Lactose free cheese and yogurts will now be available at lunchtimes.

Please see attached the menu for lunch on Tuesday 20th September.

lunch-menu-20-sept

Shire services are running a colouring competition and the drawing will be sent home with KS1 children for them to enter if they wish. Please return the entry to the school office by Tuesday 20th September.

Parking Measures

Further to the letter sent home on Tuesday, and previous letters and emails, thank you to adults who have parked at the Village Hall or made other arrangements for travelling to and from school. A further letter has been sent home today concerning the following:

We would like to reiterate that there is no parking in the school car park before or after school including when collecting from after school clubs that finish at 4:15 or 4:30.  It is still possible to drive into the car park to drop children at the Hall for Breakfast or 8:30 Club and also to collect children from Film Club on Tuesdays after 5:00 p.m.  These measures are for everyone’s safety, as well as ensuring that delivery vehicles can access and exit the school site safely, and were discussed at length and agreed by the School’s Governing Body and the Local Authority prior to the commencement of the building work.

It is also imperative that vehicles are not parked on the zig zag lines on Bicton Lane or on the crossing, which has been the case on several days this week, as adults and children are unable to see if it is safe to cross the road and residents cannot see to drive out on to Bicton Lane safely. There are still disabled parking spaces available for badge holders and thank you to parents who have enquired about this.  If you have any questions about the current arrangements, please do not hesitate to speak to me.

8:30 Club – no fee during building work from next week

To help ease parking in the village before school, there will be no cost from next week onwards for the 8:30 club whilst the school car park is out of use.  Adults can drop children at the Hall between 8:30 and 8:35 at the latest and children will be supervised by a member of staff before being taken to their classes at 8:45. Please ask if you have any questions.

Defibrillator training – Monday 19th September from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m.

We have at last been able to secure a provider to deliver training for our defibrillator which we were able to purchase last year through fund raising and several donations. The training is open to any parents and if you would like to attend please let the Office know. Further details are in the letter attached below.

aed-training-letter

Music tuition

Music lessons will commence again next week for those children involved.

Club fees reminder

Please could we remind you of the charges for clubs as follows:

Film Club and Breakfast Club – £1.50 per child/£3.00 per family

Craft Club £1.00 per child

Finally…

We have had a fantastic first week back and we have been amazed at how well the new children have settled in at Bicton School and enjoyed making friends with the older children.  Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Johnson and staff

First week back

The sunny weather looks set to continue next week so please can children bring a sunhat to wear at break-times and have sun-cream applied before coming to school.  They may also bring a bottle of water to school and it would be helpful if this is labelled with their name.

Uniform

Please can you remember to label all of your child’s school uniform, including PE kit, and their coat/jacket. Children often decide to take their sweatshirt/cardigan off when they are playing outside and if the clothing is not labelled it is often difficult to match it up with the right owner at the end of break-time! Thank you in advance for your support with this.

School dinner

Just in case you did not receive the letter last term (see below), the cost of a school dinner will be increasing to £2.10 per day from next week for children in Years 3 to 6 and also Pre-School.

Increase in cost of dinners September 2016

Medication

Just a reminder that all inhalers and any medication which your child needs in school, should be brought into school the first day back please.  If your child is starting different/additional medication, a permission form will need to be completed at the Office.

We are looking forward to seeing the children next week and hope you enjoy the last few days.

Mrs Johnson

Thank you

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend our end-of-year assemblies this week and for all your support in these very busy last few weeks of term.  We are very grateful for the extensive feedback on children’s end-of-year reports and your comments will help us to continue to move the school forward.

Website

Our website is being revamped over the summer so it may not be accessible at some times during the holidays.  If you have any queries during the summer, please email admin or head@bicton.shropshire.sch.uk and somebody will get back to you as soon as possible.

Letters out this week:

Dinner money increasing to £2.10 from September

Car park/Eco-room project

Hope you all have a lovely summer holiday.

Mrs Johnson and staff