November Newsletter17 November 2023 (by admin) |
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November 2023 Newsletter |
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Headteacher’s Message Dear Parents and Carers, We hope you all had a lovely half term holiday last week and that you enjoyed any celebrations for Halloween or Bonfire Night. This term is a short term, with lots of exciting events happening and the dates until the end of term are listed below. Kind Regards, Mrs Kirkland- Headteacher |
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Staffing update Mrs Curtis, our Deputy Headteacher, will be leaving us in January to become a Headteacher at a school in Washington. We would like to say thank you for all of her dedication, hard work and support for the school over the past 7 years that she has worked at Newker. The Governors have started the recruitment process to appoint a new Deputy Headteacher and we will keep you fully updated. Mrs McGurk, our Nursery teacher will also be leaving us in January to start another job in Sunderland. She has worked at Newker for 10 years and we would like to wish her good luck and thank her for all of her hard work, dedication and support for the school. We are in the process of appointing a Nursery teacher and will inform you all of the outcome. |
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School Uniform reminder Now that the colder weather has arrived, please could you ensure that children have warm/waterproof coats to wear at breaks and lunchtimes and that only black shoes or trainers are worn during the school day, as there have been some children wearing coloured shoes/trainers as uniform, rather than just for PE sessions. Our Uniform is: Red crew neck sweatshirt or cardigan with or without the Newker logo White polo t-shirt or plain white school shirt with or without the Newker logo Dark grey or black school trousers/leggings/skirt/pinafore dress Black flat sensible school shoes (plain black trainers are acceptable) Our Uniform Policy can be found on the school web-site. Please can you make sure that children are also wearing sensible small size (no large size) bows or hairbands (no animal ears/unicorn horns) and that no make-up or nail polish is worn for school. PE kits- to be brought in a bag and left on pegs. Children will change into PE kits for lessons. T-shirts in their house colours: South- red, North- blue, East- yellow, West- green. Navy or black shorts or track-suit bottoms, spare socks and trainers. Trainers can be worn or brought in to wear on PE days and then taken home. |
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School Photographs Just a reminder that the school photographer will be in school to take individual and family group photographs on: Thursday 16th November. Please ensure that school/red sweatshirts or cardigans are worn on this day. |
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Dates for your diary |
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13th-17th November |
National Anti-Bullying week |
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Thursday 16th November |
Photographer: individual and family group photographs |
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Friday 17th November |
Children in Need non-uniform day |
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Friday 24th November |
Author Adam Bushnell in school |
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Monday 27th & Wed 29th November |
Reception-Y6 Parents Evenings |
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Wed 29th November |
Nursery Parents Evenings |
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Friday 1st December |
1.30pm Christmas Fair- letter to follow |
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Tuesday 5th December |
1.30pm Year 1 Christmas Performance for parents/carers |
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Wednesday 6th December |
AM- Nursery Christmas Stay and Play for parents/carers |
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Wednesday 6th December |
1.30pm Year 3 Christmas Sing-a-long for parents/carers |
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Thursday 7th December |
1.30pm Year 4 Christmas Sing-a-long for parents/carers |
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Friday 8th December |
1.30pm Year 2 Christmas Sing-a-long for parents/carers |
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Monday 11th December |
1.30pm Year 5 Christmas Sing-a-long for parents/carers |
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Tuesday 12th December |
1.30pm Reception Christmas Sing-a-long/stay and play for parents/carers |
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Wednesday 13th December |
1.30pm Year 6 Christmas Performance for parents/carers |
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Thursday 14th December |
School Christmas Lunch- letter to follow |
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Wednesday 13th December- Nursery Thursday 14th December- Y1 & Y2, Y3 & Y4 Friday 15th Dec- Reception, Y5 & Y6 |
Christmas Parties in afternoons- letter to follow
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Tuesday 19th December |
School closes for Christmas Holidays |
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Wednesday 3rd January 2024 |
School closed for Inset Day |
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Thursday 4th January 2024 |
School re-opens to all pupils after Christmas holidays |
