The Appleton Echo

It's been a wonderful week in school. You will see from below that everyone has had such a great time, especially with regard to the Enterprise event. I've never seen the children so engaged!

Next week, it's a busy one. The EYFS Nativity, the KS1 Musical Performance, Choir and Open Classrooms on Thursday. I can't wait!

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

It's an understatement to say that our Christmas Enterprise was a resounding success. Thank you to everyone who took part and made this experience so amazing for the children. I've decided that because every class did so well, each class can have a movie afternoon in the coming weeks!

Here's the figures:

Reception Class - Personalised Wrapping Paper - £69.50 profit! - The Best Decorated Stall Award

Year 1/2 Class - Personalised Gift Bags - £252.00 profit! - The Most Profit Award

Year 3/4 Class - The Appleton Sweet Shop - £102.40 profit! - The Best Teamwork Award

Year 5/6 Class - Personalised Candle Decorations - £136.90 profit! - Most Creative Idea Award

That's a total of £560.80 and the income from the PTA staff to add, once we deduct the costs.

Thank you again to our amazing PTA!

Our clubs offer for the first part of Spring Term will be:

Mr Broom - Guitar Club - Y5/6

Mrs Watts - Freddy Fingers Club - Reception

Mr Snowden - Computing Club - KS2

Miss Brough/Mr Crump - Podcast Club - KS1/KS2 (limited to 15 spaces)

Club night will be on Tuesday evenings for the Spring Term 1 period.

We will be pushing out the sign up form in next week's newsletter.

Handmade by Andrew from a real Christmas tree stump and branches. A great little office desktop or bedroom festive decoration! Mr Broom's got one on his desk too!

Andrew said:

“I have decided to make & sell these cute trees to raise money for a charity close to my heart. Both my Grandmas are diagnosed and suffer with Dementia and I have decided to support a charity by selling these mini Christmas trees. I have chosen to raise money for the Lewy Body Society and I hope to help many other people who suffer with this type of dementia.”

Andrew is asking for £8 each & if anyone wants to order one they can, to help us know how many. Andrew already has over 30 orders! You can do this by texting Andrew's mum, Rosie, on 07734526464. Why not pop along to the parish rooms on Saturday?

We have some lovely experiences and events planned for our children and families in the run up to Christmas. Many of them support by our wonderful PTA. Here's a summary of everything that's going on:

We start the new academic year expecting an Ofsted Inspection at some point in the year. We are certainly well overdue!

You can really help us by completing the Ofsted Parent View online survey. It's a short series of questions that should take you no longer than 10 minutes. Of course, when we do get the call, you'll get another opportunity to share your views.

Click here to access the online survey on the government website.

Our public school calendar has been fully updated with a range of events and is continually being added to. You can access this calendar on our school website here:

Monday 11/12

Extra Curricular Clubs Nights

Monday 11th December - 1800 - 1900

Year 1/2 Christmas Performance - School Hall

Tuesday 12th December - 1000 - 1100

Year 1/2 Christmas Performance - School Hall

Tuesday 12th December - 1400 - 1500

EYFS Nativity - Church

Wednesday 13th December - 1800 -1900

EYFS Nativity - Church

Thursday 14th December - 1430 - 1515

Open Classrooms

W/B 18th December

Dress-like-Christmas Week

Wednesday 20th December - 1830 - 1930

Community Carols Evening - Church

A polite reminder that we have children in school who have severe nut allergies. Please ensure that you do not bring nuts on to the school site or include them in packed lunches.

Thank you for your support with this.

I've had a few messages from parents/carers asking about how they can send a staff shoutout for a staff team. It's great that you think about them and really does help to raise morale.

Here's the link:

You can book wrap-around care for the coming term below.

You can book one off (ad-hoc) wrap-around care below.