Diary Dates Stars of the Week – Important dates for your calendar…....... Firstly MANY APOLOGIES for any inconvenience that may have been caused by changing the dates of the TEACHING TRAINING DAYS, we hope it hasn’t caused too much trouble. They will now be on MONDAY & TUESDAY 24 & 25 NOVEMBER 2014. This also means that we have had to change the date of the Year 4 Overbury Farm trip. This will now be on Monday 12 January 2015. If you can manage to return the permission slip and payment by the end of November, then it will not get caught up in the Christmas rush – thanks. Just to give you advance warning that the Christmas performances will be on 16/17 December 2014 for Nursery & KS1 & 17/18 December 2014 for KS2 – more details to follow. We will be holding our House Art Competition this term for children to design a cover for the Christmas programmes. The winning designs from KS1 & KS2 will be used for the productions. Acorn: Victor Perez RG: Mia Gasper 14 November 2014 The KS1 Good Work Assemblies will start again next Tuesday 18 November 2014 and we will let you know dates for the KS2 assemblies as soon as they have been set. The first of our Parent & Carer FUNSHOPS will be for Year 5 on Monday 17 November 2014 from 1.45pm with a brilliant Tudor Funshop. Limited creche is also available and we look forward to welcoming you into school for an afternoon of FUN! The FUN will continue for Year 6 on Monday 1 December 2014 – letters will be sent home next week with details. A note from Caroline in the kitchen – Christmas lunch will be served on Wednesday 10 December 2014. If your child does not usually have a school lunch but would like to join in with the festive meal, then please make sure you book one with the Front Office by 5 December 2014. The cost is £2.00 per meal to include a pudding, for KS2 children and free for KS1 children (please make sure if they do not usually have a lunch, that one is booked). Also please note that toast & milk costs 25p/day (not 20p/day). Thanks. RY: Stephen Cass 1B: Emilia Richards 1S: Jacob Robinson 2J: Alex Hawthorne 2T: Hussain Idris Year 3: Kaizen Greaves & Kyan Hendry Year 4: Sofia Kidner & Cody Ashford Year 5: Dylan Jones & Trae Rowe Year 6: Nevaeh Henry & Lauren Ashford Well done to everyone on the Walking Bus and in the Dinner Halls for great behaviour this week. Keep it up ! Brilliant! Attendance winners for last week - KS1 – 1S~ 97.5% and KS2 – family group 3T ~ 97.81%! Well done! Wychall Children & Family Centre We have some great courses running here at the centre - COOKERY every Friday during term time 9.30am- 12pm, come along and learn how to cook healthy meals for you and your family on a budget. All ingredients are provided!! On Mondays during term time we also run a helpful course SUPPORTING CHILDREN WITH POSITIVE BOUNDARIES/ROUNTINES from 1pm – 2.30pm. On Wednesdays, again during term time, we have DRUGS AND ALCOHOL AWARENESS which runs from 9.30am- 12pm. We do still have a limited number of creche places available for all the above courses so for more information or to sign up simply call into the Centre or ring Niki on 0121 464 3169. Children’s Centre Christmas Trip to Hatton Adventure World on Saturday 13 December Come & see Father Christmas in his magical grotto & receive a golden key to unlock his workshop. Also say hello to the reindeers and meet the nativity animals. The coach will be leaving the Children’s Centre at 8.20am and returning from Hatton at 3pm. Prices to include the coach and entrance are £10.00/child, £5.20/adult & £7.95 for under 2s. Reception places – if you have a child born Wychall Nursery – between 1.9.2010 and 31.8.2011 you will need Work has progressed to apply for a RECEPTION place for them to well this week with the start at School in September 2015. It was site now clear. We are lovely to see so many parents in school for the expecting a large crane Open Morning last Wednesday and the online admissions website is now OPEN. You can apply on site soon, so will let you know the date as at www.birmingham.gov.uk/schooladmissions soon as possible. We will Alternatively you can complete a Local be posting key Authority Preference form and all applications information about the should be made by WEDNESDAY 3 DECEMBER 2014. The final date is project in the display Thursday 15 January 2015. You will be cabinets by the notified of your child’s place by 17 April 2015. entrance gates in the If you need any help with completing either main playground and by the paper form or online, just speak to Nursery so please have a Mrs Laura Benson and she will be able to help look to find out more! you with the application. Now that the colder, wetter weather is with us, please can you make sure that children come to school wearing suitable NAMED clothing including coats ? We already have some lost property in the hall, if your child has lost something.