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Updated on Monday 20th 11.40am
At the time of writing we are still looking forward to this event taking place.
Parents and families are invited to our annual carol concert at St. Peter's church at 7pm Monday 20th December. We will be joined by our school choir and Heage Brass Band. This traditional service is a favourite of many families and we are looking forward to it returning after not having one in 2020.
To ensure we stay as safe as possible Rev. Anne has shared that all adults in the congregation need to wear a face covering throughout the entire service and that seats will be available upstairs and downstairs, giving us plenty of space.
We are also asking all adults to support us in taking and LFD test before the service. All adults and visitors to school are being asked to do this before coming into the school and we are asking for this to extend to this service.
Finally, to help ensure we enjoy the evening, please remember that
We are inviting our community to take part in a consultation regarding admissions to our nursery as we consider offering the option of children attending for up to 30 hours a week. At present children can only stay for up to 15 hours a week.
More information and a link to the survey (that should only take a few minutes to complete) can be found in this letter - CLICK HERE
Many thanks for your help.
Mr. Averis - Headteacher
Updated - Tuesday 14th 8.30pm
At time of writing we are still looking forward to the disco's taking place on Thursday evening. Many thanks to the PTFA for organising the event.
Infant disco - 5.30pm to 6.30pm
Junior disco - 6.45pm to 8pm
All children need to have a ticket. No children will be admitted without a ticket, there will no option to buy a ticket on the door.
When collecting your child at the end of the disco you will be asked to wear a face covering when walking through the school building.
All volunteers helping during the evening are asked to take a LFD test before the disco.
Cinema trips - December 2021
Many thanks to the PTFA for funding this annual Christmas treat. It's good to be able to enjoy this again as we weren't able to it 2020.
Our online school calendar lets parents know when their children are going to the Ritz cinema for their Christmas treat. CLICK HERE.
If you are able to help walk the children to the cinema safely please let your child's class teacher know.
Morning films begin at 10am
Afternoon films begin at 1.15pm
Children will leave school about 30 minutes before each film to walk to the cinema. All parents that help walk are invited to come and watch the film with the children.
At the Ritz cinema adults will be required to support the cinema in the wearing of face coverings as per their risk assessment.
Our safeguarding page is full of information about how to keep our children safe but also offers much more. If you scroll down the page, you will find links to information, grant/voucher schemes, Early Help, support and advice which may be useful.
I wanted to make you aware of two new links that I've added today - Household Support Fund and Derbyshire Winter Holiday Activities and Food Programme (HAF).
Why not take a look by clicking on the link below?
https://www.stjohnsbelper.co.uk/safeguarding/
Thank you.
Mrs Carvell
All children have now brought home two tickets for adults to come and watch their Christmas nativities.
We are pleased that all families in reception and year 2 were able to get tickets for their first choice performance and that only a few families in year 1 had to have tickets for their second choice.
Families that did not complete the online order form have been sent two tickets home for one of the productions, the school can not swap these. In order to keep number of adults on site to a minimum we are not distributing any spare tickets.
Please make sure that you bring your tickets with you to the performances so that we can ensure we are only letting in the correct people, allowing us to keep the number of adults in the hall to a minimum at all times.
All adults will be required to wear a face covering in school and are asked to take an LFD test on the morning of the production.
Children are invited to wear festive jumpers, t-shirts and hair bands on Wednesday 15th December.
There is no charge for this, we'll just be doing it for fun and to help us enjoy our Christmas dinner day.
As was shared last week in the weekly headteacher blog, the considerable amount of lost/unclaimed property, which has accumulated since September (6 large bin bags!), has been placed outside school. This will be repeated tomorrow, at the end of the school day, as there was a significant amount still left unclaimed including coats, trainers, water bottles, lunch boxes, school jumpers and PE kits to name just a few.
We check through lost property regularly and do our very best to return items to their rightful owners. Where items are named and placed in the lost property box, this is easy and items are returned to the children. However, the vast amount of property is not named and therefore is impossible to return.
Please ensure all property is named and checked regularly so that it can be returned to you easily following a lost property check.
Thank you, and I hope you find anything that may be missing in the lost property abyss!
Mrs Carvell
All children had their individual and sibling photographs taken on Monday 29th November and brought home an order form for parents and carers to complete, should you wish to order anything. .
Orders received by the 6th December will get free delivery to school.
All orders received after this day will not get free delivery and families will be charged delivery for the photographs to be delivered to your home address.
We are pleased to share that with some extra COVID measures in place we are still planning on performing our Christmas nativities later this month.
We have published a letter today about how to order tickets for the Christmas nativities. CLICK HERE