Welcome back to school, to a new academic year and to some new faces. 

Welcome to Miss Smith the new Year 1 teacher, to Mrs Spedding the new Year 3 teacher and to Mrs Poplett the school's new Deputy head teacher.

Welcome to the new children and their families joining the school.

A few early housekeeping notices: -

Breakfast club is up and running already.  It is still free at the mom!  Please take advantage.

Clubs are unlikely to start before the week commencing 13th September, 2010.

More to follow......

Friday 23rd July

School has now finished for this academic year, 2009-10.  We begin again on Thursday 2nd September at 8.55am  (As is our usual practice the gates will be open at 8.45am.)

Breakfast Club, important news about Breakfast Club will be published during the holidays.  Any major changes to times and prices (currently, it is FREE) will be advised in plenty of time for the new year.

Parent-teacher meetings will be held next week on these two dates: -

Wednesday 14th July from 5.00pm until 7.30pm

Thursday 15th July from 3.30pm until 5.30pm.

Letters will be sent out with the children inviting you to school offering various times which you are kindly asked to return as soon as possible.  At the meeting you will be handed a copy of your child'a report and there will be time to discuss it.

In the school’s Newsletter 32 of 10^th June we wrote about the safety of children travelling to and from school to help to ensure children know how to stay safe and to minimise any potential dangers.  We did this because, as some of you might know and some of you raised at the time, in Croydon borough, there had been an incident concerning children’s safety all of which had been aired in the media.

On Sunday 20^th June there was a report of an incident in the Leesons Hill area where a man in a car approached a group of six boys.  However, to our knowledge and information there have been no similar incidents in the proximity of our school.

The school does sometimes receive reports of suspicious behaviour occurring in the whole borough, but the majority of these do not come from our neighbourhood and they predominantly involve secondary schools.

We regularly invite the local PCSOs and the Road Safety Officers into school to talk to the children about being safe and demonstrating safety: a policy we continue. 

In today’s Newsletter we have repeated the advice about safety when travelling to and from school and about being safe generally. 

Please be assured that if we receive information on any incident concerning child safety in our locality we will share it with you.

Here are the dates for 2010-11

Thursday 2 September - Friday 22 October

Half-term: 25-29 October

Tuesday 2 November - Friday 17 December

Wednesday 5 January - Friday 18 February

Half-term: 21-25 February

Monday 28 February - Friday 8 April

Wednesday 27 April - Friday 27 May (Public holiday 2 May)

Half-term: 30 May - 3 June

Tuesday 7 June - Friday 22 July.

INSET days: Wednesday 1 September, Monday 1 November, Tuesday 4 January, Tuesday 26 April, Monday 6 June.