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Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day: Thursday 7th December
Thursday 7th December, our school will be taking part in Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day. We know times are tough, so please remember that donations are optional (it’s having tons of fun that’s mandatory!) and any amount you can spare – 10p, 20p, 50p – makes you an awesome fundraiser.
Annual Christmas Tree Enterprise project
It’s that time of year again for the orders/sales of our annual ‘100 Christmas tree enterprise project’. This year we will enter our 6th successful year and we are looking forward to the students having some work experience opportunities. It was a fantastic experience for them all last year and we are aiming for this year to be even more successful. We will also be running the project alongside our Duke of Edinburgh students. Visits to the sustainable tree farm have taken place where Tracey & Carl were amazing showing our students around the farm and their Christmas shop!
The last few years we really cut back the scale of how we usually ran the project and paused our expansion plans due to Covid recovery. We continued with two years of pre-ordered trees so thank you for being a part of it. Pre-covid we sold just over 130 trees to our neighbouring community and school communities which was a fantastic year and a real buzz and joy for the students and staff. Each year, all profits have gone into student’s activities such as Rowing for over 12 months. Over the years we’ve had students take part in the enterprise careers model for 4 weeks in school, which we are looking to expand on this year and the school Duke of Edinburgh group have been and done a world of workday at the local family run farm where we source the trees. We visited again following Storm Babet disrupting our first attempt! Students have designed, organised printing, organised and collected donated goods to decorate and support the public tree sales, delivered, unloaded, sold, leaflet dropped, volunteered and so on over the years and will be doing the same this year. These life and work experiences truly are an invaluable opportunity for the students, and we are extremely grateful for your continued support.
This year we are holding two weekends of open sales and collection of pre-ordered trees. We source the trees from a local family run farm where Carl and Tracey are wonderful with our students interesting questions! The trees were cut down for us, Open sales are 25th & 26th November and 2nd & 3rd December 10am-2pm. Make us you’re new Christmas tradition 😊
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We are really looking forward to having an amazing local poet, author and storyteller Ged Thompson
We are really looking forward to having an amazing local poet, author and storyteller; Ged Thompson, who has very kindly agreed to come in to perform some poems and talk about poetry with one of our English classes on Wednesday 15th November.
Ged will have some copies of his collection of fairytales ‘Middle Earth Magic’ for sale @ £10 a copy, if any of the pupils might like one. Thanks, Mr McGilton You can follow Ged’s page, Middle Earth Magic
Click here to one of his stories
Information: Is my child too ill for school?
It can be tricky deciding whether or not to keep your child off school, nursery or playgroup when they’re unwell.
There are government guidelines for schools and nurseries about managing specific infectious diseases at GOV.UK. These say when children should be kept off school and when they shouldn’t.
If you do keep your child at home, it’s important to phone the school or nursery on the first day. Let them know that your child won’t be in and give them the reason.
If your child is well enough to go to school but has an infection that could be passed on, such as a cold sore or head lice, let their teacher know.
Other illnesses
Follow this advice for other illnesses:
Coughs and colds
It’s fine to send your child to school with a minor cough or common cold. But if they have a fever, keep them off school until the fever goes.
Encourage your child to throw away any used tissues and to wash their hands regularly.
High temperature
If your child has a high temperature, keep them off school until it goes away.
Chickenpox
If your child has chickenpox, keep them off school until all the spots have crusted over.
This is usually about 5 days after the spots first appeared.
Cold sores
There’s no need to keep your child off school if they have a cold sore.
Encourage them not to touch the blister or kiss anyone while they have the cold sore, or to share things like cups and towels.
Conjunctivitis
You don’t need to keep your child away from school if they have conjunctivitis.
Do get advice from your pharmacist. Encourage your child not to rub their eyes and to wash their hands regularly.
COVID-19
If your child has mild symptoms, such as a runny nose, sore throat, or slight cough, and feels well enough, they can go to school.
Your child should try to stay at home and avoid contact with other people if they have symptoms of COVID-19 and they either:
- have a high temperature
- do not feel well enough to go to school or do their normal activities
What to do if your child has tested positive
Your child is no longer required to do a COVID-19 rapid lateral flow test if they have symptoms. But if your child has tested positive for COVID-19, they should try to stay at home and avoid contact with other people for 3 days after the day they took the test.
Ear infection
If your child has an ear infection and a high temperature or severe earache, keep them off school until they’re feeling better or their high temperature goes away.
Hand, foot and mouth disease
If your child has hand, foot and mouth disease but seems well enough to go to school, there’s no need to keep them off.
Encourage your child to throw away any used tissues straight away and to wash their hands regularly.
Head lice and nits
There’s no need to keep your child off school if they have head lice.
You can treat head lice and nits without seeing a GP.
Impetigo
If your child has impetigo, they’ll need treatment from a GP, often with antibiotics.
Keep them off school until all the sores have crusted over and healed, or for 48 hours after they start antibiotic treatment.
Encourage your child to wash their hands regularly and not to share things like towels and cups with other children at school.
Ringworm
If your child has ringworm, see your pharmacist unless it’s on their scalp, in which case you should see a GP.
It’s fine for your child to go to school once they have started treatment.
Scarlet fever
If your child has scarlet fever, they’ll need treatment with antibiotics from a GP. Otherwise they’ll be infectious for 2 to 3 weeks.
Your child can go back to school 24 hours after starting antibiotics.
Slapped cheek syndrome (fifth disease)
You don’t need to keep your child off school if they have slapped cheek syndrome because, once the rash appears, they’re no longer infectious.
But let the school or teacher know if you think your child has slapped cheek syndrome.
Sore throat
You can still send your child to school if they have a sore throat. But if they also have a high temperature, they should stay at home until it goes away.
A sore throat and a high temperature can be symptoms of tonsillitis.
Threadworms
You don’t need to keep your child off school if they have threadworms.
Speak to your pharmacist, who can recommend a treatment.
Vomiting and diarrhoea
Children with diarrhoea or vomiting should stay away from school until they have not been sick or had diarrhoea for at least 2 days (48 hours).