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Little Acorns - 20 July 2010 - Mrs. Rocke

This year's Little Acorn award winners.

Summer Fair ~ a BIG THANK YOU - 28 June 2010 - Ms Stewart

The KFA raisied over £2000 for our school at the Summer Fair. This was superb and a huge effort was put in by all the KFA. Thank you to all of them, Mrs Wood and Mrs Rushe seemed to have taken up residence here, not only on the Saturday but in preparation as well. Thank you to all the parents, staff and children who volunteered to look after a stall and to Year 6 for rallying the support for the sweet jar stall.

Thank you also if your turned up with your family, spent some money and had a good time. By fund raising we are able to offer children in school much more than the school budget would afford. With cuts looming fund raising is going to be even more important.

Thanks again KFA.

Academy Status - 23 June 2010 - Ms Stewart

If you have been awake these last few weeks the Department of Education's drive on schools beocming Academies will probably not have escaped you! You may be aware that all schools graded Outstanding by Ofsted have been offered to convert to Academy status. As we were graded outstanding in December 2008 we have been offered the opportunity to convert to an Academy.

We have 'registered interest' with the Department of Education (DOE, it has changed its name ~ again) and would like to reassure you and explain that at this stage we are only expressing our interest in finding out more. There will be an item in the Summer 2 newsletter on converting to Academy status and consultation on this important manner.

Garden Centre and other vouchers - 25 May 2010 - Ms Stewart

Thank you to everyone wo helps us keep the school well resourced through collecting vouchers.

We are collecting Garden Centre vouchers so if you visit Winnington Garden Centre or another Strikes Garden Centre and spend over £10 ask them for a schools voucher. If we collect enough we can get £100 of plants for school.

We collect vouchers from supermarkets too. Please save them up at home and bring in bundles with the amount written on top. This saves lots of time counting them all out.

Many thanks.

Holidays 2010-2011 - 12 January 2010 - Ms. Stewart

The Northwich EIP (Education Improvement Partnership) have been considering holidays for the next academic year and the particular problems posed by Easter 2011. Easter falls very late in 2011 and children taking GCSE exams could be returning to school after Easter with only one week before these very important examinations begin. For this reason the High Schools are adopting the model of holidays set out below.

Our Governors have wisely taken the decision to adopt the same holidays as most schools within the Northwich EIP and in particular the High Schools. This is the same model as is being adopted in Halton, Liverpool and many other Local Authorities.

We are therefore having a long Easter weekend with Good Friday and Easter Monday off school, but the fortnight holiday will be earlier. Hopefully with plenty of notice families will be able to make any childcare arrangements and also book holidays within the Easter holiday.

The plus side includes:

cheaper Easter holidays for those wanting to go away
families with children at the High School not having the problem of different holidays for siblings.
families in front line services who find taking holidays in the school holidays difficult should find this much easier and not need time off in term time

Actions have been taken in consideration of children's learning first and disruption to the least people second. However I appreciate that this will cause difficulties for some families. We do apologise to any families for whom this is an inconvienience.

INSET days have not been set although 31st August will be an INSET day. These holidays are also on the Portal calendar.

Autumn Term 2010
		Teachers	Pupils
Open	Monday 31^st August

Close	Friday 22^nd October	39	39
Half term	MONDAY 25 OCTOBER– FRIDAY 29 OCTOBER
Open	Monday 1^st November
Close	Friday 17^th December	35	35
Christmas Holiday	MONDAY 20 DECEMBER – MONDAY 3 JANUARY
Spring Term 2011
Open	Tuesday 4^th January
Close	Friday 11^th February	29	29
Half Term	MONDAY 14th FEBRUARY - 18th FEBRUARY
Open	Monday 21^st February
Close	Friday 1^st April	30	30
Easter Holiday	MONDAY 4^th APRIL - FRIDAY 15^th APRIL
Bank Holidays	FRIDAY 22nd APRIL, MONDAY 25th APRIL & MONDAY 2nd MAY
Summer Term 2011
Open	Monday 18^th April
Close	Friday 27^th May	27	27
Half Term	MONDAY 30^th MAY – FRIDAY 3^rd JUNE
Open	Monday 6^th June
Close	Friday 22^nd July 2011	35	35

	Total No. of School Days	195	195

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Little Acorns - 20 July 2010 - Mrs. Rocke

Summer Fair ~ a BIG THANK YOU - 28 June 2010 - Ms Stewart

Academy Status - 23 June 2010 - Ms Stewart

Garden Centre and other vouchers - 25 May 2010 - Ms Stewart

Holidays 2010-2011 - 12 January 2010 - Ms. Stewart