A huge congratulations to our Year 3 boys football team who, last Friday, played in their first Horley School Year 3 football tournament. As always, it was great to see fantastic sporting behaviours. It was a very close competition. We scored 12 points by winning four out of our five matches. Langshott also score 12 points, but as our goal difference was better, we were the winners. Thank you to all the families who came to support the team. The next sports fixture is Friday 10th May when our Year 5 boys team will be playing.

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The office have sent out appointments this week to the parents who didn’t get a chance to book via Scopay. If this is you, you should have also received a message on Studybugs asking you to look out for the appointment letter in your child’s school bag.

We ask that all parents and carers who send their children to school with a packed lunch are mindful of our ‘healthy packed lunch’ policy. This policy reflects the need for children to have a good balance of nutritional foods at lunchtime. As part of this policy, we do not allow confectionary/sweets in packed lunches. Please avoid including these. Thank you!

Don’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.

We 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.

Next 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.

Surrey 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.

 

Please help FOY by pre-ordering tickets for the disco ASAP. This helps the FOY team in judging the amount that needs to be ordered.

We 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!