Our sports person of the week is Amiee  in 4P. She has completed her stage 10 Gold award in swimming, which is an incredible achievement. One of the things she had to do was swim 32 lengths in under 25 minutes. Well Done Amiee. Keep up the hard work! The next Rebeca Addlington in the making!

The Christmas Fair will be held on Saturday 28th November from 11.00am until 2.00pm.

We have received many of your kind donations of sweets and chocolates this week for the Christmas Fair and we would like to thank you all, your support is very much appreciated.

The next mufti day is Friday 20th November and if you have any nearly new toys and/or gifts suitable for a parent/carer that you could spare for donation we would be most grateful. Gifts for men as well as women will all be greatly received. The gift stall is always popular with the children as the idea behind it is that the children may buy a gift for their parent or carer and wrap it at the fair. The nearly new toys that we collect will be allocated to the toy tombola and we are especially keen to get some teddy bears as we are hoping to run a 'teddy bear adoption' stall.

 

This afternoon you will all receive your child's Christmas card artwork. This project is being run closely with the school and the Art Project for Kids (APFS).  This enables us to provide a bit of artistic fun for the children whilst also assisting them to produce some beautiful cards for you to send to family and friends at Christmas. Any orders for the cards must be returned to school by Monday 16th November.

 

This will ensure the cards are back in time for the majority of the overseas Christmas posting deadlines.

 

Finally, another date for your diary is Friday 11th December. The FOY are organising a Christmas disco. There will be two sessions, one for lower school and one for upper school. The DJ has been booked and information will go out very soon on how to book tickets.

Thank you all so much for your continued support.

The friends would like to say a big thank you to all those who help out and attended the fireworks night. It was a great success and helps us raise over £1800.00 for the school. This will go towards tablets for the school which can be used on the schools new wireless system.

 

Also don’t forget Bags2School collection is on Monday 9th November. Please drop bags to be recycled at the buddy base in the morning before school.

Last year the FOY joined the Bag2School Textile Recycling scheme, this enables us to raise funds for the school by collecting unwanted but reusable clothing etc.
Collection sacks will be sent home with each child this week, for you to fill with any unwanted items and return to the school if you wish to do so.

 

PLEASE NOTE:
Bag2School ACCEPTS the following items: men’s, ladies and children’s clothing; paired shoes; handbags; hats; bags; scarves and ties; jewellery; lingerie; belts and soft toys.

Bag2School WILL NOT ACCEPT the following items: duvets, bedding, blankets and household linen; pillows and cushions; carpets, rugs and mats (including bath, shower and toilet mats); curtains; towels; soiled, painted, ripped or wet clothing; school uniforms; corporate clothing and workwear; textile off cuts, yarns or threaded material.

The school will be paid £400.00 per tonne of items collected, so this could be a great way to raise funds. Please start collecting suitable items and help us make our collection a bumper one!

 

Christmas Fair
The Christmas Fair is fast approaching and we are once again asking for your support. We appreciate it is an expensive time of the year but just a small contribution from each family supporting our mufti days means we can make a big profit for our kids to spend in school and makes for a fun Christmas Fair. The Christmas Fair is on Saturday 28th November from 11.00am until 2.00pm and we have three mufti days scheduled and ask you to bring in the following items for each date. Collection will be in hall and we thank you in advance and encourage you to keep the Christmas Fair free so you can come along.

 

Wednesday 11th November: Sweets or chocolate
Friday 20th November: Nearly new toys or gifts suitable for Mum and Dad
Friday 27th November: Bottles for tombola and cakes

 

If you would like to help out at the Christmas fair we would love to hear from you. We are meeting on Monday 9th November after school drop off in staff room if you would like to help or have any fabulous ideas. Also, if you work for a company that matches funds made and are happy to help us out with this please let us know. We can be contacted through the office, via email or through our Friends of Yattendon Facebook page.

2 additional dates have been added to tour the school for September 2016 Admissions.  The new dates are Wednesday 25th November at 9:30am and Thursday 26th November at 1:30pm.  If you would like to book onto a tour then please contact the School Office on 01293 734100.