Weekly Update Thursday 7th December 2023
07 Dec 2023
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…
Flu Vaccinations
North Yorkshire Immunisation Team are visiting the school on Monday 11
th December 2023. Please ensure that you have completed the Flu consent form using
this link so that your child can be vaccinated in school. Please note, if you have already completed the consent form, you do not need to fill in another form.
Please note the consent link will close 48 hours before they visit our school.
Christmas Cards
From Friday 8
th December, we will have our special Christmas post box set-up in the hall. Here, the children can post their Christmas cards for all members of the school and our brilliant school council will work as the postal service and deliver these to classes. To help make sure cards get to the right place, please ensure the
name and class (Acorn, Oak, Palm or Cedar) are written clearly on the envelope. Thank you.
SEN Parent meeting
Our termly SEN parent catch-up meeting, which has been a huge success in the past, will be held on Thursday 14
th December at 8.45 - 9:45am. We will meet to discuss and share anything SEN, but I thought we could have a focus of 'Christmas' this time - we will celebrate the joys but also discuss the challenges. If you would like to attend, please email e.oates@kirkbymalzeard.n-yorks.sch.uk so I can make sure we have enough biscuits!
PCSO Visit
We will be welcoming into school Alison Swan, our PCSO, on Wednesday to work with the children on 'clever never goes'. This forms part of our PSHE focus this term of keeping safe. Please
click here to learn more about the phrase 'clever never goes' so you can support at home.
National book token competiiton
Win a £100 National Book Token this Christmas, to enter please click
this link!
National Book Tokens are giving ten lucky bookworms a £100 National Book Token each this Christmas, so they can choose the books they want to read from their favourite bookshops. Will you be one of them?
Message from Friends
Father Christmas and his reindeers are coming to town on the 18th of December. Last fundraiser for the year is the Christmas Raffle with amazing prizes and hampers to win!!! Your class representatives will give out raffle tickets for you to sell. The prizes are Christmas Treat Hampers. If anyone can donate any treats for the hampers please give to your class representative before the 20th of December.
Thank you for all your help and support from Friends
Lunch Club
We went to a sing at the community lunch club on Tuesday 5
th December. We had lots of volunteers for this and we would like to thank everyone for their enthusiasm. They were amazing and a real credit to the school.
Reminders…
Nativity
We are starting to think about our nativity which will take place on Tuesday 19
th December 2023, performances will be at 2pm and 5.30pm. Further ticket details will follow nearer the time. Children in our wonderful Palm and Cedar classes have volunteered to sing in our nativity choir, please look out for an email to give parental consent for this. We look forward to seeing you all there.
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
Snow Procedures
After the recent snow we would like to remind you of school procedures during snowy/icy weather, please see the attached guidance.
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!
Collective Worship Invite
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.
Safeguarding, Health and Wellbeing Updates…
Oneplusone
We would like to highlight the following resource, Oneplusone, their latest project includes advice and support around relationships over the Christmas period. Please see the link below for further information:
https://www.oneplusone.org.uk/
Diabetes Awareness
Diabetes UK would like to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of type 1 diabetes in children and adults, and the importance of spotting symptoms early to prevent diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) which can be life threatening and to reduce this risk as much as possible. Please see the attached flyer for further information.
News from the Wider Community…
Message from the Swim Team
We are swim school which run lessons in Harrogate located at Henshaws Specialist College We run lessons on a Tuesday, Thursday and Friday evening 16.30 till 19.00 and a Saturday 16.00 till 18.30. We take children from 3 years old (2 years old if they are comfortable with us). Our lessons consist of no more than 5 children per instructor. Parents do not get in the water, all of our instructors teach in the water with the children and have a full and up to date DBS. See flyer below.
-Snow procedures March 23-V408116109.pdf-
-Diabetes sheet.pdf-