With just two more weeks left of the school year, it’s time to start thinking of our Summer Competition!

Summer competition

Each year, we invite you and your child to take part in our Summer Competition. We’ve asked for pics to show extreme reading, happy and healthy, smiley faces… This year, we’re inviting you to think about our name. More specifically, take a pic of one particular letter in SCHOLES, but one which is hidden away or created in some unsual way.

Each letter is for one year group in school. This list refers to current years, with children in Nursery and Year 6 sharing the first S…

• S – Nursery and Year 6
• C – Reception
• H – Year 1
• O – Year 2
• L – Year 3
• E – Year 4
• S – Year 5

The winning entry will be a letter that’s been ‘found’ or created in an unusual way. There’s a £10 book token for one winner in each year group.

To enter, email your pics to scholesoffice@spherefederation.org by Friday 06 September. Enter ‘Summer competition’ as the subject. All entries will be displayed in school, and there are prizes for our favourites.

Here’s an idea to get you thinking…

Uniform

In the last couple of weeks, we’ve featured our updated Uniform Policy to help you to start preparing early for the new school year. Please read the latest version.

This week, we’re looking at what our policy says about jewellery…

Only discreet (ie small, not brightly coloured) stud earrings and items that are absolutely required by a religion are allowed. Advisors recommend no earrings are worn for PE; therefore, we will ask your child to remove earrings before the lesson and put them back in after the lesson. This will be carried out by the child. If they are unable to remove or put their earrings back in by themselves, they must not wear them on the day they have PE.

A watch or step counter is allowed. Any device that connects to the internet (eg a smart watch) or that can record (including taking photos) is not allowed for safeguarding reasons. Such items should be left at home, but can be handed over at the start of the day. Refer to the Positive Relationships Policy for more details of items not allowed.

We don’t accept responsibility for any loss or damage to an individual’s property.

Staying safe

Next week is another Living and Learning themed week.

Water safety features early in the week. We’ve got a visitor from RNLI coming into school to talk to our Key Stage 2 children and a visitor
from Canal and River Trust talking to our younger children.

D:side in school across the week to deliver sessions on staying safe online. Staying safe online is a huge issue for our young people. There will be a drop-in session for parents on Thursday 11 July between 2 – 3 pm. If you’d like to know more, please come along to ask questions. In the meantime, check out these tips for helping children stay safe online.

Always a favourite, Dogs Trust are coming into school on Wednesday. Most children love dogs but making sure you know how to stay safe around dogs is really important.

Later in the week, we’ve got some first aid sessions.

• Our younger children will will learn about the emergency services and how they can help.
• Year 3, 4 children will be finding out about asthma, bites, stings and burns. They’ll also be finding out about calling for help and the all important recovery position.
• Our Year 5,6 children will learn about stopping bleeding,
  choking, head injuries as well as calling for help and the recovery position.

It’s going to be an exciting week – we know the children will learn lots of skills for life.

 

Next week is also the Year 5,6 production: There are three performances – Tuesday and Wednesday at 6pm and a Wednesday ‘matinee’ performance at 1.45. No doubt there’ll be great singing, fantastic acting and lots of bad jokes!