Newsletters
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Week beginning 25th March 2024
Sat 23 Mar 2024Week beginning Monday 25th March 2024
The children in Year one had a fantastic time with Karen's pets and ponies on Friday. With lambs (just one week old), rabbits, chicks, ponies and more, they certainly had their work cut out! The children learned how to care for the animals and enjoyed the opportunity to handle them and groom them. Check out the photos on our school website in the gallery. You can also see some images of our comic relief fund raising efforts...more to follow!
On Monday next week, we are hosting our egg rolling competition. For your child to enter they need to bring a HARD-BOILED egg to school. There will be a first, second and third place prize awarded in each year group and prizes will be given courtesy of the PTA.
Also on Monday, we are sending a small group of children from Year 6 to an interschool ‘Public Speaking’ competition. This is a great opportunity for our children to build confidence and discuss matters that are important to them. This event is taking place with children from the South Croydon Learning Alliance (a group of local schools who work in collaboration) and we wish all children competing the best of luck.
On Tuesday, Reverend Elizabeth is joining our Reception cohort to teach them about the Easter story. We are looking forward to welcoming her into school.
School finishes for the Easter holidays on Thursday afternoon (28th) at normal time. There will be an assembly on the last day of term, at which we will announce the winners of our Eggceptional people competition and draw the prizes for the Rainbow Raffle. Tickets can be purchasesd on the PTA events page. Sales close on Tuesday 26th March. Thank you to all those who donated an item to create the winner’s hampers. Summer term begins with an INSET Day on Monday 15th April and we look forward to welcoming back all children, at normal time on Tuesday 16th April.
SAVE THE DATE: After school on the 19th April, we will be holding a celebration of Eid event. At this event you could win a Lord Roberts on the Green voucher for afternoon tea for two, enjoy some delicious foods from local businesses including The Med Kitchen, Smokin' Grill and Steakhouse, Dawat and more, who have all offered to fry a huge number of samosas for us. The Future Plate will also be offering declicious jollof rice and parents and community members will be cooking biryani and pilau (veg and non veg options) served warm. Cake Canvas will be doing a cake give away alongside other stalls offering personalised bookmarks, Henna tatoos and more! We would like to thank all of the organisations for supporting this community fundraising event and all of our parents and the PTA who are involved in organising this. It is set to be a great afternoon and we hope to see lots of you there!
Lastly, to all those celebrating, we wish you a Happy Easter and to everybody in our community we wish you a relaxing and restful break. We look forward to welcoming everybody back for the Summer term on Tuesday 16th April.
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Week beginning 18th March 2024
Sat 16 Mar 2024Thank you to all those who sponsored the children in their red nose day fundraising. So far, we have managed to raise £267, all of which goes directly to the comic relief charity. If you have not yet donated but would like to the link is…https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/rnd24-the-hayes-primary-school-3187f6a4-35b1-487a-aaa4-a9f0bee39f98?reference=copyLink
On Monday, we are having a new sound field system fitted in Class 4 courtesy of TESCO. You may remember we won the ‘blue token’ vote to improve access for children with hearing impairments meaning that this improvement to our environment is fully funded. Thank you, TESCO!
The Scholastic Book fair is on next week and will be running from Monday to Wednesday out side of the Reception Classrooms. Please do pop along with your children. They may wish to spend their world book day vouchers.
On Tuesday and Thursday next week, we are holding our parents’ evenings. If you have not already booked an appointment and need assistance, please call the office who will be happy to help. Face to face appointments will be in the hall. Please take a seat outside the hall until you are called in. We are looking forward to sharing your children’s achievements with you.
Due to parents’ evenings, there will be NO YEAR 6 BOOSTERS next week.
Class 6 will be hosting our assembly on Wednesday morning. If you have a child in this class, please come to the hall for a 9:10 start. We hope to see you there. Photos may be taken for personal use only.
Year 1 will be visited on Friday by Karen’s pets and ponies on Friday morning. If you have not already provided your consent/payment on ParentPay, please log on to do so.
We are still collecting for our rainbow raffle until Friday 22nd. Thank you to all those who have donated an item for this PTA event.
There are still a small number of spaces left in the TSC miniLondon marathon event for children in years 4+. This is the slightly longer route 2.6K (approx. 1.6 miles). If this is of interest to you, please reserve a space for your child on Parentpay. Every finisher gets an official London Marathon medal and earns a £10 donation for the school. If your child has a space in the shorter, 1 mile race, and are in Year 2 or below, there are a very small number of parent places still available too (we were granted some additional places), these can also be booked on Parentpay.
Lastly, thank you to all those who supported the school council’s Valentines bake sale last month. Yesterday the children enjoyed playing with a wide range of new playground equipment that they requested themselves. We are still waiting on delivery of some of the larger pieces of equipment but lots of fun was had by all, thanks to your generosity.
I am also very excited to share that, after letting parents know about the Amazon ‘unlock a smile competition’ in a November bulletin, one of our year 6 pupils, Ajwah, entered the competition and has been announced as the winner of the 8-10yrs category. Ajwah has won herself an Amazon goodie bag and a whopping £1000 for our school! Ajwah has expressed that she would like this money to be invested in play equipment for the children and so we are currently looking at options. I will share a photograph of her winning entry in the April newsletter or, you may spot this for yourselves at Kenley station. CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU AJWAH!
Have a lovely weekend.
