St James E-News
4th June 2020
Welcome to the St James Primary School's E-News, a weekly roundup of the latest goings on at the school.
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Dear Parents,
It has been really lovely to welcome back more of the children into school this week! We have missed them very much and I think we all felt lifted by the sound of children's voices around the school. The week has gone as smoothly as we could have hoped and the children have been brilliant at following the stringent social distancing guidelines we have had to put into place. But most of all, everyone has looked happy to be back.
Next week we look forward to welcoming back Penguins class and the teachers have been very busy preparing the classrooms for their arrival. There are lots of exciting activities planned! We are also preparing home packs for those children at home in Y2-5, to support the work units we have been setting online since April.
Finally, I'd like to thank all the parents for your ongoing support of your child's education at home or at school, we know it has been a challenge at times! When all the children finally return to school we know many of them will be eager to learn and quickly close learning gaps. The government have signalled that they will soon be announcing further plans about this term and September, so once we know what those are we will work quickly to put things in place. We are already looking at ideas for the children's transition to their new class, possibly towards the end of term.
Best wishes,
Valerie Elliott
School Notices
- Many of you will know about Reading Chest, the local business run by former St James parent Liz Walker, which supplies reading books to families for a subscription. She is very kindly offering a heavily reduced subscription rate for our children this term, please find the letter in the portal.
- The first Annual General Meeting of the Godalming Learning Partnership takes place via Zoom on Wednesday 17th June at 8.30am. Please see the letter in the Parent Portal for more information.
- We are asking parents of children who need to have medication in school in the coming weeks to drop the medication at the school office. We have created a Google Medication Consent form that needs to completed before the medication is brought in. Please click here to access the form.
- As an Eco school we try to keep our use of paper to a minimum. If you would prefer not to receive the home pack referred to by Mrs Elliott and continue to use the resources online please email info@st-james-elstead.surrey.sch.uk by noon on Wednesday 10th June to let us know.
Letters this week
The following classes have had letters uploaded to the Parent Portal this week. Note: You will need to login to view this area.
- Year 6
- Whole school