School News & Events

 
Our Vision

We believe that our children should have the aspiration and opportunity to ‘Live life in all its fullness and ‘Shine like stars in the sky’.
 
New this week…

Snow Procedures
After this morning’s flurry of snow we would like to remind you of school procedures during snowy/icy weather, please see the attached guidance.
 
Winter Reading Challenge
We were thrilled that so many of our children took part in the Summer Reading Challenge, this year the reading agency are running a mini winter challenge please follow the link to join in and read along. We look forward to hearing all of your recommended reads. https://readingagency.org.uk/news/media/join-the-winter-mini-challenge.html
 
British Legion Poppy Appeal
Kirkby Malzeard Primary school has raised £132.10 for the British Legion Poppy Appeal this amount forms part of the district total of £3192.  Thank you for all your support, it has made a real difference to those in the Armed Forces community.
 
Lunch Club
We have been invited to sing at the community lunch club on Tuesday 5^th December. We have had lots of volunteers for this and have decided to take everyone who has volunteered. We will be singing a variety of Christmas songs and favourite songs we have been learning in school. Please keep an eye out on your emails and website account to provide consent for your child to attend this event if they volunteered. 
 
Patronal Festival
The children sang at the annual Patronal festival on Saturday 25^th November, they were fantastic and we would like to thank everyone for their enthusiasm.

Fire Service Visit
On Tuesday 28th November the Fire Service visited school as part of our PSHE curriculum work and Year 6 attended Crucial Crew.  Please see the message from the Fire Service below:
Recently your child attended Crucial Crew event at Carlton Lodge in Thirsk and they undertook a Home Fire Safety scenario with North Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service.  We very much hope that they enjoyed this session, but most importantly they learnt something about fire safety and have brought that home to you.  If you would like to know more about how to keep yourself safe from a fire you can do our FREE Online Home Fire Safety Check by clicking here.  If nothing else, please remember to check your smoke alarm is working by testing it once a month.

Raising money through ‘easyfundraising’ when you shop on-line
Please see the message and link below:
 
Kirkby Malzeard Primary School are now registered with easyfundraising, which means parents can raise FREE donations for Kirkby Malzeard every time you shop online. Over 7,000 brands will donate to our school when you use easyfundraising to shop with them – at no extra cost to yourself! These donations really mount up and make a BIG difference to us, so we’d really appreciate it if you could take a moment to sign up and support us.
It’s completely FREE and only takes a moment. You can find our easyfundraising page at: https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/kirkbymalzeardps/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pmc&utm_content=gs-email1
 
Every new registration means Kirkby Malzeard school will get £1.00, but it is only new registrations for the next two weeks. So if you are Christmas shopping please consider using the app and help to raise funds.  Thank you so much!
 
Reminders…
 
Message from Friends
Friends are really excited to host a film night on the 7th of December, see attached flyer. Father Christmas and his reindeers are coming to town on the 18th of December - please save the date and see the flyer below. Thank you from Friends
 
Collective Worship Invite
We would like to invite parents of Team Swaledale to join us in our prayerful worship on Friday 1st December at 9.00am in the school hall.  Please access school via the front door, collective worship is fifteen minutes long.

We would like to invite parents of Team Wensleydale to join us in our prayerful worship on Friday 8th December at 9.00am in the school hall.  Please access school via the front door, collective worship is fifteen minutes long.
 
Christmas Lunch
We are serving our Christmas lunch on Thursday 21st December 2023.  Just a reminder for parents to respond via the email which was sent out on Tuesday 14^th November, to confirm that you would like your child to have a Christmas lunch (even those who normally have a school meal).  Please complete this by Friday 1st December 2023.
 
Forest School Friday
To support our Golden Thread further, Helen will be running a morning forest school session for each class on a Friday morning based around confident communication. The updated winter kit list is attached.  Children should wear old, comfortable clothes and wellies or trainers for forest school, along with waterproof trousers and coats. Please no shorts.

Dates are as follows:
Friday 1st December 2023 - Oak Class
  
Safeguarding, Health and Wellbeing Updates…
 
News from the Wider Community…
The Winter edition of Raring2go magazine is attached



  -Kit list with pictures-V407510539.pdf-  

  -movie night-V407510539.pdf-  

  -Raring to go magazine-V407510539.pdf-  

  -Snow procedures March 23-V407510539.pdf-