Milnrow Parish CE Primary School Newsletter

Volume 10/11 Issue 2 October 2010

AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS

This week your child should have brought home application forms for our After School Clubs up to Christmas 2010. If your child has already had a place at an after school club you can still- reapply. Even if your child is on the waiting list for a club you still need to fill in the form to indicate that you still wish your child to join the club. As before, places will be allocated on a first come first served basis and priority will be given to the children on the waiting list from this term.

If anyone has any cookery utentils (bowls, spoons, etc) that they would like to donate to the kitchen, please send them in to the school office. This will help us with the Cookery Club.

Morning football

Unfortunately Mr Crowther is still absent from school so there will be no morning football until further notice.

/ WHAT DO THE BELLS MEAN?
When the first bell sounds in school at 8.50am it means that the children should line up outside their doors ready to come in to school. They will be escorted in and when the second bell rings at 8.55am the children should be in their classrooms sat in their seats ready to start the day.
Your child is LATEif they are not in school by 8.55am! /

HOW TO REPORT YOUR CHILD ABSENT FROM SCHOOL

If your child is not going to be in school, for any reason, please ensure that you contact

school on the first day of your child’s absence by

-telephoning us on 01706 643973 and leaving a message (you can do this any time of day or night!)

-you can e-mail us on

-you can call into school

It is really important that we have this information as soon as possible. It helps us in a number of ways.

-we can let teachers know of your child’s absence

-it means we can put the correct coding in the register (all absences are recorded as unauthorised if we do not have the correct information)

-it also means that if your child failed to come to school we could alert you at the earliest possible time.

/ THE BOOK FAIR IS COMING TO TOWN!
Our Book Fair is being delivered on Monday 15th November and we will be selling books all week at 3.15pm in the school hall. This is a great chance to buy some stocking fillers or you could even purchase a book and donate it to the school! Please support us as any commission received goes towards books for the school.

SCHOOL MEALS

/ SPOOKY MENU THURSDAY 21ST OCTOBER
The kitchen have come up with a special spooky menu to celebrate Halloween on Thursday 21st October. The menu consists of Witches Cauldron & Vampire vegetables (Lamb Hot-Pot and Red Cabbage), Zombie Fingers (Cheese and Tomato French Bread Pizza), Potato Gutter Bites, Roast Pumpkin, Scabby Skin Potatoes (Jacket Potatoes with various fillings), Toffee Apple Cakes, Spooky Biscuits, Freaky Fruit Salad and Witches Brew.
BONFIRE LUNCH
On Friday 5th November the kitchen are celebrating Bonfire Night with a Bonfire Lunch! They have put together a cracking menu of Fire Cracker Pie (Crusty Meat and Potato Pie with Pickled Beetroot), Flashing Fireworks (Roasted Vegetable and Bean Chilli) with Savoury Rice, Hot Cinders (Baked Jacket Potatoes and Fillings), Winter Salad Bar, The Big Bang (Sticky Treacle Sponge and Custard), Ginger Spiced Biscuits, Yoghurts andFresh Fruit /
NATIONALSCHOOL MEALS WEEK
We are celebrating National School Meals Week from Monday 8th November to Friday 12th November. The theme is “Feeding The Nation” – this theme fits in really well with KS2’s topic of WW2! The menu has been devised around “rationing” and there will be a nostaligic feel to the meals, with classics such as a Roast Dinner, Cottage Pie, Meat and Potato Pie, Chicken Casserole, Rhubarb Crumble, Rice Pudding, Manchester Tart and Jelly with Fruit.
CHRISTMAS DINNER – 16TH DECEMBER 2010
The Kitchen will be serving a traditional Christmas Dinner on Thursday 16th December. The menu will include Roast Lancashire Turkey with all the trimmings, Christmas Pudding, Mince Pies or Apple Crumble Tart, and Sparkling Orange Juice. /
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ORDER MEALS FOR ANY OF THESE EVENTS PLEASE MAKE
SURE YOU PUT £1.75 PER MEAL IN AN ENVELOPE WITH YOUR CHILD’S NAME AND CLASS AND WHICH MEAL YOU WOULD LIKE CLEARLY MARKED ON THE ENVELOPE

SCHOOL COUNCIL:

The School Council have recently met with Mr Colley, our school cook, to discuss the school meals. They gave him lots of ideas to think about for special meals and to make the meals even more attractive. He talked to them about how he can help them.

17TH ANNUAL CHRISTMAS CRACKER:

The Rochdale Music Service is holding their 17th Annual Christmas Cracker at the Gracie Fields Theatre in Rochdale on Sunday 28th November between 3.30pm and 5.30pm. If your child has music lessons in school (apart from Keyboard and percussion), you should have received an invitation for them to perform at this concert and a letter for you to order tickets to watch them. We would like to wish all those children performing good luck and we hope you have a great time!

ROCHDALE AFC PENALTY SHOOT OUT
Thank you to everyone who supported us in this event! We have raised over £400.00. Half of this will go to Rochdale AFC and half will go towards sports equipment for the children. If you have any outstanding sponsor money please make sure it is in school by 22nd October 2010. /
/ SEASONS’ FAIR – SATURDAY 4TH DECEMBER
The Church Seasons’ Fair will be on Saturday 4th December. In the School Hall.
The School and Parents and Friends Association will be having a Chocolate Tombola Stall. /
If you would like to make a donation of chocolate (or chocolate related items) please send them into school office as soon as possible. Don’t forget to tell your family and friends to come along to support us! We look forward to seeing you on the 4th December!

We would like to refer all parents to our school policy on Visitors’ Behavior on school premises

MILNROW PARISH CE PRIMARY SCHOOLS POLICY ON:

VISITORS’ BEHAVIOUR ON SCHOOL PREMISES

We welcome visitors to our school.

We will act to ensure it remains a safe place for pupils, staff and other

members of our community.

If you threaten or assault anyone in the school, or persist in abusive behavior, you will be removed from the premises and may be prosecuted.

/ SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHS:
School individual and family photographs were taken on Tuesday 5th October 2010. Please make sure your orders are in by 21st October at the latest. Any orders after this date will need to be sent away by yourselves and will incur a further charge.
MUSIC LESSONS:
Last week you should have received your child’s music invoice. If you have not already paid please send in the correct amount with your signed music contract by Thursday 21st October at the latest. If you are unable to pay before this date please let us know so that we can make arrangements for you to pay by instalments. /

MORRISONS LETS GROW CAMPAIGN VOUCHERS:

We are collecting these vouchers again this year, so if you have any please hand them in to Mrs Evans or the school office. We can convert them into free gardening equipment which will help us tend our vegetable patch.

/ COFFEE MORNINGS:
Each Tuesday morning we invite parents (with or without younger children) to join us for coffee in the library. These are informal sessions when we chat while the children play with the toys provided. We also have occasional visits from the School Nurse and a representative from Moorhouse Children’s Centre who can both give advice or answer any questions you have. Please join us between 9.00 and 10.30 any Tuesday.
/ Please note that we are unable to give your child any medicine UNLESS it is prescribed by a doctor and you have completed the appropriate form in the school office.
/ MILNROW PARISH PARENTS AND FRIENDS ASSOCATION
HALLOWEEN DISCO
Its not too late to get your tickets for the Halloween disco on Friday 22nd October. Tickets cost £2.50 each and are available from Mrs Raines in school.
Coming soon….
Mobile Phone recycling, Christmas Crackers & Christmas Raffle….More details to follow!

CLASS ASSEMBLIES

Class assemblies for this term will be:

Friday 22nd OctoberYear 1

Friday 12th NovemberYear 5

Friday 19th NovemberYear 4

Friday 26th NovemberYear 3

Parents are welcome to join us for their child’s class assembly. These start at 9.05 a.m.

BEHAVIOUR AWARD WINNERS – BRONZE

Emily Thwaites / 6 / Harrison Rhodes / 6 / Matthew Raines / 6
Courtney Holt / 6 / Adam Corrigan / 6 / Jade Colderley / 6
Andrew Carter / 6 / Amy Aspinall / 6 / Holly Johnson / 6
Abbey Littlehales / 6 / Caitlinn Maskrey / 6 / Megan O’Brien / 6
Charlotte Wilson / 6 / Pattarapong Chomchan / 6 / Hannah Williams / 6
Alexander Wedgwood / 6 / Alice Scott / 6 / Liam Ryan / 6
Luis Robinson / 4 / Antonia Borg / 4 / Dylan O’Brien / 4
Olivia Smith / 4 / Millie Senior / 4 / Joe Maskrey / 4
Joseph Bigland / 4 / Joshua Abrahams / 2 / Kiera Boardman / 2
Rachel Bracewell / 2 / Max Bingham / 2 / Max Colderley / 2
Eva Collier / 2 / Joe Corrigan / 2 / Katie Donnelly / 2
Lucy-Grace Fox / 2 / Iona Gosling-Day / 2 / Benjamin Gwatkin / 2
Zachariah Hashmi / 2 / Bethany Holt / 2 / Kristian McDaid / 2
Jack Smith / 2 / Abigail Schofield / 2 / Evelyn Senior / 2
Elliot Smithies / 2 / Calvin Thompson / 2 / Noah Thompson / 2
George Warrington / 2 / Mia Whitelaw / 2 / Samuel Whitham / 2
Molly Williams / 2 / Kyle Hourigan / 4 / Casey Leatham / 4
Luke Hadfield / R / Adolfo Saavedra-Elosua / 4 / Emma Webber / 4
Thomas Braithwaite / 6 / Owen Collier / 6 / Emily Figg / 6

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Friday 22nd Oct / 9.05am / Year 1 Assembly
Friday 22nd Oct / 6.30pm –9.00pm / Parents and Friends Halloween Disco
Friday 22nd Oct / 3.15am / Finish for half term
Monday 1st Nov / 8.55am / Children back at school
Tuesday 2nd Nov / 9.00am to 10.30am / Coffee Morning in school
Tuesday 2nd Nov / 6.30pm – 8.30pm / Parents Evening in School
Wednesday 3rd Nov / 3.30pm – 5.00pm / Parents Evening in School
Tuesday 9th Nov / 9.00am to 10.30am / Coffee Morning in school
Friday 12thNov / 9.05am / Year 5 Assembly
Monday 15thNov – Friday 18th Nov / 3.15pm / Book Fair in School Hall – All Week!
Tuesday 16th Nov / 9.00am to 10.30am / Coffee Morning in school
Friday 19th Nov / 9.05am / Year 4 Assembly
Tuesday 23rd Nov / 9.00am to 10.30am / Coffee Morning in school
Friday 26th Nov / 9.05am / Year 3 Assembly
Sunday 28th Nov / 3.30pm – 5.30pm / Christmas Cracker – Gracie Fields Theatre
Monday 29th Nov - onwards / Break times / Parents and Friends Christmas Crackers on sale
Tuesday 30th Nov / 9.00am to 10.30am / Coffee Morning in school
Saturday 4th Dec / Church Seasons’ Fair
Monday 6th Dec / All Day / Travelling Science Show for KS1 & KS2
Tuesday 7th Dec / 9.00am to 10.30am / Coffee Morning in school
Tuesday 14th Dec / 9.00am to 10.30am / Coffee Morning in school
Tuesday 14th Dec / Evening / KS2 Carol Service in Church
Thursday 16th Dec / Lunch time / Christmas Dinner
Friday 17th Dec / 11.00am / Christmas Service in Church
Friday 17th Dec / 3.15pm / Children Finish for Christmas
Tuesday 4th Jan 2011 / 8.55am / Children back in school

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