St Edward's CE Primary

St Edward’s Primary school on thier bikes

Big Pedal
The charity Sustrans is encouraging kids, parents and teachers to leave the car at home and get on their bikes and scooters for the school run. The three-week 'The Big Pedal' campaign starts tomorrow and aims to get families to be more active as well as save fuel.

Following this, we will be starting Bike-It every Thursday. Children will receive a raffle ticket every time they come on their bike and there will be a raffle at the end of the year for a new bicycle.

Journalist
On Friday there is a Journalist coming into school from down South. He has heard all about our animals and is doing a case study on the interaction between our pupils and the animals.

PTA
Our next meeting is next Monday 4 March at 6.30pm.

World Book Day
This year’s World Book Day is next Thursday, 7 March. Children will receive a £1 book token. The staff will be reading their favourite stories to the children throughout the day.

Cookathon
This year’s Cookathon is next Thursday, 7 March when the whole school will be cooking at some point throughout the day. Parents, grandparents and members of the community are welcome to come along and cook with the children. We want to get as many people as possible taking part as last year we had a fantastic response and won £50 for school. Please let school know if you would like to participate – we are hoping it will be as successful this year.

Lent
Children have received a booklet and they will be taught the significance of Lent in their lessons.

Red Nose Day and Fair-Trade Fortnight
The School Council are now going round school daily selling red noses for £1. They are also arranging extra fund raising events and will be combining this with Fair-Trade Fortnight and fundraising for this worthy cause.

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.
Dinner money should be paid on a Monday morning in advance.
Next week we are on Week 1 menu.

Music Lessons
Fees for this half term are now due - £11.40. There will be no lessons in the last week of term. Please pay these and any outstanding fees into school as soon as possible in order to continue with lessons. Thank you.

Easter Bingo
Easter Bingo is on Thursday 21 March.
Come along and enjoy the fun!
Doors open 6pm; eyes down 6.15pm. Entrance (including a drink of juice and a biscuit) – 50p child; £1 adult; £2 family ticket (2 adults + 2/3 children). Books + flyers £1.
There will also be prizes for the best Easter Bonnets for adults and children.
If anyone has any raffle prizes they could donate, we would be very grateful.

Easter Service
We will be going to St. Martin’s Church on Thursday 21 March for our Easter Service at 2pm. We will be leaving school at 1.30pm if any parents would like to join us.

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.
NB. You cannot reply to the text messages.

Sainsbury Vouchers
We are now collecting these vouchers.