COLEHAM VOICES CHILDREN ONLY 

We have been invited to sing at two events coming up.

Tuesday 5^th December at Hickory’s Restaurant

We will rehearse after school on Tuesday 5th December and staff will walk to Hickory’s Restaurant in town for a 5.30pm performance.   Our singing slot will be approx. 25mins. You are most welcome to come along as a customer in the bar area and support us.  If your child is attending an ADULT MUST COLLECT YOUR CHILD FROM HICKORYS AT 6 O CLOCK. The children should wear school uniform but Christmas hat/accessories would be great!

Consent Form

Parent/Carer Name…………………………………………………………………………………………….

Child Name………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

My child will be attending the Hickory’s Event and an Adult will collect them at 6:00pm.

Friday 15^th December at St. Alkmund’s Church Concert

We have been invited to take part in a Christmas concert at St. Alkmund’s Church in town SY1 1UL with Shrewsbury’s Phoenix Singers.

You will need to bring your child to St Alkmunds Church at 5pm for a quick rehearsal, the concert starts at 6pm and will last approx. 1 hour.

If you would like to attend the concert please purchase tickets from the website below:

www.phoenixsingersshrewsbury.co.uk/concerts

If your child is attending an ADULT MUST COLLECT YOUR CHILD FROM ST ALKMUNDS AT 8 O CLOCK.

The children need to be in smart school uniform. This is the last day of term, but a lovely way to celebrate the start of the holidays!

Consent Form

Parent/Carer Name…………………………………………………………………………………………….

Child Name………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

My child will be attending the St Alkmunds Concert and an Adult will collect them at 7:00pm.

Dear Parents/Carers,

The 3-18 Education Trust have created a Parent/Carer Survey for all schools in our trust and they would very much like the views of all parents and carers.  This is a multiple choice, anonymous survey.

It is important that we have a good response rate to collate as many views as possible.

We really hope that all our Parent/Carers can complete this survey-it should only take a couple of minutes of your time.

Please complete the survey below:

TRUST PARENT/CARER SURVEY

Here at Coleham we are always keen to know what we are doing well, and always keen to see where we can improve every aspect of provision.  We would like to give you an opportunity to share more detailed, quality feedback for our School.  There are 2 boxes on the form below: What do we do really well? and What could we improve?

Please complete the survey below:

COLEHAM PARENT/CARER FEEDBACK

The surveys close on Monday 4th December.

We will of course, share the results with you all in the New Year.

Kind Regards,

Tom Larkham

Headteacher

Dear Parents/Carers,

We are all organised for this half term and would like to share this years Christmas Events with you.

Rainbow Hamper Raffle

We will be fundraising for school via our annual Hamper Raffle which the School Council are helping to organise.  There will be 10 colourful hampers to win, packed full of Christmas treats.  We would be really grateful if children could help donate an item to go inside a hamper. The ‘colour’ themes for each year group are below with some ideas.

Reception-Any thing Gold/Yellow (ideas include Crayola, M&Ms, Ferrero Rocher, white wine)

Year 1-Anything Pink (Rose wine, Marshmallows, Mr Kipling, Percy Pigs, scented candle)

Year 2- Anything Red (Wine, Maltesers, KitKats, Jammy Dodgers, Xmas socks, baubles)

Year 3- Anything Orange (Mini Chedders, Fudge, Crackers)

Year 4- Anything Green (Pringles, Matchmakers, Mint chocolates, Bubble bath)

Year 5- Anything Blue (Haribo, Roses, Milky Way, Jaffa Cakes)

Year 6-Purple (Heroes, Dairy Milk, Chocolate Fingers, Lavender toiletries)

You can be as inventive as you like and include any sweet or savoury snacks, drinks, toiletries, Christmas decorations, toys and books.

Children may take donations into class and give them to their School Councillor or Class Teacher.  We will be collecting these throughout November.  Thank you in advance.

Please watch this Raffle video, to tell you all about it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5OGfxCtWUY

Buying Tickets

We would love it if you and your family are able to purchase tickets.  We know that Christmas brings extra costs and so there is no pressure to buy tickets: you can help our cause by sharing our video with friends and relatives.  The raffle is open to anybody.  Tickets cost £1 each and can be purchased via the ‘Raffall’ website, please see the link below:

Raffall Link

The “Raffall” website is easy and secure. If you would like to buy tickets, you will need to sign in with your name and email address and then click “Enter” to purchase tickets.

‘Raffall’ will draw the winners on Friday 8th December at 7pm.

Dear Parent/Carer,

We are writing to inform you of a vacancy for the role of parent local governor on our Local Governing Body (LGB).

The role of the LGB

The school’s LGB is responsible for providing confident and strategic leadership, and creating robust accountability, oversight and assurance for the school’s educational and financial performance. The LGB is passionate about education and committed to continuous school improvement to ensure the best possible outcomes for our pupils.

The role of a parent local governor

As a parent local governor, you’ll work with the LGB to ensure it effectively carries out the duties referred to above. You’ll also play a vital role in ensuring that the LGB is connected with, and is aware of the views of, parents and the local community.

To be a parent local governor you should have:

• A strong commitment to the role and to improving outcomes for children.
• Good inter-personal skills, curiosity, and a willingness to learn and develop new skills.
• The specific skills required to ensure the governing board delivers effective governance.

Being a parent local governor can be demanding but very rewarding.  All local governors serve a three-year term of office and under usual circumstances, can expect to spend between 10 and 20 days a year on governance duties.  These include:

• attending meetings of the LGB, usually outside of school hours and contributing to LGB business;
• reading reports and papers and keeping up to date on the progress that the school is making; and
• visiting the school from time to time during the school day.

You will have to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and sign the local governors’ Code of Conduct.  A copy of the Code of Conduct, Role Description and more information about the LGB can be found on LGB’s pages of the school’s website.

We have a supportive induction process which will enable a period of settling into the role.

How to apply

If you’re interested in applying for the role, please email the Governance Professional, Carole Warner by email by 10am Friday 27th October (carole.warner@318education.co.uk).

You should also include a personal statement (approximate 250 words) to support your application.  We encourage candidates to be succinct when setting out the skills, experience and attributes that they can bring to the LGB to support their application. Nominations of other parents will be accepted, but please seek their prior consent.

Applications/nominations can only be accepted from parents or carers who have children registered at the school on the day that nominations close. If we receive more applications/nominations than there are vacancies, an election will be carried out. We will inform you after the nomination deadline if we have to do this.

If you have any queries about this process or would like to find out more about the role, please contact the Chair of the LGB Mr Dave Jones or the Headteacher, Mr Tom Larkham

Yours sincerely,

Mr Dave Jones                                                      Mr Tom Larkham

Chair of LGB                                                               Headteacher

School photographers, Active Photographic, will be coming in to school on Wednesday 15^th November to take individual photographs of our pupils and, if requested, sibling photographs (Coleham pupils only).

If you DO NOT want your child to have their individual photograph taken or you WOULD LIKE A SIBLING GROUP PHOTOGRAPH taken, please click on this LINK

Unless notified otherwise by close of play, Monday 13^th November, all pupils will have their individual photo taken on Wednesday 15^th November.

PLEASE ENSURE YOUR CHILD WEARS THEIR SCHOOL SWEATSHIRT/CARDIGAN ON THE DAY.

If your child’s class have PE on this day they can do PE in their school uniform.  They may bring trainers with them into school.