3rd week of Advent Luke 3:10-18
10 December 2015
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Dear Parents
Congratulations to Mrs Shields who gave birth to a baby boy yesterday. Both doing very well, even though he
appeared a month early!
Mass and Assembly –We will be celebrating a whole school Mass for the end of term on Friday 18th December at
9.15am. Everybody welcome.
PTA Christmas Jumper Day – Wednesday 16th December. Children can wear a Christmas jumper instead of their
school jumper for a £1.00 donation to PTA funds. Please note children should still wear their normal school
uniform but just change their jumper.
PTA Raffle Tickets – Please would you return monies, completed stubs and any unsold tickets by Friday 11th
December. Spare tickets are available.
Christmas Party Thursday 17th December – Children can come to school in their party clothes (no football shirts
please).
Admission to school September 2016 – letters have now been sent out. If your child is registered at our school
and you haven’t received a copy of the application process then contact the school office. Closing date for online
applications is 15th January 2016.
Nursery Admissions September 2016 – Letters will be sent out on Friday to parents who have registered an
interest in our nursery school. School requires a copy of birth and baptism certificates, along with two proofs of
residency for nursery applications.
Dinner Monies / Nursery Snack Fund –Please would you bring any outstanding payments up-to-date. Arrears for
school meals that are 3 weeks or over will be referred to Tameside MBC for debt collection. Please would you
ensure that all advance payments and arrears are received by Monday 14 th December due to the Christmas
holidays
Residential trips – please would you bring your payments up-to-date. If you wish to pay by cheque, please make
cheques payable to St. Peter’s Catholic Primary School alternatively you can pay using the online payment scheme
www.schoolmoney.co.uk
Sickness – If your child has suffered from sickness or diarrhoea then they cannot return to school until they have
not suffered any symptoms for 48 hours as per the Health Protection Agency guidelines for schools. This is to
prevent the spread of infection to others.
Christmas Productions - Junior tickets will be sent home on Friday 11th December. We will offer any spare tickets
as soon as we know if there are any. The Christmas productions are always popular and we do our very best to
ensure that in the first instance parents have opportunity to watch their child.
Children need to be back at school for the evening performances at 5.45pm. The performance will start at 6.15pm.
Please note that we do not have the facility to admit children any earlier than this due to staff supervision. I am
aware that the queue starts to build very early but this is not necessary, especially in the bad weather. We will
admit all the children before we can let adults in.
Admission will be by ticket only. If anyone forgets tickets then we will ask them to wait until everybody else is in
the hall and then we can assess capacity. Please do not forget your tickets to avoid any upset.
Parking will be very difficult around school for both performances. Please be aware that access onto Castle Hall
Close could become congested. At the evening performance the junior playground will be open for parking from
6.00pm once Kids club has closed but there will be no access from the junior playground down the steps due to
poor lighting; therefore anybody parking on the playground will need to exit the playground through the double
gates and walk down Castle Hall Close.
The performance will be filmed. Filming by parents is not allowed.
Christmas productions –The Nativity / Hosanna Rock - if you wish to order a copy of the DVD please send in
payment of £6.50 for each DVD along with your child’s name and class clearly marked on the envelope. Orders
need to be received by 9.00am Wednesday 16th December in order that they can be distributed before the
Christmas break. Orders received after this time will be available in the New Year.
Swimming – Year 4 will be swimming from Monday 4th January. A letter will be sent out by the class teacher in due
course. Any parent volunteers please contact Miss Cunningham.
Tennis after school club – Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 if you would like to join the Tennis after school club which will run
from 13th January until 23rd March please call into the school office for a permission slip. Places limited to 12 which
will be selected randomly.
Yoga Afterschool club – from January school will be running an afterschool club. The club will start on Friday 15 th
January and will run for approximately 8 weeks. The club is open to year 3 and 4 children and there are 16 places
available. Permission slips to be sent out.
Diary Dates
Thursday 10th December – Nursery and Infant production 2.15pm, 6.15pm
Tuesday 15th December – Junior production 2.15pm, 6.15pm
Wednesday 16th December Presto Puppets, Advent Prayer Trail, PTA ‘Wear your Christmas jumper to school day
- £1.00 donation’
Thursday 17th December – Christmas dinner and party day (party clothes – no sports’ wear)
Friday 18th December – whole school Mass 9.15, school closes 2.30pm.
Community events
Stalybridge Celtic FC £5 Fresh Air Football' Ticket Initiative to the children, if you wish to obtain a ticket for the
match on 19th December 2015, then please visit the website www.stalybridgeceltic.co.uk for more information.
Circus Starr If you wish to watch ‘Pinocchio joins the Circus’ on Saturday 23rd January 2016 at Dukinfield Town Hall,
then please call into the school office where free tickets are available with no limit.
Kind regards
Mrs E Summersgill
Headteacher