Whitehouse Weekly Bulletin 137

Friday 16th October 2020

Message from Mrs Hall

We very much appreciate your efforts in ensuring the children come to school looking so smart and tidy in their school uniforms and PE Kits. Despite our best efforts, we sometimes struggle to get them home in the same condition but our learning is often outdoors and fun! In addition, occasionally coats and jumpers go missing, these items are usually found (if they are clearly labelled with your child’s name and class) so, please try not to worry. If you have any concerns please don’t hesitate to email parents@whcps.org Thank you for your continued support.

Attendance for the Previous Week

Class with the Best Attendance – Toucans (100%)

Class that needs to improve their Attendance – Tigers (90.7%)

Class that need to improve their Punctuality – Foxes

Assemblies

The theme of our assemblies for next week will be: Breaking the Mould: Celebrating people’s amazing achievements against the odds. (UNRC Link: Article 29 :I have the right to an education which helps me develop my personality and abilities). Resources related to this assembly will soon be available on our website. To access them, simply go to Learning and click on our Enquiry Based Assemblies.

Reading Awards

Reading is very important to us at Whitehouse and each week the children in Key Stage 2 have a chance to earn the ‘Purple Man’ award. Each book a child reads in Key Stage 2 has a quiz which questions them about the content of the book and checks their understanding. The number of books read and the quiz results calculates the number of minutes each child has read per week and gives the class points towards the competition. At the end of the year the winning class wins a prize!

So far this year in LKS2 Robins and Badgers classes have each won the award once and Foxes class twice. In UKS2 Ocelots have won the award every week! However, there is still plenty of time to get involved so keep on reading.

Key Stage 1:

Lower Key Stage 2:

Upper Key Stage 2:

Disabled Parking

Can we please remind parents/carers to refrain from parking in, or blocking the disabled spaces near the Marlow and Waterford Road entrances to school.  We do have members of the school community who need to use the disabled spaces and it is important that these are kept vacant for use by those who hold a Blue Badge.  Thank you for your assistance.

Payments

Can we remind parents/carers that due to the current circumstances we are unable to take money in school.  We would encourage where possible that payment is made online using either a debit or credit card, through Suffolk County Council using the following links:

Dinner Money: https://www.suffolk.gov.uk/children-families-and-learning/schools/school-meals-uniforms-and-trips/school-meals/.  Please note you will be asked which days your child will be eating a school dinner.  You can enter any dates as we do not use this information, but will continue to ask your child each day what they would like for lunch.   There is a minimum payment of £11.50 which is the price of five school meals.

Breakfast Club: https://www.suffolk.gov.uk/children-families-and-learning/schools/school-meals-uniforms-and-trips/pay-for-a-school-trip/

Absence from School

As Covid-19 is starting to increase across the country, can we please remind parents/carers that the signs to look out for are:

• A high temperature
• A new, continuous cough (this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or three or more coughing episodes in 24 hours)
• A loss or change to the sense of smell or taste

If your child has a cold, without the above symptoms, they should still be attending school.  If you have any concerns about symptoms please refer to the letter on our website which explains the steps you should take: https://www.whcps.org/13-10-2020-advice-to-all-parents-single-case-of-co/

Little Princess Trust

One of our children was very brave recently and decided to have lots of her hair cut off, so that she could donate it to Little Princess Trust to be made into a wig.  Georgia had grown her hair and wanted to help another little girl who didn’t have hair.  What a lovely thing to do!  Georgia had approximately 12 inches cut off and 10 inches was donated.  Mum is very proud of Georgia, who is just 8 years old,  in wanting to do such a kind and generous thing and we are very proud of you too Georgia!

If anyone would like to make a donation to help in raising money for such a wonderful charity, please  go to the attached Just Giving page: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/gemma-brown62?utm_source=whatsapp&utm_medium=fundraising&utm_content=gemma-brown62&utm_campaign=pfp-whatsapp&utm_term=3386cecb16034883b67db1de1da3b2ec

Dates for the Diary

Monday 26^th October – Friday 30^th October – Half Term Holiday

Monday 2^nd November – PD Day (No school for children)

Friday 13^th November – Children in Need (non-uniform day)

Thursday 19^th November – Parent/Carer Evening

Wednesday 25^th November – Parent/Carer Evening

Friday 27^th November – Whole School SMSC Event

Monday 7^th December – Flu Immunisations

Monday 21^st December – Friday 1^st January – Christmas Holiday

Monday 4^th January – PD Day (No school for children)

Friday 12^th February – PD Day (No school for children)

Monday 15^th February – Friday 19^th February – Half Term Holiday

Thursday 4^th March – Parent/Carer Evening

Wednesday 10^th March – Parent/Carer Evening

Friday 19^th March – Whole School SMSC Event

Monday 29^th March – Friday 9^th April – Easter Holiday