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.
Christmas Performances
Week commencing 4th December
Our EYFS/KS1 Nativity and KS2 Nativity concerts are always a very special occasion for us all. The singing in school sounds incredible and you will be in for a real treat! The performance times for parents are as follows:
Performances at Holy Trinity Church
- Monday(04/12/23) 1330-1430: Performance for EYFS parents
- Tuesday(05/12/23) 1000-1100: Performance for Year 1 parents
- Tuesday(05/12/23) 1330-1430: Performance for Year 2 parents
- Thursday(07/12/23) 1000-1130: Performance for Year 3 parents
- Thursday(07/12/23) 1330-1500: Performance for Year 4 parents
- Friday(08/12/23) 1000-1130: Performance for Year 5 parents
- Friday(08/12/23) 1330-1500: Performance for Year 6 parents
Guidance
- Please be kind and only attend your child’s nativity
- Please aim to attend the performance set aside for your child’s year group.
- For those wishing to see siblings, you may be able to see them all in one EYFS/KS1’s nativity (Monday and Tuesday) includes EYFS, Year 1 and Year 2 in the same show. KS2’s Nativity (Thursday and Friday) has Years 3, 4, 5 & 6 in the same show.
- Those of you with a child in each Key Stage can, of course, see both shows
- The KS2 children will be performing all around the church and in the aisles, so every seat in church will have a good view, including those at the very back of the church.
Christmas Parade
We’ll be taking a break from running our ‘Elfridges’ Shop this year. Instead we have organised an extra special treat for the children! On Tuesday 12th December at 2:00pm the children will be watching a Christmas Parade in the school grounds. We will be pulling out all the stops for this to create magical memories that will last a lifetime and Parents/Carers will be invited to watch from the pavement. We have 2 small requests:
1. Please keep this a secret from your children, we won’t be talking about this in school so mums the word!
2. This will be a magical experience but it is an expensive event for us to fund. We would be really grateful if you are able to support us and donate £2.50 per child towards the costs.
Christmas Pantomime
This year the whole school are going to watch the Jack and the Beanstalk’ pantomime at the Theatre Severn.
The trip will take place on Wednesday 13th December. The children will travel to the theatre after morning registration to watch the 10.15am performance and return to school around 1.00pm in time for (a slightly delayed) lunch.
The cost of the trip, including theatre tickets (discounted for school pupils) and transport costs to/from the theatre, is £17.25 per child. Please make payment on Arbor before 1st December.
The Panto is costing over £7,000 which is a huge amount of money, we have no allocated budget for this so we really hope you can pay for your child or contribute the amount you can afford to give. The trip is set up on Arbor to enable you to select the amount you are able to contribute. We really hope that you can support us with payment for your child, however small, it all helps.
Christmas Lunch
Our Christmas Lunch will take place on Thursday 14th December. This will be a Non-Uniform Day! Children are welcome to wear their own clothes/Christmas wear to school this day.
Christmas Staff Video
This will be our 4th year of producing a Staff Christmas Video as our gift to the children. Production is underway and staff are squeezing filming and recording into stolen moments and lunchtimes. We look forward to sharing this with you.
Breaking up for Christmas
Our last day in school will be Friday 15th December and we return to school on Wednesday 3rd January.
We are really looking forward to the festive period and making sure the children have lots of opportunities to celebrate and have fun. There really is no Christmas like a Coleham Christmas!
Kindest Regards,
Miss Othen
Business Manager