Anti-Bullying Week 2024 takes place from Monday 11th – Friday 15th November, with the theme: Choose Respect.  Odd Socks Day is taking place on Tuesday 12th November, with adults and children being encouraged to wear odd socks to celebrate what makes us all unique.

A full of week of bookish fun!!

At Coleham we are always looking for ways that we can make children’s education more exciting and interesting and also to provide a broad range of experiences for our children.  We have run a residential trip for year 4 pupils for a number of years now and it has always proved to be very successful.

The positive effect that a residential visit has on children is huge – children become more confident and independent; develop stronger, more cooperative and understanding relationships with their peers; and they learn to organise themselves away from. It also enhances the children’s experiences and the school curriculum.

This year we have chosen to take the children to PGL Boreatton Park. We will be leaving school at 8.20am on the morning of Thursday 27^th March (children to be at school for 8.00am prompt please) and will return around 4.30 to 4.45pm on Friday 28^th March.  Whilst there, they will take part in a variety of exciting team-building/ problem-solving activities appropriate for their age group/abilities.

The cost of the trip is £200.00 per child, including transport, accommodation, food, supervised activities, equipment and insurance. We recognise that this is a significant sum of money so have broken it down into four instalments of £50.00. We would be grateful if you could pay the first instalment by 30^th November and the remainder of the trip balance by Friday 14^th March 2025. The payments have been set up on Arbor and can be paid at your convenience any time from today’s date.

If you are worried about making full payment by the given deadline, please do come and talk to me or contact the office: we can extend the payment schedule to give you more time to cover the cost.

If your child is worried about any aspect of the residential trip, please do not worry as class teachers have plenty of time to prepare the children.

We will contact you again nearer the date of the trip to go over the finer details and address any outstanding queries you or your child may have.

This trip will be an amazing experience and we hope very much that all our Year 4 pupils will attend. If, however, your child WILL NOT be attending the trip, please do let the class teacher know as soon as possible.