so we were expecting this to be everyone. If your child is in Year 6, this is a very important time, and the children need to be here every day and on time so that they can do their very best before their final assessments. If you are having difficulties with this, please get in touch so we can work together to sort this out.

Class with overall best attendanceEYFS and Year 1 – 100%
Overall school attendance96.43%
Unauthorised attendance2.14%

Have a lovely weekend and we look forward to welcoming you back on Monday.

Best wishes

Mrs Christine McQueen

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