St. Edward's CE Primary

St Edwards C of E Primary School

Halloween Bingo
Thank you to everyone who came to the Halloween Bingo. We had a great night and raised over £250 for school.

Castleton Children’s Centre
The free ‘Stay and Play Sessions’ are here at St. Edward’s on Wednesday mornings. We are now starting at 9.15am-10.45am. If you come to drop older children off at school, you are quite welcome to come into our community room for a coffee until 9.15am.

Children-In-Need
On Friday 16 November we are having a non-uniform day for Children-In-Need. We are asking the children to dress in something ‘spotty’ and to please bring in a donation of 50p for this worthy cause. Thank you.

Operation Christmas Child
Please send your shoes boxes into school – the last date for collection is Friday 16 November.

Winter/Christmas Fair
Our Winter Fair is on Friday 30 November at 3.20pm. If anyone has any raffle prizes they would be willing to donate, we would be very grateful. Thank you.

Stalls
Chocolate Tombola; Bottle Tombola; Face painting; pint pots; Christmas Tattoos; Photo with Santa; Name The Teddy; Lucky Dip; Raffle; 50/50; Lucky Straws; Books; Refreshments.

Cake Stall - we are having a Bun Bake-Off with a Christmas theme and then we will sell the buns at the fair. There will be a prize for everyone who enters and then a prize for the overall winner.

Refreshments
Don’t forget our refreshments this year will be an indoor BBQ. The Royal Toby Hotel is generously donating all the food and their Head Chef, Paul will be cooking the food for us. Several other members of staff are also coming along to help. This is a great opportunity for us to establish good working links with them and we would like to say a big thank you to The Royal Toby Hotel for their support and generosity.

Pint Pots
Today your child will have received a plastic pint pot which please fill with sweets, pens, crayons, pencils, hair accessories, small new toys, etc – we will be selling them at the fair. Thank you.

Non-Uniform
We are having a non-uniform day on Friday 23 November. We are asking the children to please bring donations of bottles or chocolate for our Tombola. Thank you.

Story Sacs
On Tuesday 20 November we will be starting Story Sacs for Reception children. Parents can come to school at 2.30pm on a Tuesday afternoon and go down to the Library area together with their child. You can then pick a Story Sac with your child to take home and read with them. They need to be back in school by the Friday morning ready for the following week.

Music Lessons
Fees for this half term are now due - £19.95. Thank you. Dinner Money
Dinners are now £1.85 per day - £9.25 per week which needs to be paid on a Monday morning.
Copies of the menus are on the School Portal. Next week we are on Week3.

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 (please note the change of times):
Tuesday 20 November
9am – 5S
1pm – 1B
Tuesday 27 November
9am – 4S
The other classes will be having their assemblies after Christmas.

Stars of the Week
Well done to last week’s Stars of the Week:
Libby Power RD; Aimee Boileau RP; Bethany Smith 1G; Georgina Lowe 1G; Kate Steele 1G; Liam Wilkinson 1B; Trinity Phillips-Brady 2C; Callum Grogan 2B; Ffion Benham 3L; Tania Wilson 3P; Haider Nazar 4S; Callum Steel 4S; Hamza Asif 4P; Samuel Chadderton 4P; Harrison Chappell 5F; Ethan Steel 5S; Nathanael Hulme 5S; Danikka Anderson 6G and Paige Phillips-Brady 6C.

Review Day
On Tuesday 13 November, we are having a Review Day for parents and children. You will receive a letter with your appointment time. It is very important for parents to attend these meetings to discuss your child’s progress in school.