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

Thank you.

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**

What’s On at KS2!

We have a lot of extra curricular clubs happening at KS2 at the moment:

Monday after school - TAG RUGBY

Tuesday after school - DANCE

Tuesday afternoons - GUITAR

Wednesday after school - GYMNASTICS

Wednesday after school - HOMEWORK CLUB

Thursday after school - CODE CLUB

Thursday after school - ART CLUB (YR 3/4 ONLY)

Please speak to the office if your child is interested in joining any of these!

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.

Everyone looked amazing yesterday for our Fantastic Beasts Day!

Attendance For: W/C 25th September

Mrs Kirby 97.8%

Mrs Bell 90.0%

Mrs Routledge 100%

Miss Uddin 89.5%

Miss Adams 93.0%

Mrs Brugmans 96.4%

Miss Eddowes 93.4%

Mrs Alexander 94.8%

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

PE KIT

Please can we remind everyone that all children need to have their PE kit with them every day. Red Alverton PE t-shirts can be purchased from

the school office at £2.50 each.

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.

Thank You.

Meet our fantastic school reading ambassadors who organised yesterdays successful Fantastic Beasts day as part of our Year of Books. Thank you to everyone that took part by dressing up, you looked fantastic!

Thank you to the parents who attended the NSPCC ‘Keeping Safe Online’ presentation on Tuesday.

I would like to draw your attention to the ‘NetAware’ app that parents can use to provide more information about apps their children may be using.

Parents can also seek advice from the NSPCC website: https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/, or call the O2 and NSPCC Online Safety Helpline on 0808 800 5002, or pop into your local O2 store for help from a Guru.

Pupils successfully attend a Change 4 Life event at Northallerton School on Monday, and 5 of our KS2 children are attending a Cyclocross event on Friday.

A very big thank you to all parents that attended our coffee morning for Macmillan last week, we raised £55.

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

6th October Judo taster session for KS1 children

11th October Y1/2 Mrs Routledge’s DEEP afternoon

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

6th 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.

FS2 (KK)

Lexi Clark

Charlie Osgood

YR1 (LB)

Alfie Parkhouse

Emiliana Bainbridge

Year 1/2 (KR)

Laiken Ward

Paige Wood

Year 2 (FMU)

Brody Lowe

Chenelle Wilbor

Year 3 (JA)

Aaron Carr

Scarlett Zatrak

Year 4 (JB)

Aiden Thompson

Shane Hutchinson

Year 5 (SE)

Eliza Davidson

Maddison Shaw

Year 6 (CA)

Isabelle Wood

Abigail Stockdale

KS1

FS2 (KK)

Holly White

Ethan Farn

Callum Parker

Year 1 (LB)

Jessica Old

Robyn O’Connor

Kallia Lowe

Year 1/2 (KR)

Kai Clark

Lucas Marshall

Lilly Rooney

Year 2 (FMU)

Isla Simcoe

Cameron Mason

KS2

Year 3 (JA)

Kai Mawdesley

Michael Wood

Connor Stevenson

Kayden Shaw

Annabell Bourne

Aaron Carr

Scarlett Zatrak

Year 4 (JB)

Nathaniel Roy

Lewis Collier

Jack White

James Humphreys

Shane Hutchinson

Billy Davidson

Liam Mitchinson

Ty Nelson

Lily Custerson

Maddie Day

Sam Young

Maja Rygielsksa

Year 5 (SE)

Eliza Davidson

Charlotte Hinde

Lucy Old

Caitlyn Jenkins

Lyle Hardisty

Lily-Alice Flanagan

Kaiden Willoughby

Year 6 (CA)

Theo Daniel

Lydia Ahmed

Taryn Lincoln

Keiran Costick

Joshua Dauncey

Josh Wood

Helen Wood

Anthony Kitchin

Jaycee Knight

Jessica Outram

Vicky Baldyga

Colby Warris

Kasia Rasjeswka

Isabelle Wood

Kai Mason-Brown

Scarlett Walker

Ella Mitchinson-Orr

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 3 Week Beginning:

Monday 9th October

Tomato & Cheese Pasta Peas and Carrots

****** Semolina & Mandarins Fresh Fruit or Yoghurt

Minced Beef and Dumplings Savoy Cabbage & Carrots

Mashed Potatoes ******

Custard Cookie & Apple Wedge Fresh Fruit or Yoghurt

Chicken Korma and Rice Broccoli & Cauliflower

Naan Bread ******

Fruity Gingerbread and Custard Fresh Fruit or Yoghurt

Hot Pot Mixed Vegetables Poppy Seed Bread

****** Autumn Marble Berry Sponge

& Custard Fresh Fruit or Yoghurt

Fish Fingers Chips

Baked Beans ******

Apple Cake 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.