10 February 2017
Dear Parents
Parents Evening
Reminder Parents Evenings are next Wednesday and Thursday 15th & 16th February.
Therefore will be noYear 6 Booster Class on Wednesday and no Choir next Thursday.
Inhaler/Epipens/ Allergies
If your child has an Epipen or Inhaler in school we are checking the use by dates and will be asking you to complete updated asthma cards at parents evening. Inhalers and Epipensmust come in the box from the doctors with the prescription attached. If you don’t think your child requires an inhaler anymore please send in a letter saying so.
If your child has been diagnosed with a food allergy please could you send in the Allergy Action Plan from your doctor (see
If your child needs a specific Healthcare Plan please contact the School Nurse on 4971548.
Writing Competition
Congratulations to Mya Leonard and Sophie Reay who won prizes in the writing competition run by Capita Education. We are very proud of our handwriting and beautiful presentation at Front Street. It’s lovely that it has been recognised by an external agency. Well Done Mya and Sophie!
Nursery September 2017 applications
We have already received a number of applications for Nursery in September 2017, however new applications are still welcome. The notification of places will be advised to Parents/Carers at the end of March/beginning of April. Attached to this newsletter is information regarding the 30 hours entitlement for eligible parents/carers. We will be writing out to those parents/carers who have applied to date next week.To find out more information on the 30 hour provision, please contact
Tax Free Childcare
There is a new Tax Free Childcare scheme that is currently being rolled out by the Government. Throughout this year, Tax-Free Childcare, a new UK-wide scheme will become available to around 2 million households. Designed to help working parents with their childcare costs, the scheme allows parents to open an online bank account to pay registered childcare providers directly. For every £8 parents pay into these accounts, the government will add £2. The money can then be spent on childcare. Parents can receive up to £2,000 in government support per child, per year, or £4,000 for disabled children.
Tax-Free Childcare can be used to pay for:
●Pre schools
●Registered childminders
●Day nurseries
●School based care (that is paid for, such as after-school clubs)
Childcare providers will be able to receive payments from both Tax-Free Childcare and childcare vouchers.
Tax-Free Childcare will be available to around 2 million households to help with the cost of childcare, enabling more parents to go out to work, if they want to, to provide greater security for their families.
You’ll be able to open an online account, which you can pay into to cover the cost of childcare with a registered provider. This will be done through the government website, GOV.UK.
Tax-Free Childcare will be launched from early 2017. The scheme will be rolled out gradually to families, with parents of the youngest children able to apply first.
You’ll be able to apply for all your children at the same time, when your youngest child becomes eligible. All eligible parents will be able to join the scheme by the end of 2017.
The scheme will be available for children up to the age of 12. It will also be available for children with disabilities up to the age of 17, as their childcare costs can stay high throughout their teenage years.
To qualify, parents will have to be in work, and each earning at least £115 a week and not more than £100,000 each per year.
The scheme is designed to be flexible for parents if, for example, they want to get back to work after the birth of a child or work part-time.
Healthy Eating
As we are a Healthy School can we please ask that children only bring in healthy snacks for break time, therefore snacks such aschocolate biscuits, cakes and crisps are not allowed.
Don't forget we have a healthy tuckshop'Tasty Tuck' available one day a week for each year group. The tuck shop has a range of healthy snacks for only 50p each. The tuck shop timetable is as follows:
MondayYear 1 and Year 2
TuesdayYear 3
WednesdayYear 4
ThursdayYear 5
FridayYear6
If your child would like to bring in a snack on other days please make sure it is healthy e.g fruit, rice cakes, rawvegetables etc.
Attendance
Congratulations to 1B who had 99.7% attendance this week.
Class 1B / 97.2% / Class 4H / 96.7%Class 1S / 98.3% / Class 4K / 96.7%
Class 2M / 98.6% / Class 5G / 99.3%
Class 2S / 95.2% / Class 5H / 98.3%
Class 3ON / 96.3% / Class 6L / 95.2%
Class 3R / 97.6.7% / Class 6W / 97.9%
Nursery
We had a great time at The Great North Museum on Wednesday. Photos are online. As we are donating some money to themuseum they will be adding a red butterfly to their butterfly wall with our name on it so look out for it thenext time you go!
Due to parent meetings next week there is no sound of theweek.
If anyone has any boys underpants they could donate to nursery we would be very grateful, thank you.
Just to remind you this is a Safeguarding School and we have a duty to pass on any concerns to Children’s Services.
Our staff are also trained in Team Teach techniques in order to ensure the safety of everyone involved.
Yours sincerely
HJ Gladstone
Friends of Front Street Newsletter – 10th February 2017
Parents Evening – Wednesday 15th & Thursday 16th February
Friends of Front Street will run a raffle over both evenings. Tickets will be £1 – there are lots of prizes on offer including Krazy Kingdom soft play tickets for the children and bottles for the adults!! We will also provide tea and coffee refreshment’s and a small tuck shop.
School Tuck Shop Friday - 17th February
We will be running a tuck shop in school on the last day of term. Children will need money to purchase tuck – items are priced between 20p and 50p.
World Book Day – Friday 3rd March
We are hoping to run a World Book Day tombola and we are seeking donations of any unwanted books (good condition only please). We will then sort the books into KS1 or KS2 as appropriate. Please can you leave any donations at the School Office by Wednesday 1st March, thank you. Further details of the tombola will be given at a later date.
Thank you
Thank you all in advance for your continued help and support. We would just like to remind everyone that all proceeds made from FoFS events go directly back into the FoFS fund to help buy equipment and resources for our School