Latest News
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Decorated Egg Competition
Fri 15 Mar 2024Don’t forget about this competition (announced last week). Children may bring in a decorated egg (blown or hard-boiled) labelled with their name and class (ideally in a suitable container/display stand or box) on Tuesday 26th March or Wednesday 27th March. Prize winners will be announced on Thursday 28th March in our special end-of-term trophy assembly.
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Reminders
Fri 08 Mar 2024We are looking for a parent governor to join our governing body. A letter was sent out Monday with details of the information sessions being held to help you know more about the role. In case you missed this, the information events are an online chat on Tuesday 12th March at 6:30pm (a link will be sent via Studybugs on the day) and drop in session on Thursday 14th March 9:00am to 10:00am in the school hall. The governors are keen to ensure that our team of governors reflects the diverse community the school serves.
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Reminder
Fri 01 Mar 2024Next Thursday we are celebrating World Book Day. Children may dress in their favourite book character with prizes awarded in each year group for the costume showing the most imagination and effort.
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Unauthorised Absence
Fri 23 Feb 2024Surrey County Council have asked us to post this reminder:
Just to remind parents/carers that if they take their children out of school without authority for 5 or more days (which do not have to be consecutive), they will be liable to receive a penalty notice. Currently the amount payable under a penalty notice is £60.00 per parent/carer per child if paid within 21 days. Thereafter the amount increases to £120.00 if paid between 21 and 28 days. If the
penalty notice remains unpaid after 28 days, the Local Authority will consider a prosecution in the Magistrates Court. Please note that penalty notices are issued per parent/carer per child so a family of two parents and two children will receive 4 penalty notices.
Surrey County Council is not responsible for authorising pupil absence and therefore cannot withdraw any Penalty Notice requests without the written permission of the Headteacher.
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Disco next week
Fri 02 Feb 2024Please help FOY by pre-ordering tickets for the disco ASAP. This helps the FOY team in judging the amount that needs to be ordered.
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Going Cashless
Fri 19 Jan 2024We have always provided the facility to pay online via Scopay. Next week you will receive a letter about our plan to go cashless (apart from certain fund-raising events) from 1st February. This essentially means that for most requests for payment (such as school trips) we would like you to use your Scopay account. The letter will explain how you go about accessing your own account (each parent and carer receives a login when their child joins the school) if you don’t know how to do this. I would highly recommend that you download the Scopay app onto your phone/tablet if you haven’t done so already. This makes life much easier!
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Breck Foundation Parent Pack
Fri 12 Jan 2024Please take time to look through the resources contained in the “Post presentation parent pack” which is found via the following link https://www.breckfoundation.org/post-presentation . This was mentioned in the talk on Monday. It provides guidance on parental controls, signs of grooming and sources of help amongst other useful information. If you need paper copies, please get in touch.
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Parent Coffee Morning
Fri 05 Jan 2024On Thursday 18th January we extend an invitation to you to attend a coffee morning hosted by our Home School Link Worker, Karen Burgess and our Inclusion Leader and Assistant Head Teacher, Kirsty Morgan. During this time there will be an opportunity for you to talk about any concerns that might affect your children’s success or happiness at school; discuss provisions available within school to support your child; provide valuable understanding and guidance on a variety of topics and put you in touch with services, activities and organisations in the local area; listen and offer support on issues that you and your family may be having; offer support and guidance on changes in family situations; suggest ideas and strategies for behaviour management and for establishing home routines for children.
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Start Date for Spring Term
Fri 15 Dec 2023Please don’t forget that the children return to school on 3 rd January. 2nd January is an INSET training day and the school is closed for children on this day.
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Online Safety Workshop on 8th January
Fri 08 Dec 2023Many of you will remember the tragic story of Breck Bednar, a pupil at St Bede’s School in Redhill. The Breck Foundation was set up in his name to help educate parents and young people about dangers they may face online. We are lucky to secure free (age appropriate) sessions for Yattendon pupils together with a parent workshop on 8th January between 6pm and 7pm. I urge you to put this in your diary. Joining instructions will be sent to you in the new year. To find out more about the work that the Breck Foundation do, please see: https://www.breckfoundation.org