Please read important information about school events and activities.

• Key Stage 2 altered arrangements for Friday's Craft Day

  Thu 10 Dec 2020 Mrs Smart

  Key Stage 2 altered arrangements for Friday's Craft Day

   

  We have had a bit of a rethink regarding KS2 PE on Friday. In the current climate, we are keen to keep the children as active as possible and have therefore decided that we will still have Mr Betts in school this Friday, to provide PE for the KS 2 children. As it is Craft Day, we will run two 1-hour sessions, one for years 3 and 4 and one for years 5 and 6. This will enable Mr Betts to work with the children, as well as enabling Mrs Bendell and Miss Thomas to work closely with the smaller groups on their craft items.

   

  The children can still come to school in non-school uniform with their Christmas jumper on, but can we ask that they wear trainers and clothes that are suitable for taking part in PE outside.

   

• Christmas Jumper and Craft Day

  Tue 08 Dec 2020 Mrs Smart

  Christmas Jumper and Craft Day

   

  It’s almost arrived…our Christmas Jumper and Craft Day is on Friday 11th December! This will be a non-uniform day for all the children…and staff …and we hope that as many children and staff as possible will come to school with a fabulous display of Christmas jumpers. If you do not have a Christmas jumper at home, please do not feel you have to buy one especially, just send you child in their favourite home clothes! There will be no PE for KS2 this week, so no need to wear PE kit on Friday.

  We will be combining the day with our Christmas Crafts – so please be prepared for a good sprinkling of glitter and glue!!

• Book Fair

  Mon 23 Nov 2020 Mrs Smart

  Celebrate reading at our Book Fair!

   

  Dear Parents, Grandparents and Guardians,

   

  The Book Fair will be arriving in school tomorrow!!! With hundreds of new children’s books to browse and buy.

   

  Come and join us in the love of books!

   

  WHEN: Wednesday 25^th November – Tuesday 1^st December

   

  WHERE: Whitesheet Primary Academy

   

  There are over 200 titles for you and your child to choose from, and with prices starting from only £2.99, there’s sure to be a book for everyone.

   

  Don’t forget that every book you buy can help to get FREE BOOKS for our school library!

   

  Our school needs you!

   

   

  Our school can earn FREE BOOKS for every book sold at the Fair so this is a great opportunity to stock up our classrooms with brand new resources.

   

  You can find out more about Travelling Books at www.travellingbooks.co.uk.

• Individual School Photos

  Fri 16 Oct 2020 Mrs Smart

  As you will be aware, we have our individual school photos booked in for this Friday, 16^th October 2020.

   

  For our Woodpeckers this will still operate as a ‘normal’ school day with uniform being worn.

   

  For our Golden Eagles the day will need to be slightly different:

  • Please send your child to school in their school uniform
  • Please send in your child’s PE kit in a separate named bag as they will change at different times during the school day
  • If your child is in Year 6 they will have their photo taken first and be changing into their PE kit immediately after their photo has been taken to work on their sports ambassador course with Mr Stone from Gillingham School Sports Department.

• Sport Relief

  Thu 12 Mar 2020 Mrs Smart

  Friday 13^th March – Sport Relief

   

  Dear Parents and Carers,

   

  This year we are celebrating Sport Relief by asking children to come to school dressed in their sports kit.  

  Please help us raise money for Sports Relief and donate £1 for this occasion.

   

  Thank you for your support.

  The School Council

• NO Celebration Assembly

  Thu 27 Feb 2020 Mrs Smart

  Dear Parents and Carers,

   

  Unfortunately there will be no Celebration Worship tomorrow, Friday 28^th January, as Mrs Higgins is unwell and not in school. We will continue with our celebration worship as normal next week.

• Possible Scarlet Fever

  Thu 23 Jan 2020 Mrs Smart

  Today we have been notified that a child could possibly have scarlet fever. This is not a confirmed case. However as we are unsure as to whether this is scarlet fever or not we thought that we would send home this piece of information taken from Public Health England indicating the symptoms of scarlet fever.

  The symptoms of scarlet fever are non-specific in early illness and may include sore throat, headache, fever, nausea and vomiting. After 12 to 48 hours the characteristic red, generalised pinhead rash develops, typically first appearing on the chest and stomach, rapidly spreading to other parts of the body, giving the skin a sandpaper-like texture. On more darkly-pigmented skin, the scarlet rash may be harder to spot, although the “sandpaper” feel should be present. Patients typically have flushed cheeks and pallor around the mouth. This may be accompanied by a ‘strawberry tongue’. During convalescence peeling of the skin may occur at the tips of fingers and toes and less often over wide areas of the trunk and limbs.

  If you believe your child has the above symptoms please get them checked by a health professional.

  Kind regards,

  Jamie Smart

• Christmas Disco

  Thu 05 Dec 2019 Mrs Smart

  Friday 13^th December 2019

  6.00 – 7.00pm

  Free entry!

  No tickets needed – just pop along on the night.

  There will be unlimited drinks available with an hour of dancing and fun!

   

  As before, siblings are welcome please can you let Jo White, Vicky Morse, Jan Smart or Ruth Hayes know if you are bring siblings just so they are aware of numbers. Parents are asked to stay and be part of this event.

  There will be NO Tuck Shop at the Disco

• Christmas Service and refreshments

  Thu 05 Dec 2019 Mrs Higgins

  Our Christmas service this year will be held in St Martin’s Church in Zeals on Tuesday 17^th December 2019 at 1pm. We would like to invite you all to come along and join us in our festive collection of carols and readings.

  After the service has concluded we would love you to join us back at school for tea or coffee and a mince pie. We will also have the items that your child/ren made on Christmas Craft Day displayed around the hall and available for you to purchase. The entire collection of items will cost no more than £5 per child.

  We hope that you will join us and look forward to sharing this special time of year with you all.

• Project Touchline Presentation

  Thu 05 Dec 2019 Mrs Higgins

   

  As you are aware, the children have been exploring Christian Values through the sport of Rugby and creative arts with Chris Andrews from Project Touchline. The 6 week course will be coming to an end on Monday 9^th December and we would like to invite you all along to the presentation assembly.

  The presentation assembly will be on Monday 9^th December at 2.30pm. The children will be awarded their certificates and the video that has been made of all the children’s work and activities will be shown.

  We hope as many of you as possible are able to join us and we look forward to seeing you there.