Updates from Mrs Norden

The last two weeks have been busy with lots of activities, including the Year 6 residential and Year 3/4 Ancient Greek experience day.  There are lots of new news articles sharing details, which we hope you enjoy reading (links below).

June will continue to be busy with various events, including Year 1/2's trip to Shepreth tomorrow, our PTA fete on Friday (21st), School Games Day Monday (24th) and Swavesey's Got Talent final on 28th.  

Please see the PTA section below for requests and information about the fete.  We are looking forward to the event and hope you will all be able to join us.  We will go ahead should the rain try to stop play with a wet weather plan.

If you missed the link in the newsletter email for our parent and carer survey, then you can find this in a section below.  This survey is designed to gather your views to support continuous development of our provision, and we hope you are able to take a few minutes to support us by completing it.

As always, our newsletters strive to keep up to date with information and will be a valuable source for updates during the busy few weeks to come.

I am sure many of you will be watching England's first Euro game tonight, but we hope the children will manage a good night's sleep to be ready for school tomorrow.

                                                                                                              _{Anna-Claire Norden} 

_Headteacher

PTA Summer Fair - Friday 21st June 3.30pm to 5.30pm

Thank you so much for all of the generous donations for the summer fair that we have received so far. We still need more donations and help as follows: 

Items to send into class or drop in box at school office any time before Thursday: 

• Chocolate bars/boxes and sizes

• Bottles of booze

• Tombola donations - toys, games beauty products, jigsaws anything good quality. 

On Friday 

• Cakes/biscuits to sell

RAFFLE TICKETS - if you can sell the £10 worth of tickets that your child brought home, brilliant. If you need more tickets please either email the PTA - pta@swavesey.cambs.sch.uk or ask at the school office. Please return all sold stubbs and UNSOLD tickets asap so that we can process and resell them by Friday at the latest.

HELPERS

Can you help with any of the following on the day: 

1.45 - 3.00 (or anytime you can spare in-between) - setting up the fair

3.30 - 4.30 - helping on a stall

4.30 - 5.30 - helping on a stall

5.30 - 6.00 - helping to clear up

If you can help at all please email pta@swavesey.cambs.sch.uk

COME ALONG AND SUPPORT THE FAIR - please bring cash!

Many thanks for all your support

Parent/Carer Survey - 

In continuing to develop our provision, we would like to seek your views on aspects of school organisation, development and specifically the work we have begun on the cultural opportunities we provide our children. This includes views on systems we introduced, or changed, due to the impact of Covid-19, to support ongoing decision-making.

One section relates to work we have begun through the school council with our children, and also with the school staff and governors, on considering the cultural opportunities we offer our children to develop their understanding, knowledge and skills in many diverse aspects of life. 

Hopefully, the survey will not take too long to complete, and the questions are self-explanatory.  Please use the link below to access the survey:

https://forms.office.com/e/r1NhR7e39c 

Summer Admin Updates

Special Lunch USA Independence Day lunch 4th July - please click here for the menu

Admin General Information

Office hours - 8.30am to 4pm except Wednesday, which is 8.45am to 4pm

EY and P Payments - a reminder these are due at the start of the month and all balances should be paid on receipt of payment request.

Useful Information for parents and carers - can be accessed on our website page 'Parent Information' which can be accessed by clicking here.

Diary Dates - can be accessed on the website by clicking here

Chicken Eggs - If you would like a pack of our chickens' eggs please complete the very short form accessed by clicking here.

PTA News - access their website page here for ways to support our fundraising

Second Hand Uniform Clothes - if you need any uniform items please see poster towards the bottom of the newsletter for details.

Next Events:

Fantastic Fundraising Friday - 12th July School Council's Pyjamas day to raise money for their equipment project and discos.

SEND, Safeguarding, Health and Wellbeing Links

SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) information can be accessed through our SEND website pages here

Safeguarding Information - please click here for our Safeguarding page especially should you have concerns relating to the safeguarding of our children and families.  Please click here to go directly to our Safeguarding policy.

Attendance Policy - please click here for the school's attendance policy. It is vitally important parents and carers are aware of their responsibilities and the formal processes for attendance matters.  The NHS have created a useful webpage to support decision making when children are unwell - you can click here for the link.

SEMH (Social Emotional Mental Health) resources for parents - Please click here to access an overview sheet with signposted resources for you to use at home to support your children.  The overview sheet can also be found at the bottom of the SEND page on our website here.  

H.A.Y Cambridgeshire Community Wellbeing support -  How Are You South Cambs? | Home (haysouthcambs.co.uk)

NHS Mental Health Services - www.keep-your-head.com and SHOUT - a new Text service on 85258 which provides real-time support to people of all ages who are struggling with their mental health (text the word HEAR to 85258).

Chat Health is a NHS confidential NHS service for help and advice. It’s safe and easy for you to speak to a qualified health professional. Just send a message, you don’t have to give your name. Discreet and quick. It only takes one message to start making a difference. You’ll get confidential advice from trained health staff in your area. Click here to access the site to start a web chat today.

To find out about Pupil premium and Free school meals, please visit our Pupil Premium page by clicking here. 

Links to each Phase page under the Curriculum tab on our website.

                                Reception    Yr1/2    Yr3/4    Yr5/6

Access SCOPay Parent Information here and EYandP Fees and Funding Page here