Dear Parents/Carers,

Parent Tea and Coffee Afternoons

From next term we will be organising regular opportunities for parents to pop into school for a tea or coffee. We would like to invite parents into the school library at 3pm on Thursday 16^th January.

After School Clubs

After school clubs will start the second week back (week beginning 14 January 2013). As always, we never aim to make a profit from After School Clubs. This term we are able to reduce the cost to £2 per session for our paid clubs. We do, however, require full payment before children start clubs, as some clubs were not paid for last term. Unfortunately, we are only offering football to Years 2-6 this term, although all children in the current club have 1 session left which will happen on Thursday 9^th January. Here is the timetable for Terms 3 and 4:

Club	Finish Time	Year Groups	Start date/day of club	End date	Cost
Textiles	5pm	3-6	Monday	Continuing until the end of Term 3 when the club will take a break.	Continuing without cost.
Choir	4.30pm	3-6	Tuesday	Ongoing	No cost
Multi-sports (dodgeball, hockey, basketball, frisbee)	4.45pm	1-6	Wednesday	(payment covers until end of Term 4)	£2.00 per session = ? for terms 3 and 4
Football	4.45pm	2-6	Thursday	(payment covers until end of Term 4)	£2.00 per session = ? for terms 3 and 4
Mandarin	4.15pm	1-6	Friday	Ongoing	No cost
Art	4.45pm	R - 6	Thursday	Ongoing (payment covers until end of Term 4)	£2.00 per session = ? for terms 3 and 4
Energy Club	4.30pm	R-2 3-6	Monday Friday	Ongoing	No cost
Kodu Club	4.30pm	5 and 6	Monday	Ongoing	No cost

St Joseph’s Christmas Mass Times

Tuesday 24^th December – 6.00pm Children’s Mass

Tuesday 24^th December – 9.00pm Carols and Readings

Tuesday 24^th December – 9.45pm Christmas Mass

Tuesday 24^th December – 11.35pm Syro-Malabar Mass

Wednesday 25^th December – Christmas Mass

Brush Up Your Maths course at Hillfields Library

This is a course for adults who are a bit worried about their maths skills. It will help you on the path to enjoying Maths and give you the confidence to use it to improve your everyday life.

This FREE course starts Thursday 23^rd January for 8 weeks 9.45-11.45am

Based at Hillfields Library - contact Hillfields Children’s Centre reception to book (Tel – 0117 3534272). This course is for anyone over 19 who has few or no qualifications.

Pupil Premium - Free School Meals

The Government is giving money to schools to help children from lower income families do their very best. This funding is called a ‘Pupil Premium’. For every child registered for free school meals at St Joseph’s, the school gets a significant amount of money to improve learning for that child.

With this money we could organise more individual tuition, increase Teaching Assistant support and improve learning opportunities in lots of other ways. If you are registered for free school meals you could also get support for school trips and have help with after school clubs.

If you think you might be entitled to free school meals, please contact the school office or speak to me in the playground.

Y6 Residential Trip to Deanfield Studies Centre

All payments must be made by Friday 10^th January.

Dates for Diaries

Monday 6^th January                                    -           Start of Term 3

Monday 6^th January – am                          -           School joins parish for Epiphany Mass
Thursday 16^th January at 3pm                    -           Parents tea and coffee
Monday 12th May 2014                              -           Year 6 SATs week

Can I take this opportunity to thank all of you for your help and support this year.

We wish you all a peaceful and happy Christmas and we will see you all on Monday 6^th January.

Yours sincerely,

 

Matt Condon
Headteacher