St. Edward's CE Primary

St Edwards C of E Primary School

Yrs 5/6 Swimming Training
Swimming training for Yr 5/6 children is on Friday mornings. Children need to be at Castleton Baths for 8.30am. All children who can swim more than 25 metres are welcome to come.

Fair-Trade Big Bake Fortnight
There will be a Fair-Trade sale under the veranda in KS2 playground on Monday after school. On Thursday 4 October the Bake-Off will be judged and there will be a café and cake sale in the dining room from 3-4.30pm.

Community Cooking and Macmillan Coffee Afternoon
This Friday 28 September, parents can come and cook with their children from 1.15pm. We will be making Rhubarb Crumble.
Following the cooking we will be holding a coffee afternoon in the dining hall from 2.30-4pm in aid of Macmillan cancer. Please come along and support this worthy cause.

Stars of the Week
Well done to last week’s Stars of the Week:-
Mica Idaewor-Knox 1B; Louis Gregory 1G; Leah Roberts 1G; Hollie Turner 2B; Cordelia Curran 2B; Acia Heywood 2C; Mikayel Newaz 2C; Harrison Whittaker 2C; Ben Lavery 3L; Adam Wilcock-Thomas 3L; Samuel Dyson 3P; Alex Harrison 3P; Max Anstess 4P; Ellis Tracey-Hamlett 4P; Mollie Fairhurst 4S; Courtney Williams 4S; Ella Pogson 5S; Faizan Shoukat 5S; Isobel Pauline 5F; Shauna Halliwell 6C and Tyler Lord 6C.

Harvest Festival
We are going to St. Martin’s Church on Tuesday, 2 October at 2pm for our Harvest Service. We will be leaving school at 1.30pm. You are welcome to join us, although space is limited.

This year as part of our harvest celebration, we are raising money to help those in Africa. We are sending the money to a charity called ‘Send a Cow’ which has been helping families and orphans in Africa for over 20 years to grow enough food to eat, sell their produce and develop small businesses. Our donations will provide livestock, seeds, training and ongoing support helping families leave poverty behind them for good.

We will be having a non-uniform day on Friday 5 October and ask the children to please bring in a donation of 50p towards this worthy cause. Thank you.

Let’s Grow
We are now collecting these Morrisons vouchers. We are hoping to collect around 6,000 vouchers to purchase fruit trees and bushes and also a wormary.

Class Assemblies
This year we are inviting you to share your child’s class assembly. Assemblies will take approx 15mins. Dates for this half term:
Tuesday 9 October
2C – Mrs. Crowther 9,15am
6G – Mrs. Garthwright 1.15pm
Tuesday 16 October
1G – Mrs. Gilbertson 9.15am
5F – Mr. Farrall 1.15pm

Science Club Matthew Moss
Science Club for Yrs 5/6 is on Tuesdays from 3.30-4.30pm at Matthew Moss High School. This gives pupils an opportunity to explore different science activities and experiments. Children will need to be taken to Matthew Moss School at 3.30pm and picked up from Matthew Moss at 4.30pm.

Text Messaging Service
We are continuing to use our text messaging service and in some cases, instead of sending letters out. Therefore it is extremely important that you ensure you keep school up-to-date with any change in mobile phone numbers.

Castleton Children’s Centre
The free ‘Stay and Play Sessions’ are here at St. Edward’s on Wednesday mornings 9am-10.30am.

Dinner Money
Dinners are now £1.85 per day - £9.25 per week.
Money envelopes are on sale from the school office for £1.50.
There is a copy of the menus on the school portal. Next week we are on Week 2.

Music Lessons
Fees for this half term are now due - £17.10. Please also pay any outstanding fees into school as soon as possible in order for lessons to continue. Thank you.

Donkey Club
If any Reception children would like to join the Donkey Club, it is on Tuesday lunchtimes and they will need to bring a pair of wellingtons into school.

Year 1
Year 1 children are making models this week and next. Can children please bring in small cereal boxes or boxes of a similar size. Thank you.