St Lawrence Church of England Primary School
Newsletter 13 – Thursday 12th December 2013
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Diary Dates
Fri 13th Dec
Mon 16th Dec
Tues 17th Dec
Wed 18th Dec
Wed 18th Dec
Wed 18th Dec
Thu 19th Dec
Fri 20th Dec
Sun 22nd Dec
Tue 24th Dec
Mon 6th Jan
Non-uniform - Christmas Jumper day £1 donation to Save the Children
Nicola Lamoury Memorial Service – 9.30am – school hall
Interim Reports sent home to parents
Infant Nativity – Performances at 2pm and 6pm – St Lawrence Church
Carol Concert – KS2 children – 7.15pm – St Lawrence Church
KS2 Christmas parties
Carol Concert St Lawrence Church KS2 children 7.15pm
Infant Christmas parties
School closes for Christmas following a church service at 1.15pm
Children to be collected from church please.
Service of Lessons & carols – St Lawrence Church all welcome 10.45am
Christingle Service St Lawrence Church 6pm
School starts back for the Spring Term
STARS OF THE WEEK Jack Whyte-Dixon and Harrison Rothwell in Nursery Bjorn Burwood and Eden Martin
from Cherry Blossom Class, Lucy Guy , Ellie Dessent and Poppy Liddell in Sycamore Class, Lucy Ingham and Jack
Alldridge in Beech Class, Oliver Biswas and Libby Chapman from Elm Class and Leo Cowin and Lottie Johnson
from Oak Class.
HEADTEACHER AWARDS: Jacob Biswas, Harvey Price, Ben Smith and Stanley Mason.
NICOLA LAMOURY MEMORIAL SERVICE – A Memorial Service is being planned for Mrs Lamoury. This will take place on
Monday 16th December at 9.30am in the school hall. Parents are very welcome to attend. Mrs Lamoury’s parents, husband
Mark and children Oliver, Lydia and Tabitha will attend the service.
CHRISTMAS JUMPER DAY - Friday 13th December children can come to school wearing their favourite Christmas jumper,
we are asking for a donation of £1 per child to send to Save the Children. As you may be aware this is a fantastic charity and
the work that they undertake quite literally saves lives. If all children in school donate just £1 each we will be able to provide
fresh clean water for 4 families, this would be an amazing gift to give this Christmas. Please do not buy a Christmas jumper!
An everyday jumper can be decorated with tinsel etc to make it look festive.
CHRISTINGLE COLLECTION - The Children’s Society has again asked for our support in raising money for their advent
collection. A collection box has been sent home with your child. Please fill this with loose change between now and Christmas
and take it along to the Christingle service at St Lawrence Church at 6pm on Christmas Eve. If you are unable to attend this
service, please return the collection box to school before the Christmas break and we will make sure it gets to church on your
behalf.
PARENT GOVERNOR ELECTION - As there was only one application for the Parent Governor vacancy, there is no need to
conduct elections. The Governing Body has therefore appointed Claire Dubelbeis as our new Parent Governor with immediate
effect. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome Claire to the Board of Governors and to thank Sarah Johnson for her
help and support during her term of office.
HOLIDAYS – It is approaching the time of year when people begin to think of warmer climes and booking their annual holiday.
I have been asked to remind parents that schools are no longer able to authorise holidays during term-time. I would also like
to remind parents that this is a Government action rather than a school one and is therefore unfortunately beyond our control.
KS2 CHRISTMAS CAROL SERVICE – The Junior children have been practising very hard for the Carol Service on
Wednesday 18th December. EVERY CHILD in Mr Crook, Mrs Loughran and Mrs Richardson’s class are expected to attend this
beautiful service and should arrive in Church for 7pm in full school uniform. Wine and mince pies will be served after the
concert.
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INTERIM REPORTS - Your child’s interim report giving an update of progress this term will be sent home on Tuesday. If the
report raises any questions or concerns, please feel free to make an appointment to see your child’s class teacher. Teachers
will be available after school on Wednesday and Thursday next week. Interim reports are sent home at Christmas and Easter
and are designed to give a snap shot of children’s progress based on ongoing teacher assessments and the effort that children
are putting into their work. Full reports will be sent home in the summer term.
GOVERNORS 100 CLUB DECEMBER DRAW - 1st £25 L. Lakeland, 2nd £15 F. Percival, 3rd £10 D. Lowe, 4th £5 D. Park. The
Quarterly Prize £35 V. Priest and the Christmas Special £100 D. Biswas
CHRISTINGLE SERVICE - You are all warmly invited to attend the Christingle Service at St Lawrence Church on Christmas
Eve at 6pm. This is a beautiful carol service during which every child is given a Christingle. A significant number of children
from the school attend this service with their families and a number of them then go across to the Boar’s Head for a preChristmas drink before heading home to leave a mince pie for Santa and a carrot for Rudolf. It is lovely for the children to
get together and share their excitement and a great way to begin the Christmas festivities