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ISSUE 9 / SPRING TERM 2013 / FRIDAY 25TH JANUARY 2013 happening in classes and that children (and yourselves) can respond and comment. Hopefully this will also stop conversa0ons that start with What did you do at school today? and end with Nothing! or We just played all day!. Again, feedback is always welcome...and it would be lovely to have comments leI by the children or by you using the children's login details. DATA COLLECTION FORM At the beginning of the year, Mrs Stubbs requested that you checked your contact details on our Data Collec0on Sheet. We have not received all these back from parents. Whilst for the majority of cases, the details have remained the same, we have recently struggled to contact some parents as the details are out of date. SNOW Many thanks for support and pa0ence as we ba5led into school during the snowy days. It is always a last resort to close the school and we will endeavour to stay open when possible. We are keen for the children to enjoy the snow at break 0mes; similarly, we do encourage children to play out at break- 0mes even when the weather is slightly wet (although obviously not in torren0al rain!). Please con0nue to send the children in with plenty of warm and waterproof clothes - we have no0ced a few children without warm coats or gloves.

Can you please take some 0me this weekend to consider if any of your details may have changed recently (new mobile number, change of work contact, etc). If this is the case, BUDGET PROPOSAL 2013/14 please email the school oce with the changes. I am sure you will appreciate that it can be very distressing for a child who The Councils draI budget proposals for 2013/14 have now home to nd out that mum been published on the website along with an online feedback is poorly and needs to go or dad cannot be contacted. Thank form and can be accessed via the following link: you. www.cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk/budgetconsulta0on S4YC BREAKFAST CLUB Sports 4 Your Community are running a breakfast club every Monday morning which is only a5ended by a small number of children. In a bid to show you and the LEARNING PLATFORM children what fun this club is, they are oering three weeks It has been lovely to see how the children have been engaging of FREE club. If you would like your child(ren) to par0cipate, in the Learning PlaXorm and enjoying the ac0vi0es set by the please come to school at 7.45am this Monday and for the teachers. Part of the experience is the communica0on in the next two Mondays. virtual world, as I am sure that most of us do on a daily basis PARENTS EVENINGS through FaceBook, Twi5er, texts, emails, etc. You will have the opportunity to meet with your childs class The environment we have created for the children is safe and teacher on Tuesday 26th February (5.00-7.00pm) and secure and it is monitored by the sta. The children all have a Thursday 28th February (3.30-5.30pm). If you would like to whistle on their page. If they are not happy with something speak to teacher before then, please make an appointment they see, clicking the whistle triggers an email to a number of through the school oce. sta who can follow up the concern. PTFA SURVEY I have asked the teachers to blog on the Class home pages; Please have a look at the PTFA Survey, asking for sugges0ons this will be done most or all of the days of the week. The idea of what to spend some money on. This can be accessed through your childs login details on the Learning PlaXorm. behind this is that you can be kept up-to-date with what is I work with Cheshire West and Chester ocers on Schools Forum which is responsible for distribu0ng funds to schools. At the last mee0ng, we all agreed that this consulta0on is especially important: one where we would encourage as many people as possible to par0cipate. It consults on where money will be spent in educa0on as well as other areas of the Borough.