Please can we remind parents that dinner money is to be paid at the beginning of each week £2.10 per day or £10.50 a week. If you think your child may be entitled to FSM (free school meals)

please ask for a FSM form from the KS2 office.

**Please ensure you have read our new Dinner Money Policy**

Our PTA Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held at 6pm on Thursday 12th October at KS1. This is an opportunity for parents and family

members to shape the future of the school PTA by volunteering to help at events or take a more senior role. All welcome and we will try and organise a crèche

facility if there is demand so as many families as possible can attend and build on the great work done by the PTA so far.

Last week 5 of our KS2 children attended

a Cyclocross event at Applegarth School.

They had a brilliant time, we would like

to give an extra special mention to Josh

Wood who received a Gold Medal.

WELL DONE!

Well done to our FS1 children for their hard work last

week—the children made a fantastic Scarecrow in

Nursery and they sang ‘Dingle Dangle Scarecrow!’

Thank you to

all parents that

attended

Mrs

Routledge’s

DEEP afternoon

yesterday.

We hope that

you had a

lovely time!

We have placed another big order of red PE t-shirts, including some bigger sizes. These should be with us after the

half term holiday.

They will be available at a cost of £2.50 each

If your child is going to be absent from school

please ensure you contact school to let us know. If we do not get a reason for your child’s absence then they will

be marked as ‘Unauthorised’ on the register.

School Tel: 01609 773524

FIND US ONLINE!

Like us on Facebook, search ‘Alverton

Community Primary School’

Follow us on Twitter, @Alverton Primary

Check out our new website:

www.alverton.n-yorks.sch.uk

KS2 HOMEWORK CLUB Mrs Stewart and Mr Linsley will be running a KS2 Homework club

on a Wednesday night for KS2 children to complete any homework tasks they have or

take part in independent study time.

The club will start at 3:15pm and finish at 4pm.

If your child is interested, or you would like to attend with them to

find out how we teach certain aspects of the curriculum then

sign up at the office.

Attendance For: W/C 2nd October

Mrs Kirby 83.3%

Mrs Bell 83.0%

Mrs Routledge 92.5%

Miss Uddin 92.7%

Miss Adams 89.1%

Mrs Brugmans 97.3%

Miss Eddowes 90.0%

Mrs Alexander 97.0%

DATES EVENTS *** Dates in red are new or recent changes ***

12th October PTA Annual General Meeting 6pm in the KS1 Hall 16th-20th October Book Fair

17th October Y4 Mrs Brugmans’ DEEP afternoon

19th October Harvest Assembly Whole School KS2 with Parents at 9.15

19th October Disco 4.30 - 5.30 (KS1) & 5.45 – 6.45pm (KS2) both at KS2 20th October SCHOOL CLOSES FOR HALF TERM

HALF TERM Monday 23rd October – Monday 30th October

30th October SCHOOL OPENS

30th October Pumpkin Week. Bring Pumpkins to school. 1st November Y5 Miss Eddowes’ DEEP afternoon

2nd November FS2 Mrs Kirby’s DEEP afternoon

7th November Y6 Mrs Alexander’s DEEP afternoon. 8th November Y2 Miss Uddin’s DEEP afternoon

13th November Anti-Bullying Week

14th November Parents Evening 3.30—6.30 pm

15th November Parents Evening 3.30—5.00 pm

17th November Children in Need Spotacular

20th November Road Safety Week - Brake - Dangers of Speeding

21st November Y3 Miss Adams’ DEEP afternoon

22nd November Y1 Mrs Bell’s DEEP afternoon

23rd November Y6 Mrs Alexander’s Class Assembly 9.15 KS2

30th November Y1/2 Mrs Routledge’s Class Assembly 9.15 KS1

1st December Christmas Wish Week and tree decoration

1st December Non Uniform Day for Tombola Prizes for Christmas Fayre

4th December Secret Present Room Starts

14th December *Christmas Lunch KS1 & KS2*

8th December Christmas Fayre KS2 2pm-3.30 pm

12th December KS1 Christmas Play Performance 1.30 pm at KS1

13th December KS1 Christmas Play Performance 9.30 am at KS1

13th December KS2 Christmas Play Performance 1.30pm at KS2 and 5.30pm

14th December FS1 Nursery Christmas Performance 9.30 am at KS1

15th December Christmas Jumper Day

20th December Christmas Hat Day

21st December Christmas Party Day

22nd December Christmas carol Service 9.15 am KS2

22nd December School Closes for Christmas

HOLIDAY Friday, 22nd December - Tuesday 9th January

8th January Training Day – School Closed

9thJanuary Children back to school

These key dates will be printed every week in the newsletter so please ensure you check regularly as sometimes we have to make slight changes to times/dates. Thank you

COATS Please can we remind you to ensure children come to school with an appropriate waterproof coat now that the cooler weather is here. Even on wet days we try to get the children outside on a playtime as much as possible

so it is important they are dressed appropriately.

Here are our

fantastic

‘Golden Stars of

the Week’

Certificates will

be given out

during our

Celebration

Assemblies.

FS1 (JST)

Daniel Wyer

Eze Wilson

FS2 (KK)

YR1 (LB)

Sophie Cook

Macie Thompson

Year 1/2 (KR)

Year 2 (FMU)

JJ Barraclough

Ellie-May Willoughby

Year 3 (JA)

Year 4 (JB)

Year 5 (SE)

Year 6 (CA)

KS1

FS2 (KK)

Ewan Walker

Lexi Clark

Lyla Atkinson

Josh Hammond

Year 1 (LB)

Louie Thirling

Macie Thompson

Oscar Mullan

Year 1/2 (KR)

Year 2 (FMU)

Bailey Rodgers

Paige Mitchinson

KS2

Year 3 (JA)

Aaron Carr

Scarlett Zatrak

Year 4 (JB)

Year 5 (SE)

Year 6 (CA)

Going for Gold Awards

** Celebration Assemblies Every Friday Morning **

KS1 9.10am KS2 8.50am

Please disregard any KS2 lunch menus you may have at home. There have been a few

minor changes.

In every newsletter we will put a copy of the following

weeks menu.

Mo

n Tu

es Wed

Thu

rs Fri

KS2 LUNCH MENU week 1 Week Beginning:

Monday 16th October

Tikka Masala & Rice Broccoli & Sweetcorn

****** Sticky Toffee Pudding & Custard

Fresh Fruit or Yoghurt

Homemade Sausage Roll Chipped Potatoes

Baked Beans ******

Strawberry Yoghurt & Abbey Biscuit

Fresh Fruit or Yoghurt

Roast Beef & Yorkshire Pudding

Mashed Potatoes Roast Parsnips/Carrots/Peas

****** Apricot Bar

Fresh Fruit or Yoghurt

Chicken Fingers Mixed Veg and Stuffing

Potato Wedges ******

Pineapple Shortcake & Custard Fresh Fruit or Yoghurt

Battered Fish Potato Wedges

Peas & Sweetcorn ******

Chocolate Krispie & Orange Quarter

Fresh Fruit or Yoghurt

Alverton CP School is backing Mrs Burns as she ‘Braves the Shave’ to raise money for George. Here is George’s story:

“George is 6 months old. He has Plagiocephaly. This is a deformity

known as flat head syndrome. Lots of babies suffer with this, but most cases

correct themselves as they grow. Georges is quite severe, and

worsening. All four quarters of his head are affected. The back of his skull is flat, and bulges are appearing to the left of the back of his head, and to the

right of his forehead. This is now starting to distort his face. It's not too noticeable at the moment, but over

time it will be. His ears are out of line, which as he grows can cause glue ear. He also has Torticollis, which is to do

with the neck muscles. Without treatment he'll obviously look different to other kids, which as we know can cause allsorts of heartache. And he could suffer with eye and/or ear problems. The NHS won't fund the £1,950 helmet that helps correct the deformity. We have to go private. They see it as cosmetic, and

would rather treat the other problems as they occur! They say there isn't enough proof that the helmets, known as Starbands, actually work. Georges mum, Hayley, is in a support group online with other mums that have affected

children. They all say it was the best thing they ever did. There are before and after pics, the Starbands DO work! Their children's heads massively improved in shape. The proof is there. We'd like one for Gorgeous George. We've scraped up the £750 deposit, so the Starband is ordered, and he's having it fitted on October 6th. We're so grateful to everyone

that has already donated on our Justgiving page, and massively to Tracy for doing the head shave to enable us to pay the rest of the money for the Starband.”

The ‘Brave the Shave’ event will happen on Monday 30th October, 2:30pm in the KS2 Hall Parents are very welcome to come and watch! There will be cakes and raffle tickets on sale too - all proceeds will go

towards raising money for George.

Raffle tickets are on sale now - £1 a strip. If you would like to buy some, please either speak to

Mrs Burns or money can be sent into school in a sealed, named envelope with the quantity of raffle tickets you would like to purchase clearly written.

If anyone has any prizes they would like to donate to the raffle these can also be brought to

the school offices.

If you would like to sponsor Mrs Burns please find a sponsor form attached, monies can either be given

directly to Mrs Burns or to the office.

Thank you so much for your support.