Dear Parents/Carers,

Community Carols Around the Tree

You are all invited to our ‘Community Carols Around the Tree’ on Thursday 20th December 3.40-4.40pm, followed by mince pies, tea and coffee provided by the PTFA.

Nativity Play

Foundation and KS1 will be performing their Nativity Play on Monday 17th December at 2.00pm and Tuesday 18th December at 9.45am.

National Test Results

These were published yesterday for all primary schools. The results show that St. Joseph’s has performed very well in all areas - especially in ‘value added’, which shows pupil progress, where the school is in the top 15 out of 92 across the city. Well done to everybody for your on-going success.

Parking in the Local Area

Can I please ask all parents and carers to be considerate towards residents who live in the local area when they drive and park their vehicles. It can obviously be very frustrating to local residents when then are unable to access driveways or if the road is blocked by cars dropping off children. Can I also remind everybody that dropping children off in the middle of the road is also very dangerous.

Deanfield Study Centre

The next instalment of £30.00 for Deanfield is now due and the remainder (£25.00) is due on the 7^th January.

Attendance

Well done to Mrs Ford’s Class with 99% attendance last week who will get a special non uniform day as a reward. Also, well done to Miss Holman’s class with 98% attendance. Overall attendance this year has been lower than last year, so let’s look forward to even better attendance in 2013!

100% Attendance for Terms 1 and 2

A big well done to all the children who achieved 100% attendance for terms 1 and 2:-

Alexander, Benjamin, Summer, Laura, Darrell, Janice, Evie, Saul, James, Ellie, Harrison, Lachontay, Al-Janat, Catalina, Evelyn, Alana, Joshua, Kai, Oliver, Marlen, Micah, Abbey, Daniel, Alfie, Sydney-Kay, Alfie, Charlie, Amy, Dashana, Ashley, Hannah, Olivia, Madeleine, Marco, Alisha, Ceris, Oliver, Jeleil, Rosemary, Mathews, Jackson, Samuel, Isabel, Jeswin, Rian, Ty, Nadia, Emily, Adedire, Maciej, Michal, Martyna, Patrycia, Bethany, Anna, Irene, Charles, Austin, Josmi, Edwin, Godwin, Anique, Jesselyn, Joel, Zahra, Lena, Lionel, Jordan, Dean, Jake, Jaimie, Jessica, Joel, Aleena, Allen David, Vanessa, Hector, Pawel and Liam.

Celebration Assembly

There will be a celebration assembly on Monday 17^th December at 9.10am, where the following children will receive their Headteacher’s Awards:   Olly Wiercioch-Giles, Ollie Louch, Isobel Nurse, Javier Graham, Poppy Kelliher-Swash, Talia Scott and Thomas Jaworski.

These children will receive Superstars Sports Awards:  Anna Raju, Jerin Mathew, Wiktoria Pawlaszczyk,  Reuben Reji, Ruby Walsh and Rebecca Davies.

Date for Diaries

Monday 17^th December                -                       Infant Nativity – 2.00pm

Tuesday 18^th December                 -                       Infant Nativity – 9.45am
Wednesday 19^th December          -                       Carol Service – 2.00pm
Thursday 20^th December                -                       Carols around the Tree – 3.30pm
Friday 21^st December                     -                       Christmas Mass (at 9.30am in the school hall)
Friday 21^st December                     -                       End of Term 2
Monday 7^th January                       -                       Start of Term 3
Friday 25^th January                          -                       Y6P and Y6B Swindon
Friday 1^st February                           -                       INSET – assessment (school closed)          
Monday 4^th-8^th February                 -                       Deanfield Studies Centre visit for Year 5/6 
Wednesday 20^th February              -                       Life Skills Year 6 visit

 

 

 

Best wishes,

 

 

 

Matt Condon

Headteacher