MacMillan Coffee Morning

Thanks to all parents and friends of the school who attended and supported this event. We are still counting the proceeds! Hope it started your day off well and you found it a relaxing occasion.

What you should have received this week!

Parent Governor Nomination letter - nominations should be received by 14/10/2005
Central Soccer Schools Friday lunchtime course starting next Friday for 10 weeks
Harvest Festival and sale of produce letter
CJS Buzz Number 2
World News Group - details of how to join.

Please check your child's bag!

School Cycle License Scheme

Thanks for your question about the wearing of cycle helmets.
We work in partnership with The Road Safety & TravelWise Team at Derby City Council who arrange cycle training courses for Year 6 pupils. The Road Safety & TravelWise Team strongly encourages cyclists to wear helmets, however it is for individual parents to consent to their child taking part with or without a cycle helmet.

Children who are successful in passing the approved Cycling Proficiency test at the end of the training session are allowed to apply for a School Cycle License which enables them to cycle to and from school. This privilege is restricted to those children who have passed the test and may be withdrawn if a rider is seen to be behaving in an inappropriate fashion when riding. Chellaston Junior School strongly recommends that riders should wear a cycling helmet.

I hope this answers your question.

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Drama begins......

After long awaited anticipation, drama rehearsals for Guys and Dolls will start on Thursday 29th September at 7.45am in the school hall.
Please can parents refrain from driving into the school car park or using the gate area as a turning place, as this is a very busy time for staff arriving at school and congestion has almost caused accidents in the past! We are thinking of the safety of all our pupils and staff.
Pupils are to use the entrance to the hall near the covered way. On arrival, pupils should register with a member of staff (usually Mrs Savidge). If you hven't already returned your consent form please do so as soon as possible so you can be added to the register.
For the first two weeks or so, we shall get familiar with the story of Guys and Dolls by watching the film, which is similar. This will help puils decide if they would like to audition for a part or not.We are still waiting for the show kit to arrive, but when it does, it will be all systems go! I will let pupils know when choir rehearsals will start on a Friday lunchtime as soon as the kit arrives! Auditions will also take place soon, so watch this space.........

Miss Fogg Spouts........

Thanks to all the parents who came to the meeting in Castleton classroom last night. I hope you all found it useful. Don't forget that if you have any further questions you may contact me at any time and I'll do my best to answer them as soon as I can.By the way......drama consent forms should be returned to me a.s.a.p. I'll let the children know when the first rehearsal is as soon as I know! For those parents who don't know, we are doing Guys and Dolls this year!

Nearly ready to be launched!

You will see that I've posted some messages already to this blog. I've spent quite a lot of time experimenting in order to make the site easy for everyone to use, as I want it to become a truly interactive site - not just another medium for conveying information to you.
At the end of last week, I went through all the letters and notices that we'd handed out (there were quite a lot for only 3 days!) and I wondered if a weekly summary of what we'd sent out would be helpful, hence the previous posting!
Please let me know what you think.

Maureen Slack

What you should have received this week!

The following information has been given to pupils this week about forthcoming events/activities:-

Central Soccer Schools football coaching - all years (letter and details of how to sign up)
Owen Black Belt After School Club - all years (letter and details of how to sign up)
'Give it a go' leaflet for all parents
Fitness training - Years 3, 4 & 5 (letter and details of how to sign up)
'Bike Safe' cycle training (run by Derby City TravelWise team) - Year 6 pupils only Helen O'Grady drama academy - leaflet to all pupils
Data Protection Act - letter to all parents
Year 3 Parents' Lunch
Year 5 & 6 Netball Coaching
Details about our Parents' Information evening next Thursday

If you have not received any of these, please check your child's bag!

Welcome!

First of all, thank you for visiting this site.
This weblog has been set up so that you can access school information from home, your workplace or anywhere that has an Internet connection. However, it's more than a website - your school weblog (more commonly known as a blog) is a place where you can communicate with US.
Blogs have grown in popularity in recent years and they can be an excellent method of communicating. We hope that for many of you this will be another way of improving home-school communication and that you will enjoy taking part in developing the weblog and joining in. How this weblog develops in the future is very much how you would like to see it develop. So please let us know.
Before we start our new blog, I'd like to reassure you that every care will be taken with the content of postings and that the site will be treated in the same way as the school website - there will be no references to individual pupils and no images or photos (unless prior permission has been sought).
While weblogs give a free voice for anyone to air their views, contributors are asked to ensure that their postings are not defamatory or libellous or inappropriate for a school weblog. The author will remove inappropriate comments and the site may be closed down without prior warning. (Information obtained from SuperhighwaySafety. For more information on weblogs and safety, please visit the DfES's SuperhighwaySafety (Safe use of the Internet) website at http://safety.ngfl.gov.uk/schools/document.php3?D=d77.)
Before you leave, please bookmark this page. This is your weblog, be sure you can find it again!
Please follow the links on this page for more information.

Maureen Slack