Welcome back!

Happy Term 2!

I hope you have all had a wonderful half term break. I'm sure many of you will have enjoyed fireworks for Diwali and Bonfire Night and I'm sure many of the children will have had some Halloween fun and stocked up on their supplies of sweets!

It's time now to get back into the routine of school and make sure there is lots of learning taking place, before we get too carried away with all of the festive fun that lies ahead! We love all of the festivities here at Wrotham Road but we will be making sure that the children are still being provided with a rich and engaging curriculum throughout the term, so please don't think this is the term to slack off and certainly don't assume that we won't be doing anything important so it's ok to take a few days off - this is absolutely not the case! Last term we came out top of the leader board for attendance in our Trust and we would like your help to maintain this in Term 2. 

Attendance is vital for learning and the odd day off here and there does have a huge negative impact, so unless your child is really poorly with a temperature, sickness or diarrhoea then they should be in school - coughs and colds are common at this time of year but aren't really a reason to stay home. 

Being on time for school is also really important - our start time is 8.55am and by this time children should be in their classrooms ready to start learning. The gates open at 8.40am so there is no excuse for being late!

We have lots of fun events coming up this term, starting with our Children in Need day this Friday (15th November) where we invite the children to come in wearing something spotty, yellow or Pudsey Bear related. We will collecting donations on the playgrounds in the morning so please send your child in with £1 if they wish to participate in this event.

The PTA will be holding a 'pre-loved uniform sale' on Monday 18th after school in the canteen - items will be sold from 50p upwards. Come and grab yourselves a bargain and help raise some money for the school!

Talking of raising money for the school, I'm afraid our budget is very very limited and exciting fun events, such as the astrodome and dhol drumming last term, cannot go ahead in future unless we have contributions from parents. Unfortunately, we had a shortfall of £162 for the astrodome which then needs to come out of our resources budget, meaning that our funds for buying the necessary pens, pencils, books, etc is chipped away at and later this year we may not have the money left to buy these things for your children. If you didn't pay your £2 contribution please do it now if you can - it doesn't matter that the event has passed. Without contributions we will have to make the sad decision to not book events like this in the future because we cannot keep making up the extra cost ourselves.

Many thanks for your support and have a wonderful week 😀