Locking Stumps Community Primary School

Dear parents and carers, please click this link to see our 'new school video'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofQAZ7j3Gc Many thanks,

Dear Parents / Carers, Another good week with lots of progress for our children – we hope you feel the same. We have a few announcements and reminders for you: - Due to the Year 6 residential, Celebration Assembly for EYFS and YR5/6 will take place on Friday 13th October. if your child is getting up to show work you will receive a SchoolPing with more information. However, we also welcome other visitors to our assemblies. School Gates – During school hours we will be locking the gate which leads to the path next to the pub. The gate will be open for parents/carers at drop off/pick up times only. The gates to the staff carpark as well as the pedestrian gate will be closed during the school day. If you require pedestrian access to school during the day, please use the front gate and close the gate behind you. - Bridgewater Healthcare will be in school on Tuesday 3rd October to carry out the EYFS to Year 5 Flu Vaccinations. Year 6 Vaccinations will take place on Wednesday 18th October. You should have received a letter about this. If your child is not registered for this round of vaccinations you will receive notification about upcoming sessions. - We have some items of lost property in school, if you recognise any of the items in the attached picture, please email into school and we will take the items to your child. Don't forget to clearly name all items of school uniform. - Year 6 who are going on their residential - You can arrive at school from the normal time up to 9:15am. Please make sure your child is prepared. Double check the kit list and don't forget the swimming costume / trunks. Children should bring their suitcase or bag to the hall. You can sign in any medication here. The bus will leave at approximately 10am. Lost Property - we have some goalkeeper gloves amongst other things - see image attached. Please collect from Lost Property. Warrington Rylands are playing Macclesfield in the FA Cup today - this is an away fixture - Kick off is at 3pm - good luck! Warrington Wolves are away to St Helens today - Good luck! Warrington Town FC - are without a fixture. Good luck to all of our children who have an event over the weekend. Please see attached some information regarding some local events including: - Coffee morning for Hong Kong Families. - Restart the Heart at Thomas Risley Church - Warrington Youth Zone - Coffee morning at Thomas Risley Church We hope you find these useful. Thank you for your continuing support.

Dear Parents / Carers, Our first full week has been a success. Our new EYFS children had their first school meals today and yesterday! That was fun! There is a lovely atmosphere around school with new children and members of staff settling back into life Lockies. Have a look at our Twitter Page (X Page!) to see a snippet of what has been going on at school - https://twitter.com/LockiesCPS There are a few reminders / announcements for our parents and carers. We hope they are useful: - Diary Dates have been reattached. We will send out further information for some of the key events closer to the time. - After School Clubs will start next week, all children have been allocated a place on the clubs. Clubs will run up to the end of half term, Friday 27th October (please ensure you pay on ParentPay if you have signed up for Freedom Football) - Due to supply issues, there is a slight change to the school meals menu for Monday, the choice will be Pizza not Sausage rolls. - The Crisis CAMHS Team have expressed concerns around children accessing an app called ‘Quora’. This is reported to be a site that gives tips, and encouragement to children in taking their own life. We urge all parents who have children with access to apps to regularly monitor the use of this app and if found, speak to your children. If you require some support, contact school. - Please see below a useful link about keeping your child at home due to illness: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/is-my-child-too-ill-for-school/ - We have attached some useful information regarding Boundaries around Gaming. - If your child would like a school snack / meal, we strongly advise that you add funds to your Parentpay account the evening before required, this will allow the system to update in time for break time. - Parking - we have received multiple complaints from residents who have been unhappy with how some of our families have been parking but also how some residents have been spoken to. We have been informed that the PCSO is going to be more visible around. Our School Council will also be working hard to support courteous and safe parking. We hope you can support this. Local Sports: Rugby: - Warrington Wolves are at home to Saints tonight (the last home game of the season) - 8pm kick off Football: In the FA Cup: - Warrington Rylands FC are away to FC United of Manchester - Saturday 3pm - Warrington Town FC are at home to Curzon Ashton FC - Saturday - 3pm - Chorley FC are away to Runcorn Linnets FC - Saturday 3pm Other events: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/d/united-kingdom--warrington/events/ We hope you have a lovely weekend.

Dear Parents and Carers, All staff are enjoying their last day of the summer holiday before returning for staff training days on Monday and Tuesday of next week. School opens at the normal time (8:35am) on Wednesday 6th September for all children in Year 1 to Year 6. Our new children in EYFS have a separate timetable for the first couple of weeks. If you are still in the process of finalising uniform, we have some used (but good condition) stock left over from last year. Please feel free to call into school on Tuesday 5th from 12:30pm until 3:30pm to take whatever you need. Remember: - children should wear their full school uniform on the first day back (no PE Kits - it will allow for those 'first day back' photographs to be taken. - make sure your Parent Pay account is topped up for school lunches -Do not be late... we are excited to see everyone - the music will be pumping! - familiarise yourself with your child's new class newsletter which should still be in your Pings from July. - familiarise yourself with some of the reminders shared in the end of the year newsletter (attached) We are all looking forward to a final weekend before we start back to school next week. The school office will be open on Monday. If you have any queries, please send an email to: lockingstumps_primary@sch.warrington.gov.uk or give us a call on 01925819076. See you all soon!

Dear Parents / Carers, Please find attached the final newsletter of the academic year. Also attached is a PTA newsletter for the Summer Term. We look forward to seeing the children again in September. The Year 6 will not be returning of course... we wish them the best of luck as they move onto high school. Thank you for your support.

Dear Parents / Carers, Please find attached a copy of the new School Meals menu. Don't forget you must add funds to your Parentpay account the evening before school meals / snacks are required. Thank you for your support.

Dear Parents / Carers, We have again been contacted by many local residents and parents recently regarding the parking around school before and at the end of the school day. Especially around Strawberry Close. We understand the difficulties with parking in the morning and after school however, please can we ask that you are considerate of the local area, including residential parking. This is a common theme around most primary schools but does impact our school due to the number of children we have attending. Our School Council feel strongly about this and will be working together with local residents and parents in an attempt to improve this situation for all of our community. They have some lovely ideas we will begin to share with everyone soon. We have been made aware that the local PCSO / Police will be monitoring this situation closely over the coming weeks and also working with our School Council to discuss some of the children’s ideas. Thank you for your support. Mr Vermiglio and The School Council

Dear Parents and Carers, We are very excited to launch our Phonics and Early reading scheme, Little Wandle, across school. We are looking forward to sharing more information about this programme with you at our reading meeting and workshop over the next few weeks (These are for EYFS, Year 1 and Year 2 only). We have previously sent home paper invites for the EYFS workshop (which has now been moved to Monday 26th September at 9:00am in the school hall). The Year 1 and Year 2 workshop is on Wednesday 21st September at 5:00pm. You can register for this by clicking this link if you are yet to already do so: https://forms.gle/WqJYy693v7brtVdw6 Today children will be bringing home their reading books and reading planner. Further information regarding this can be found within the attached letter. Please note, children at Locking Stumps will no longer learn spellings for a spelling test. Children will be provided with spelling activities at school and at home. We will continue to assess children at different points of the year to check on their progress, but this will no longer take the form of a weekly spelling test. If you have any questions about phonics, spellings or homework etc, please speak to the class teacher – there is also some further information in the School Planner. Thank you for your support.

Dear Parents / Carers, We have again been contacted by many local residents and parents recently regarding the parking around school before and at the end of the school day. Especially around Strawberry close. Please can we ask that you are considerate of the local area, including residential parking. The School Car Park is not to be used to drop off and collect children. The car park gates will be closed at the start and end of the school day. We have been made aware that the local PCSO will be monitoring this situation closely over the coming weeks. Thank you for your support. Mr J. Vermiglio

Dear Parents and Carers, We are looking to appoint a caring individual to join our fabulous team of midday assistants on a casual basis, supervising children from Reception through to Year 6 during the lunch break (12:20 to 1:20 approx.). If you or somebody you know are interested in working at the 'best school in the world', please visit our website https://www.locking-stumps.co.uk/warrington/primary/lockingstumps/site/pages/vacancies/currentvacancies and complete an application form. If you have any questions about the role, please do not hesitate to contact the school office. Thank you for your support