High Hurstwood Church of England Primary School

Please find attached: Newsletter 4 23-10-2020 A newsletter from the Governors. Exciting information about our new School Vision and Motto! Happy half-term everyone! Jane Cook

Dear Parents and Carers Please find attached this week's newsletter. Regards Jane Cook

Dear Parents We are very much looking forward to welcoming all the children back in school very soon! If you haven't already done so, please do complete the well-being survey that we sent out in July. This will give us valuable information to enable us to best support your child's transition back to full-time education. We are very much hoping to have this information from you prior to the parent-teacher transition meetings. So please do complete the survey by the end of the day tomorrow/Wednesday. Parent-teacher transition meetings: Please note that in order to minimise the risk of possible contact/contagion we are asking that one parent only attends these meetings and that you do not bring in your child's home learning books. Much as we would like to see their completed work we need to be cautious as we start to re-open the school to all children. Your child can attend with you but if possible without other siblings. Your child will have the opportunity to look around the classroom while you are talking to their teacher. If the weather is favourable we may decide to hold these meetings outdoors on the front terrace and lower playground. However, we would ask that all parents are wearing a face mask for these appointments, so please do remember to bring one with you. As mentioned previously, we do need to ensure we minimise any risk of contagion. The last thing we want is for staff to be unwell and have to be absent from school when your children return to the classrooms next week. Best wishes Jane Cook

Dear Parents and Carers Please find attached a letter setting out our plans and procedures for re-opening our school to all children in September 2020. Please take the time to read this letter through carefully. Best wishes for a relaxing summer break. Jane Cook

Virtual Sports Day Well done to all the children who took part in the Virtual Sports Day! An amazing amount of points were collected! Even more importantly, the children have told me what fun they had! The winners are: EY & KS1 – Emerald Team KS2 – Sapphire Team Overall winners – Sapphire Team The scores were: EY & KS1: Rubies - 119 Sapphires – 146 Emeralds – 147 Topaz – 114 KS2: Rubies -154 Sapphires – 275 Emeralds – 146 Topaz - 253 Overall Results: Rubies - 273 Sapphires – 421 Emeralds – 293 Topaz - 367 Well done everyone!

Please find enclosed a newsletter.

Sponsored Sporting Challenge & Home Bake Sale - 18th - 19th July, 2020 As we are unable to hold our annual 'Old Skool Sports Day' event, The Friends of High Hurstwood would like to invite you to join in a weekend of fund raising through a Sponsored Sporting Challenge or a Home Bake Sale. You can decide on what your challenge will be but having spoken with a few children a few plans that we know of are a 5k run, a 20k cycle, a certain number of keepie-uppies, catches from a rebound net, a number of skips with a rope and trampoline bounces. If sport is not your thing, perhaps you could hold a home bake sale and either bake to order or visit family and friends (from a safe distance) offering some delicious treats. We will be forwarding a link to a combined Just Giving page, so once you have decided on your challenge, you can pass on the link to ask if family and friends could kindly sponsor you. All the funds will be collected together and will go towards much needed resources at school which are required now, even more than ever. This is a completely voluntary challenge so please do not feel that you have to do something but the more who join in, the more funds we can raise. You could design your own posters to advertise what you will be doing or send an email to your family and friends. As soon as we have received the link we shall pass it on and you will be able to forward it so that people know where they can go to donate. You could always do the challenge live via the internet or bake cakes for socially distanced spectators to buy! We hope that you are all well and managing in these extraordinary times. We miss everyone and look forward to getting together in person as soon as we can. If you have any questions please feel free to email friendshighhurstwood@gmail.com . Remember, anything goes and if it's a challenge that you find fun, that's perfect! (Photos of events, that you are happy to share, would be wonderful to see). Best wishes from The Friends of High Hurstwood

Dear Parents and Carers, Please don't forget to complete the questionnaire sent out this week. Your responses will help us to identify our main school priorities for the next academic year. Thank you Jane Cook

Dear Parents and Carers, Please read the attached newsletter. Regards Jane Cook

Dear Parents and Carers Please read the attached newsletter. Best wishes for a sunny and relaxing weekend! Jane Cook