Newsletter Week 35: w/e 5th July 2024

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Newsletter

w/e 5th July 2024

Message from the Head

To support you in knowing about the children’s next year of learning and to provide you with an opportunity to meet your child’s teacher, we are holding ‘Meet the Teacher’ meetings before the summer holidays. These will all take place at 3:00pm in your child’s next classroom. The dates are below:

Meet your child’s new teacher!

Monday 8th July 3pm–

Y5 – Herons class – Meet Mr Webster

Tuesday 9th July 3pm –

Y4 – Puffins class – Meet Mr Ford

Thursday 11th July 3pm –

Y2 - Curlews class – Meet Mrs Pearce and Mrs Robinson

Friday 12th July 3pm–

Y6 – Guillemots class – Meet Mr Cruse

Monday 15th July 3pm–

Y1 - Sandpipers class – Meet Mrs Gough

Tuesday 16th July 3pm–

Y3 – Cormorants class – Meet Mrs Haycock and Mrs Kent

Attendance Stats

Kittiwakes	97%
Sandpipers	95%
Curlews	94%
Cormorants	94%
Puffins	93%
Herons	94%
Guillemots	98%

Thank you for your support in ensuring your child has good attendance. Please be reminded that the government expects all children not to miss school due to family holidays. Any child who takes 6 days or more of unauthorised absence will need to be referred to the Local Authority.

Dear Parents and Carers,

Summer Fayre – Thank you!

I just want to start this newsletter with a huge ‘Thank you’ to our PTA for all their time, dedication and effort in organising today’s summer fayre. They also adapted plans to accommodate the weather which has not been kind to us today. What a fantastic effort from all involved in the organisation of this whole school event! Thank you to everyone who is coming along later today to enjoy our summer fayre. Next week, I will be able to share the total raised with you all.

Attendance Update

You may be aware that in September 2024 new charges and expectations for attendance are being brought in by the Department of Education. A detailed letter regarding this will be coming out on Monday with the children, but to give you a quick summary of these changes the guidance has been changed in the following ways:

1. There will be a new national threshold of 10 unauthorised sessions for any reason (equivalent to 5 school days) within a rolling 10 school week period for when a penalty notice must be considered.

2. The new rules mean you will no longer be able to take your child out of school for one week’s holiday without the consideration of a penalty notice being issued.

3. There will be an increase in the penalty fine from £60 to £80 if paid in 21 days. If the fine is not paid by the first 21 days, it will rise to £160 if paid within 28 days of being issued.

4. If a second penalty fine is issued to the same parent for the same child within a 3-year rolling period, the fine will automatically rise to £160 with no option to pay the lower rate of £80.

5. If a parent then commits a third offence in a 3-year rolling period, the local authority will need to consider other enforcement options available to them. This could include prosecution.

In addition, any holidays taken without informing the school will be followed up with a home visit and, if the whereabouts of the children cannot be ascertained, a penalty notice must be considered. By having this information now, you can ensure that any holidays booked for next year are in line with this guidance. If you are unsure whether you will be affected by the new rules, please do catch me when I am out and about on the gates in the morning.

With my best wishes

Mrs Stevens

Notices

Following on from last week’s school trip payments update where there has been shortfalls in the amount needed, it has been brought to my attention that not everyone knows where to find the payments to make them. If you need support with this, please do pop into school and we will be happy to assist.

Personal Development News

At Mabe our personal development programme is threaded throughout our curriculum. Our vision for Personal Development is in line with the CCEA’s definition:

'Encouraging each child to become personally, emotionally, socially and physically effective, to lead , safe and fulfilled lives; To become confident, independent and responsible citizens, making informed and responsible choices and decisions throughout their lives’

This week as part of our Personal Development programme:

Four of our Science Ambassadors went to the Physics Olympics at Falmouth Primary – they represented our school extremely well and showed what competent scientists they are
Our year 4 class, Puffins, visited St Francis primary school on Wednesday of this week as they were invited to watch the school’s performance of Frozen the musical. It was a wonderful show which the children greatly enjoyed.
At the start of this week, our youngest children in school – Nursery up to year 2 – visited the beach to enrich their current topics of learning. Some children travelled by coach whilst the Kittiwakes went on the train! Teachers have commented how well the children behaved and how curious they were on the beach.