Here is the link for January 24th`s School Newsletter
https://sway.office.com/ClhisGruDsXRAHmy
| OUR WONDERFUL YEAR 6 CHILDREN |
| Well, sadly we are nearing the end of our yr6’s primary experience at our school. It has been an absolute pleasure having your children as part of our school! We have admired their great resilience, patience, determination, perseverance and positivity. Their progress throughout the year has been outstanding! Please continue to nurture these qualities as they begin their new adventures in their high school. Every staff member who they have encountered, has given them all the tools they need to face all the adventures and challenges ahead of you. Your children have developed a passion for learning, have achieved many goals, taken risks safely and made a wide variety of memories! We will miss them all but know they are more than ready for this next chapter in their life. We would also like to say an enormous THANK YOU to you as parents. Thank you for your support and cooperation over the years and as some of you leave our school family, we wish you all the very best and know you will also be leaving with very fond memories. Yr. 6 children- All the very best and grab every opportunity throughout your exciting future! The All Saints’ Team Marvellous Macbeth Our own Broadway Performance in Marple! The huge cheers of applause were so very well deserved last week when our year 6 simply dazzled us all with their highly professional, slick and memorable performance of Macbeth! It was a joy to watch every single child take part and make the end of year play so brilliant. A huge thank you to Mr McShane, Mrs Pratt and Mrs Clayton for their tireless work, simply going above and beyond for months to make it such a special occasion for everyone. Also, thank you so much to the very talented Miss Daley for her excellent make up skills, the beards and witches in particular were amazing! Finally, we can’t thank all the children enough for bringing their ‘A game’ and having so much fun along the way! Well done our superstar 6s! We cannot wait for tomorrow’s Leavers Service at All Saints’ Church - the next Chapter in your leavers journey. |
We are currently updating our All Saints' Values for 2022 and beyond.
If you have any ideas and thoughts on what you feel our values should be, to set our children up for life, we would love to hear your top 6 ideas (starting with the one you regard as the most important).
Parents views will be collated alongside; children's, staff and Governors, to form our new All Saints' values from September 2022.
Please address your Tapestry post; FAO: Mrs. Noble (Values) by Wednesday 27th July 2022.
There will be a prize on Wednesday for one lucky parent who contributes - so what are you waiting for...?
Thank you, as always families, for your amazing support and positivity this year. Working together, we can make great things happen for our children!
HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE
Online Safety and WhatsApp Groups
We would remind you to be extra vigilant with your child’s use of online services and the use of phones over the holiday.
We would also encourage parents to monitor the use of WhatsApp groups to ensure they are used appropriately.
Natasha`s law
Natasha's Law came into effect on 1st October 2021. It requires all food outlets to provide full ingredient lists with clear allergen labelling on Pre Packed for Direct Sale foods (PPDS). PPDS is food that is prepared, prepacked and offered or sold to consumers on the same premises.
If children are to bring in pre-packed food, then clear packaging and labelling needs to visible.
Thank you for your cooperation.
2022-2023
We are all looking forward to the next academic year and we are sure you will join us in being hopeful for a more stable year than previous years in terms of Covid -19. As we all adjust to normal life again in full, we wanted to make all families aware that we will be ensuring that some of our pre-covid ways are back in place properly from September 2022.
Throughout the year, we will be following up again on ensuring that children are in the correct school and PE uniform; including appropriate school shoes and not trainers unless for PE. That jewellery is only a watch (not smart watches if the internet is enabled for safeguarding reasons) and stud earrings, which must be removed for PE or taped over. That children endeavour to bring in healthy snacks not crisps etc. and that only water is put in water bottles not juice. Finally, children donate a class book for their birthdays rather than bringing in sweets to share with the class.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation as we work in partnership to ensure our children are coming to school ready to learn and maintaining healthy lifestyles.
Reception Class Assembly
What a celebration was had a couple of weeks ago with the Reception class assembly for families! It was truly a joy to watch the children so beautifully showcase some of what they have been learning. Their amazing spoken parts, singing and dancing were all very much appreciated by their extended families.
Well done Reception and a huge thank you to all the families for joining us. Also, a great big thank you to the brilliant Reception team for all they have done giving so many opportunities to the children and allowing them to create such incredible memories.
Parent Drop In
It was lovely to see so many of you drop in to express thanks to your child’s current teacher and to say a quick hello to your child’s new teacher/s.
Sports Day
Well it has been a long time coming and it did not disappoint! Sports day 2022 was a truly wonderful event. Our children shone so brightly and entered into the event with amazing attitudes. Everyone getting stuck in, having a good attitude and behaving like true All Saints’ Way superstars. The spirit of the games stickers highlighted the brilliant qualities we are looking for and also that is why the children were covered in them! Thank you to all the children for throwing those wellies, jumping in those sacks and running your races so brilliantly! Thanks to the All Saints’ Sports Ambassadors for supporting the event so well - your leadership qualities were highly praised by many! Another thank you to all the Harrytown children who facilitated the event so well; their patience with the little ones was a credit to them and their school. Also, thank you to all the families who came to cheer everyone on and we were VERY impressed with the parents' races!!!! Finally, the biggest thanks to Mrs Noble and Mr G who simply worked so hard to make the event so successful; planning every detail to maximise the fun that was had by all. All Saints’ is so lucky to have two such passionate professionals!
Gold Sports Award for All Saints’
Following straight on from the success of sports day, we were thrilled to be able to announce that we have the GOLD GAMES MARK for PE for 2021-2022! The School Games Mark is a government led awards scheme launched in 2012 to reward schools for their commitment to the development of competition across their school and into the community. Participating in this process allows schools to evaluate their PE provision and assists them in developing an action plan for future progress.
To achieve the Gold Mark is no mean feat in any year, but over the last twelve months the sheer determination of Mrs Noble and Mr G to get our children involved in as many competitions as possible was unwavering. With the cancelling of events due to Covid last minute, they did not stop re-arranging and organising for our children to participate. I am sure you will join us in saying the biggest thank you for all they have done for our children and the biggest Congratulations!!!!!
OUR COMMUNITY GARDEN
We hope many of you have now been able to see the absolutely amazing Marple School Garden Project in Memorial Park. It is absolutely incredible and a true demonstration of the All Saints’ Way. Miss Foster, Mrs Clayton, Mrs Daniel, our governor friend Mr Phillips and of course the stars of the show Class 5 worked so beautifully as a team to create the masterpiece. The children are a real credit to their families and our school and we hope many, many people get a chance to enjoy and it and it spreads lots of joy to everyone. Please do take a look at the below link to see lots of wonderful pictures of all the children’s hard work and. A huge thank you to Sarah Braide for all her work on the project and inviting us to be part of it and of course the All Saints’ Superstars involved in it.
https://www.marplememorialpark.org.uk/park-centenary/marple-school-gardens-project.html
Summer Reading Challenge 2022
Stockport Libraries are proud to present the Summer Reading Challenge 2022 – Gadgeteers!
As always, we want All Saints’ leading the way, and we have ALWAYS been the closest of the close second place! This year we want to be the winners, so, as an incentive, any of our keen readers who can come in and prove they have completed their 6 books and have got to the end of the challenge will receive TEN merits – not bad when the maximum you can earn in school is three!
For our children who aren’t on merit cards yet, you will move STRAIGHT up to the Sunshine on the behaviour chart and can come to Mrs Manning for a shiny sticker.
As well as this, the Library will give you a medal and a certificate, and you get to read some awe inspiring books over the long Summer Holidays – what’s not to love?! So come on All Saints’, do us proud and LET’S GET READING! Just pop in to Marple Library any time from 9th July to sign up for free. Here is a website with some more info on, should you wish
https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/
Mrs Manning-Craggs
Message from the PTA
Thank you to everyone for their support with the ice lolly sales last week.
We raised an amazing £123! Look out for some amazing events and fundraising activities next year.
MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT OVER THE SUMMER HOLLIDAY
There’s a vast amount of support available to support any young person who is feeling overwhelmingly worried, stressed or low over the summer holiday. There are options to talk over the phone, by text or online to someone who can help. Please see the attached posters for more information
| Tuesday 26th July |
Year 6 Leavers Service Year 5 Leaders presentation |
| Wednesday 27th July |
School Breaks up For Summer |
| Thursday 1st September |
INSET Day – School closed for children |
| Friday 2nd September |
INSET Day – School closed for children |
| Monday 5th September |
SCHOOL OPENS |
New to Year Group Meetings
As always we will start the year with a New to Year Group Meeting and this will include lots of important information about your child’s time and learning journey in their new class.
Please see below the dates for September to make a note in your diaries! All meetings will be held in your child’s classroom at 6pm, there will be no crèche available for children to attend.
Reception - Monday 12th September 2022
Year 6 - Tuesday 13th September 2022
Year 3 - Thursday 15th September 2022
Year 2 - Monday 19th September
Year 5 - Tuesday 20th September 2022
Year 1 - Wednesday 21st September 2022
Year 4 - Thursday 22nd September 2022
Have a great summer,
Hannah Gaynor and Helen Morton
| Sadly we are saying farewell to two colleagues at the end of this term. |
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| Emma Mylrea, who has been part of our KS1 team for the last six years, and was our acting SENDCo for a year, is moving on to a part-time KS2 post at Mellor Primary School in order to broaden her experience. Emma has had a fabulous few years with us and I'm sure you will join us in wishing her all the very best as she continues her career in her new school. |
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| Michelle Pratt has recently been successful in securing an exciting new opportunity out of education and has decided to make a career change. She will therefore will be leaving All Saints' at the end of the Summer Term for pastures new. After 22 years working at All Saints', many of the children and families have encountered her dynamic contributions. We are sure you will join us in wishing her all the very best |
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Welcome to Mrs Vernon
We are delighted to be able to inform you of the exciting news that Mrs Holly Vernon was appointed last Friday, to be a new class teacher working in Yr2. Mrs Vernon will be working alongside Mrs Heather Manning from September and will teach on a Thursday and Friday.
As always we have undertaken a very rigorous recruitment process involving both school staff and governors. Mrs Vernon is a very experienced teacher who has taught in all year groups with much of her time in KS1. She has co-ordinated other learning across her previous schools and has a wealth of knowledge that she will bring to our school. We are sure she will be a wonderful asset to All Saints’.
| Parent Drop In Following the receiving of reports, we will be hosting a parent drop in the hall on Wednesday 20th July. This is an opportunity for you to meet your child’s new teacher and, as requested by some parents, an opportunity to say thank you to your child’s current teacher. |
Summer Reading Challenge 2022
Stockport Libraries are proud to present the Summer Reading Challenge 2022 – Gadgeteers!
As always, we want All Saints’ leading the way, and we have ALWAYS been the closest of the close second place! This year we want to be the winners, so, as an incentive, any of our keen readers who can come in and prove they have completed their 6 books and have got to the end of the challenge will receive TEN merits – not bad when the maximum you can earn in school is three!
For our children who aren’t on merit cards yet, you will move STRAIGHT up to the Sunshine on the behaviour chart and can come to Mrs Manning for a shiny sticker.
As well as this, the Library will give you a medal and a certificate, and you get to read some awe inspiring books over the long Summer Holidays – what’s not to love?! So come on All Saints’, do us proud and LET’S GET READING! Just pop in to Marple Library any time from 9th July to sign up for free. Here is a website with some more info on, should you wish
https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/
Mrs Manning-Craggs
HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE
Natasha`s law
Natasha's Law came into effect on 1st October 2021. It requires all food outlets to provide full ingredient lists with clear allergen labelling on Pre Packed for Direct Sale foods (PPDS). PPDS is food that is prepared, prepacked and offered or sold to consumers on the same premises.
If children are to bring in pre-packed food, then clear packaging and labelling needs to visible.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Heatwave
• children should wear loose, light-coloured clothing to help keep cool and sunhats with wide brims to avoid sunburn
• use sunscreen (at least factor 15 with UVA protection) to protect skin if children are playing or taking lessons outdoors for more than 20 minutes
• provide children with plenty of water (such as water from a cold tap) and encourage them to drink more than usual when conditions are hot
ALSO SEE OUR SCHOOL DIARY DATES PREVIOUSLY ISSUED
| Wednesday 13th July |
Year 6 Chester Cathedral Trip |
| Monday 18th July |
Year 6 Last swimming session Front Row Music Assembly 9:00am |
| Wednesday 20th July
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2:30pm -3:15pm Parent Drop in Year 6 Leavers Production 6:30pm |
| Friday 22nd July |
Star Dance Assembly 9:00am 11:00am New Reception Child / Parent Lunch |
| Tuesday 26th July |
Year 6 Leavers Service Year 5 Leaders presentation |
| Wednesday 27th July |
School Breaks up For Summer |
| Thursday 1st September |
INSET Day – School closed for children |
| Friday 2nd September |
INSET Day – School closed for children |
| Monday 5th September |
SCHOOL OPENS |
Have a good week,
Hannah Gaynor and Helen Morton
| Year 2 Class Assembly It was an absolute pleasure to watch the Year 2 class assembly. The children simply shone with the acting, singing and dancing as they took us all on a magic carpet ride through their time in Year 2. What a huge amount they have learnt and achieved in that time! The children were also presented with a scroll to celebrate their time and successes in KS1! Thank you to all the family members who came to watch, and the Year 2 team for such a lovely and emotional celebration of the children’s time in Year 2. Finally, and most importantly, well done to the children for entertaining us so wonderfully.
Year 3 Class Assembly What a celebration was had last week with the Year 3 class assembly for families! It was truly a joy to watch the children so beautifully showcase all they have been learning: from their amazing jubilee singing to dancing through the decades and sharing sensational art and poetry! Well done Year 3 and a huge thank you to all the families for joining us. Also, a great big thank you to the brilliant class 3 team for all they have done giving so many opportunities to the children; allowing them to create such incredible memories.
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Class Staff Pen Portraits As we are sure everyone is aware the end of the academic year is fast approaching and with this comes thoughts and lots of work around successful transition for our children whether that be starting our school, moving classes or starting pastures new at High school. As such, we are just putting final plans into place and will be sharing our New Class Team Pen Portraits as soon as possible. Transition Day All being well we can do Transition on Thursday 7th July. Children will come in as normal, to their current classroom and after registration move to their new classroom for the morning. Parent Drop – In Following the receiving of end of year reports, we will be hosting a parent drop in the hall on Wednesday 20th July. 2:30pm – 3:15pm pop by anytime in this slot This is an informal and optional opportunity for you to meet your child’s new teacher and, as requested by some parents, an opportunity to say thank you to your child’s current teacher.
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| Stockport County A wonderful morning was had as Stockport County brought the Trophy to school following their promotion and securing the title of CHAMPIONS! All the children had the chance to hear about Stockport County's special news and have a photograph next to their amazing trophy. A massive thanks to Dave Wardle from the Community Trust at Stockport County for bringing the trophy and Miss Taylor for organising such a special event! There were a lot of excited children (and staff!) that day and we even had visits from extended staff families young and old desperate to get a glimpse of the dazzling trophy! Fingers crossed we get to see another one next year. It has inspired more of our children to support their local football team. So remember next season to keep following Stockport County for some more roof raising action at Edgeley Park...! |
As part of our Healthy living/ Active Week The children had a go at making food with the Fun Food Chef! Some children got to make Greek food on Tuesday and Egyptian food on Wednesday The children were amazing at trying new things and lots of them tried foods they thought they wouldn’t like
Natasha`s law
Natasha's Law came into effect on 1st October 2021. It requires all food outlets to provide full ingredient lists with clear allergen labelling on Pre Packed for Direct Sale foods (PPDS). PPDS is food that is prepared, prepacked and offered or sold to consumers on the same premises.
If children are to bring in pre-packed food, then clear packaging and labelling needs to be visible.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Heatwave
• children should wear loose, light-coloured clothing to help keep cool and sunhats with wide brims to avoid sunburn
• use sunscreen (at least factor 15 with UVA protection) to protect skin if children are playing or taking lessons outdoors for more than 20 minutes
• provide children with plenty of water (such as water from a cold tap) and encourage them to drink more than usual when conditions are hot
School Nurse Drop-in for Parents of children in Reception - Year 6
We are delighted to inform you our School Nurse, Alison Dunning, will be offering another ‘drop in’ sessions at school.
School nursing is a universal public health service for school age children. School Nurses are qualified nurses with an additional specialist public health qualification.
The school nursing team can offer support, guidance and signposting to other services on a whole range of things for example: Continence - daytime and night time wetting and any toileting issues; headlice; emotional and mental health & wellbeing; healthy eating and weight management or if you have any concerns at all about your child that you feel chatting to the nurse would help.
The drop-in sessions will be by appointment only. Please contact the school office to see what appointments are still available.
The session is on Wednesday 20th July 2022 and will start at 9:30am -11:30am.
Please email admin@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk with a time slot which is convenient for yourself and we will try and accommodate this.
The session will be in person at school.
We hope that you will find these sessions useful and look forward to seeing you.
PHILOSOPHICAL DAY
Year 5 and 6 shared a philosophical day with a workshop from God & The Big Bang: providing the opportunity to discover, discuss and debate the compatibility of science and faith. The interactive sessions (which included bubbles and fire) equipped our children with the tools they need in order to form their own opinions and engage in rational, exciting, well-reasoned and thought-provoking discussion about the part science plays in God’s world
A Parent and Carer relationships and sex Education meeting parents was held last week to discuss the statutory RSE (Relationship and Sex Education) unit of work as part of our PSHE curriculum.
We will be using a progressive scheme called Jigsaw which we have used for many years to deliver this particular subject. The Jigsaw scheme of work provides age appropriate resources and will teach the children about the emotional and physical aspects of growing up as well as providing children with relevant learning experiences to help them navigate their world and develop positive relationships with themselves and others.
ALSO SEE OUR SCHOOL DIARY DATES PREVIOUSLY ISSUED
| Monday 27th June
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Active Week! children to come in their sports clothes including appropriate footwear everyday. |
| Thursday 30th June |
Sports Day- in the morning -Children to come in their PE Kit |
| Wednesday 6th July |
Class 1 Parents Assembly – 9.15am New Reception Parents Meeting 6.00pm |
| Thursday 7th July |
School transition day. Yr6, who are attending Marple High School, will visit for the day.
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| Friday 8th July |
INSET Day – School closed for children |
| Wednesday 20th July |
2:30pm -3:15pm Parent Drop in |
Have a good week,
Hannah Gaynor and Helen Morton
Dear School Family,
We would like to welcome you back to the final half term of this academic year. It will be a busy one but we know it will be full of risk taking, learning, achieving of goals and special memories.
What a great event on Friday 20th May, after school, when our Y5/6 football team took on Warrenwood. It was a real pleasure to see the team expertly led by Mr G. It finished 3-0 to WW but a huge congratulations to our man of the match- Max and a special mention to Dillon and Rafin for great goalkeeping skills!
Well done All Saints'! You conducted yourselves in the All Saints' Way and should be very proud! Great to see ex pupil Matthew Barke leading as referee in his first match- Matthew you did a sterling job. Congratulations and thank you!
A huge thank you also to Mrs Noble for organising the event - it is lovely to be back in the swing of all these great opportunities for our children.
It seems a long time ago now but we just wanted to say thank you so much to all the families who were able to make our special Jubilee celebration picnic in school on the last day. It was so lovely to welcome you all and see everyone having such a lovely time. The sunshine even managed to come out for a while too! A special thank you to Mrs Burney for all her effort with organising the music and decorations and also Amanda, our wonderful cook, for making the picnics so lovely for the children.
The children had such a wonderful last day as they also got to enjoy a very special assembly all about the Jubilee by Mrs Sue Woodgate, one of our School Governors and Royal Expert! She really captured the children’s interests with all her factual knowledge about the royal family throughout history and the wealth of memorabilia she brought in too. The children were so engaged they couldn’t stop asking questions and learnt so much! The biggest thank you to Mrs Woodgate for so generously giving up her whole day to celebrate such an unusual and special historical event with the children.
Tree Decorations to Celebrate the Jubilee
Our school decorations looked wonderful and were displayed from 2nd-6th June on the trees along Market Street. We hope you noticed them.
Parent and Carer relationships and sex Education meeting parents are invited to discuss the statutory RSE (Relationship and Sex Education) unit of work as part of our PSHE curriculum. This will take place at 3:30pm on Thursday 16th June.
We will be using a progressive scheme called Jigsaw which we have used for many years to deliver this particular subject. The Jigsaw scheme of work provides age appropriate resources and will teach the children about the emotional and physical aspects of growing up as well as providing children with relevant learning experiences to help them navigate their world and develop positive relationships with themselves and others
SUPPORT FOR UNISON MEMBERS
From 24 June 2022, Unison are setting up a limited fund to help UNISON members on a low income with school clothing costs by way of a one -off payment of up to £70 per child.
To apply, download the application form from unison.org.uk/thereforyou
Please only contact UNISON Direct on 0800 0 857 857 if you need a paper application form posted to you. Please note: This grant fund will close once Unison have received enough qualifying applications. See attached flier
ALSO SEE OUR SCHOOL DIARY DATES PREVIOUSLY ISSUED
| Monday 13th June |
SCHOOL OPENS |
| Thursday 16th June |
Parent and Carer Relationships and Sex Education Information meeting 3.30pm – in the year 6 classroom |
| Thursday 16th June |
Class 2 Parents Assembly – 9.15am
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| Saturday 18th June |
Marple Carnival |
| Tuesday and Wednesday 21st and 22nd |
Fun Food Chef in School! |
| Friday 24th |
Pen Portraits to introduce the children’s new class teachers and TAs Year 3 Parents Assembly 2.40pm |
| Monday 27th June
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Active Week! More information to follow – children to come in their sports clothes including appropriate footwear everyday. |
| Thursday 30th June |
Sports Day- in the morning |
Have a good week,
Hannah Gaynor and Helen Morton
Dear School Family,
We could not be prouder of our amazing year 6s they shone brighter than we could have even imagined during their SATs week and are rightly feeling very proud and ready to make some amazing memories during their last few months with us.
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Nev Phillips School Governor |
He commented on how impressed he was with the high level of organisation and the relaxed and caring atmosphere. A notable feature was when the children were invited to say a prayer at the beginning of the test which was a calming, sensitive and in keeping with the All Saints’ Way.
Thank you also to all of you as parents for continually supporting and encouraging your children. They are a real credit to you and you should be so proud of them. |
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Sue Woodgate School Governor |
Reception Class would like to send a huge thank you to Sue Woodgate for organising our sponsored trip with New Horizons last week. We absolutely loved every minute of it and we all learned so much about a very important charity that we are lucky to have access to in our local area. A special thank you also to our class friend, Tom Braide who came along to help for the whole day and made sure we had lots of fun too!! We would also like to add a huge thank you to Miss McConnell for all her hard work making sure the trip was such a huge success!
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Tom Braide School Governor |
Jubilee Celebration Picnic on Friday 27th May, 12-1pm – See flyer sent out on 3rd May.
Jubilee Litter Pick
A message from Cllr Aaron Thornley.
We are looking for litter pick teams to do a small litter pick at the Marple Jubilee event on Friday 3rd June. It would be wonderful if some children and families from All Saints’ community could join in this event on the day.
If anyone would like to come along for the litter pick (it will not be complex or strenuous) please meet me at the First Aid tent at 4pm.
Please share on tapestry any pictures of you getting involved in such a worthwhile community event and it would be especially great for our Young Leaders in Year 5!
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Plastics Count –
WHY IS THE COUNT SO URGENT NOW? This year, the government is starting to decide on legal targets for reducing plastic waste. But at the moment, there’s nowhere near enough information about how much plastic waste leaves UK households, or what happens to it. The new evidence we gather will be crucial to convince the government to set a target to reduce single-use plastic by 50% by 2025 (by transitioning to reusable packaging which caters to everyone’s needs) – and ban dumping UK plastic waste on other countries.
ARE YOU READY TO COUNT? Attached, you’ll find all the information you’ll need to prepare for the count, what to do during the count, and how to submit your findings afterwards. It couldn’t be easier. Thank you for joining this nationwide investigation into plastic waste. Simply bookmark thebigplasticcount.com/submit so you’re ready to start tallying on 16 May. |
Message from The Parents` Association
The Parents' Association would like to invite you to our next meeting on Tuesday 24th May, 8pm at The Crown. New members very welcome! (If you would like to help but can't make the meeting, please let us know via the Parents' Association page on Facebook.)
Lunchhound Rollout to Parents
Exciting news – we have now rolled out our new school meal ordering system to parents which means you will now be able to order your children’s meals form home. Whilst we transition to this new system we will keep checking in class that everyone who wants a school meal has ordered one. When we return from the Whit holiday (13th June) we will assume that meals will have been ordered from home. Please see the attached Parent guide and the following link is a how to video.
Video link – How to order from home https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8RiDc5x3gZY_usOrJgBtn1BYOeIRtUsm
If you have any difficulties signing in to the system, please contact the office via email on
admin@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk
ALSO SEE OUR SCHOOL DIARY DATES PREVIOUSLY ISSUED
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Monday 16th May |
Year 6 Start Swimming |
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Thursday 19th May |
Rounder’s Event at Marple Hall after School selected Year 5 and 6 children |
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Wednesday 25th May |
Young Voices Concert |
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Thursday 26th May |
Year 5/6 Football Tournament @ Mellor School - 3:30pm |
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Friday 27th May |
Jubilee Celebration Day – Whole School Family Picnic PM – More information to follow School breaks up at 3:15pm for Half Term |
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Monday 13th June |
SCHOOL OPENS |
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Tuesday 14th June |
Parent and Carer Relationships and Sex Education Information meeting 3.30pm – more information to follow |
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Thursday 16th June |
Class 2 Parents Assembly – 9.15am
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Saturday 18th June |
Marple Carnival |
Have a good week,
Hannah Gaynor and Helen Morton
Dear School Family,
Class 5 were amazing last Friday performing in their class assembly. We were blown away with all their knowledge from their learning about the Anglo-Saxons and also their impressive acting and singing skills. A huge thank you to Miss Foster and Mrs Daniel for all your hard work with the children and of course all the family members who attended and made it a very special event. The biscuits went down very well too!
St George’s Day
It was wonderful to see some of our children in their club uniforms last Friday to mark St George’s Day. Our children contribute to our community in so many ways and we would like to praise them for this.
Jubilee Celebration Picnic on Friday 27th May, 12-1pm – See attached flyer.
Latest covid info from the Local Authority
It is not recommended that children should have a covid-19 test unless directed to by a health professional, but if a child under 18 does test positive, they should stay off school for 3 days after the day they took the test. They can return to school after the 3 days if they are well enough.
Plastics Count – see attached information leaflet
WHY IS THE COUNT SO URGENT NOW? This year, the government is starting to decide on legal targets for reducing plastic waste. But at the moment, there’s nowhere near enough information about how much plastic waste leaves UK households, or what happens to it. The new evidence we gather will be crucial to convince the government to set a target to reduce single-use plastic by 50% by 2025 (by transitioning to reusable packaging which caters to everyone’s needs) – and ban dumping UK plastic waste on other countries.
ARE YOU READY TO COUNT? Attached, you’ll find all the information you’ll need to prepare for the count, what to do during the count, and how to submit your findings afterwards. It couldn’t be easier. Thank you for joining this nationwide investigation into plastic waste. Simply bookmark thebigplasticcount.com/submit so you’re ready to start tallying on 16th May.
SCIENCE WORKSHOP
A huge thank you to Mr Lonsdale, who organised a couple of science workshops last week which enhanced our children’s science learning and further developed their enthusiasm for this subject.
All Saints' was lucky enough to have two visitors in one week, with Alan Ames (a bird of prey specialist) and "Scientific Sarah" from Mad Science making an appearance.
On Monday the children were thrilled to see three different types of bird of prey. There was a small, beautiful Barn Owl, a feisty Harris Hawk and a majestic Bald Eagle. Whilst they all learned something about conservation and adaptation, it was certainly the animals that captivated the children, especially when they flew around the hall!
Mad Science did a similarly exciting assembly, with a demonstration of different types of rocket. We were able to see how they could be adapted to help them get to Mars.
The assembly finished with a display of the energy contained within a few drops of rocket fuel! We hope many children will be joining the new Mad Science club in the second half of the Summer Term.
Mr Lonsdale
OUR RESIDENT DUCK
We have a new resident. The Duck who made All Saints’ her home last year whilst she hatched and fledged her ducklings has returned. She’s currently sitting on at least 3 eggs and seems settled and very much at home.
We are trying to make her welcome whilst ensuring that her nesting site stays as clean as possible and that all of Mrs Clayton’s hard work with the beautiful flowers and plants in that area doesn’t get eaten like it did last year!
With that in mind we’ve bought plastic sheeting and netting etc. We will be buying chick feed shortly so that when the ducklings arrive (fingers crossed) we are ready for them. If anyone would like to help with the cost of this we’d be very grateful and there is a Parent pay item called Daisy Duck, if you’d like to contribute. Thank You.
Mrs Clayton will be keeping you updated on Daisy (and hopefully her ducklings) progress via tapestry over the next few weeks.
Mrs Vickers
School Nurse
We were delighted to have our School Nurse, Alison Dunning, running ‘drop in’ sessions at school, last week.
School nursing is a universal public health service for school age children. School Nurses are qualified nurses with an additional specialist public health qualification.
The school nursing team can offer support, guidance and signposting to other services on a whole range of things for example: Continence - daytime and night time wetting and any toileting issues; headlice; emotional and mental health & wellbeing; healthy eating and weight management. If you have any concerns at all about your child that you feel chatting to the nurse would help, please do not hesitate to contact them. Details are on our school website.
| Tuesday 3rd May |
KS1 SATs will be completed throughout this month Author Workshop Reception, Years 1,2 and 3 |
| Monday 9th May |
Year 6 Children will be sitting Statutory Assessment Tests throughout the week. Year 3 Start Brass |
| Monday 16th May |
Year 6 Start Swimming |
| Thursday 19th May |
Rounder’s Event at Marple Hall after School selected Year 5 and 6 children |
| Wednesday 25th May |
Young Voices Concert |
| Thursday 26th May |
Year 5/6 Football Tournament @ Mellor School - 3:30pm |
| Friday 27th May |
Jubilee Celebration Day – Whole School Family Picnic PM – More information to follow School breaks up at 3:15pm for Half Term |
Have a good week,
Hannah Gaynor and Helen Morton
Dear School Family,
Easter Fun!
We had so much fun on the last day of term. A huge thank you to Mrs Burney and of course our very special guest the Easter Bunny for organising such great Easter activities. We were also truly blown away with the amazing Eggstravaganza entries - they were cracking!!! It was so hard to choose winners and the bar has been set eggstremely high for next year!!!
Congratulations Mr Lonsdale
Huge congratulations to Mr Lonsdale who married his fiancé, Jenny, over the Easter Holidays. I am sure you will all join us in wishing them both a lifetime of happiness together.
Fortnightly Newsletters
As mentioned last term, we will be trialling a fortnightly newsletter as we know class staff regularly communicate with you on Tapestry and we do not wish to overload you with information. We are aware that some schools do a monthly or even half termly school newsletter so this will continue to be reviewed throughout the Summer Term.
Covid-19 Vaccine
The LA has asked us to distribute the attached letter from Jennifer Connolly, Director of Public Health. This letter is for the parents/guardians of children aged 5-11 years and contains information about the vaccine programme for that age group.
St George’s Day
To celebrate this special day, we are asking those who are part of a uniformed club, to wear their uniform e.g. Scouts, Girlguiding, etc.
Sport, Sport, Sport.
Well what a sporting week it was before the holidays with cross country and football events attended by our children. A huge well done to all the children for their achievements and all the adults who made the events possible.
Calling all Sporting Enthusiasts! Message from Mr Granite and Mrs Noble...
For our annual Active Week next term 27th June- 1st July, we are hoping to get children fully active and give them the opportunity to experience a wide range of sports and maybe try out something new to develop new hobbies and interests to keep fit and healthy.
So far we have Boogie Bounce on mini trampolines, archery and a climbing wall in place for the week (fingers crossed).
If you have any connections to local sports clubs that you or your child attend, please do let us know if you can encourage someone to support their local school and lead a few sessions during the week.
Again, if you yourself are really passionate about keeping fit and can offer to run some sessions in school, no matter how little or much time you can offer, we would love to hear from you!
Please do let us know when you see us around or via Tapestry- we look forward to hearing from you and helping to fill 2022's Active week with a fantastic, fun week for your children to enjoy and remember!
HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE
Due to the medical needs across our school, we would ask that you:
Refrain from bringing anything into school which contains nuts. E.g. hummus
School Nurse Drop-in for Parents of children in Reception- Year 6
We are delighted to inform you our School Nurse, Alison Dunning, will be offering ‘drop in’ sessions at school.
School nursing is a universal public health service for school age children. School Nurses are qualified nurses with an additional specialist public health qualification.
The school nursing team can offer support, guidance and signposting to other services on a whole range of things for example: Continence - daytime and night time wetting and any toileting issues; headlice; emotional and mental health & wellbeing; healthy eating and weight management or if you have any concerns at all about your child that you feel chatting to the nurse would help.
The drop-in sessions will be by appointment only on Tuesday 26th April 2022 and the session slots still availiable are:
10:35am-10:50am ,10:50-11:10am.
Please email school admin@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk with a time slot which is convenient for yourself and we will try and accommodate this.
The session will be in person at school.
We hope that you will find these sessions useful and look forward to seeing you.
With best wishes,
The All Saints’ Team
ALSO SEE OUR SCHOOL DIARY DATES PREVIOUSLY ISSUED
| Tuesday 26th April |
9.15am-12.15pm School Nurse Parent Drop-ins |
| Thursday 28th April |
Kittle Class Photos |
| Friday 29th April |
Year 5 Class Assembly |
| Tuesday 3rd May |
Author visiting school |
Have a good week,
Hannah Gaynor and Helen Morton
Dear School Family,
Fortnightly Newsletters
We will be trialling a fortnightly newsletter after the Easter holiday as we know class staff regularly communicate with you on Tapestry and we do not wish to overload you with information. We are aware that some schools do a monthly or even half termly school newsletter so this will continue to be reviewed throughout the Summer Term
Netball Competition
Very well done to our Netball Team who took part in an after school competition last Thursday Evening. Miss Foster was so impressed with how much they have come on since the last competition and so proud of what amazing sportsmanship was shown by all!
Calling all Sporting Enthusiasts! Message from Mr Granite and Mrs. Noble...
For our annual Active Week next term 27th June- 1st July, we are hoping to get children fully active and having the opportunity to experience a wide range of sports and maybe try out something new to develop new hobbies and interests to keep fit and healthy.
So far we have Boogie Bounce on mini trampolines, archery and a climbing wall in place for the week (fingers crossed).
If you have any connections to local sports clubs that you or your child attend, please do let us know if you can encourage someone to support their local school and lead a few sessions during the week.
Again, if you yourself are really passionate about keeping fit and can offer to run some sessions in school, no matter how little or much time you can offer, we would love to hear from you!
Please do let us know when you see us around or via Tapestry- we look forward to hearing from you and helping to fill 2022's Active week with a fantastic, fun week for your children to enjoy and remember!
Eggstravaganza
See the attached flier for details on how you can enter this competition on 31st March
Calling all Green Fingered Helpers!
If you can spare some time after school on Monday 28th March 3.30- 5.00 we would be so grateful for any help (young and old welcome) to spruce up our Spiritual Garden for Easter now that everything is starting to bloom so beautifully with the amazing array of plants and flowers families donated in September.
Please bring your wellies, spades and gloves and feel free to get stuck in! (many hands make light work!)
Thank you in advance for your support to ensure that your children have such inspiring spaces for calm and quiet times during their time in school.
Mrs. Noble
HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE
Due to the medical needs across our school, we would ask that you:
Refrain from bringing anything into school which contains nuts. E.g. hummus
School Nurse Drop-in for Parents of children in Reception- Year 6
We are delighted to inform you our School Nurse, Alison Dunning, will be offering ‘drop in’ sessions at school.
School nursing is a universal public health service for school age children. School Nurses are qualified nurses with an additional specialist public health qualification.
The school nursing team can offer support, guidance and signposting to other services on a whole range of things for example: Continence - daytime and night time wetting and any toileting issues; headlice; emotional and mental health & wellbeing; healthy eating and weight management or if you have any concerns at all about your child that you feel chatting to the nurse would help.
The drop-in sessions will be by appointment only on Tuesday 26th April 2022 and the session slots are:
9:15am - 9:35am, 9:35am- 9:55am, 9:55am-10:15am, 10:15am-10:35am, 10:35am-10:50am ,10:50-11:10am.
Please email school admin@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk with a time slot which is convenient for yourself and we will try and accommodate this.The session will be in person at school. We hope that you will find these sessions useful and look forward to seeing you.
With best wishes,
The All Saints’ Team
| Thursday 31st March
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Easter Eggstravaganza - Entries need to be in school on the morning of 31st of March for judging and there will be a prize per class for the best effort and also an overall school winner! |
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| Friday 1st April
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Family Easter Egg Hunt in the morning. Parents can attend.
Whole School Easter Service– 1.45pm - No Parents School breaks up for the Easter Holiday and returns on Tuesday 19th April 2020. |
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| Tuesday 19th April |
School Opens following the Easter Holidays |
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| Friday 22nd April
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St George’s Day – Those who are part of a uniformed club can wear their uniform today e.g. Cub Scouts, Girlguiding, etc. |
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| Tuesday 26th April |
9.15am-12.15pm School Nurse Parent Drop-ins |
Have a good week,
Hannah Gaynor and Helen Morton
Dear School Family,
Sporting Achievements
Chill Factor Victory
What a week of sporting events for All Saints’ it was last week! Mrs Noble and Mrs Hev Taylor, one of our school governors, took a team of children to the Chill Factor last Monday. Our team came FIRST and WON the competition! What a victory that was!!
Tremendous Tri-Golf
Yet again our All Saints’ Superstars were amazing at the Tri-Golf event last Friday. They were all fantastic sports people and a special mention to Benji who won the longest drive competition by quite some distance! A huge thank you to Mrs Pattison for accompanying the children and another great sporting event attended!
Calling all Sporting Enthusiasts! Message from Mr Granite and Mrs. Noble...
For our annual Active Week next term 27th June- 1st July, we are hoping to get children fully active and having the opportunity to experience a wide range of sports and maybe try out something new to develop new hobbies and interests to keep fit and healthy.
So far we have Boogie Bounce on mini trampolines, archery and a climbing wall in place for the week (fingers crossed).
If you have any connections to local sports clubs that you or your child attend, please do let us know if you can encourage someone to support their local school and lead a few sessions during the week.
Again, if you yourself are really passionate about keeping fit and can offer to run some sessions in school, no matter how little or much time you can offer, we would love to hear from you!
Please do let us know when you see us around or via Tapestry- we look forward to hearing from you and helping to fill 2022's Active week with a fantastic, fun week for your children to enjoy and remember!
Open Morning and our Easter Programme
Many of you have already shared with us how much you enjoyed the opportunity to be in your child’s classroom and to celebrate their learning and progress by looking at their books. 69% of our families attended and we were so glad we were able to have this event.
As with everything in life some things are back on track post pandemic and other things unfortunately aren’t fully there yet. Due to restrictions All Saints’ Church is not able to hold all our school Family for our upcoming Easter Service. As such the children will still be attending for a celebration as planned at Church and each class will share their learning via tapestry. We fully recognise and appreciate the disappointment this will bring as it is shared by us in school too. However, we will ensure the children do have a wonderful end to term and please watch out for a special Easter Bunny announcement for a family treat on the last day of term!!
Eggstravaganza
See the attached flier for details on how you can enter this competition on 31st March.
Raising money for Ukraine
We are still continuing to see the peace ribbons initiated by Penny, Lily and Max. So far, they have raised the grand total of £300 through school sales and additional £450 through community sales.
Stockport Hydro Awards
We were so proud to be able to attend the Hydro last Friday and collect a cheque for £800 from the Stockport Hydro Environmental Challenge Fund Awards. It was such a special occasion and Abigail and Martha from Year 6 represented All Saints’ beautifully. Mrs Clayton, deservedly, went with the children to collect the cheque in recognition of all her hard work putting together the successful bid. The money will be used to contribute towards seating and equipment in the spirituality garden.
Calling all Green Fingered Helpers!
If you can spare some time after school on Monday 28th March 3.30- 5.00 we would be so grateful for any help (young and old welcome) to spruce up our Spiritual Garden for Easter now that everything is starting to bloom so beautifully with the amazing array of plants and flowers families donated in September.
Please bring your wellies, spades and gloves and feel free to get stuck in! (many hands make light work!)
Thank you in advance for your support to ensure that your children have such inspiring spaces for calm and quiet times during their time in school.
Mrs. Noble
School Nurse Drop-in for Parents of children in Reception- Year 6
We are delighted to inform you our School Nurse, Alison Dunning, will be offering ‘drop in’ sessions at school.
School nursing is a universal public health service for school age children. School Nurses are qualified nurses with an additional specialist public health qualification.
The school nursing team can offer support, guidance and signposting to other services on a whole range of things for example: Continence - daytime and night time wetting and any toileting issues; headlice; emotional and mental health & wellbeing; healthy eating and weight management or if you have any concerns at all about your child that you feel chatting to the nurse would help.
The session is on Tuesday 26th April 2022 and will start at 9:15am. and this will hopefully become a regular session.
Please email school admin@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk with a time slot which is convenient for yourself and we will try and accommodate this.
The session will be in person at school.
We hope that you will find these sessions useful and look forward to seeing you.
With best wishes
The All Saints’ Team
Attendance
We appreciate that many families are now arranging family holidays. When it has come to absence requests, we reflect on each individual circumstance. As things have returned to normal, and in line with national guidance, we will need to continue to authorise any absence requests unless they meet the exceptional circumstances criteria. Many thanks in advance for your understanding
HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE
Due to the medical needs across our school, we would ask that you:
Refrain from bringing anything into school which contains nuts. E.g. hummus
Health & Safety
Please note that LFD tests can be picked up from the local chemists for using at home.
SEE DIARY DATES PREVIOUSLY ISSUED
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Friday 25th March |
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School Art Day |
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Wednesday 30th March |
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Easter Rehearsal at Church – 9.15am, walkers to help the children to and from Church would be greatly appreciated |
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Friday 1st April |
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Family Easter Egg Hunt in the morning (Details to follow) Whole School Easter Service at All Saints’ Church – 1.45pm Please note, due to the capacity in church being 250, we will not be able to invite parents to this event. School breaks up for the Easter Holiday and returns on Tuesday 19th April 2020. |
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Tuesday 19th April |
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School Opens following the Easter Holidays |
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Friday 22nd April |
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St George’s Day – Those who are part of a uniformed club can wear their uniform today e.g. Cub Scouts, Girlguiding, etc. |
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Tuesday 26th April |
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9.15am-11.10am School Nurse Parent Drop-ins |
Have a good week,
Hannah Gaynor and Helen Morton
Dear School Family,
Sporting Achievements
What a week of sporting events for All Saints’ it was last week, with netball, golf and cross country competitions attended. We won a number of ‘spirit of the games awards’ and also came first in two out of four cross country races! It has been really wonderful to be able to take part in inter school events again and well done to all involved. Thank you hugely to Mrs Noble for all she has done to enter us in these competitions and also all the other adults who supported the children at the events too.
Raising money for Ukraine
Please read the letter attached which details the selling of blue and yellow ribbons for £1 throughout this week.
Open Morning
We are pleased to inform you that we will be having our intended Open Morning on Tuesday 15th March 2022. This will be an opportunity for you to celebrate your child’s learning and progress by looking at their books. The school gates will be open from 8.25am and you will be able to use the external classroom doors to enter and exit your child’s classroom between 8.30 and 9.00am. (Blue and yellow ribbons will still be on sale before school.)
Eggstravaganza
See the attached flier for details on how you can enter this competition on 31st March.
Safeguarding and WhatsApp
Mobile phones are a great way to stay in touch with family and friends, however, children can sometimes lack the maturity to use them appropriately which can lead to a number of issues that may affect their wellbeing.
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/app-reviews/whatsapp-messenger
To help protect and keep your children safe, here are some top tips.
Finally, communication is key. When your child gets a new phone, sit down with them, explain that it’s not a toy and talk to them about some of the issues they might face. Remind them that they should always discuss any concerns they have with a trusted adult and never share anything that is inappropriate or could hurt someone.
#speakingoutcouldsavealife
@GM_VRU
Please see the below links which have been shared with us by the Violence Reduction Unit (VRU).
The VRU has worked with GM education and community partners to produce a safety message for young people and parents which can be downloaded from this link. VRU - SPEAKING UP v3.mp4 (vimeo.com)
You can also find it on YouTube here: #speakingoutcouldsavealife - YouTube
Please see the attached flyer for more information on this free event
| HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE
Due to the medical needs across our school, we would ask that you:
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Health & Safety
Please note that LFD tests can be picked up from the local chemists for using at home.
SEE DIARY DATES PREVIOUSLY ISSUED
Term Dates 2022-2023
Please see the holiday dates which were sent out before half term. As always please note that term time holidays will be unauthorised and may require further action in line with the Local Authority Policy.
| Friday 25th March |
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School Art Day |
| Wednesday 30th March |
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Easter Rehearsal at Church – 9.15am, walkers to help the children to and from Church would be greatly appreciated |
| Friday 1st April |
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Whole School Easter Service at All Saints’ Church – 1.45pm parents/carers welcome (please note we will continue to monitor all events against the current covid guidance) School breaks up for the Easter Holiday and returns on Tuesday 19th April 2020. |
| Tuesday 19th April |
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School Opens following the Easter Holidays |
| Friday 22nd April |
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St George’s Day – Those who are part of a uniformed club can wear their uniform today e.g. Cub Scouts, Girlguiding, etc. |
Have a good week,
Hannah Gaynor and Helen Morton
Dear School Family,
Health & Safety
We had our 'stay indoors procedure drill' last week Wednesday. It was a really useful exercise to complete and it was done effectively.
Overall we were very pleased with the speediness of the drill, the maturity of the children and diligence of the staff. Thank you for your continued cooperation and in helping to keep your children safe.
Year 6 Class Assembly!!
It was so, so wonderful to finally have families come into school again and see all the amazing learning their children have done. The children shared their recent topics from Ancient Greece to WW1 with lots of enthusiastic signing and excellently timed acting in between. It was a fantastic occasion and the first of many again we hope. A huge thank you to all the children, staff and parents for making such a great event for all.
Open Morning
We are pleased to inform you that we will be having our intended Open Morning on Tuesday 15th March 2022. This will be an opportunity for you to celebrate your child’s learning and progress by looking at their books. The school gates will be open from 8.25am and you will be able to use the external classroom doors to enter and exit your child’s classroom between 8.30 and 9.00am.
Safeguarding and WhatsApp
Mobile phones are a great way to stay in touch with family and friends, however, children can sometimes lack the maturity to use them appropriately which can lead to a number of issues that may affect their wellbeing.
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/app-reviews/whatsapp-messenger
To help protect and keep your children safe, here are some top tips.
Finally, communication is key. When your child gets a new phone, sit down with them, explain that it’s not a toy and talk to them about some of the issues they might face. Remind them that they should always discuss any concerns they have with a trusted adult and never share anything that is inappropriate or could hurt someone.
#speakingoutcouldsavealife
@GM_VRU
Please see the below links which have been shared with us by the Violence Reduction Unit (VRU).
The VRU has worked with GM education and community partners to produce a safety message for young people and parents which can be downloaded from this link. VRU - SPEAKING UP v3.mp4 (vimeo.com)
You can also find it on YouTube here: #speakingoutcouldsavealife - YouTube
| Closing date today! So get entering asap! |
HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE
Due to the medical needs across our school, we would ask that you:
Refrain from bringing anything into school which contains nuts. E.g. hummus
Health & Safety
Please note that LFD tests can be picked up from the local chemists for using at home.
YR5 CELEBRATION OF LEARNING
What an exciting term we have had so far in Year 5! It has been amazing to see the children take on the role of historians, asking really insightful questions and making brilliant deductions all about the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings. Last half term, we started off our topic thinking about why the Angles, Saxons and Jutes came over to England and took a journey through their turbulent time ruling over England. To really bring the topic to life, we used the medium of dance, and came up with our own warrior dances, to intimidate opponents in the Battle of Hastings. We also wrote
battle speeches which we then recorded and edited together with the dances to create our very own Battle of Hastings movie! We are definitely in the presence of some future directors and producers!
We also started looking at our science topic for this term and have explored lots of different materials and their properties. We carried out some very interesting experiments, and wrote our own fair test to determine which material is the best insulator and would keep water the warmest.
At the end of last half term, we went on our fantastic trip to Tatton Park! The children were treated to a day of Anglo-Saxon and Viking training. They learnt how to thresh and winnow, in order to get grain and make flour. They also learnt how to weave, and enjoyed a peaceful moment in the amazing surroundings of the village! Finally, they went through Harold Bloodaxe’s intensive warrior training, learning how to hold a shield correctly and do the different battle formations the Vikings would have used.
This half term we have been learning all about the Vikings and how they impacted Britain during Anglo-Saxon times. The children have toured the globe, learning all about these pirates (which is what the word Viking means!) and how they raided many different countries. We have also learnt lots about Viking religion, and their pagan beliefs.
We have so many more exciting things to ‘Explore’ this half term and the topic of Anglo-Saxons and Vikings has certainly captured our attention so that we will ‘Know more. Remember more. Do more’!
SEE DIARY DATES PREVIOUSLY ISSUED
Term Dates 2022-2023
Please see the holiday dates which were sent out before half term. As always please note that term time holidays will be unauthorised and may require further action in line with the Local Authority Policy.
| Wednesday 9th March |
INSET DAY – School closed for children |
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| W/C 14th March |
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| Tuesday 15th March |
Open Morning 8.30am – 9.00am |
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| Friday 25th March |
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School Art Day |
| Wednesday 30th March |
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Easter Rehearsal at Church – 9.15am, walkers to help the children to and from Church would be greatly appreciated |
| Friday 1st April |
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Whole School Easter Service at All Saints’ Church – 1.45pm parents/carers welcome (please note we will continue to monitor all events against the current covid guidance) School breaks up for the Easter Holiday and returns on Tuesday 19th April 2020. |
| Tuesday 19th April |
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School Opens following the Easter Holidays |
| Friday 22nd April |
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St George’s Day – Those who are part of a uniformed club can wear their uniform today e.g. Cub Scouts, Girlguiding, etc. |
Have a good week,
Hannah Gaynor and Helen Morton
Dear School Family,
We would like to say a special welcome to Miss Taylor who has returned from maternity leave to become one of the year one teachers. She has already had the most wonderful morning with her class. A special thank you to those year one parents who have expressed personal welcomes to her too.
Health & Safety
As part of our Health and Safety policy and procedures in school, we will be having a lockdown drill this week. Please do have a general chat with your child/children about the need for these drills to be done in order to keep everyone safe. In school, the lockdown drill will be explained to the children before and the children will understand what to do. We will also let you know when this drill has been actioned and how successful it was.
As you may be aware, all schools have to have a lockdown procedure in place in case of emergency.
We are now calling ours a ‘stay inside’ procedure. ‘Stay inside’ procedures may be activated in response to any number of situations, these may be:
1. A reported incident, disturbance in the local community
2. An intruder on the site
3. A warning being received regarding a local risk of air pollution (smoke plume, gas cloud etc.)
4. A major fire in the vicinity of the school
5. The close proximity of a dangerous dog.
At All Saints’ we will practice the procedure at least annually with children so that they would know what to do should we ever need to use lockdown or ‘stay inside’. We plan to carry a test drill out this coming Wednesday (2nd of March). I stress this will be a practice, and we have no safety concerns at all. This is done sensitively with children so as not to cause any distress, in the same way that school would practice the Fire Evacuation Procedure.
Hopefully, we will never have a situation where we would need to use lockdown but we all feel safer knowing that we have procedures in place for any eventuality that would keep our children safe.
Update on covid:
We would like to take this opportunity to express a huge thank you to you all for your continued cooperation and support whilst we have been navigating through COVID-19.
Last week, the Prime Minister set out the next phase of the government’s COVID-19 response ‘Living with COVID-19’. Whilst we would agree that it is imperative to reduce the disruption to education, we would also encourage you all to continue to be vigilant throughout this time.
The Government has also removed the legal requirement to self-isolate following a positive test. However, those who test positive will continue to be advised to stay at home and avoid contact with other people for at least 5 full days, and then continue to follow the guidance until they have received 2 negative test results on consecutive days.
You are still able to access test kits from your local pharmacy or online.
Once again thank you.
Dignity & Respect
We hope you enjoyed the Dignity and Respect videos. For those who have not already seen them, the link below will take you to the Chester Diocese Youtube videos where the 3 videos can be found:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug9yhfJOz8g&list=PLdZ3q4lykTuCotTA-CCc5caB58VfVbsyA&index=1
Yr6 Class Assembly – Friday 4th March – see information at the end of this newsletter
Reminder – Wednesday 9th March is an inset day – the children are not in school.
Open Morning
We are pleased to inform you that we will be having our intended Open Morning on Tuesday 15th March 2022. This will be an opportunity for you to celebrate your child’s learning and progress by looking at their books. The school gates will be open from 8.25am and you will be able to use the external classroom doors to enter and exit your child’s classroom between 8.30 and 9.00am.
A Message from our Internet Safety Parent Ambassadors:
Dear Parents/Carers,
We would like to introduce ourselves to you. We have taken on the role of Internet Safety Parent Ambassadors to try and help get some important information out there to you all.
We have children in Year 3, Reception and one still to come!
Nowadays screen time and time online is very much part of everyday life for our children, whether that be for school learning or for time to relax at home.
After an online chat with Tanya Cross (Stockport’s Schools Health & Well Being Adviser) last year, it was concerning to hear how easy it is for our children to get in to conversations we wouldn't be happy with them having face-to-face, never mind online where we can be completely unaware of it happening. Tanya is continuing to issue advice as to the appropriate use of a variety of apps, including WhatsApp. This information will be useful to us as adults as well as our children.
The school has previously held online safety workshops for parents, which we are endeavouring to repeat and we're hoping we can help get this vital information out there to you all.
Tamzyn Granite & Emma Cox
Safeguarding and WhatsApp
Mobile phones are a great way to stay in touch with family and friends, however, children can sometimes lack the maturity to use them appropriately which can lead to a number of issues that may affect their wellbeing.
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/app-reviews/whatsapp-messenger
To help protect and keep your children safe, here are some top tips.
Finally, communication is key. When your child gets a new phone, sit down with them, explain that it’s not a toy and talk to them about some of the issues they might face. Remind them that they should always discuss any concerns they have with a trusted adult and never share anything that is inappropriate or could hurt someone.
#speakingoutcouldsavealife
@GM_VRU
Please see the below links which have been shared with us by the Violence Reduction Unit (VRU).
The VRU has worked with GM education and community partners to produce a safety message for young people and parents which can be downloaded from this link. VRU - SPEAKING UP v3.mp4 (vimeo.com)
You can also find it on YouTube here: #speakingoutcouldsavealife - YouTube
Please see the attached flyer for more information on this free event
World Book Day
We are delighted to be able to celebrate the world of books again on this year's world book day! On the 3rd March we would love children if they wish to come dressed as their favourite character from a book. The more creative the better. We can’t wait to see all the amazing outfits on the day and of course guessing what all the staff have come as too!
YR4 RESIDENTIAL TO CASTLETON
With a very snowy start the children had the most amazing trip last Thursday and Friday. Archery, caving, high ropes, zip wires, hiking, train rides to name but a few of the activities the children did and of course with lots of mud thrown in too! Throughout every part, the children have shown the All Saints’ Way in abundance. They have made us all so proud. Finally, the biggest THANK YOU to everyone involved in making this trip such a success, with so many memories made. From letters and bookings in the office to Risk Assessment checks by Mr McShane and of course Mr Lonsdale, Mrs Parry, Miss Daly, Mr Granite, Mrs Lonsdale and Miss Taylor for accompanying the children and looking after them all so very well.
| HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE
Due to the medical needs across our school, we would ask that you:
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Health & Safety
Please note that LFD tests can be picked up from the local chemists for using at home.
SEE DIARY DATES PREVIOUSLY ISSUED
Term Dates 2022-2023
Please see the holiday dates which were sent out before half term. As always please note that term time holidays will be unauthorised and may require further action in line with the Local Authority Policy
| Monday 28th February |
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First Year 5 Swimming lesson First Year 4 Brass lesson |
| Tuesday 1st March |
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Shrove Tuesday – Pancake Day |
| Thursday 3rd March |
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World Book Day - come dressed as a favourite character from a book |
| Friday 4th March |
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Class 6 Assembly - We are very hopeful that the Year 6 families will be able to come and join us in person for their children’s class assembly at 9.10 am on Friday 4th March. Please check tapestry for further communication. |
| Wednesday 9th March |
INSET DAY – School closed for children |
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| W/C 14th March |
Science Week: Growth
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| Friday 25th March |
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School Art Day |
| Wednesday 30th March |
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Easter Rehearsal at Church – 9.15am, walkers to help the children to and from Church would be greatly appreciated |
| Friday 1st April |
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Whole School Easter Service at All Saints’ Church – 1.45pm parents/carers welcome (please note we will continue to monitor all events against the current covid guidance) School breaks up for the Easter Holiday and returns on Tuesday 19th April 2020. |
| Tuesday 19th April |
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School Opens following the Easter Holidays |
| Friday 22nd April |
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St George’s Day – Those who are part of a uniformed club can wear their uniform today e.g. Cub Scouts, Girlguiding, etc. |
Have a good week,
Hannah Gaynor and Helen Morton
Dear School Family,
Welcome back to the second half of this Spring term and the second half of our academic year!!
Dignity & Respect –
In the Autumn Term, we were approached by Chris Penn, Our Chester Diocese Director of Education, to include some of our children in a Dignity and Respect video. The film crew came and recorded some of our children which was then edited and included in the final product. These videos were shared at the Headteachers’ Conference where Mrs Gaynor, Mrs Morton and Mr Bailey (chair of Governors) were filled with pride whilst listening to all the young people involved. Please take some time to click on the link below which will take you to the Chester Diocese Youtube videos where the 3 videos can be found:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug9yhfJOz8g&list=PLdZ3q4lykTuCotTA-CCc5caB58VfVbsyA&index=1
The Diocese have asked for any comments to be forwarded to them if we receive any. Please send these to admin@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk
Return to School
We can’t thank everyone enough for all your patience and understanding through yet another tricky few months in relation to Covid. We are hopeful that we can once again try to return to ‘normal’ in school by having activities such as whole school Collective Worships taking place. It is wonderful that we can all come together again! More trips can be organised again and events such as open mornings going ahead. Finally, in line with changes to restrictions, it is now down to personal choice if you wish to wear a mask or not on school premises.
Yr6 Class Assembly – Friday 4th March – see information at the end of this newsletter
Open Morning
We are pleased to inform you that we will be having our intended Open Morning on Tuesday 15th March 2022. This will be an opportunity for you to celebrate your child’s learning and progress by looking at their books. The school gates will be open from 8.25am and you will be able to use the external classroom doors to enter and exit your child’s classroom between 8.30 and 9.00am.
Hydro Environmental Challenge
We are delighted to announce that, thanks to Mrs Clayton, we have been awarded a fantastic £800 towards seating in the school’s allotment area! We are so pleased to have made a successful bid and the impact this funding will have on further improving our outdoor area for all our children now and in the future! A huge thanks again to Mrs Clayton; her drive, passion and enthusiasm in this area benefits so many of us in our school community.
Child Safety Online:
A practical guide for parents and carers whose children are using social media
Everyone is getting more aware than ever just how much online relationships and experiences can impact children’s mental health. We hope you find the attachment PDFs helpful, as we know families can be a huge help in monitoring and supporting their children’s experience online: the printable PDFs attached are full of top tips!
Before half term we had Safer Internet Day. Although this is a constant part of our curriculum in school, we gave extra focus on this really important matter throughout the week. This included activities about how to stay safe online, completing Circle Times and having important discussions. The learning has been showcased via the classes Friday Shout Outs so please take a look!
We trust you found the daily tapestry posts about sharing kindness online and various guides for when using the web, useful and informative
See a message from our Parent Online Safety Ambassadors over the page.
A Message from our Internet Safety Parent Ambassadors:
Dear Parents/Carers,
We would like to introduce ourselves to you. We have taken on the role of Internet Safety Parent Ambassadors to try and help get some important information out there to you all.
We have children in Year 3, Reception and one still to come!
Nowadays screen time and time online is very much part of everyday life for our children, whether that be for school learning or for time to relax at home.
After an online chat with Tanya Cross (Stockport’s Schools Health & Well Being Adviser) last year, it was concerning to hear how easy it is for our children to get in to conversations we wouldn't be happy with them having face-to-face, never mind online where we can be completely unaware of it happening. Tanya is continuing to issue advice as to the appropriate use of a variety of apps, including WhatsApp. This information will be useful to us as adults as well as our children.
The school has previously held online safety workshops for parents, which we are endeavouring to repeat and we're hoping we can help get this vital information out there to you all.
Tamzyn Granite & Emma Cox
Important notice: could all parents ensure that if you have changed your contact details since September, could you please inform Mrs Pattison/Mrs Davey on admin@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk
World Book Day
We are delighted to be able to celebrate the world of books again on this year's world book day! On the 3rd March we would love children if they wish to come dressed as their favourite character from a book. The more creative the better. We can’t wait to see all the amazing outfits on the day and of course guessing what all the staff have come as too!
Class 4 have had a busy half term, with so many things happening simultaneously it is hard to keep track! Upon our return from the Christmas holidays we were almost immediately thrust into rehearsals for our virtual assembly, the children all learnt the parts well and performed for the camera brilliantly. Hopefully they learnt a little history along the way too!
In the classroom we’ve been exploring the rich Year 4 curriculum, with the children focusing on the Maya and Central America for the beginning of the term. Part of this has seen them revisiting old skills in Geography, ensuring they are up to speed with using an atlas and map; learning about modern central American customs and festivals such as dia de los Muertos (The Day of the Dead) and writing from the perspective of an indigenous Mesoamerican child.
We have continued to make our approach cross curricular with the children doing a sketchbook project over several weeks in art. This has seen them produce stunning work in several different mediums, and subsequently evaluating their work and improving in future. Their crowning glory was a self-directed project where the children have (almost) finished their very own Calacas skull and decorated in their own unique style.
Science this term has focused on physics and states of matter. We will be continuing this after half term with many new and exciting experiments lined up!
As we approach half term the children are now raring up for their Castleton adventure, I know they will make both myself and the school proud and show their maturity and resilience during their time there. Well done Y4 for a great start to the year!
Mr Lonsdale, Mrs Parry and Mrs Adshead
HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE
Due to the medical needs across our school, we would ask that you:
Refrain from bringing anything into school which contains nuts. E.g. hummus
Health & Safety
Please note that LFD tests can be picked up from the local chemists for using at home
SEE DIARY DATES PREVIOUSLY ISSUED
Term Dates 2022-2023
Please see the holiday dates which were sent out before half term. As always please note that term time holidays will be unauthorised and may require further action in line with the Local Authority Policy.
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Monday 28th February |
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First Year 5 Swimming lesson First Year 4 Brass lesson – more information to follow |
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Tuesday 1st March |
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Shrove Tuesday – Pancake Day |
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Thursday 3rd March |
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World Book Day - come dressed as a favourite character from a book |
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Friday 4th March |
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Class 6 Assembly - We are very hopeful that the Year 6 families will be able to come and join us in person for their children’s class assembly at 2.40pm on Friday 4th March. Please check tapestry for further communication. |
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Wednesday 9th March |
INSET DAY – School closed for children |
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W/C 14th March |
Science Week: Growth |
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Friday 25th March |
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School Art Day |
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Wednesday 30th March |
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Easter Rehearsal at Church – 9.15am, walkers to help the children to and from Church would be greatly appreciated |
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Friday 1st April |
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Whole School Easter Service at All Saints’ Church – 1.45pm parents/carers welcome (please note we will continue to monitor all events against the current covid guidance) School breaks up for the Easter Holiday and returns on Tuesday 19th April 2020. |
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Tuesday 19th April |
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School Opens following the Easter Holidays |
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Friday 22nd April |
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St George’s Day – Those who are part of a uniformed club can wear their uniform today e.g. Cub Scouts, Girlguiding, etc. |
Have a good week,
Hannah Gaynor and Helen Morton
Dear School Family,
We would like to say a special welcome to Mrs Day who has returned from maternity leave to become one of the year one teachers. She had the most wonderful time with her class last week. A special thank you to those year one parents who have expressed personal welcomes to her.
Miss Taylor will be soon with us too and she will be the other class teacher for year one. We are very much looking forward to Miss Taylor’s return and some of you would have already been informed that she is also returning to her role as SENDCo across the school on 28th February. Mrs Mylrea has already had a couple of meetings with Miss Taylor to ensure a smooth transition.
As you are aware, we were unable to have our Open Morning last week but we will update you on how you can look at some of your children’s work as soon as we are able to.
Please do continue to check your Tapestry account to read and view all the exciting learning your children have been engaging in and see the special Yr2 Celebration of Work on page 3.
Important notice: could all parents ensure that if you have changed your contact details since September, could you please inform Mrs Pattison/Mrs Davey on admin@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk
This week sees Safer Internet Day 2022 take place. Although this is a constant part of our curriculum in school, we will be giving extra focus on this really important matter throughout the week. This will include activities about how to stay safe online, completing Circle Times and having important discussions. We will be showcasing the learning via the classes Friday Shout Outs so please take a look and enjoy!
In addition, we will be sending out a daily tapestry post about sharing kindness online and various guides for when using the web. We hope you find these both informative and useful. Please note to read the information clearly on a phone or tablet you will need to download the attachment.
Term Dates 2022-2023
Please find attached/ see link to website for next year's holiday dates. As always please note that term time holidays will be unauthorised and may require further action in line with the Local Authority Policy.
https://allsaintsprimarymarple.co.uk/stockport/primary/allsaints-pri/site/pages/parents/schoolnewsletter/currentnewsletter
World Book Day
We are delighted to be able to celebrate the world of books again on this year's world book day! On the 3rd March we would love children if they wish to come dressed as their favourite character from a book. The more creative the better. We can’t wait to see all the amazing outfits on the day and of course guessing what all the staff have come as too!
Tatton Park Trip
It was wonderful to see the year five children return after a fantastic trip on Friday. They had a fun filled day that also sounded very action packed learning all about the Anglo- Saxons and Vikings. They did threshing and winnowing where they looked at how the Anglo-Saxons would have got their grain and wheat and then ground it down to make flour. They also did weaving and Harold Bloodaxe's training centre where they went through an intensive warrior training! Thanks so much to all the staff involved in making this such a great trip, definitely lots of memories made! making this such a great trip, definitely lots of memories made! lots of memories made!
Children's Mental Health Week is taking place this week and the theme is Growing Together
Please do have discussions with your children about this important topic.
HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE
Due to the medical needs across our school, we would ask that you:
Refrain from bringing anything into school which contains nuts. E.g. hummus
Health & Safety
Please note that LFD tests can be picked up from the local chemists for using at home.
YEAR 2 CELEBRATIONS
We are always so proud of our children, but never more so than this term. I don't think we have ever had a class enjoy their topics more than our Class 2's have enjoyed this term! We started with the most incredible discovery of a 'real' Dilophosaurus skull in the grounds of our very own junk yard. The children were such wonderful archaeologists, learning to dig first and then to use brushes as we got close. They all had a hold of the precious artefact before it was rightfully returned to the Paleontological Society where I believe it will be in a London Museum one day!
They then moved on to learning about famous Historical figures, and to tie in with Martin Luther King day we focussed on Martin himself, as well as Rosa Parks. The children's empathy, sensitivity and care towards this topic blew us away and we know we are in the presence of future peacemakers and citizens who will protect the rights of others - they made us very proud.
This was demonstrated even further in our final topic of the half term, learning about Potter's Village, a charity exceedingly close to our hearts as they have very strong links with All Saints' Church. We have chosen this as our charity to focus on as the children were really touched when we heard a little bit about it at Church Week in October. The children came up with really insightful and interesting questions to ask our resident expert, Brenda Beardwood, when she came in to share her knowledge of Potter's Village, and they are currently beavering away making the most beautiful necklaces (linked to the ones some of the women in Uganda create) to sell to all of the ladies in their life in order to raise money that we can send to help the babies and children that are cared for in Potter's Village. If you would like to learn a little bit more about Potter's Village then we have included the website here https://www.pottersvillage.org.uk/
All in all, we are absolutely adoring being in Year 2, we have the most exciting topics that we have covered and are planned in for the future...we won't give too much away but will leave you with a huge 'Aggggghhhhhhhh me hearties'.... how will you ever guess?!
SEE DIARY DATES PREVIOUSLY ISSUED
| DATE |
EVENT |
| 11th February 2022 |
School breaks up at 3.15pm for Half Term |
| 21st February 2022 |
School open after February half term holiday |
| 24th -25th February 2022 |
Year 4 go to Hollowford Centre, Castleton on a one night residential and return on Friday 25th February |
| 28th February 2022 |
First Yr5 swimming lesson |
| 3rd March 2022 |
World Book Day |
Have a good week
Hannah Gaynor and Helen Morton
Dear School Family,
PARENTS EVENINGS
We would like to say a huge thank you to our Dream Team: Mrs Pattison, Mrs Davey and Mrs Vickers for setting up our new online parent meeting system. We have had so many positive comments regarding how successful it was. Thank you to all our parents/carers who continue to work in partnership with our wonderful teachers and the rest of our school team for the benefit of your remarkable children!
As you are aware, we are unable to have our Open Morning this week but we will update you on how you can look at some of your children’s work as soon as we are able to.
Please do continue to check your Tapestry account to read and view all the exciting learning your children have been engaging in.
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Holiday Vouchers available for the Spring Half Term and Easter. Please see the attached poster. |
Children's Mental Health Week is taking place on 7-13 February 2022. 
This year's theme is Growing Together.
Children's Mental Health Week aims to highlight the importance of mental health within children and young people.
As a whole school, we will be encouraging children (and adults) to consider how they have grown, and how they can help others to grow. This is the perfect theme for us at All Saints’ as one thing we really do excel at is instilling a positive growth mind-set in our children.
We will be having discussions with your children and asking them to express themselves in a creative and inspiring way. We will dance, share positive messages, try new things, encourage resilience, learn and inspire each other to grow together. We would love you to be able to extend and expand these conversations at home. Here are some very helpful links to enable you to take part.
https://youtu.be/1-d6Qm1feZE
https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/schools-and-youth-groups/
HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE 
Due to the medical needs across our school, we would ask that you:
Health & Safety
Please note that LFD tests can be picked up from the local chemists for using at home.
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DATE |
EVENT |
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8th February 2022 |
SAFER IINTERNET DAY |
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This has had to be re-arranged. Date to be confirmed |
Class 2 Assembly |
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11th February 2022 |
School breaks up at 3.15pm for Half Term |
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21st February 2022 |
School open after February half term holiday |
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25th -25th February 2022 |
Year 4 go to Hollowford Centre, Castleton on a one night residential and return on Friday 25th February |
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28th February 2022 |
First Yr5 swimming lesson |
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3rd March 2022 |
World Book Day |
Have a good week,
Hannah Gaynor and Helen Morton
Dear School Family,
PARENTS EVENINGS
Don’t forget that our Spring Parents Evenings will be on Monday 24th January, 2022 and Thursday 27th January, 2022. Both evenings will be after the school day. From experience, we know that it is much better to be somewhere where you are less likely to be interrupted. Please also remember the appointment will begin and end promptly.
Taking action for nature in Stockport
We are pleased to announce that we are a Cheshire Wilder School!!
Wild Stockport is an initiative run by Cheshire Wildlife Trust to bring wildlife back to Stockport by mobilising communities to make more space for nature where they live.
After watching a video explaining how important our wildlife is to us and the environment, the children were asked to make a pledge/ promise to take action to improve our local wildlife. e.g. I pledge to grow long grass in my garden for insects to hide, find food and lay eggs in. I promise to use less plastic, as I know it is polluting our natural world.
With All Saints’ signing up, we will have Wildlife Assemblies once a half term, be able to enter competitions, receive teaching resources and also transform our grounds to help nature.
This is a display of some of our
Giving Nature a Helping Hand Pledges
Gymnastics Competition
We were so excited to take our children out for this competition. We hoped it would be a wonderful sporting event and it certainly didn’t disappoint. Our children were able to showcase their talents, enjoy the skills of others and we are sure they will remember these special occasions. Our children were fantastic and represented our school in our All Saints’ Way.
Cross Country Achievements
A very well done to Gracie who has been selected to represent the Stockport team in this year’s Greater Manchester Cross-Country Championships! What a great achievement! Good luck Gracie we are all so very proud of you.
Children's Mental Health Week is taking place on 7-13 February 2022.
This year's theme is Growing Together.
Children's Mental Health Week aims to highlight the importance of mental health within children and young people.
As a whole school, we will be encouraging children (and adults) to consider how they have grown, and how they can help others to grow. This is the perfect theme for us at All Saints’ as one thing we really do excel at is instilling a positive growth mind-set in our children.
We will be having discussions with your children and asking them to express themselves in a creative and inspiring way. We will dance, share positive messages, try new things, encourage resilience, learn and inspire each other to grow together. We would love you to be able to extend and expand these conversations at home. Here are some very helpful links to enable you to take part.
https://youtu.be/1-d6Qm1feZE
https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk/schools-and-youth-groups/
See the following courses for parents
Being a Parent Together – for parents / carers of children aged 2 - 11 years who attend together, living together/in a relationship, or not (2 ¼ hr hours per week, for 9 weeks)
Abacus Start Well Hub in Adswood – 27th January
Being a parent – for parents / carers with children aged 2 - 11 years (2 ¼ hours per week, for 8 weeks).
St. Marks, Bredbury – 25th January
Abacus Start Well Hub in Adswood – 25th January
Both courses include: Being good enough, play & spending time with your children, understanding children’s behaviour, discipline strategies, listening and communication, coping with stress and more…
Please email: admin.epec@stockport.gov.uk or telephone 0161 406 9558
HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE
Due to the medical needs across our school, we would ask that you:
Refrain from bringing anything into school which contains nuts. E.g. hummus
Health & Safety
Please note that LFD tests can be picked up from the local chemists for using at home.
| DATE |
EVENT |
| 24.1.22 & 27.1.22 |
PARENTS EVENINGS |
| 8th February 2022 |
SAFER IINTERNET DAY |
| 9th February 2022 |
Class 2 Assembly 2.40pm - parents welcome if possible. (Please note we will continue to monitor all events against the current covid guidance) |
| 11th February 2022 |
School breaks up at 3.15pm for Half Term |
| 21st February 2022 |
School open after February half term holiday |
| 25th -25th February 2022 |
Year 4 go to Hollowford Centre, Castleton on a one night residential and return on Friday 25th February |
Have a good week,
Hannah Gaynor and Helen Morton
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Dear School Family,
Happy Monday! We have a shorter newsletter this week and since returning, our children have been thoroughly enjoying their EXPLORE topic. We are looking forward to sharing the children’s wow moments and progress in their learning with you.
PARENTS EVENINGS Don’t forget that our Spring Parents Evenings will be on Monday 24th January, 2022 and Thursday 27th January, 2022. Both evenings will be after the school day. Details of how to book your appointment was posted on Tapestry on Tuesday 11th January. The system is very straightforward but if you have any issues making your appointments we’re here in the office to help.
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THE ALPHA COURSE is being held at All Saints’ C of E Church from 23rd January.
Please see the attached flyer.
Following on from Anti-bullying week last half term and linked to our continual work around keeping the children of All Saints’ safe, we have been updating our Anti-Bullying Policy. This is now on the school website and uses the following LA definition for Bullying.
Bullying is the purposeful choosing of behaviours that threaten, intimidate or hurt someone, which is often, but not always, repeated overtime, which involves a real or perceived power imbalance .The following acronym can also be applied to define bullying -
STOP
(Several Times On Purpose)
In addition, we also completed our Anti-Bullying Audit last half term with all the children. On the whole the results were very positive. After, reviewing all elements in detail we have already looked at certain areas around the school the children shared they feel less safe e.g. busy locker rooms and begun to work with the children to address and find solutions to their concerns. This will be ongoing throughout the year and also regularly form part of our teaching and learning within the curriculum.
HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE
Due to the medical needs across our school, we would ask that you:
Refrain from bringing anything into school which contains nuts. E.g. hummus
Health & Safety
Please note that LFD tests can be picked up from the local chemists for using at home.
Stockport’s Solihull Approach
This fabulous online resource is free for residents of Stockport, giving them access to the following courses that are proven to improve emotional wellbeing and the relationships between parents and children. This resource is useful for mothers, fathers, partners, carers, grandparents, other family and involved friends as these courses are for anyone playing an active role in a child’s life, up until they are 19 including professionals of all kinds.
Book your place on Learning Pool
If you do not have access to Learning Pool, please email us and we can book you on and send you the link.
Monday 17th January 14:00:15:00
Thursday 24th February 12:00-13:00
Wednesday 23rd March 9.30-10.30
SEE DIARY DATES PREVIOUSLY ISSUED
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DATE |
EVENT |
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17th January 2022 |
MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY |
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24.1.22 & 27.1.22 |
PARENTS EVENINGS |
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8th February 2022 |
SAFER IINTERNET DAY |
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9th February 2022 |
Class 2 Assembly 2.40pm - parents welcome if possible. (Please note we will continue to monitor all events against the current covid guidance) |
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11th February 2022 |
School breaks up at 3.15pm for Half Term |
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21st February 2022 |
School open after February half term holiday |
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25th -25th February 2022 |
Year 4 go to Hollowford Centre, Castleton on a one night residential and return on Friday 25th February |
Have a good week,
Hannah Gaynor and Helen Morton
Dear School Family,
A very happy new year to you all!
We hope you all managed some festive fun and time with loved ones.
We are delighted that we have been able to welcome all our wonderful children back to school with no changes to all the enhanced Covid-19 policies and procedures that were already in place before the Christmas holidays. These included additional hand washing, sanitising, cleaning, monitoring of ventilation, CO2 monitors in classrooms, the wearing of face masks at pick up and drop off, regular LFD testing for staff to pick up asymptomatic cases, taking a PCR test if anyone has any coronavirus symptoms and meetings, class assemblies and collective worships taking place virtually.
Although, things are still not ‘back to normal’ we have much to look forward to in the coming term and as always will keep you updated as and when necessary.
Many thanks,
The All Saints’ Team
TOOTH SAFE GOLD AWARD - We are very pleased to announce that Miss McConnell and the Reception team completed an application for us to become a Tooth Safe school and have actually achieved the GOLD award!! This is a tremendous achievement and was gained by including some very innovative ideas in the application.
The public health adviser commented that they were ‘blown away’ with the ‘outstanding’ suggestions and will be using our school as good practice in other settings across the authority. This is absolutely brilliant news!! Many congratulations to Miss McConnell and her team.
Following this fantastic achievement, from January 2022, we are asking parents to, instead of sending sweets into school for birthday celebrations, to either donate a fiction/non-fiction book or a class game to their child’s class.
Thank you in advance for supporting this new initiative as we work in partnership to protect the health of your child’s teeth.
PARENTS EVENINGS
Please note that our Spring Parents Evenings will be on Monday 24th January, 2022 and Thursday 27th January, 2022. Both evenings will be after the school day. See further information on the next page from Mrs Vickers.
Depending on the current guidance, we will also be having an open morning for each class from 8.30-9.00am on Tuesday 1st February, 2022 when you will be able to look at your child’s books in the classroom Only external classroom doors will be used and further details will be issued over the next few weeks.
CLASS ASSEMBLIES: check
Unfortunately, due to the ongoing covid situation, we are not allowed to have large groups of visitors in the school to watch our Yr4 assembly which was scheduled for 12th January. The Yr4 staff will instead be filming our performance and sending the video out, probably via Tapestry, or alternatively via other means. This is very disappointing for us as the children were so excited to show off their dramatic talents to a live audience! The children have been excitedly practising their "adventure" topic assembly. It tells the epic tale of the first Roman Emperor-Augustus and how it involves so many of the famous historical figures of the era such as Julius Caesar, Marc Anthony and Cleopatra. It will demonstrate the children's new knowledge of the Roman army, politics and wider society. We are going to film it over the coming week in order to premier it as soon as possible! Please do spend some time watching the assembly and celebrating their learning.
Following on from Anti-bullying week last half term and linked to our continual work around keeping the children of All Saints’ safe we have been updating our Anti-Bullying Policy. This is now on the school website and uses the following LA definition for Bullying.
Bullying is the purposeful choosing of behaviours that threaten, intimidate or hurt someone, which is often, but not always, repeated overtime, which involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The following acronym can also be applied to define bullying -
STOP
(Several Times On Purpose)
In addition, we also completed our Anti-Bullying Audit last half term with all the children. On the whole the results were very positive. After, reviewing all elements in detail we have already looked at certain areas around the school the children shared they feel less safe e.g. busy locker rooms and begun to work with the children to address and find solutions to their concerns. This will be ongoing throughout the year and also regularly form part of our teaching and learning within the curriculum.
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PARENTS EVENINGS In these unsettled times, we have made the decision to move over to a virtual parents evening session – which has proved incredibly successful and popular in a number of local schools over the last couple of years. The system, which is called School Cloud, offers video meetings for parents with your child’s teacher. These can be held by using either a phone, tablet or computer. You get to choose your own appointment time and if you have more than one child in school it is very easy for you to schedule these so that the appointments are close together. Appointments run more to time and you can hold the meeting wherever you are, if you have your device with you. If parents are in different places, it is very easy for you to invite the other parent to attend the same meeting. The system is very straightforward but if you have any issues making your appointments we’re here in the office to help. When we send more details in January, I will include links to online ‘how-to’ videos to make the process as easy as possible. |
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HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE Due to the medical needs across our school, we would ask that you:
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Health & Safety
Stockport’s Solihull Approach
This fabulous online resource is free for residents of Stockport, giving them access to the following courses that are proven to improve emotional wellbeing and the relationships between parents and children. This resource is useful for mothers, fathers, partners, carers, grandparents, other family and involved friends as these courses are for anyone playing an active role in a child’s life, up until they are 19 including professionals of all kinds.
Book your place on Learning Pool
If you do not have access to Learning Pool, please email us and we can book you on and send you the link.
Monday 17th January 14:00:15:00
Thursday 24th February 12:00-13:00
Wednesday 23rd March 9.30-10.30
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DATE |
EVENT |
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12th January 2022 |
Yr4 CLASS ASSEMBLY VIDEO POSTED ON TAPESTRY DUE TO CURRENT RESTRICTIONS. |
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17th January 2022 |
MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY |
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24.1.22 & 27.1.22 |
PARENTS EVENINGS |
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1st February 2022 |
CLASS OPEN MORNING 8.30-9.00am. (TBC) - parents/carers welcome to accompany their children into their classrooms to look at their learning (please note we will continue to monitor all events against the current covid guidance) |
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8th February 2022 |
SAFER IINTERNET DAY |
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9th February 2022 |
Class 2 Assembly 2.40pm - parents welcome if possible. (Please note we will continue to monitor all events against the current covid guidance) |
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11th February 2022 |
School breaks up at 3.15pm for Half Term |
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21st February 2022 |
School open after February half term holiday |
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25th -25th February 2022 |
Year 4 go to Hollowford Centre, Castleton on a one night residential and return on Friday 25th |
Have a good week,
Hannah Gaynor and Helen Morton
Dear School Family,
Christmas Lunch was a huge success last week. There was plenty of tasty food for all and the children enjoyed listening to Christmas carols as they ate. We’d like to say a huge thank you to the Taylor Shaw kitchen staff who did a tremendous job and a huge thank you to our own Mrs Burney, who decked the tables and organised the event for our children
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Christmas Nativities
Well we did it!!! We managed to get all our KS1 and Reception parents into church to watch their wonderful children performing their fantastic nativities.
It was truly a special moment and I know there were a few parents who shed tears of joy!
All the children have done an amazing job. Thank you, as their family, for rehearsing all those lines and songs and for providing costumes. Thank you also to our outstanding staff who worked so hard to produce polished performances!
Christmas Jumper Day – Wednesday 22nd December.
Next term, our Year 1 and Year 2 classes, will be joining forces to decide upon our spring charity focus and how we will be raising money for another worthy cause.
TOOTH SAFE GOLD AWARD - We are very pleased to announce that Miss McConnell and the Reception team completed an application for us to become a Tooth Safe school and have actually achieved the GOLD award!! This is a tremendous achievement and was gained by including some very innovative ideas in the application.
The public health adviser commented that they were ‘blown away’ with the ‘outstanding’ suggestions and will be using our school as good practice in other settings across the authority. This is absolutely brilliant news!! Many congratulations to Miss McConnell and her team.
Following this fantastic achievement, from January 2022, we are asking parents to, instead of sending sweets into school for birthday celebrations, to either donate a fiction/non-fiction book or a class game to their child’s class.
Thank you in advance for supporting this new initiative as we work in partnership to protect the health of your child’s teeth.
PARENTS EVENINGS
Please note that our Spring Parents Evenings will be on Monday 24th January, 2022 and Thursday 27th January, 2022. Both evenings will be after the school day. See further information on the next page from Mrs Vickers.
Depending on the current guidance, we will also be having an open morning for each class from 8.30-9.00am on Tuesday 1st February, 2022.
CLASS CHARITY FOCUS:
A huge, huge thank you to everyone who attended the charity Fund raiser for The Pantry. Our kind donation of £178 was collected by Chris Buckley one of the volunteers who passed on his sincere thanks to all who contributed and supported this wonderful, local charity (who distribute up to 50 bags of food per week on average on our community).
Please don't forget, if any of our families do feel it would be an extra help at this challenging, financial time of the year, please note that the Pantry is open from 10- 12 every Saturday from CONNECT on Queen Street, Marple and you are more than welcome to attend for food bags and a chat if you wish! Alternatively, If you are unable to come in person please contact the office at All Saints' Church on 0161 427 2378 or office@allsaintsmarple.co.uk.
Thank you so much, from Y3 and Y4, Mrs. Noble and Mr. Lonsdale
Next term, our Year 1 and Year 2 classes, will be joining forces to decide upon our spring charity focus and how we will be raising money for another worthy cause.
The Parents Association
The Christmas Shop - The children who brought in a gift chose one to take home today. This can be gifted to a family member as a 'surprise'. This item has been wrapped and tagged for them to bring home and put under the tree for Christmas.
Thank you,
The All Saints' Parents Association.
| Parents Evenings |
In these unsettled times we have made the decision to move over to a virtual parents evening session – which has proved incredibly successful and popular in a number of local schools over the last couple of years. The system, which is called School Cloud, offers video meetings for parents with your child’s teacher. These can be held by using either a phone, tablet or computer. You get to choose your own appointment time and if you have more than one child in school it is very easy for you to schedule these so that the appointments are close together. Appointments run more to time and you can hold the meeting wherever you are, if you have your device with you. If parents are in different places, it is very easy for you to invite the other parent to attend the same meeting. The system is very straightforward but if you have any issues making your appointments we’re here in the office to help. When we send more details in January, I will include links to online ‘how-to’ videos to make the process as easy as possible. In addition to the online parents evening, we will be having an open morning on 1st February at 8.30-9.00am, for you to be able to see your child’s books in class. More information about School Cloud will be sent out early in January 2022.
HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE
Due to the medical needs across our school, we would ask that you:
Refrain from bringing anything into school which contains nuts. E.g. hummus
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| Empowering Parents, Empowering Communities See the attached fliers for upcoming opportunities |
Wellbeing See the attached wellbeing poster with a list of support opportunities |
| Stockport’s Solihull Approach This fabulous online resource is free for residents of Stockport, giving them access to the following courses that are proven to improve emotional wellbeing and the relationships between parents and children. This resource is useful for mothers, fathers, partners, carers, grandparents, other family and involved friends as these courses are for anyone playing an active role in a child’s life, up until they are 19 including professionals of all kinds.
WE WANT THE WORKFORCE TO KNOW ALL ABOUT THIS and have scheduled several more learning circles (content is the same for all dates so you only need to attend one session). Book your place on Learning Pool If you do no have access to Learning Pool please email us and we can book you on and send you the link. Monday 17th January 14:00:15:00 Thursday 24th February 12:00-13:00 Wednesday 23rd March 9.30-10.30
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SEE DIARY DATES PREVIOUSLY ISSUED
| DATE |
EVENT |
| 21.12.21 |
Years 5 & 6 Party Day – more information to follow |
| 22.12.21 |
All school breaks up for the Christmas holiday. |
| Thursday 6th January 2022 |
ALL CHILDREN BACK IN SCHOOL |
| 24.1.22 & 27.1.22 |
PARENTS EVENINGS |
| 1st February 2022 |
CLASS OPEN MORNING 8.30-9.00am. (TBC) |
We wish you all a peaceful and relaxing time with friends and loved ones during this holiday season!
Hannah Gaynor and Helen Morton
Dear School Family,
Health & Safety
Christmas Jumper Days – All children will be able to wear their Christmas jumpers on Tuesday 14th and Wednesday 22nd December.
Charity Fundraiser
Tuesday 14th December…Y3/ 4 Charity Fundraiser...
All money to go towards ‘The Pantry’ providing food for our local food bank for families in our local community.
(This extra hour may just help families to have a little extra time to get a few last minute Christmas presents!)
Thank you in advance,
Y3/4 teachers- Mrs. Noble and Mr. Lonsdale
PARENTS EVENINGS
Please note that our Spring Parents Evenings will be on Monday 24th January, 2022 and Thursday 27th January, 2022. Both evenings will be after the school day and Mrs Vickers, our School Business Manager, will be sending out further information regarding these evenings.
The Parents Association
The Christmas Shop - For this event we are asking that children who wish to use the Christmas Shop bring in an unused gift item of no less than £1. Please can items be labelled as Christmas Shop and all items need to be in school by the 17th December.
The children who brought in a gift may then bring in £1 on the 20th December so that they can choose and buy an item from the Christmas Shop, so they have a gift which can be gifted to a family member as a 'surprise'. This item will be wrapped and tagged for them to bring home and put under the tree for Christmas.
Thank you, The All Saints' Parents Association.
HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE
Due to the medical needs across our school, we would ask that you:
Refrain from bringing anything into school which contains nuts.
CHRISTMAS LUNCH, NATIVITY, PARTIES & CAROL SERVICE INFORMATION
As always Christmas is such a special time of the year and we are delighted to be able to do some things this Christmas that were simply not allowed last year. However, due to LA guidelines still in place and other restrictions in places of worship etc. we will not be able to do things fully as in pre-covid times. As always we have thought hard and in the All Saints’ Way about how we can include as many people as possible and have as many events still take place for the children. Thank you for your understanding and we look forward to a fun filled festive period ahead.
Christmas Lunch – we are looking forward to our school Christmas Lunch on Tues 14th December.
Christmas Pantomime – after the success of last year’s lockdown pantomime, the theatre company will be performing an online pantomime for us on Thursday 16th December. Thank you to Mrs Noble for registering us for this
Christmas at Church –
Due to capacity restrictions in churches we have decided to run three separate events to ensure all children get to experience Christmas at Church and our young children’s families can see them in their starring roles!
15th December KS1 Nativity at 9.30am and 6pm. It is absolutely brilliant that x2 family members are allowed to attend each performance. However, the Church has asked that all adults wear a mask if they are not exempt, you remain seated once you have found a seat and the children remain on the stage throughout the performance. In line with the LA guidance, we are also asking that you all take a LFD test on the day of and before coming to each performance. It also goes without saying that If you are showing any symptoms of covid-19, you remain at home
20th December at 9.30am – the Reception children will be performing their very first school nativity which is really exciting!! The rules above apply and x4 family members will be allowed to attend the performance.
22nd December at 1.30pm - KS2 will be attending church for a Carol Service at 1.30pm. As the capacity for seating is currently only 225, we will only be allowed to have the children in the Church.
There will be a retiring collection at the end of the R and KS1 performances.
Christmas Parties - All classes will be having Christmas parties in school. See the diary dates at the end and party letters
SEE AUTUMN DIARY DATES PREVIOUSLY ISSUED
| DATE |
EVENT |
| 16.12.21 |
Reception and KS1 Party Day – more information to follow |
| 17.12.21 |
Years 3 & 4 Party Day – more information to follow |
| 21.12.21 |
Years 5 & 6 Party Day – more information to follow |
| 22.12.21 |
All school breaks up for the Christmas holiday. All children back in school on Thursday 6th January, 2022 |
| 24.1.22 & 27.1.22 |
PARENTS EVENINGS |
Have a wonderful week!
Hannah Gaynor and Helen Morton
| Dear School Family,
Health & Safety
Charity Fundraiser Tuesday 14th December…Y3/ 4 Charity Fundraiser...
All money to go towards ‘The Pantry’ providing food for our local food bank for families in our local community. (This extra hour may just help families to have a little extra time to get a few last minute Christmas presents!)
Thank you in advance, Y3/4 teachers- Mrs. Noble and Mr. Lonsdale
Messages from All Saints’ C of E Church: Please read the attached magazine which has a lot of exciting events/activities you could be part of.
PARENTS EVENINGS Please note that our Spring Parents Evenings will be on Monday 24th January, 2022 and Thursday 27th January, 2022. Both evenings will be after the school day and Mrs Vickers, our School Business Manager, will be sending out further information regarding these evenings. |
The Parents Association
Thank you to all those who brought donations on our two non-uniform days.
The Christmas Shop - For this event we are asking that children who wish to use the Christmas Shop bring in an unused gift item of no less than £1. Please can items be labelled as Christmas Shop and all items need to be in school by the 17th December.
The children who brought in a gift may then bring in £1 on the 20th December so that they can choose and buy an item from the Christmas Shop, so they have a gift which can be gifted to a family member as a 'surprise'. This item will be wrapped and tagged for them to bring home and put under the tree for Christmas.
Thank you, The All Saints' Parents Association.
ALL SAINTS’ C of E PRIMARY IN THE NEWS!! – SCHOOL CREATES AN OASIS OF CALM
Read the attached Marple Review newspaper article. We are very proud to be featured and to share our new Spirituality Garden with our wider community.
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CHRISTMAS LUNCH, NATIVITY, PARTIES & CAROL SERVICE INFORMATION As always Christmas is such a special time of the year and we are delighted to be able to do some things this Christmas that were simply not allowed last year. However, due to LA guidelines still in place and other restrictions in places of worship etc. we will not be able to do things fully as in pre-covid times. As always we have thought hard and in the All Saints’ Way about how we can include as many people as possible and have as many events still take place for the children. Thank you for your understanding and we look forward to a fun filled festive period ahead.
Christmas Lunch – we will be having our school Christmas Lunch on Tuesday 14th December. This will be a special occasion for our children but due to the restrictions on large crowds in our setting, we will unfortunately, not be able to invite any parents on this occasion. Thank you for your understanding and please do order a dinner for your child no later than 7.12.21 .
Christmas at Church – Due to capacity restrictions in churches we have decided to run three separate events to ensure all children get to experience Christmas at Church and our young children’s families can see them in their starring roles! 15th December KS1 Nativity at 9.30am and 6pm. It is absolutely brilliant that x2 family members are allowed to attend each performance. However, the Church has asked that all adults wear a mask if they are not exempt, you remain seated once you have found a seat and the children remain on the stage throughout the performance. In line with the LA guidance, we are also asking that you all take a LFD test on the day of and before coming to each performance. It also goes without saying that If you are showing any symptoms of covid-19, you remain at home 20th December at 9.30am – the Reception children will be performing their very first school nativity which is really exciting!! The rules above apply and x4 family members will be allowed to attend the performance. 22nd December at 1.30pm - KS2 will be attending church for a Carol Service at 1.30pm. As the capacity for seating is currently only 225, we will only be allowed to have the children in the Church. There will be a retiring collection at the end of the R and KS1 performances.
Christmas Parties - All classes will be having Christmas parties in school. See the diary dates at the end and party letters.
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HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE
Due to the medical needs across our school, we would ask that you:
Refrain from bringing anything into school which contains nuts.
Free online courses - Solihull Approach Stockport is now offering completely free online courses around pregnancy, parenting and understanding the children in your life.
The courses are appropriate for anyone playing an active role in a child’s life, up until they are 19 – this could be mothers, fathers, partners, carers, professionals of all kinds, grandparents, other family and involved friends. They are split into the following topics:
· Understanding your pregnancy, birth, labour and your baby
· Understanding your baby (0-12 months)
· Understanding your child (0-19 years)
· Understanding your child with additional needs (0-19 years)
· Understanding your teenager’s brain (short course)
· Understanding your brain (course for teenagers)
Please follow the link below for more information and how to book a place.
https://stockport.fsd.org.uk/kb5/stockport/fsd/service.page?id=b2lO17ziu_o
| DATE |
EVENT |
| 16.12.21 |
Reception and KS1 Party Day – more information to follow |
| 17.12.21 |
Years 3 & 4 Party Day – more information to follow |
| 21.12.21 |
Years 5 & 6 Party Day – more information to follow |
| 22.12.21 |
All school breaks up for the Christmas holiday. All children back in school on Thursday 6th January, 2022 |
| 24.1.22 & 27.1.22 |
PARENTS EVENINGS |
Have a wonderful week!
Hannah Gaynor and Helen Morton
Dear School Family,
Health & Safety
We had an LA Health & Safety Officer on site last week Tuesday which was very successful!!
Thank you for continuing to wear masks whilst on the school premises. This is helping to keep us all safe.
Following the further variants, we would ask that you continue to only come into the school building if necessary.
We are also re-emphasising the need for continued vigilance when it comes to covid symptoms.
Just a reminder that you are still able to pick up LFD tests at local chemists.
Attendance
In line with national guidance, we will no longer be authorising any absence requests unless they meet the exceptional circumstances criteria. Many thanks in advance for your understanding.
Charity Fundraiser
Tuesday 14th December…Y3/ 4 Charity Fundraiser...
All money to go towards ‘The Pantry’ providing food for our local food bank for families in our local community.
(This extra hour may just help families to have a little extra time to get a few last minute Christmas presents!)
Thank you in advance,
Y3/4 teachers- Mrs. Noble and Mr. Lonsdale
Poppy Appeal
Thank you for your donations to the poppy appeal as a school we raised £318.04 for this important cause.
Volunteering in School
Please note that the new training date is now Thursday 2nd Dec 11.30a.m. – approximately 12.45pm.
Book Fair & Money Raised
A huge thank you to Mrs Chapman and Mrs Shaw who ran the Scholastics Book fair and all the families who supported us with this. A fantastic total of £485.90 was raised. All the rewards money for the school will go towards quality, new Science books to enhance our Science curriculum and teaching. We are sure all the children will love these new books, so a massive thank you again for making this event such a success again.
The Parents Association
Friday 3rd December is the second of our non-uniform days and we would ask that KS1 bring in chocolates and KS2 bring in bottles. These items will then be collected and we will make some hampers that will be raffled off. Raffle tickets will be able to be purchased from the beginning of December.
The Christmas Shop - For this event we are asking that children who wish to use the Christmas Shop bring in an unused gift item of no less than £1. Please can items be labelled as Christmas Shop and all items need to be in school by the 17th December.
The children who brought in a gift may then bring in £1 on the 20th December so that they can choose and buy an item from the Christmas Shop, so they have a gift which can be gifted to a family member as a 'surprise'. This item will be wrapped and tagged for them to bring home and put under the tree for Christmas.
Thank you.
The All Saints' Parents Association.
CHRISTMAS LUNCH, NATIVITY, PARTIES & CAROL SERVICE INFORMATION
As always Christmas is such a special time of the year and we are delighted to be able to do some things this Christmas that were simply not allowed last year. However, due to LA guidelines still in place and other restrictions in places of worship etc. we will not be able to do things fully as in pre-covid times. As always we have thought hard and in the All Saints’ Way about how we can include as many people as possible and have as many events still take place for the children. Thank you for your understanding and we look forward to a fun filled festive period ahead.
Christmas Lunch – we will be having our school Christmas Lunch on Tuesday 14th December. This will be a special occasion for our children but due to the restrictions on large crowds in our setting, we will unfortunately, not be able to invite any parents on this occasion. Thank you for your understanding and please do order a dinner for your child no later than Tuesday 7th December.
Christmas at Church –
Due to capacity restrictions in churches we have decided to run three separate events to ensure all children get to experience Christmas at Church and our young children’s families can see them in their starring roles!
15th December KS1 Nativity at 9.30am and 6pm. It is absolutely brilliant that x2 family members are allowed to attend each performance. However, the Church has asked that all adults wear a mask if they are not exempt, you remain seated once you have found a seat and the children remain on the stage throughout the performance. In line with the LA guidance, we are also asking that you all take a LFD test on the day of and before coming to each performance
20th December at 9.30am – the Reception children will be performing their very first school nativity which is really exciting!! The rules above apply and x4 family members will be allowed to attend the performance.
22nd December at 1.30pm - KS2 will be attending church for a Carol Service at 1.30pm. As the capacity for seating is currently only 225, we will only be allowed to have the children in the Church.
There will be a retiring collection at the end of the R and KS1 performances.
Christmas Parties - All classes will be having Christmas parties in school. See the diary dates at the end and party letters.
HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE
Due to the medical needs across our school, we would ask that you:
Refrain from bringing anything into school which contains nuts.
HOW TO SUPPORT YOUR CHILD WITH THEIR EMOTIONAL REGULATION-(For parents of children up to 10 years old)
THURSDAY 2nd December 2021 1.00pm - 2.30pm
This virtual session will include useful information about understanding brain development, emotions and how to sensitively support your child to soothe them
To register for a place on this seminar, and receive the session link please book via the Eventbrite link below:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-support-your-child-with-their-emotional-regulation-tickets-210944930967
We have been made aware of excellent free online training for parents to access. Below is a brief outline of what is offered…Free online courses - Solihull ApproachStockport is now offering completely free online courses around pregnancy, parenting and understanding the children in your life.
The courses are appropriate for anyone playing an active role in a child’s life, up until they are 19 – this could be mothers, fathers, partners, carers, professionals of all kinds, grandparents, other family and involved friends. They are split into the following topics:
· Understanding your pregnancy, birth, labour and your baby
· Understanding your baby (0-12 months)
· Understanding your child (0-19 years)
· Understanding your child with additional needs (0-19 years)
· Understanding your teenager’s brain (short course)
· Understanding your brain (course for teenagers)
Please follow the link below for more information and how to book a place.https://stockport.fsd.org.uk/kb5/stockport/fsd/service.page?id=b2lO17ziu_o
| DATE |
EVENT |
| 16.12.21 |
Reception and KS1 Party Day – more information to follow |
| 17.12.21 |
Years 3 & 4 Party Day – more information to follow |
| 21.12.21 |
Years 5 & 6 Party Day – more information to follow |
| 22.12.21 |
All school breaks up for the Christmas holiday. All children back in school on Thursday 6th January, 2022 |
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Have a wonderful week!
Hannah Gaynor and Helen Morton
Dear School Family,
Health & Safety
Thank you for continuing to wear masks whilst on the school premises. This is helping to keep us all safe.
We also have an LA Health & Safety Officer on site tomorrow to audit Health & Safety in school. This is being carried out in all LA schools on a rota basis.
Attendance
What an 18 month it has been! During this time, in the All Saints’ Way, we have reflected on each individual circumstance when it has come to absence requests. As things slowly return to normal, this will also be the case with all holiday requests. In line with national guidance, we will no longer be authorising any absence requests unless they meet the exceptional circumstances criteria. Many thanks in advance for your understanding.
Volunteering in School
Mrs Noble is looking for people to kindly volunteer with a focus of listening to our youngest children in Reception and KS1 read. Therefore, if you are able to come in and listen to readers 1:1 please look out for the post on tapestry from Mrs Noble or contact the school office via admin@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk Many thanks to those who have already volunteered. Please note that the new training date is now Thursday 2nd Dec 11.30a.m. – approximately 12.45pm.
Wellbeing
Are you feeling stressed or low at this time?
Please see the Stockport LA booklet that contains a wide array of support for people mental health and wellbeing.
ANTI-BULLYING WEEK
It is our Anti-Bullying Week this week and it has been lovely to see so many of our children in ‘odd socks’ as a traditional start to the week. All donations will go to Pupil Parliament and the projects they have planned. The theme is One Kind Word and we will be exploring this theme throughout the week. All our KS2 children have or will be taking part in an Anti-Bullying Workshop
As a continuation of our efforts to keep our children safe, we have organised Road Safety Workshops for Year 2, 4, 5 and 6. Please discuss what your children have learned with them and thank you for continuing to encourage safety awareness when out and about. Please see the diary dates below
The Parents Association would like to start fundraising again this Christmas. Unfortunately, due to the restrictions still in place a Christmas fair will not be possible this year.
We would like to hold two dress down days. On the 26th November we will ask for a £1 donation and on 3rd December we would ask that KS1 bring in chocolates and KS2 bring in bottles. These items will then be collected and we will make some hampers that will be raffled off. Raffle tickets will be able to be purchased from the beginning of December.
In addition, we would also like to do a Christmas Shop this year. This would require all children to bring in an item for no more than £1. (Please could people mark this item as Christmas Shop). Then during the last week of term children can bring in £1 and they would ‘buy’ an item from the shop. This item would then be wrapped and tagged as a surprise for someone in their family
CHRISTMAS LUNCH, NATIVITY, PARTIES & CAROL SERVICE INFORMATION
As always Christmas is such a special time of the year and we are delighted to be able to do some things this Christmas that were simply not allowed last year. However, due to LA guidelines still in place and other restrictions in places of worship etc. we will not be able to do things fully as in pre-covid times. As always we have thought hard and in the All Saints’ Way about how we can include as many people as possible and have as many events still take place for the children. Thank you for your understanding and we look forward to a fun filled festive period ahead.
Christmas Tree – we are inviting all children to donate a Christmas Tree decoration for our tree if they wish to, we will keep these for future years. If you would like to donate a decoration, please bring it in BY FRIDAY 26TH NOVEMBER. Thank You.
Christmas Lunch – we will be having our school Christmas Lunch on Tuesday 14th December. This will be a special occasion for our children but due to the restrictions on large crowds in our setting, we will unfortunately, not be able to invite any parents on this occasion. Thank you for your understanding and please do order a dinner for your child no later than Tuesday 7th December.
Christmas at Church –
Due to capacity restrictions in churches we have decided to run three separate events to ensure all children get to experience Christmas at Church and our young children’s families can see them in their starring roles!
15th December KS1 Nativity at 9.30am and 6pm. It is absolutely brilliant that x2 family members are allowed to attend each performance. However, the Church has asked that all adults wear a mask if they are not exempt, you remain seated once you have found a seat and the children remain on the stage throughout the performance. In line with the LA guidance, we are also asking that you all take a LFD test on the day of and before coming to each performance
20th December at 9.30am – the Reception children will be performing their very first school nativity which is really exciting!! The rules above apply and x4 family members will be allowed to attend the performance.
22nd December at 1.30pm - KS2 will be attending church for a Carol Service at 1.30pm. As the capacity for seating is currently only 225, we will only be allowed to have the children in the Church.
There will be a retiring collection at the end of the R and KS1 performances.
Christmas Parties - All classes will be having Christmas parties in school. See the diary dates at the end and party letters
HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE
Due to the medical needs across our school, we would ask that you:
Refrain from bringing anything into school which contains nuts
SEND Week of Action. We are excited to share with you some events timetable for the LA’s third SEND Week Action, which commences on Monday 22nd November. As always there are a jam-packed week of webinars and activities for professionals, parents and cares to help raise awareness and make SEND everybody’s business. During this SEND Week of Action, we will be focusing on SEN support and early help. Please visit Eventbrite to book onto the sessions.
We have been made aware of excellent free online training for parents to access. Below is a brief outline of what is offered…Free online courses - Solihull Approach
Stockport is now offering completely free online courses around pregnancy, parenting and understanding the children in your life.
The courses are appropriate for anyone playing an active role in a child’s life, up until they are 19 – this could be mothers, fathers, partners, carers, professionals of all kinds, grandparents, other family and involved friends. They are split into the following topics:
· Understanding your pregnancy, birth, labour and your baby
· Understanding your baby (0-12 months)
· Understanding your child (0-19 years)
· Understanding your child with additional needs (0-19 years)
· Understanding your teenager’s brain (short course)
· Understanding your brain (course for teenagers)
Please follow the link below for more information and how to book a place.
https://stockport.fsd.org.uk/kb5/stockport/fsd/service.page?id=b2lO17ziu_o
SEE AUTUMN DIARY DATES PREVIOUSLY ISSUED
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16.12.21 |
Reception and KS1 Party Day – more information to follow |
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17.12.21 |
Years 3 & 4 Party Day – more information to follow |
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21.12.21 |
Years 5 & 6 Party Day – more information to follow |
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22.12.21 |
All school breaks up for the Christmas holiday. All children back in school on Thursday 6th January, 2022 |
Have a wonderful week!
Hannah Gaynor and Helen Morton
Dear School Family,
Continuing our focus on phonics and reading- A message from Mrs Manning-Craggs:
On Wednesday we were lucky enough to be visited by local author Sean Perkins, sharing his story 'Oscar and Ben' with us. He visited all three of our KS1 classes and the children absolutely loved listening to his work. The children also had the opportunity to buy a signed copy of his book - how very special! The children were really well behaved and a shining example of the All Saints' Way - I think we may now have some aspiring authors in our midst!
Mrs Manning Craggs
Remembrance Day
It was truly wonderful to be able to mark such a special occasion in our new spiritual garden. The whole school came together to listen to special prayers beautifully read by Eden and Polly. Everyone then respectfully reflected during the two minutes’ silence and Lucas, Hugh and Eddie amazingly played the Last Post whilst children laid poppies and wreath down. It was a very moving experience and one which was lovely to actually be all together again to mark.
Attendance
What an 18 month it has been! During this time, in the All Saints’ Way, we have reflected on each individual circumstance when it has come to absence requests. As things slowly return to normal, this will also be the case with all holiday requests. In line with national guidance, we will no longer be authorising any absence requests unless they meet the exceptional circumstances criteria. Many thanks in advance for your understanding.
Volunteering in School
Mrs Noble is looking for people to kindly volunteer with a focus of listening to our youngest children in Reception and KS1 read. Therefore, if you are able to come in and listen to readers 1:1 please look out for the post on tapestry from Mrs Noble or contact the school office via admin@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk Many thanks in advance for volunteering some of your time.
Wellbeing
Are you feeling stressed or low at this time?
Please see the Stockport LA booklet that contains a wide array of support for people mental health and wellbeing
CHRISTMAS LUNCH, NATIVITY, PARTIES & CAROL SERVICE INFORMATION
As always Christmas is such a special time of the year and we are delighted to be able to do some things this Christmas that were simply not allowed last year. However, due to LA guidelines still in place and other restrictions in places of worship etc we will not be able to do things fully as in pre-covid times. As always we have thought hard and in the All Saints’ Way about how we can include as many people as possible and have as many events still take place for the children. Thank you for your understanding and we look forward to a fun filled festive period ahead.
Christmas Tree – we are inviting all children to bring in a Christmas Tree decoration from home if they wish to BY FRIDAY 26TH NOV.
Christmas Lunch – we will be having our school Christmas Lunch on Tuesday 14th December. This will be a special occasion for our children but due to the restrictions on large crowds in our setting, we will unfortunately, not be able to invite any parents on this occasion. Thank you for your understanding and please do order a dinner for your child no later than Tuesday 7TH December
Christmas at Church –
Due to capacity restrictions in churches we have decided to run three separate events to ensure all children get to experience Christmas at Church and our young children’s families can see them in their starring roles!
15th December KS1 Nativity at 9.30am and 6pm. It is absolutely brilliant that x2 family members are allowed to attend each performance. However, the Church has asked that all parents wear a mask if they are not exempt, you remain seated once you have found a seat and the children remain on the stage throughout the performance.
20th December at 9.30am – the Reception children will be performing their very first school nativity which is really exciting!! The rules above apply and x4 family members will be allowed to attend the performance.
22nd December at 1.30pm - KS2 will be attending church for a Carol Service at 1.30pm. As the capacity for seating is currently only 225, we will only be allowed to have the children in the Church.
There will be a retiring collection at the end of the R and KS1 performances.
Christmas Parties - All classes will be having Christmas parties in school. See the diary dates at the end
ANTI-BULLYING WEEK
It is our Anti-Bullying Week this week and it has been lovely to see so many of our children in ‘odd socks’ as a traditional start to the week. All donations will go to Pupil Parliament and the projects they have planned. The theme is One Kind Word and we will be exploring this theme throughout the week. All our KS2 children have or will be taking part in an Anti-Bullying Workshop
As a continuation of our efforts to keep our children safe, we have organised Road Safety Workshops for Year 2, 4, 5 and 6. Please discuss what your children have learned with them and thank you for continuing to encourage safety awareness when out and about. Please see the diary dates below
The Wild About Gardening event which was held on our school grounds on Sunday 14th November was a huge success.
Children made bird feeders, bird houses, bulb lasagnes, and many more!
It was an exciting and fun event which everyone enjoyed including Mrs Gaynor and Mrs Noble.
HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE
please do continue to wear masks on the school grounds if you are not exempt. 
Due to the medical needs across our school, we would ask that you:
Refrain from bringing anything into school which contains nuts.
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EVENT |
| wc 15.11.21 |
Anti-Bullying Week – One Kind Word Yr3 and Yr4 Anti-Bullying Workshop by Christians in Schools Trust Road Safety Workshops for years 2, 4, 5 & 6 |
| 16.12.21 |
Reception and KS1 Party Day – more information to follow |
| 17.12.21 |
Years 3 & 4 Party Day – more information to follow |
| 21.12.21 |
Years 5 & 6 Party Day – more information to follow |
| 22.12.21 |
All school breaks up for the Christmas holiday. All children back in school on Thursday 6th January, 2022 |
Have a wonderful week!
Hannah Gaynor and Helen Morton
Dear School Family,
Continuing our focus on phonics and reading- A message from Mrs Manning-Craggs:
I wanted to let you know about a really exciting opportunity for your child to hear a story read by a real life author
On Wednesday we have Sean Perkins coming to visit all our KS1 classes to read his picture book 'Oscar and Ben' and to talk to the children a little bit about what it means to be an author.
This visit is completely free, but should the children so wish to purchase this delightful story, then they will come home with an order form on Wednesday night. The book is £7 and will be signed and personalised by the author - what a very special thing for your child to have in their possession... I am certainly going to be getting one for my little girl!
We hope that your children absolutely love the afternoon...I am sure they will.
Mrs Manning Craggs
REMEMBRANCE SERVICE:
Each class will be visiting our Spirituality Garden to have a moment of silence and reflection to remember those who have lost their lives in war.
There are a variety of remembrance tokens that your children can receive by giving a donation. Our Yr5 children will be visiting each class throughout the week.
ANTI-BULLYING WEEK
It is our Anti-Bullying Week next week. The theme is One Kind Word and we will be exploring this theme throughout the week.
All our KS2 children will take part in an Anti-Bullying Workshop either this week or next week. Please see the diary dates below
As a continuation of our efforts to keep our children safe, we have organised Road Safety Workshops for Year 2, 4, 5 and 6. Please discuss what your children have learned with them and thank you for continuing to encourage safety awareness when out and about. Please see the diary dates below
See Tapestry to sign up, as quickly as you can, for this exciting FREE event being held on our school grounds on Sunday 14th November 1.30-3.30pm.
Children can make bird feeders, bird houses, can a bulb lasagne, and many more!
It will be an exciting and fun event so don’t miss out!
Use the QR code link to book via Eventbrite.
HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE
Due to the medical needs across our school, we would ask that you:
Refrain from bringing anything into school which contains nuts.
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| Sunday 14.11.21 |
1.30-3.30pm Community Garden Project (Sign up for this event and see separate Tapestry post) |
| 11.11.21 |
Yr5 and Yr6 Anti-Bullying Workshop by the Christians in Schools Trust |
| wc 15.11.21 |
Anti-Bullying Week – One Kind Word Yr3 and Yr4 Anti-Bullying Workshop by Christians in Schools Trust Road Safety Workshops for years 2, 4, 5 & 6 |
Have a wonderful week!
Hannah Gaynor and Helen Morton
Dear School Family,
Church Week was absolutely brilliant and the children thoroughly enjoyed, once again, being in the church building for an array of activities e.g. bell ringing.
Our Harvest Growing Faith celebration this year, was wonderful and we were overwhelmed with your generous donations of not only plants for our Spirituality Garden, but also food!! Many commented that it was the most food that had been donated in many years. We praised and thanked your children but we would also like to give a big THANK YOU to you all for your kindness and generosity!!
Special Prayer written by Amelie (Year 3)
Dear God,
Thank you for the sound of our hearts beating as we breathe in and out - how lucky we are to have such lovely lives.
Thank you for Psalm 23 for inspiring our Spirituality Garden - what a wonderful goal that has been achieved!
Thank you for the water that sprays out of our beautiful water fountain and the exquisite array of stunning flowers donated that decorate our Spiritual garden.
Thank you to everyone at All Saints’ Church and all the wonderful volunteers like my mummy and daddy who have shown such kindness to make this week simply the best! Our relationships and partnership has grown even stronger through terrific TEAM WORK!
Thank you for all our learning with our wonderful teachers encouraging us how to be great Christians and for helping to lead us down the right pathways for our lives.
Thank you God for being; the way, the truth and the life and most of all, thank you God for you!
May the memories of Church Week 2021 live in our hearts and help us grow forever.
Church Week 2021 truly has been ‘All Together, All Achieving, All Saints’!
AMEN
Our Chester Zoo Trip was absolutely fantastic!! We had the best day ever and the children absolutely loved their experience! Please see the many photos/videos of our special day out on Tapestry.
From the Chair of Governors …..
On behalf of all the governors here at All Saints’, I’d like to give a very warm ‘welcome back’ to Mrs Morton as she returns as Co-Headteacher this week. We hope that she’ll soon settle back into being a working mum again !
I’d also like to say a huge thank you to Mrs Gaynor for the wonderful way she has led the school, full-time, over the last twelve months whilst Mrs Morton has been on maternity leave. It has not been an easy 12 months, having to constantly respond to the range of challenges that Covid-19 has brought, but she has managed everything with a quiet authority and provided wonderful support to staff, parents and children.
Governors continue to support the school in all sorts of ways, despite the Covid restrictions, and I am pleased to report that Mr Lonsdale will be joining us on the Governing Body this week, replacing Mrs Hallworth as staff governor. During October, one of our other governors, Nev Phillips, was rushed into hospital after suffering a heart attack and subsequently underwent a triple heart by-pass operation. He is making an excellent recovery and is hoping to be back in circulation in the not too distant future. Both he and his family have been very grateful for all the support and good wishes they have received from the All Saints’ community.
Here’s hoping for a safe and healthy half-term in the run-up to Christmas.
With all good wishes,
Alan Bailey
CHURCH WEEK AND A SPIRITUALITY GARDEN!!
Our wish was to design and create a beautiful, contemplative space where children can be calm, relax, reflect and have the opportunity to encounter God. It has turned into so much more!
If this pandemic has taught us one thing, it is to appreciate what green space we have; to get outdoors and not take it for granted. To breathe. To sit. To slow down.
…’He lets me rest in fields of green grass and leads me to quiet pools of fresh water…
True gardeners say singing to our plants can stimulate growth, but as part of Church week it was the sound of bells that rained down from All Saints’ Church and spread joy over our new oasis on the school field. Each class visited, a true excitement as this has always been a highlight of our school year and one we sorely missed due to Covid. With well planned activities, such as the mentioned bell ringing, songs, bracelet making, learning about Potters village in Uganda or water and baptism were all held in the church.
…he restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake’ Psalm 23
We couldn’t be more proud of our new spirituality garden- complete with a working water feature, new life given to an old boat, colourful peace posts and an abundance of flora and foliage. We have recharged and rebalanced our souls.
We now have a real place to go and reflect as the spaces within our classrooms were not fit for purpose. We can encounter God, discover God and find peace and wellbeing amongst a hidden paradise.
Mrs. Noble has been the spearhead, galvanizing this project as part of her Christian Leadership development and the always brilliant Sarah Holton (our Children and Families Worker from Church) who has helped to energise it and rally the troops. With a modest budget we have planted seeds, some of which we may never see, but isn’t that what life as a Primary School is all about?!
Mr McShane
If possible we will be inviting you to come and have a proper look around
HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE
Due to the medical needs across our school, we would ask that you:
Refrain from bringing anything into school which contains nuts.
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Sunday 14.11.21 |
1.30-3.30pm Community Garden Project (Sign up for this event and see separate Tapestry post) |
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11.11.21 |
Yr5 and Yr6 Anti-Bullying Workshop by the Christians in Schools Trust |
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wc 15.11.21 |
Anti-Bullying Week – One Kind Word Yr3 and Yr4 Anti-Bullying Workshop by Christians in Schools Trust Road Safety Workshops for years 2, 4, 5 & 6 |
Have a wonderful week
Hannah Gaynor
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Dear School Family, Robinwood How exciting that our Yr6 children and staff, along with Mr Granite were able to attend Robinwood last week. What an achievement!! They had lots of fun, taking risks, encouraging learning, achieving goals and making memories. I’d like to give a massive thank you to Mr McShane, Mrs Clayton, Mrs Pratt and Mr Granite for giving up their spare time to accompany our children. Without our staff being willing to lead residentials, our children would not be able to attend. It has been great to read your messages of thanks and gratitude. Church Week is this week!! Yippee!!! Our theme for this year is Growing Faith. Throughout the week, each class will visit the church for a series of activities including our very popular bell ringing. There will also be classroom activities and a session in our newly constructed Spirituality Garden which we will continue to add to, throughout the week. For our Harvest Growing Faith celebration this year, we are asking all families to contribute what they can to our ‘harvest’ which will be displayed and later distributed to charities. We are asking that you send in any of the following on the morning of Friday 22nd October and not before due to storage reasons: pasta, rice, cereals, pasta sauces, tinned fruit/pudding/fish/meat/soup/veg, UHT milk, etc. No gift is too small and we are sure the children will feel good about their ‘giving’. Whatever is donated will go to a few of our local foodbanks. Many thanks for your wonderful donations, whether they are plants/shrubs for our Spirituality Garden or dry/tinned food for local foodbanks. The All Saints’ Team |
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LOCAL AUTHORITY SAFEGUARDING NOTICE Squid Game is currently one of the most popular shows on Netflix and has a rating of age 15 and above. The programme centres around a series of children’s games that have deadly consequence, and is very violent in nature. We understand that there is other adult content, and despite its initial appearance, it is not suitable for younger children. The BBFC have awarded Squid Game a 15 rating in the UK for “sexual violence references, injury detail, crude humour, sex, suicide, sexual images, violence. This is very different from the 12a rating which allows younger viewers if they are supported by a parent or other guardian. The 15 rating states that the material is “suitable only for 15 years and over” with no concession for accompanying adults.”. Parents can also apply parental controls to Netflix if they wish by setting up a Netflix children’s profile, this limits viewing to TV shows and movies which have been carefully selected for children. To do this: 1. Go to Netflix.com/account. 2. Scroll to 'Profile & Parental Controls 'and click on the profile you want to manage. 3. Click 'Change' next to the Viewing Restrictions setting. 4. Enter your Netflix password. 5. Set the maturity rating for the programmes and films you want to allow in that profile We understand that there is also some playable content available on gaming platforms, but we are unsure of the content and age certification. As with all gaming, we would recommend parents review the contents and age ratings. LA SAFEGUARDING TEAM
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WELCOME TO OUR NEW SCHOOL BUSINESS MANAGER – ANDREA VICKERS You will remember that I informed you last week of our new SBM appointment, and that Mrs Andrea Vickers will be joining us on 1st November, 2021. Please see her introductory letter attached. |
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Well, the festive spirit of Christmas definitely visited All Saints last week! To coincide with the children creating their Christmas art, the Parent’s Association have previously been able to raise the much needed funds by using a company called Cauliflower Cards to print the children’s designs onto cards, wrapping paper, mugs, etc. It would be wonderful if every family could order at least one item as this will really help to raise some money with very little effort. Please see the previous Tapestry post. Mrs Jo Hammond
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HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE Due to the medical needs across our school, we would ask that you:
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SEE AUTUMN DIARY DATES PREVIOUSLY ISSUED
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EVENT |
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Friday 22.10.21 |
Food donations for Growing Faith Harvest Festival |
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Monday 1.11.21 |
Individual School Photos FULL SCHOOL UNIFORM |
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Tuesday 2.11.21 |
Whole School Trip to Chester Zoo |
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Sunday 14.11.21 |
1.30-3.30pm Community Garden Project (Sign up for this event and see separate Tapestry post) |
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wc 15.11.21 |
Anti-Bullying Week – One Kind Word Road Safety Workshops for years 2, 4, 5 & 6 |
Have a wonderful week and half term when it comes!
Hannah Gaynor
Dear School Family,
Robinwood
Yippee!! How exciting that our Yr6 children and staff, along with Mr Granite have been able to leave school this morning to attend their traditional 3 days residential at Robinwood. What an achievement!! We know they will have fun, taking risks, encouraging learning, achieving goals and making memories. Mrs Gaynor will be with them during the daytime on Tuesday and we thank you so much for your cooperation and support. Please do look out for regular posts on Tapestry.
Black History Month
Last week marked the start of our focus on black history. Although we enrich our curriculum throughout the year, with the children exploring their own culture and that of others, we feel it is important to honour this national month.
This month we will highlight and celebrate the achievements of black people in Britain and beyond. It is also a time to look forward and celebrate the here and now and the future possibilities.
Church Week is fast approaching and the children are getting excited about this special annual event. Our theme for this year is Growing Faith. Throughout the week, each class will visit the church for a series of activities including our very popular bell ringing. There will also be classroom activities and a session in our newly constructed Spirituality Garden which we will continue to add to, throughout the week.
Specific plant donations are very welcome and should be brought into school/delivered to school on the morning of Monday 18th October. (See specific Spirituality Garden letter on Tapestry.)
The week will end with a special grand opening of our Spirituality Garden and a morning Growing Faith Harvest Festival service at school. (We are unable to host our Harvest celebration at church this year due to restrictions in the amount of people allowed in the building.) This year we are asking all families to contribute what they can to our ‘harvest’ which will be displayed and later distributed to charities. We are asking that you send in any of the following on the morning of Friday 22nd October and not before due to storage reasons: pasta, rice, cereals, pasta sauces, tinned fruit/pudding/fish/meat/soup/veg, UHT milk, etc. No gift is too small and we are sure the children will feel good about their ‘giving’. Whatever is donated will go to a few of our local foodbanks.
Many thanks in advance for your wonderful donations, whether they are plants/shrubs for our Spirituality Garden or dry/tinned food for local foodbanks.
The All Saints’ Team
TAKING RISKS, ENCOURAGING LEARNING, ACHIEVING GOALS, MAKING MEMORIES – ALL IN ONE WEEK!!
MR LONSDALE GOES FOR A RUN!! –
We are very pleased to announce that, with the support of one of our governors, Ali Holmes, Mr Lonsdale was successfully interviewed, and is now a permanent member of staff. Not only did he achieve that but yesterday, he also ran the Manchester half marathon on behalf of the Alzheimer’s Society. What a fantastic achievement and we are all so very proud of him!
Mr Lonsdale is pictured at the front of this group Mr Lonsdale celebrating the end of the race
If you would like to give a donation, please donate using the JustGiving page by clicking: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/slonsdale19?utm_source=Sharethis&utm_medium=fundraising&utm_content=slonsdale19&utm_campaign=pfp-email&utm_term=517dcc084b0c473586944d829c29256d.
Mr Lonsdale will be running a Cross Country Club on a Monday for our KS2 children.
Kittle Photography
Individual school photographs will be taking place on Monday 1st November.
If you could let the school office know by Friday 22nd October if you would like sibling photos to take place for those siblings who are part of our school.
ALL CHILDREN WILL NEED TO WEAR FULL SCHOOL UNIFORM ON THAT DAY
WELCOME TO OUR NEW SCHOOL BUSINESS MANAGER – ANDREA VICKERS
After a rigorous recruitment process, we are delighted to inform you of the exciting news that Mrs Andrea Vickers has been appointed, to be our new SBM and she will join us on 1st November, 2021.
She has worked in a school office and setting for a number of years and we are convinced she will be a wonderful asset to our school.
A huge thank you to Mr Bailey (Chair of Governors) and Mrs Woodgate (Chair of Resources) who dedicated their time, support and wealth of knowledge to support us in this process.
SAFEGUARDING YOUR CHILDREN
We have been asked by the safeguarding team to make you aware of the following site.
WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY
This year’s World Mental Health Day took place on Sunday 10th October 2021. The theme was mental health in an unequal world!
More so now than ever, we must ensure that we take the time and the steps needed to improve our mental health.
As a school community we can work towards ending the stigma around mental health, opening up conversations and normalising the discussion of mental health and wellbeing in our classrooms.
Our children and staff's wellbeing is one of our biggest priorities at All Saints’ so over the course of the week your children will be participating in simple wellbeing activities to promote positive mental health in every member of our school community.
Don’t forget to check out our weekly Wellbeing Wednesday updates on Tapestry.
HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE
Due to the medical needs across our school, we would ask that you:
Refrain from bringing anything into school which contains nuts.
We’d like to say a huge thank you to Mrs Hammond who organised an Art Day for our children last Friday. See her message below:
Well, the Festive spirit of Christmas definitely visited All Saints last week!
To coincide with the children creating their Christmas art, the Parent’s Association have previously been able to raise the much needed funds by using a company called Cauliflower Cards to print the children’s designs onto cards, wrapping paper, mugs, etc.
It would be wonderful if every family could order at least one item as this will really help to raise some money with very little effort.
During last week and on Friday, the children were busy using their art skills and creativity to produce their own unique Christmas designs.
It was wonderful to see the many elements and techniques of art used by the children throughout school demonstrating we have many budding and talented artists!
There were collaged snowman on a painted background; Reindeer handprints, collaged Robins on a sponge stamped background; a tracing of Rudolph incorporating the use of lines for shape and contour; Brusho colour washing and art pen tree designs; watercolour backgrounds with intricately cut trees (which takes patience and dexterity) and finally a City of Bethlehem collage with a burst of Brusho for the night sky.
I would like to say, on behalf of the Parents’ Association, an enormous thank you to the teaching staff and TA’s for all of their time and immense effort that I know goes into this type of project.
Everyone has gone above and beyond in the true All Saints’ Way. Mrs Jo Hammond
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EVENT |
| 18.10.21 |
Plant donations for Spirituality Garden |
| 22.10.21 |
Food donations for Growing Faith Harvest Festival |
| 01.11.21 |
Individual photographs |
Have a wonderful week!
Hannah Gaynor
Dear School Family,
New to Year Group Parent Meetings
A huge thank you to all parents who joined our Year Group meetings. Many parents have commented on how informative they found the meetings which went through the expectations for each year group. Each class teacher was able to clarify punctuation/spelling terminology, reading comprehension expectations and maths strategies used. Thank you for continuing to work in partnership with us for the benefit of your children and there will be regular updates throughout the year.
Black History Month
Today marks the start of our focus on black history. Although we enrich our curriculum throughout the year, with the children exploring their own culture and that of others, we feel it is important to honour this national month.
This month we will highlight and celebrate the achievements of black people in Britain and beyond. It is also a time to look forward and celebrate the here and now and the future possibilities.
As part of our collective worship today, we were introduced to Jackie Kay, a Scottish poet who wrote ‘In My Country’ (https://poetryarchive.org/poem/my-country/ )and Katherine Johnson, a superb mathematician who helped NASA put an astronaut into orbit around Earth and then helped put a man on the Moon. https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/who-was-katherine-johnson-k4
Church Week is fast approaching and the children are getting excited about this special annual event. Our theme for this year is Growing Faith. Throughout the week, each class will visit the church for a series of activities including our very popular bell ringing. There will also be classroom activities and a session in our newly constructed Spirituality Garden which we will continue to add to, throughout the week.
Specific plant donations are very welcome and should be brought into school/delivered to school on the morning of Monday 18th October. (See specific Spirituality Garden letter on Tapestry.)
The week will end with a special grand opening of our Spirituality Garden and a morning Growing Faith Harvest Festival service at school. (We are unable to host our Harvest celebration at church this year due to restrictions in the amount of people allowed in the building.) This year we are asking all families to contribute what they can to our ‘harvest’ which will be displayed and later distributed to charities. We are asking that you send in any of the following on the morning of Friday 22nd October and not before due to storage reasons: pasta, rice, cereals,
pasta sauces, tinned fruit/pudding/fish/meat/soup/veg, UHT milk, etc. No gift is too small and we are sure the children will feel good about their ‘giving’. Whatever is donated will go to a few of our local foodbanks.
Many thanks in advance for your wonderful donations, whether they are plants/shrubs for our Spirituality Garden or dry/tinned food for local foodbanks.
The All Saints’ Way Team
SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR:
Please read the Tapestry post as this is a wonderful opportunity to purchase books for your child or as a gift for others. As a school, we also earn commission and are hoping to spend this money on science books to improved our deeper learning in science. Please visit: https://bookfairs.scholastic.co.uk/parents
SAFEGUARDING YOUR CHILDREN
We have been asked by the safeguarding team to make you aware of the following site.
HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE
Due to the medical needs across our school, we would ask that you: 
Refrain from bringing anything into school which contains nuts.
Labelling
Please ensure all your child’s belongings are well labelled.
TAYLOR SHAW
Have assured us that they are looking into setting up an online system that parents can use at home to select their meals 
Turning on the subtitles while children are watching television can double the chances of them becoming good at reading. Yes, really!
Wonderfully simple isn’t it? 10 seconds of effort for parents, a lifetime’s impact for their children. All backed up by decades of scientific research. Turning on subtitles while children are watching TV can greatly improve their reading skills. A quick, simple, free way to make TV time, reading time. #turnonthesubtitles
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SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR |
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7.10.21 7.00pm |
Meet Tim Bowman, Director of Education in Stockport, & Bev Milway, Strategic lead for SEND Inclusion Following the parents/carers meeting with Tim Bowman, the new Director of Education in Stockport and Tameside, as part of our SEND Week of Action in May 2021, this webinar will now provide a regular slot. Book onto this session Book onto this session |
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Donations for Spirituality Garden |
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Donation for Growing Faith Harvest Festival |
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Have a wonderful week!
Hannah Gaynor
Dear School Family,
We would love to share some exciting, fun adventures that your children have recently been experiencing.
There is nothing better than walking into a classroom and seeing tomatoes being mummified (yr3) or careful thought being given to the classification of animals (yr6)! All our children are certainly on an adventure of learning and are growing in confidence when they are asked to talk about their learning.
Below is a snapshot of some of our church and school adventures from last week.
WHAT IS HAPPENING ON OUR SCHOOL GROUNDS?
This year, we are developing a space on our school field into a Spirituality Garden. Our wish is to design and create a beautiful, contemplative space where children can be calm, relax, reflect and have the opportunity to encounter God. The design will include; seating, pathways, a simple water feature and various sensory herbs and flowers.
Thanks to a plea via Tapestry, we received 6 messages from families who will form a working party over the next 4 weeks offering; manual labour, diggers, planting, advice and expertise as well as free resources. We thank you all in advance as ‘Many hands make light work!’ In addition, we have a strong party of 8 talented and creative volunteers from All Saints' Church (some of whom are currently chopping back trees and digging out the ground for our water feature!). Exciting stuff!
Church Week's theme for 2021 will be "Growing Faith" and will take place between October 18th- 20th, when we hope we can get children and volunteers working together to develop our Spirituality Garden for an official opening on Friday 22nd October.
Our next meeting will take place next Monday 4th October @ 3.30pm on the school field to allocate areas/ jobs on the action plan! If you are available and haven't yet contacted school, please do get in touch via Tapestry. We still need any carpenters to help build seating... so if you know anyone we would love to hear from you!
Kind regards,
Mrs. Noble, Mr. Mc Shane and Sarah Holton (All Saints' Church Children and Families Worker)
In Reception, we have been having a great time! We have been introducing counting activities, phase one phonics and learning how to write our names. This is helping us build our fine motor skills and letter formation.
Mrs Gaynor also loves coming in when we are having our Dough Disco session!!
In our Year 1 topic work we have done so much! We finished our underwater scenes, learned how to log on to the computers and had fun in PE with Mr G.
As part of our Science activity we investigated the human body by drawing around Malik. We have also named the different body parts.
Can you children remember the correct vocabulary?
This week in DT we made out fabric using wet felting. The children loved the process, and seeing how the fibres changed through rubbing with the soap and water. We noticed all the changes to the fabric, and we also made our own designs, choosing how to arrange the colours. After we made the fabric, we decorated some card using collage, then placed our fabric on it, creating a sea scene. Well done Class 2!
In Year 3, Ancient Egyptian mummification has been a highlight. Children have adored writing instructions on how to mummify a deceased pharaoh and a tomato! We even did some Y5 reading comprehension questions about mummification using the READING VIPERS which we were all so super proud of!
Year 4.
What a great start to the new year, we've managed to squeeze so much into a very short space of time! Whether this is diving into our new Roman topic, writing a job application or revisiting our maths skills the children have given it their best shot and should be very proud of themselves.
We have also completed some challenging science work on the digestive system. I wonder if we can all remember the different parts and their function?
During languages day Class 5 were learning to count to ten in Mandarin as Miss Foster’s mum is from Hong Kong. They have also been very busy designing posters naming French food. Class 5 have been remote learning this week but that hasn’t stopped them creating some wonderful pictures and working really hard, Well done Class 5!
This week we got to work digging holes in what was named ‘Camp Field Lake’ by Penny. This experience gave us some empathy with Stanley Yelnats from our novel and helped inspire our writing. Muscle and stamina was in evidence (though I am not convinced they could do it for 18 months, in the desert, like Stanley!). We have also begun to write our “I am” poems. The poems represent who we are as individuals and were created by using lots of mixed media.
International Day of Languages saw classes really immerse themselves into different cultures and languages from around the globe.
Reception celebrated Welsh, Irish, Thai, French, Latin, Russian and even Greek! And of course learnt to speak a little Irish “Dia Duit” (Jay-a Ditch) with our very our Miss Mc Connell! A huge thank you to all the families who contributed sending in videos. From Y2’s Frere Jaques singing in French, to Y3’s Spanish dancing and counting and even those home learning in Y5 hearing from Miss Foster’s mum teaching them to count to 10 in Cantonese, it really was a wonderful day of world celebrations across the school!
Isn’t the world a wonderful place!
From The ‘Awe and Wonder Team’ – Mrs. Daniels and Mrs. Noble
Chester Diocese are coming to film some children in our school!!
Not only have we recently been visited by two bishops but the Educational Team from the Chester Diocese have asked Mrs Gaynor if they can film some of our children while they have a conversation with them about respect and dignity.
This will take place on 13th October. Look out for further news.
See previous articles in the Education Bulletins
https://d3hgrlq6yacptf.cloudfront.net/5f20800211eb6/content/pages/documents/dbe-schools-bulletin-june-2021.pdf = page 8
https://d3hgrlq6yacptf.cloudfront.net/5f20800211eb6/content/pages/documents/dbe-schools-bulletin-school-news-edition-june-2021.pdf = p12-17
Our fantastic annual Book Fair will be arriving in school this Thursday 30th September! The Book Fair is a great opportunity to get the children excited about reading and to involve them in choosing their own books. In addition, the more books we sell, the more free books we will receive for our school library. See the Tapestry post for the date for each class.
Being a Parent Together workshops this autumn
Virtual Bitesize 90 minute Taster Session - 4th October 10.30am
Virtual evening workshop (2 hours for 9 weeks, Term time only) Starting 12th October
For co-parents of children aged 2 - 11 years who attend together, are living together / in a relationship or not
For more information TEL: 0161 406 9558 Email: admin.epec@stockport.gov.uk
Have a wonderful week!
Hannah Gaynor
Dear School Family,
Thank you for you many expressions and thanks and praise for the way we are managing school at this time.
By now, you would all have read the communication sent out to you last Friday which gave you an update on the rigorous health and safety measures we have adhered to since the beginning of term. You will continue to be informed if your child is a close contact and will be advised to book a PCR test. The communication, also included further restrictions we have been asked to implement by the Local authority and Public Health England.
We have been asked to also remind you that children who have tested positive by a LFT or PCR should be self-isolating.
Any absence related to Covid-19 and copies of test results must be emailed to the admin staff using admin@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk
Please also note that the current DfE guidance regarding keeping classes open and the children receiving face-to-face education remains unchanged. If you do wish to express your opinions regarding this decision, please contact the DfE directly.
We will again be meeting with the LA and PHE consultant on Tuesday morning and will update you as and when required.
Thank you so much for your amazing cooperation, support and patience. We really do appreciate your understanding and best wishes to those who are needing to be at home at this time.
The All Saints’ Way Team
MRS HALLWORTH moving on
Mrs Hallworth’s last day with us is 24th September.
We wish her all the very best in her next adventure and know she will be a wonderful asset to her new school.
HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE
Due to the medical needs across our school, we would ask that you: 
Labelling
Please ensure all your child’s belongings are well labelled.
Potter’s Village Certificate of Thanks to our school
We have received a thank you certificate for the £207 raised during the Summer Term. Many thanks again to you all for supporting this very worthwhile cause.
Day of languages
We will be celebrating the different languages spoken in our school as well as others.
Please look out for the sharing of this exciting work on Tapestry.
Supporting Sleep Patterns
See the following website https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/supporting-better-sleep-webinar-tickets-165552615329
| SEPTEMBER YR GROUP PARENT MEETINGS AT 6PM YR4- 20.9.21 YR5- 21.9.21 YR2- 22.9.21 YR3- 23.9.21 YR1- 28.9.21 |
DATE |
EVENT |
| 24.9.21 |
Day of Languages |
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| 27.9.21 |
School staff training day. Children not in. |
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| 30.9.21 |
Scholastic Book Fair |
Have a wonderful week!
Hannah Gaynor
| Dear School Family,
You may remember completing a Parent Questionnaire for us last Summer. Thank you so much again to all those who were able to spend some time on this. We appreciate your opinion and the results were overwhelmingly positive.
97% of parents say that their child is happy at this school. 99% of parents say that their child feels safe at this school. 96% of parents say that the school makes sure its pupils are well behaved. 82% of children have not been bullied. Of the 18% who had been 12% said that the school dealt with the bullying quickly and effectively, 6% were neutral on this question. 92% of parents say that the school makes them aware of what their child will learn during the year. 53% of parents say that when they have raised concerns with the school they have been dealt with properly. 28% of parents have not raised any concerns. 16% of parents say that their child has SEND. 15% of these parents say that the school gives them the support they need to succeed. 93% of parents say that the school has high expectations for their child. 93% of parents say that their child does well at this school. 91% of parents say that the school lets them know how their child is doing. 93% of parents say that there is a good range of subjects available to their child at this school. 94% of parents say that their child can take part in clubs and activities at this school. 94% of parents say that the school supports their child’s wider personal development. 98% of parents would recommend this school to another parent.
The most popular training that parents thought would help to support children better in Maths, Reading and Writing were: phonics, reading comprehension, maths methods/strategies and grammar and punctuation terms/definitions.
Please note that as all the above will be mentioned in your child’s year group meeting, so we are looking forward to seeing you all at these meetings. Termly updates will also be shared throughout the year.
Thank you for all the positive comments you made and for being part of our special school family, The All Saints’ Way Team |
Our Special Visitors
Today we had two special visitors. Bishop Mark Tanner, the Bishop of Chester and Bishop Sam Corley, the Bishop of Stockport were taken on a tour around our school. They then spent time with the children, sharing their role and our children were able to ask a variety of questions. They also led a wonderful collective worship on the theme of Hope!
HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE
Please email any notification of Covid symptoms / results of tests etc. to admin@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk rather than placing on tapestry.
Due to the medical needs across our school, we would ask that you:
Refrain from bringing anything into school which contains nuts.
Labelling
Please ensure all your child’s belongings are well labelled. Simply writing there name on in biro is sufficient , so long as the name can be clearly seen.
MRS HALLWORTH moving on
As mentioned last week, Mrs Hallworth, who has been part of our school family for 8 years will be leaving us on 24th September. She has secured an Assistant SBM post at another Stockport school and is excited about the new adventure ahead.
All Saints’ holds a special place in her heart and we will miss having her as part of our team. We know many of you will also want to express your best wishes to her.
TAYLOR SHAW
We are currently in discussions with Taylor Shaw catering company regarding their service to our school. Although they have a shortage of staff and are struggling with some ingredients, they have assured us that the quality of meals provided will be of a high standard. As a means of clarification, vegetarian options and jacket potatoes are available to all children.
Taylor Shaw are hoping to set up a new online ordering system which can be used by parents at home to select meals. We will update you when we receive this information. Taylor Shaw would like to apologise for this interrupted service Thank you for your patience .
Turning on the subtitles while children are watching television can double the chances of them becoming good at reading. Yes, really!
Wonderfully simple isn’t it? 10 seconds of effort for parents, a lifetime’s impact for their children. All backed up by decades of scientific research. Turning on subtitles while children are watching TV can greatly improve their reading skills. A quick, simple, free way to make TV time, reading time. #turnonthesubtitles
| SEPTEMBER YR GROUP PARENT MEETINGS AT 6PM YR6 – 14.9.21 RECEPTION – 16.9.21 YR4- 20.9.21 YR5- 21.9.21 YR2- 22.9.21 YR3- 23.9.21 YR1- 28.9.21 |
DATE |
EVENT |
| 24.9.21 |
Day of Languages |
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| 27.9.21 |
School staff training day. Children not in. |
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| 30.9.21 |
Scholastic Book Fair |
Meet Tim Bowman, Director of Education in Stockport, & Bev Milway, Strategic lead for SEND Inclusion
Following the parents/carers meeting with Tim Bowman, the new Director of Education in Stockport and Tameside, as part of our SEND Week of Action in May 2021, this webinar will now provide a regular slot. Wednesday 6th October 2021: 11.30am
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Thursday 7th October 2021: 7pm
Have a wonderful week!
Hannah Gaynor
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Dear Wonderful School Family,
A huge thank you again for your cooperation, patience and continued support.
We hope that our previous Yr6 children have enjoyed the beginning of their next journey. Please pass on our best wishes.
It has been lovely to see all your friendly smiles and to have had a quick chat with you at drop off and pick up times. Your children have been amazing and have thoroughly enjoyed their first two days in start to the new school year. The staff have worked extremely hard on settling your children back into school and have planned fun and exciting work to ensure your children KNOW MORE, REMEMBER MORE and are able to DO MORE. A huge thank you to those who work in the classroom, but also to those who cross our children safely across the main road, those who work upon keeping our school building safe, those who work in our school office, support us at lunch times/at Kids Zone and those who work in our school kitchen. We appreciate everyone who is part of our school family.
Please refer to the return to school letter sent on 1s September and the Respect Charter sent on 2nd September.
Further ways you can help us are below. Please:
Ensure all belongings are clearly labelled
There will be year group meetings over the next couple of weeks for all our parents. Please see the dates and time under diary dates and we also have two bishops visiting our school on 13th September! They must have heard how wonderful our school family is!!
Warm regards,
| There will be year group meetings over the next couple of weeks for all our parents. Please see the dates and time under diary dates and we also have two bishops visiting our school on 13th September! They must have heard how wonderful our school family is!!
Warm regards, Hannah Gaynor and the All Saints' Team |
HEALTH & SAFETY NOTICE
Due to the medical needs across our school, we would ask that you:
MRS HALLWORTH moving on
We thought it appropriate to let you know that Mrs Hallworth, who has been part of our school family for 8 years will be leaving us on 24th September. She has secured an Assistant SBM post at another Stockport school and is excited about the new adventure ahead.
All Saints’ holds a special place in her heart and we will miss having her as part of our team. We know many of you will also want to express your best wishes to her.
EATING IN THE HALL
Now that we are all eating in the hall, we have noticed that our children could really do with practising how to use a knife and fork at home. 
Turning on the subtitles while children are watching television can double the chances of them becoming good at reading. Yes really!
Wonderfully simple isn’t it? 10 seconds of effort for parents, a lifetime’s impact for their children. All backed up by decades of scientific research. Turning on subtitles while children are watching TV can greatly improve their reading skills. A quick, simple, free way to make TV time, reading time. #turnonthesubtitles
Many congratulations to Mrs Manning-Craggs who got married during August.
As you can tell from the photos, she looked absolutely beautiful and had a truly wonderful day.
OUTGROWN UNIFORM
Anna Clyne (yr 3 mum) and Jenny Tyrrell (reception 2021 mum) manage the Outgrown Uniform
https://m.facebook.com/groups/778820806070405
If you had a clear out over the summer, they are happy to take donations. Please see the above website for further information.
PE SESSIONS AND KIT FROM SEPTEMBER 2021 Please note on PE days from this term, Reception to Y3 children will come to school dressed in their PE kits on their 2 PE days each week. This will be to save time changing clothing with the younger children so that the maximum time is spent on getting fit and active in their PE lessons.
Y4- Y6 will revert to changing into their PE clothes and footwear for PE sessions, so will need their PE kits in lockers again in a clearly labelled bag that will fit inside their lockers.
Please note that PE days / timetable will be sent home for each class at the start of the year via Tapestry.
As a school, we will be tightening up on PE uniform to ensure that all children have their correct PE kits to look smart and for health and safety reasons.
Please see the kit list as follows;
White T- Shirt - plain or polo shirt
Black shorts/ cycling shorts
Black jogging trousers/ leggings
Black hooded jumper/ zip up jacket for cold weather
Black/ white socks
Black/ white trainers
Therefore, if purchasing new uniforms during the summer holidays, please ensure that you adhere to the PE Kit uniform - NO SPORTS LOGO / FOOTBALL SHIRTS etc.
As per a previous message, hair must be tied up and no earrings / jewellery worn. It is parents’ responsibility to support with removing earrings on PE days OR if they cannot be removed yet, taping up with blue tape (for certain activities including swimming children with earrings will not be able to participate for safety reasons). Please ensure that hair bobbles are also in PE bags.
Letters will be sent home if children are not in the correct kits to ensure that we are all in line the start of the year, particularly as we will be hoping to enter lots more sporting competitions to represent All Saints' school in 2021- 2022 and really look the part!
Yours thankfully.
Mr. Granite and Mrs. Noble (Sports Leads)
| SEPTEMBER YR GROUP PARENT MEETINGS AT 6PM YR6 – 14.9.21 RECEPTION – 16.9.21 YR4- 20.9.21 YR5- 21.9.21 YR2- 22.9.21 YR3- 23.9.21 YR1- 28.9.21 |
DATE |
EVENT |
| 13.9.21 |
2 Bishops are visiting our school with |
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| 24.9.21 |
Day of Languages |
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| 27.9.21 |
School staff training day. Children not in. |
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| 30.9.21 |
Scholastic Book Fair |
Meet Tim Bowman, Director of Education in Stockport, & Bev Milway, Strategic lead for SEND Inclusion
Following the parents/carers meeting with Tim Bowman, the new Director of Education in Stockport and Tameside, as part of our SEND Week of Action in May 2021, this webinar will now provide a regular slot.
Wednesday 6th October 2021: 11.30am
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Thursday 7th October 2021: 7pm |
Have a wonderful week!
Hannah Gaynor
Dear Wonderful School Family,
Well this is the last newsletter of the academic year!! We’ve got through it! Thank you so much for all your support throughout the year. We couldn’t have got through it without us working together as a team!
We will be sending out a letter via Tapestry on 1st September so you are fully aware of the arrangement when your children return to school on 2nd September.
Thank you again for completing the questionnaire. The results will be shared with you in September.
Our Reception class had a truly amazing week with outdoor learning activities on the Wednesday and a New Horizons boat trip on Friday. I had a wonderful time with one group. Thank you to Sue Woodgate, one of our governors, for organising this trip for our children.
It has been absolutely wonderful to see and hear your children acting and singing with so much energy and enthusiasm. Please do take some time to watch their Oscar winning performances. The link has been sent via Tapestry.
There will be year group meetings held in September for all our parents. Please see the dates and time on page 2.
So much fun, excitement and many successes have been achieved this year! Thank you so very much again for your continued cooperation and support!!
The All Saints' Team
ALL SAINTS’ RESIDENT AUTHOR
We have our very own author in All Saints’ – Mrs Mylrea – who has had her very first book published. We are extremely proud of her achievements and applaud her for managing this huge feat.
There will be a book signing and reading workshop during the holiday. See the attached poster for more details.
OUTGROWN UNIFORM – A message from Anna & Jenny
Hello everyone,
Before we end the school year we wanted to introduce ourselves as the new admins of outgrown uniform. Sarah has handed over the reins to Anna Clyne (yr 3 mum) and Jenny Tyrrell (reception 2021 mum).
We have a new Facebook group : outgrown uniform.
https://m.facebook.com/groups/778820806070405
The existing profile for outgrown uniform will be deleted at the end of the week so make sure you have swapped over!
If you have a clear out over the summer, we are happy to take donations during the holidays; just message us on the Facebook group.
Thank you for continuing support with outgrown uniform and a huge thank you to Sarah for her amazing work the last few years.
PE SESSIONS AND KIT FROM SEPTEMBER 2021 
Please note on PE days from September, Reception to Y3 children will come to school dressed in their PE kits on their 2 PE days each week.
This will be to save time changing clothing with the younger children so that the maximum time is spent on getting fit and active in their PE lessons.
Y4- Y6 will revert to changing into their PE clothes and footwear for PE sessions from September so will need their PE kits in lockers again from the start of the year in a clearly labelled bag that will fit inside their lockers.
Please note that PE days / timetable will be sent home for each class at the start of the year via Tapestry.
As a school, we will be tightening up on PE uniform to ensure that all children have their correct PE kits to look smart and for health and safety reasons.
Please see the kit list as follows;
White T- Shirt - plain or polo shirt
Black shorts/ cycling shorts
Black jogging trousers/ leggings
Black hooded jumper/ zip up jacket for cold weather
Black/ white socks
Black/ white trainers
Therefore, if purchasing new uniforms during the summer holidays, please ensure that you adhere to the PE Kit uniform - NO SPORTS LOGO / FOOTBALL SHIRTS etc.
As per a previous message, hair must be tied up and no earrings / jewellery worn. It is parents’ responsibility to support with removing earrings on PE days OR if they cannot be removed yet, taping up with blue tape (for certain activities including swimming children with earrings will not be able to participate for safety reasons). Please ensure that hair bobbles are also in PE bags.
Letters will be sent home if children are not in the correct kits to ensure that we are all in line the start of the year, particularly as we will be hoping to enter lots more sporting competitions to represent All Saints' school in 2021- 2022 and really look the part!
Yours thankfully.
Mr. Granite and Mrs. Noble (Sports Leads)
SEPTEMBER YR GROUP PARENT MEETINGS AT 6PM
YR6 – 14.9.21
RECEPTION – 16.9.21
YR4- 20.9.21
YR5- 21.9.21
YR2- 22.9.21
YR3- 23.9.21
YR1- 28.9.21
IMPORTANT INFORMATION SITE FOR PARENTS
The DfE have launched an information site for parents which have some very useful pieces of information and FUN activities for your children.
There is also some information about a Summer School.
Have a wonderful Summer holiday everyone and we’ll see you all on Thursday 2nd September!
Hannah Gaynor
| Dear Wonderful School Family,
We hope you enjoyed reading your child’s report last week. I’d like to give a personal thank you to you all for supporting your child but would also especially like to thank the staff who spent time on assessing and writing these reports. Thank you for your many messages of thanks and appreciation too.
If you wish to complete the parent questionnaire, please do so by Wednesday 21st July.
Our yr4 & yr5 class had an absolutely fantastic, jam packed day at Castleton last Tuesday and our yr6 children had an exciting activity day at the Underbank Peak Adventure Centre. Our children encouraged each other, worked as teams, took risks and made many memories they will remember for a life time! Please view all the photos on Tapestry.
We had an excellent music session with Jill Henderson-Wild last Friday. It was great to use our lungs and voices for singing. As it is going to be extremely hot this week, we have asked all children to bring in a water bottle, cap and sun cream if you wish them to apply sun cream throughout the day. Please ensure all items are labelled. Your children also have the option of wearing their PE kit which should be a plain white top and black leg wear. See the full list on the following page.
You would have all by now read the Stockport Authority letter which was posted on Tapestry on Friday 16th July. It states that our school and schools across Stockport will maintain our current restrictions: social distancing in and around school, the use of face coverings at drop off and pick up times as well as in school communal areas by staff and class bubbles until the end of term. We thank you for your continued co-operation and understanding,
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| CLASS ASSEMBLIES It has been absolutely wonderful to see and hear your children acting and singing with so much energy and enthusiasm. They have made props, brought in costumes and all sorts. Please do take some time to watch their Oscar winning performances. |
| OUTGROWN UNIFORM Anna Clyne and Jenny Tyrrell have taken over Outgrown Uniform and set up a new Facebook page. The existing Facebook page will close on the last day of term. |
| PE SESSIONS AND KIT FROM SEPTEMBER 2021 Please note on PE days from September, Reception to Y3 children will come to school dressed in their PE kits on their 2 PE days each week. This will be to save time changing clothing with the younger children so that the maximum time is spent on getting fit and active in their PE lessons. Y4- Y6 will revert to changing into their PE clothes and footwear for PE sessions from September so will need their PE kits in lockers again from the start of the year in a clearly labelled bag that will fit inside their lockers. Please note that PE days / timetable will be sent home for each class at the start of the year via Tapestry. As a school, we will be tightening up on PE uniform to ensure that all children have their correct PE kits to look smart and for health and safety reasons.
Please see the kit list as follows; White T- Shirt - plain or polo shirt Black shorts/ cycling shorts Black jogging trousers/ leggings Black hooded jumper/ zip up jacket for cold weather Black/ white socks Black/ white trainers
Therefore, if purchasing new uniforms during the summer holidays, please ensure that you adhere to the PE Kit uniform - NO SPORTS LOGO / FOOTBALL SHIRTS etc.
As per a previous message, hair must be tied up and no earrings / jewellery worn. It is parents’ responsibility to support with removing earrings on PE days OR if they cannot be removed yet, taping up with blue tape (for certain activities including swimming children with earrings will not be able to participate for safety reasons). Please ensure that hair bobbles are also in PE bags.
Letters will be sent home if children are not in the correct kits to ensure that we are all in line the start of the year, particularly as we will be hoping to enter lots more sporting competitions to represent All Saints' school in 2021- 2022 and really look the part!
Yours thankfully. Mr. Granite and Mrs. Noble (Sports Leads) |
| Finishing the school year a day earlier at the end of Summer 2022 Please note slightly adjusted term dates for 2021-2022. The changes are in response to legislation for an extra day holiday to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. We have reduced the length of the original Summer term, our last day of the academic year, by one day, to minimise any disruption to any plans already made. We will now finish 2021/2022 school year at the end of Wednesday 27th of July. |
LIBRARY BOOKS
Please ensure all school library books have been returned to school by tomorrow.
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| Free school meals and Pupil Premium Had a change in financial circumstances? Please apply for Free School Meals! School will receive £1345 for each child for every year they are at All Saints’ regardless if your circumstances change again. Please apply using the link https://www.stockport.gov.uk/start/free-school-meals-application-form Apply whichever year your child is in to ensure we get the funding for the vital resources! Thank you
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION SITE FOR PARENTS The DfE have launched an information site for parents which have some very useful pieces of information and FUN activities for your children. There is also some information about a Summer School.
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Please regulary view the Summer Diary Dates which were posted on Tapestry on Friday 16th April, 2021
| DATE |
EVENT |
| 19th July 2021 |
Class End of Yr Assemblies uploaded onto Tapestry |
| 21st July 2021 |
Parent Questionnaires to be completed by today. |
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Hannah Gaynor
Dear Wonderful School Family,
We have so much to celebrate this week!
Chris Penn, Mrs Gaynor, Mrs Morton, The Celebration Service was hosted and led by the Church
Alan Bailey and Jen McIlveen
We had an absolutely spectacular morning last Wednesday when we welcomed Chris Penn and Jen McIlveen who were on site to present us with the prestigious Church School Partnership Award. They thoroughly enjoyed their morning with us and all the children were praised and thanked for their part in helping us to receive this award. In recognition, the church has sent us some very special bunting with special prayers from the congregation and we have placed this and the bespoke gift from the Diocese in our foyer.
Our achievement of this outstanding award can be read in the Diocese June bulletins below:
We are the first school to have achieved this award in the Chester Diocese and the only school and church to have taken the risk and applied during the pandemic so this really is an enormous achievement for us all.
An enormous thank you to Sarah Holton who organised the service which was led from our church. Chris Penn, our Diocese Director of Education and Jen McIlveen, our Diocese CPD officer were thoroughly impressed with our church and school. They both, along with Mr Bailey, encouraged the children to continue with their exciting learning and gave them all a personal word of praise and thanks.
The All Saints' Team
WORLD WAR TWO AWARD
On Friday last week All Saints' welcomed some very special visitors with some exciting news.
As part of the school's work on Remembrance and our curriculum focus on World War 2, we were delighted to find out we had won a local legacy competition, organised by Stockport Normandy Veterans. All classes contributed in some way or other, be it by War song, soldier prayer, poppy art, World War inspired writing, Anderson shelter building to name just some of the many activities undertaken. Due to the bubble situation, Year 6 welcomed the guests but we managed to Zoom into the Whole school celebration assembly so all could join in; we were treated with some historical stories before receiving our prestigious award.
On the day we were joined by Shelia and Freda who were both Primary aged children during World War 2, Linda Varley - Administrator of the Stockport Normandy Veterans Legacy, Ray (Treasurer) and local MP William Wragg who presented us with the most beautiful trophy that sits proudly in our foyer.
Next year we will plan to build upon this important legacy, especially around the time of Remembrance Day - if any families would like to share stories, artefacts etc. around this time we would be very interested in hearing from you. Perhaps overly ambitious, I am looking for any local tradesmen who would be willing to donate some time or resources in the near future to help All Saints' build our very own replica Anderson Shelters to help inspire, to help remember and to help bring the curriculum to life! Please get in touch if you think you could lend a hand, some expertise or resources.
Mr McShane (AHT & Yr6 Teacher)
RESIDENT ARTIST - Evelyn
We have heard from Tracy McGuinness that the most recent mural has been installed and our very own Evelyn has had her work included! What a huge achievement!!
Evelyn said that she was inspired by the nature in the park as she likes to watch the birds flying and drinking from the bird baths!
Free school meals and Pupil Premium
Had a change in financial circumstances? Please apply for Free School Meals!
School will receive £1345 for each child for every year they are at All Saints’ regardless if your circumstances change again.
Please apply using the link https://www.stockport.gov.uk/start/free-school-meals-application-form
Apply whichever year your child is in to ensure we get the funding for the vital resources!
Thank you
VEGPOWER
Taylor Shaw have signed up to be part of the national vegpower scheme.
Each week, Veg Power are asking school caterers to lay out tasty sample dishes of each weeks’ veg. There are stickers to reward the children who give them a try.
wc 5th July – Peas
wc 12th July – Brocco
Please regulary view the Summer Diary Dates which were posted on Tapestry on Friday 16th April, 2021
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DATE |
EVENT |
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9th and 12th July 2021 ~ Inset days |
Children are not in school on these days. |
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14th July 2021 |
Reports and Parent Questionnaire go home. |
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19th July 2021 |
Class End of Yr Assemblies uploaded onto Tapestry |
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21st July 2021 |
Parent Questionnaires to be completed by today. |
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Hannah Gaynor
Dear Wonderful School Family,
Thank you again for the many people who have expressed how thrilled they are with their child’s 2021-2022 Teaching Team. The staff are equally as excited to be achieving many more goals and making memories with your special children.
On Wednesday 30th June, we will be officially celebrating being awarded the Church School Partnership Award. Sarah Holton has been extremely busy organising the special service which will be hosted from All Saints’ church with a few church and community members. Each class will be zooming into the celebration and will be taking part in the service. We are honoured to be welcoming Chris Penn, our Diocese Director of Education and Jen McIlveen, our Diocese CPD officer who will be expressing how impressed they are that we took a risk in the middle of a pandemic to evidence our partnership and complete the application process. We are the only school to have done so during this time and are the first school in the Chester Diocese to have achieved this award. Chris Penn has a special surprise for our school which he will share with us on the day. Mrs Morton will also be at the church joining in with the service. She’s so excited and very proud of our whole school family.
Following the service, Chris and Jen will be visiting our school to be taken on a tour by Mrs Gaynor and Alan Bailey who is our Chair of Governors. Not only will the children be encouraged to continue with their exciting learning but they will also receive a personal word of praise and thanks from Chris Penn and Alan Bailey.
Please see the June Diocese Bulletin http://www.chester.anglican.org/content/pages/documents/dbe-schools-bulletin-school-news-edition-june-2021.pdf where we have been featured and we hope to get an article in one of the local newspapers.
As a brief update, when Mrs Morton returns, she will be working from Wednesday to Friday.
The All Saints' Team
WELCOME MRS KING
After a rigorous recruitment process, we are delighted to announce that Mrs King will be joining our wonderful team and will be the Yr1 teacher from September 2021. She has a wide range of experiences including EYFS and KS1 and we are sure she will enhance All Saints’ further. A huge thank you to Mr Bailey and Mrs Woodgate; the Chair of Governors and Resources Chair who dedicated their time, support and wealth of knowledge to support Mrs Noble and I in this process.
OUTGROWN UNIFORM
You will know that Outgrown Uniform has served our families exceptionally well over the years. Sarah Taylor who has managed this for a number of years will now not be able to continue with it after this academic year.
We have very much appreciated her innovative ideas, time, commitment and dedication. She has been absolutely amazing and this resource has been so valuable to our school. An enormous THANK YOU for everything she has done over the years and for managing Outgrown Uniform with such enthusiasm.
Please read Sarah’s message below:
“Hello uniform fans, I am looking for volunteers! This will be my last school year running the Outgrown Uniform scheme. So please get in touch if you have a little spare time (it doesn’t take much), if you have some storage space and would like to get involved.
Until the end of term I will keep selling the uniform I’ve got in stock but I won’t be taking in any more donations for the time being.”
If anyone is at all interested, please get in touch with Sarah Taylor.
A HUGE THANK YOU to all of you for supporting this charity. We have raised £207.40.!!
As part of our celebrations for Brenda Beardwood, the Ethos Group researched about a charity close to Brenda’s heart- Potter’s Village in Uganda, Africa. All children in school heard about the wonderful work that Potter’s Village charity does to help babies and orphaned children in crisis who have no other chance of survival. Potter’s Village seeks to provide a home where God’s love is lived out within a Christian context. For further information, please see their website; https://www.pottersvillage.org.uk/
VEGPOWER
Taylor Shaw have signed up to be part of the national vegpower scheme.
Each week, Veg Power are asking school caterers to lay out tasty sample dishes of each weeks’ veg. There are stickers to reward the children who give them a try.
GOVERNORS OF THE WEEK – ALI HOLMES & DARYL McSHANE
ALI HOLMES
MY GOVERNOR ROLE::
As a Co-opted Governor, All Saints Primary School has been a huge part of my life for 9 years now with both my children attending the school. My youngest left 2 years ago, moving on to Marple Hall School, and I was fortunate enough to remain as a co-opted governor when my parent governor term ended in Dec 2019.
A RECENT VISIT:
I was lucky enough to visit the school during Active week and what a great experience that was! The energy and enthusiasm from all pupils, staff and visitors was amazing! I could clearly see the ‘bubbles’ working to meet with Covid restrictions, but more importantly the feeling around the school was electric! It was great to see so many children enjoying the new running track and experiencing lots of different activities - truly uplifting.
ENCOURAGING WORDS:
As we slowly and safely come out of national and local restrictions, I look forward to seeing All Saints pupils active in the community again; making the most of the beautiful area we live in. Onwards and upwards!
DARYL McSHANE
WHY I BECAME A GOVERNOR:
I decided to join the Governing body initially to see behind the scenes, to be a voice for the school staff and also to support the Headteacher. As the years have passed I think I am still doing that but now have a much greater appreciation of how a collective unit works to ensure that our school functions well.
I am a Co-opted Governor and member of the Resources Committee and have been since 2019. In my role I have been involved in the recruitment of many staff, presented various policies and helped to steer the direction of our wonderful school.
It is vitally important to me that we get the balance right in school, for instance making memories v academic rigour, and it is encouraging that our Governing body have a shared value for education, a place where everyone is encouraged to be the best that they can be, and a place where children can grow and develop. The wellbeing of all is carefully considered and the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of all is fostered within a Christian environment.
I enjoy listening to and learning from the expertise we have on our Governing body; for which we are very lucky. I work in the classroom every day and to see things from altered viewpoints, be it different school settings, the Church, parents and many other voices of reason is fascinating and challenges your own thinking.
ENCOURAGING WORDS:
The journey of a school is never straight forward; we are constantly faced with challenge, change and sometimes we have to be creative in our problem solving. The past two years have been like no other. To cope with the Covid pandemic without a blueprint to follow was difficult, but everybody in our school family has pulled together and we will come out stronger from this. I can’t wait to have all the children back in our school hall together for Collective Worship, to invite parents on site to share our learning and to have a celebration together again up at Church – it will happen!
Please regulary view the Summer Diary Dates which were posted on Tapestry on Friday 16th April, 2021
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EVENT |
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| Thursday 1st July |
MHS Transition Day and All Saints’ Transition Time in the morning. |
| 9th and 12th July 2021 ~ Inset days |
Children are not in school on these days |
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Hannah Gaynor
OUTGROWN UNIFORM
You will know that Outgrown Uniform has served our families exceptionally well over the years. Sarah Taylor who has managed this for a number of years will now not be able to continue with it after this academic year.
We have very much appreciated her innovative ideas, time, commitment and dedication. She has been absolutely amazing and this resource has been so valuable to our school. An enormous THANK YOU for everything she has done over the years and for managing Outgrown Uniform with such enthusiasm.
Please read Sarah’s message below:
“Hello uniform fans, I am looking for volunteers! This will be my last school year running the Outgrown Uniform scheme. So please get in touch if you have a little spare time (it doesn’t take much), if you have some storage space and would like to get involved.
Until the end of term I will keep selling the uniform I’ve got in stock but I won’t be taking in any more donations for the time being.”
If anyone is at all interested, please get in touch with Sarah Taylor.
ONLINE SAFETY 
You are reminded that key information can be found on our school website. Two of our parents, Emma Cox and Tamzyn Jones, are our Parent Online Safety Ambassadors
GOVERNOR OF THE WEEK – HELEN HALLWORTH
MY ROLE IN SCHOOL:
I joined the All Saints’ family in June 2013, as Admin Assistant and have worked my way up to my role as School Business Manager which I have been doing for 3 years now. My role is very varied, and there is never a dull moment during the school day!
The staff are simply wonderful at ensuring the children’s wellbeing is always considered with every decision, and going above and beyond every day to uphold the nurturing, safe and secure environment for each and every person who walks through the door. I feel honoured to be part of such an amazing team – especially in these uncertain times.
WHY I BECAME A GOVERNOR:
I became a Staff Governor as I wanted to be involved in all aspects of school life
ENCOURAGING WORDS TO CHILDREN AND PARENTS:
Keep strong, look after yourselves and each other. We are so lucky in that we have such a supportive community – Marple is a very special place and we are surrounded by such areas of beauty. To say that the past 15 months have been challenging is an understatement; however, we have supported each other and will continue to do so even when the pandemic is over, as we have in previous times.
All Saints’ holds a very special place in my heart, as do the families. For a lot of you, I have watched your children grow from little ones in Reception, to the confident Year 6’s –ready to move onto high school and that is truly something special to be a part of.
VEGPOWER
Our school kitchen and Taylor Shaw have signed up to be part of the national vegpower scheme.
Each week will feature a rally cry around one of Britain’s family favourite vegetables. Veg Power are asking school caterers to lay out tasty sample dishes of each weeks’ veg. There are stickers to reward the children who give them a try.
Please regulary view the Summer Diary Dates which were posted on Tapestry on Friday 16th April, 2021
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DATE |
EVENT |
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Tuesday 22nd June |
Staff Pen Portraits sent to parents |
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Thursday 24th June |
Yr3 and Yr6 Non uniform day with £1 donations for the Potters Village |
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Thursday 1st July |
MHS Transition Day |
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9th and 12th July 2021 ~ Inset days |
Children are not in school on these days |
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Hannah Gaynor
Dear Wonderful School Family,
We trust that you had a wonderful half term and were able to enjoy the beautiful sunshine.
Attached is a very important letter from Jennifer Connolly who is our Director of Public Health.
The last week of term was absolutely fantastic. We all became more active during our Active Week and enjoyed a vast array of sports. Thank you to Mrs Noble and the Awe & Wonder Team for organising this for us. The coaches were very impressed with the behaviour of our children and one even commented on how wonderful our children were:
“I had a great day and was very impressed with ALL the classes’ behaviour and general conduct. I didn’t have to talk to one single pupil the whole day as they were all listening brilliantly and doing everything I asked. “
I’m sure you’d agree that this is very high praise for our children and staff.
We continue to invite visitors to lead our collective worship. Before half term, Shiraz Janjua led an excellent collective worship on Islam and this morning we have had Rabbi Katz, who is Jewish, leading a wonderful collective worship on peace. Our children continue to enjoy learning about different faiths as part of their wider understanding of the world.
Brenda Beardwood, one of our ex governors had a fabulous assembly. It was a real tribute to the 12 years of being a governor at All Saints’ and she was thrilled with all her gifts. (See linked information about our non-uniform day on Friday 18th June further on in our newsletter.)
Online Safety featured in last week’s newsletter. You are reminded that key information can be found on our school website. Two of our parents, Emma Cox and Tamzyn Jones, are our Parent Online Safety
Ambassadors. I’d like to give a special thank you for their commitment and willingness to serve our school in this way.
Thank you to all those who signed up to the Parent Association, Summer Treasure Trail. I know many of you had fun completing the challenge. A huge thank you goes out to all those who have been instrumental in creating this outdoor activity for all our families! We appreciate all your time and effort.
GOVERNOR OF THE WEEK – REV DANIEL CURRIE
WHY I BECAME A GOVERNOR:
As part of my role as being vicar of All Saints’ Church it has been my privilege to serve as a governor of All Saints’ Primary School and be a member of the Curriculum Committee. What excites me about the role is being able to see how very good governance and excellent leadership at the school can really influence the ethos, atmosphere and culture of our wonderful primary school and how this positively impacts the educational experience and learning of our super children
THE BEST BITS:
Having been a Year 6 teacher before becoming a vicar, the best bit about being a governor is having contact with teachers and children and over the last five years it has been great to be involved in classroom activities. Recently, the Year 6 class grilled myself and Sarah Holton (All Saints’ Children and Family Worker) about issues concerning faith, creation and suffering. It is always wonderful to support the children in their learning even when they do ask really difficult questions! It has also been great to be involved in the children’s collective worship and this year has been particularly interesting as we have joined the school using Zoom. One of the highlights of our church calendar year has to be Church Week when the children spend a week coming up to church. All of the above reflect the wonderful partnership between All Saints’ School and All Saints’ Church that has been built over many years and recently we have been able to celebrate this partnership by achieving a special school, church partnership award. A massive thank you must go to the staff at All Saints’ School and Sarah Holton at church.
AND FINALLY …
I know how exhausting this last year has been as we have had to cope with the Covid pandemic. For many of us, after trying our hand at home schooling, we may have a new appreciation for our dedicated teachers. I am immensely grateful to all the staff at All Saints’ Primary who have had to cope with constant change, video lessons, Zoom as well as doing the everyday excellent teaching and supporting of our children. I have nothing but immense admiration and gratitude for their resilience, skill and dedication.
At church, in our morning worship, we have just started a series on mental health and wellbeing. I would like to take this opportunity to warmly invite you to join us at 10.15am on Sunday morning, live on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/allsaintsmarple/videos) or YOUTUBE (https://www.youtube.com/allsaintsmarple).
Every blessing,
Daniel Currie.
As part of our celebrations for Brenda Beardwood, the Ethos Group researched about a charity close to Brenda’s heart- Potter’s Village in Uganda, Africa. All children in school heard about the wonderful work that Potter’s Village charity does to help babies and orphaned children in crisis who have no other chance of survival. Potter’s Village seeks to provide a home where God’s love is lived out within a Christian context. For further information, please see their website; https://www.pottersvillage.org.uk/
Following on from this, on Friday 18.06.2021, we will be holding a non- uniform day asking children for a donation of £1 (or whatever they can give) to help other babies and young children who are not as fortunate and who desperately need our help.
We hope to raise a great sum of money to donate to this incredible charity in Africa and to make Brenda proud!
Many thanks in advance for your kindness and helping our children to understand the importance of supporting others in our world.
Mrs. Noble and Ethos Group
VEGPOWER
Our school kitchen and Taylor Shaw have signed up to be part of the national vegpower scheme.
Each week will feature a rally cry around one of Britain’s family favourite vegetables. Veg Power are asking school caterers to lay out tasty sample dishes of each weeks’ veg. There are stickers to reward the children who give them a try.
Please regulary view the Summer Diary Dates which were posted on Tapestry on Friday 16th April, 2021
| DATE |
EVENT |
| Friday 18th June |
Non uniform day with £1 donations for the Potters Village |
| Tuesday 22nd June |
Staff Pen Portraits sent to parents |
| Thursday 1st July |
Transition morning. Children will spend the morning with their new class teacher. |
| 9th and 12th July 2021 ~ Inset days |
Children are not in school on these days |
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Hannah Gaynor
Dear Wonderful School Family,
Today marks the start of our Active Week. Information informing you of daily activities was placed on Tapestry last week.
We are looking forward to seeing children and staff in their sports clothing and engaging in an array of sports. We are also encouraging our children to walk to school whenever possible, even if it is simply part of the journey.
Look out for the photos, reports or videos of your children’s wonderful experiences on Tapestry.
Thank you to those parents who have donated to Brenda Beardwood’s leaving gift. We will be having a special assembly for her this week to mark her 12 years of being a governor at All Saints’ and know she will be thrilled with all her gifts. Some of our class governor friends will also be visiting their classes this week.
Online safety featured in last week’s newsletter. You are reminded that key information can be found on our school website.
Please don’t forget to sign up to the Parents’ Association, Summer Treasure Trail and have fun!! A huge thank you goes out to all those who have been instrumental in creating this outdoor activity for all our families! We appreciate all your time and effort.
There will be further communication from the LA later this week, but for now we wish you all an enjoyable, safe and peaceful half term holiday when school ends on Friday afternoon.
“The foundations for virtually every aspect of human development – physical, intellectual and emotional – are laid in early childhood.” Marmot (2010)
Contact Start Well Stockport to see many free events throughout the week. (Poster attached)
See the attached Walk for Wellbeing poster and the Being a Parent poster which will be of interest to you
A message from the PA - Find the hidden gems of Marple and help to raise money for our lovely school!
To help raise funds for more school resources and fantastic events like the History Van, the Parents' Association have created a Summer Treasure Trail around Marple.
The trail has been designed so that you can participate with your own household/bubble following the social distancing restrictions that are in place at the time. It involves a short circular walk (wheelchair/buggy accessible) answering questions about what you can see around the centre of Marple, starting and ending at School.
If you would like to take part, please send your entry fee via ParentPay and follow the link that was sent out to you via Tapestry, in time for the half term break. The suggested donation is £1 per family
GOVERNOR OF THE WEEK – TRACY HIGGINS
MY ROLE IN SCHOOL: I became a Parent Governor in 2011, when my son and daughter attended All Saints’, and was later appointed as a co-opted governor. I am a member of the Steering Committee, Ethos Committee, Chair the Curriculum Committee and link governor for Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND).
It has been a wonderful privilege playing a role in the journey of the school over the past decade; seeing the school go from strength to strength under the excellent leadership of Helen Morton and, more recently, Hannah Gaynor.
In my time as governor, I have been involved in the recruitment of many talented and dedicated staff, including both headteachers. Carrying out learning walks and engaging in delightful conversations with many children, who consistently speak of their love of learning and for the school and their teachers, has been a highlight.
WHY I BECAME A GOVERNOR: I have had a long career in education, as a teacher, headteacher, educational adviser and, most recently, as part of the Stockport School Improvement Team, where I lead the training for newly qualified teachers, facilitate Stockport SACRE and support several schools as their link adviser. When the opportunity arose to become a governor for my local school, I was motivated to apply so I could use my knowledge and experience of education for the benefit of the children at All Saints’. It is one of the best decisions I have made because the staff, Co-headteachers and governors are totally committed to making sure the education and care on offer is of the highest quality, and consistently go the extra mile for the children. This has never been more apparent than through the Covid pandemic.
ENCOURAGING WORDS TO CHILDREN AND PARENTS: I would like to use this opportunity to say a huge thank you to Helen Morton and Hannah Gaynor for their open, transparent leadership, for always putting the children of All Saints’ at the heart of all decision making; and to acknowledge the staff for all they do every single day to ensure the children enjoy, achieve and excel at so many things. The school wouldn’t be the joyful, creative and wonderful place it is without the fantastic children, so thank you to every family for choosing All Saints’ as your child’s place of learning. The way the children rise to everything asked of them, makes it a joy to teach them and a privilege to be a governor.
Looking forward to meeting up in some face-to-face school events, when the rules allow.
Please regulary view the Summer Diary Dates which were posted on Tapestry on Friday 16th April, 2021
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EVENT |
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WC 23rd May |
ACTIVE WEEK |
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28th May |
Sports Day in the morning |
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14th June |
ALL CHILDREN RETURN TO SCHOOL |
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9th and 12th July 2021 ~ Inset days |
Children are not in school on these days |
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Hannah Gaynor
This week it is our Stockport SEND Week of Action
There is a jam-packed week of webinars and activities for professionals, parents and carers to help make SEND everyone’s business.
Go to the link below to see a comprehensive and interesting list of events available to anyone.
SAFEGUARDING OUR CHILDREN
Sadly, we are experiencing an increased amount of fall outs and incidents which are involving online sites/games that are clearly not suitable for primary age children.
We would like to remind you that, whilst we do our utmost as a school to teach our children how to keep safe on-line and how to protect themselves, the use of sites such as Snapchat, Fortnite, TikTok (all 13+ age recommendations), WhatsApp (16+ age recommendation) etc. is clearly a parental choice and responsibility.
Unfortunately, if issues occur, stemming from the use of these sites, which computing advisers say our children are not mature enough to use, we as a school cannot be held responsible for any outcomes. Also, you should be aware that any child’s interactions with these sites is found to have an impact on:
There is also the possibility of your children becoming an online ‘friend’ with someone who is much older than they are.
Please note that if anything does come to our attention, it always takes up a considerable amount of precious teaching and learning time as well as management time from senior leaders and that it needs to be recorded as an online safety incident.
We would advise that you monitor your children and their time online very carefully. You will also find an array of resources which will support you in this on our website, under On-line Safety. https://allsaintsprimarymarple.co.uk/stockport/primary/allsaints-pri/site/pages/school/policies
Thank you for your continued co-operation and support as we work together to keep your children safe.
GOVERNOR OF THE WEEK – TOM BRAIDE
WHY I BECAME A GOVERNOR:
I have a daughter in Year Two and a son in Reception. Ever since our first contact with All Saints', I have been struck by the warmth of the staff and their drive to support the children.
When a parent governor vacancy arose, I saw it as an ideal opportunity to help the school and be a part of its continuing success story. I have an unusual background as an accountant, a qualified maths teacher and the parent of a child with additional needs. It remains my hope that I can use these skills and experiences to boost an already fantastic school and governing board.
MY ROLE IN SCHOOL:
I was elected as a parent governor in December last year. I attend the Resources Committee and I'm really excited to be the class governor friend for the Reception class due to start in September 2021. I'm hopeful that as we progress further along the 'road map' that soon I might even spend some time in school!
ENCOURAGING WORDS TO CHILDREN AND PARENTS:
The last year or so has been incredibly challenging for everyone in a variety of ways. But one constant throughout has been the professionalism and (more importantly) the kindness of the incredible people at All Saints'. Whatever is to come next, rest assured that the school will do everything possible to support our children and their families.
A message from the PA
Find the hidden gems of Marple and help to raise money for our lovely school!
To help raise funds for more school resources and fantastic events like the History Van, the Parents' Association have created a Summer Treasure Trail around Marple.
The trail has been designed so that you can participate with your own household/bubble following the social distancing restrictions that are in place at the time. It involves a short circular walk (wheelchair/buggy accessible) answering questions about what you can see around the centre of Marple, starting and ending at School.
If you would like to take part, please send your entry fee via ParentPay and follow the link that was sent out to you via Tapestry, in time for the half term break. The suggested donation is £1 per family.
Please regulary view the Summer Diary Dates which were posted on Tapestry on Friday 16th April, 2021
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DATE |
EVENT |
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18th May |
Group photographs |
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21st May |
Yr6 swimming begins |
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WC 23rd May |
ACTIVE WEEK including Walk to School Week and RSE sessions |
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28th May |
Sports Day in the morning |
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9th and 12th July 2021 ~ Inset days |
Children are not in school on these days |
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Hannah Gaynor
For those of you who may have missed the Tapestry post, we are delighted to announce the wonderful news that Miss Taylor and Mr Evans have had a beautiful baby boy who was born on Tuesday 27th April.
He is absolutely gorgeous and his name is Eben Ted Evans. All the family are overjoyed and are doing extremely well.
Miss Taylor sends you all her love!!
Please continue to read the class Friday Shout Outs for an update on the exciting learning
your children have been encountering.
The attached magazine is an interesting read about energy saving strategies.
THY KINGDOM COME RESOURCES from ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH
The children will take home a special booklet today introducing an exciting activity to them.
These links may be useful to further explain the activities and maps.
The following videos introduce the THY KINGDOM COME materials.
The website is…
https://www.thykingdomcome.global/cheekypandas
Our Own Ducklings
It all began when a duck was spotted in our quad on Monday 12th April.
These eggs were discovered on Friday 7th May.
This morning, Mr Chaloner discovered that the eggs had hatched!! How many can you see?
This morning, we have been visited by Sanya Hulme from the RSPCA who has adviced us to keep the chicks where they are as they are safe in their current environment.
As the chicks get older ‘mum’ may leave them for longer periods of time but she will return. They only need mum for warmth as they quickly become independent.
In approximately 3 months time, when the chicks have grown proper feathers, they will fly away!
GOVERNOR OF THE WEEK – HELENA MONDS
WHY I BECAME A GOVERNOR:
There was a vacancy for a parent-governor in 2015 just as I had decided to take a career break from teaching to spend time with my young family. My eldest child was then in Reception and I had two more children who would be starting at All Saints’ when their turn came, so I decided to apply for the position as we were going to be involved with the school for many years to come and I wanted to be able to give something back.
MY ROLE IN SCHOOL:
I am a Parent Governor and also the Safeguarding Governor as well as serving on the Curriculum Committee. I am also the Class Governor Friend for Year 5 and am looking forward to hopefully being able to spend some more time in school with them next year, before they leave us for pastures new at the end of Year 6. As a qualified Primary School teacher myself, I have volunteered in various year groups to be an ‘extra pair of hands’ and have had the privilege of accompanying different classes on a range of school trips and extra-curricular experiences.
ENCOURAGING WORDS TO CHILDREN AND PARENTS:
As a parent, a volunteer and a governor I am in the lucky position of getting to see the school from various points of view - and all of them are good! The past 12 months have been challenging for everyone and now, more than ever, our children are so fortunate to be at a school where all the staff truly care about, not only their education, but also their emotional well-being and resilience.
A message from the PTA 
Find the hidden gems of Marple and help to raise money for our lovely school!
To help raise funds for more school resources and fantastic events like the History Van, the Parents' Association have created a Summer Treasure Trail around Marple.
The trail has been designed so that you can participate with your own household/bubble following the social distancing restrictions that are in place at the time. It involves a short circular walk (wheelchair/buggy accessible) answering questions about what you can see around the centre of Marple, starting and ending at School.
If you would like to take part, please send your entry fee via ParentPay and the link will be sent out to you via Tapestry in time for the half term break. Suggested donation £1 per family
Please regulary view the Summer Diary Dates which were posted on Tapestry on Friday 16th April, 2021
| DATE |
EVENT |
| 18th May |
Group photographs |
| 21st May |
Yr6 swimming begins |
| WC 23rd May |
ACTIVE WEEK |
| 28th May |
Sports Day in the morning |
| 9th and 12th July 2021 ~ Inset days |
Children are not in school on these days |
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Hannah Gaynor
We had an absolutely brilliant three days where our children were fully immersed in history – exploring artefacts, re-enacting key events, story-telling, dressing up, etc. The children not only learned key facts but learned about specific historical skills such as chronology, considering cause and consequence, the use of primary and secondary sources, exploring comparisons and contrasts, and so on. There were also many opportunities to explore key vocabulary and to make connections with previous learning.
Please view your child’s class Tapestry page to see a snapshot of their exciting learning. Thank you again to the PA for paying for this wonderful experience and to Mrs Noble and Mrs Manning-Craggs for organising the event
SCHOOL READING BOOKS
We have noticed that we have a number of reading books missing from our library shelves. Could you please check your bookshelves at home, grandparents and child minders homes and return any books that you may still have at home.
Please continue to read the class Friday Shout Outs for an update on the exciting learning
your children have been encountering.
GOVERNOR OF THE WEEK – NEV PHILLIPS
MY ROLE IN SCHOOL:
I serve on the Steering and Resources Committees and I am the Health & Safety Governor - these roles are closely linked with my previous profession as a Chartered Surveyor prior to retirement. I am the Development Governor whose role is to encourage the development of skills and training of the Governing Board members. I am also Class Governor Friend for Year Four, having been with this great bunch of children since they joined All Saints’ in Reception.
WHY I BECAME A GOVERNOR:
I was co-opted onto the Governing Board in 2015 following an invitation from Alan Bailey (Chair).
As a member of All Saints’ Church, I was aware of the close relationship between the Church and the School. Also, two of our granddaughters attended the school at the time and, as a result, I felt an even closer bond. Our three grown up children have all been educated in Marple and, like most people, I consider Education to be so important. Having lived in Marple for over forty years and benefited from living in this vibrant community, I felt that this was an opportunity to help contribute to the wellbeing of our children.
ENCOURAGING WORDS TO CHILDREN AND PARENTS:
We have a wonderful school - children, staff and parents. I’m interested in a wide range of subjects and activities including sports and these interests were nurtured initially at school. The wellbeing of our children is so important, equipping them for their future lives and this includes an all-round education, enjoying their time at school and developing life skills. We are fortunate to live in Marple with beautiful countryside on our doorstep and living in a region with a rich cultural heritage providing such a wide range of opportunities for our children. All Saints’ is such a welcoming school, I always enjoy attending different events such as assemblies, class visits, school fairs and Church Week. I’m looking forward to the time, hopefully soon, when we can do these things again.
Please regulary view the Summer Diary Dates which were posted on Tapestry on Friday 16th April, 2021
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6th May |
Reception & Yr1 Jack and the Beanstalk experience |
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21st May |
Yr6 swimming begins |
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9th and 12th July 2021 ~ Inset days |
Children are not in school on these days |
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Hannah Gaynor
Newsletter - 26th April , 2021
We had a good Online-Safety workshop for parents on Tuesday 20th April and it was wonderful to see some of our children joining in with the ‘How to stand up to someone online’
activity at the beginning.Mrs Pratt had added more information on the website and there is a particularly useful leaflet for grandparents.We will be having an online-safety, transition workshop for our yr6 children next half term.
ST. GEORGE’S DAY – Friday 23rd April –It was lovely to see so many children wearing their Girlguiding, Scouts, etc., uniform with pride.
Please continue to read the class Friday Shout Outs for an update on the exciting learning
your children have been encountering.
CELEBRATING RECEIVING A BLUE PETER BADGE!
If families are looking to complete an activity over half term it might be worth having a go at trying to earn a Blue Peter badge. There are eight to choose from and applicants must be aged between 6 and 15.
Towards the end of lock down Benjamin and Eleanor applied for a badge and they were lucky enough to receive them last week. Benjamin earned his blue badge by making some Mayan tortillas and Eleanor got her green badge by litter picking in the local area. They both wrote a short letter to blue Peter and included some photographs of them completing their chosen activity. They are both hoping to try and get a second badge over the half term holidays.
Details of how to apply for a Blue Peter badge can be found at https://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/joinin/about-blue-peter-badges?collection=blue-peter-badges
If you have any home/community achievements, you would like to share, please email it to
admin@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk
An absolutely brilliant achievement Benjamin and Eleanor! We’re so proud of you both.
KEY INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES
PLEASE SEE THE VISUAL ‘ROAD MAP’ ATTACHED
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We have been asked to remind our community that If you have been vaccinated, you must still:
COVID-19 is spread through droplets expelled from the nose or mouth, particularly when speaking or coughing. It can also be picked up by touching your eyes, nose and mouth after contact with contaminated objects and surfaces. |
PSHE – please see sample resources which have been placed on Tapestry regarding Relationships and Sex Education.
Community Collect – Universal Testing - Getting tested - Stockport Council
Lateral Flow Devices are now available for any member of the public to use at home.
All adults can now get a box of 7 lateral flow tests to take twice a week at home. You will need to give some personal details such as name and postcode when you collect the kit. You do not need to book. You can collect a kit from:
Fred Perry House • Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 7am to 6pm • Wednesday, 7am to 7pm • Saturdays 10am to 2pm
Brinnington East Area Housing Office - 1 Berwick Parade, Stockport, SK5 8LQ (Monday to Sunday, 2.30pm to 4pm) Marple Chadwick Street car park - Chadwick Street, Marple, SK6 6BD (Monday to Sunday, 2.30pm to 8pm)
You can also collect a kit from the following libraries:
• Bredbury • Bramhall • Cheadle • Cheadle Hulme • Edgeley • Hazel Grove • Heald Green • Heatons • Reddish
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A MESSAGE FROM SCHOOL We would like to shower Brenda with flowers and gifts to say a HUGE THANK YOU for all the twelve years she has served in the role of a school governor at our school. Many of you would have older children who encountered Brenda through maths sessions, Christmas cake sessions and many more. Thank you to those who have already contributed. If you would like to contribute to her leaving gift, please do so using ParentPay. |
GOVERNOR OF THE WEEK - NAOMI MAKIN
WHY I BECAME A GOVERNOR:
My daughter started in 2011 and then my son in 2013. It was around this time that I became a mid-day assistant at the school and I spent a lot of my time volunteering with different classes. I absolutely loved doing this and it gave me a real passion to want to have some involvement and impact on how the school is run. In 2017 a Governor post came up, so I jumped at the chance.
MY ROLE IN SCHOOL:
I am part of several Governing Committees including Pay Appeals and Staff Discipline Appeals (which we’ve never had to have meetings for), Christian Ethos, Curriculum and Resources. I am a Class Governor for Class 3 and have been their Class friend since starting Reception. Being part of their class has been important to me, so it has been hard since Lockdown.
I am no longer a Parent Governor, but am now an Associate Governor. This hasn’t changed my role too much and am still able to attend the same amount of meetings.
ENCOURAGING WORDS TO CHILDREN AND PARENTS:
Don’t worry about your child catching up to what is expected at their age of learning. They are incredibly resilient and the class teachers are doing an amazing job and are highly skilled in what they do.
Please regulary view the Summer Diary Dates which were posted on Tapestry on Friday 16th April, 2021
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THIS WEEK |
HISTORY WORKSHOPS |
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3rd May |
Bank Holiday |
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6th May |
Reception & Yr1 Jack and the Beanstalk experience |
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9th and 12th July 2021 ~ Inset days |
Children are not in school on these days |
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Hannah Gaynor
Newsletter -19th April , 2021
Just a reminder that we have our special Online-Safety workshop for parents on Tuesday 20th April starting at 7pm as we thought this would be a more convenient time for parents. The Yr5 and Yr6 children will be joining for the first 15 minutes of the workshop which will begin at 7pm. See the attached poster. The Zoom link will be posted via Tapestry on Tuesday morning.
ST. GEORGE’S DAY – Friday 23rd April –If your child is part of any uniformed club e.g. Girlguiding, Scouts, Cadettes, etc., they can wear their uniform on Friday.
Please continue to read the class Friday Shout Outs for an update on the exciting learning
your children have been encountering.
| KEY INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES PSHE – look out for sample resources which will be placed on Tapestry regarding Relationships and Sex Education.
Community Collect – Universal Testing - Getting tested - Stockport Council Lateral Flow Devices are now available for any member of the public to use at home. All adults can now get a box of 7 lateral flow tests to take twice a week at home. You will need to give some personal details such as name and postcode when you collect the kit. You do not need to book. You can collect a kit from: Fred Perry House • Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 7am to 6pm • Wednesday, 7am to 7pm • Saturdays 10am to 2pm Brinnington East Area Housing Office - 1 Berwick Parade, Stockport, SK5 8LQ (Monday to Sunday, 2.30pm to 4pm) Marple Chadwick Street car park - Chadwick Street, Marple, SK6 6BD (Monday to Sunday, 2.30pm to 8pm) You can also collect a kit from the following libraries: • Bredbury • Bramhall • Cheadle • Cheadle Hulme • Edgeley • Hazel Grove • Heald Green • Heatons • Reddish Payments for Self- Isolation If a person is asked to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace and is on a low income, unable to work from home and will lose income as a result, they may be entitled to a payment of £500 from their local authority under the Test and Trace Support Payment scheme. Further details are available via this link. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/test-and-trace-support-payment-scheme-claiming-financial-support/claiming-financial-support-under-the-test-and-trace-support-payment-scheme
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A MESSAGE FROM SCHOOL
We would like to shower Brenda with flowers and gifts to say a HUGE THANK YOU for all the many years she has served in the role of a school governor at our school.
Many of you would have older children who encountered Brenda through maths sessions, Christmas cake sessions and many more. If you would like to contribute to her leaving gift, please log onto parentpay
Please regularly view the Summer Diary Dates which were posted on Tapestry on Friday 16th April, 2021
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EVENT |
| 20th April 2021 ~ 7.00 – 8.00pm |
Online Safety Workshop for parents. |
| 9th and 12th July 2021 ~ Inset days |
Children are not in school on these days |
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Hannah Gaynor
Newsletter - Monday 12th April , 2021
Dear Lovely School Family,
We would like to welcome you back after the Easter Holiday and trust you were able to enjoy some of the sunshine.
We were so overwhelmed with the generous offers of parents to pay for other children to participate in the Easter Eggtravaganza which was absolutely brilliant! We would never deny any child from participating in events as we realise this is a challenging time for many families. Thank you once again for your generosity and overwhelming kindness. It is much appreciated.
A huge thank you to Mrs Burney – The Easter Queen (yr1 TA) and Mrs Noble for making the last day of last term a truly memorable day!
KEY INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES
PSHE – look out for an important letter which will be sent out soon regarding Relationships and Sex Education.
HOMEWORK – look out for a brief outline of homework expectations for the Summer Term.
Parenting Programme/ Course
This has been highly recommended. Please read the attached flier and sign up. Great to have some additional support and strategies to use.
Household Asymptomatic Testing
See the information posted on Tapestry, 25.3.21.
A HUGE THANK YOU to Stockport Homes
Activity packs were provided for children eligible for benefits related Free School Meals as part of the Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme. They were very much appreciated by some of our families
| We have been asked to remind you of the following: If you have been vaccinated, you must still: · practise social distancing · wear a face mask · wash your hands regularly COVID-19 is spread through droplets expelled from the nose or mouth, particularly when speaking or coughing. It can also be picked up by touching your eyes, nose and mouth after contact with contaminated objects and surfaces. |
MY ROLE IN SCHOOL
I became a Foundation Governor back in 2009, before any of the children in school were born! I have served on the Curriculum Committee and the Christian Ethos Committee and also took on the role of Safeguarding Governor for several years. I am the Class Governor Friend to the current Y6, having been with them since Reception. It has been a privilege to share their time at All Saints’ and I have many good memories of exciting school trips and sharing time with them in the classroom.
In my time as governor I have been involved with interviewing new staff and it has been a joy to have been part of the appointments of several of the outstanding teachers at All Saints’.
I have also been a volunteer maths mentor to Y6 for many years and have particularly enjoyed being roped in as a helper on Christmas Cake making day.
WHY I BECAME A GOVERNOR:
Before I retired as a maths teacher, I thought about what I could do in retirement and being a school governor seemed to be an interesting challenge and a way in which I could use my knowledge of education, so when I was approached by the then Chair of Governors I felt this was something that God wanted me to do and was ready to say yes.
MOVING ON:
After 12 years as a governor, it is time to move on and my term of office ends in May. For the pupils of Y6, it will also soon be time to move on. I hope that, like me, you can look back on your years at All Saints as a time of fun and friendship, of learning and growing as people and a time when God has been at work in your lives.
The last year has been strange for everyone and I have missed being able to be with Y6 in the classroom on this last stage in your journey at All Saints’. I know how hard you have worked at home and in school and that you have shown amazing resilience and resourcefulness. I know you will continue to do your best in this final term and I pray that God will bless you as you move on with confidence to your next school.
A MESSAGE FROM SCHOOL
We would like to shower Brenda with flowers and gifts to say a HUGE THANK YOU for all the many years she has served in the role of a school governor at our school.
Many of you would have older children who encountered Brenda through maths sessions, Christmas cake sessions and many more.
If you would like to contribute to her leaving gift, please log into www. parentpay.com Brenda Beardwood Leaving Gift Donation.
| DATE |
EVENT |
| 20th April 2021 ~ 7.00 – 8.00pm |
Online Safety Workshop for parents. |
| 9th and 12th July 2021 ~ Inset days |
Children are not in school on these days |
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Hannah Gaynor
Newsletter 22nd March 2021
THINGS TO CELEBRATE!
Dear Lovely School Family,
We have much to celebrate this week!
Please read Alan Bailey’s Governor of the Week message for some special news!
We also had Daniel Brazil, the Senior Lead Officer for Health and Safety, visit our school last week to review our procedures in relation to the drop-off and pick-up of children. He verified that we are doing exactly what we need to do and commended us for ensuring our children are kept safe.
Having visited the school this afternoon to review the current control measures in place, it was determined that the school have worked hard to ensure that effective COVID safe measures are implemented and in place. Further good measures were also witnessed with the staggered allocated finishing times and dedicated gates for the different year groups, also further to this, the children were being supervised at all times from the classroom exit door and down to each dedicated gate. When the children were being released from the gate area, parents/carers were wearing face coverings and in most cases adhering to social distancing guidelines whilst waiting for their children. There is further information/signage on each gate that indicates the drop off and pick up times and the year group that gate is allocated to. Due to the footprint of the school and the obvious lack of walkway width space and potential pinch points at the rear of the building, the school are currently working to the best possible COVID safe measures for the site as previously mentioned above.
Thank you all for working in partnership with us as we endeavour to keep your children and the wider community safe.
YOUNG CARERS ACTION DAY
Hannah Thompson, one of the Liaison Workers, led a workshop for bubbles of our children on the day.
The theme was Protecting Young Carers Futures and each child either took home a pencil or a wrist band to mark the event.
Thank you for supporting this day.
GOVERNOR OF THE WEEK ~ Alan Bailey who is our Chair of Governors.
WHEN AND WHY I BECAME A GOVERNOR:
I became a co-opted governor at All Saints’ soon after I retired in December 2012, and it’s been my privilege to be Chair of Governors since September 2013. After a lifetime of working in education, I wanted to use my experience to support our church school.
LINKS WITH EDUCATION:
As the photo shows, I used to be a Science teacher at Marple Hall when I was a lot younger (there’s a slightly more up-to-date photo of me on the school website!)
After leaving Marple Hall in 1996, I worked as a School Improvement Officer in Tameside for 16 years and since I retired I’ve done some work as a School Consultant for Chester Diocese.
At All Saints’ I am chair of the Steering Committee and the Christian Ethos Committee and I’m also a member of the Resources Committee.
BEING A CLASS GOVERNOR FRIEND:
I became Class Governor Friend to the children who were in the Reception Class in 2013 and stayed with them until they left Year 6 in 2019. Currently, I’m Class Governor Friend to Year 1 but I haven’t been able to meet them for just over a year because of the coronavirus situation - although I did join them on one of Mrs Manning’s Zoom calls a couple of weeks ago.
PROUD TO BE PART OF ALL SAINTS’:
I feel very proud of our school when I read some of the recent comments sent in by parents and I’m delighted that we are now a very popular school in the local community. This year lots of parents applying for a school place put All Saints’ as their first choice, with over 100 families naming us as one of their choices. Unfortunately, we only have space for 30 children!
It hasn’t really been possible to show families around school this year in the way that we would want, so we decided to produce a new video to try and provide a flavour of what our school is like. You can find this on the home page of our school website if you’ve not had a look yet. As always, the children are the real stars, but I’m still hoping for a BAFTA nomination …
A RECENT SCHOOL SUCCESS:
Last week, Hev Taylor mentioned that we had applied for the Church-School Partnership Award. I’m delighted to report that we received confirmation this week that we have been successful in our application, which makes All Saints’ the first school in Chester Diocese to receive this award. It’s a real testament to the relationship between the school and the church and reflects a lot of hard work by so many different people. Thank you so much to everyone involved.
CLOSING THOUGHTS: I hope everyone enjoys being back together at school for the last week of this term and I wish you all a very happy Easter.
KEY INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES
Parenting Programme/ Course
This has been highly recommended. Please read the attached flier and sign up. Great to have some additional support and strategies to use.
Household Asymptomatic Testing
Household testing Public Health England are continuing to work on developing a strategy for implementing this initiative in Stockport. Currently families can request test kits on-line. We will provide further updates about the way in which the programme will delivered in the near future.
Families in immediate need of financial support should visit our money advice and support pages or contact the Coronavirus helpline: 0161 217 6046
For more information of Free School Meals visit FSM Frequently Asked Questions.
| DATE |
EVENT |
| 23.3.21 |
Muddy Puddle Day for every class |
| 26.3.21 |
Easter Activities on site School closes at the end of this day |
| 12.4.21 |
School is open. Our topic is Incredible Inventions & Amazing Discoveries |
| 20.4.21 7.00 – 8.00pm
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Online Safety Workshop for parents.
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Have a wonderful week everyone!
Hannah Gaynor
Newsletter 15th March 2021
| THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT AND COOPERATION Dear Lovely School Family, We feel so blessed to have all our Yr6 children in school this week and to be together once again as a wonderful, school family. Thank you for continuing to follow the government guidance and thank you to all those parents who are helping to keep our children safe by following our polite requests. |
WELCOME TO MRS MYLREA
Acting SENDCo
After a rigorous recruitment process, we are delighted to inform you of the exciting news that Mrs Emma Mylrea has been appointed, to be the Acting SENDCo whilst Miss Taylor commences her maternity leave. Mrs Mylrea has worked at All Saints’ for 5 years. She has taught the children throughout the school when they were in her class and also knows Reception fairly well since she has taught them every Tuesday morning in the Autumn term. We are convinced she will do an excellent job in this role will continue the fabulous journey of support our children are already receiving.
A huge thank you to Miss Taylor for ensuring a smooth transition and to Mrs Higgins and Mrs Woodgate as Governors who dedicated their time, support and wealth of knowledge to support us in this recruitment process.
A more detailed letter from Mrs Mylrea is attached
Respect Charter
Dear Parents,
Please read the Respect Charter attached which was placed on Tapestry last Friday. We felt it necessary to reassure parents that any behaviour which breaches the Respect Charter will continue to be shared with the Local Authority and responded to appropriately.
Warm regards,
The All Saints' Team
GOVERNOR OF THE WEEK
Each week one of our governors will introduce themselves to you. We start off with Hev Taylor.
MY ROLE IN SCHOOL: I became a Foundation Governor in 2019. I had to look up what that meant before I said yes. Initially I thought it was to do with Early Years until I did some googling on the Diocese Education site. I work as a teaching assistant at Heaton School (which is a Special school for 11-19 years) and was a staff governor there from 2016- 2020.
I am on both the Curriculum and Ethos committees.
As a new class governor friend to Reception, I really hope to meet them in the flesh before they reach Year 1. However, it is good to know I can continue the links with them as they continue their All Saints’ journey.
WHY I BECAME A GOVERNOR: Daniel, our vicar, spoke to me for about 1 minute one day at church, while I was helping at Playaway toddler group. I had already had some connections with AS school, mainly through involvement with the 2018 Church Week. I loved the positive ‘feel’ of the school and met an enthusiastic and caring Mrs Gaynor. Having spent many years volunteering in various children’s work, I remember thinking how I would love to be connected more with the school.
RECENT INTERACTIONS WITH SCHOOL: I have enjoyed connecting with Miss McConnell and have joined in a class bingo and a World Book Day via Zoom. My granddaughter (age 5) participated in World Book Day and shared her favourite book alongside your superheroes, dinosaurs and princesses. She was very welcomed by the Leprechaun Unicorn teacher. I have a passion for storytelling and have been able to send in a few pre-recorded stories for the children. Miss McConnell and I often exchange both encouraging and comical messages
It has been a privilege to be involved in applying for the C of E Church-School Partnership Award. We are currently awaiting confirmation of receiving this award. After only 2 years as part of the AS community I could already list many examples of the positive links between school and church. It was great to talk to Mrs Day about the final document, which was a real celebration of the mutually encouraging partnership. I am very proud to be part of this community.
ENCOURAGING WORD TO CHILDREN AND PARENTS: It’s good to know the children are back together again. I know that it’s taken extra commitment from both teachers and parents to support schooling at home. Give yourselves a big pat on the back! Have a great Easter, when it comes, and here’s to the rest of the school year as children discover more in the ‘All Saints’ Way’.
YOUNG CARERS ACTION DAY
Tomorrow, Tuesday 16th March, it will be the Young Carers Action Day. To mark this day, we are asking children to come in school uniform but to wear something purple e.g. socks, bobble or to bring something small into school of that colour so we can honour and show support for these unsung heroes.
Hannah Thompson, one of the Liaison Workers, will be leading a workshop for bubbles of our children on the day.
The theme is Protecting Young Carers Futures.
| Household Asymptomatic Testing Household testing Public Health England are continuing to work on developing a strategy for implementing this initiative in Stockport. Currently families can request test kits on-line. We will provide further updates about the way in which the programme will be delivered in the near future. |
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EVENT |
| 16.3.21 |
Young Carers Action Day – full uniform but wear a bit of purple if possible |
| 17.3.21 |
St Patrick’s Day |
| From 19.3.21 |
Yr5 Swimming Commences – please read the important letter on Tapestry |
| 23.3.21 |
Muddy Puddle Day for every class |
| 26.3.21 |
Easter Activities on site School closes at the end of this day |
| 12.4.21 |
School is open. The theme is Incredible Inventions & Amazing Discoveries |
| Tuesday 20th April at 7.00 – 8.00pm
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Online Safety Workshop for parents. As more and more people, including children are spending more time online, it is important for parents to regularly have a conversation with their children around safety. Parents can refer to the following link and our school website for some useful information including references to age appropriateness. |
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Hannah Gaynor
Newsletter - 8th March 2021
A HUGE THANK YOU TO OUR PARENTS
As a Senior Leadership Team, we wanted to take the opportunity to say what an amazing job you’re doing supporting your child’s wellbeing and learning since January. As parents, these week`s have been incredibly tough trying to juggle home schooling, the demands of work and surviving a pandemic! (We ourselves as teachers and parents to our own children, know exactly what you have been going through!). We want to say ‘Very Well Done’ and the biggest THANK YOU to each and every one of you!
Dear Lovely School Family
It is so wonderful to be open to our whole school family today! We feel so blessed to be together once again and to be able to see so many of you who we haven’t seen in person for a while.
Unfortunately, 9 of our yr6 children and our yr6 staff need to self-isolate but they will again be with us on Monday 15th March. Despite the disappointment, they too are looking forward to being back with us.
Thank you for continuing to comply with the rules set out in the government’s ‘Roadmap out of lockdown’ guidance. This particularly includes those related to mixing with other households when they are not at school and when they are travelling to and from educational settings. Thank you also for continuing to refrain from driving down Brickbridge Rd, for wearing masks and for maintaining social distancing.
We appreciate your support and cooperation.
The All Saints’ Team
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MONDAY MORNING WHOLE SCHOOL COLLECTIVE WORSHIP This morning we continued with our theme of Forgiveness. We had our very own Reverend Daniel Currie from All Saints’ C of E Church in Marple, who inspired the children to be forgiving by using the story of the Prodigal Son. |
YOUNG CARERS ACTION DAY
Next week, on Tuesday 16th March, it will be the Young Carers Action Day. To mark this day, we are asking children to come in school uniform but to wear something purple e.g. socks, bobbles or to bring something small into school of that colour so we can honour and show support for these unsung heroes.
Hannah Thompson, one of the Liaison Workers, will be leading a workshop for bubbles of our children on the day.
The theme is Protecting Young Carers Futures.
We had a very successful and fun packed World Book Day. We hope you enjoyed the stories which were read by our members of staff and thank you to those parents who sent in videos of themselves as a mystery reader. They were enjoyed by the children too. 
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Household Asymptomatic Testing Separately and additional to home testing for staff and the testing for secondary school students, the government is extending testing to family bubbles around school children of all ages and school staff. Eligibility includes: • households, childcare and support bubbles of primary and secondary-age pupils • households, childcare and support bubbles of primary and secondary staff
To confirm, tests are available for collection from the sites detailed on the map, or for home delivery to families who can’t collect a kit. There is no plan to distribute kits for family members through schools. The existing school testing programmes are unaffected by this additional offer. Stockport is currently developing a borough wide approach to ensure this programme reaches as many families as possible. Any help in publicising the initiative would be appreciated. A reminder that the council central testing site at Fred Perry House next to the Town Hall is now open until 7 p.m. on a Wednesday in order for Childminders and staff to access asymptomatic testing. Starting from next week onwards there will be wider access to asymptomatic testing via a mobile testing unit with a number of venues planned over the week. These community venues will be confirmed as soon as possible. |
A Useful Document from the Behaviour Support Service
Please see the link below for a bank of resources to support emotional wellbeing and behaviour - put together by the Behaviour Support Service. It includes a variety of advice on such things as helping siblings get on, supporting sleep, behaviour tips and handy scripts, etc.
Link: https://padlet.com/stockportbss/vxzajteb09v8n8lk
Communication from Stockport Local Authority
The LA have written a letter which outlines the arrangements for children and young people as they return to schools from March 8th and provides answers to some frequently asked questions.Please note that the letter has also been posted on Stockport’s Local Offer: https://stockport.fsd.org.uk/kb5/stockport/fsd/advice.page?id=b7_NRmiHuQw
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We are asking if you would like to become an Online Safety Ambassador. This would involve you becoming a part of a team who would keep up to date with current issues and share crucial information with other parents. Emma Cox whose child is in yr2 has already volunteered to become an Ambassador and Tanya Cross will be leading a training session in June for this team of parents. See the Online Safety page on our school website for current information. Thank you to Mrs Pratt for updating this page. |
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EVENT |
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16.3.21 |
Young Carers Action Day – full uniform but wear a bit of purple if possible |
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From 19.3.21 |
Yr5 Swimming Commences – please read the important letter on Tapestry |
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Tuesday 20th April at 7.00 – 8.00pm
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Online Safety Workshop for parents. As more and more people, including children are spending more time online, it is important for parents to regularly have a conversation with their children around safety. Parents can refer to the following link and our school website for some useful information including references to age appropriateness. |
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Mrs Gaynor
Newsletter – 1st March, 2021
Dear Lovely School Family,
I trust that you all had a lovely weekend of sunshine!
As well as reading this newsletter, please read the very important letter regarding the wider re-opening of school on 8th March 2021.
We are so excited about having the whole of our school family on site.
Please continue to be vigilant with not driving down Brickbridge Rd, the wearing of masks and the social distancing between people from different households.
Many thanks,
The All Saints’ Team
In addition to the World Book Day poster attached, we would like to invite any of you who would like to be a mystery reader for that day to contact your child’s class teacher. This would simply involve you producing a, less than 10 minutes, recording of yourself reading a short story, poem or extract from a book. It would be great if you appeared in disguise at the beginning and then revealed yourself at the end.
How exciting this would be for your wonderful children! Can’t wait to see your videos! 
MONDAY MORNING WHOLE SCHOOL
COLLECTIVE WORSHIP
This morning we wore red and continued with our theme of Forgiveness.
Next week, we will also have Deacon Annette Sharp–the local Methodist Minister- leading our Collective Worship. You are invited to join us at 10.05am if you are able to. Please use the link from this morning
| HOW TO KEEP YOUR CHILD SAFE ONLINE The next session will be on Tuesday 20th April 7pm-8pm. We’re hoping this time will be more convenient so that many more will be able to attend and glean this valuable information which will help us to monitor our children’s online use. We are also asking if you would like to become an Online Safety Ambassador. This would involve you becoming a part of a team who would keep up to date with current issues and share crucial information with other parents. Emma Cox whose child is in yr2 has already volunteered to become an Ambassador and Tanya Cross will be leading a training session in June for this team of parents. See the Online Safety page on our school website for current information. |
Thank you to Mrs Pratt for updating this page.
INSET DAYS Some time ago, the governors approved the INSET Days for this academic year, one of which was Wednesday 10th March. As it now seems likely that schools will begin to re-open to more children on Monday 8th March, we feel it would be appreciated by families if we were to remain open on that day. The governors have approved a postponement of the INSET Day scheduled for 10th March until later in the year. This will be discussed further at the full governing body meeting on 17th March and you will be notified of the new date as soon as it has been agreed.
EXCITING NEWS!
The Parent Association are hoping to organise a safe family event for our school this half term.
Look out for details in the next few weeks.
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Yr5 Swimming Commences – please read the important letter on Tapestry |
| Tuesday 20th April at 7.00 – 8.00pm
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Online Safety Workshop for parents. As more and more people, including children are spending more time online, it is important for parents to regularly have a conversation with their children around safety. Parents can refer to the following link and our school website for some useful information including references to age appropriateness. |
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Mrs Gaynor
Newsletter – 22nd February, 2021
Dear Lovely School Family,
I trust that you are all well and have had a wonderful half term. We have much to celebrate today and a few things to look forward to throughout this term.
You will already know that Mrs Day and her husband have had a beautiful baby boy called Samuel Peter! Big brother Alexander is extremely proud and all are doing very well.
Enjoy reading our school newsletter!
A message from the Chair of Governors …..
A very warm welcome from me as we start a new half-term. Despite the restrictions that we’re all still facing, I hope you enjoyed spending time together with your families last week - as much as you were able to. My wife and I are still missing seeing our grandsons, as talking to them via Zoom isn’t quite the same as seeing them face-to-face!
On behalf of all the governors, I want to say a big thank you to all parents and carers for the wonderful support you’ve given to Mrs Gaynor and the staff at school so far this year.
I’m writing this before the Prime Minister’s announcement about the “road map” for moving forwards, so by the time you read it we should be clearer about the arrangements for all children returning to school. Your children’s welfare will always be our number one priority and I hope that a return to normality is not too far away.
I am grateful to all the governors for the support they give me but I’d just like to particularly thank Tom Braide and Casey Beever for taking up their roles as our new parent governors from the beginning of January.
With best wishes,
Alan Bailey
In addition to the World Book Day poster attached, we would like to invite any of you who would like to be a mystery reader for that day to contact your child’s class teacher. This would simply involve you producing a, less than 10 minutes, recording of yourself reading a short story, poem or extract from a book. It would be great if you appeared in disguise at the beginning and then revealed yourself at the end.
How exciting this would be for your wonderful children! Can’t wait to see your videos! 
CONGRATULATIONS TO US!! 
Last half term, Mr McShane submitted an application for funding under Stockport Hydro’s Environmental Challenge 2021. The panel met on 10th February to consider all applications received and we are pleased to announce that our project has been awarded £500. They were very impressed by our plans to create an allotment space and we know the £500 will go far to making our vision of an outdoor learning and life-skill space become a reality!
We’d also like to thank Nev Phillips, one of our governors, who signposted us to this wonderful opportunity!
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MONDAY MORNING WHOLE SCHOOL COLLECTIVE WORSHIP This morning we were happy to welcome a virtual visitor to our school. This was Rabbi Katz who works at the North Cheshire Jewish Primary School and led a wonderful collective worship on Purim and Forgiveness.
We hope you and your child will join us each week at 9:45am so we can come together as a whole school family. It is a recurring event so the link uploaded this morning can be used every Monday. We look forward to seeing you whenever you can make it.
Next week, join us wearing the colour red which can symbolise courage, energy, health, love and joy!! You’re welcome to send in an exciting photo like the one below but in RED!
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HOW TO KEEP YOUR CHILD SAFE ONLINE On 11th February, Tanya Cross again led a fabulous Online Safety Workshop for parents.
The next session will be on Tuesday 20th April 7pm-8pm. We’re hoping this time will be more convenient so that many more will be able to attend and glean this valuable information which will help us to monitor our children’s online use. We are also asking if you would like to become an Online Safety Ambassador. This would involve you becoming a part of a team who would keep up to date with current issues and share crucial information with other parents. Emma Cox whose child is in yr2 has already volunteered to become an Ambassador and Tanya Cross will be leading a training session in June for this team of parents. |
See the Online Safety page on our school website for current information. Thank you to Mrs Pratt for updating this page.
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INSET DAYS Some time ago, the governors approved the INSET Days for this academic year, one of which was Wednesday 10th March. As it now seems likely that schools will begin to re-open to more children on Monday 8th March, we feel it would be appreciated by families if we were to remain open on that day. The governors have approved a postponement of the INSET Day scheduled for 10th March until later in the year. This will be discussed further at the full governing body meeting on 17th March and you will be notified of the new date as soon as it has been agreed. |
EXCITING NEWS!
The Parent Association are hoping to organise a safe family event for our school this half term.
Look out for details in the next few weeks
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DATE
Tuesday 20th April at 7.00 – 8.00pm
EVENT
Online Safety Workshop for parents.
As more and more people, including children are spending more time online, it is important for parents to regularly have a conversation with their children around safety.
Parents can refer to the following link and our school website for some useful information including references to age appropriateness.
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Mrs Gaynor
Newsletter – 8th February, 2021
A REPEAT MESSAGE FROM LAST WEEK
A HUGE THANK YOU TO OUR PARENTSWe’ve all had to adapt to new ways of working again so, as a Senior Leadership Team, we wanted to take the opportunity to say what an amazing job you’re doing supporting your child’s wellbeing and learning during this time. As parents, these weeks have been incredibly tough trying to juggle home schooling, the demands of work and surviving a pandemic! (We ourselves as teachers and parents to our own children, know exactly what you’re going through!). We want to say ‘Very Well Done’ and the biggest THANK YOU to each and every one of you!
PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU REQUIRE THE SHORT TERM LOAN OF A SCHOOL DEVICE
GENERAL REMINDERS
LOCKDOWN REMINDERS Throughout this national lockdown all children should continue to comply with the rules set out for tier 4. Parents are asked to help ensure their children are following these rules. This particularly includes those related to mixing with other households when they are not at school and when they are travelling to and from educational settings.
CHILDREN IN SCHOOL As you are aware, we have a mixture of children in school, who are part of the vulnerable and critical worker category. Our current percentage of children on the register has now risen to 49% - one of the highest in this area. The DfE has said in its guidance ‘parents and carers who are critical workers should keep their children at home if they can’. As such, we again appeal to you to not bring your child into school when you are not carrying out your critical worker duties. This will assist in ensuring the health safety and wellbeing of ALL our school family.
Thank you for your continued cooperation and support,
The All Saints’ Team
CLASS ZOOMS & FRIDAY SHOUTOUT
This is the second week that each class will be having two zoom meetings. This will give a greater opportunity for the children to interact and catch up with each other.Instead of our staff creating a written
Friday Shout Out each Friday, we will celebrate successes within one or both of our Class Zoom meetings. Staff will screen share a couple of photos of good work and give all children a chance to see what is being achieved by each other.
There is much to celebrate so we hope you will continue to engage in these zooms
See attached materials to support children’s Mental Health Week.
Information about the Shooting Stars football programme, training opportunities and resources are available on www.girlsfootballinschools.org .
Please use these links to book onto these events.
9.2.21 11.2.21 16.2.21 10:30 - 12:00pm https://youthsporttrust.force.com/YST_EventRedirectUpdate?id=a4O3z000000rt93
9.2.21 11.2.21 16.2.21 3:30 - 5:00pm https://youthsporttrust.force.com/YST_EventRedirectUpdate?id=a4O3z000000rtJR
If you have any questions please contact: jude.riddings@stockport.gov.uk
SELECT US AS YOUR CAUSE!
Many of you will be familiar with the work of The New Horizons in our local community. Our children have always had a wonderful time and have hugely benefitted from various educational trips at The New Horizons. These trips have often been organised by Sue Woodgate, one of our governors!
Please see the attached poster which explains how, when you shop at Co-Op, The New Horizons can benefit.
REMOTE LEARNING QUESTIONNAIRES
Thank you so very much for taking the time to complete the remote learning questionnaires. They were overwhelmingly positive
Our MENTAL HEALTH WEEK last week, started with a fabulous collective worship.
A family were so impressed with the colour yellow, that they found anything yellow in their household and created this fabulous collage! Thank you to Harrison and his mum for sending this exciting photo in:
Again we had a whole school collective worship this morning where we were reminded by Mrs Pratt of how important it is to stay safe whilst online!!
Proverbs 27:12 The prudent see danger and take refuge…
We hope you and your child will join us each week at 9:45am so we can come together as a whole school family. It is a recurring event so the link uploaded on Tapestry on Friday 15th January and this morning can be used every Monday. We look forward to seeing you whenever you can make it.
CHINESE NEW YEAR
The Stockport Ethnic Diversity Department have created some wonderful resources.
Attached is a flier which includes some suggested activities to mark Chinese New Year.
SCREEN FREE DAY
Miss McConnell, our Wellbeing Champion, and the rest of the staff have decided that Friday 12th February will be a Screen Free Day.
Please see the attached flier which has a bank of activities for you to choose from Enjoy the day!
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Thurs 11th February at 1.30pm
EVENT
ZOOM Online Safety Workshop for parents. Check Tapestry for the link
As more and more people, including children are spending more time online,
it is important for parents to regularly have a conversation with their children around safety.
Parents can refer to the following link and our school website for some useful information including references to age appropriateness.
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Mrs Gaynor
Newsletter – 1st February, 2021
A HUGE THANK YOU TO OUR PARENTS
We’ve all had to adapt to new ways of working again so, as a Senior Leadership Team, we wanted to take the opportunity to say what an amazing job you’re doing supporting your child’s wellbeing and learning during this time. As parents, these weeks have been incredibly tough trying to juggle home schooling, the demands of work and surviving a pandemic! (We ourselves as teachers and parents to our own children, know exactly what you’re going through!). We want to say ‘Very Well Done’ and the biggest THANK YOU to each and every one of you!
PLEASE DO LET US KNOW IF YOU REQUIRE THE LOAN OF A SCHOOL DEVICE.
MENTAL HEALTH WEEK WHOLE SCHOOL COLLECTIVE WORSHIP
Again we had a whole school collective worship this morning where most of us wore yellow!!
This morning, we launched our Mental Health Week and many of us wore yellow. Each day there is a fun wellbeing activity to complete and there is also the further challenge of writing out one of the following verses and giving it to a member of your family. Proverbs 17 verse 22: A cheerful heart is good medicine
Philippians 4 verse 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
We hope you and your child will join us each week at 9:45am so we can come together as a whole school family. It is a recurring event so the link uploaded on Tapestry on Friday 15th January and this morning can be used every Monday. We look forward to seeing you whenever you can make it.
CLASS ZOOMS & FRIDAY SHOUTOUTS
As from this week each class will be having two zoom meetings. This will give a greater opportunity for the children to interact and catch up with each other.
Instead of our staff creating a written Friday Shout Out each Friday we will celebrate these successes within one or both of our Class Zoom meetings. Staff will screen share a couple of photos of good work and give all children a chance to see what is being achieved by each other.
There is much to celebrate so we hope you will continue to engage in these zooms
See attached materials to support children’s Mental Health Week.
Information about the Shooting Stars football programme, training opportunities and resources are available on www.girlsfootballinschools.org .
Please use these links to book onto these events by the 5th February.
9.2.21 11.2.21 16.2.21 10:30 - 12:00pm https://youthsporttrust.force.com/YST_EventRedirectUpdate?id=a4O3z000000rt93
9.2.21 11.2.21 16.2.21 3:30 - 5:00pm https://youthsporttrust.force.com/YST_EventRedirectUpdate?id=a4O3z000000rtJR
If you have any questions please contact: jude.riddings@stockport.gov.uk
SELECT US AS YOUR CAUSE!
Many of you will be familiar with the work of The New Horizons in our local community. Our children have always had a wonderful time and have hugely benefitted from various educational trips at The New Horizons. These trips have often been organised by Sue Woodgate, one of our governors!
Please see the attached poster which explains, how, when you shop at Co-Op, The New Horizons can benefit.
Remote Learning Questionnaires
On Tapestry, you will find a link to a remote learning questionnaire. Please kindly complete this when you are able to.
DATE EVENT
Thurs 11th February at 1.30pm ZOOM Online Safety Workshop for parents
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Mrs Gaynor
Newsletter – 25th January, 2021
WHOLE SCHOOL COLLECTIVE WORSHIP
Again we had a whole school collective worship this morning and will continue to do so every Monday at 9.45am.
This morning, we shared a story about Nehemiah and how he and friends had to encourage and trust each other to build the walls that had broken down.
We hope you and your child will join us each week so we can come together as a whole school family.
It is a recurring event so the link uploaded on Tapestry on Friday 15th January and this morning can be used every Monday.
We look forward to seeing you whenever you can make it.
| Please read the very important letter about Lateral Flow Device Testing for staff which will be sent to you on Tuesday 26th January 2021. |
NOTICES FROM Stockport Information Round up - STOCKPORT
Maternity, Children and Young People NHS Stockport Clinical Commissioning Group
Please share this webinar through your networks and contacts.
You and your baby: the challenges of becoming a parent in a global pandemic webinar.
Wednesday 27th January, 2pm to 3pm on Zoom.
Emma Arnold from Pennine Care and Kirsteen O’Keeffe from Stockport NHS aim to introduce parents to the idea of parent-infant mental health and well-being
BUMPS TO 2S
A New Zoom group for expecting mums and mums with children under 2.
Tuesdays or Thursdays at 11am
Starting on 2nd and 4th February
To book your place or for more info
Call Leila on: 07803699360
Please refer to the letter placed on Tapestry on Thursday 10th December. Starting wc 18th January, teachers will contact each parent for a 10 minute chat about how their child is progressing.
All those who requested Zoom meetings will be sent their appointment and link via Tapestry. Please see the list below as a reminder as to when your zoom appointment will take place.
Year 3: Monday 25th January
Year 6: Tuesday 26th January
Year 5: Wednesday 27th January
Year 1 Thursday 28th January
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Mrs Gaynor
Newsletter – 18th January, 2021
WHOLE SCHOOL COLLECTIVE WORSHIP
We will be having a whole school collective worship every Monday at 9.45am. This term our theme is Trust.
We hope you and your child will join us so we can come together as a whole school family.
It is a recurring event so the link uploaded on Tapestry on Friday 15th January can be used every Monday.
We look forward to seeing you whenever you can make it.
A REPEAT MESSAGE FROM LAST WEEK
A special thank you to all of you for your continued support and cooperation.
We will continue to develop retention of learning strategies with our children. We will also continue to explore vocabulary and ensure our breadth of cultures and a varied curriculum. Please read the information below regarding our whole school Step Back In Time topic.
LOCKDOWN REMINDERS
Throughout this national lockdown all children should continue to comply with the rules set out for tier 4. Parents are asked to help ensure their children are following these rules. This particularly includes those related to mixing with other households when they are not at school and when they are travelling to and from educational settings.
CHILDREN IN SCHOOL
As you are aware, we have a mixture of children in school, who are part of the vulnerable and critical worker category. We currently have 46% of our children in school. The DfE has said in its guidance ‘parents and carers who are critical workers should keep their children at home if they can’. As such, we ask that you only send your child into school on the days when you are having to complete your critical worker duties. This will assist in ensuring the health safety and wellbeing of ALL our school family.
Just a reminder that when children are at home, we would encourage them to continue with their home learning.
Thank you for your continued cooperation and support,
The All Saints’ Team
STAFF & REMOTE LEARNING
I would like to begin by thanking our outstanding staff who have been working extremely hard to provide work for children in school as well as at home. Whilst they are all extremely committed, the situation has certainly increased our workload and we have had to create a manageable rotation of TAs and teachers off and on site at different times throughout the week. I would like to thank those many parents who have already expressed their appreciation and gratitude to staff. Many of you have also praised the quality of the home learning being provided. Thank you for your very positive comments.
STEP BACK IN TIME
In the true All Saints’ Way, we are welcoming the New Year of 2021 with an exciting and inspirational topic for the next half term. We are going to “Step Back in Time” and learn many fascinating, historical facts covering Ancient, British, World and Local history.
We hope you managed to view the video of our fabulous historical timeline. The video was placed on Tapestry on the 15th January.
We hope your children and yourselves find this timeline display a helpful tool to use during our Spring Term History topic.
Thank you,
Mrs. Hammond and Mrs Clayton
Newsletter – 18th January, 2021
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WHOLE SCHOOL COLLECTIVE WORSHIP We will be having a whole school collective worship every Monday at 9.45am. This term our theme is Trust. We hope you and your child will join us so we can come together as a whole school family. It is a recurring event so the link uploaded on Tapestry on Friday 15th January can be used every Monday. We look forward to seeing you whenever you can make it.
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A REPEAT MESSAGE FROM LAST WEEK A special thank you to all of you for your continued support and cooperation. STAFF & REMOTE LEARNING I would like to begin by thanking our outstanding staff who have been working extremely hard to provide work for children in school as well as at home. Whilst they are all extremely committed, the situation has certainly increased our workload and we have had to create a manageable rotation of TAs and teachers off and on site at different times throughout the week. I would like to thank those many parents who have already expressed their appreciation and gratitude to staff. Many of you have also praised the quality of the home learning being provided. Thank you for your very positive comments. We will continue to develop retention of learning strategies with our children. We will also continue to explore vocabulary and ensure our breadth of cultures and a varied curriculum. Please read the information below regarding our whole school Step Back In Time topic.
LOCKDOWN REMINDERS Throughout this national lockdown all children should continue to comply with the rules set out for tier 4. Parents are asked to help ensure their children are following these rules. This particularly includes those related to mixing with other households when they are not at school and when they are travelling to and from educational settings.
CHILDREN IN SCHOOL As you are aware, we have a mixture of children in school, who are part of the vulnerable and critical worker category. We currently have 46% of our children in school. The DfE has said in its guidance ‘parents and carers who are critical workers should keep their children at home if they can’. As such, we ask that you only send your child into school on the days when you are having to complete your critical worker duties. This will assist in ensuring the health safety and wellbeing of ALL our school family. Just a reminder that when children are at home, we would encourage them to continue with their home learning. Thank you for your continued cooperation and support, The All Saints’ Team |
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STEP BACK IN TIME In the true All Saints’ Way, we are welcoming the New Year of 2021 with an exciting and inspirational topic for the next half term. We are going to “Step Back in Time” and learn many fascinating, historical facts covering Ancient, British, World and Local history. We hope you managed to view the video of our fabulous historical timeline. The video was placed on Tapestry on the 15th January. We hope your children and yourselves find this timeline display a helpful tool to use during our Spring Term History topic. Thank you, Mrs. Hammond and Mrs Clayton |
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Please refer to the letter placed on Tapestry on Thursday 10th December. Starting w/c 18th January, teachers will contact each parent for a 10 minute chat about how their child is progressing.
All those who requested Zoom meetings will be sent their appointment and link via Tapestry. Please see the list below as a reminder as to when your zoom appointment will take place.
EYFS: Monday 18th January Year 1: Tuesday 19th and/or Thursday 28th January Year 2: Wednesday 20th January Year 3: Monday 25th January Year 4: Thursday 21st January Year 5: Wednesday 27th January Year 6: Tuesday 26th January
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Have a wonderful week everyone!
Mrs Gaynor
Newsletter – 11th January, 2021
| AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE STAFF & REMOTE LEARNING I would like to begin by thanking our outstanding staff who have been working extremely hard to provide work for children in school as well as at home. Whilst they are all extremely committed, the situation has certainly increased our workload and we have had to create a manageable rotation of TAs and teachers off and on site at different times throughout the week. I would like to thank those many parents who have already expressed their appreciation and gratitude to staff. Many of you have also praised the quality of the home learning being provided. Thank you for your very positive comments. We will continue to develop retention of learning strategies with our children. We will also continue to explore vocabulary and ensure our breadth of cultures and a varied curriculum. Please read the information below regarding our whole school Step Back In Time topic. LOCKDOWN REMINDERS Throughout this national lockdown all children should continue to comply with the rules set out for tier 4. Parents are asked to help ensure their children are following these rules. This particularly includes those related to mixing with other households when they are not at school and when they are travelling to and from educational settings. CHILDREN IN SCHOOL As you are aware, we have a mixture of children in school, who are part of the vulnerable and critical worker category. We currently have almost 45% of our children in school. The DfE has said in its guidance ‘parents and carers who are critical workers should keep their children at home if they can’. As such, we ask that you only send your child into school on the days when you are having to complete your critical worker duties. This will assist in ensuring the health safety and wellbeing of ALL our school family. Thank you for your continued cooperation and support, The All Saints’ Team
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| WELCOME TO MISS FOSTER Yr4 Maternity Leave Teacher
Before Christmas, we introduced Miss Molly Foster who has been appointed to be the yr4 new class teacher whilst Miss Taylor commences her maternity leave in line with current Covid-19 regulations.
She has written a special letter to the year 4 children which has been posted on Tapestry this morning. |
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| STEP BACK IN TIME In the true All Saints’ Way, we are welcoming the New Year of 2021 with an exciting and inspirational topic for the next half term. We are going to “Step Back in Time” and learn many fascinating, historical facts covering Ancient, British, World and Local history. In our hall we have created a large, Historical Timeline display which is a wonderful visual aid to help your child understand and engage in discovering ancient people and places with fascinating facts. We have included lots of rich local history including Samuel Oldknow, L.S. Lowry, Jodrell Bank, All Saints’ School and lots more. Each class will focus on certain areas of history….. Class 1 – The Great Fire of London Class 2 – Famous events:- The First Plane Flight (The Wright Brothers / Kings and Queens Class 3 - Ancient Egypt and Changes in Britain from Stone Age to the Iron Age Class 4 – Mayans and Romans Class 5 – Celtic/Roman Britain Class 6 – Ancient Greeks Researching and producing this display certainly tested our knowledge and provided us with an insight to our amazing history. It caused us to ask many questions during this time but also inspired us to learn more. We hope your children and yourselves find this timeline display a helpful tool to use during our Spring Term History topic. A copy of the display will be placed on Tapestry this week. Thank you, Mrs. Hammond and Mrs Clayton |
| Thursday 14th January – Year 4 Meet The New Teacher Zoom – details to follow from the team |
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Please refer to the letter placed on Tapestry on Thursday 10th December. Starting wc 18th January, teachers will contact each parent for a 10 minute chat about how their child is progressing.
All those who requested Zoom meetings will be sent their appointment and link via Tapestry. Please see the list below as a reminder as to when your zoom appointment will take place.
EYFS: Monday 18th January Year 1: Tuesday 19th and/or Thursday 28th January Year 2: Wednesday 20th January Year 3: Monday 25th January Year 4: Thursday 21st January Year 5: Wednesday 27th January Year 6: Tuesday 26th January
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Have a wonderful week everyone!
Mrs Gaynor
Newsletter – 14th December, 2020
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WELCOME TO MISS FOSTER Yr4 Maternity Leave Teacher
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After a rigorous recruitment process, we are delighted to inform you of the exciting news that Miss Molly Foster has been appointed, to be your child’s new class teacher whilst Miss Taylor commences her maternity leave in line with current Covid-19 regulations. She is a newly qualified teacher who has successfully worked and trained in good to outstanding schools for a number of years. She comes highly recommended and we are convinced she will be a wonderful asset to our school and will continue the fabulous journey of learning your children have already begun in year 4 A huge thank you to Mr Bailey and Mrs Woodgate as Governors who dedicated their time, support and wealth of knowledge to support us in this process. A more detailed letter has been sent to our year 4 parents/guardians. |
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OUR OWN SCHOOL POETRY ANTHOLOGY ~ Please view the letter from last week which explains how you can purchase this exciting book of excellent poetry which has been written by All Saints’ Primary children. A huge thank you to Mrs Noble who has initiated this project. |
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Wednesday 16th December – Christmas cards that have been handed in to school will be given out. |
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Wednesday 16th December – Christmas Dinner. Children can wear their uniform with a Christmas jumper if they wish to. Christmas cards will be taken home. |
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Thursday 17th December – KS1 & KS2 Christmas Parties – party clothes can be worn |
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Friday 18th December – Non-uniform Christmas Jumper Day |
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Monday 21st & Tuesday 22nd December – Children will not come into school but will be completing home-learning. |
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Please refer to the letter placed on Tapestry on Thursday 10th December. Starting wc 18th January, teachers will call each parent for a 10 minute chat about how their child is progressing. You are asked to let the class teacher know, if you specifically require a zoom meeting. Further details will follow in the new year. |
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Mini Winter Reading Challenge
This Winter Stockport Libraries are introducing the Winter Reading Challenge following the enormous success of the Summer Reading Challenge. This is to encourage children to keep reading over the holidays and to give virtual rewards along the way! Children will be asked to read any range of books of their choice and to review them on the website www.wintermini.org.uk. This is also the website you need to visit to access the Winter Mini Challenge. We would love to see as many of our All Saints’ Superstars as possible taking part in this lovely event. It will start on the 1st December and run until the 15th January. Wishing you all a very well read Winter with lots of virtual prizes along the way! Mrs Manning-Craggs |
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The Selfish Giant Film
A huge THANK YOU to All Saints’ Church who have purchased this film for our children and families. The company have stipulated that the private link must not be shared on social media or by any other public means as per our licence agreement. https://vimeo.com/481707606/20dde3c528 The film comes in three chapters, each of which can be accessed by using the timestamps in the description under the film. If you would prefer you can access the film on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/v56DACH1yJ8
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Have a wonderful week everyone!
Mrs Gaynor
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PARENT GOVERNOR Thank you all so very much for considering becoming a parent governor and thank you to the parents who have been nominated. Please do take some time to read the statements from the four parents and then proceed to vote for 2 parents by 12 noon on Wednesday 16th December 2020. Schools up and down the country depend upon governors volunteering their time, talents and expertise. We’re so grateful for your support in this matter. Please read all the documentation which was sent via Tapestry this morning.
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Look out for the letter which explains how you can purchase this exciting book of excellent poetry which has been written by All Saints’ Primary children. A huge thank you to Mrs Noble who has initiated this project.
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Health & Safety! We are looking forward to seeing our year 5 children and staff return to school tomorrow and appreciate you continuing to follow the health and safety guidance.
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Vodafone’s COVID- response offer for people that are unemployed Vodafone have just launched a new £10 offer for people claiming Universal Credit or Jobseekers Allowance, here. The package is part of Vodafone’s COVID-response activity and will provide people with the package for 6 months, with no contract nor credit checks required, so suitable for those with low credit ratings. |
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A message from our Administration Team … We would like to kindly request that items are brought into school by your child in the morning rather than being dropped off during the school day. This is to reduce the amount of occasions that the office staff need to go to the gate, handle items from different households and then deliver them to different class doors. Thank you for your understanding. Please can we remind families to keep school informed when there is any change of personal information, including address, mobile and email. |
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The LA is seeking the views of stakeholders by 1st Jan 2021 The Admissions and Term Dates Consultation for academic year 2022-23 has been published. You can access the consultation and submit your response following this link: https://consultation.stockport.gov.uk/schools/school-admissions-consultation/ |
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Thursday 10th December -Online Safety Workshop – 10.30am -11.30am. This will be through Google Meet and the link is: meet.google.com/mxk-sfxv-ncx |
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Thursday 10th December – Any Christmas cards your children wish to bring in, must be brought to school in a separate bag. Staff will hand these out on Wednesday 16th December. |
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Wednesday 16th December – Christmas Dinner. Children can wear their uniform with a Christmas jumper if they wish to. Christmas cards will be taken home. |
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Thursday 17th December – KS1 & KS2 Christmas Parties – see letter from last week Home-Learning tasks for next week will be received. |
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Friday 18th December – Non-uniform Christmas Jumper Day |
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Monday 21st & Tuesday 22nd December – Children will not come into school but will be completing home-learning. |
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Mini Winter Reading Challenge
This Winter Stockport Libraries are introducing the Winter Reading Challenge following the enormous success of the Summer Reading Challenge. This is to encourage children to keep reading over the holidays and to give virtual rewards along the way! Children will be asked to read any range of books of their choice and to review them on the website www.wintermini.org.uk. This is also the website you need to visit to access the Winter Mini Challenge. We would love to see as many of our All Saints’ Superstars as possible taking part in this lovely event. It will start on the 1st December and run until the 15th January. Wishing you all a very well read Winter with lots of virtual prizes along the way! Mrs Manning-Craggs |
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The Selfish Giant Film
A huge THANK YOU to All Saints’ Church who have purchased this film for our children and families. The company have stipulated that the private link must not be shared on social media or by any other public means as per our licence agreement. https://vimeo.com/481707606/20dde3c528 The film comes in three chapters, each of which can be accessed by using the timestamps in the description under the film. If you would prefer you can access the film on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/v56DACH1yJ8
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Have a wonderful week everyone!
Mrs Gaynor
Newsletter – 30th November, 2020
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PARENT GOVERNOR
Please do take some time to read the letter sent out to you last week and consider whether you would like to join the Governing Body here at All Saints’.
Schools up and down the country depend upon governors volunteering their time, talents and expertise and we’re sure any one of you would be a wonderful addition to our Governing Body.
The deadline for parent nominations is Friday 4th December.
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Year 5
As many of you will already know, following the advice from Public Health England, we had to close our Yr5 bubble on Tuesday 24th November. We are continuing to follow the advice from PHE and Stockport LA. The children were very mature and understanding when I spoke with them. They asked very sensible questions and, even amongst the disappointment, maintained their positive attitude which was praised. I'd like to give a personal thank you to all our Yr5 parents/carers. We really do appreciate your support and cooperation. The children are currently receiving excellent home-learning, regular contact from the Yr5 staff and will return to school on 8th December, after the required 14 day self-isolation.
We are looking forward to having the whole of our school family in school and appreciate you continuing to follow the health and safety guidance. |
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A message from our Administration Team … We would like to kindly request that items are brought into school by your child in the morning rather than being dropped off during the school day. This is to reduce the amount of occasions that the office staff need to go to the gate, handle items from different households and then deliver them to different class doors. Thank you for your understanding. Please remember that Yr3 children need their swimming kits and underwear on Friday morning. |
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Monday 30th November -Online Safety Workshop 1.15pm -2.30pm. Please let your class teacher know through tapestry if you wish the link to be sent to you. |
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Thursday 10th December – 9:30 am KS1 Christmas rehearsal at Church Any Christmas cards your children wish to bring in, must be brought to school in a separate bag. Staff will hand these out on Wednesday 16th December. |
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Thursday 17th December – KS1 & KS2 Christmas Parties – see attached letter |
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Friday 18th December – Non-uniform Christmas Jumper Day |
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Monday 21st & Tuesday 22nd December – Children will not come into school but will be completing home-learning. |
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Health & Safety!
Please refrain from driving along Brickbridge Rd between 3:00pm – 3:30pm.
Please continue to encourage your children to remain on the pavement when walking and continue to collect your children from the pavement on the school side of the road. Thank you for your continued cooperation as we endeavour to keep your children safe.
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Vodafone’s COVID- response offer for people that are unemployed Vodafone have just launched a new £10 offer for people claiming Universal Credit or Jobseekers Allowance, here. The package is part of Vodafone’s COVID-response activity and will provide people with the package for 6 months, with no contract nor credit checks required, so suitable for those with low credit ratings. |
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Mini Winter Reading Challenge
This Winter Stockport Libraries are introducing the Winter Reading Challenge following the enormous success of the Summer Reading Challenge. This is to encourage children to keep reading over the holidays and to give virtual rewards along the way! Children will be asked to read any range of books of their choice and to review them on the website www.wintermini.org.uk. This is also the website you need to visit to access the Winter Mini Challenge. We would love to see as many of our All Saints’ Superstars as possible taking part in this lovely event. It will start on the 1st December and run until the 15th January. Wishing you all a very well read Winter with lots of virtual prizes along the way! Mrs Manning-Craggs |
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The Selfish Giant Film
Riding Lights has produced an acclaimed children’s show The Selfish Giant on film. Presented in three 15 minute episodes, The Selfish Giant on film will be used for a watch-along party with our children. This fantastic film explores the value of friendship and kindness towards each other through storytelling, puppets, original songs and humour, and is adapted from the classic children’s story by Oscar Wilde. The film can also be accessed by our families and can be watched in the comfort of your own homes. Details will be sent out at a later date.
A huge THANK YOU to All Saints’ Church who have purchased this film for our children and families. The company have stipulated that the private link must not be shared on social media or by any other public means as per our licence agreement. https://vimeo.com/481707606/20dde3c528 The film comes in three chapters, each of which can be accessed by using the timestamps in the description under the film. If you would prefer you can access the film on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/v56DACH1yJ8
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The LA is seeking the views of stakeholders The Admissions and Term Dates Consultation for academic year 2022-23 has been published. You can access the consultation and submit your response following this link: https://consultation.stockport.gov.uk/schools/school-admissions-consultation/ |
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Mrs Gaynor
Newsletter – 23rd November, 2020
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From the Chair of Governors ….
This week sees the start of the process to elect two parent governors, as Ali Holmes and Naomi Makin both complete their four-year terms of office. You’ll find more information about the arrangements we have put in place in a letter which has been made available to you via Tapestry. Please do take some time to read the letter and consider whether you would like to join the Governing Body here at All Saints’. At the moment, all our meetings are conducted via Zoom, but we hope this won’t be for too much longer!
Can I also say a big thank you to Ali and Naomi for their commitment to our school and for all the time they have given to their parent governor roles. Schools up and down the country depend upon governors volunteering their time, talents and expertise and Ali and Naomi have been a wonderful addition to our Governing Body.
With best wishes, Alan Bailey
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PLEASE SEE THE IMPORTANT LETTER REGARDING HOME-LEARNING FOR CHILDREN ON 21ST AND 22ND DECEMBER. |
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Last Friday, as part of our continued drive to better our environment and provide memorable opportunities for our children, we excitedly planted some tree and hedge saplings in our school grounds. These were donated by Tree Appeal and will eventually bring a wealth of habitat creation, biodiversity and new areas to explore for our children. A huge thank you to Mr. McShane and Mrs. Clayton who coordinated the project. |
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Vodafone’s COVID- response offer for people that are unemployed Vodafone have just launched a new £10 offer for people claiming Universal Credit or Jobseekers Allowance, here. The package is part of Vodafone’s COVID-response activity and will provide people with the package for 6 months, with no contract nor credit checks required, so suitable for those with low credit ratings. |
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The Selfish Giant Film
Riding Lights has produced an acclaimed children’s show The Selfish Giant on film. Presented in three 15 minute episodes, The Selfish Giant on film will be used for a watch-along party with our children. This fantastic film explores the value of friendship and kindness towards each other through storytelling, puppets, original songs and humour, and is adapted from the classic children’s story by Oscar Wilde. The film can also be accessed by our families and can be watched in the comfort of your own homes. Details will be sent out at a later date.
A huge THANK YOU to All Saints’ Church who have purchased this film for our children and families. |
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The LA is seeking the views of stakeholders The Admissions and Term Dates Consultation for academic year 2022-23 has been published. You can access the consultation and submit your response following this link: https://consultation.stockport.gov.uk/schools/school-admissions-consultation/ |
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Mini Winter Reading Challenge
This Winter Stockport Libraries are introducing the Winter Reading Challenge following the enormous success of the Summer Reading Challenge. This is to encourage children to keep reading over the holidays and to give virtual rewards along the way! Children will be asked to read any range of books of their choice and to review them on the website www.wintermini.org.uk. This is also the website you need to visit to access the Winter Mini Challenge. We would love to see as many of our All Saints’ Superstars as possible taking part in this lovely event. It will start on the 1st December and run until the 15th January. (See the attached flier.) Wishing you all a very well read Winter with lots of virtual prizes along the way! Mrs Manning-Craggs
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Marple Library
Marple Library is still open for returning stock and collecting pre ordered items, as well as specific PC use.
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Road Safety! Yr5 children will be receiving a Road Safety session on Wednesday 25th November.
Please continue to encourage your children to remain on the pavement when walking and continue to collect your children from the pavement on the school side of the road. Thank you for your continued cooperation as we endeavour to keep your children safe.
See the following video as a basis for your discussion with your child: https://www.stockport.gov.uk/road-safety-education-and-training-in-stockport |
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Tuesday 24th November – Homework Museum entries |
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Monday 30th November -Online Safety Workshop 1.15pm -2.30pm. Please let your class teacher know through tapestry if you wish the link to be sent to you. |
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Thursday 17th December – KS2 Christmas Party |
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Friday 18th December – Non-uniform Christmas Jumper Day |
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Monday 21st & Tuesday 22nd December – Children will not come into school but will be completing home-learning.
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Have a wonderful week everyone!
Mrs Gaynor
Newsletter – 16th November, 2020
| Road Safety!
A Road Safety team from the Local Authority were brilliant. Their workshops were thoroughly enjoyed by our yr2, yr4 and yr6 children and certainly helped to raise our children’s awareness of how to remain safe when walking and how to cross roads sensibly.
They will be returning to do a session for our yr5 children on Wednesday 25th November.
Please continue to encourage your children to remain on the pavement when walking and continue to collect your children from the pavement on the school side of the road. Thank you for your continued cooperation as we endeavour to keep your children safe.
See the following video as a basis for your discussion with your child: https://www.stockport.gov.uk/road-safety-education-and-training-in-stockport |
Health & Safety
As well as referring to the updated Health & Safety reminders from week commencing 2nd Nov, please see the additional information from the LA.
classed as a ‘close contact’ and would not be required to self-isolate.
Parents are able to form a childcare bubble with one other household for the purposes of informal childcare, where the child is 13 or under. Some households will also be able to benefit from being in a support bubble, which allows single adult households to join another household.
It is usual for individuals to develop a temperature following a vaccination, with this being quite transitory, only lasting for a limited period of time. A fever is a temperature over 38°C. Fevers are quite common in young children, but are usually mild. The development of a fever post vaccine shows that the individual’s body is responding to the vaccine, and it doesn’t mean that the vaccine hasn’t worked, or that they have developed COVID symptoms. The vaccines may cause a mild fever which usually resolves within 48 hours (or 6 to 11 days following MMR). This is a common, expected reaction and isolation is not required, unless COVID-19 is strongly suspected.
| Pudsey Children In Need Day
We would like to extend a huge thank you to all our families for helping to raise an amazing £206.30 for Children in Need. All the children had a wonderful non uniform day on Friday. |
Anti- Bullying Week - United Against Bullying To launch this week we have had an Odd Sock Day today. Children wore their school uniform and socks over their trousers/tights. Thank you so much for the £1 which totalled £79.60 This money will go towards an Outdoor Learning Project. |
| NEW HORIZONS Sue Woodgate, the manager of New Horizons and one of our governors, dropped off some sweets for our children as a special treat. They were very much appreciated by all the children. Thank you Sue. |
| OUR NEW DASH A DAY TRACK In our opinion Playscape Playgrounds Ltd have done an absolutely FANTASTIC job!! Finally, the vision to create an exciting running loop to help in our pursuit of a healthier school and to give us additional space for our dash-a-day is here! An all-weather 200m track has been installed with use of our Sports Premium Funding and we believe it will benefit us all as it’s really important that children are outdoors together being physically active and improving their health and wellbeing. The track has an interesting shape to it (something the Pupil Parliament told me was essential) and enhances are outdoor possibilities. As we progress through school and build our stamina, we will be aiming for a daily mile (which would be equivalent to 8 laps). The track isn’t about racing (although we won’t rule out a time-trial now and again!) but more for regular, self-paced outdoor activity which has been proven to be beneficial for pupils’ cognition and wellbeing, significantly improving a child’s mood, attention and memory – enhancing their ability to learn.
See the following video which promotes the benefits https://thedailymile.co.uk/ Again, we give a HUGE THANK YOU to Playscape Playgrounds Ltd.
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Vouchers are not necessary but are available from school. Food can also be delivered to and picked up from school. |
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SEE ATTACHED NURSERY POSTER |
Marple Library
Marple Library is still open for returning stock and collecting pre ordered items, as well as specific PC use.
| Tuesday 17th November – Safer Internet Day in school |
| Wednesday 18th November – School Individual Photograph Day
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| Friday 20th November – Tree & hedge sapling planting. Wellies required. |
| Tuesday 24th November – Homework Museum entries |
| Monday 30th November -Online Safety Workshop This extremely popular and useful training will be taking place from 1.15pm -2.30pm. It is always so important but as most children’s online usage has increased due to the pandemic, it would be great for as many to attend as possible. Please let your class teacher know through tapestry if you wish the link to be sent to you.
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Have a wonderful week everyone!
Mrs Gaynor.
Newsletter – 9th November, 2020
| An update on the youngest member of our All Saints’ The Morton family have now decided on a name! In the end it was big brother Oliver who was left with the huge responsibility. Oliver is the perfect big brother and has named his baby brother Harry Morton!
If anyone would like to send in a card/gift, please do place it in the box next to the gate when you drop off or pick up your child. We will pass them on to Mrs Morton by Wednesday 11th November. |
| OUR NEW SCHOOL VIDEO In our opinion MBI Visuals have done an absolutely FANTASTIC job!! Of course, it was made easy because they were filming your children who are all superstars!! We very much appreciate MBI Visuals volunteering to create this fabulous video for us which truly showcases our wonderful school. A poster and link to the video has been sent to all our local pre-school providers so they can see a snapshot of what our school has to offer. If you are aware of anyone who has a child due to start school in September 2021, please signpost them to the video on our website.
Again, we give a HUGE THANK YOU to MBI Visuals.
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Sue Hatton’s Music Tuition Sue Hatton has restarted her individual lessons with children across school. To gather further information about how your child could continue their lessons or start to learn to play a new musical instrument, please contact Sue on susanlogcabin@aol.com or by calling her on 07968561339 |
| Improvements Around School Welcome to The Junk Yard! We have decided to develop an area that is a little risky; where children can foster their independence, creativity and make ‘things’ from wooden planks, pallets, tyres, drainpipes and the like. It is time for the children to become architects, designers, den builders, game makers and explorers! We hope this new site will grow into something special at All Saints’ as we continue our current drive for outdoor play and adventure.
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| ‘Dash a Day Track’ Fantastic news! The work has begun and is looking AMAZING!! It is scheduled to be completed this week. Huge thanks to Mr McShane, Mrs Hallworth and Mr Chaloner for all their hard work co-ordinating this project in very tricky times!
See further photos and a video on Tapestry which Mrs Pratt has added. |
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| Road Safety!
A Road Safety team from the Local Authority will be coming to lead a Road Safety Workshop with our yr2, yr4 and yr6 children. The workshop will help to raise our children’s awareness of how to remain safe when walking and how to cross roads sensibly.
Please continue to encourage your children to remain on the pavement when walking and continue to collect your children from the pavement on the school side.
See the following video as a basis for your discussion with your child: https://www.stockport.gov.uk/road-safety-education-and-training-in-stockport |
Health & Safety
Thank you so very much again for your continued support and cooperation as we endeavour to keep each other safe.
As well as referring to the updated Health & Safety reminders from last Wednesday, please see the additional information from the LA.
classed as a ‘close contact’ and would not be required to self-isolate.
Parents are able to form a childcare bubble with one other household for the purposes of informal childcare, where the child is 13 or under. Some households will also be able to benefit from being in a support bubble, which allows single adult households to join another household.
It is usual for individuals to develop a temperature following a vaccination, with this being quite transitory, only lasting for a limited period of time. A fever is a temperature over 38°C. Fevers are quite common in young children, but are usually mild. The development of a fever post vaccine shows that the individual’s body is responding to the vaccine, and it doesn’t mean that the vaccine hasn’t worked, or that they have developed COVID symptoms. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachmen t_data/file/853210/PHE_what_to_expect_after_vaccination_English.pdf
The vaccines may cause a mild fever which usually resolves within 48 hours (or 6 to 11 days following MMR). This is a common, expected reaction and isolation is not required, unless COVID-19 is strongly suspected.
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Marple Library is still open for returning stock and collecting pre ordered items, as well as specific PC use.
| Monday 9th November - Mr Joe Barker, the HT at Marple High School led our collective worship brilliantly this morning. He reminded the children of key values which are important in keeping hopeful and maintaining friendships. |
| Tuesday 10th November at 4pm and Wednesday 11th November at 3:45pm -Yr3 Meet The New Teacher Zoom - |
| Friday 13th November - Pudsey Day – Together We Can Change Young Lives. Children can wear their own clothes on that day and bring £1 for this charity |
| Friday 13th November – Yr5 Brass Music lessons begin |
| Monday 16th November – Anti- Bullying Week - United Against Bullying To launch this week we will have an Odd Sock Day on Monday. Children will wear their school uniform and may choose to wear their socks over their trousers/tights. £1 can be brought in which will go towards an Outdoor Learning Project . |
| Tuesday 17th November -Online Safety Workshop This extremely popular and useful training will be taking place from 1.30pm -2.30pm using Microsoft Teams. (Details to follow.) It is always so important but as most children’s online usage has increased due to the pandemic, it would be great for as many to attend as possible. Please let your class teacher know through tapestry if you wish the link to be sent to you.
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Have a wonderful week everyone!
Mrs Gaynor.
Newsletter – 2nd November, 2020
WELCOME
A very, very warm welcome back to everyone! We trust that you had a refreshing half term and are looking forward to the exciting term ahead. To have had our whole school family together in school for the whole of last term was extremely positive. Lots of smiling faces, seeing friends again and creative adapting of practice to ensure good learning. We are looking forward to another successful half term
We appreciate things need to continue to be different to keep everyone safe but we will still do our upmost to provide a safe and happy environment in the All Saints’ Way.
Please look out for our updated Health and Safety reminders which will be coming out later this week.
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Welcome to the youngest member of our All Saints’ Family Many congratulations to Mrs Morton whose second child arrived safely on Thursday 29th October at 4.34pm, weighing 7lb 13oz. Her husband Will and big brother Oliver are very happy and are feeling extremely blessed. Name to follow!
If anyone would like to send in a card/gift, please do place it in the box next to the gate when you drop off or pick up your child. We will pass them on to Mrs Morton by Wednesday 11th November. |
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We would like to especially welcome Miss Siobhan Edwards who is our new teacher in year 3. We look forward to her covering Mrs Day’s maternity leave in the future. We know you will all give her a very warm welcome. There is a Meet The New Teacher Zoom planned for Tuesday 10th Nov at 4pm. Mrs Day will send the year 3 parents details via Tapestry.
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Sue Hatton’s Music Tuition Welcome also to Sue Hatton who will be restarting her individual lessons with children across school. To gather further information about how your child could continue their lessons or start to learn to play a new musical instrument, please contact Sue on susanlogcabin@aol.com or by calling her on 07968561339 |
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Congratulations!
It is always lovely to share happy news and this year we have been thoroughly blessed with expectant mothers. We are pleased to announce that Miss Taylor and her partner are excitingly expecting their first child next year. We have already written to Class 4 to share the happy news and we look forward to sharing plans with you all in due course. |
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CHURCH WEEK Everyone in school had an absolutely brilliant time during our very special Church Week. We certainly were not disappointed as it was again a truly unique week. We would especially like to thank Sarah Holton, Hev Taylor and other volunteers from All Saints’ Church for all their hard work, thought and creativity; making sure it was an exciting, reflective and fun week for the children. We hope you enjoyed seeing a short celebration of the week’s activities on Tapestry.
Our new vision statement was also launched. After much discussion, consideration and reflection, everyone felt that we absolutely needed to retain our ’All Saints’ Way’ which underpins and enhances so much of what we do in school for our children and what we want for them. So we as a church school wanted something that not only captured this but enhanced it. Therefore our new Vision is …
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NEW LIBRARY BOOKS Thank you to the many parents who donated so many People of the World books. We are very grateful to you all and these books have certainly enhanced the representation of our world and variety of books now available to our children. |
NEW LIBRARY BOOKS What a wonderful sight! These are our new reading books - wow!!!!
We have books from popular authors, book sets and an array of amazing non-fiction books. An enormous thanks to Mrs Manning for organising the tremendous book fair last year which enabled us to purchase these new books. GET READING EVERYONE!!
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Message on behalf of All Saints’ Church
Please see attached an advert for a wellbeing group that the church are beginning to run this half term. They are very keen to enable all people in our community, whether or not they come to church, to take care of their mental and emotional wellbeing.
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Improvements Around School Much needed new windows have been installed at the back of our school building making Class 2, Reception, their toilets, the staffroom and the Library much more comfortable. Thank you to Mr Chaloner who has worked extremely hard throughout this project. Please view the photos and installation video on Tapestry.
A huge thank you to the Peatfield Family who gave up part of their half term to complete some much needed improvements on the field. They have spent time adding willow to our new Junk Yard and hanging tarpaulin to create a little shelter. (For more details, see The Junk Yard letter from Mr McShane who has been very instrumental in creating this new area.)
Unfortunately, our ‘Dash a Day Track’ which was scheduled to be completed, could not be due to the bad weather last week. Huge thanks to Mr McShane and Mrs Hallworth for all their hard work co-ordinating this project in very tricky times! |
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Monday 9th November - Mr Joe Barker, the HT at Marple High School will be leading our collective worship. We look forward to hearing him speak to the children and the theme will be Friendship. |
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Tuesday 10th November -Yr3 Meet The New Teacher Zoom - at 4pm |
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Friday 13th November - Pudsey Day – Together We Can Change Young Lives .Children can wear their own clothes on that day and bring £1 for this charity. |
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Tuesday 17th November -Online Safety Workshop This extremely popular and useful training will be taking place from 1.30pm -2.30pm using Microsoft Teams. (Details to follow.) It is always so important but as most children’s online usage has increased due to the pandemic, it would be great for as many to attend as possible. Please let your class teacher know through tapestry if you wish the link to be sent to you Mrs Pratt has been amazing at updating the class pages on our school website. She has also been responsible for updated the Online Safety page with the most current information. Many thanks Mrs Pratt |
Have a wonderful week everyone!
Mrs Gaynor.
Newsletter 19.10.2020
The final week of a very surreal and strange half term is here! It is still hard to process that 7 months on we are still living with this pandemic. However, on behalf of All Saints’ School to every member of our community we want to say the biggest heartfelt thank you. Each person from staff to Governors, children to families have been simply wonderful. Understanding, supportive and so caring of each other are just some of the words we would use to describe all our wonderful family members. We really are very fortunate to be part of such a truly amazing and special team. We hope that everyone has a fabulous last week and half term break. We will come back knowing that no matter how things pan out over the next half term we can get through it together. All Achieving, All Together, All Saints’!
We are also delighted that over half term our long awaited plans to build a ‘Dash a Day Track’ on the school field as well as other much needed building maintenance work will take place to benefit the children using money from the dedicated Sports and Buildings funding received into schools. Huge thanks to Mr McShane, Mrs Hallworth and Mr Chaloner for all their hard work co-ordinating these projects in very tricky times!
Finally a big thank you to MBI Visuals who so kindly and generously gave their time last week over three days to come into School and film our new All Saints’ Video! We recognise that this is a really difficult time for families deciding on a school for their child and really hope that this helps in the decision making process in the absence of our usual tours. We also definitely have some budding stars in the making as the children were fantastic during the filming!
From the Chair of Governors .....
As we approach the end of this first half-term, I just want to thank all our families for their support in so many different ways as we have welcomed all children back to school. Governors are not visiting school at present in order to maintain the highest possible levels of safety for children and staff but we have been very busy taking part in meetings via Zoom and keeping in touch by phone and e-mail.
I also want to take the opportunity to wish Mrs Morton all the best as she begins her maternity leave at the end of the week. We're really going to miss her and we are having a special assembly on Wednesday (via Zoom, of course!) to say a temporary goodbye to her. I'm sure it will be an emotional occasion for everyone!
I know you will give Mrs Gaynor your full support as she steps up to become our full-time headteacher whilst Mrs Morton is on maternity leave. All the governors are very grateful for her willingness to take on this role and they are reassured to know that our school will be in safe hands.
With best wishes
Alan Bailey
Church Week
As mentioned above we know everyone will have a great last week as it is our very special Church Week and we are excited for our new Reception children, new starters throughout school, Mr Lonsdale and Miss McConnell to experience what a truly unique week it is too. Although it will be different to the norm we know so much hard work, thought and love has gone into making sure that it will be an exciting, reflective and fun week for the children.
One really exciting aspect is that the theme of ‘Discovering God’s stories’ will be a platform for everyone to really think about our new vision statement which we are launching this week.
After much discussion, consideration and reflection everyone felt that we absolutely needed to retain our ’All Saints’ Way’ which underpins and enhances so much of what we do in school for our children and what we want for them. So we as a church school wanted something that not only captured this but enhanced it therefore as new Vision is …
Tapestry
Another huge thank you to our parents for all your support, all your likes to posts (keep them coming please!) and contributions sharing home learning and achievements on Tapestry so far this term, especially in KS2. It has been a wonderful addition to our All Saints offer; so thanks to all the families and staff for embracing and supporting this.
If parents haven't posted anything this half term, it would be great to add something before Friday please for your child to share with their class - e.g. football trophy, making a special birthday cake or doing an epic walk in the countryside etc. Any achievement that your child is really proud of please post them on Tapestry for us to celebrate and share in class. Please see the attached guide for more information about how to do add a post.
Thank you
The hugest, hugest thank you to so many parents and staff who purchased a wealth of amazing new books based on 'People of The World'.
The response was overwhelmingly positive and we have received approximately over 30 new books off our Amazon Wish List of books.
Many have and are being read in classrooms as part of lessons this term based on our topic of 'My World and Me' and then will be placed in the school library in 2021 for children to take home and enjoy.
There are too many names to mention but we know who you are and are extremely grateful and thankful for your support.
All books have a special thank you note with the name on the inside cover of who purchased the book so please do look out for this...
The biggest thanks to all involved for allowing us to have an array of top, new books for our children to help them experience more about our diverse and wonderful world!
Mrs. Noble
Message from Marple Hall School
Dear parents, carers and Year Five and Six Students,
On behalf of all the staff, Governors and students at Marple Hall School I would like to invite you all to our 2020 ‘Virtual’ Open Evening.
Choosing a secondary school is a big decision and we are sorry that we cannot host our usual Open Evening events this year. Instead, we have put together a page on our school website that aims to answer as many questions that you may have as possible. Please take your time to look around and of course contact us at the school if there is anything that we can do to help further.
The page can be accessed on www.marplehall.stockport.sch.uk via the ‘News’ drop down tab, or alternatively by clicking on this link here.
Best wishes
Joe Barker
Headteacher
Marple Hall School
Message on behalf of All Saints’ Church
Please see attached an advert for a wellbeing group that we are beginning to run after half term. We are very keen to enable all people in our community whether or not they come to church to take care of their mental and emotional wellbeing.
Scarecrow Trail - people coming to
gether with amazing community spirit!
Throughout the last few weeks classes have been involved in the Marple Scarecrow Trail, designing and making their very own scarecrows.
However, sadly, due to Greater Manchester probably heading into Tier3 restrictions, the council have decided that having the scarecrows displayed in the park may encourage people to group together. Taking advice from central government, the council have announced that this option is no longer possible. They are allowed however to incorporate them along the Marple house trail and inside shops. They will keep you informed via their website www.marpletrails.org.uk and also the updated attached poster.
This is a local fundraising venture, so please see the link to the Just Giving page below where the money being raising is for all the schools involved in this project. Please share far and wide to raise as much money as we can! https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/raising-funds-for-primary-school-children-in-the-marple-area?utm_term=9k9EkWmj2
Parking & Driving along Brickbridge Rd
Sadly, a resident of Brickbridge Rd has brought to our attention that they were inconvenienced on Friday as they could not leave for work on time as a parent from our school had parked across their drive; blocking them in. This unfortunately also happened at the end of the day, so they were unable to park on their drive. Could we please encourage you to not drive down Brickbridge Rd whenever possible and if you do to respect our local neighbours by not parking across the drive ways etc.
Thank you for your understanding.
Year Three Families
Please read the introductory letter from Miss Edwards; your child’s new teacher. This was sent out on Tapestry this morning and has also been discussed with your child today. We are sure you will join us in looking forward to meeting her after half term.
Coronavirus Page on the Website
Please do view the Coronavirus page on the website which has important updated information, using the following link:- http://www.allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk/stockport/primary/allsaints-pri/site/pages/parents/coronavirus
Food Bank Vouchers
We have 12 food bank vouchers in school. If anyone would appreciate a voucher or to find out more information then please approach Miss Daley or Mrs Gaynor.
Online Safety Workshop
This extremely popular and useful training will be taking place on Tuesday 17th November, 1.30pm -2.30pm using Google Meet/Teams…… (Details to follow). It is always so important but as most children’s online usage has increased due to the pandemic it would be great for as many to attend as possible.
Stockport residents invited to have their say on aspects of SEND provision
A public consultation on the initial findings of the Dedicated Schools Grant, High Needs Block funding was launched on Friday 9th October and will run for eight weeks closing on Friday 4th December 2020.
The Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) provides the majority of funding for schools. This includes High Needs funding which is for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). The High Needs funding element is approximately £32million.
Please follow the link to find out more and have your say –
Reminder - We have been asked by Stockport Authority to inform all our parents of the very important information below:
Current information for families living in Stockport
· We advise against all social contact with people from outside your home. Up to six people from different households can legally meet – maintaining social distance - in parks, but not in homes and gardens.
· Picking children up from school who aren’t in your household is social contact, and isn’t allowed unless you have formed a childcare bubble.
· A childcare bubble is where someone in one household can provide informal (meaning unpaid and unregistered) childcare to a child aged 13 or under in another household. This must occur on an exclusive basis – always the same two households, and never more than two households.
· If people don’t follow these rules, it increases the chance that they, their children, and potentially their class or year group bubble at school will need to self-isolate at home for up to two weeks.
Finally I (Mrs Morton) would just like to personally say, that as this is my last week in school for a while, All Saints’ will continue to be in my heart and thoughts and I cannot wait to see everyone again soon!
We hope everyone has a lovely week and peaceful half term, Helen Morton and Hannah Gaynor.
Newsletter 12.10.2020
Church Week
Next week is one of the highlights of our All Saints’ calendar with the annual Church Week. Although it will, as with most things this year, take place differently we are still very excited and we are sure it will be a very special week. All activities will take place in class bubbles but thanks to the wonderful Sarah Holton and many others, the children will still get fantastic interaction with all the volunteers via tasks and videos produced for the week.
The Harvest Service and celebration of Church Week will take place in school online and then for many logistical and safeguarding reasons be shared with families after the event via Tapestry. So please watch out for this being shared a week on Friday.
Muddy Puddle
As our new venture really gets underway, we have big plans for the outside area including a track being laid over half term to support our ‘Dash a day’ in all weathers, and also a space for the children to reflect. Thanks to Mr McShane and Mrs Clayton for all your hard work with planning everything including new trees being planted and developing different areas around the groups.
Also, thank you to the PA and in particular Mrs Peatfield for all your enthusiasm and support in helping us with plans to develop vegetable patches and much more. Our children are loving our increased outdoor learning opportunities, and this will just enhance it even more for them.
To help with our plans we are kindly asking for donations of plastic drainpipes, quality wooden planks (no nails or sharp edges please) rubber tyres and plastic crates for our den area: if they can just be passed over the fence near the green container on the last Friday of term before 3.30pm that would be wonderful to avoid everything going through school and of course no fly tipping please!!!
As a special treat as all the children have simply been amazing over the last half term they will be having a hot chocolate and marshmallow at the end of a session next week. A separate PING message will be coming out for you to let us know if you do not wish your child to have this.
Online Safety Workshop
This extremely popular and useful training will be taking place on Tuesday 17th November, 1.30pm -2.30pm using Google Meet/Teams…… (Details to follow). It is always so important but as most children’s online usage has increased due to the pandemic it would be great for as many to attend as possible.
How to Support Your Child’s Learning Online
If you would like to improve your computer skills so you can support your child’s learning on-line then this short course is for you. So please look at the free LA run course poster attached.
Operation Encompass
We continue to remain an operation encompass school. Our Nominated Key Adults are Mrs Gaynor, Mrs Morton, Miss Daley and Mrs Noble. For more information, please see our website page and the following link: https://www.operationencompass.org/
Important COVID-19 information
We have been asked by Stockport Authority to inform all our parents of the very important information below:
Current information for families living in Stockport
· We advise against all social contact with people from outside your home. Up to six people from different households can legally meet – maintaining social distance - in parks, but not in homes and gardens.
· Picking children up from school who aren’t in your household is social contact, and isn’t allowed unless you have formed a childcare bubble.
· A childcare bubble is where someone in one household can provide informal (meaning unpaid and unregistered) childcare to a child aged 13 or under in another household. This must occur on an exclusive basis – always the same two households, and never more than two households.
· If people don’t follow these rules, it increases the chance that they, their children, and potentially their class or year group bubble at school will need to self-isolate at home for up to two weeks.
Can a childminder continue to mind children in the event of a member of their family being identified as a contact and self-isolating?
While this might be acceptable in theory, it might not be possible in practice unless the layout of the childminder’s house is conducive to supporting separating the individuals. The separation between two parts of the house would need to be complete. This means:
· That the person who is isolating must be in a completely separate part of the building from anyone who lives outside the household (the minded children)
· That they must have access to completely separate toilet facilities, and any other facilities they need
· Any spaces that are used by both groups of people (isolating and those outside the household) would need to be cleaned between any cross-overs according to the details at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-decontamination-in-non-healthcaresettings/covid-19-decontamination-in-non-healthcare-settings
Parents can book tests by following the link: https://www.gov.uk/get-coronavirus-test We are currently seeing quicker responses through this method.
Reminders
Autumn Parent Drop in!
We will sadly be cancelling this event for next half term and therefore felt it is important to offer an opportunity for our families to have a conversation with their child’s class teacher before the formal appointments in the new year. Therefore, in the final week of half term 19th October, (Church Week) Teachers will call each parent for a 5 minute chat about how their child has settled back into school. You will receive a Tapestry message today letting you know the time and day your child’s teacher will be calling you. We hope everyone will find this useful.
We hope everyone has a lovely week, Helen Morton and Hannah Gaynor
Newsletter 05.10.2020
Lots to Celebrate!
A huge well done to Poppy who ran the Race for Life last weekend! She ran with her running group everyone is so proud of your determination Poppy and amazingly you helped the group to raise £3,000!
Please see the link below if you would like to support this wonderful cause!
https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/emma-poppy-jacob-strines-runners-team
Welcome to …
After a rigorous recruitment process, we are delighted to announce that Miss Edwards will be taking over from Miss Day when she commences her maternity leave in line with current Covid-19 regulations. A huge thank you to Mr Bailey and Mrs Woodgate as Governors who dedicated their time, support and wealth of knowledge to support us in this process. We look forward to sharing more information about Miss Edwards in due course and her wide range of experiences that we are sure will enhance All Saints’ further.
Children’s Safety
As always this is of paramount importance to us at All Saints’ we fully appreciate that the current situation at pick up and drop off is not ideal. As you can imagine we have conducted and regularly revisit our Risk Assessments including discussing about allowing parents to come onto the playground. However, it is still deemed not a viable option to have all the parents into the playground/ walk round the building etc as we are currently able to maintain safe segregated outside spaces for each bubble and if we allowed this we would have the mixing of bubbles. As such we would like to reiterate again some of the rules/ requests we have put into place in order to keep everyone safe.
We need to ensure that when we release the children they are able to remain on the pavement in order get down Brickbridge Road and not have to go on the road. The easiest way to support this is to stick to the staggered pick up and drop off times. By only one adult per child arriving on time but not to early for pick up and drop off and also vacating the area ASAP once your child has been collected, this reduces numbers that are therefore making maintaining social distancing and safely leaving the area more difficult. To support this further any Year 6s who make their own way home will be escorted by School staff to John at the crossing.
Autumn Parent Drop in!
We will sadly be cancelling this event for next half term and therefore felt it is important to offer an opportunity for our families to have a conversation with their child’s class teacher before the formal appointments in the new year. Therefore, in the final week of half term 19th October, (Church Week) Teachers will call each parent for a 5 minute chat about how their child has settled back into school. You will receive a PING/ Tapestry message next week letting you know the time and day your child’s teacher will be calling you. We hope everyone will find this useful.
Nasal Flu Vaccinations
Intra Health will be coming to administer the Vaccinations on Friday 9th October at 1pm. Please note Class 4 will be having theirs when they return from swimming.
Moving over to Tapestry from PING
From start of next half term (2nd November), we will be using Tapestry as our main point of contact with our families and we will not be continuing to use PING. Parentpay will continue to be used for payments for lunches etc.
If you have not had your log in for Tapestry, please email admin@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk to be set up. There is an app to download, or you can visit the website www.tapestryjournal.com to view communication from your child’s class and also contact your child’s teacher. If there is anything that you need to let us know urgently, such as change to pick up arrangements, please email us as above or call School on 0161 427 3008.
Department for Education Assessment Timetable
Please take a look if not already done so at the letter regarding assessments this academic year that was sent out via Tapestry on 29th September.
Sue Hatton Music Tuition
Please see the attached letter for how your child can get involved.
Track and Trace
Please refer to the communication sent to you last Friday about what to do if you have been asked to self-isolate and please keep School informed.
Emotional Wellbeing Support
See the attached leaflet which contains a range of services children and adults can access, such as Kooth and HOPELINEUK for young people, the Samaritans and SHOUT, alongside online platforms like Togetherall.
Similarly, parents, carers, students, and staff can find these and additional services online (https://www.stockport.gov.uk/mental-wellbeing-support-coronavirus), as well as some tips and guidance to look after your health and wellbeing (https://www.stockport.gov.uk/look-after-your-health-andwellbeing).
It is important to recognise the invaluable support system that families, friends, and colleagues provide, and if you know someone who is not feeling okay, the Every Mind Matters webpage has some helpful tips on how you can help (https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/helping-others/)
Message from Siobhan McKenna, GM Nutrition and Hydration Programme Manager (Stockport area) (AGE UK)
Malnutrition Awareness Week (MAW 2020) is here!
This year it will run from the 5th until the 12th of October.
Resources
If you would like to download any of our resources or materials, you can access them here:
www.ageuk.org.uk/salford/about-us/improving-nutrition-and-hydration/our-resources/
Webinars
Finally, we are running 2 webinars during this week:
• Raising awareness of malnutrition webinar will be held on Wednesday 7th October, 3-4pm. To book, visit:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/raising-awareness-of-malnutrition-in-older-adults-tickets-120054834241
• Hydration, awareness and strategies to promote good hydration webinar will run on Thursday 8th October, 10-11am. To book, visit:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/raising-awarenss-to-promote-hydration-in-older-adults-tickets-120164420015
Contact Families
Our helpline advisers are ready to help with any concerns or worries you might have about your family during the current pandemic and beyond.
Call our free helpline on 0808 808 3555
Chat to us online: http://ow.ly/973B50AsWCN
Or email us at helpline@contact.org.uk for families with disabled children contact.org.uk
Reminder
Donation for the All Saints’ as always very welcome, please see the poster below for more information about such a great and needed cause.
We hope everyone has a lovely week, Helen Morton and Hannah Gaynor
Newsletter 28.09.2020
Well another week has flown by in school and it continues to be lovely having all the children in school and happy to be here. Topics are well underway and everyone is being so resilient as we navigate through the new normal.
Lots to Celebrate!
As mentioned topics are well underway and our classes are really being inspired by all the wonderful opportunists our staff are providing them even in such challenging times! Year 2 had a virtual talk from Greenpeace and the Greenpeace staff member emailed to say how ‘lovely the class were and super-engaged’, saying ‘it is really encouraging speaking to children who show so much awareness of environmental issues; they're a real credit to your school’. So a huge well done to Year 2!
Also, our wonderful Mrs Noble and Mr McShane managed, even with all the restrictions at present, to deliver training to around 25 new trainee teachers and the feedback was a joy to read. The students were so impressed by their knowledge, drive and creative ideas. So a huge congratulations to Mrs Noble and Mr McShane - it is amazing that you are able to inspire so many colleagues new to the profession, and allow the children they will teach in the future to have the amazing opportunities you always offer the children you teach!
Year 3 and Year 6 end of the day…
As we continually look to tweak and refine systems in School, from today to ease congestion at the end of the day Year 6 (many of whom walk home now) are going to be released from the field gate at the end of Brickbridge Road. Therefore Year 3 can now be released from the KS2 gates in front of the main entrance. The children’s release time for both classes remain the same.
Church Week 2020
Sadly we will not be able to hold our annual Church Week in the same way as usual this year. However, plans have been in place for some time and Sarah Holton has been working incredibly hard with many, many kind volunteers to put together a fantastic week for our children. It will involve art, drama and outdoor learning to name but a few elements. It will all be based around the theme ‘Discovering God’s Stories’ and although we cannot hold our wonderful ‘Harvest Service’ at All Saints’ Church we are working hard to do this virtually and more information will be shared in due course.
Harvest Collection
Donation for the All Saints’ is very welcome, please see the video link and poster below for more information about such a great and needed cause.
Digital Devices Government Scheme
Many of you may have heard about the Government scheme to ensure all children have access to a loan device if they are self-isolating/ bubbles close or a wider lockdown has to occur again. As such we in school have a list of families who we feel would benefit from this scheme from previous dialogue in lockdown and will action this if the need arises. If you feel that your family would benefit from this scheme e.g. multiple children having to share devices to access remote learning, no suitable devices for the children to work on at home, then please do let us know by emailing the admin@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk account.
Or alternatively …
The DigiKnow Digital Device Lending Library
This service has been set up for residents who have no or limited access to the internet. This could be especially useful for families without a laptop at home, or where several children are sharing 1 laptop. Laptops are free to borrow, and some come with free access to the internet. The standard loan period is for 1 month, but the loan can be renewed, and it is assumed that most pupils would need the device for a longer period. Call the DigiKnow Helpline on 07537 127095.
A message from the School Crossing Patrol Department
Following the Crossing Patrol Supervisor’s recent site/welfare visit to the school crossing patrol for our school, she observed that children, parents and carers were not following the government social distancing guidelines of between themselves or the school crossing patrol.
School crossing patrols are now instructed to remind all pedestrians that they must social distance when using the service. If this is not being followed, they have also been instructed to take a few steps away from pedestrians in order to create a safer working environment.
They have informed us that the situation will be closely monitored and are encouraging everyone to act in a responsible manner to help protect themselves and others.
Colds and Coughs
We understand how difficult the times we currently find ourselves in are and that very young children often get a temperature and a cough and that this is normal for them. This BBC short film is useful to share to support reassurance in making a decision about whether a child, or adult’s symptoms are that of COVID or a more routine cough or cold https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/health-54182329
Adults and children can and should get a test within 5 days of symptom onset and the test will reliably be able to pick up COVID-19. This still applies if the symptoms have stopped.
Individual Photo Change to Date
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the photographer has had to change the date for the individual photos to be taken. The new date is now Wednesday 18th November. Thank you for your understanding.
Wishing everyone a lovely week, Mrs Morton and Mrs Gaynor.
Newsletter 21.09.2020
Virtual Homework Museum
Please see attached this term’s optional homework project – this time taking us around the world!! There are also some ideas sheets on tapestry to give you some inspiration if needed. We can’t wait to see what you all produce!
Reading is Magic
With festivals and other events being sadly cancelled, we thought we would inform families of an alternative, amazing digital children's book Festival that could come to you starting on Sunday!
Inspiration for the name came from Waterstones Children’s Laureate 2019-2022 Cressida Cowell’s key message ‘reading is magic, and magic is for everyone’. Books have a transformative magic in their unique ability to develop three key magical powers; intelligence, creativity and empathy.
Please have a look at the weekly line up of all-star leading authors and illustrators on this schools and family schedule, all free and available for everyone, everywhere to enjoy the magic of reading and books!
https://www.readingismagicfestival.com/events 
Systems in school
We know how tricky keeping track of your child’s belongings are in normal times so it is even harder at the moment. Therefore, we encourage families to please put names on items of clothing especially jumpers and coats. We thank you in advance for your support in this matter.
We also understand that children not having a bag to and from school is difficult. As such we are still encouraging as little as possible to go between home and school, but if children need a small bag or to use their book bag to put their reading books/ lunch/ snacks in then please feel free to send this in with your child.
Friends of Marple Memorial Park Pavilion Art Project
We have loved being part of many art projects both in school and within the local community and we are really excited for you all to be involved in this one for Memorial Park too! Please see the attached document and sheet for entering. We can’t wait to see your amazing creations and please do share your entries with your class teachers via tapestry as they would love to see them!
Training Opportunities for Family Members
As our children return to school this leaves a great opportunity for families claiming benefits to consider employment and training options, please see the attachment for more information.
Greater Manchester Nutrition and Hydration information
This year has been a challenge and has highlighted the need for good nutrition, hydration and access to food. As we enter the pre-recovery phase, it is even more important than ever to raise awareness about malnutrition.
Raising Awareness of Malnutrition, Wednesday the 7th of October, 3-4pm. To book your place visit: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/raising-awareness-of-malnutrition-in-older-adults-tickets-120054834241
Hydration Awareness and Strategies to Promote Good Hydration, Thursday the 8th of October, 10-11am. To book your place, visit: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/raising-awarenss-to-promote-hydration-in-older-adults-tickets-120164420015
Please look out for some resources we will be sending out in a few week`s time.
Barnardo’s See, Hear, Respond Service
See, Hear, Respond is a service provided across England by Barnardo’s and other national and local community-based organisations in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
See, Hear, Respond, provides support to children, young people and their families who aren’t currently seeing a social worker or other agency, and who are struggling to cope with the emotional impacts of coronavirus (COVID-19). See, Hear, Respond will support from pre-birth up to 18 years of age and those with special educational needs under the age of 25.
See, Hear, Respond will contact every referral made, so no child is missed. Help is available in one or more of four ways:
You can access via the ‘See, Hear, Respond’ service self-referral webpage or Freephone 0800 151 7015.
Wishing everyone a lovely week, Helen Morton and Hannah Morton.
Newsletter 14.09.2020
Well is it like we have never been away! It is so wonderful how energised, enthusiastic and happy all the children in school are – long may it last!!! We can never under estimate the resilience of children and returning to school this last week has proven that in abundance! Well done to all our truly wonderful All Saints’ Superstars! We of course have to mention a special ‘shout out’ to our fabulous Reception class who did their first full day last Friday and I am sure after plenty of sleep this weekend are ready and raring to go again – well done Reception a huge achievement!
New to Year Group Meetings
As communicated already, sadly we are unable to conduct our New to Year Group Meetings as normal, so we hope you are all embracing Tapestry and will enjoy the short video clip of your child’s new class room etc. Please look out for the New to Year Group Booklets with lots of information in that will be uploaded to your child’s Tapestry account on Friday too.
Tapestry
Thank you so much to everyone for embracing the introduction of Tapestry across the whole school. Please see the attached Parent Guide, which we hope is of help to people who are new to the new app. Also, thank you to Mrs Noble for all her hard work producing this and organising the introduction of Tapestry across each class.
People of the World
We are happy to announce that we have our very own School Amazon Wish List. We have carefully selected wish list items that will inspire and support your children's learning through books based on 'People of the World' to further enhance our range of cultural books in the school library. Please have a browse at anything you feel is inspirational or takes your fancy from our list. If you would like to purchase something on our behalf, please click the link below, which will take you to the wish list. Then just add it to your basket and follow the same process as if you were ordering something for yourself.
The items will be delivered directly to our school then we will acknowledge who has purchased it with a donation sticker inside the book. You can make a direct impact on the resources in our school library that we need to enable staff to teach from a wide range of quality, thought provoking books enhancing your child's learning for life and to help to improve our world.
Whilst there is no expectation to purchase anything, even if 1/4 of of our families, extended families (and even community members) are able to purchase just one book, we could have at least 30 brand new, thought inspiring books for YOUR child to enjoy and learn from at All Saints'. Thank you very, very much in advance for your kind generosity. Mrs. Noble
Covid-19 Quick Guide for Parents and Carers
Please do take a look at this information which was Pinged out to all families which was sent out last Friday.
More detailed description of the symptoms are below:
The main symptoms of coronavirus are:
a high temperature – this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature)
a new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours (if you usually have a cough, it may be worse than usual)
a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste – this means you've noticed you cannot smell or taste anything, or things smell or taste different to normal
Testing Tests for COVID-19 can be booked or ordered from https://www.gov.uk/get-coronavirustest or via a Freephone number, 119.
Postal, drive through and walk in tests are available.
Test supplies are limited at the moment due to demand exceeding laboratory capacity. Please only arrange tests for people who have coronavirus symptoms – a new, continuous cough, a fever or loss of taste/smell. Please keep trying the website and phone line – new tests are made available regularly at around 8am and 12pm daily, including at weekends.
A local test site at Brinnington Leisure Complex opens on Friday 11 September. Please note that testing cannot be offered without an appointment. A further local test site at Teviot Dale Methodist Church is planned, opening Friday 18 September. Appointments to be made prior to visiting this site. Both sites are bookable via the above website and phone number.
(Some info for families who think they are more vulnerable ) https://www.stockport.gov.uk/coronavirus-help-vulnerable-people
Our dedicated coronavirus helpline is for the most vulnerable people in Stockport.
To access support call 0161 217 6046:
Monday to Thursday from 9am to 5pm
Friday from 9am to 4:30pm
If you're deaf or have difficulty hearing, you can use our text phone number to contact us on
07860 022 876.
Alternatively call 0161 218 6028 for support if you need to self-isolate or have a child who needs to self- isolate.
Manchester Arena
If anyone is affected by the bombing or by the current enquiry please contact the school office and we will be able to share some supporting resources that have come into school.
We hope everyone has a great week! Mrs Morton and Mrs Gaynor.
Newsletter 07.09.2020
A very, very warm welcome back to everyone and especially to our new starters in Reception, Year 1, Year 2, Year 6 and Mr Lonsdale! To have our whole school family back together has been so, so positive. We appreciate things need to be different to keep everyone safe but we will still do our upmost to provide a safe and happy environment full of learning for all your children and the last few days have been proof of that. Lots of smiling faces, seeing friends again and creative adapting of practice to ensure lost learning time will be appropriately addressed in the All Saints’ Way.
Congratulations!
It is always lovely to start the new academic year with some happy news and this year we are able to announce that Mrs Day and her husband are excitingly expecting their second child next year. We have already written to Class 3 to share the happy news and we look forward to sharing plans with you all in due course.
National Spirit of Normandy Trust
Amazingly All Saints’ work based on the Stockport Veterans Legacy has been designated as commended at national level, as well as at the local competition. It is true a reflection of the commitment that Mr McShane and the children at All Saints’ gave to the project. A wonderful achievement and well done to all.
Covid-19 Symptoms update
To make everyone aware Coronavirus Symptoms have now been recognised as the following:
- a high temperature – this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature)
- a new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours (if you usually have a cough, it may be worse than usual)
- loss or change to your sense of smell or taste – this means you've noticed you cannot smell or taste anything, or things smell or taste different to normal
Keeping your child safe at pick up and drop off
Thank you so much for your understanding and cooperation regarding dropping off and picking up please just see a few points below to ensure we all remain safe and most importantly keep our children safe.
Thinking of driving down Brickbridge Rd?
Please try your best not to do so between 8:45 - 9:10am or 3:05 - 3:30pm.
Thinking of two people from your household dropping off or picking up?
We have kindly asked that only one person does this to reduce congestion/ help maintain social distancing.
How to maintain social distancing?
We would remind you to use the yellow lines or judge a 2m spacing to ensure a safe distance and to line up in single file wherever possible.
Waiting for a child at the end of the school day?
Please wait outside your child’s pick up point, on the pavement, as close to the wall as possible, so that children walking home alone can get by.
Year 5 and Year 6 parents to please wait next to the school fence, opposite the Girl guiding hut until their time to come over and collect their children.
When my child has been picked up?
Please quickly vacate the area, making room for the next child to be release to their parent.
Waiting for another child to be released at a different time?
We appreciate this is not ideal but where possible please go for a short walk to ease congestion or wait on the other side of the road until it is time for you to make your way across to their pick up point.
Tapestry
As many of you will be aware we understandably have plans in place in case any child needs to self-isolate, classes have to stay home or any local lockdowns come in to force again. As such we are delighted following such positive feedback to be introducing Tapestry across the whole school. This is a really user friendly App that will further enhance the communication between home and school and also allow greater sharing of the learning that is taking place in the classroom. This was explained further in the letter sent out last week to KS2 families, which also asks for your consent as a new user so please do sign up to start accessing this amazing resource. Tapestry will also be discussed further through the ‘New to Year Group’ videos that will be shared and will replace the usual face to face meetings due to the current Covid-19 restrictions.
New Timetable
This is something that has been in the planning for a while, but this term we started with a slightly different structure to the internal day for the children. This allows for a more settled start to the day in class, particularly important for children at present, and allowing for extended periods of learning time. The children in Years 1 to Years 6 now have one break in the morning for 20 minutes at 10.10am to 10.30am rather than the past two 10 minute breaks. It already seems to be working well and the children enjoying the longer playtime!
Water Bottles
Just a reminder to send your children in with reusable water bottles to keep them hydrated throughout the day.
Autumn Term Diary Dates
As with many things at present we are still unsure regarding the possibility of many usual School opportunities. However see the Autumn Term Diary Dates sent via PING last week and we will of course share further details nearer the time for each event.
Dance Club
As previously mentioned Sally will be running class bubble dance classes each day of the week starting from next week. Please see the attached letter for more information.
Sue Hatton’s Music Tuition
Please see the attached letter to gather information about how your child could continue their lessons or start to learn to play a new musical instrument!
Barnardo’s ‘See Hear Respond’ service
See Hear Respond is a service provided across England by Barnardo’s and other national and local community-based organisations in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
The programme has been created to help children and young people in England who are experiencing harm and increased adversity during this period by providing support to those who are not being seen by social care or other key agencies.
Working with its partners, Barnardo’s aims to reduce the likelihood of harm and ensure other support and protective networks are in place.
See Hear Respond accept referrals from any source either through the Freephone number 0800 151 7015 or via the online referral hub.
Mellor Lacrosse
Please see the attached leaflet for more information about opportunities at the club.
Here's to a wonderful first full week at All Saints’ since March! Mrs Morton and Mrs Gaynor.
Thank you
It is always emotional when a year draws to a close but none more so than this year! As every child is unique at our school, so too is every year. The 2019-2020 academic year although starting off like many before by half way through was in no way like any other. A global pandemic and the unprecedented closure of schools and national lockdown is a significant historical event that we have all lived through. At the beginning we thought it would be days, but this quickly unfolded and became weeks and then months! When we did the poster above, no one thought we would be ending the year like this! It is still hard to process and comprehend. Although juggling financial difficulties, health worries, work and home schooling has been an unbelievable challenge, as a school we take our hats off to each and every one of our families who have navigated this period with its mine field of emotions! We could not be more grateful to our wider school family and in particular our amazing Governors who have so willingly given up so much additional time for unscheduled meetings and supporting school through its most challenging of times. All Saints’ Church have continued to be simply wonderful helping us to support our families with food parcels and so much more.
Finally our staff... as key workers we are simply humbled by their willingness to put their personal fears aside, coming into school and sacrificing their precious holiday time (and even bank holidays) with their families. We are so proud that All Saints’ was open and able to support our community everyday of lockdown! All our All Saints’ staff always work incredibly hard but they have simply worked constantly since March being in school, providing home learning, communicating with families, writing reports and so much more including being there for each other and our children and families emotionally as so many have needed a listening ear and support through this incredibly difficult time.
As we begin the summer holidays, recognising this will also not be as normal, we hope that everyone manages to find peace, rest and relaxation in some form and we cannot wait to welcome everyone back in September. Sending lots of hope for the future and thanks for everyone’s understanding and patience over the past months. It is our promise that we will take the good from this most difficult of times and use it as influence for positive change in the future.
Goodbyes
This time of year always brings with it sadness as people move onto pastures new and we are very sorry to be saying goodbye to all our wonderful Year 6s, Kit (Y2) and Mrs Cochrane...
Well the class of 2020 you are definitely going to be remembered! Not just because of the way in which the world changed as you finished your time at All Saints’, or the way you so successfully navigated your way through this time but because of all you have achieved and what shining All Saints’ superstars you have been throughout all your time with us. Year 6 you have entertained us with your sparkling personalities, dazzled us with your skills and impressed us so much with the wonderful young people you have all blossomed into. Go on to great things and remember to come back and tell us all about them.
Goodbye and good luck to Kit as he leaves us to join his new school near his new house. We are really going to miss such a delightful young boy. We hope the All Saints’ Way stays with you always and you remember your years with us fondly as you embark on your exciting next chapter in life and please keep in touch!
Finally, over the last three years Mrs Cochrane has done so much not just for the children she has taught but also for everyone in School. We cannot thank Mrs Cochrane enough for all her support of the children in her care and the staff too. In particular we must mention her excellent leading of the teaching and learning in science across the whole school during her time with us, a legacy that will stay with our teachers and children for the future. Mrs Cochrane has been a tremendously hard working, caring and devoted member of the All Saints’ Team and she will be greatly missed, but of course we wish her all the very best for her next challenge as Transition Teacher at Marple Hall and we know we will still see her as part of the All Saints’ family at school events, which is wonderful.
Of course this year brings additional sadness as we cannot say goodbye within school in the usual All Saints’ Way. So we very much look forward to the time when we can come together as School family and celebrate all our 2020 leavers properly. We will of course communicate this to everyone as soon as we can.
Farewell and Hello Sessions and Reading Books!
We are excited beyond words to be able to see so many of our children and families after what have been 4 long months at the after school sessions this week!
Just a reminder that it would be really helpful for our return in September if you could please bring any library/ book band books along with you to the face to face sessions and place them in the box outside of school, many thanks in advance.
Home Learning
We all want to say thank you to all the children, families and staff for all the hard work towards home learning over the past months. We hope we won’t need this again but as a backup we will be working further on our Remote Learning provision over the holidays. Back to now and there are just a few things below for you to take or leave depending on your wishes and thoughts…
Mrs Noble has kindly added at the top of the Home Learning page a Year group Recommended Reading List so for all those book lovers or for those who would like their children to discover a love of reading then we are sure there will be something for everyone.
TT Rockstars the results are in… well done to everyone who took part in the Times Tables battle, especially Year One who have only just joined!
This weeks home learning is a few ideas for the holidays – to take or leave as you wish. But we hope you might find something useful, new, exciting to have a go at over the the next 6 weeks and of course we would as always love to hear about it on our return! Also attached is the next edition of the Families Manchester Magazine, which we hope you find a useful read too.
Please for the final time, continue to follow the link to access a huge amount of resources (please note due to different School holidays only the White Rose and BBC Bitesize resources have been updated for this week) https://allsaintsprimarymarple.co.uk/stockport/primary/allsaints-pri/site/pages/parents/coronavirus/homeschoollearning) in addition to your weekly worksheets provided to all year groups via Tapestry/ DB Primary.
Collective Worship
Stockport LA Summer Holiday provision and childminders
Approximately 70% of the usual offer have now confirmed their offer for the summer. Please visit www.stockport.gov.uk/childcare where there are links for childminders and holiday schemes.
Ethnic Diversity Services
Please see attached the usual resources and activity ideas, produced by Ethnic Diversity Services. The final weeks activities are based on Indonesia!
Relationship Round UP
It is important to try and proactively make time to boost our positivity, as this helps to increase our resilience, our immunity and helps us to think more clearly.
However, as we move through our fifth month of learning to live with Covid, it can be hard to stay upbeat about remaining positive. Yet staying positive is a core ingredient in the recipe of successfully coping in a crisis. So, this week we focus on ways to be proactive about keeping positive.
We truly wish everyone a peaceful and safe Summer Holiday and simply cannot wait to welcome all our school family back again in September, Mrs Morton and Mrs Gaynor.
Newsletter 13.07.2020
We can’t believe we are writing the penultimate newsletter of this academic year! However, even though nothing is normal at the moment in true All Saints’ style we still have a busy two weeks ahead.
We are thrilled to also be able to share our amazing community produced ‘Looking to the Rainbow’ lockdown song. We cannot thank Mrs Manning and Mr Phil Alston enough for all their incredible hard work and huge amounts of time spent producing this simply amazing and heart-warming song. Please keep reading below to find out how to view it and how it is included in this week’s Collective Worship by Mrs Holton!
Mural
It is so lovely to bring some sunshine back into the KS1 playground with the return of the Mural. It has been greatly missed and makes such a difference being back. Huge thanks to artist Tracy McGuinness Kelly and the parents Association for working together to revive this amazing piece of artwork for our children and community.
September 2020
Please see the separate PING today for a more detailed letter explaining the wider re-opening plan for September 2020, as well as a letter for your children. As always if you have any questions or queries please don’t hesitate to contact School.
Zoom/ Farewell and Hello Sessions and Reading Books!
We have been so pleased to run successful Zoom meetings last week and look forward to even more this week. We also, cannot wait to see your children at next weeks after school sessions. It would be really helpful for our return in September if you could please bring any library/ book band books along with you to the face to face sessions and place them in the box outside of school, many thanks in advance.
Time to Celebrate!
As part of the All Saints’ Church, Tearfund Challenge Lily and Ava in year 3 and 4 managed to raise a very impressive £200 and they also managed £20 from donations from passers-by doing the stay at home Carnival. Lily raised money via a fantastic trolley push and Ava's was by rollerblading up Mount Wycheproof. It has been so heart-warming to be able to share examples of our fabulous children being so thoughtful and kind for others. Huge well done girls!
Home Learning
There was definitely some very continental learning taking place last week in French week, well done to everyone!
This week’s home learning task we are going back to basics with some great ideas to keep those basic skills sharp and ready for September! Huge thanks to Mrs Noble for the attached 30 Day Reading and Writing Challenges and Mr McShane for the 30 Day Maths Challenge and Maths Year group Challenge Booklets, which have been shared via your child’s class blog/ Tapestry. In addition, there also be a TT Rockstars battle starting today for one week. Year 1 v Year 2, Year 3 v Year 4 and Year 5 v Year 6. Please see the Maths Home Learning sheet for all details and let the battle commence!!!!
Please also continue to follow the link to access a huge amount of resources https://allsaintsprimarymarple.co.uk/stockport/primary/allsaints-pri/site/pages/parents/coronavirus/homeschoollearning) in addition to your weekly worksheets provided to all year groups via Tapestry/ DB Primary.
Maths Resources
If anyone did want any maths workbooks for the summer in addition to the ones recently ordered then please use the following link to see some recommended, high quality resources. (https://resources.whiterosemaths.com/product/power-maths-summer-home-edition-school-order/. They are priced at £9.24 to be delivered straight to your house.
Collective Worship and School Looking to the Rainbow Lockdown Song!!
This week’s Collective Worship theme is Resilience. With the very special feature at the end of our school’s version of the amazing Rainbow Song. Both videos are attached to the weekly PING for everyone to view too. Remember, if you would like to send in prayers/ requests for prayers via Tapestry/ DB we can include them in the final weeks Collective Worship video.
Food Bank Opportunity
Families who are in need of help with food can contact their local foodbank directly to request support. This can be done by phoning the Foodbank Referral Helplines for the nearest foodbank. Please see the attached flier for more details.
Financial Inclusion Service Guide
Understandably many people will be in changing and difficult financial circumstances at the moment. As such, please see the flier attached for information including advice and helplines on managing debt, household payments, council tax and rent.
Stockport Music Service
Have just begun broadcasting a series of live Music Making sessions via our Stockport Music Service Facebook page. The sessions would be most suitable for KS2 children who play a musical instrument, but all are welcome.
You are invited to join in!
What? Stockport Music Service's live Music Making sessions!
When? Fridays, 2.30-3pm.
Where? Live on our Stockport Music Service Facebook page.
The first session was on Friday 3rd July, but is still available to watch. (All videos should be available to watch later on our Facebook page if you can't make it live)
Who? All ages welcome (including parents!). Most suitable for children up to around Grade 3 on any instrument, but playing an instrument is not compulsory.
What to do on the day
Bring your instrument, a piece of paper and a pencil in case you need to write any notes down to use in the session.
If you don't play an instrument, find a sound-maker around the house e.g. plastic bowl and wooden spoon; rice or pasta in a plastic bottle.
If you are below the age of 13, you must access Facebook using a parent/carer's account with their permission and supervision.
Log in a few minutes early to check out any information you need to know before the session starts.
We look forward to seeing you!
Ethnic Diversity Services
Please see attached the usual resources and activity ideas, produced by Ethnic Diversity Services. This week activities are based on Poland!
Relationship Round UP
As each day passes, we learn and begin to settle more into our new way of being. However, having been in some form of lockdown for over 12 weeks, many of us are feeling the effects of living through a time of such significant change and disruption. So, this week we are commending REST and SLEEP.
Sleep and rest are critical and we should never underestimate the importance of sleep on our health and wellbeing, so take a read of this week’s edition of the Relational Round Up for ideas around ways to improve our rest and sleep.
Wishing everyone a great week and looking forward to seeing more children on Zooms this week and in person next week, Mrs Morton and Mrs Gaynor.
September 2020
We are delighted following last week’s announcement to be able to now say we can warmly welcome all our children back into School from September. As you can imagine there is a lot of work to be done in terms of updating Risk Assessments and auctioning the guidance in order to ensure we continue to have a safe environment in school for everyone. As such we thank you for your patience on this matter and will share finalised plans as soon they have been completed and approved by the Local Authority and Governors. Please follow the link for a reminder of next year’s term dates http://www.allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk/stockport/primary/allsaints-pri/site/pages/school/termdates
Marple Child Care
Are very much hoping that they will be able to offer before and after school club again from September. They are also currently working through the latest guidance and will be communicating with families as soon as possible.
Farewell and Hello Sessions
We are very excited to be able to welcome all our wonderful children into school to say farewell to their current class team and hello to their new team! Please see the separate PING for more detailed communication.
Tear Fund Challenge
It is a real pleasure to share that everyone’s kind and generous donation contributed to the amazing £10,000 raised for Tear Fund Charity. Also, huge congratulation to Daniel Currie and his team in what can only be described as an EPIC achievement.
Blue Peter Badges
Two of our very own children have managed to be rewarded with, hard to come by, Blue Peter badges for special music work they completed last week. This is absolutely fantastic!! What an outstanding achievement! Please see the attached Blue Peter 6 Badge Summer Campaign too. I wonder how many more children will receive Blue Peter badges?
Lockdown Long Term Project!
Thank you so much to all those who entered the summer term homework competition. You had all worked incredibly hard and what a lot of science learning we saw. The designs were so impressive. Prizes are being awarded to Robyn and Hugh Gerrard for their family catapult and fabulous accompanying video. To Reuben in year two for his fabulously engineered marble run, he had even made adjustments so the marble had enough speed to complete the loop at the bottom. And last but by no means least Dougie in year six for his incredible DT skills in what was, quite honestly, a terrifying catapult that we certainly wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of! A massive All Saints' well done to all these children and a huge thank you to you, their families, for your help and support with these ambitious projects. Amazing scientific and engineering skills. Take a look at the video attached to this weeks PING to see the future scientists and engineers too! Prizes will be winging their way to you soon!
Home Learning
We are thrilled with all the children and families who have returned their Transition learning from last week’s project, anyone still needing too please email your child’s current class teacher on their DB account as explained on the sheets.
This week’s home learning task we are taking a trip to France! With some French activities to try as a family! Huge thanks so much to Mrs Cochrane for all your hard work in producing this!
Please also continue to follow the link to access a huge amount of resources https://allsaintsprimarymarple.co.uk/stockport/primary/allsaints-pri/site/pages/parents/coronavirus/homeschoollearning) in addition to your weekly worksheets provided to all year groups via Tapestry/ DB Primary.
Collective Worship
This week’s Collective Worship theme is Kindness. Huge thanks again to Sarah Holton our Kids Church Worker from All Saints’ Church for so kindly producing a virtual Collective Worship for our School Family. Again Sarah will share a bible story, lead a song and invite the children to send in prayers/ requests for prayers via Tapestry/ DB to include the following week. It would be wonderful to see as many children and families at home taking part. Please view the video via the Newsletter PING.
SEND Improvement Journey newsletter - June edition
Please follow the link below to view the Local Authority Newsletter.
https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/UKSMBC/bulletins/2925873
Stockport SENDIASS
(Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information Advice and Support Service) offers free support to parents and carers of Stockport children and young people with any special educational needs and disabilities, from 0-25 years of age. We also provide independent advice and support directly to young people aged 16 to 25 years with SEND. Our experienced team of local advisors offer impartial, confidential advice and support on all matters relating to SEND. The service is led by the needs of you and your child. The type and range of support offered includes: Information regarding the local offer, local policy and SEN/ disability law from independently trained staff.
Service availability: Monday – Friday, 9am- 5pm.
Contact: Phone: 0161 240 6168
E-mail: stockport@kids.org.uk
https://www.kids.org.uk/stockport-sendiass
Respect for All
This is a counselling service for those who have learning disabilities, autism and their family members or carers. Please see the attached fliers for further information.
Ethnic Diversity Services
Please also see attached the usual resources and activity ideas, produced by Ethnic Diversity Services. This week you don’t have to travel far as the activities produced by the Stockport Ethnic Diversity Services are based on the UK!
Relationship Round UP
Our experiences of lockdown have illustrated just how important being in contact with our friends and family is to our emotional well-being. With the easing in lockdown restrictions allowing us to explore some reconnecting, this week’s edition of the Relational Round Up spends time explicitly thinking about what makes a good relationship and what helps us to keep our relationships healthy.
Wishing everyone a great week and looking forward to the classes being together again as some of the Zoom’s start this week, Mrs Morton and Mrs Gaynor.
Online Meet the New Teacher Meetings
We are delighted to finally have the go ahead to be able to use Zoom to host an opportunity for your children and yourselves to meet their new teaching team and also have some social time with their classmates. As our staff are teaching in the day the meetings will all take place at 4pm, please see the timetable below for when your child’s new year group meeting will take place. There is also a separate PING letter that will come out with all the relevant detail about how to access the meeting and consent to the protocol.
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New Year Group |
Date |
Time |
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Year One |
Wednesday 8th July |
4pm |
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Year Two |
Thursday 16thJuly |
4pm |
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Year Three |
Friday 10thJuly |
4pm |
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Year Four |
Monday 13th July |
4pm |
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Year Five |
Tuesday 14th July |
4pm |
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Year Six |
Wednesday 15th July |
4pm |
Home Learning
Looking to the Rainbow Project
We are absolutely delighted by everyone’s amazing contributions to last week’s Music challenge and we can’t wait to see the finished result. If you haven’t completed the video recording yet – just a reminder to please start filming from the beginning of the intro rather than just from when the signing starts. If anyone is having problems emailing the file due to size there is a very easy to use app that will compress the file called Video Compressor. This is free to download and very simple to use.
The final video will be placed online. It will be on our school website, All Saints’ Church will share it with their congregation and it may end up being shared by the creators who would like to do a mash up of a few schools.
If you do not wish your child to appear online please don’t send the video in but just keep it as a memento of the hard work that has taken place and please reiterate to your child how proud of themselves they should be for being brave enough to film themselves.
Thank you so much to Mrs Manning and Mr Alston for all their hard work bringing this project together.
This week’s home learning task is all based around Transition. Which is always of up most importance but even more so this year with all the current uncertainty. Huge thanks so much to Miss Taylor, Miss McConnell and Mr McShane for all their hard work producing the documents and we hope you particularly enjoy the All Saints’ Staff Quiz too!!!
Please also continue to follow the link to access a huge amount of resources https://allsaintsprimarymarple.co.uk/stockport/primary/allsaints-pri/site/pages/parents/coronavirus/homeschoollearning) in addition to your weekly worksheets provided to all year groups via Tapestry/ DB Primary.
500 Word Challenge!
The brilliant writing competition is back again and we would love to have as much success as previous years. Please follow the link for all the details and of course keep your class teachers updated with how you’re getting on!
Collective Worship
Starting from this week for the final 4 weeks, Sarah Holton our Kids Church Worker from All Saints’ Church will kindly be recording to share in school and at home a Video Collective Worship, please open your Newsletter PING to view the video from home. She will share a bible story, lead a song and invite the children to send in prayers/ requests for prayers via Tapestry/ DB to include the following week. It would be wonderful to see as many children and families at home taking part. The weekly themes are listed below:-
29th June – Courage
6th July – Kindness
13th July – Resilience
20th July – Hope (linked to transition)
Let’s get Reading!
This year, Silly Squad, the Summer Reading Challenge 2020, will celebrate funny books, happiness and laughter. Children taking part in the challenge will join the Silly Squad, an adventurous team of animals who love to have a laugh and get stuck in to all different kinds of funny books!
The 2020 challenge will feature bespoke artwork from award-winning children’s author and illustrator Laura Ellen Anderson (Amelia Fang; Evil Emperor Penguin; I Don’t Want Curly Hair).
The digital challenge will be FREE to access, featuring games, quizzes and digital and downloadable activities to incentivise and encourage children and their families to take part in reading related activities at home. www.sillysquad.org.uk/
The Reading Agency have provided lots of information for parents about signing up for the challenge and this can be accessed from the Summer Reading Challenge website.
https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/parents-carers
How the Challenge works:
? Children can sign up to the easy-to-use website from the 5th June onwards and create their own pro?le at http://sillysquad.org.uk/
? Usually we ask children to read 6 books, but this year they can set their own challenge to read any amount of books, with children being encouraged to read anything that makes them happy – whether it be comics, joke books, poetry, ?ction or non-?ction; in digital or print format. Stockport Libraries have provided a FREE range of e-books and e-audiobooks that will be available via https://www.stockport.gov.uk/ebooks-and-audiobooks
from 5th June. There are many copies of these titles so children will not have to wait to borrow any!
The Reading Agency have also provided a book sorter to help you chose a book to read! https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/book-sorter
? Every time children ?nish a book, they add it to their pro?le and write a review. They are rewarded with activities and incentives along the way, such as online badges, games and videos.
? Children receive a downloadable certi?cate once they’ve completed their challenge!
Plesse note we will not be running the inter school cup challenge this year in Stockport libraries.
If any parents or your children are not members of the library they can join online, receive a temporary number via email and start borrowing straight away.
To join the library please visit https://www.stockport.gov.uk/join-your-local-library
It's FUN! It's FREE! It's LOCAL! So ENJOY!
Reading Books
This week is the chance for Year four, five and those Year six not In school, so please look out for the PING with further information later today.
Ethnic Diversity Services
Please also see attached the usual resources and activity ideas, produced by Ethnic Diversity Services. This week they are based on Thailand produced by the Stockport Ethnic Diversity Services.
Relationship Round UP
Please see the attached this week’s leaflet, it builds on and the theme of listening further from last weeks edition.
Reminders…
Last Day for Learning Activity Booklets
Headstart Primary have produced some lovely, simple activity booklets which we know would be of great benefit to our children. They are also currently available at a bargain price of £1.38 each. This price is only valid until the end of June so if you wish to place an order for your child, please do so by Monday 29th June.
You will today, receive a ping with an order form attached.
To see a sample of the workbooks please go to: https://headstart-primary-ltd.myshopify.com/
We would recommend that you purchase the year group most appropriate for your child’s level. Most will purchase workbooks for your child's current year, but if you feel they would like to be stretched and prepare for their next year group or that they may struggle, you have the option of choosing the year group you feel is best suited to your child.
Once you have ordered the booklet(s) please go to www.parentpay.com, amend the figure to the total cost for your order and make your payment. We will inform you when the booklets have arrived in school, many thanks.
We could win £5,000 of National Book Tokens for our school library, ready to spend when school reopen – and if your entry is picked, you'll also get £100 of National Book Tokens to spend on yourself! The more nominations we receive, the higher their chances of winning – so please spread the word and get voting got All Saints’ via the link below.
https://www.nationalbooktokens.com/schools#.facebook
Have a lovely week everyone, Mrs Morton and Mrs Gaynor
Newsletter 22.06.2020
From the Chair of Governors:
I am delighted to be able to begin this week’s Newsletter with the news that Mrs Morton is expecting her second child and will be starting her maternity leave sometime during the Autumn Term. When she was expecting her first child just over three years ago, we had a farewell send-off for her on the Friday and then Oliver arrived on the Sunday morning - so I’ve told her not to cut it so fine this time ! I know you will all join with me in sending congratulations to Helen and her husband, Will, as they look forward to the arrival of a new brother or sister for Oliver.
I am also delighted to be able to tell you that during Mrs Morton’s maternity leave, Mrs Gaynor has agreed to be our headteacher on a full-time basis. When she applied for the co-headteacher role in 2018, one of the attractions for her was the part-time nature of the post, so I'm immensely grateful that she is willing to sacrifice her time at home during Mrs Morton’s maternity leave in order to work for us on a full-time basis. Her calm presence will ensure stability for our school as we continue to work our way through the challenges presented by COVID-19.
On behalf of all the governors at All Saints’, may I also take this opportunity to thank you for your wonderful support of the school over the last few months. In recent weeks, we've not been able to welcome back as many children as we hoped, and that will have been a great disappointment to some of you, but - as I’m sure you appreciate - all of our decisions have been made with the safety of your children as our main priority. If we are able to make any changes to our current provision before the end of term, we will of course write and let you know.
With best wishes
Alan Bailey
Now back to this week’s newsletter with some amazing achievements from some of our children and other exciting news!
So much to Celebrate….
Welcome to the All Saints’ Family
We are delighted to announce that after a very rigorous recruitment process Mr Sam Lonsdale was successfully appointed as the new Year 5 Class Teacher. Mr Lonsdale has experience of working in other local schools as well as abroad and we are sure you will all make him feel very welcome. Mr Lonsdale is very much looking forward to meeting his wonderful new class via an online ‘meet your new team’ meeting in the next few weeks. So a very warm welcome and hope you love being a member of the All Saints’ Team as much as we all do!
Young Writers
We are thrilled to announce that three of our very own All Saints’ writers are finalists in the Marple Young Writer’s Competition and will become published authors! Huge congratulations to Amelie in Year 1 for the 5 to 7 category, Lily in Year 4 for the 8 to 10 category and Harrison in Year 6 for the 11 to 14 category!
NHS Fund Raising
We were also delighted to hear all about the fantastic and kind initiative by Amelia in Year 5 to raise money for the NHS.
Well done also to Elliott in year 3 for all your help with your sisters project too!
As Amelia wanted to raise money for the NHS she set up a stall outside her house. She started by making clay animals to sell for a donation and as they proved quite popular, so she has now extended her offer to a home-printed newspaper. The newspapers (which include a comic strip and word puzzles) have also been selling well. Amelia makes more clay models (mostly chickens) when she needs them and is currently working on the second edition of the 'Nield News'. So far she has raised around £50 and the total is still rising.
Home Learning
This week our whole school theme is all things Musical! We would absolutely love everyone to get involved in signing this beautiful ‘Looking to the rainbow’ song as we hope to really create something very special from it. Thank you so much to Mrs Manning for all your time creating and planning this project.
Please also continue to follow the link to access a huge amount of resources https://allsaintsprimarymarple.co.uk/stockport/primary/allsaints-pri/site/pages/parents/coronavirus/homeschoollearning) in addition to your weekly worksheets provided to all year groups via Tapestry/ DB Primary.
Please could children post in any Sporting Achievements to their teachers by the end of the week? SHAPES Stockport are still distributing medals and trophies as they would have done at the end of year Sports Evening so it would be amazing to still get the medals and trophies and recognition for our fantastic sports men and women as we have in previous years!!
Learning Activity Booklets
Headstart Primary have produced some lovely, simple activity booklets which we know would be of great benefit to our children. They are also currently available at a bargain price of £1.38 each. This price is only valid until the end of June so if you wish to place an order for your child, please do so by Monday 29th June.
You will today, receive a ping with an order form attached.
To see a sample of the workbooks please go to: https://headstart-primary-ltd.myshopify.com/
We would recommend that you purchase the year group most appropriate for your child’s level. Most will purchase workbooks for your child's current year, but if you feel they would like to be stretched and prepare for their next year group or that they may struggle, you have the option of choosing the year group you feel is best suited to your child.
Once you have ordered the booklet(s) please go to www.parentpay.com, amend the figure to the total cost for your order and make your payment. We will inform you when the booklets have arrived in school, many thanks.
Reading Books
Last week saw us successfully see the families that wished to swap their reading books in Reception and Year One. This week we would like to extend this to Year Two and Year Three, so please look out for the PING with further information later today. Further classes to follow next week…
Kooth - Emotional Wellbeing
Kooth is an online Mental Health platform.
Kooth is a FREE, anonymous, confidential, safe, online Wellbeing service, offering counselling, information, and forums for children and young people.
Access is available 365 days a year to counsellors who are available from:
12 noon-10pm Monday- Friday, and 6pm-10pm Saturday and Sunday
Log on through mobile, laptop and tablet.
Please see the attached flyers for more information or visit their website. www.kooth.com
Ethnic Diversity Services
Following the murder of George Floyd, the Ethnic Diversity Team have produced a poster and a guide for parents and carers which describes some ideas on how to talk to their children about the organisation, Black Lives Matter. Please see the Race and Racism Poster and Parents Guide attached.
Please also see attached the usual resources and activity ideas, produced by Ethnic Diversity Services. This week they are based on Australia produced by the Stockport Ethnic Diversity Services.
Relationship Round UP
Please see the attached this weeks addition, which explores the benefits of remaining open minded and curious in helping to keep our relationship with ourselves and others healthy.
Reminder
We could win £5,000 of National Book Tokens for our school library, ready to spend when school reopen – and if your entry is picked, you'll also get £100 of National Book Tokens to spend on yourself! The more nominations we receive, the higher their chances of winning – so please spread the word and get voting got All Saints’ via the link below.
https://www.nationalbooktokens.com/schools#.facebook
Have a lovely week everyone, Mrs Morton and Mrs Gaynor
Welcome to this weeks newsletter, it is good to see the sunshine back again!
Wider re-opening update
Last week saw us successfully open for our Year 6 children and it was wonderful to see them back in School and being so sensible and mature about all the changes and most importantly seeing their smiling faces and hearing their laughter, was just so lovely. A huge thank you all the staff who worked tirelessly to ensure everything was in place and also the families for abiding by all the new rules and regulations around school. We would also like to give a special mention to Mr Chaloner who has worked tirelessly getting the school ready for wider re-opening including increased cleaning rotas and organising signage in and around school.
After this positive start, it is a shame to be sharing the sad news that we will no longer be also able to welcome back our Year One children, as we had originally hoped. This is no one’s fault but a result of many more families recently needing to access the Key Worker/ Vulnerable children places and as such, us having to add 2 more bubbles for these children. This means we have no more staff or spaces to accommodate any other year groups at this time, until guidelines change and we can update our Risk Assessment because of this.
We totally understand also that the announcement last Tuesday that schools could no longer look to welcome all Primary age children back before the summer holidays was also not the news many wanted to hear. We will obviously keep you aware of any updates and also plans regarding September as soon as guidance has been released.
Transition
As a result of last week’s announcement we are finalising plans surrounding transition arrangements for September this will commence of Friday 19th June when the ‘Meet your new team’ pen portraits will be shared. We are also trying to work with the Local Authority and finalise a safe way for us to be able to have some ‘virtual face to face screen time’ as part of transition for children with their new Teacher. We will update you on our plans as soon as possible and again thank you for your patience and understanding regarding this as we try to quickly and safely create new ways of working in this time.
Home Learning
We really enjoyed seeing the results of all the home learning linked to last week’s Geography Tasks, so a huge thank you for everyone’s hard work! This week sees a PSHCE theme and a project that will hopefully inspire you all to help brighten up All Saints’ for when we all come together again! A big thank you to Mrs Day for producing this and also the top 5 PSHCE websites that are so crucial in terms of supporting our children’s emotional wellbeing at this tricky time.
Please continue to follow the link to access a huge amount of resources https://allsaintsprimarymarple.co.uk/stockport/primary/allsaints-pri/site/pages/parents/coronavirus/homeschoollearning) in addition to your weekly worksheets provided to all year groups via Tapestry/ DB Primary.
Reading Books
We are really pleased to be able to say that we are now in a position to change reading books for children who are at home. So please look out for more information over the next few weeks as we work though the year groups to ensure we do this safely.
Stars Dance Academy
We are so excited to be able to support Sally Tommony/ Berry who runs our very successful morning dance classes with her offer to get everyone dancing at home! Please look out for the future PING with all the information you will need about these virtual class dance sessions starting THIS WEEK. School has funded the initial session so it is a free session for classes to sign up to and see their friends whilst having a dance!
Total Produce – Infant Fruit Deliveries
This is just to inform infant children that are coming in to school that the fruit deliveries will not be able to commence before September and as such please continue to ensure your child brings in their own healthy snacks from home.
Tearfund Challenge
We are delighted to let you all know about an amazing challenge taking place next week for Tearfund - a charity that raises money for people living in poverty. Daniel the wonderful Vicar of All Saints' Church, Tearfund challenge is riding up Church Lane from the little mini roundabout up to the Ridge Methodist (exactly a mile) 111 times over a week. This is equivalent of cycling up Kilimanjaro three times! So if you see three cyclists on Monday and Tuesday on church lane it will probably be them! Please do take a minute to see how you can support this incredibly worthwhile cause or even take on your own challenge by looking at the poster attached.
Support Line
A new telephone support and helpline service to aid autistic people, people with learning disabilities, and their family members and carers has been launched. Please see the attached flyer for further information.
Think u know - Home activity packs for parents
The resources have been created by Think U Know (CEOP) to support parents during COVID-19. Each fortnight, they will be releasing new home activity packs with simple 15 minute activities for parents to do with their child to support their online safety at a time when they will be spending more time online at home. Please click on the link below to access the resources
https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/Support-tools/home-activity-worksheets/
Ethnic Diversity Services
Please see attached some lovely resources and activity ideas, this week based on Egypt produced by the Stockport Ethnic Diversity Services.
Relationship Round UP
Please see the attached, which including information on how to increase your happiness.
Reminder
We could win £5,000 of National Book Tokens for our school library, ready to spend when school reopen – and if your entry is picked, you'll also get £100 of National Book Tokens to spend on yourself! The more nominations we receive, the higher their chances of winning – so please spread the word and get voting got All Saints’ via the link below.
https://www.nationalbooktokens.com/schools#.facebook
We hope everyone manages to have a lovely week, Mrs Morton and Mrs Gaynor
Newsletter 08.06.2020
Welcome to the start of Summer Term 2. Again, we start this half term in very unusual times but we are starting to welcome more children back to All Saints’ and we are delighted about this.
We hope that everyone managed some time to enjoy the lovely weather we had during the holidays. The children in school over the last two weeks most certainly did! A huge thank you of course to all our wonderful staff who so willingly gave up their holidays again and time with their families to support the national fight against Covid-19.
R Rating
I am sure you are all aware of the R Rating rising above 1 in the North West and some neighbouring Local Authorities postponing schools wider re-opening until the 22nd June. At present Stockport are not planning on delaying current plans and we will of course keep you updated if there are any changes to this.
Wider Re-opening
As we slowly return to school life with more children in each day, many things will look and feel very different around school, including lots of signs and fewer desks in the classroom. But we want to reassure you that All Saints’ will still very much be filled with The All Saints’ Way and we will of course continue to extend this to all our children and families who are not yet back in school too by our regular phone calls and home learning links.
We hope that you found the letters and PINGs sent out in the holidays useful and again we apologise for sending out communication in the holiday, but as with lots of things at present many things are time sensitive. Each child who will be in school next week has hopefully received a PING with all the key information about returning. The Year One ‘Bubbles;’ will receive this information later this week ready for next week. Each class should also now know when they will be able to expect responses to their online learning posts. If you have not received these PINGs then please let us know ASAP.
Letter from Public Health in Stockport.
Please find this attached the letter outlines where Stockport is up to in terms of the 5 tests outlined by the Government that needed to be in place before schools could re-open.
Home Learning
Thank you so much for all the lovely feedback and sharing of home learning tasks over the last half term. We hope you really enjoy this week’s Geography task and look forward to seeing what you get up to! Thank you to Miss Day for producing these documents and a reminder of the upcoming deadline for the ‘Long Term Homework Project’, so please do send in your entries to your class teachers!
As mentioned in the Home Learning Update Ping also sent tout today please do continue to use all the other daily lesson plans and wealth of ideas on our website. (https://allsaintsprimarymarple.co.uk/stockport/primary/allsaints-pri/site/pages/parents/coronavirus/homeschoollearning)
A message of thanks from Mrs Eva
Mrs Eva would like us to express her heartfelt thanks for all the lovely messages, well wishes and beautiful Goodbye PowerPoint by her wonderful Class Three. She was incredibly touched and cannot wait to return for her chance to properly say goodbye and thank you to everyone.
The Office
From Wednesday 10th June the school office will be open between 9am and 3pm each day. You can of course leave a message on the answer machine outside of these hours and also email admin@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk with any enquires. We are asking that unless dropping off new medication that nobody comes to the school office in person, we thank you in advance for your understanding in this matter.
Transition
We know many people are beginning to wonder about transition and how this will look this year. Please rest assured that we are busy making plans in case all children are or are not back in school before the summer holidays and will be in touch in due course to share these with everyone.
We could win £5,000 of National Book Tokens for our school library, ready to spend when school reopen – and if your entry is picked, you'll also get £100 of National Book Tokens to spend on yourself! The more nominations we receive, the higher their chances of winning – so please spread the word and get voting got All Saints’ via the link below.
https://www.nationalbooktokens.com/schools#.facebook
Please access the #OnlineSafetyAtHome pack with new activities for parents and carers to use at home: by clicking on the links below for the relevant age ranges for your family.
Manchester Families – Lockdown Edition 2
Please follow the link for the second edition of the really useful magazine. https://issuu.com/familiesonline/docs/familiesmanchesterlockdown2june2020?fr=sYjUyYjE0OTIxMDY
The North West SEND Regional Network Newsletter
Please see attached document.
People wearing masks
Please follow the link for a helpful article to support children seeing people wearing masks.
https://www.autismlittlelearners.com/2020/04/seeing-people-wearing-masks-story.html?m=1
Worship for Everyone Season 2 Episode 5
This episode is about Courage (The Story of Pentecost) and very pertinent for many at this challenging time stepping out again in the unknown.
https://www.facebook.com/worshipforeveryone/videos/242674163815658/
Ethnic Diversity Services
Please see attached some lovely resources and activity ideas, this week based on Spain produced by the Stockport Ethnic Diversity Services.
Relationship Round UP
Please see the attached, which includes lots of lovely activities and games.
We hope everyone has a good week and look forward to welcoming some of you back this week, Mrs Morton and Mrs Gaynor
Welcome to the final newsletter of this half term. Unfortunately, the term ends as it started in unusual times!
Phone Calls Home
It has been a great way to keep in touch with all our families, see how everyone is doing and offer any support we can. Over the next couple of weeks we thought it would be nice for children and families to speak to their child’s class teacher and as such they will be calling for a catch up, so please look out for their call, which may be from a withheld number.
Finally, as school will remain open in the holidays for key worker and vulnerable children in order for staff to try and have some rest they will not be setting any home learning for the two weeks over the Whit Holidays and it will resume again on the 8th June. There is a wealth of material out there, including on our own website, if needed.
Partial Re-opening of School
We are sure you will have all heard and read much media speculation about the possible re-opening of schools across the country. You may have also seen the letter published by the Council over the weekend. It states ‘As a local area we are clear that our leaders need time to think through these plans carefully in order that they can support pupil and staff safety. It is for this reason that we will begin to extend our provision in Stockport no earlier than June 8th. Primary schools will begin their work with two training days on June 8th and 9th, without any children, to allow the staff to meet together for the first time since the start of Covid-19 in March. This time will allow staff teams to be appropriately trained and prepared in how to manage the new ‘way of working’ safely. As you will appreciate this will then enable them to be better prepared to provide a safe environment for your children as they return.’
Please see the letter in full attached for those who have not read it.
We fully understand it is very hard for you as families to plan when it is still not clear what exactly the provision will look like in school and for who it will be for straight away. We are still awaiting the Government to indicate that all 5 tests for the safe reopening of schools have been met and are aware these are on sliding scale so can and will keep changing. We apologise for this but hope you can understand and appreciate how complex and important the decisions we are making in school are for your children and families and our staff and indeed their own families. We also fully understand for specific year groups and whether to send your child back to school or not is a very personal decision for each individual family and your circumstances. We will of course respect and support all choices that individuals will make.
As such, we thought it might be helpful to share some of the actions that have already taken place, but please do be aware we are working with regularly changing guidance so these may be subject to change and obviously in addition to these headlines there is a huge amount of detail, planning and preparation taking place.
At this stage we cannot completely say what school will look like for our wonderful children and of course we will share further detail as soon as we can, but at present the following is fairly clear:-
When able to we will producing ‘bubble’ videos for each group to show them who their adult(s) will be and what their new environment will look like.
Stockport Behaviour Support Services have produced a resource that some children and families may find helpful, to open up discussions with your children about possibly returning to school:- https://primarysite-prod-sorted.s3.amazonaws.com/oakgrove-behaviour-support-service/UploadedDocument/e136521d9d9049b58a3ffaaa1fb3ac4d/the-day-we-went-back-to-school-by-primary-jigsaw-pdf.pdf
In the true All Saints’ Way the children, families and staff remain our most valuable and precious asset, as such all decisions are being made with this at the heart of all we do. We will continue to update you as soon as we are able to. Thank you so much for your continued kind words and messages of support they mean a huge amount and when it is safe we simply all cannot wait to be all back together again.
Back to this week!
Home Learning
We hope everyone had a great time making their history project time capsules last week and also thanks to everyone who shared all their home learning from last week with us. Please keep sharing your latest work and achievements so we can celebrate with you.
This week our theme is Religious Education (what the children refer to as Discovery in school), so we hope you enjoy the activities project sheet that Mrs Eva has kindly produced and also find some interesting things to do on the Top 5 RE Websites sheet too.
In addition please follow the usual home learning link to find all the daily lessons plans from BBC Bitesize and Oak National Academy as well as a wealth of other resources. (https://allsaintsprimarymarple.co.uk/stockport/primary/allsaints-pri/site/pages/parents/coronavirus/homeschoollearning).
Please note that all staff will continue to upload some daily ‘optional’ English/ Maths worksheets via Tapestry KS1 OR DB Primary KS2 if you feel that these would be helpful to your child for their home learning. Please dip in and use whatever is manageable and useful for them (the aim of this is to make it even easier to find the right activities at the right level for your child).
Sign Posts to Other Resources and Services
A Message from Front Row Music
Dear parents,
Our school music provider Front Row Music is offering a discounted subscription service for online guitar, ukulele and keyboard lessons throughout lockdown.
Here is a sample of some lessons https://youtu.be/U_e4XNjVRnA
To find out more on how to access these lessons please visit www.frontrow-music.com
Many thanks!
Film Making Competition
Nature in your neighbourhood – Film making Competition by Into Film – Enter by 19th June and you could be in with a chance of winning some fantastic prizes
Children can celebrate their surroundings by creating a 3-5 minute live-action or animated short that documents something they’ve noticed or appreciated while spending more time in their local area. Whether it’s a local park or even a view from the window, they want to see it. Follow the link for more details
Ethnic Diversity Services
Please see attached some lovely resources and activity ideas, this week based on India produced by the Stockport Ethnic Diversity Services.
Relationship Round UP
Also this week we are featuring a new resource from the BSS Primary Jigsaw team who have created a bespoke story with activities for families to share at home called with the ‘The day we went back to school’.
Written by Wendy Smith and illustrated by Jessye Gardner, this story can help with starting to explore the various thoughts and feelings that returning to school after lockdown could bring. There are also some activities, to support the values and ideas within the story, for schools and/or families to share with their children and help begin to plan how to be best prepared for returning to school.
Local Authority SEND Newsletter
Please follow the link for the latest update:- https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/UKSMBC/bulletins/287685b
Please know we are here for anyone who has any questions, queries and once again thank you all for your support and understanding. Stay safe and take care, Mrs Morton and Mrs Gaynor.
Welcome to this week’s newsletter.
Sunday’s Announcement
I am sure like us you were all sat watching Boris Johnson at 7pm last night! Wondering what would be announced as the county tries to ease out of lockdown and of course hopefully on the path back to normality.
We like you are eager to get All Saints’ School back to normal for all our children as soon as it is safe to do so. However, the announcement last night although giving us some further guidance on how this may look and happen still leaves many, many questions. It also made it very clear that schools will not be operating how they were before lockdown for some time to come. Many of the questions raised by last night’s press conference are around the logistics of social distancing in school and the safety of the children and staff when in school and parents dropping off and collecting. Also, as the first part of the phased return when the Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 children start attending school again, what will the children need most on their return e.g. a huge focus on emotional support as well as learning. Please rest assured we have been reflecting on many of these things already and we will continue to work extremely hard in the All Saints’ Way. Following all the appropriate advice and guidance to put together a comprehensive plan, with the safety and wellbeing of all the members of our school community at the heart of all we will do. We will communicate this as soon as we are able to give a clear and accurate account of what this will look like. We continue to thank you for all your patience, understanding, support and words of kindness in this unprecedented and difficult time for all.
Mrs Eva
As many of you know Mrs Eva and her family have had a dream for a very long time of moving to the Lake District. Well although we are absolutely delighted that this dream has now become a reality. The news obviously comes with great sadness for school, as it means she will be moving on from All Saints’ to start her new life in the country.
Mrs Eva has been a huge part of the All Saints’ team since she started here 10 years ago. She has been a wonderful teacher to children across many year groups from Year 2 to Year 5 during her decade at All Saints’. Also as you all know leading RE and such celebrations as Church Week and Easter so enthusiastically and always with the children’s experiences and enjoyment at the heart of all she does. But, who could think of Mrs Eva without thinking of Forest Schools - where her drive and determination to offer our children these amazing opportunities has created so many positives and life long memories for so many. A passion she has enthused so many others with and therefore a legacy we will endeavour to honour and continue as best we can.
Mrs Eva will be with us until the 29th of May and we are very grateful and delighted to announce that Mrs Day will return to full time Class 3 teacher after Mrs Eva leaves.
Of course this will not be the final goodbye to Mrs Eva because as soon as we are able to arrange it, she will be back to attend her very special and well deserved ‘proper’ All Saints’ send off!
In the meantime we know she would very much appreciate any well wishes and goodbyes to be shared with her via her DB Primary email address feva.allsaints-pri.stockport@dbprimary.com.
A message from Miss Taylor and (her husband to be) Simon...
This weekend, we had a wonderful time celebrating our ‘non-wedding day’. We dressed up, enjoyed a delicious wedding breakfast in the sunshine and held an online virtual wedding for friends and family (complete with speeches, cutting the cake, a first dance and a few bubbles!)
The day was made extra special with a wonderful video of some familiar faces singing ‘All You Need is Love’ by The Beatles - One of our favourite songs! Thank you so much to all the staff, parents and children who helped make this happen.
We would also like to say a huge thank you to Mrs Hallas who put together an amazing video of Class 4 holding up lovely signs and messages and of course playing their brass instruments for us. We watched both videos over and over again - They really made our day!
Home Learning
Thank you to everyone who submitted their DT and ART project ideas. We really hope that there is a winning playground design in there (we definitely think there is) as what an amazing prize it would be for our wonderful children!
This week our theme is History, so please do take a look at the project sheet all about creating your own time capsule and also the Top 5 History Websites sheet too. Thank you very much to Mrs Manning for producing these documents and we can’t wait as usual to see what you create!
In addition please follow the usual home learning link to find all the daily lessons plans from BBC Bitesize and Oak National Academy as well as a wealth of other resources. (https://allsaintsprimarymarple.co.uk/stockport/primary/allsaints-pri/site/pages/parents/coronavirus/homeschoollearning).
Please note that all staff will upload some daily ‘optional’ English/ Maths worksheets via Tapestry KS1 OR DB Primary KS2 if you feel that these would be helpful to your child for their home learning. Please dip in and use whatever is manageable and useful for them (the aim of this is to make it even easier to find the right activities at the right level for your child).
Time to celebrate!
Many children particularly in Key Stage 1 are loving #drawwithrob and a special mention and well done to Eden in Year 2 for being recognised on his grid!
Free School Meals Applications
As we are aware many families financial circumstances are regularly changing at the moment therefore if this is the case, even if you have previously applied and been refused it is worth submitting a claim again, using the following link:- https://www.stockport.gov.uk/free-school-meals. Please be aware that one of the main issues Stockport experience with FSM applications going wrong, is where parents don’t use the child’s name as held in school and therefore struggle matching the correct pupil. This could be where a child is known by another name, e.g. Tobias becomes Toby. If you have any questions regarding FSM applications please contact benefitsfsm@stockport.gov.uk . For those who are eligible, currently a supermarket food voucher is sent to families weekly for an amount of £15 per child.
Sign Posts to Other Resources and Services
Please see the poster of useful information attached.
Church of England
Mrs Holton was very excited to share the following link:-
https://www.facebook.com/worshipforeveryone/videos/2973365576086988/.
This is Worship for Everyone about HOPE, in line with the C of E Faith at Home theme for last week. It will be very familiar for our children as they sing 'All through History', use Noah's Ark rainbow story and then they also teach a new rainbow song about lockdown life! Which we are hoping to build on so watch this space in future weeks.
Stockport NHS children's Speech and Language Therapy Service
Have a new Facebook page designed for families - Let's Communicate. Please visit, like and share the page for information, advice and ideas on how to support the development of Speech, Language and Communication skills both at home and in school. https://www.facebook.com/LetsCommunicateSALT
Special Educational Needs Blog
Packed full of useful resources and information.
Ethnic Diversity Services
Please see attached some lovely resources and activity ideas, this week based on East Africa produced by the Stockport Ethnic Diversity Services.
Also, the Ramadan Kindness Challenge attached, these are daily, good deeds which are appropriate for all our children.
As we are all aware of the impact on mental health and well-being living with Covid-19 is having on our children, staff, friends, family and colleagues. Action for Happiness produce a monthly calendar. This month Magnificent May includes simple ways to respond to the global crisis with a sense of purpose. The calendar has been translated in to 20 different languages https://www.actionforhappiness.org/meaningful-may
Stockport Schools Relationship Round Up
These weekly newsletters are here to offer a regular well-being top tip for families and share good stories from our schools across Stockport during our current new ways of living.
Behaviour Support Services – Forest Schools
The BSS Forest School team are providing ideas and inspiration to help everyone get outside and enjoy simple, fun, hands-on activities. They have produced a wealth of easy to access resources, including weekly 5 minute tutorials and one-page games and activity resources available on Twitter @BSSForestSchool and their website at https://www.behavioursupportservice.co.uk/bss-forest-school-resources/
Sleep Message from Stockport LA
Whilst we continue to deal with the demands of COVID-19, changes to how we work and social isolation it is even more important to remember the basics - and that includes getting good sleep.
Sleep is often one of the first things to suffer when we are stressed. Stress can upset the balance between sleep and wakefulness and create an inability to get to sleep, periodic waking or a shallow, fitful pattern of rest - all of which are extremely common. The NHS has guidance on 10 ways to beat insomnia?and?healthy sleep tips for children, as well as apps designed to help with sleep.
Sleep is very important as it allows the body to restore tissues, energy levels and recover from illnesses. It helps the mind to unwind, de-stress and restore mental harmony - so a lack of sleep will take its toll on us both mentally and physically. The sleepcouncil suggest a range of actions to help safeguard our sleep, including:
· Keeping a regular daily routine - don’t be tempted to hit the snooze button just because you don’t have to physically go into work.
· Before you start work, or during a mid-morning break, get some natural light – whether that’s a brisk walk or 10 minutes sat in the garden with a morning cuppa.
· Put boundaries in place - don’t be tempted to ‘be available’ at all times. Checking emails or working too close to bedtime could see you having trouble falling asleep or staying asleep.
· Avoid fuelling up on caffeine in the afternoon when you hit the post lunch dip.
· Create a regular bedtime routine to help you relax, wind down and prepare for bed.
Sleep problems tend to get worse the longer we leave them so it’s best to tackle a sleep problem as soon as possible. It’s not always possible to resolve sleep problems by yourself, so if you’re struggling to get to sleep or stay asleep and it’s affecting your daily life, particularly if you’ve had the problem for more than four weeks, then you should contact your GP.
As always any question, queries or worries you may have please do not hesitate to contact us on headteacher@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk and we will call you to discuss and see how we can help.
Take care, stay safe and in touch, Helen Morton and Hannah Gaynor
Welcome to the start of another unusual week in Lockdown. We hope everyone continues to be well and it continues to be lovely hearing and seeing online all the wonderful things that you have all been up to at home. Please do keep continuing to share.
THANK YOU!
Tears were definitely cried when the staff watched the beautiful ‘Children are missing you’ video message. It was so touching and we cannot put into words how much it meant to us all, it really has brightened our hearts and it will never be forgotten. A special thank you to Mrs Hallas for all your kindness organising and producing the video and all the children and families who took part. We simply cannot wait until we are all back together again as our one big All Saints’ Family and of course all singing the ‘Thank you baked potato’ song 
!
Time to celebrate!
This week we would like to celebrate the wonderful letter written to Greenpeace by Ollie in Year 6. Not only a wonderfully constructed letter but it also explained how amazingly Ollie, Sam and Emily managed to raise £100 by completing a sponsored run! Also, how as a family they try and do all they can to protect the planet and all that live on it. Great inspiration – a very well done.
Home Learning
Last weeks Science focus saw some fantastic results and we are very excited to see what the DT/ART focus week will create! Thanks to Mrs Mylrea for producing, the documents. We, also hope that the children love the DT competition and that fingers crossed your designs could even win new play equipment for our school!
In addition, thanks to Mrs Noble and Miss Day for producing a 5 top websites sheet for PE and also placing on the school webpage lots of amazing PE activities, including film clip and activity sheets for children that go alongside the activities. Please follow the usual home learning link to find all these wonderful resources. (https://allsaintsprimarymarple.co.uk/stockport/primary/allsaints-pri/site/pages/parents/coronavirus/homeschoollearning).
A huge thank you to Mrs Pratt for updating the Online Safety/ E-Safety page on the website with lots of usual information which is so important at this time of home learning. Please follow this link to access everything:- https://allsaintsprimarymarple.co.uk/stockport/primary/allsaints-pri/site/pages/parents/e-safety
Another nice activity for our time at home that also raises money for front line services is the 'Lockdown Memories Book' it can be purchased online at www.ldmbook.co.uk or by messaging Lockdown Memories Book on Facebook or LDMBOOK on Instagram for more info.
Manchester Families Magazine
For a wealth of information and ideas please see the magazine via the following link. https://issuu.com/familiesonline/docs/familiesmanchester?fr=sZTBlNDEyMzkxMzQ
Safeguarding
As part of our commitment to safeguarding, a Childline poster will be placed on DB Primary this week.
Marple Foodbank
We just wanted to remind families of Marple Foodbank. This is open weekly on Saturday mornings from 10.00am - 12.00pm in the CONNECT building on Queen’s Street in Marple.
Families do not need a referral. It is all done on trust and on a needs must basis, this support is there for all families and you are encouraged to access this if you need to. Please also see Stockport food banks map and information attached.
Messages from All Saints’ Church
Sign Posts to Other Resources and Services
Church of England’s Weekly Collective Worship
We hope many of you were able to view the launch of the Church of England’s weekly collective worship resources last Thursday, with the Archbishop of Canterbury leading the opening worship. The weekly collective worship resource is being made available to schools through the new Oak National Academy website, https://www.thenational.academy/.
Restorative Approaches
The Stockport team have produced another really useful Stockport Schools Relationship Round Up flyer with lots of ways to help families in this difficult time, including family discussion points. As an activity with the family, why not have a game of Things I Can Control Bingo or use the Gratitude Prompts, again we would love to hear how they go.
Ethnic Diversity Services
Please see attached some lovely resources and activity ideas, this week based on Japan produced by the Stockport Ethnic Diversity Services.
Emotional Health and Wellbeing Support
Please see attached the flier for services available to support Emotional Health and Wellbeing at this time. The attachment includes information about :Big White Wall, Open Door, Shout, Silver cloud, Kooth. 42nd Street and other services.
Parent guide to Covid -19
This attached guide offers helpful advice of what to do if your child is unwell during this time.
Children’s Therapy Services and Sensory Support Services
Children’s therapy services and sensory support services have produced visual resources including Sign / Picture / Symbols including British Sign Language and Makaton resources with the families of children with complex Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, and in particular, vision impairment. However, other children who do not have complex SEND, or whose parents would like to introduce sensory routines at home, may also find this useful. Please follow the link to our SEND page on the website to access the resources. https://allsaintsprimarymarple.co.uk/stockport/primary/allsaints-pri/site/pages/school/send
Again as with any question, query, worry you may have at present please do not hesitate to contact us on headteacher@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk and we will call you to discuss and see how we can help.
Take care, stay safe and in touch, Helen Morton and Hannah Gaynor
Welcome to the second addition of the summer term and it is wonderful in such difficult times to be able to start this week’s newsletter again with lots of good news!
Thank you
To everyone who has sent their thanks in to the amazing school staff who as Key Workers are so willingly coming in to support children every day. Thank you also to everyone for all your positive feedback to staff for all they are doing in relation to home learning and communication with everyone at home. It really does mean a great deal and we really appreciate it very much.
Amazing Home Learning
I know lots of people were celebrated last Friday in the class blogs but we have just picked out a few to share.
Jack in C1 created the most amazing invention after being hugely inspired by last week’s Inventors English Task. He invented, designed and even made ‘The Hugger 2020!’ This allows hugging following social distancing rules as you can give people hugs from a 2m distance. Heart melting!
Well done to Maximilian in C2 for being so inspired by a book ‘Ten Little Monsters’ that he drew a diorama and even 
sent some pictures to the illustrator Simon Rickerty who had a chat with Max and is sending him a signed copy as he was so impressed!
Also, well done to Isabelle in C6 who has been looking at the chameleon project and created an amazing peace of DT as a result. Great work and I am sure you will inspire many others too.
Mathletics
All Saints’ is now in top 5 (locally) on TT Rockstars, which is amazing. Demonstrating everyone’s continued hard work on those very important basic skills! Let’s see if we can get into the top 3 next!!!
New Sports Kits
Vernon Bear will be coming into school to present a class set of super new sports tops when we re-opens. This is great news for all our children who will be representing us once again in our sports teams. Thank you so much to Liz Smith (ex parent) from The Vernon Building Society for donating them and Mrs Noble for all your hard work organising this. We thank Vernon Bear for visiting our key worker children too last week at school from behind the school fencing!
Now onto the other news and again we apologise as this newsletter also includes a huge amount of important information …
Big questions!
When will Schools re-open?
Unfortunately, we have no further information at present that we are unsure, and are like you all awaiting the Government to announce when we will be able to re-open. As you know staff are keen to get everyone back in as we are all missing our school community so much. However, we will of course only act on the official advise of when it is safe to do so, we will keep everyone updated as and when we can including about the changes we will have to make in order to allow children to start returning.
What will happen to assessments?
As announced by the Government.
Primary assessments, including SATs, and exams including GCSEs, AS levels and A levels, will not go ahead this summer.
This includes:
The government will not publish any school or college level educational performance data based on tests, assessments or exams for 2020.
Transition?
Obviously, this is such unprecedented times; please know that we have a wealth of information regarding your child’s wellbeing, progress and attainment up until school closed and continue to build this picture by class teachers monitoring online activity on a daily basis. We will ensure we work tirelessly to allow for a smooth transition either back into their current year group or into their next year group as needed. The Local Authority is already working hard on plans in relation to transition to High School for our Year 6 children and we will again await further information as to when this will be/ how this will look and share as soon as possible.
Again as with any question, query, worry you may have at present please do not hesitate to contact us on headteacher@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk and we will call you to discuss and see how we can help.
Update to SEND information report in light of COVID-19.
Due to the recent Covid-19 situation, there has been some important changes in relation to SEND provision for children. Please click on the following link to view the document Miss Taylor has kindly produced to help everyone understand this important information.
Home Learning
After the huge success of last week’s home learning English Task, this week you will find our Science one attached, with lots of science activities to try as a family. Also attached is the Summer Long Term Project attached with great catapult and marble run challenges on. Thank you to Mrs Cochrane for producing both.
Alongside all the online learning links on the website (https://allsaintsprimarymarple.co.uk/stockport/primary/allsaints-pri/site/pages/parents/coronavirus/homeschoollearning) We would of course love to see what you have learnt/ produced either via Tapestry or DB so we can celebrate these and also share inspiration to others. Please see the attached Science sheet for this week and also follow the link for all the Home Learning Resources/ Ideas we have on offer (including a new website https://www.thenational.academy/online-classroom/schedule which is an online classroom/ school providing 180 free lessons a week from Reception to Y6. The Oak National Academy is endorsed by the Department for Education).
School Travel September 2020 for Year 6 children
Information for parents
Pupils aged 11 to 16, MUST have an Igo card to travel using any child ticket on buses in Greater Manchester. I understand that they must have an Igo card to make an application for the Yellow bus scheme
Applications for Igo passes, apply at:
https://tfgm.com/tickets-and-passes/igo-pass (available now)
Applications for the Yellow Bus Scheme, apply at:
https://tfgm.com/tickets-and-passes/bus-yellow-school-buses.( available 1st June 30th June)
Applications for free school travel (for eligible pupils), apply at:
https://www.stockport.gov.uk/travel-to-school (available week of the 6th May)
Failure to apply for places on the Yellow Bus Scheme may result in the resources not being allocated this year and may cause difficulties again with school attendance.
Other useful Resources/ Signposts!
Staying Safe at home and when to seek medical attention during lockdown
We hope you find these guides useful:-
https://www.rospa.com/Campaigns-Fundraising/Current/Coronavirus
Ethnic Diversity Services
Please see attached some lovely resources and activity ideas, this week based on China produced by the Stockport Ethnic Diversity Services.
Red Cross
Have created a lovely ‘Calendar of Kindness’ please follow the link to view and learn more.
https://www.redcross.org.uk/get-involved/teaching-resources/kindness-calendar
Restorative Approaches
The Relational Round Up has a number of top tips to help families’ wellbeing during lockdown, please see attached.
Creativity & Confidence at Home For Children - Celebrity Messages
Please see the links below for the “Creativity and Confidence At Home” series. In this new collection of messages – introduced by Cbeebies’ Rebecca Keatley, celebrities discuss their inspirations, give advice and set challenges to complete at home.
Perhaps you could complete Anton Du Beke’s dance challenge and send him 15 seconds of original choreography set to their favourite music? Or maybe they can get active around the house by taking part in Olympic champion, Amy Williams’ fitness challenge?
Children will also hear from a cohort of celebrated professionals including celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal on introducing taste and explorer Levison Wood on what inspired him to travel the World.
All this is topped off by celebrities including; international cricketer Ryan Sidebottom, Britain’s Got Talent Winner Jai McDowall and ITV’s The Dales Amanda Owen - all giving ideas and perspectives on how to use all this extra time at home: https://vimeo.com/409475949
Finally, in an extended video – visit Jay Blades of BBC’s The Repair Shop in his workshop as he gives a beginners guide to upcycling: https://vimeo.com/409499633
Just in case you missed it – here is a link to the first video of the series. It features messages from David Suchet; Twist and Pulse; Paul O'Grady; Sir Ben Ainslie; Dame Kelly Holmes; Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber: https://vimeo.com/403968451
Take care, stay safe and in touch, Helen Morton and Hannah Gaynor
Welcome to the first Newsletter of the Summer Term. We hope that despite everything everyone has managed to enjoy some of the sunshine and have some peace and rest over the holiday period.
It is lovely to be able to start the term off with some positive news!
Firstly, we are absolutely thrilled to be able to announce that after a very thorough and rigorous process Miss Jenny McConnell has been appointed as our permanent Reception Teacher at All Saints’ C of E Primary School. The process involved application forms, visiting numerous different candidates in their current settings and an interview. Throughout all aspects Miss McConnell was exemplary, not only in her academic knowledge but living out all the values that we hold so dear here at All Saints’. I am sure you will join us in saying a huge welcome and well done to Miss McConnell. In addition, we would just like to say a special thankyou to our Governors Mrs Woodgate and Mrs Beardwood, for the many hours they spent supporting and advising during the process.
Secondly, Class 4 worked really hard last term on the BBC 500 word story challenge and fantastically Lilian’s story 'Fighting for Fashion' is through to the next round! The BBC received nearly 135,000 entries and only around 5,000 go to the Reading Agency for the second round of judging. So a huge achievement – a very BIG well done Lilian!
Finally, as a staff we simply cannot express how much we are missing you all, so we hope the attached pictures and video clip on our website https://allsaintsprimarymarple.co.uk/stockport/primary/allsaints-pri/site/pages/classpages/wholeschool/missingyou from us all will let you all know and hopefully bring a smile to everyone’s faces.
From the Chair of Governors ……
It seems strange to say welcome to the new term when most of the children are at home with you rather than returning to school. Like you, the daily routines for myself and my family are very different at the moment, but I hope that you are managing to cope with the restrictions that are currently in place.
I just wanted to add to the words of Mrs Morton and Mrs Gaynor and say a big thank you to all the staff at All Saints’ for everything they’ve done over the last few weeks. Class teachers have spent a lot of time putting together activities for children to work on at home and have also kept in touch with families through their weekly blog. Many staff have also been in school during the holiday period to care for the children of key workers and any vulnerable children. We have a wonderful team here at All Saints’ and I feel privileged to be a part of it.
Despite some stories appearing in the media, there is no clarity yet about when schools might re-open. As soon as there is any information about this, we will obviously let you know. In the meantime, please be assured that the welfare of your children is very much in the thoughts of all staff and governors here at All Saints’.
With best wishes
Alan Bailey
Home Learning
We are very aware that the juggling of work and children at home is a huge current challenge for many of us, before you throw home learning into the mix! Therefore, we have spent a long time coming up with a plan for the remaining weeks/ time we are to be closed and we hope that it will continue to support you with this. The idea is that we will have a weekly subject focus - starting with English this week - and there will be a one page sheet with 5 useful websites as well as 5 non internet based ideas for you to carryout throughout the week. Alongside all the online learning links on the website (https://allsaintsprimarymarple.co.uk/stockport/primary/allsaints-pri/site/pages/parents/coronavirus/homeschoollearning) and familiar online subscriptions this will replace the daily lesson plans and hopefully be something for the whole family (where possible to get involved). We would of course love to see what you have learnt/ produced either via Tapestry or DB so we can celebrate these and also share inspiration to others. Please see the attached English sheet for this week and also follow the link for all the Home Learning Resources/ Ideas we have on offer. In addition this week Miss Taylor has brilliantly produced a document for children with SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities), again we hope this is of use to those families and please do not hesitate to chat to us when we commence our weekly calls again this week or email any questions or queries to headteacher@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk
Spellings
We felt it would be helpful for everyone to as normal have the spelling list for the term as usual this Friday, therefore they will be uploaded to Tapestry/DB. Spelling is something the children can practice at home and we feel it is very important that they maintain (where possible) learning their spellings on a weekly basis. When your children do their weekly test, again we would love for you to share their scores with your class teachers. Hopefully the new spelling website will help too!
Other useful Resources/ Signposts!
We are very sorry there are so many, as you can imagine we are currently inundated with information from many different services as they begin working in very different way and want to get their many messages heard by as many people as possible. We of course want to use our school platform to shares these messages and hope something will be of use for you or a loved one.
Ethnic Diversity Services
Please see attached some lovely resources and activity ideas produced by the Stockport Ethnic Diversity Services.
Behaviour Support Services
Books and visual resources for children:
Parent support: Attachments
- Parenting advice booklet from Warring Parenting Leads
- Booklet about helping parents /carers connect and play with their children
- Booklet about helping siblings get along
Domestic Abuse
As everyone is aware this is sadly increasing due to the lockdown enforcements. Please see the poster attached for awareness, information and support purposes.
NHS Emotional Wellbeing Services Launched
Stockport Council and Stockport NHS CCG have formally launched three new emotional health, wellbeing and mental health services, which are available to residents of Stockport. Whilst these are all the more relevant during the COVID-19 crisis, these will form part of the council and the CCGs' ongoing offer to residents in relation to emotional wellbeing.
The services are:
· the Big White Wall - www.bigwhitewall.com/, which offers 24/7 anonymous support via a digital emotional wellbeing and mental health service, offers peer support for anyone over the age of 16 as well as support from trained clinicians alongside a range of helpful tools and resources. To access this, if you are a Stockport resident register by using your own postcode.
· The establishment of the new 24/7 mental health helpline and (currently virtual) safe haven for anyone over the age of 18 in Stockport (0800 138 7276), commissioned by Stockport NHS CCG and provided by the charity Making Space;
· An Emotional Wellbeing Hub which provides information, advice, and guidance for anyone up to the age of 25 for emotional wellbeing and mental health concerns. Access to this is through the Multi-Agency Safeguarding and Support Hub (MASSH) - 0161 217 6028 - 8.30am-5pm Mon - Thurs 8.30am-4.30pm on Friday.
More information about looking after your health and wellbeing can also be found at: http://www.stockport.gov.uk/wellbeingcoronavirus .
Please do make use of these services if you feel they are relevant to you and share the information with your friends, family and neighbours locally.
There is also a specific number if you are a carer of a person with dementia as seen on the attached document.
Please let us know via the headteacher@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk email or via your weekly call from school if we can be of any help at all.
Take care and stay safe, Helen Morton and Hannah Gaynor
We should all be getting together this afternoon to celebrate the end of the Spring Term and Easter at All Saints’ Church, but obviously no one expected to be in the middle of a Pandemic when the diary dates were sent out only a few weeks ago!
We are aware that there is so, so much information to read and process at the moment, but we felt it important to finish today with an extra newsletter. Most importantly to say, that even though School is remaining open over the next two weeks for key worker and vulnerable children, we recognise that we will be ‘shut’ to most of our families. Therefore, if you need anything at all over the next two weeks, any questions, worries, concerns then please email the headteacher@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk and we will get back to you ASAP. Please also check your child’s class blog today for any further updates.
Home Learning
A huge thank you to all the staff who have been working very hard, in such unusual times, to support families adjusting to home schooling. Thank you also to all the children and families who have been doing some great things and sharing these with their teachers via Tapestry or DB Primary. In addition we would like to say a huge, huge thank you to Mrs Noble who has also been working incredibly hard updating the school website and uploading suggested timetables every day. She has also recently added two documents to hopefully help alleviate some of the pressures many parents may be feeling about the new home learning situation, including 10 top tips for home learning. We really hope you find these documents helpful.
We are aware that we updated the website with the Covid-19/ Home Learning tab very quickly due to such short time frames and unfortunately it is not the easiest to find. As such we have added a link to the home page https://allsaintsprimarymarple.co.uk/stockport/primary/allsaints-pri/site/pages/parents/coronavirus/homeschoollearning. So hopefully this will help people find these wonderful resources.
SHAPES Family Easter Activity Challenge
The Stockport Sports Team have created an Easter two week challenge (attached) to keep everyone moving so please do take a look and we would love to see how you got on after the holidays!
Wellbeing
This remains a huge focus area for us in School and also for the Local Authority, as such they have produced the attached Wellbeing Pack. It includes many different ideas and thoughts to ensure we all take time to support and focus on our mental health and the mental health of all people in your house, family, and friends. So please do share if you think others would find it helpful. Please also remember we are here to help during our regular check in calls to all families, so please do talk to us. We may not always have the answers but we will always make sure we signpost you to the people that do.
A Message from Stockport Council - COVID-19 Stockport Community Helpline
It means that the most vulnerable people in Stockport will be able to access support Monday to Friday, from 9am to 5pm and on Saturdays from 10am to 4pm, by calling 0161 217 6046.
The helpline will provide advice and tell you how you can access support. You can call the helpline if do not have a network of family and friends you can call upon for support, particularly if :
• you are over the age of 70 and you are self isolating
• you have received a letter from the NHS advising you are high risk and should stay at home
• you are medically vulnerable according to the government criteria and should stay at home.
Call handlers for the Council will then be able to provide advice about how you can access practical support including local support for those that are isolated and feel alone.
Holiday Dates 2020-2021
As mentioned in earlier newsletters please find attached the final term and INSET dates for 2020-2021. These dates are also on our website:- https://allsaintsprimarymarple.co.uk/stockport/primary/allsaints-pri/site/pages/school/termdates
We hope that everyone manages to have a lovely holiday and we look forward to being back in contact with you all after the holidays. Take care everyone and stay safe, Mrs Morton and Mrs Gaynor.
A warm welcome to this week’s newsletter, which we thought we would start by sharing a poem that you may find helpful in such unusual times…
The poem, "And the people stayed home" reads:
And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently. And the people healed. And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal. And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed.
Holiday Dates
As we are aware many people have had holidays plans cancelled. We therefore just wanted to remind you of the 2020-2021 holiday dates by following this link:-
https://www.stockport.gov.uk/school-term-dates/2020-2021-term-dates.
In addition to these holiday dates, there will be 5 In Service Training Days (where school will be closed to children) throughout the academic year. All Saints’ Governing Body is just in the process of ratifying these dates and then we will circulate them ASAP.
Easter Holidays
As with everything being so different right now, in order to support the fight against Covid-19 School will be open to vulnerable and key worker children over the two week Easter Holiday. We are so very grateful of our staff who all volunteered so willingly to work during this time. As such the home learning links will be on the website, but there will not be a daily timetable added and in order to allow staff some time off during this incredibly difficult period they will also not be responding to Tapestry/ DB messages. This will be for the period between Monday 6th April to Friday 17th April. However, if you do have any questions then please do email headteacher@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk and we will respond ASAP. Thank you in advance for your understanding.
Free School Meal
As many people’s financial situation may be changing currently we wanted to remind people about the Free School Meal Scheme. If you are eligible for FSM then you will receive a £10 Asda voucher per week, per eligible child until school returns. To apply all you need to do is follow this link:- https://www.stockport.gov.uk/start/free-school-meals-application-form Once you have been accepted school will be informed in due course and then we can process your vouchers.
Home Learning
It is fantastic to hear how many families have been getting involved in all the home learning activities being shared on our website. We are glad that they are helping keep some type of routine going for our children and families. Just a reminder to please read the class blogs on a Friday as usual and also let us know when we call you each week or contact staff on Tapestry/ DB if we can be of any help.
A Wellbeing Message from Stockport Council
The uncertainties created by the coronavirus outbreak will undoubtedly be causing concern for all. It is essential at this time of great challenge, that we take appropriate measures to look after ourselves. We want to remind you that Stockport’s Local Offer now has a section on the Coronavirus, with relevant health information and guidance. It is also packed with useful information, links and resources to support wellbeing. This includes self-help materials linked to evidence based approaches, such as the Five Ways to Wellbeing; HeadSpace (a free app for guided relaxation/ meditation), and the excellent Living Life to the Full online course, which can be accessed free of charge to anyone living in Manchester (available through the GM health hub). Of course, it is important to remember that even in these times of social distancing, it is important to find ways to connect (one of the Five Ways to Wellbeing) to family, friends and colleagues. This is where technology can be useful (e.g. Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Whatsapp and FaceTime).
Please do stay safe everyone and take care, Mrs Morton and Mrs Gaynor.
What a difference a week makes ... We wanted to start by saying we truly hope everyone is well and also to thank you for all your understanding, patience, words of kindness and support over this extremely difficult and challenging period for us all. Your children have shown resilience, positivity and have been absolutely awesome!
We do not want to bombard you with too much more reading as we know there is already so much to process at the moment. However, we did very much want to touch base with all members of our wonderful community. Those at home, please see the letter circulated last week for ideas of how to stay in touch and ideas to keep busy. Also, a huge thank you to all the key worker parents who continue to work on the front line for the benefit of us all.
As you can imagine the change from educators to child care provider is a huge shift for All Saints’ and all schools. Therefore, please bear with us as we get up and running and if you have any community minded ideas that we could get involved in or start then please do share via the headteacher@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk email address.
Please know we are here whether your children are in school or not. Our staff are always amazing but they have surpassed anything thought possible over the last few weeks. Their selflessness and team spirit has been nothing but humbling and we simply cannot thank them enough. Everyone is proud to be supporting the national fight against this horrendous virus and simply cannot wait to be all back together again.
Any necessary communications to school can be done through the headteacher@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk email address. Messages on the answer machine will be collected during the day and responded to during our opening hours of 8.55am – 3.15pm.
If you need to discuss any safeguarding concerns, please call MASSH on 0161 217 6028. The out of hours number is 0161 718 2118. We continue to be an Operation Encompass school, and will receive any necessary updates.
If your child is booked into our emergency child care provision due to meeting the criteria on government guidelines, then please ensure they arrive promptly for the 8.55am start, and you collect them promptly at 3.15pm. Unfortunately, Marple Childcare are sadly not able to continue to offer their before and after school services in our school.
Many thanks for your understanding, and we hope you all stay well.
The All Saints’ Team
Welcome to this week’s newsletter…
COVID-19
As everyone is fully aware, information is changing on a daily basis at present, with regards to Coronavirus. As a school we are and will continue to work closely with the Local Authority and Heath Officials to ensure we are following all guidelines. Please see attached a poster produced by the World Health Organisation about how to help children cope with stress during this time.
As informed in last week’s newsletter the most up-to-date information including this poster is now on our dedicated section of the website. This can be found by following the link below or using the parents drop down menu on the website homepage:- https://allsaintsprimarymarple.co.uk/stockport/primary/allsaints-pri/staging/pages/parents/coronavirus.
Yoga
We are very fortunate to have a parent Janine Kelly who has been so kind, coming in and working with different classes on a ‘Movement Month’. This trial explores ways in which to get more movement into the children’s day in the classroom. The children involved so far have all really enjoyed it and felt the benefits. In order to support these benefits further for our children, we would really like to buy more equipment to have in all classrooms for example yoga blocks and yoga balls. As, such Janine has wonderfully offered to run a number of sessions for parents and families to attend, with all money raised going directly to school to buy the equipment. Janine is planning to run some sessions for families very soon, so watch this space for more information!
Sponsored Read and Homework Museum
Can we please say a huge congratulation to the children who have taken part in the sponsored read and kindly ask for sponsor money to be brought in asap please? We can’t wait to find out how much money has been raised and what wonderful books we will be able to buy for the children!Also, just a reminder that this term’s Homework Museum is in Tuesday 31st March, with all entries to class teachers by 30th March please.
-You will need your book review accompanied by your photograph of you reading in the most unusual place you can think of!
- Be as creative as you like – we want to see your best ideas!
Please see the attached poster again for more information.
Let's Get Active
A shout out to any sporty parents who are qualified/ interested (or know a great local contact) in helping us to set up a girls PE club either before school, lunch time or after school. We are thinking something along the lines of; Netball, Cheerleading, Zumba dancing, Gymnastics etc. We are aware that there are lots of clubs many boys are involved in at present at All Saints' and are keen to get some more extra curricular activities for the girls too. (Of course some girls are already involved in our after school Football clubs and have started to have some great scores in recent competitions - go girls!). If you have any feedback - Mrs. Noble would love to hear from you...!
Internet Safety workshop for Year 5/6 parents - 2nd April 6-7pm
Please note an additional training session has been arranged with Tanya Cross from the Local Authority. These sessions are always hugely popular and essential for ensuring you keep your child safe when in the virtual world. Please let the office know if you are able to attend.
Best Attendance
Very well done to the Reception Class. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 98.97%. Fantastic and very well done. 
The Week Ahead
Friday 20th March - Yr3 Rugby Megafest.
Upcoming Events
Tuesday 24th March - Dance Assembly at 9.05am - parents/family of those participating are welcome
Thursday 26th March - Yr 4 go to Hollowford Centre, Castleton on a one night residential and return on Friday 27th March
KS1 (Year 1 and 2) Fairy tale wedding at All Saints’ Church.
Friday 27th March - Yr1 Class Assembly at 9.05am - parents/family are welcome. Yr2 Step Outside Road Safety training
Monday 30th March - Front Row Music Service Assembly 9.00am, families whose children have lessons welcome
Tuesday 31st March – Reading in Unusual Places – Homework Museum, more information on poster.
Class 5 Trip to Eyam
Wednesday 1st April - Yr4 Class Assembly at 9.05am – parents/family are welcome Yr6 Theatre trip to Blackpool Achievement Assembly
Thursday 2nd April - Easter Rehearsal at Church – 9.10am. Celebration of Successes - Ice-Cream/Fruit Party
Friday 3rd April - 1.45pm Whole School Easter Service at All Saints’ Church– parents/family are welcome. School breaks up for the Easter Holiday and returns on Monday 20th April 2020.
Thursday 23rd April - St George’s Day – Those who are part of a uniformed club can wear their uniform today e.g. Cub Scouts, Girlguiding, etc.
Friday 1st May - Quiz Night Hawk Green Cricket Club 8pm onwards.
Thank you for all your understanding and co-operation with the difficult ever evolving situation at present, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
A warm welcome to this week’s newsletter.
Coronavirus
This is obviously a topic on every bodies mind at the moment. Please rest assured that as a school we are constantly being updated by the Local Authority in line with PHE guidance. As such we have created a tab on the School Website. This means that the latest information will be available at all times through the links rather than needing to send out separate information. The latest resources guidance and advice contained at https://www.gov.uk/government/topical-events/coronavirus-covid-19-uk-government-response and much more can be found on the tab.
Key points:-
Phone:08000468687
Email: DfE.coronavirushelpline@education.gov.uk
Opening hours: 8am to 6pm (Monday to Friday)
Many thanks to everyone for their support in this matter.
Stockport Foodbank
Please see the attached fliers for Stockport Foodbank. Also, know that at times of difficulty this is an amazing charity that willingly wants to help and support families. If anyone requires a voucher, please let us know. Or if you simply would like to find out more about what support is available then please pop in to the office or send us an email. We all want to help and support everyone of our school family.
No Pens Day
No Pens Day will take place this Wednesday. It is run by The Communication Trust and I CAN, the children’s communication charity. In November of this year, they will be celebrating their 10th Anniversary of this special day. No Pens Day is usually a national set day each year, but at All Saints’ we will be holding our No Pens Day on Wednesday in order to link it to and celebrate the work that has been taking place in school on improving Science. The aim of the day is to encourage spoken language and listening skills. On this day, children in the school will put down their pens and all lessons and activities will have a focus on spoken language skills rather than writing skills. We hope the children have a very chatty and lovely day this Wednesday. 
INSET Days
Just a reminder that that Friday 26th of June and Monday 29th of June are both INSET days. As always, your child’s attendance is so important so hopefully this will help with possibly a cheaper holiday or time together to do things not in the school holidays.
Young Leaders Award
Huge congratulations to Year 5 who raised a fabulous £80 from their bake sale last week. This is all part of their work on the Archbishop of York Award and they are so keen to support and improve our local community so please watch out for their upcoming contributions, you are all truly inspiring, well done Year 5!
Year 4 and 5 Football Tournament
The children represented school amazingly well last Tuesday at Aquinas. The children showed the All Saints’ Way Team approach in abundance and the Girls team coming 3rd and Boys team also coming 3rd. A huge thank you to all the children for all their hard work and sportsmanship and also Miss Taylor, Mr Granite and Mrs Pattison for organising and supporting the children at the event. Finally thank you to all the parents who came along to cheer the children on – what a great TEAM!
Online Safety Update
Please find below links to two highly recommended parental control apps:-
Ourpact - https://ourpact.com/
Screen time
Screen Time is a free to use parental control app that helps parents manage and control the amount of time their kids spend on smartphones (Android & iPhone) and tablets (Android and iPad). Additionally, Screen Time Parental Controls provides robust web filtering and Location Tracking for your children. Device time management.
Screen Time Parental Control - Android Apps on Google Play
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.screentime.rc&hl=en
Please also find attached a useful WhatsApp Parents Guide.
Marple Young Writers’ Competition
Please see the following link for more information:- https://www.marple-uk.com/smf/index.php?topic=8581.0
A Message from Marple Carnival
Applications are still open but will close at the end of the month.
To apply they simply follow this link: https://www.marplecarnival.org.uk/royalty.html or drop us an email to marplecarnival@gmail.com
Thanks for your help and support as always!
Best Attendance
Very well done to Class 2. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 100%. Fantastic and very well done.
The Week Ahead
Monday 9th March – Science Week
Wednesday 11th March - No Pens Day -Speech and Language focus
Upcoming Events
Wednesday 11th March - Yr3 trip to John Rylands Library
Friday 20th March - Yr3 Rugby Megafest. School Disco 6.30pm-8.30pm Marple Cricket Club
Tuesday 24th March - Dance Assembly at 9.05am - parents/family of those participating are welcome
Thursday 26th March - Yr 4 go to Hollowford Centre, Castleton on a one night residential and return on Friday 27th March
KS1 (Year 1 and 2) Fairy tale wedding at All Saints’ Church.
Friday 27th March - Yr1 Class Assembly at 9.05am - parents/family are welcome. Yr2 Step Outside Road Safety training
Monday 30th March - Front Row Music Service Assembly 9.00am, families whose children have lessons welcome
Tuesday 31st March – Reading in Unusual Places – Homework Museum, more information on poster.
Class 5 Trip to Eyam
Wednesday 1st April - Yr4 Class Assembly at 9.05am – parents/family are welcome Yr6 Theatre trip to Blackpool Achievement Assembly
Thursday 2nd April - Easter Rehearsal at Church – 9.10am. Celebration of Successes - Ice-Cream/Fruit Party
Friday 3rd April - 1.45pm Whole School Easter Service at All Saints’ Church– parents/family are welcome. School breaks up for the Easter Holiday and returns on Monday 20th April 2020.
Thursday 23rd April - St George’s Day – Those who are part of a uniformed club can wear their uniform today e.g. Cub Scouts, Girlguiding, etc.
Friday 1st May - Quiz Night Hawk Green Cricket Club 8pm onwards.
We hope everyone has a wonderful week, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Well it was lovely to finally welcome a break from the rain this weekend and we hope you have all had a lovely weekend. As always it is a busy week ahead at All Saints’ with of course World Book Day taking place on Thursday!
Sponsored Read
Just a quick reminder that this week is our sponsored read week so please help your child to read as much as they can and to collect as many sponsors as possible to really enhance our school library. Any amount, no matter how big or small, will help contribute to our final amount and remember that Usborne will contribute up to 60% so please dig deep and help us buy some beautiful books!
Film Night
The KS1 and KS2 film night was a huge success! While KS2 relaxed with their slippers, onesies and blankets in the hall for a screening of 'Horrid Henry', KS1 had a Lego-fest with 'The Lego Movie', Lego colouring-in and plenty of Lego to play with. Many thanks to Mrs Mylrea and the Pupil Parliament team for organising this fun event and to all the members of staff who gave up their time to help out. Thank you so much also to all the parents who supported this money-raising endeavour. The Pupil Parliament raise money each year to spend on resources to enrich the more social aspects of school life which, sadly, there is little National funding for. This year the children are raising money for wet-play activities and games that will benefit every class. Your support means the world to us and the children! Thank you!
Parents Association
The half termly Parents Association meeting this Tuesday (the 3rd March) at The Crown in Hawk Green. The meeting begins at 8pm. It would be lovely to see 
some new faces as we are always looking for new ways to fundraise and provide those special opportunities for our children.
Japanese Students
As per the Ping sent out last week with the international concerns in regards to the Coronavirus, the intended Japanese visitors will no longer be visiting the UK for the foreseeable future.
Best Attendance
V
ery well done to Classes 1 and 4 . You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 99.33%. Fantastic and very well done.
The Week Ahead
Monday 2nd March - Assessment Week
Tuesday 3rd March – Year 5 Bake Sale all donations gratefully received. Parents Association next meeting, 8pm at The Crown - new faces very welcome.
Thursday 5th March - World Book Day
Upcoming Events
Monday 9th March – Science Week
Wednesday 11th March - No Pens Day Wednesday-Speech and Language focus
Wednesday 18th March - Yr3 trip to Manchester Museum
Friday 20th March - Yr3 Rugby Megafest. School Disco 6.30pm-8.30pm Marple Cricket Club
Tuesday 24th March - Dance Assembly at 9.05am - parents/family of those participating are welcome
Thursday 26th March - Yr 4 go to Hollowford Centre, Castleton on a one night residential and return on Friday 27th March
KS1 (Year 1 and 2) Fairy tale wedding at All Saints’ Church.
Friday 27th March - Yr1 Class Assembly at 9.05am - parents/family are welcome. Yr2 Step Outside Road Safety training
Monday 30th March - Front Row Music Service Assembly 9.00am, families whose children have lessons welcome
Tuesday 31st March – Reading in Unusual Places – Homework Museum, more information on poster.
Class 5 Trip to Eyam
Wednesday 1st April - Yr4 Class Assembly at 9.05am – parents/family are welcome Yr6 Theatre trip to Blackpool Achievement Assembly
Thursday 2nd April - Easter Rehearsal at Church – 9.10am. Celebration of Successes - Ice-Cream/Fruit Party
Friday 3rd April - 1.45pm Whole School Easter Service at All Saints’ Church– parents/family are welcome. School breaks up for the Easter Holiday and returns on Monday 20th April 2020.
Thursday 23rd April - St George’s Day – Those who are part of a uniformed club can wear their uniform today e.g. Cub Scouts, Girlguiding, etc.
Friday 1st May - Quiz Night Hawk Green Cricket Club 8pm onwards.
We hope everyone has a fantastic half term holiday, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
A very warm welcome back to everyone. We hope you have all had a wonderful half term and are ready to begin the second half of this term, continuing with the brilliant whole school topic of ‘Long. Long Ago!’ Do not forget it you have completed anything from the DfE Activity Passports or been busy on the Spring Term Homework Museum tasks please do let us know.
Year 3 shared the love!
Year 3 really did put us all in a lovely mood when they entertained us with their Class Assembly all about ‘Love’ before the holidays. The children spoke, acted and sung beautifully. They made everyone feel very loved and reminded us of how important it is to be kind to others. The family pictures were lovely also, so well done Year 3 – a fantastic assembly.
Sponsored Read
We have a very exciting reading event taking place in school to complement this term's Homework Museum. Some of you may remember a few years ago we raised a huge amount of money to pack our new library full of the most up to date books through a sponsored read with Usborne Books. We are really lucky to have been given this opportunity again. Today, Monday 24th Feb your child will come home with a letter after an Usborne assembly and their sponsored read form which will take place the following week, 2nd March. The more we raise the better - Usborne will top up our sponsorship money and this can be up to 60% so every penny counts. Please help get your children enthused about the reading week and collecting their sponsors - some new books would be wonderful for our children!
World Book Day 2020!
We hope the letter made its way home that was sent out before the holidays! As a reminder we will be celebrating World Book Day on Thursday 5th March. Everyone is welcome to wear fancy dress on that day. Your child may wish to dress up as a character from a book. However, if you prefer, your child can simply bring in a pair of slipper socks or slippers to wear during our ‘Share A Story’ times. It would also be fabulous if your child could bring in one of their favourite books to share with their class and if there are any parents, carers, grandparents, aunties, uncles etc. who wish to be a mystery reader on that day, please do let your child’s class teacher/TA know.
Year 5 Archbishop of York Young Leaders Award
As our Year 5 children start their award, they are thinking of ways to support our local area. As such, a group is making bird feeders and would very much welcome any donations of the following to support them. Plastic bottles up to 200ml, spare bird feed or seeds, string bags (to place food/ veg in). If these kind donations could be handed in to Year by the 6th March that would be wonderful.
A second group will be running a Bake Sale on Tuesday 3rd March, therefore please could they have any cakes to sell that day handed in again to Class 5. Cakes will be sold at first break and after school and will all be priced at 50p – no nuts please.
Thank you very much in advance – Year 5.
Eco Bricks
Thank you so much for the many ecobricks you brought in for our project. We have enough now (so please don’t send in any more) to begin to make our stools and benches. Miss Whittleworth is running an ecobricks club every Monday lunchtime to finish filling up some bottles and to begin designing and building our seating. We can’t wait to sit on the finished items.
Creative Writing Club
We have been asked to share the below poster for a writing club at Marple Library. Please speak to the library of you require any further information.
Best Attendance
Very well done to Class 2. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 99.39%. Fantastic and very well done.
The Week Ahead
Tuesday 25th February - Shrove Tuesday – Pancake Day
Wednesday 26th February – Year 6 trip to Crucial Crew
Thursday 27th February –Whole School film night 3.15pm -5.00pm. Please see separate letter.
Friday 28th February - Yr5 swimming begins– please see separate letters
Upcoming Events
Monday 2nd March - Assessment Week
Tuesday 3rd March – Year 5 Bake Sale all donations gratefully received. Tuesday 3rd March next meeting, 8pm at The Crown - new faces very welcome. – KS1 Fabulous Fairytale extravaganza
Thursday 5th March - World Book Day
Monday 9th March – Science Week
Wednesday 11th March - No Pens Day Wednesday-Speech and Language focus
Wednesday 18th March - Yr3 trip to Manchester Museum
Friday 20th March - Yr3 Rugby Megafest. School Disco 6.30pm-8.30pm Marple Cricket Club
Tuesday 24th March - Dance Assembly at 9.05am - parents/family of those participating are welcome
Thursday 26th March - Yr 4 go to Hollowford Centre, Castleton on a one night residential and return on Friday 27th March
KS1 (Year 1 and 2) Fairy tale wedding at All Saints’ Church.
Friday 27th March - Yr1 Class Assembly at 9.05am - parents/family are welcome. Yr2 Step Outside Road Safety training
Monday 30th March - Front Row Music Service Assembly 9.00am, families whose children have lessons welcome
Tuesday 31st March – Reading in Unusual Places – Homework Museum, more information on poster.
Class 5 Trip to Eyam
Wednesday 1st April - Yr4 Class Assembly at 9.05am – parents/family are welcome Yr6 Theatre trip to Blackpool Achievement Assembly
Thursday 2nd April - Easter Rehearsal at Church – 9.10am. Celebration of Successes - Ice-Cream/Fruit Party
Friday 3rd April - 1.45pm Whole School Easter Service at All Saints’ Church– parents/family are welcome. School breaks up for the Easter Holiday and returns on Monday 20th April 2020.
Thursday 23rd April - St George’s Day – Those who are part of a uniformed club can wear their uniform today e.g. Cub Scouts, Girlguiding, etc.
Friday 1st May - Quiz Night Hawk Green Cricket Club 8pm onwards.
We hope everyone has a fantastic half term holiday, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Well the last half term has simply flown by and we are very much looking forward to our final week of half term.
Teacher Training Students
Last Tuesday saw Mr McShane and Mrs Noble lead an amazing day of training for 14 Teacher Training Students. The Students spent the whole day receiving excellent tutoring from Mr McShane and Mrs Noble and also spending time visiting all our classes to see high quality teaching in Art and DT. The students gave excellent feedback and said they absolutely loved our School, it welcoming atmosphere and creative curriculum in particular. They were also incredibly impressed with the children and the skills and knowledge they demonstrated! So well done All Saints’ and a huge thank you to Mr McShane and Mrs Noble for taking such time and kindness to support the teachers of the future!
Year 5 Entertain!
Year 5 entertained their parents with singing and brass playing last Friday afternoon. They sang and played with such precision and enthusiasm. Their brass teacher, Danielle Powell said the class is one of the most musical classes she has come across! Fantastic job Year 5!!
Activity Passports
As you may remember last summer, we circulated The Department for Education Activity Passport, which is great for children and families to engage in. The activities are relevant to life around us and will further enhance your children’s experiences. So why not give it a go! There are activities such as: make a treasure map (Reception), make a daisy chain (Yr1), start a collection and share it with your class (Yr2), learn a new game (Yr3), learn to sew on a button (Yr4), use an OS map (Yr5) and choose objects to put in a time capsule (Yr6).
Please find it attached and remember you can use Tapestry or DB Primary to share what you have ticked off with us, as we would love to see it in school!
Homework Museum Spring 2020
Just a reminder that you may like to complete the Spring Homework Museum Task over the half term holiday! We look forward to seeing your ‘Reading in unusual places photographs, book review project and sponsored read’.
Message from Stockport Family
Please find attached A4 poster and A5 Flyers for Being a Parent together (either living together or apart)
We have 2 courses:
St. Thomas Bungalow, Marriott Street. Stockport. SK1 3PJ
6.30pm – 8.30pm
Mondays 24 Feb – 30 March and
Reddish Vale Start Well
Reddish Vale Road, SK5 7EU
Thursdays 27 Feb – 02 April 9.30am – 11.30am
Message from Autism Parent Support Group
We have recently started a new Autism Parent Support Group in the Offerton, Stockport area for the Parents of Children who have social communication difficulties. Please see attached flyer for more information.
Message from Parents in Partnership
Best Attendance
Very well done to Class 2. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 100%. Fantastic and very well done.
The Week Ahead
Tuesday 11th February - Safer Internet Day
Wednesday 12th February - Yr3 Class Assembly at 9.05am - parents/family are welcome
Friday 14th February - Valentine’s Day Yr4 Brass session begins – additional information to follow Yr3 Swimming School breaks up at 3.15pm for Half Term
Upcoming Events
Tuesday 25th February - Shrove Tuesday – Pancake Day
Thursday 27th February –Whole School film night 3.15pm -5.00pm. Please see separate letter.
Friday 28th February - Yr5 swimming begins
Monday 2nd March - Assessment Week
Thursday 5th March - World Book Day
Monday 9th March – Science Week
Wednesday 11th March - No Pens Day Wednesday-Speech and Language focus
Wednesday 18th March - Yr3 trip to Manchester Museum
Friday 20th March - Yr3 Rugby Megafest
Tuesday 24th March - Dance Assembly at 9.05am - parents/family of those participating are welcome
Thursday 26th March - Yr 4 go to Hollowford Centre, Castleton on a one night residential and return on Friday 27th March
Friday 27th March - Yr1 Class Assembly at 9.05am - parents/family are welcome. Yr2 Step Outside Road Safety training
Monday 30th March - Front Row Music Service Assembly 9.00am, families whose children have lessons welcome
Tuesday 31st March – Reading in Unusual Places – Homework Museum, more information on poster.
Class 5 Trip to Eyam
Wednesday 1st April - Yr4 Class Assembly at 9.05am – parents/family are welcome Yr6 Theatre trip to Blackpool Achievement Assembly
Thursday 2nd April - Easter Rehearsal at Church – 9.10am. Celebration of Successes - Ice-Cream/Fruit Party
Friday 3rd April - 1.45pm Whole School Easter Service at All Saints’ Church– parents/family are welcome. School breaks up for the Easter Holiday and returns on Monday 20th April 2020.
Thursday 23rd April - St George’s Day – Those who are part of a uniformed club can wear their uniform today e.g. Cub Scouts, Girlguiding, etc.
We hope everyone has a fantastic half term holiday, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Mathletics Competition Week
Drum roll please … well done and huge congratulations to Class Two who were the All Saints’ winning class. Amazing, dedication and accuracy meant that they topped the leader board and I know they and Mrs Noble celebrated in style last week. Even though competition week is over please do keep it up and keep the enthusiasm going by visiting Mathletics to practice those very important Maths skills.
Young Voices!
Wow, Wow, Wow!!! Really there is no other way to describe the event last Wednesday at Manchester arena. All 54 children were absolute All Saints’ Superstars, they behaved so sensibly and kindly towards each other throughout the whole event. It really was such a heart-warming moment when the children independently put their arms around each other while signing. Thank you so much to all the families who supported the children to attend the event and also all the staff who gave up their time so willingly to help the children too Mr McShane, Miss Daley and Mrs Day. In addition, Mrs Manning who also did so much to help prepare the children with choir sessions. Mrs Davey, deserves a very big thank you also for all the excellent organisation of transport, tickets and merchandise. Finally, the biggest thank you to Mrs Noble who has spent hours and hours preparing the children, running choir sessions, completing risk assessments, writing letters etc. all to make the event run like clockwork and most importantly meaning all the children had an absolute blast!
Year 5 and 6 Girls Football Tournament
The girls and Mr A were absolutely amazing at the event at Manchester United Training Ground last Tuesday. They all loved it, played superbly and want to do something else soon! The girls finished a very respectable 2nd out of 14 teams, well done girls! The children were also impeccably behaved and a real credit to themselves, their families and All Saints’.
Message from Stockport NHS
Please see the attached flyer giving details of a FREE Workshops for the over 50's.
Date: Monday, 17th February, 1.00pm to 3.00pm
Venue: Ground floor access at the Cornerstone, (Stockport Housing Group), 2 Edward St, Stockport SK1 3NQ
FREE Macrame & Felting workshops for the over 50's Come and have a go, FREE complete beginners welcome, all materials provided.
These items can be made in just one session for you to keep! No need to book, just turn up!
Reminders
Homework Museum Spring 2020
It is Homework Museum time again! We look forward to seeing your ‘Reading in unusual places photographs, book review project and sponsored read’.
Best Attendance
Very well done to Year 1 You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 98% Fantastic and very well done.
The Week Ahead
Monday 3rd January - Yr1 & Yr2 trip to Staircase House
Friday 7th February - Yr5 Brass Sessions end will be held at 2:45pm. All parents and family members are welcome.
Upcoming Events
Tuesday 11th February - Safer Internet Day
Wednesday 12th February - Yr3 Class Assembly at 9.05am - parents/family are welcome
Friday 14th February - Valentine’s Day Yr4 Brass session begins – additional information to follow Yr3 Swimming School breaks up at 3.15pm for Half Term
Tuesday 25th February - Shrove Tuesday – Pancake Day
Thursday 27th February –Whole School film night 3.15pm -5.00pm Your child brought a letter home on Friday.
Friday 28th February - Yr5 swimming begins– please see separate letters
Monday 2nd March - Assessment Week
Thursday 5th March - World Book Day
Monday 9th March – Science Week
Wednesday 11th March - No Pens Day Wednesday-Speech and Language focus
Wednesday 18th March - Yr3 trip to Manchester Museum
Friday 20th March - Yr3 Rugby Megafest
Tuesday 24th March - Dance Assembly at 9.05am - parents/family of those participating are welcome
Thursday 26th March - Yr 4 go to Hollowford Centre, Castleton on a one night residential and return on Friday 27th March
Friday 27th March - Yr1 Class Assembly at 9.05am - parents/family are welcome. Yr2 Step Outside Road Safety training
Monday 30th March - Front Row Music Service Assembly 9.00am, families whose children have lessons welcome
Tuesday 31st March – Reading in Unusual Places – Homework Museum, more information on poster.
Class 5 Trip to Eyam
Wednesday 1st April - Yr4 Class Assembly at 9.05am – parents/family are welcome Yr6 Theatre trip to Blackpool Achievement Assembly
Thursday 2nd April - Easter Rehearsal at Church – 9.10am. Celebration of Successes - Ice-Cream/Fruit Party
Friday 3rd April - 1.45pm Whole School Easter Service at All Saints’ Church– parents/family are welcome. School breaks up for the Easter Holiday and returns on Monday 20th April 2020.
Thursday 23rd April - St George’s Day – Those who are part of a uniformed club can wear their uniform today e.g. Cub Scouts, Girlguiding, etc.
We hope everyone has a lovely week, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Mathletics Competition Week
Early last week saw All Saints’ enter the top ten of nearby schools for their speed of answering questions correctly, so a very big well done to everyone for all your hard work and speedy mental agility! But if that was not great enough, All Saints’ even managed to top that when Mrs Noble’s Class Two Children and Mr McShane’s Class Six children were placed in the WORLD TOP 50 CLASSES!!!! With Class Two reaching place 31 and Class Six position 24, this is absolutely amazing! This demonstrates excellent maths skills and should be massively celebrated – so a huge congratulation to you all! Finally, a big thank you to Mr McShane for all his effort and time supporting and promoting the event.
Mrs Turner
This week sees Mrs Turner who has been a student teacher since September in Class 2 finish her time with us. I know all the children are really going to miss you and a big thank you for all your hard work since joining us. You always have a smile on your face and nothing is ever too much to help the children in your care. From everyone at All Saints’ we wish you all the very best for your next placement and future teaching career.
Young Voices!
We have a big week in school this week with the Young Voices Choir taking place on Wednesday, We have over 150 All Saints’ children and family members attending so we are sure it will be an amazing event!
Health and Safety
As health and safety is always a high priority at All Saints’, we were very grateful when Simon came into school on Wednesday to train more of our staff on how to use our Defib. We of course hope we never have to use it, but it is great that we have this resource available in school if ever the need did arise. A very big thank you to Simon for all his time and kindness offering this training for free.
We also held a very successful fire drill last Tuesday and the children and staff were all fantastic at exiting quickly and safely, so a huge well done to all our fabulous children.
Train to Tokyo!
Please take a look at the exiting family challenge below…
Reminders
Homework Museum Spring 2020
It is Homework Museum time again! We look forward to seeing your ‘Reading in unusual places photographs, book review project and sponsored read’.
Calling all Musicians!
As part of our school's passion for the arts and for our children to be exposed to live music, we are asking any parents or family members who have a talent for tinkling piano keys, any great guitarists or swell singers to come in and play for our children. You can simply visit your child's class, a few classes or if you are feeling very brave we would love it if all our children could hear your talent in assembly. If you feel you may be musical in anyway please email the office with your name and email address for Mrs Manning to get in to.
Best Attendance
Very well done to Class Two. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 99.39%. Fantastic and very well done.
The Week Ahead
Tuesday 28th January – Year 5 and 6 Girls football tournament
Wednesday 29th January - Young Voices Junior Choir event
Upcoming Events
Monday 3rd January - Yr1 & Yr2 trip to Staircase House
Friday 7th February - Yr5 Brass Sessions end will be held at 2:45pm. All parents and family members are welcome.
Tuesday 11th February - Safer Internet Day
Wednesday 12th February - Yr3 Class Assembly at 9.05am - parents/family are welcome
Friday 14th February - Valentine’s Day Yr4 Brass session begins – additional information to follow Yr3 Swimming School breaks up at 3.15pm for Half Term
Tuesday 25th February - Shrove Tuesday – Pancake Day
Thursday 27th February – KS1 film night 3.15pm -5.00pm – more information to follow
Friday 28th February - Yr5 swimming begins– please see separate letters
Monday 2nd March - Assessment Week
Thursday 5th March - World Book Day
Monday 9th March – Science Week
Wednesday 11th March - No Pens Day Wednesday-Speech and Language focus
Wednesday 18th March - Yr3 trip to Manchester Museum
Friday 20th March - Yr3 Rugby Megafest
Tuesday 24th March - Dance Assembly at 9.05am - parents/family of those participating are welcome
Thursday 26th March - Yr 4 go to Hollowford Centre, Castleton on a one night residential and return on Friday 27th March
Friday 27th March - Yr1 Class Assembly at 9.05am - parents/family are welcome. Yr2 Step Outside Road Safety training
Monday 30th March - Front Row Music Service Assembly 9.00am, families whose children have lessons welcome
Tuesday 31st March – Reading in Unusual Places – Homework Museum, more information on poster.
Class 5 Trip to Eyam
Wednesday 1st April - Yr4 Class Assembly at 9.05am – parents/family are welcome Yr6 Theatre trip to Blackpool Achievement Assembly
Thursday 2nd April - Easter Rehearsal at Church – 9.10am. Celebration of Successes - Ice-Cream/Fruit Party
Friday 3rd April - 1.45pm Whole School Easter Service at All Saints’ Church– parents/family are welcome. School breaks up for the Easter Holiday and returns on Monday 20th April 2020.
Thursday 23rd April - St George’s Day – Those who are part of a uniformed club can wear their uniform today e.g. Cub Scouts, Girlguiding, etc.
We hope everyone has a lovely week, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
It was lovely to see so many of you last week at parents evening appointments. Thank you very much to everyone who came and for those who took the time to complete the new feedback forms. Please do not worry if you have yet to complete yours, we would still appreciate you doing so and sending them in by the end of this week if possible.
We will keep it short this week as there are lots of messages below that may be of interest to you and your family/ friends…
Life Leisure
February swimming holiday courses are running at all of our Life Leisure pools during half term (17th – 21st February). For just £33.25 children swim for half an hour Monday to Friday and build up their confidence quickly which shows in the progression they make by the end of the week. When booking both the holiday course and a term of lessons new customers will receive a 20% discount off their first booking of termly lessons. Please contact swimming@lifeleisure.net or your preferred centre for more information.
Fiddlestick
Please see attached information about a February half term holiday club for string players.
Messages from the NHS
Keeping Steady and Active in Stockport
Please find attached details of our next event at Abney Court. The information session is on Thursday 30th January at 1.30pm until 3.00pm, and the topic is ‘Keeping Steady and Active in Stockport’. Helen Riley will be delivering the session. This is a free event, booking is essential as places are limited.
Carers Choir
Stockport Mind - open to all Carers. It is hoped that this choir will provide an opportunity for some much needed respite for a lot of carers, as we are aware of how beneficial at times respite can be, especially considering some of the pressures that carers can face. Please see attached information.
Reminders
Competition Time!
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Homework Museum Spring 2020
It is Homework Museum time again! We look forward to seeing your ‘Reading in unusual places photographs, book review project and sponsored read’.
Calling all Musicians!
As part of our school's passion for the arts and for our children to be exposed to live music, we are asking any parents or family members who have a talent for tinkling piano keys, any great guitarists or swell singers to come in and play for our children. You can simply visit your child's class, a few classes or if you are feeling very brave we would love it if all our children could hear your talent in assembly. If you feel you may be musical in anyway, please email admin@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk with your contact details, marked for the attention of Mrs Manning.
Best Attendance
Very well done to Reception Class. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 100%. Fantastic and very well done.
The Week Ahead
Monday 20th January - Martin Luther King Day, Mathletics Competition Week
Thursday 23rd January – Pupil Parliament Meeting 8.15am
Upcoming Events
Wednesday 29th January - Young Voices Junior Choir event – more information to follow
Monday 3rd January - Yr1 & Yr2 trip to Staircase House
Friday 7th February - Yr5 Brass Sessions end
Tuesday 11th February - Safer Internet Day
Wednesday 12th February - Yr3 Class Assembly at 9.05am - parents/family are welcome
Friday 14th February - Valentine’s Day
Yr4 Brass session begins – additional information to follow
Yr3 Swimming
School breaks up at 3.15pm for Half Term
Tuesday 25th February - Shrove Tuesday – Pancake Day
Thursday 27th February – KS1 film night 3.15pm -5.00pm – more information to follow
Friday 28th February - Yr5 swimming begins– please see separate letters
Monday 2nd March - Assessment Week
Thursday 5th March - World Book Day
Monday 9th March – Science Week
Wednesday 11th March - No Pens Day Wednesday-Speech and Language focus
Wednesday 18th March - Yr3 trip to Manchester Museum
Friday 20th March - Yr3 Rugby Megafest
Tuesday 24th March - Dance Assembly at 9.05am - parents/family of those participating are welcome
Thursday 26th March - Yr 4 go to Hollowford Centre, Castleton on a one night residential and return on Friday 27th March
Friday 27th March - Yr1 Class Assembly at 9.05am - parents/family are welcome. Yr2 Step Outside Road Safety training
Monday 30th March - Front Row Music Service Assembly 9.00am, families whose children have lessons welcome
Tuesday 31st March – Reading in Unusual Places – Homework Museum, more information on poster.
Class 5 Trip to Eyam
Wednesday 1st April - Yr4 Class Assembly at 9.05am – parents/family are welcome Yr6 Theatre trip to Blackpool Achievement Assembly
Thursday 2nd April - Easter Rehearsal at Church – 9.10am. Celebration of Successes - Ice-Cream/Fruit Party
Friday 3rd April - 1.45pm Whole School Easter Service at All Saints’ Church– parents/family are welcome. School breaks up for the Easter Holiday and returns on Monday 20th April 2020.
Thursday 23rd April - St George’s Day – Those who are part of a uniformed club can wear their uniform today e.g. Cub Scouts, Girlguiding, etc.
We hope everyone has a lovely week, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Well the first week flew by and this week we would like to make you aware of a number of initiatives to help get everyone back into the swing of things again in 2020!
Parents’ Evening
We look forward to seeing you all in school over this week for meetings with class teachers. As always, we ask that you help staff keep to schedule, so as not to impact on other families, and if you require any further time then please just ask the class teachers to arrange another meeting at a mutually convenient time. As we endeavour to always keep improving as a school, we would welcome you taking the time to complete the parent feedback sheet. You may notice changes to the questions from previous questionnaires, this is in line with changes to the Ofsted framework. During the week, we will also be asking for the children’s feedback too and will report back on outcomes in due course. Thank you in advance for taking the time to complete the survey, we really do appreciate it.
Competition Time!
Please see the attached poster for more information and we hope you all get involved!
Homework Museum Spring 2020
It is Homework Museum time again! The attached poster, that will also come home with your child today, explains the ‘Reading in unusual places activity, book review project and sponsored read’. We hope you all enjoy getting involved and look forward to seeing the great pictures and reading the wonderful book reviews!
Calling all Musicians!
As part of our school's passion for the arts and for our children to be exposed to live music, we are asking any parents or family members who have a talent for tinkling piano keys, any great guitarists or swell singers to come in and play for our children. You can simply visit your child's class, a few classes or if you are feeling very brave we would love it if all our children could hear your talent in assembly. If you feel you may be musical in any way please email the office with your name and email address for Mrs Manning to get in touch to arrange a time with you. You really will be making memories for your children. Thank you so much.
Messages from NHS Stockport
You may be aware that some schools have been severely affected by the usual winter bugs: Flu type A, and to a lesser extent type B. There were also a small number of Nora virus episodes that resulted in partial and full school closures. We would urge you to ensure your children have the flu vaccine if they have not already done so as this is the single most effective way to avoid serious illness. Also, to continue with the good health habits of regular hand washing, cleaning surfaces, and encouraging children to cough or sneeze into a tissue, etc.
Measles
We have been asked to make you aware that there have been a small number (less than 5 to date) of cases of measles in ADULTS over the last two weeks. Whilst there is no cause for concern at present, now is a good time to ensure your children are up to date with the full course of MMR vaccinations, which requires 2 doses.
More information about measles can be found at: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/measles The ‘MMR for all’ leaflet can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mmr-for-all-generalleaflet
Reduce Isolation and Loneliness
In an attempt to reduce isolation and loneliness, NK Theatre Arts are (together with the local WI) starting a new Film Forum for people to come together to enjoy a cinema experience with lovely refreshments and a chat afterwards.
They will be typically around the last Wednesday of each month, starting this January. The Romiley Forum Theatre is accessible and also Dementia Friendly with parking nearby. All are Welcome, but especially those who live alone or are carers.
Making the most of your hearing
Please also see the attached information regarding a session being held at Walthew House on making the most of your hearing. This will be held on Wednesday, 29th January, 12:30 – 4:00pm
Parents’ Association Meeting
The message below is on behalf of our wonderful parents’ association.
We would like to invite all parents to the next Parents’ Association meeting which will take place on Tuesday 21st January 2020 at 8.00pm at The Crown Pub in Hawk Green. It would be lovely to see some new faces as we meet to discuss ways to fundraise for our children.
Best Attendance
Very well done to Classes 1, 3 and 6. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 100%. Fantastic and very well done.
The Week Ahead
Tuesday 14th January – Parents’ Evening Appointments, 3.30pm – 6.30pm
Wednesday 15th January – Parents’ Evening Appointments, 4.00pm – 7.00pm
Pupil Parliament
This half term's Pupil Parliament meeting will be held at 8.15am on Thursday 16th January. We hope that your child will be able to join us. From Mrs Mylrea
Upcoming Events
Monday 20th January - Martin Luther King Day, Mathletics Competition Week
Wednesday 29th January - Young Voices Junior Choir event – more information to follow
Monday 3rd January - Yr1 & Yr2 trip to Staircase House
Friday 7th February - Yr5 Brass Sessions end
Tuesday 11th February - Safer Internet Day
Wednesday 12th February - Yr3 Class Assembly at 9.05am - parents/family are welcome
Friday 14th February - Valentine’s Day
Yr4 Brass session begins – additional information to follow
Yr3 Swimming
School breaks up at 3.15pm for Half Term
Tuesday 25th February - Shrove Tuesday – Pancake Day
Friday 28th February - Yr5 swimming begins– please see separate letter sent home nearer the time.
Monday 2nd March - Assessment Week
Thursday 5th March - World Book Day
Monday 9th March – Science Week
Wednesday 11th March - No Pens Day Wednesday-Speech and Language focus
Wednesday 18th March - Yr3 trip to Manchester Museum
Friday 20th March - Yr3 Rugby Megafest
Tuesday 24th March - Dance Assembly at 9.05am - parents/family of those participating are welcome
Thursday 26th March - Yr 4 go to Hollowford Centre, Castleton on a one night residential and return on Friday 27th March
Friday 27th March - Yr1 Class Assembly at 9.05am - parents/family are welcome.
Yr2 Step Outside Road Safety training
Monday 30th March - Front Row Music Service Assembly 9.00am, families whose children have lessons welcome
Tuesday 31st March – Reading in Unusual Places – Homework Museum, more information on poster
Wednesday 1st April - Yr4 Class Assembly at 9.05am – parents/family are welcome
Yr6 Theatre trip to Blackpool
Achievement Assembly
Thursday 2nd April - Easter Rehearsal at Church – 9.10am.
Celebration of Successes - Ice-Cream/Fruit Party
Friday 3rd April - 1.45pm Whole School Easter Service at All Saints’ Church– parents/family are welcome.
School breaks up for the Easter Holiday at 3.15pm and returns on Monday 20th April 2020.
Thursday 23rd April - St George’s Day – Those who are part of a uniformed club can wear their uniform today e.g. Cub Scouts, Girlguiding, etc.
Hope everyone has a lovely week, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Welcome back everyone we hope you have all had a fantastic Christmas and New Year. New Year is always a great time for a fresh start and to try and think about the things we would like to achieve in the coming year. Many will have resolutions and we will be talking to the children about this and also how we can all support each other to achieve them. In addition, we would like to extend a very warm welcome to Miss McConnell, who joins us as our new Reception teacher. We are all delighted to have you join the All Saints’ Team.
Before we move onto 2020, we must just take a moment to reflect back on last year and the final week of term, as what a week it was!
Front Row Music Assembly
A very well done to all the children who performed so successfully in their concert, from the youngest children to the oldest they all rose to the occasion and got the audience tapping and singing along. Thank you also to all the family members who came along to join in the fun!
Cinema Trip
It was a really magical morning when we all made our way through Marple to watch the Grinch, the children were amazing and the staff at the cinema commuted on what ‘well behaved and polite children’ we had. We felt immensely proud of them all and would like to say a huge thank you to Mrs Manning for organising the whole trip and of course the Parents Association for funding this very special treat. It has created memories for all our children to last a life time.
Christmas Carol Service and Reception Nativity
Thank you to everyone for joining us at All Saints’ Church for our Carol Service. You all sang with so much enthusiasm and it certainly prepared us very well for the season. The Reception children were absolute superstars. Their singing, spoken voice and movement was outstanding and they certainly made all their family and school buddies, proud. A huge thank you to Mrs Eva and The Reception Team in particular for all your hard work in producing such a wonderful event.
Mrs Preece
Well we said our final farewell to Mrs Preece on the last day of term. We enjoyed a fabulous assembly in the morning which celebrated her achievements and the many hearts she has touched; our children, families, staff and wider community. The children recited poems, presented cards and honoured Mrs Preece in a very special way. We wish her all the very best and know she will come back to see us in the future
Diary Dates
Now time to look forward to 2020!
We look forward to seeing many of you next week at Parents Evening Meetings and also at other events across the term, please do take a look at the Diary Dates attached to make sure you know everything that is happening in advance.
Message from the Pupil Parliament
Our School Pupil Parliament have mentioned in our most recent meeting that one or two parents/carers are, in their words, ‘ignoring’ our new parking figures. For the safety of our children, we would remind those adults to park legally and drive carefully.
Reminders
Please ensure to hand your child’s request time for parent evenings in if you have not already done so. We will be sending out letters with an appointment date and time on this week if we have not received anything.
Best Attendance
Very well done to Class 2. You have won the best attendance for last week before the holidays with an amazing attendance percentage of 98.79%. Fantastic and very well done.
The Week Ahead
No homework club. All other sports clubs will start again this week.
Welcome back everyone and looking forward to a wonderful 2020 together, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
As we write the last newsletter of 2019, we would like to reflect on another great year here at All Saints’. In the true All Saints’ Way 2019 has seen so many risks been taken, learning encouraged, goals achieved and memories made. All of which is only possible because of our wonderful community. We cannot thank our staff enough for their dedication and hard work, our Governors for their wisdom, knowledge and kindness, our families for working in partnership with us and of course our amazing children who every day make us smile and brighten our lives. We hope that everyone has a wonderful final week of term with still so much to fit in including coming wearing your Christmas jumpers to the Thursday evening Carol Service and to school on Friday …
Goodbye Mrs Preece
We are very sad that it is Mrs Preece’s last day with us this Friday. We cannot thank Mrs Preece enough for all she has contributed to the children, families and life of All Saints’ over the last 4 years. She has been an amazing Reception teacher, helping so many children achieve so many firsts in their learning and time at school. She has also been an incredibly talented artist, which we are fortunate to have many lasting memories of around the school. She has also helped us achieve the wonderful accolade of Gold Sports Mark and for all of these things we are very thankful. Although you will no longer be here you will live on in the many legacies you have created and left behind. Your new school is very lucky to have you and we hope you come back and visit us lots too.
Key Stage One Production
This was absolutely spectacular! The children were all amazing singers, dancers, speakers and movers! Every single child shone brightly and did exceptionally well. Thank you to all the many family members and friends who were able to attend. Also, a huge, huge thank you to the fantastic Mrs Noble and all the wonderful Key Stage One team. We cannot thank you enough for all your incredible hard work and massive amount of time you spent above and beyond to make this such a ‘show stopping’ performance!
Shining example of the All Saints’ Team!
An amazing £1,300 was raised at the Christmas fair. This is a phenomenal amount of money and down to many people’s hard work and dedication. The money raised will make such a difference to our children and bringing our Forest school dream alive! So a huge All Saints’ thank you to everyone who made this possible.
Dance Assembly
Last Tuesday morning saw our wonderful Dance Club entertain us thoroughly and put on a great show, with amazing moves and smiles aplenty. Well done everyone and thank you to all the parents and family members who attended.
Year 5 and 6 Football Tournament
Last Tuesday also saw the team heading out to Stockport County to play in a Stockport schools event. The children were also shining examples of the All Saints’ Way and this was commented on by other schools too! Well done to all the team and Miss Taylor and Mr Beswick for organising and supporting the event so well.
Christmas Lunch
Well it is still amazes us – where do you start making Christmas Dinner for so many people!?! However, last Wednesday was a great community event and it was so lovely to see so many children and family members join us and get in the festive spirit. Thank you so much to everyone who came and also all the staff who gave up their time to help serving, tidying and everything else. Finally, the biggest thank you to our fabulous kitchen team Lindsey, who did all the real hard work! 
Helpers required!
If you are able to help walk the children up to the rehearsal at Church on Thursday morning at 9.10am and then return back to school from Church at 11.00am that would be wonderful – please let your child’s class teacher or the office know. Also, if you are able to help walk the children to and from church on Friday at 1.20pm and back again after the service then that would also be wonderful.
Walk to School Scheme
As the end of term is approaching we wanted to say a huge well done to the whole school for taking part in WOW this term!
Your current engagement rate for the autumn term is 54%. Let’s see if this can be even higher next term!
A Message from Stockport Local Authority
The Children’s and Young People’s Department have co-produced, with children, young people and families, a set of outcomes which create a framework for measuring how well every child or young person, including those with SEND, reaches their own goals. They would now like a wider view on the proposed outcomes and would be grateful if you could complete the following online survey which closes on 3rd Jan 2020. C&YP Outcomes Consultation
Messages from NHS Stockport
Autism Friendly Library Session
Please find attached publicity for our December session at Cheadle Library. There will be no session at Bredbury this month due to it falling on Boxing Day.
Living Life to the full course
Our next series of Living Life the Full start early in the New Year (7th January) and we’ve fixed starting dates for two more (see below). These informal classes teach CBT tools for those with low mood or anxiety – perfect for people wanting to beat the New Year blues All series consist of 8 sessions at 7:45pm at Bramhall Methodist Church. There is no cost but we do welcome donations if people feel they have benefitted. You can read about what people have said about the classes at this link.
· Tuesdays from 7th January (non-religious)
· Wednesdays from 4th March (non-religious)
· Mondays from 6th May (additional Christian material*)
(* These classes have exactly the same CBT content as the non-religious version but are 10-15 minutes longer as they include some extra material suggesting how a Christian faith can augment the CBT techniques)
60+ Drop In
Please also see the attached poster giving information about a new group that has started at the Plaza on a Wednesday morning 10:30am till 11:30am for people aged 60+..
A launch event will also be held on Wednesday 8th January 10:30am till 11:30am where Carers, friends, family and care organisations can pop down to find out more.
Reminders
Please ensure to hand your child’s request time for parent evenings in the new year if you have not already done so.
Best Attendance
Very well done to Class 3 You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 100%. Fantastic and very well done.
The Week Ahead
Tuesday 17th December – KS1 and 2 (Years 1-6) to Marple Cinema to watch The Grinch. PM - KS2 (Years 3,4,5 and 6) Christmas Party.
Thursday 19th December - Whole School Carol Service Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church. Anyone who is able to help walk the children to and from church at 9.10am and 11.00am please let the office know – thank you in advance. Whole School Carol Service at All Saints’ Church 6pm.
Friday 20th December - Achievement Assembly for children in school time. No swimming for Year 3. No brass for Year 5. Whole School Carol Service at All Saints’ Church at 1.45pm.
School breaks up for the Christmas/New Year Holiday
Upcoming Events
School opens again on Monday 6th January 2020.
We wish everyone a very merry Christmas and peaceful new year, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
December is in full swing with lots of exciting things to say well done and thank you for from last week and also many events to look forward to over the next week…
Saint George’s Choir Concert
Amazing and wonderful are two very apt words to describe our fabulous All Saints’ Choir. They represented themselves, their families and All Saints’ last Tuesday night at Saint George’s fantastically. The Choir were shining examples of the All Saints’ Way and it truly was a beautiful, festive evening. A huge thank you to Mrs Manning and Mrs Noble for all your hard work and giving up so much of your free time to prepare the children so brilliantly.
All Saints’ Church
We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone at All Saints’ Church for making us so welcome yesterday during our visit. It was a pleasure to see so many of our All Saints’ School family and also celebrate the amazing links we have between our School and such a special Church. 
Helpers required!
If you are able to help walk the children up to the rehearsal at Church on Wednesday morning at 9.10am and then return back to school from Church at 11.00am that would be wonderful – please let your child’s class teacher or the office know.
Message from Saint Anne’s Hospice - Christmas tree collection
Please see the attached poster for more information of how to support this charity.
Message on behalf of Stockport Council
The link below asks for views on the admission arrangements of a number of schools out of the local area but the final section is about School Terms and Holiday Dates 2021/22. It is asking for families’ views on if they would like to keep the 2 week May holiday or change it to a week and have an additional week in the summer.
To respond to this consultation, visit https://www.stockport.gov.uk/admission-arrangements-and-school-holiday-and-term-dates-consultation
The consultation closes on 12 January 2020
Message on behalf of Stockport SEND Team
We’re asking parents of children and young people with special educational needs and/or a disability (SEND) to sign up for our SEND e-newsletter. The aim of this newsletter is to keep you updated on the most recent information from our SEND Improvement Programme journey.
The aim is that it will help us:
Please email the following email address for more information:- SEND-IP@stockport.gov.uk
Reminders
Please do take a look at all the upcoming events below, as it is a very busy time of year!
Best Attendance
Very well done to Class 5. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 98.67%. Fantastic and very well done.
The Week Ahead
Tuesday 10th December - Dance Assembly 9.05am
Wednesday 11th December - Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) Christmas Performance Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church, whole school to watch. Anyone who is able to help walk the children to and from church at 9.10am and 11.00am please let the office know – thank you in advance.
Christmas Lunch – This is fully booked and parents should have received a message with sitting time.
Thursday 12th December - KS1 Christmas Performance at All Saints’ Church 9.30am and 6pm.
Friday 13th December - Celebration of successes Fruit and Ice-Cream Party for the children. Last Year 3 Swimming before the holidays. Year 5 brass.
Upcoming Events
Monday 16th December – Front Row Music Performance assembly for invited families 9.05am. Reception and KS1 Christmas Party
Tuesday 17th December – KS1 and 2 (Years 1-6) to Marple Cinema to watch The Grinch. PM - KS2 (Years 3,4,5 and 6) Christmas Party.
Thursday 19th December - Whole School Carol Service Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church. Anyone who is able to help walk the children to and from church at 9.10am and 11.00am please let the office know – thank you in advance. Whole School Carol Service at All Saints’ Church 6pm.
Friday 20th December - Achievement Assembly for children in school time. No swimming for Year 3, no Brass for Year 5. Whole School Carol Service at All Saints’ Church at 1.45pm.
School breaks up for the Christmas/New Year Holiday and returns on Monday 6th January 2020.
We hope to see you in school at some of this week’s events, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Well December is here and it is officially Christmas Time at All Saints’!!! As you will all be well aware, it is the season for many an All Saints’ Christmas tradition from Year 6 Christmas cake making to Key Stage One Productions and Carol Services, as such we just want to say thank you for all you are doing to support your child and school at this busy time and encourage you to look at the upcoming date reminders below to ensure you don’t miss out on anything.
Parents Association Christmas Fair
Saturday’s Christmas Fair was a huge success and thank you so much to everyone who played a part, no matter how big or small! It is a real team effort and School cannot thank you all enough as the money you raise really does make a difference. It makes a difference especially to the ‘M’ part of our All Saints’ Way definition as the money allows us to make many Memories for the children, as highlighted by our upcoming Parents Association funded cinema trip!
Class 6 Assembly
Thank you to all the parents who were able to join us as the Year 6 children celebrated their learning in style. The theme was our whole school topic ‘Global Neighbours’ and it included some impressive science, geography, music and English learning. We were particularly impressed with the thought provoking poem and narrative poem. Thank you Year 6 children and staff for a fabulous assembly!
Parents Evening Letters
Please look out for your child coming home tonight with their Parents Evening letters for January meetings.
Teacher Training Students
We are always happy to accommodate students and Friday was no exception as we had 13 students joining us as Mr McShane and Mrs Noble led some of their training on PSHE and RE. They were impressed with our children and their children’s learning.
A message from Marple Carnival Committee
"PLAYTIME AT MARPLE CARNIVAL"
Our Royalty application is now available on our website!
To be the Carnival Queen the child/student must be aged 10 to 15 and to be Princess aged 7 to 10. Entries are also welcome in the age range 5 to 7 for the Carnival Rosebud and from 4 years for a Carnival Petal. Boys are also welcome to apply.
Entry details are on our website: www.marplecarnival.org.uk
Best Attendance
Very well done to Class 3. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 99.33%. Fantastic and very well done. 
The Week Ahead
Tuesday 3rd December - All Saints’ Choir singing at Saint George’s Church. Rehearsal pm and Service 7.30pm – please see separate letter for more information.
Friday 6th December - Year 6 Christmas Cakes
Upcoming Events
Tuesday 10th December - Dance Assembly 9.05am
Wednesday 11th December - Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) Christmas Performance Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church, whole school to watch. Anyone who is able to help walk the children to and from church at 9.10am and 11.00am please let the office know – thank you in advance.
Christmas Lunch – please see separate letter.
Thursday 12th December - KS1 Christmas Performance at All Saints’ Church 9.30am and 6pm.
Friday 13th December - Celebration of successes Fruit and Ice-Cream Party for the children. Last Year 3 Swimming before the holidays.
Monday 16th December – Fiddler Music Performance assembly for invited families 9.05am. Reception and KS1 Christmas Party
Tuesday 17th December – KS1 and 2 (Years 1-6) to Marple Cinema to watch The Grinch. PM - KS2 (Years 3,4,5 and 6) Christmas Party.
Thursday 19th December - Whole School Carol Service Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church. Anyone who is able to help walk the children to and from church at 9.10am and 11.00am please let the office know – thank you in advance. Whole School Carol Service at All Saints’ Church 6pm.
Friday 20th December - Achievement Assembly for children in school time. No swimming for Year 3. Whole School Carol Service at All Saints’ Church at 1.45pm.
School breaks up for the Christmas/New Year Holiday and returns on Monday 6th January 2020.
Please note that Parents Evening Week will take place W.C Monday 13th January with evening appointments on Tuesday 3.30pm -6.00pm and Wednesday 4.00pm – 7.00pm. Letters will be sent out to book appointments early December.
We hope everyone has a lovely week, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Welcome to this week’s newsletter, you will be pleased to know that it is a short one!
Trashion Show
Last week saw our Key Stage 2 children put on a great show displaying all their ‘Trashion’ items and ‘Upcycling’ skills. It has been a great part of our whole school ‘Global Neighbours’ topic, with many of our children really interested in how we can look after our planet more and also make a difference ourselves. The children really enjoyed it and there were definitely some budding fashion designers in our midst!
Homework Museum
Thank you also to all our ‘Trashion Show’ homework museum entries for this term. Again, there are definitely some great talents and creative minds in our school and a particular well done to our class winners, we know it was a difficult decision for our staff!
Welcome to Miss McConnell
We are very much looking forward to Miss McConnell being in school over the next two weeks. We are sure you will make her feel very welcome as she gets to know our wonderful Reception Class and families.
Christmas Fayre
We are excited to be holding our Parents’ Association Christmas Fayre on Saturday from 11am to 1pm. Thank you to everyone who has been busy behind the scenes and for all your donations last week. All money raised does so much to help all our children. Hope to see you there!
Movement Month
As previously mentioned two of our classes have been trialling Movement Month working alongside Janine Kelly – one of parents. We would just like to say another huge thank you to Janine for all her time working with Class 2 and Class 5. It has been really useful to take part in this project and something the children have enjoyed and benefited from. We are also fortunate enough that Mrs Noble and Mrs Cochrane will be sharing the learning and ideas with other staff to get us all moving even more every day!
Reminders
CGP Books
A reminder Mrs Davey in the Office is now taking orders for the CGP books. If you would like to order any books for your child, please contact the school office. Orders will be placed on Friday 29th November so please ensure you have placed your order and paid by this date.
Read all about it!
We are asking for donations of any used children's magazines, comics or newspapers (maybe from any subscriptions) that they no longer require and that can be used for our school library e.g. First News, Whizz Pop Bang Science magazine, Beano, Football magazines they would be gratefully appreciated
Best Attendance
Very well done to Class 1. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 95.71%, well done.
The Week Ahead
W/C 25th November - Assessment Week
Thursday 28th November – 9.15am Year 6 Class Assembly
Friday 29th November - Year 3 first swimming session - please see separate letters.
Dress Down Day for Christmas Fair –
All year groups – chocolate
Saturday 30th November - Parent Association Christmas Fayre 11am – 1pm
Upcoming Events
Tuesday 3rd December - All Saints’ Choir singing at Saint George’s Church. Rehearsal am and Service 7.30pm – please see separate letter for more information.
Friday 6th December - Year 6 making their Christmas Cakes – please see separate letter and make a payment on Parentpay
Tuesday 10th December - Dance Assembly 9.05am
Wednesday 11th December - Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) Christmas Performance Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church, whole school to watch. Anyone who is able to help walk the children to and from church at 9.10am and 11.00am please let the office know – thank you in advance.
Christmas Lunch – please see separate letter (closing date for booking Wednesday 4th December)
Thursday 12th December - KS1 Christmas Performance at All Saints’ Church 9.30am and 6pm.
Friday 13th December - Celebration of successes Fruit and Ice-Cream Party for the children. Last Year 3 Swimming before the holidays.
Monday 16th December – Front Row Music Performance assembly for invited families 9.05am. Reception and KS1 Christmas Party
Tuesday 17th December – KS1 and 2 (Years 1-6) to Marple Cinema to watch The Grinch. PM - KS2 (Years 3,4,5 and 6) Christmas Party.
Thursday 19th December - Whole School Carol Service Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church. Anyone who is able to help walk the children to and from church at 9.10am and 11.00am please let the office know – thank you in advance. Whole School Carol Service at All Saints’ Church 6pm.
Friday 20th December - Achievement Assembly for children in school time. No swimming for Year 3. Whole School Carol Service at All Saints’ Church at 1.45pm.
School breaks up for the Christmas/New Year Holiday and returns on Monday 6th January 2020.
Please note that Parents Evening Week will take place W.C Monday 13th January with evening appointments on Tuesday 3.30pm -6.00pm and Wednesday 4.00pm – 7.00pm. Letters will be sent out to book appointments early December.
We hope everyone has a lovely week, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
We can’t believe we are already in week four of this half term, time flies when you are having fun!
Mrs Preece
As many of you are now aware we are sorry to be saying goodbye to Mrs Preece as we break up for Christmas. However, we cannot thank her enough for all she has done for the children and school since she joined us, four years ago. We are sure you will join us in wishing her all the very best as she embarks on her next step in her career.
Miss McConnell
We are delighted to announce that Miss McConnell who many of you will know from Class 2, Class Four - or even taking part in the All Saints’ Mighty Hike Team last year - will be the new Reception Teacher from January. She is thrilled to be coming back to All Saints’ and will be in school a great deal leading up to Christmas getting to know all the wonderful Reception children and families. We know you will all make her feel at home again in no time!
Active Generations
Last Monday saw a great first for All Saints’ with the Reception Class Grandparents invited in for a very active afternoon. Despite the weather, laps of the playground were done and even new skills learnt in the game of ‘Boccia’. It was a great afternoon and thank you so much to everyone for coming and joining in. Also, a huge thank you to Mrs Noble for organising this great event and watch this space for similar future events too!
Thank You - Online Safety Workshop and Parent Open Afternoon
Thank you to Tanya Cross who led the workshop and to the parents who were able to come along. Again, it was an informative session and all found it very helpful. The next session will take place during the evening. Thank you also to all the parents who attended the drop in session we hope you found it useful.
Welcome Back
Mr Phil Alston led our Collective Worship on Friday 15th November. It was a superb interactive assembly using The Good Samaritan to demonstrate how we ought to treat each other with respect and care. He spoke about being intentional in our efforts to make everyone around us happy. We are looking forward to Mr Alston joining us again in the future.
Say hello to our new road safety figures
We were all excited to unveil our road safety figures on Friday. Our Non-Uniform Day raised £195.45 and the Parent Association have kindly volunteered to add £149.55 so we could purchase 3 figures. Thank you so much for all of your generous donations and thank you very much to the Parents' Association for helping us make this possible. Hopefully, they will make car users think twice about where they park to ensure our children stay safe.
Christmas Lunch
This year our annual All Saints’ Christmas Lunch will take place on Wednesday 11th December. Family members are welcome to come and join their child/children and really start the festive season off, sharing a Christmas Lunch together. As usual it is a huge event to organise so please book your places by Wednesday 4th December. Please look out for the separate letter coming home with your child today. Pay for your child’s meal as normal using the Taylor Shaw Lunch Payment option, pay for any adults and siblings by clicking on the Christmas Lunch option. For any help with this please email admin@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk
Thank you and we look forward to seeing you at this exciting event!
Homework Museum Entries
We are very excited to see your Homework Museum entries ready for the ‘Trashion Show’ tomorrow! Children to please bring in entries and a photo of it being modelled by the beginning of the day. The entries will be open for families to view at the end of the school day until 4pm!
Reminders
CGP Books
A reminder Mrs Davey in the Office is now taking orders for the CGP books. If you would like to order any books for your child, please contact the school office. Orders will be placed on Friday 29th November so please ensure you have placed your order and paid by this date.
Read all about it!
We are asking for donations of any used children's magazines, comics or newspapers (maybe from any subscriptions) that they no longer require and that can be used for our school library e.g. First News, Whizz Pop Bang Science magazine, Beano, Football magazines they would be gratefully appreciated! 
Best Attendance
Very well done to our Class 6. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 97.46%. Fantastic and very well done.
The Week Ahead
Tuesday 19th November - Trashion Show (Homework Museum). Children to bring in entries and a photo of it being modelled by the beginning of the day. The entries will be open for families to view at the end of the school day – please see the flyer for more information and get creating!
Friday 22nd November - Year 4 last swimming session and Year 5 first brass session - please see separate letters.
Dress Down Day for Christmas Fair –
Reception & Key Stage 1 - pamper goods
Key Stage 2 - bottles
Upcoming Events
W/C 25th November - Assessment Week
Thursday 28th November - Year 6 Class Assembly
Friday 29th November - Year 3 first swimming session - please see separate letters.
Dress Down Day for Christmas Fair –
All year groups – chocolate
Saturday 30th November - Parent Association Christmas Fayre 11am – 1pm
Tuesday 3rd December - All Saints’ Choir singing at Saint George’s Church. Rehearsal am and Service 7.30pm – please see separate letter for more information.
Friday 6th December - Year 6 Christmas Cakes
Tuesday 10th December - Dance Assembly 9.05am
Wednesday 11th December - Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) Christmas Performance Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church, whole school to watch. Anyone who is able to help walk the children to and from church at 9.10am and 11.00am please let the office know – thank you in advance.
Christmas Lunch – please see separate letter.
Thursday 12th December - KS1 Christmas Performance at All Saints’ Church 9.30am and 6pm.
Friday 13th December - Celebration of successes Fruit and Ice-Cream Party for the children. Last Year 3 Swimming before the holidays.
Monday 16th December – Fiddler Music Performance assembly for invited families 9.05am. Reception and KS1 Christmas Party
Tuesday 17th December – KS1 and 2 (Years 1-6) to Marple Cinema to watch The Grinch. PM - KS2 (Years 3,4,5 and 6) Christmas Party.
Thursday 19th December - Whole School Carol Service Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church. Anyone who is able to help walk the children to and from church at 9.10am and 11.00am please let the office know – thank you in advance. Whole School Carol Service at All Saints’ Church 6pm.
Friday 20th December - Achievement Assembly for children in school time. No swimming for Year 3. Whole School Carol Service at All Saints’ Church at 1.45pm.
School breaks up for the Christmas/New Year Holiday and returns on Monday 6th January 2020.
Please note that Parents Evening Week will take place W.C Monday 13th January with evening appointments on Tuesday 3.30pm -6.00pm and Wednesday 4.00pm – 7.00pm. Letters will be sent out to book appointments early December.
Have a great week everyone, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Anti-bullying Week
This week sees us focus and celebrate the extremely important national Anti-bullying week. This year’s theme is ‘Change Starts with Us’ and we are sure the children will have a fantastic and informative week. Included this week are the following events for parents:-
Thursday 1.15pm - Online Safety Workshop for parents run by Tanya Cross from the Local Authority. Please sign in at the main entrance. Followed by the open afternoon.2.15pm - Autumn Parent Open Afternoon. 
After parental feedback we will also be selling the CGP workbooks at the parent drop in, many families find these really helpful when supporting their children at home. Parents will be able to order these by paying cash only to the office up until Thursday 28th November. Books will then be distributed to children at the beginning of December. We will also be finishing the week with a dress down day to raise money for parking figures outside of school, a suggested minimum donation of £1.00 would be very gratefully received.
Parents Association Christmas Fair
Saturday 30th November 11am – 1pm.
In preparation for the Christmas Fair please see the information regarding dress down days below:
Friday 22nd November
Reception & Key Stage 1 - pamper goods
Key Stage 2 - bottles
Friday 29th November
All year groups - chocolate
The PA are also trialling a present 'buy and wrap' service this year where children will be able to buy a gift priced £1, £2 or £3 for someone special in their family, an adult will be on hand to help them pick, wrap and write a tag for the gift. For this we are asking people to send in any 'unused gifts' they have lurking at the back of cupboards. If you are able to help before or during the Christmas Fair then please let either Helena Monds or the Office know. The money raised by these events is absolutely invaluable for the school, so a huge thank you in advance for all your support.
Basketball Assembly
We had an absolutely amazing assembly led by Gavin who trains the England basketball team and is part of the Sports for All organisation. He was engaging and the children enjoyed the interactive challenges he set for them. Individuals who took part wowed us with their skills and the children were impressed with the skills of Mrs Monds and Mr McShane too! Gavin spoke about resilience and success that can be achieved by all. He also gave an open invitation to anyone who would like to join the training session. Children took these home last Thursday, so hopefully you have seen them!
Year 5 Class Assembly
The Year 5 children led their assembly on Environmental issues with enthusiasm and conviction. They spoke about writing to real audiences like ASDA and KFC and shared some of the replies received from different organisations. We heard a wonderful acrostic poem and everyone left with a much better understanding of how to look after our planet Earth. Thank you to the Year 5 children and staff for a fabulous assembly! We would also like to thank the many parents who turned up to celebrate, support and encourage the children in their learning.
Message from Saint Ann’s Hospice
Our tiny charity, JustHelping, is once again is running their Christmas Tree collection in partnership with St Ann's Hospice. The collection will take place in Stockport on 10th, 11th and 12th January.
Reminders
Homework Museum Entries are due in on Tuesday 19th November!
Read all about it!
We are asking for donations of any used children's magazines, comics or newspapers (maybe from any subscriptions) that they no longer require and that can be used for our school library e.g. First News, Whizz Pop Bang Science magazine, Beano, Football magazines they would be gratefully appreciated! 
Best Attendance
Very well done to Class 6. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 99.68%. Fantastic and very well done.
The Week Ahead
W/C 11th November - Anti-bullying Week 2019 – Theme ‘Change starts with us’
Active Generation event at 1.30pm for Grandparents of Reception Children (please see separate letter). Please sign in at the main reception.
Tuesday 12th November - Flu vaccinations for Reception to Year 6 children – please see separate communication.
Wednesday 13th November - Years 3, 4 and 5 Samba Drums Workshop in school, 2.45pm showcase for parents to attend. Please sign in at the main reception.
Thursday 14th November - Safer Internet/ Social Media Workshop for all parents at 1.15pm to 2.15pm followed by Parent Drop In to meet your child’s teacher(s). Please sign in at the main reception.
Friday 15th November - Year 6 last brass session and Dress Down Day to raise money for parking figures.
Upcoming Events
Tuesday 19th November - Trashion Show (Homework Museum). Children to bring in entries and a photo of it being modelled by the beginning of the day. The entries will be open for families to view at the end of the school day – please see the flyer for more information and get creating!
Friday 22nd November - Year 4 last swimming session and Year 5 first brass session - please see separate letters.
W/C 25th November - Assessment Week
Thursday 28th November - Year 6 Class Assembly
Friday 29th November - Year 3 first swimming session - please see separate letters
Saturday 30th November - Parent Association Christmas Fayre 11am – 1pm
Tuesday 3rd December - All Saints’ Choir singing at Saint George’s Church. Rehearsal am and Service 7.30pm – please see separate letter for more information.
Friday 6th December - Year 6 Christmas Cakes
Tuesday 10th December - Dance Assembly 9.05am
Wednesday 11th December - Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) Christmas Performance Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church, whole school to watch. Anyone who is able to help walk the children to and from church at 9.10am and 11.00am please let the office know – thank you in advance.
Thursday 12th December - KS1 Christmas Performance at All Saints’ Church 9.30am and 6pm.
Friday 13th December - Celebration of successes Fruit and Ice-Cream Party for the children. Last Year 3 Swimming before the holidays.
Monday 16th December – Front Row Music Performance assembly for invited families 9.05am. Reception and KS1 Christmas Party
Tuesday 17th December – KS1 and 2 (Years 1-6) to Marple Cinema to watch The Grinch. PM - KS2 (Years 3,4,5 and 6) Christmas Party.
Thursday 19th December - Whole School Carol Service Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church. Anyone who is able to help walk the children to and from church at 9.10am and 11.00am please let the office know – thank you in advance. Whole School Carol Service at All Saints’ Church 6pm.
Friday 20th December - Achievement Assembly for children in school time. No swimming for Year 3. Whole School Carol Service at All Saints’ Church at 1.45pm.
School breaks up for the Christmas/New Year Holiday and returns on Monday 6th January 2020.
Please note that Parents Evening Week will take place W.C Monday 13th January with evening appointments on Tuesday 3.30pm -6.00pm and Wednesday 4.00pm – 7.00pm. Letters will be sent out to book appointments early December.
We hope you have a lovely week and to see many of you on Thursday, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Welcome to another newsletter and busy week here at All Saints’!
Selling poppies
Following our special Remembrance Collective Worship, led by our Ethos Group, this week we will be selling poppies and other merchandise in school to raise money for the appeal. We have a range of things that the Year 6 children will sell for example, wristbands, zip pulls, reflector badges and snap bands all for a suggested donation of £1.00 as well as 4 things for £1.00 such as ruler, pencil, eraser and sharpener.
Read all about it!
We are asking for donations of any used children's magazines, comics or newspapers (maybe from any subscriptions) that they no longer require and that can be used for our school library e.g. First News, Whizz Pop Bang Science magazine, Beano, Football magazines they would be gratefully appreciated!
Parent Governor Election
We only received one application at the recent election and as such are delighted to announce that Helena Monds has been elected again for another term of office. We are very grateful of your continued commitment and dedication for all the children of All Saints’.
Our Fantastic All Saints’ Community
Music and Movement
A huge thank you to Henry and Nathaniel’s Mum for giving up her time and coming in to lead a music assembly for the whole school and Dulcrose sessions for the infants last week. The children (and staff) really loved it and it definitely had the desired effect of inspiring our future musicians. Also, thank you so much to Lois’s Mum in Year 1 for also giving up her time to come and trial some movement sessions with two of our classes, again the children really enjoyed it and we hope to build on this as part of our constant drive to keep our children active and healthy.
Being a Beekeeper
Mr Chris Buckley came in to share his expertise on bees and beekeeping on Thursday. This fitted in perfectly as our topic this term is Global Neighbours. He led several workshops for all our children who were buzzing with excitement and extra knowledge by the end of it. Mr Buckley brought in a robust hive with bees inside, the children enjoyed learning about candles made from beeswax, handling honeycomb and seeing the different consistencies of honey. We even had our own giant bee saying thank you to Mr Buckley. He was absolutely brilliant and we hope he visits us again soon.
Evergreens Group
Four representatives of the Year 6 class went to All Saints’ Church to visit the Evergreens Group. This group have kindly paid for the subscription for our Year 5 class to engage in the Archbishop of York Young Leaders Award this year. The children spoke about how important it is to serve others and to build confidence and determination to be the change we want to see. They spoke about all the local projects they had engaged in and how these helped to develop their leadership skills. We would like to again express a huge thank you to the Evergreens Group.
Thank You!
A massive thanks to all who handed in Aldi sports stickers we now have a full 300 on our chart - fingers crossed we will receive some great new sports kits for PE events in the future and thank you to Mrs Noble’s daughter who spent time in her holidays sticking them all on!!! Please hand in any stickers you may have before the 13th November, to ensure they are all stuck on the chart ready to be posted before the deadline.
Message from Marple Civic Society
An event is being organised by St Martin’s Low Marple Heritage Trust entitled "The Arts and Crafts Movement in the North West". This is a study afternoon with afternoon tea and all are welcome. It is taking place on Saturday 23rd November 2019, 2.30pm - 4.30pm. For further information please see https://www.stmartinsheritagetrust.org.uk/
Reminders
Thursday 14th November - Online Safety Workshop and Parent Open Afternoon
As circulated on the Autumn Term Diary Dates we have organised a special online safety awareness workshop for all parents and family members. This interactive session will be led by Tanya Cross (Local Authority PSHE Lead) at 1.15pm. The previous workshops have all been absolutely brilliant and all who attended thought it was excellent and benefited from it greatly. Even if you have attended previously as the online world is constantly changing, it is still very much worthwhile attending again if you are able to. This will be followed by our open afternoon where you can have a chat with your child or children's class teachers about how your child is settling in and the progress they are making. This will take place in the hall from 2:15pm to 3.00pm on Thurs 14th November. As always if you can be aware that these sessions are for all parents and if you feel you would like a little longer then please let your child’s class teacher know you would like to arrange a follow up meeting on the day.
Best Attendance
Very well done to our Reception Class. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 99.67%. Fantastic and very well done.
The Week Ahead
Tuesday 5th November - Individual photos – please come ready to say cheese!
Thursday 7th November –Mr Gavin Lane will be visiting us again to deliver a Basket Ball Workshop for all the children.
Friday 8th November - Year 5 Class Assembly
Upcoming Events
W/C 11th November - Anti-Bullying Week 2019 – Theme ‘Change starts with us’
Active Generation event at 1.30pm for Grandparents of Reception Children (please see separate letter)
Tuesday 12th November - Flu vaccinations for Reception to Year 6 children – please see separate communication
Wednesday 13th November - Years 3, 4 and 5 Samba Drums Workshop in school, 2.45pm showcase for parents to attend. Please sign in at the main reception.
Thursday 14th November - Safer Internet/ Social Media Workshop for all parents at 1.15pm to 2.15pm followed by Parent Drop in to meet your child’s teacher(s).
Friday 15th November - Year 6 last brass session and Dress Down Day to raise money for parking figures.
Tuesday 19th November - Trashion Show (Homework Museum). Children to bring in entries and a photo of it being modelled by the beginning of the day. The entries will be open for families to view at the end of the school day – please see the flyer for more information and get creating!
Friday 22nd November - Year 4 last swimming session and Year 5 first brass session - please see separate letters.
W/C 25th November - Assessment Week
Thursday 28th November - Year 6 Class Assembly
Friday 29th November - Year 3 first swimming session - please see separate letters
Saturday 30th November - Parent Association Christmas Fayre 11am – 1pm
Tuesday 3rd December - All Saints’ Choir singing at Saint George’s Church. Rehearsal am and Service 7.30pm – please see separate letter for more information.
Friday 6th December - Year 6 Christmas Cakes
Tuesday 10th December - Dance Assembly 9.05am
Wednesday 11th December - Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) Christmas Performance Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church, whole school to watch. Anyone who is able to help walk the children to and from church at 9.10am and 11.00am please let the office know – thank you in advance.
Thursday 12th December - KS1 Christmas Performance at All Saints’ Church 9.30am and 6pm.
Friday 13th December - Celebration of successes Fruit and Ice-Cream Party for the children. Last Year 3 Swimming before the holidays.
Monday 16th December – Fiddler Music Performance assembly for invited families 9.05am. Reception and KS1 Christmas Party
Tuesday 17th December – KS1 and 2 (Years 1-6) to Marple Cinema to watch The Grinch. PM - KS2 (Years 3,4,5 and 6) Christmas Party.
Thursday 19th December - Whole School Carol Service Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church. Anyone who is able to help walk the children to and from church at 9.10am and 11.00am please let the office know – thank you in advance. Whole School Carol Service at All Saints’ Church 6pm.
Friday 20th December - Achievement Assembly for children in school time. No swimming for Year 3. Whole School Carol Service at All Saints’ Church at 1.45pm.
School breaks up for the Christmas/New Year Holiday and returns on Monday 6th January 2020.
Please note that Parents Evening Week will take place W.C Monday 13th January with evening appointments on Tuesday 3.30pm -6.00pm and Wednesday 4.00pm – 7.00pm. Letters will be sent out to book appointments early December.
Have a great week everyone, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
A very warm (or unfortunately maybe cold and wet) welcome back to the second half of our Autumn Term!
Church Week
Well we could not start this half term without reflecting back on the amazing last week of Autumn 1 half term and Church Week. The week continues to go from strength to strength and this year was a real triumph in terms of bringing all our All Saints’ Values to life, with the community living and breathing them all for the benefit of our amazing children. We even had visitors from other Schools that were blown away by the uniqueness of this special event and all learning that takes place. Organisation for such a huge week starts many, many months ago and is not possible without the dedication and sheer hard work put in by all the kind volunteers and helpers along the way for which we could not be more grateful. However, two incredibly special people really do need an individual mention and that is Mrs Eva and Mrs Holton! Your vision came to life and we cannot thank you enough for the hours and hours of work you both did to ensure that the week ran like clockwork and the children had a an absolutely fantastic time. The colour run was something that early on did not seem possible but you did it, and from the many smiling - if not a bit muddy and wet – faces on the day I am sure it made it all worthwhile! It was a very special week indeed and finally a big thanks for all the donations for the Pantry in Marple, supporting local families’, homeless and disadvantaged people in Stockport.
Lockdown Arrangements
In line with our Safeguarding procedures and policies, we will be having a Lock Down Drill next Wednesday the 6th November. Please look out for the letter coming home with your children on Wednesday this week with further detail and information.
Road Safety
As you are aware, we are always concerned about the safety and wellbeing of our children. We have regularly sent out reminders about driving and parking on Brickbridge Road. To assist us, we would like to invest in some parking reminder resources. We know the children are keen to be involved so we will be having a non-uniform day on Friday 15th November, where each child is being asked to bring in at least £1 towards this very worthwhile cause. This will be instead of taking part in Children in Need this year. Many thanks in advance for your support.
Reminders
Thursday 14th November - Online Safety Workshop and Parent Open Afternoon
As circulated on the Autumn Term Diary Dates we have organised a special online safety awareness workshop for all parents and family members. This interactive session will be led by Tanya Cross (Local Authority PSHE Lead) at 1.15pm. The previous workshops have all been absolutely brilliant and all who attended thought it was excellent and benefited from it greatly. Even if you have attended previously as the online world is constantly changing, it is still very much worthwhile attending again if you are able to. This will be followed by our open afternoon where you can have a chat with your child or children's class teachers about how your child is settling in and the progress they are making. This will take place in the hall from 2:15pm to 3.00pm on Thurs 14th November. As always if you can be aware that these sessions are for all parents and if you feel you would like a little longer then please let your child’s class teacher know you would like to arrange a follow up meeting on the day.
Sadfishing
Also, following on with the need to try and keep up with the ever-evolving online world, please see the attached guide around ‘Sadfishing’ a growing trend on social media.
Stockport Local Authority - Our SEND Improvement Journey
Please see the attached - on behalf of Stockport Local Authority – an invite to a meeting regarding the LA Special Educational Need and Disability improvement journey.
Best Attendance
Very well done to our Reception Class. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 100%. Fantastic and very well done.
Reminders
We are still collecting!
The Week Ahead
Thursday 31st November - Beekeeper Workshop for children in school
Upcoming Events
Tuesday 5th November - Individual photos– please come ready to say cheese!
Thursday 7th November - Outdoor Classroom Day
Friday 8th November - Year 5 Class Assembly
W/C 10th November - Anti-bullying Week 2019 – Theme ‘Change starts with us’
Tuesday 12th November - Flu vaccinations for Reception to Year 6 children – please see separate communication
Wednesday 13th November - Years 3, 4 and 5 Samba Drums Workshop in school, 2.45pm showcase for parents to attend. Please sign in at the main reception.
Thursday 14th November - Safer Internet/ Social Media Workshop for all parents at 1.15pm to 2.15pm followed by Parent Drop In to meet your child’s teacher(s).
Friday 15th November - Year 6 last brass session and Dress Down Day to raise money for parking figures.
Tuesday 19th November - Trashion Show (Homework Museum). Children to bring in entries and a photo of it being modelled by the beginning of the day. The entries will be open for families to view at the end of the school day – please see the flyer for more information and get creating!
Friday 22nd November - Year 4 last swimming session and Year 5 first brass session - please see separate letters.
W/C 24th November - Assessment Week
Thursday 28th November - Year 6 Class Assembly
Friday 29th November - Year 3 first swimming session - please see separate letters
Saturday 30th November - Parent Association Christmas Fayre 11am – 1pm
Tuesday 3rd December - All Saints’ Choir singing at Saint George’s Church. Rehearsal am and Service 7.30pm – please see separate letter for more information.
Friday 6th December - Year 6 Christmas Cakes
Tuesday 10th December - Dance Assembly 9.05am
Wednesday 11th December - Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) Christmas Performance Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church, whole school to watch. Anyone who is able to help walk the children to and from church at 9.10am and 11.00am please let the office know – thank you in advance.
Thursday 12th December - KS1 Christmas Performance at All Saints’ Church 9.30am and 6pm.
Friday 13th December - Celebration of successes Fruit and Ice-Cream Party for the children. Last Year 3 Swimming before the holidays.
Monday 16th December - Reception and KS1 Christmas Party
Tuesday 17th December – KS1 and 2 (Years 1-6) to Marple Cinema to watch The Grinch. PM - KS2 (Years 3,4,5 and 6) Christmas Party.
Thursday 19th December - Whole School Carol Service Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church. Anyone who is able to help walk the children to and from church at 9.10am and 11.00am please let the office know – thank you in advance. Whole School Carol Service at All Saints’ Church 6pm.
Friday 20th December - Achievement Assembly for children in school time. No swimming for Year 3. Whole School Carol Service at All Saints’ Church at 1.45pm.
School breaks up for the Christmas/New Year Holiday and returns on Monday 6th January 2020.
Please note that Parents Evening Week will take place W.C Monday 13th January with evening appointments on Tuesday 3.30pm -6.00pm and Wednesday 4.00pm – 7.00pm. Letters will be sent out to book appointments early December.
Lovely to be back, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Here goes for the final Newsletter of this half term…
Robinwood
Well where to begin! We are simply bursting with pride about our truly amazing Year 6 children; they were simply outstanding at Robinwood. It was a genuine honour and privilege to accompany such polite, kind and risk-taking children on their residential. It was so lovely to be told by so many different Robinwood staff that our All Saints’ children where some of the best they had ever had the pleasure of supporting. They said they were excellent at listening, working together, supporting each other and having a great time! We could not be any prouder of you all as should all the children and families be too. We would also like to say a massive All Saints’ thank you to Mr McShane, Mrs Pratt and Mrs Adshead who meticulously planned such a fabulous trip, filled with memories that will last a lifetime, your time away from your families and kindness is very much appreciated by us all.
Church Week – is here!
Just a reminder that as well as the children visiting Church Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday we are very excited to be holding a ‘Colour Run’ on Friday 18th October at 2.15pm on our school field! We are so thankful to Mrs Holton and Mrs Eva for coming up with the idea to do something a bit different, take a risk and try something new. This year's Church Week is focusing on 'God's Big Story', an overview of the bible, which fits with All Saints' new R.E. curriculum, "Understanding Christianity". There is an amazing mural that helps explain the timeline of the bible, it shows all the wonderful colours of Creation, however when 'The Fall' happens the colour disappears from the images. A metaphor for sin bringing sadness and hurt into the world. The exciting thing about this frieze is that later we can see colour re- enter the story of the bible with the birth of Jesus. We are exploring these paintings and their meanings during Church week. The colour run developed from this idea for a celebration of God's ongoing rescue plan to restore our world. The final panel is a vivid display of life in full technicolour washing over the grey brokenness. We hope your children will recognise the link to God's life giving joy and love through this unusu al Harvest Colour Run ...for practical reasons this event needs to take place on the school field! As it is the first time we have done anything like this then please come ready to just see how it goes and most importantly have a great time! We truly hope it will be a great end to Church Week, such a special time of year, celebrating our links with All Saints’ Church and Harvest!
Also, a reminder that we are also asking for donations of tins of food to be handed in via your child’s class teacher. We will deliver these hampers to the Pantry in Marple, supporting local families’ charity for homeless and disadvantaged people in Stockport. Many thanks in advance for all your donations.
Christmas Already!
We hope you will forgive us for mentioning Christmas when you see the special letter making your way home with your KS1 and KS2 child this week. Our fantastic PA have agreed to pay for the children to attend an All Saints’ only screening of ‘The Grinch’ on the morning of Tuesday 17th December at Marple Cinema and a huge thank you to Mrs Manning for organising this.
Christmas Again!!!
The PA have discovered that the date of the Christmas Fair clashes with both Make it Marple and also the Marple Bridge Christmas event and are therefore proposing moving it to Saturday 30th November. Many thanks in advance for your understanding and really hope you can make the new date.
Mural Restoration Update
I am sure you join us in really missing the KS1 playground mural as you go past on Church Lane or wait in the KS1 playground. Well the painstaking process of resorting it is well underway now with local artist Tracy McGuiness Kelly and we can’t wait to have it back with us soon. A huge thank you to the PA for supporting the cost of this restoration, which will make it last for another 10 years!
Linnet Clough
Please see attached poster for ‘Adventure Days’ this half term.
Best Attendance
Very well done to Reception and Class 4. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 99.33%. Fantastic and very well done.
Reminders
We are still collecting!
Parent Governor Election
Please do take a minute to read the letter circulated about the upcoming Parent Governor Election and get in touch if you would like any more information about what the role entails and how it helps our children and school greatly.
The Week Ahead
Tuesday 15th, Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th October Church Week – please see separate letter
Friday 18th Harvest Celebration PM – please separate letter . Break up for October Half Term
Upcoming Events
Monday 28th October – School re-opens
Have a lovely week and happy holiday next week, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Congratulations All Saints’
What lovely news to start last week …All Saints’ artwork won first place at the Marple Climate Crisis Event. A huge thank you to Mrs Clayton and the fabulous 20 children who all worked together to create this very thought provoking piece. It has now been placed on show in the waiting room at Marple Station and we hope you get the opportunity to go and view it as it has been very well received by others using the station.
Church Week – a week to go!
With Church Week just around the corner Mrs Holton has put a request out for empty egg shells - halved, washed, sterilised and in their box. If you are able to bring these in to School, they would be very gratefully received. Also, if you are able to help us walk the children to and from Church as outlined on the letter then please let us know ASAP. Thank you in advance.
Parent Governor Election
Please do take a minute to read the letter circulated about the upcoming Parent Governor Election and get in touch if you would like any more information about what the role entails and how it helps our children and school greatly.
Year One Thank You!
So touched - our cake sale for Dementia UK the charity nominated by John who made the flower rings on Dan Bank raised £40 and we were so unbelievably touched by how many cake donations there were and how well attended it was. Can we just say a huge thank you to Year 1 families for supporting this little bake sale.
Mystery Reader
We have had great success with our Mystery Reader chair in the past and last year had requests flooding in from families! We therefore thought we would send a letter again to remind you about a really lovely opportunity for you to become further involved in the life of All Saints’ Primary School and to provide a surprise for your child. In addition, to welcome you as a new Reception parent and explain what Mystery Reader is all about! Please look out for the letter.
World Mental Health Day
On Thursday 10th it will be World Mental Health Day. Throughout the day your child will complete a couple of activities to explore wellbeing and resilience. This learning will enhance our current curriculum offer for our children where we continuing support and reflect on their wellbeing. On the day we will be promoting the fact that we can help ourselves to feel good e.g. keep active, eat healthily, listen to our favourite music, go outside to get some fresh air, talk to someone we trust, have a good night’s sleep, etc.
Special Assembly
Mr Botwe, the Headteacher of Tytherington High School came to lead our collective worship on Friday 4th October, it was both interactive and engaging! He spoke about the importance of having big dreams, being determined and resilient. He was blown away with how our children confidently spoke and participated in the assembly. Many children were keen to share their big dreams and how they would be working hard to achieve them! We thoroughly enjoyed having Mr Botwe with us and are looking forward to him visiting us again.
A Message from All Saints’ Church
Best Attendance
Very well done to Classes 2 and 4. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 100%. Fantastic and very well done.
Reminders
We are still collecting!
The Week Ahead
Monday 7th to Wednesday 9th October – Year 6 Residential to Robinwood
Upcoming Events
Tuesday 15th, Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th October Church Week – please see separate letter
Friday 18th Harvest Celebration PM – please separate letter . Break up for October Half Term
Monday 28th October – School re-opens
Have a lovely week everyone, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Another week has flown by and we have had a great turn out for all the ‘New to Year Group Meetings’ thank you to everyone who attended and all the staff for all their time and hard work preparing and leading the meetings. If you were unable to attend then please do speak to your child’s class teacher and take some time to look at the packs provided. We will also be showing a selection of CGP books at the parent drop in on Thursday 14th November, if families wish to purchase them.
Compassion 
In school we have also been spending some time to get to know our sponsored child Nicholas who we support via the Christian Charity Compassion. Nicholas lives in Uganda and the children have been making birthday cards for him, which I am sure, will be very gratefully received. We look forward to sharing more updates and how the children are supporting Nicholas to attend school in the future.
Celebration of Languages Day
What an amazing day we all had! The morning began with Mr Chaloner and Mrs Daniel hanging out the flag bunting to mark this special day. Parents and friends of the school who came in, shared stories, songs, taught basic phrases and shared information about a country’s landscape, food, main attractions, etc. It was such a wonderful multicultural day, where our children learned a little Bengali, Polish, German, French, Thai, Swahili and Spanish!! We would like say a huge THANK YOU to those who prepared presentations and volunteered to share a language with us: Ms Helena Akterrekha, Mr Sobiegraj, Ms Ensinger, Mrs Bell, Mr Jantong and Mr Janjua. The day was completed with a celebration of languages assembly where the children shared some of what they learned and sang songs with Gill Henderson Wild from the Stockport Music Service.
Church Week
Your child will have come home with a letter with lots of important information about our annual and upcoming Church Week. We hope you agree that it should be a fabulous week and that the Friday Colour Run instead of the Harvest Service will be such an exciting event! A huge thank you to Mrs Eva and Mrs Holton who have been planning this special week for months already!
Wow Walk to School
Just a reminder to parents that we are running the Wow Walk to School scheme again this year. For our new families this is where we ask the children how they travelled to school each day and if they walk, cycle or park and stride then they work up towards earning badges as a reward. This is part of our continual efforts to encourage healthy lifestyles and increase safety for our children and families around busy times of the school day. In addition, recent press articles are discussing the very negative effects of not switching off engines while waiting on pollution levels and therefore the air quality we are breathing in, especially small children who are nearer the level of the exhausts. It is an offence to idle your engine and it is a fineable offense. We hope that you will help support our children and please turn off your engines while parked. Thank you in advance.
Book Fair
Thank you to everyone who has been and looked at our book fair in school. Mrs Shaw is kindly processing orders and will be getting books to people ASAP!
Bags for School
A huge thank you to everyone for their very kind donations, we raised a wonderful £120! Thank you especially to Mrs Hallworth and the office team for all the organisation that was involved.
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Best Attendance
Very well done to Classes 1 and 3. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 99.29%. Fantastic and very well done.
Reminders
We are still collecting!
The Week Ahead
Thursday 3rd October – National Poetry Day
Upcoming Events
Monday 7th to Wednesday 9th October – Year 6 Residential to Robinwood
Tuesday 15th, Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th October Church Week – please see separate letter
Friday 18th Harvest Celebration PM – please see separate letter. Break up for October Half Term at 3.15pm
Monday 28th October – School re-opens
Have a lovely week everyone, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
It has been lovely to watch our Whole School Topic of ‘Global Neighbours’ really gathering momentum and seeing the different directions each of the classes are taking their learning in, from the impact of pollution on our world to Brexit!
We are collecting Aldi team GB stickers for Sports and PE in school. Please collect any stickers and drop off in the bucket in the school entrance. We are aiming for 300 by the start of November to be in with the chance of winning some fabulous prizes (up to £20,000 for PE) and free, exclusive sports kits for school competitive events. Every time you spend £30 you will receive a sticker with a sporting star on for our poster so please, please, please get to Aldi for your weekly shop! Kind regards, Mrs. Noble and Mr. G!
Defibrillator
Amazingly, we now have our defib installed in the Reception area of school and staff received training on using it last week. This is a great asset to our school and we would like to say a huge thank you to Mrs Hallas and Mrs Hallworth for all their help and support achieving this goal!
Volunteers in School
We are holding our annual volunteers training this Wednesday 2.00pm - 3.15pm followed by Safeguarding training 3.30pm - 6.30pm. If you are interested Mrs. Noble would love to hear from you! Please email school admin if you or a family member have any free time and are interested in volunteering in school. We are always keen to welcome new volunteers to hear readers, help sort the school library and carry out various jobs such as photocopying, sticking in work, displays etc. in the classroom. An extra pair of hands can make a huge difference...!
Communication Reminder
To ensure all messages/ information is received in a timely manner and passed on appropriately please can we remind families to contact the School office on 0161 427 3008 or email admin@allsaints-pri.stockport.sch.uk in the first instance.
Special Assembly
Mr Barker, the Headteacher of Marple Hall School came to lead our collective worship on Thurs 19th September, it was both interactive and engaging! He spoke about the importance of planning to be successful by developing determination, honesty, organisational skills, respect and enthusiasm. He was super impressed with our children and even spent a short while with the Year 6 children in their classroom. We thoroughly enjoyed having him with us and are looking forward to him visiting us again.
A Message from Marple Mellor and Marple Bridge Energy Saving Strategy (MESS)
Please see the attached Flyer for the MESS organsied Climate Crisis in Marple event on Sunday 29th September.
Best Attendance
Very well done to Class 1. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 99.64%. Fantastic and very well done.
Reminders
Scholastic Book Fair is now in school, until the 26th September. It will be open in the hall 3.30pm – 4.00pm and available to look at prior to the 6.00pm meet the new teacher meetings.
Mathletics Contributions
As you are all aware our budget, as with many Schools, at present is extremely challenging. We are hopeful that the recent announcements linked to increased funding will come to fruition, but in the meantime we would be most grateful if parents felt able to support their child by making a £5.00 donation towards their child’s Mathletics subscription for the year. If so then we would be very appreciative if you were able to do this via Parents Pay. Many thanks in advance as this will help us to be able to maintain this wonderful resource for the children.
The Week Ahead
Year 2 New to Year Group Meeting – Monday 23rd September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Year 5 New to Year Group Meeting – Tuesday 24th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Volunteers Training 2.00pm - 3.15pm followed by Safeguarding training 3.30pm - 6.30pm
Year 4 New to Year Group Meeting – Thursday 26th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Celebration of Languages Day – Thursday
Parents Association Disco – Marple Cricket Club, tickets £3.00 via parent pay
Upcoming Events
Thursday 3rd October – National Poetry Day
Monday 7th to Wednesday 9th October – Year 6 Residential to Robinwood
Tuesday 15th, Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th October Church Week – separate letter to follow
Friday 18th Harvest Celebration PM – more information to follow. Break up for October Half Term
Monday 28th October – School re-opens
We hope everyone has another wonderful week, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Welcome to another week’s newsletter. Thank you for your patience last week with the long Newsletter, you will be pleased to know this week’s is much shorter J!
As always at the start of a new school year it is important to reflect on our vision and hopes for the coming year. As all the classes have been thinking about this in school we felt it important to reflect on this with our families too. The All Saints’ Way sums up our ethos and underpins all we do and most importantly how we do it. We are committed to Restorative Approaches that promote accountability and seek to repair any harm caused in a situation. Restorative Approaches help us to create peaceful learning environments for our children to become successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and effective contributors. We are also committed to our Christian values of Hope, Friendship, Trust, Forgiveness, Thankfulness and Peace. With Hope being the focus for our first half term, back in school.
Well what an honour for the Tour of Britain to go past our very own All Saints’ School on Saturday. What a great atmosphere and what a great opportunity for our community. I am sure that it has inspired many of our children to take up a great new hobby!
Mathletics Contributions
As you are all aware our budget, as with many Schools, at present is extremely challenging. We are hopeful that the recent announcements linked to increased funding will come to fruition, but in the meantime we would be most grateful if parents felt able to support their child by making a £5.00 donation towards their child’s Mathletics subscription for the year. If so then we would be very appreciative if you were able to do this via Parent Pay. Many thanks in advance as this will help us to be able to maintain this wonderful resource for the children.
Eco Bricks
Miss Whittleworth says thank you for the many Eco bricks we received. The class who brought in the most was class 3. A very well done to all those who managed to bring at least one in. If you have any at home, please do send them into school once they are complete.
A Message from Kidslingo
Bonjour!
Kidslingo will be teaching fun-filled French sessions in our school. A Lunchtime French Club will take place on Tuesdays at 12.15pm for years Reception, 1 and 2 and 12.45pm for years 3, 4, 5 and 6 from 17th September. We’ll make sure all children have time to eat before the sessions!
The club will cost £3 per session and therefore £36 for this term (12 sessions in total). Similar clubs in other schools have filled up very fast so do book your child’s place now so that you don’t miss out.
À bientôt!
www.kidslingo.co.uk/area/eaststockport-necheshire or Elin.mcfarlane@kidslino.co.uk
Languages Day
We are looking forward to our Celebration of Languages Day on 26th September when each class will be experiencing a different language and country.
It would be fantastic if your child could begin to research the country and language listed next to their class name.
Class Language
Reception Bengali ( Bangladesh)
Class 1 Polish ( Poland)
Class 2 German ( Germany)
Class 3 French (France)
Class 4 Spainish (Spain)
Class 5 Thai (Thailand)
Class 6 Swahili (Kenya)
Best Attendance
Very well done to Class 3. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 100%. Fantastic and very well done.
Reminders
Scholastic Book Fair arrives in school, until the 26th September. It will be open in the hall 3.30pm – 4.00pm and available to look at prior to the 6.00pm meet the new teacher meetings.
The Week Ahead
New to Year Group Reception Meeting – Monday 16th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
New to Year Group Year 1 Meeting – Tuesday 17th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
New to Year Group Year 3 Meeting - Wednesday 18th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Marple Hall Open Evening-Thursday 19th September 4:30pm till 8:30pm
Upcoming Events
New to Year Group Meetings
Following the success of previous years, we will be holding ‘New to Year Group Meetings’ early this September. It is so useful if families are able to attend so they are aware of the new class expectations and can support their child and work in partnership with school effectively. Therefore, we wanted to share the dates with you as early as possible so you can pop them in your dairies! 
Year 2 – Monday 23rd September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Year 3- Wednesday 18th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Year 4 – Thursday 26th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Year 5 – Tuesday 24th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Here is to another great week, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Welcome back everyone…
It has been lovely seeing all our wonderful children and families again and of course welcoming all our new starters. We hope everyone has an amazing year and all our new All Saints’ family members are all very happy here too!
As always, it is back to School with a bang and our new whole school topic of ‘Global Neighbours’ is well underway. With Samba workshops, Science clubs, a Residential and Church Week to name but a few opportunities all in the first half term let’s make it another fabulous term at All Saints’.
Respect Charter
At All Saints’ we passionately believe that working together with families gives the best possible outcomes for our children. As such at the start of the new academic year, we would just like to re-send and share with our new members our Respect Charter. Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this.
Parking
Sadly, we have already received concern from parents regarding the parking around school. As always we understand that the access to All Saints’ is not ideal, however we are also sure you will agree that this still should not put any of our children or families’ members in danger. Therefore, please do take the time to read the reminder of ‘please don’t’ and ‘please do’.
Languages Day
Thank you so very much to all those who have volunteered to contribute to our Celebration of Languages Day on 26th September when each class will be experiencing a different language and country. We now have sufficient volunteers and are looking forward to this very special day.
School Funding Summit
*Meeting postponed* the school funding summit planned for 16th September at Marple Hall School has been postponed following the chancellor’s announcement on school funding. We will update you with further details when we have them.
School Games Gold Kite Mark
As previously mentioned we celebrated securing the Silver School Games Kite Mark before we broke up, but when being quality assured it was actually demonstrated that All Saints’ met the necessary standards for the highest Award - Gold!!! We would like to say another huge well done and thank you to all our Sports Ambassadors, Mr Granite and Mrs Preece for helping All Saints’ secure this accolade and for most importantly for providing excellent provision for all our children!
Autumn Term Diary Dates
Well it wouldn’t be All Saints’ if we didn’t mention Christmas in the first newsletter of the year J, so please find attached the Autumn Term Diary Dates that were also circulated last week. As usual we really appreciate it if you take the time to read it through, place dates on your calendar, pin it on your fridge – whatever works for you and your family! We hope to see you at as many school events as possible over the coming term.
Time to get your Trashion on!
In keeping with our Global Neighbours whole school topic, our optional Long Term Homework Project has an eco-theme. So please take a look at the attached flyer and we can’t wait to see what our wonderfully creative children come up with! All entries in by the start of the day on Tuesday 19th November please.
Stockport Music Service
Please see attached a flyer and application form for singing activities in Stockport for Year 1 to Year 6 children.
Reminders
Bag2School
We are pleased to remind you that All Saints’ C of E Primary School has organized a clothes & shoe collection with Bag2School in order to raise funds for resources for school and money towards the Forest School area. Please see the attached letter for more details and thank you in advance for supporting us.
Summer Reading Challenge
Has been taking place at Marple Library – fingers crossed All Saints’ may top the leader board this year! We can’t wait to find out how much everyone has been reading over the holidays in the next few weeks.
Eco Bricks
As mentioned before the holiday’s we are continually trying to improve on our sustainability. Therefore, we look forward to seeing how may eco bricks we welcome into school! After the count by Mrs Whittleworth on Friday we will be able to reveal the winning class! Good luck everyone
Best Attendance
Very well done to Classes 2 and 6. You have both won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 100%. Fantastic and very well done, what a great start to the year!
The Week Ahead
Thursday 12th September - Year 6 New to Year Group Meeting 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Scholastic Book Fair arrives in school, until the 26th September. It will be open in the hall 3.30pm – 4.00pm and available to look at prior to the 6.00pm meet the new teacher meetings.
Friday 13th September – Eco Bricks handed in.
Year 4 start swimming and Year 6 start brass.
Upcoming Events
New to Year Group Meetings
Following the success of previous years, we will be holding ‘New to Year Group Meetings’ early this September. It is so useful if families are able to attend so they are aware of the new class expectations and can support their child and work in partnership with school effectively. Therefore, we wanted to share the dates with you as early as possible so you can pop them in your dairies!
Reception – Monday 16th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Year 1 – Tuesday 17th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Year 2 – Monday 23rd September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Year 3- Wednesday 18th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Year 4 – Thursday 26th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Year 5 – Tuesday 24th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
It is wonderful to be back, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Where to begin ............
We can’t quite believe we are writing the final newsletter of the 2018-2019 academic year! It seems a long time ago since we welcomed our new Reception children back in September and so much has happened between now and then. From our Whole School Walk, Robinwood, Church Week, Key Stage One Christmas Production, Castleton, SATs, Active Week to Summer Fairs and that is without even mentioning all the class trips and experiences that have taken place. As always All Saints’ is the definition of ‘the whole is greater than the sum of its parts’ so many people come together to make all these things happen and of course our wonderful children make it worthwhile every single day. We want to take this opportunity to say a huge ALL SAINTS’ THANK YOU to everyone in our community and celebrate another amazing year at this very special place. We hope everyone has a lovely and safe summer and we can’t wait to see you all to do it all over again on Wednesday 4th September!
Our Fabulous Year Six!
We were totally entertained last week when Year 6 took on and smashed their Shakespeare production of Romeo and Juliet! Singing, dancing, lines learned, props made, it really was a great end to their time at All Saints’. We are so proud of them all and although we are going to miss each and every one of you so much, we know you are more than ready for the next chapter in your lives and can’t wait to hear about your exciting adventures. We are also looking forward to another part of the goodbyes with the Leaver’s Service on Wednesday with Year 5 and 6 parents invited to attend All Saints’ Church at 1.45pm. We would also ask families if possible to kindly donate a tin or packet of food for Marple’s Connect Centre.
Goodbye Mrs Collinge
We are so sad to be losing Mrs Collinge this week and feel extremely grateful for all you have done for our school and in particular our Year 1 children and families. We were so lucky to have you cover Mrs Manning’s maternity leave and we wish you all the very best for a fantastic time at your new school. They are very lucky to have you.
Welcome Back Mrs Manning
We are delighted to welcome Mrs Manning back this week from her maternity leave – we can’t believe how quickly the time has gone and although its always difficult to return to work and leave little ones we are sure everyone will make her feel super welcome and super busy in no time! 
School Games Silver Kite Mark
We would like to say huge well done and thank you to all our Sports Ambassadors, Mr Granite and Mrs Preece for helping All Saints’ secure the Silver Schools Sports Kite Mark for the third year in a row, this is a great achievement and one to keep building on further next year!
Reports
As always, we really value your comments so if you are able to bring back the comment section from your child’s report into school before we break up that would be greatly appreciated.
School Reading/ Library Books Amnesty!
Please can we ask for all library and reading books to be returned by Thursday for our library audit. Even if you have had them for a long time, please search around and return for our book amnesty. Unfortunately, we have lots of stock missing and we want all children to be able to choose some exciting books to help them love reading! We would also like to remind you of about the Summer Reading Challenge that is taking place at Marple Library – fingers crossed All Saints’ may top the leader board this year!
Eco Bricks
As a school we are continually trying to improve on our sustainability. This summer we would like to start by collecting Ecobricks. An Ecobrick is a building block made entirely from unrecyclable plastic. It is created by filling a 2 litre plastic bottle with clean, dry plastic until it is packed tightly and can be used as a building block. This is plastic that can’t be recycled in our council bin like crisps packets, sweet wrappers, fruit or bread bags, plastic trays and even yogurt pots. Each 2 litre bottle needs a mixture of soft and hard plastics, these are cut up small and then pressed down into the bottle until it weighs a minimum of 660g to make a hard building material.
Our collected bottles can be used in all sorts of sustainable building projects like benches, chairs or tables. If we get enough, we may be able to build a den in our forest school area. If each family over the summer is able to fill just ONE 2 litre plastic bottle with non-recyclable plastic, then we will start the September term with approximately 150 bottles. This would make an amazing structure for our outside area as well as saving thousands of pieces of plastic from ending up in landfill.
So let’s bring those bottles in and make good use of these materials. Which, class will be the winning class – get ready for totals in September!
Lost Property
All lost property will be sorted through and put out in the hall after school on Thursday. Please do come and sign in at the main entrance after school and hopefully many items will be returned to their owners. To help with this please, please, please ready for September label any new or old belongings it makes it so much easier to return items!
Talent Show
On Friday the Pupil Parliament will be holding their talent show at school. The children have been invited to put their names on a list of acts, and will be given the opportunity to perform in a special talent show assembly to celebrate the end of another fabulous year! The Pupil Parliament are trying to raise funds for play equipment to be enjoyed by all children, on both the KS1 and KS2 play grounds, during play times. To support the Pupil Parliament in this enterprise, children will be able to wear their own clothes to school on Friday for a minimum donation of £1 each. Children are also able to bring in 50p if they like to purchase an ice-lolly. We can’t wait to see ‘All Saints’ has got Talent’ we know the audience will be in for a treat and also thank you so much to Mrs Mylrea and the Pupil Parliament for organising it.
All Saints’ Day of Languages!
As many of you may be aware, we teach French throughout KS2. However, on Thursday 26th September, we are going to have our very own All Saints’ Celebration of Languages Day.
We really want to celebrate the array of languages spoken amongst our school family and would like you to participate in this day. If you or a member of your family can speak a language, apart from English, we would like you to spend as little or as much time with us on this day, celebrating that particular language.
Please complete the slip on the letter sent out last Thursday, speak to the school office or to Mrs Gaynor by Thursday 25th July if you can contribute in any way.
The All Saints’ Mighty Hike Team!!!
We have managed to raise over £3,700 which is absolutely amazing. If you would still like to donate, that would be fantastic and you can either drop cash into the office or donate on-line at the following address: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/all-saints-are-we-nearly-there-yet.
Huge thanks again for all your support.
Best Attendance
Very well done to Class 1. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 99.7%. Fantastic and very well done
Reminders
The Week Ahead
Tuesday 23rd July – Year 6 Leavers Service Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church 9.30am
Wednesday 24th July – Year 6 Leavers Service at All Saints’ Church 1.45pm, also including Year 5 presentation for Young Leaders Award – please bring along a tin/ packet of food for Connect in Marple.
Thursday 25th July – Ice cream and fruit party and Achievement Assembly. Lost property after school. All library/ Reading books returned for amnesty.
Friday 26th July – Dress Down Day and Talent Contest. School Breaks up for the summer holidays returning on Wednesday 4th September.
Upcoming Events
New to Year Group Meetings
Following the success of previous years, we will be holding ‘New to Year Group Meetings’ early in September. It is so useful if families are able to attend so they are aware of the new class expectations and can support their child and work in partnership with school effectively. Therefore, we wanted to share the dates with you as early as possible so you can pop them in your diaries!
Reception – Monday 16th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Year 1 – Tuesday 17th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm 
Year 2 – Monday 23rd September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Year 3- Wednesday 18th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Year 4 – Thursday 26th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Year 5 – Tuesday 24th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Year 6 – Thursday 12th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Here’s to a fabulous last week and fantastic holiday, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
As we start our penultimate week, we are starting to reflect on the past year and definitely going to make the most of the last two weeks!
The All Saints’ Mighty Hike Team!!
Well we have done it!
We cannot thank everyone enough it was everyone’s amazing and generous sponsorship that kept us going right to the very end. Please be kind to us all as we may be hobbling round school recovering this week, but how proud we are of each other is definitely making those aching muscles worthwhile! Some miles were easier than others and some hills steeper than others however, it was an amazing experience and the All Saints’ Way shone around Ullswater on Saturday! So are we nearly there yet? The answer can finally be yes! But what next is the new question? ….
If you would still like to donate, that would be fantastic and you can either drop cash into the office or donate on-line at the following address: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/all-saints-are-we-nearly-there-yet.
Huge thanks again for all your support.
Summer Fair Success
A big thank you to all those who helped prior, during and after the Summer Fair with a special thanks to family members for all their help on the day. The amazing Parents Association efforts were rewarded as £1,500 was raised for school!!! This will do so much to give all our wonderful children the extras that we know they deserve but school cannot afford. 
Marple Carnival
Thanks so much to William’s Mum in C3 for sharing these fantastic pictures. It is clear to see how much of a great time everyone had and a huge thanks to all the parents and carers that went along to support too!
Keeping your Child Safe in the Virtual World – Parent and Carer Workshop
As part of our commitment to keeping children safe on-line, Tanya Cross from The Local Authority led a session on internet safety for our families.
The session was excellent as always and provided parents with an abundance of advice and top tips to ensure the safety of children on-line and gave an overview of:
Thank you to all those parents who came along as part of our effort to keep all our children safe.
We will be having another session on 14th November in the evening.
Year 2 Choc ‘n’ Roll
On Thursday, Class 2 were visited by Oliver Dunn a local chocolatier, and what a scrumdidlyumtious chocolate morning they had! A huge thank you to Oliver Dunn and his team for such an amazing experience. Year 2 learned absolutely everything there is to know about where chocolate comes from, how it is made and what it takes to build your own business. They even made and designed their very own chocolate t-shirts and chocolate lollipops! Nev Phillips, Class Two’s Governor Friend also joined in and enjoyed the delicious chocolate too!
Parking on the solid lines
Please do make sure that when picking up, dropping off and parking around school that you obey the road markings. The lines are there to keep everyone safe as when those areas are restricted it increases the chances of an accident happening. Obviously, no one wants this so please do make sure that you do not put others at risk from your parking and driving.
Best Attendance
Very well done to Class 3. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 100%. Fantastic and very well done
Reminders
Medical Update
Following recent medical training school has purchased an emergency anaphylaxis kit on the recommendation of the school nurse and NHS guidance. Where children have existing allergies and intolerances they have their own medication in school, but if a child were to have a new reaction in school and following the advice of the 999 call handler school would be able to administers the emergency Epipen. Along with the new defibrillator that will shortly be arriving in school, I am sure you agree that these are two excellent further steps to keeping our children and community safer.
New to Year Group Meetings
Following the success of previous years, we will be holding ‘New to Year Group Meetings’ early in September. It is so useful if families are able to attend so they are aware of the new class expectations and can support their child and work in partnership with school effectively. Therefore, we wanted to share the dates with you as early as possible so you can pop them in your dairies!
Reception – Monday 16th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Year 1 – Tuesday 17th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Year 2 – Monday 23rd September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Year 3- Wednesday 18th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Year 4 – Thursday 26th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Year 5 – Tuesday 24th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Year 6 – Thursday 12th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
The Week Ahead
Tuesday 16th July – Year 3 at Stockport Spectacular Music Event
Wednesday 17th July – Year 6 Production 9.30am and 6.30pm
Friday 19th July – Year 2 Class Assembly 9.05am
Upcoming Events/ Reminders
Tuesday 23rd July – Year 6 Leavers Service Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church 9.30am
Wednesday 24th July – Year 6 Leavers Service at All Saints’ Church 1.45pm, also including Year 5 presentation for Young Leaders Award
Thursday 25th July – Ice cream and fruit party and Achievement Assembly
Friday 26th July – Dress Down Day and Talent Contest. School Breaks up for the summer holidays returning on Wednesday 4th September.
Let’s make the last two weeks a great two weeks, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Only three weeks to go, so much to do, so little time! Please do keep reading to the end of this long newsletter (sorry) as there is lots to be thankful for and also lots of reminders/ new information too!
The All Saints’ Mighty Hike Team!!
The boots are out, the bags are (almost!) packed and the forecast is set fair! This Saturday finally sees the team head up to the Lake District to complete their 'Mighty Hike' to raise much needed funds for Macmillan. Our grand total currently sits at £2500 which is absolutely tremendous - thank you to everyone who has already contributed. If you would still like to donate, you can either drop cash into the office or donate on-line at the following address:
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/all-saints-are-we-nearly-there-yet
Thanks again for all your support.
Transition Morning and Parent Drop in
What a fantastic transition morning your children had! They thoroughly enjoyed spending the morning with their new teachers and are very excited about some of the fabulous learning planned for the Autumn Term.
It was lovely to see so many of you at the parents drop in session in the afternoon. We appreciated you expressing your gratitude and thanks to all the staff. Thank you also for introducing yourselves to your child’s new teacher.
Both the children and staff are very much looking forward to their time together in September.
Blooming Circus
A HUGE THANK YOU again to Helena M and all the parents involved in organising this absolutely fantastic event. It was such a brilliant experience from beginning to end! All our children got to spend quality time with Jay and Sam from Blooming Circus. They were taught various circus skills and impressed each other with their new found talent throughout the day.
A Fantastic Picnic Lunch
Our picnic lunch was a huge success!! We ate together as one big family and some of us even managed to play a few games. Thank you to all those parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings and friends who were able to join us for this occasion. We appreciate you all as our school family and will definitely be repeating this event in the future!
All Saints’ C of E Primary School Parents’ Association Summer Fair
Again, this was a spectacular event where family, friends and neighbours came out to support. A neighbour, who has no family at the school, said, “Oh, this is a fabulous event! What a delightful school!”
Blessed with gorgeous July sunshine there was a lovely atmosphere at our well attended Summer Fair on Friday.
Thanks to the dedication of our Parents Association and volunteers we had: soulful and talented musicians, a sizzling BBQ, wizardry wand making; welly throwing, a melting chocolate tombola, refreshing drinks, flowery arranging and so much more…it was our very own little festival minus the mud puddles. We even had our very own Circus workshop! A special thank you to Diane P and Helena M.
It was lovely to see so many children, parents and many returning former pupils enjoying themselves and taking turns to run the stalls, all to raise funds for the children of All Saints’!
Fairer Funding Campaign
A group of local parents set up this campaign in January to raise awareness of the impact of funding cuts on our children’s education. The contact at our school is Emma Dine. If you want to know more, get in touch with Emma, or follow our page on facebook: Fair Funding for Marple Schools.
They will be sharing information about schools funding cuts every half term to highlight the effects of the cuts. For example:
- Nearly half of schools have reduced their teaching staff in the last two years.
- Almost three quarters have lost support staff.
- Half have reduced specialist services.
On Friday, some of our parents and their children wanted to show their support of this worthwhile cause, thanks to everyone who took part.
Keeping your Child Safe in the Virtual World – Parent and Carer Workshop
Thursday 11th July 2pm - Tanya Cross Local Authority PSHE and Wellbeing Consultant
Today’s children and young people are growing up in an increasingly complex world both on and off line. As part of our commitment to keeping children safe on-line, we will be running a session on internet safety for families.
The session aims to give an overview of: -
Please do come along as part of our effort to keep all our children safe.
Medical Update
Following recent medical training school has purchased an emergency anaphylaxis kit on the recommendation of the school nurse and NHS guidance. Where children have existing allergies and intolerances they have their own medication in school, but if a child were to have a new reaction in school and following the advice of the 999 call handler school would be able to administers the emergency Epipen. Along with the new defibrillator that will shortly be set up in school, I am sure you agree that these are two excellent further steps to keeping our children and community safer.
New to Year Group Meetings
Following the success of previous years, we will be holding ‘New to Year Group Meetings’ early in September. It is so useful if families are able to attend so they are aware of the new class expectations and can support their child and work in partnership with school effectively. Therefore, we wanted to share the dates with you as early as possible so you can pop them in your diaries!
Reception – Monday 16th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Year 1 – Tuesday 17th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Year 2 – Monday 23rd September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Year 3- Wednesday 18th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Year 4 – Thursday 26th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Year 5 – Tuesday 24th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Year 6 – Thursday 12th September 3.30pm and 6.00pm
Marple and District Allotment Association Centenary Open Day
Please see the attached poster for the event on Saturday.
Best Attendance
Very well done to Classes 2 and 3. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 100%. Fantastic and very well done
Reminders
The Week Ahead
Tuesday 9th July – 9.05am Dance Club Assembly
Thursday 11th July – 2.00pm Keeping your child safe in the virtual world parent session by Tanya Cross from Stockport Local Authority
Friday 12th July – Reports go home to families
Upcoming Events/ Reminders
Tuesday 16th July – Year 3 at Stockport Spectacular Music Event
Wednesday 17th July – Year 6 Production 9.30am and 6.30pm
Friday 19th July – Year 2 Class Assembly 9.05am (Please note the new date)
Tuesday 23rd July – Year 6 Leavers Service Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church 9.30am
Wednesday 24th July – Year 6 Leavers Service at All Saints’ Church 1.45pm, also including Year 5 presentation for Young Leaders Award
Thursday 25th July – Ice cream and fruit party and Achievement Assembly
Friday 26th July – Dress Down Day and Talent Contest. School Breaks up for the summer holidays returning on Wednesday 4th September.
We hope everyone has a wonderful week everyone, Mrs. Morton an
July is here and thankfully; it looks like we are finally starting summer too!
Meet your new class team day
Who can believe that this week is upon us already! On Thursday, the children will be meeting their class teams and I know that lots of great things are planned! In addition, there will be an opportunity in the hall from 2-3pm for an informal drop in for parents to come and meet their child’s new class teacher. Everyone as always is very welcome and we will also have Intrahealth present if you would like to ask any questions relating to the National Nasal Flu programme and Stockport College about adult learner courses they can offer.
Friday is the Summer Fair Fun Day!
This Friday is a busy one so hopefully the below will be of use to get everyone prepared and ready for a great day of fun!
Raffle Tickets…
Pupil Parliament will be selling PA raffle tickets in support of Friday's fair all week this week. Tickets cost 20p each and prize winners will be announced on Friday. If your child wishes to buy a raffle ticket (or more than one!), there will be opportunities throughout the week to buy tickets in school. You have to be in it to win it!
Dress Down Day…
It is Dress-Down Day on Friday 5th with donations from Reception, Year 1 and 2 of Cakes and Year 3,4,5 and 6 of Chocolate gratefully received for the Summer fair.
Whole School Picnic Lunch…
We are looking forward to our whole school picnic lunch on Friday. Just a reminder that the request for a packed lunch to be made for your child is required by the end of our school day today. If you would like to order a picnic for your child from school, it will cost £2.25. Please log in to www.parentpay.com to make a payment, if this is required and return the order slip.
We want to keep this event as simple as possible... turn up if you can, have your lunch on the school field with your child (or children) and maybe play a game or two. Bring a blanket, bring a deckchair, bring a garden game!
Children will be on the field at 12pm and say goodbye at approximately 12:45pm. As Year 6 children are going swimming that day, their parents are welcome to join us at 11:45 as Year 6 need to leave for swimming at 12.30pm (We will make a decision by 10am if the weather forces us to change plans).
Parents’ Association Summer Fair…
Starting at 3:30pm and finishing at 5:30pm please do come along and join in the Forest School themed event and as previously pinged any raffle prize donations gratefully received also.
Blooming Circus
We would like to say a huge thank you to our Parents’ Association who through all their previous hard work have been able to organise and pay for a very special circus event for our children. As well as a whole school assembly, every class will have their own session with Jay and are sure to have lots of fun. So as you can see the children benefit hugely from all the kindness and hard work of the Parents’ Association so please do support in any way you can.
Greater Manchester Dodgeball Championships!
Well we are extremely proud of our All Saints’ Dodgeball Team, they came a hugely respectable 4th Place in the Greater Manchester Finals (only one place behind the 3rd place team)! They were amazing on the day with everyone playing in the All Saints’ Way and what a fantastic opportunity for them all. Big thanks again to Mr G for all your inspirational coaching and also Mrs Wilson for being the number one supporter on the day and Mrs Preece for all her support with the fantastic achievement too.
All Saints’ has talent!
On Friday 26th July the Pupil Parliament will be holding a talent show at school. The children have been invited to put their names on a list of acts, and will be given the opportunity to perform in a special talent show assembly to celebrate the end of another fabulous year! The Pupil Parliament are trying to raise funds for play equipment to be enjoyed by all children, on both the KS1 and KS2 play grounds, during play times. To support the Pupil Parliament in this enterprise, children will be able to wear their own clothes to school on 26th July for a minimum donation of £1 each.
Stockport’s Giant Leap Frog - 29th June - 28th September
Your children have taken home a green booklet, which is a guide to a free art trail in Stockport. We have a few spare booklets if you require any more – just ask at the Office.
Giant frogs have hopped - up all over Stockport town centre!
The project is designed to increase town centre footfall, to promote Stockport and the businesses located here as well as to support local groups, including the youth community who are after all tomorrow’s giant leapers.
Each frog is unique and has been designed by local artists and community groups.
Stockport’s Giant Leap, an art trail of giant-sized frogs, celebrates all the great changes that are taking place in Stockport. Each frog has been sponsored by a local business and individually designed and painted to showcase the businesses and the people who are Totally Stockport.
Explore the trail and discover the giant frogs. Which one is your favourite? Can you solve the secret message? Can you spot All Saints’ Frog inspired poster on your travels? Join in the frog-tastic fun, complete the activities and you could be in with a chance to win a miniature golden frog!
Recycle plastic to make our school fantastic!
A big thank you to everyone who brought in their plastic we will keep you updated if we are lucky enough to win!
Best Attendance
Very well done to Classes 3 and 4. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 98.33%. Fantastic and very well done
Reminders
Look out Lake District, here we come!
Not long to go, so any final donations would be amazing thank you very much in advance.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/all-saints-are-we-nearly-there-yet
The Week Ahead
Monday 1st July – Ukulele Assembly
Thursday 4th July – Meet your new class team day – informal parent drop in 2.00pm -3.00pm
Friday 5th July – Whole school picnic, Parents’ Association Circus event in school for children and Summer Fair after school!
Upcoming Events/ Reminders
Tuesday 9th July – 9.05am Dance Club Assembly
Thursday 11th July – 2.00pm Keeping your child safe in the virtual world parent session by Tanya Cross from Stockport Local Authority
Friday 12th July – Reports go home to families.
Tuesday 16th July – Year 3 at Stockport Spectacular Music Event
Wednesday 17th July – Year 6 Production 9.30am and 6.30pm
Friday 19th July – Year 2 Class Assembly 9.05am
Tuesday 23rd July – Year 6 Leavers Service Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church 9.30am
Wednesday 24th July – Year 6 Leavers Service at All Saints’ Church 1.45pm, also including Year 5 presentation for Young Leaders Award
Thursday 25th July – Ice cream and fruit party and Achievement Assembly
Friday 26th July – Dress Down Day and Talent Contest. School Breaks up for the summer holidays returning on Wednesday 4th September.
Looking forward to another fun filled week, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
As this week there is so much to celebrate let’s get started!!!
Stockport Dodgeball Champions!
After topping the leader board against all the schools in Marple a few weeks ago, last Thursday saw team All Saints’ beat the final 8 teams in the Stockport Borough dodgeball completion.
As such, team All Saints’ are now in the next round, which is in Manchester, representing Stockport in the North West finals!!!
The biggest thank you to Mr G who has skilfully taught the children amazing tactics, strategies and sportsmanship. So much so that by the time of the 8th of 16 games the other Stockport schools were also following All Saints’ lead and using all of these.
Mathematical Success at Stockport Grammar
Well done to all the children who represented school so well at Stockport Grammar last Thursday in a maths day. One of our Year 5 teams came a fantastic third overall too – with only 3 marks
separating the top 3 teams!
Stockport County Trophy
Thanks to Miss Taylor, we were very lucky to have the actual League Winners Trophy in school last Tuesday. The children were captivated learning all about the resilience shown by the team who went from near the bottom of the league to winning. The children’s amazing knowledge of all the team players was also nearly as good as Miss Taylors and Mrs Noble
Year 2 Moderation
Last Monday was a very important and busy day for the Year 2 Team as their Teacher Assessments for the Year 2 children were externally moderated. Not only that but the experienced moderator was also being observed by the Standards and Testing Agency, to ensure that Stockport Local Authority carry out their duties appropriately. It was an absolute pleasure to be part of as all judgments were upheld and described as extremely thorough and accurate. Strong and very worthwhile praise was given to Mrs Nobel and Mrs Mylrea for how well they knew their children and how secure they were in their judgements. So a huge congratulations and thank you to you both and Mrs Shaw. All Saints’ is extremely lucky to have you all.
Reception Class Assembly: The Enormous Turnip
All the children in Reception wowed us with their acting and singing skills. They had to remember so many lines and stood, confidently to deliver their superb assembly. A special thank you goes to all the parents who attended. Your children are a real credit to you and we know you are all very proud of the journey of growth and development, they have made throughout the year. We would also like to thank the Reception team of staff who have helped to nurture your children into the fine All Saints’ stars that they are. We look forward to your continued support in Year 1.
Stockport Legacy
Last Thursday saw an amazing event at Stockport Town Hall. With a thank you letter stating…We feel we are well on the way towards establishing a legacy for the Normandy Veterans from our Stockport
branch, and your involvement has been a major factor in achieving that goal. A huge thanks to all the children involved and to Mr McShane in particular who has passionately led on excellent and extremely worthwhile project.
Governor Newsletter
Please find attached the Spring/ Summer Governor Newsletter full of lots of great information around changes to Ofsted and SIAMs Inspections and our links with Uganda. Huge thanks to Mr Bailey for producing the newsletter. There are also some hard copies in the entrance if you would like one.
New Reception Induction
It was so lovely to see so many familiar and new faces last Tuesday when the new Reception children and their families came to visit us here at All Saints’. A very warm welcome to you all and we can’t wait to get to know you even more over the coming weeks and years ahead.
RSE Policy
Thank you to those who attended our annual Relationship and Sex Education meeting. Following on from this, please see our updated Policy following this link on the website https://marpleschool.org.uk/stockport/primary/allsaints-pri/site/pages/school/policies and as always any questions please speak to your child’s class teacher.
Best Attendance
Very well done to Class 1. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 99.24%. Fantastic and very well done!
Parents in Partnership Stockport AGM
Please see the attached poster for more information.
Semitone Studios
Please see the attached flyer for free Ukulele taster sessions on Saturday.
Reminders
Recycle plastic to make our school fantastic!
This is the last week so one finally big push would be much appreciated. It will all really help us to be in with the chance of winning a £10,000 playground makeover. Please see the posters around school and place any recyclable items in the box in the main entrance to school. Thank you very much in advance as every little helps.
Look out Lake District, here we come!
Well training is going from strength to strength and a special well done to Mrs Chapman who has been braving all the elements to keep to her training plan!
We are so very grateful for all the donations and to make a final big push for Macmillan we are popping a donations box and sponsorship form in the entrance, no matter how big or small it all really does make a difference so a big thank you in advance. https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/all-saints-are-we-nearly-there-yet
The Week Ahead
Monday 24th June – Summer Term Homework Museum – families welcome to come and view the entries after school via the office.
Upcoming Events/ Reminders
Thursday 4th July – Meet your new class team day – informal parent drop in 2.00pm -3.00pm
Friday 5th July – Whole school picnic, Parents Association event in school for children and Summer Fair after school – more information to follow
Tuesday 9th July – 9.05am Dance Club Assembly
Thursday 11th July – 2.00pm Keeping your child safe in the virtual world parent session by Tanya Cross from Stockport Local Authority
Friday 12th July – Reports go home to families.
Tuesday 16th July – Year 3 at Stockport Spectacular music Event
Wednesday 17th July – Year 6 Production 9.30am and 6.30pm
Friday 19th July – Year 2 Class Assembly 9.05am
Tuesday 23rd July – Year 6 Leavers Service Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church 9.30am
Wednesday 24th July – Year 6 Leavers Service at All Saints’ Church 1.45pm, also including Year 5 presentation for Young Leaders Award
Thursday 25th July – Ice cream and fruit party and Achievement Assembly
Friday 26th July – Dress Down Day and Talent Contest. School Breaks up for the summer holidays returning on Wednesday 4th September.
Looking forward to another great week, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
A very warm welcome to this week’s newsletter (even if the weather is not very warm, especially for June!). There is lots of information this week so let’s begin …
Carnival Fun!
A huge thank you on behalf of All Saints’ to everyone you worked so hard and made so much effort for the All Saints’ carnival entry. A special thank you to Mr Kennerley for all your organisation and well-done Team All Saints’
Special Visitors to All Saints’
We were very fortunate to have some very special visitors last Monday! Bishop Cramner and his wife Hope,who kindly took time out of their very busy schedule to come and see us again all here at All Saints’. They were here all the way from Kisoro in Uganda and kindly presented school with a beautiful wooden plague to say thank you for the wall hanging that we recently gave to their school. They said it really has brightened up their school and we all look forward to hopefully working together in partnership even more in the future.
Clean Air Week
This week is Greater Manchester Clean Air Week! We will be sharing and discussing the information on the attached leaflet with the children, so please do take a look and get chatting about #cleanairgm with your children and families!
Look out Lake District, here we come!
Well training is going from strength to strength and a special well done to Mrs Chapman who has been braving all the elements to keep to her training plan!
We are so very grateful for all the donations and to make a final big push for Macmillan we are popping a donations box and sponsorship form in the entrance, no matter how big or small it all really does make a difference so a big thank you in advance. https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/all-saints-are-we-nearly-there-yet
Carver Juniors Present…
Always a great show so please take a look at the flyer for this year production of Porridge! Good luck and break a leg to everyone!
RSE Policy
Thank you to those who attended our annual Relationship and Sex Education meeting. Following on from this, please see our updated Policy following this link on the website https://marpleschool.org.uk/stockport/primary/allsaints-pri/site/pages/school/policies and as always any questions please speak to your child’s class teacher.
May Bank 2020 holiday Change
As some people may be aware, next year's early May bank holiday will be moved back by four days for the whole of the UK to coincide with the 75th anniversary of VE Day. May Day is traditionally held on a Monday but will be put back to Friday 8th May 2020. Therefore, please see the new updated holiday dates attached.
Best Attendance
Very well done to Class 4. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 99%. Fantastic and very well done!
Reminders
Legacy Competition Launch
Thursday 20th June
Stockport Town Hall (Main Hall) 2.00pm - 4.00pm. Please see Mr McShane for more information.
Keeping your child safe in the virtual world parent session
2.00pm till 3.00pm on Thursday 11th July Tanya Cross from Stockport Local Authority will be running a session that all family members are invited to. Previous parents who have attend said it was an excellent and very eye opening session that all parents should attend. So we can be aware of numbers please let the office know if you are able to come to this very worthwhile training.
Recycle plastic to make our school fantastic!
Thank you so much to everyone who has dropped off their plastic containers etc in School. It will all really help us to be in with the chance of winning a £10,000 playground makeover. Please see the posters around school and place any recyclable items in the box in the main entrance to school. Thank you very much in advance as every little helps.
The Week Ahead
Thursday 20th June – New Team Pen Portraits out to families. Year 4 visit to Pizza Express.
Friday 21st June – Reception Class Assembly 9.05am
Upcoming Events/ Reminders
Monday 24th June – Summer Term Homework Museum
Thursday 4th July – Meet your new class team day – informal parent drop in 2.00pm -3.00pm
Friday 5th July – Whole school picnic, Parents Association event in school for children and Summer Fair after school – more information to follow
Tuesday 9th July – 9.05am Dance Club Assembly
Thursday 11th July – 2.00pm Keeping your child safe in the virtual world parent session by Tanya Cross from Stockport Local Authority
Friday 12th July – Reports go home to families. Parents Association Disco
Tuesday 16th July – Year 3 at Stockport Spectacular music Event
Wednesday 17th July – Year 6 Production 9.30am and 6.30pm
Friday 19th July – Year 2 Class Assembly 9.05am (Please note the new date)
Tuesday 23rd July – Year 6 Leavers Service Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church 9.30am
Wednesday 24th July – Year 6 Leavers Service at All Saints’ Church 1.45pm, also including Year 5 presentation for Young Leaders Award
Thursday 25th July – Ice cream and fruit party and Achievement Assembly
Friday 26th July – Dress Down Day and Talent Contest. School Breaks up for the summer holidays returning on Wednesday 4th September.
Looking forward to another great week, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
A very warm welcome back to everyone and this the final half term of the academic year!
Before we start to look forward, we simply must reflect back at a very special 2019 Active Week. The children had an absolute blast either trying, getting better or even mastering a wide range of sporting activities. As we are sure you can appreciate, something so fantastic and well organised takes months of preparation and for this we want to show huge appreciation and thanks to Mrs Preece. Mrs Preece your time, enthusiasm and passion for all things sporty is second to none and it is greatly appreciated by us all, you are a true All Saints’ Superstar!
John would like to say a huge thank you to everyone for all their support and kindness with offers of lifts for him to attend his daily medical appointments. It really shows what an amazing community we have at All Saints’ and what a special place it is.
Marple Carnival 2019
It is Carnival time again! All Saints are going back to the 1920s prohibition era, so put on your zoot-suit, chuck on a feather boa, slick back your hair, grow a tash and watch Bugsy Malone to get into the spirit.
Please head over to Parents Association Facebook page to share dressing-up tips.
https://www.facebook.com/events/425621294866177/
A message from the Carnival Committee …
This year we have initiated some improvements to our management of the event.
Firstly we are giving schools safety wrist bands to distribute to your pupils. These are simple non-rip bands which the parent/carer can use to write their mobile number on to help stewards to quickly contact them should they become separated. As additional security, we recommend that a surname and a unique code word be written on the underside (hidden from view when the band is on) that can be used as proof of identity on collection of their child. (These will be distributed on the day via the Parents Association).
Secondly, to help identify the Carnival Committee H.Q. in the park, a new flagpole and windsock will be erected next to it. This will help parents/carers locate us quickly from a distance should they need help or if there is an emergency.
We are again pleased to welcome St. John's ambulance as our first aid providers. They will be located in the park near the war memorial and will accompany the floats in the parade. Please let parents know where to find them if they need medical assistance.
Finally, we would like to notify you that at this year's closing event in the arena there will be an artillery demonstration by a military enthusiasts' group. This is part of the overall theme for the carnival and is a recognition of the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
This is scheduled for 3.45 pm and will involve the firing of several blank artillery rounds. We are aware that this might prove distressful for some children (particularly very young ones) so wanted to make people aware.
A message from the FAIR FUNDING FOR MARPLE SCHOOLS campaign
A group of local parents set up this campaign in January to raise awareness of the impact of funding cuts on our children’s education. Your contact at All Saints Primary School is Emma Dine. If you want to know more, get in touch with Emma, or follow our page on facebook: Fair Funding for Marple Schools.
We’ll be sharing information about schools funding cuts every half term to highlight the effects of the cuts. This time we wanted to share some results from a survey of headteachers in the Stockport area, including Marple:
- Nearly half of schools have reduced their teaching staff in the last two years.
- Almost three quarters have lost support staff.
- Half have reduced specialist services.
On behalf of all the children of All Saints’ we want to say a huge thank you to everyone supporting this campaign and especially to Mrs Dine. All your time, passions and energy is greatly appreciated and we are sure it will make a difference for all the children in the Marple area.
Stockport Normandy Veterans Legacy
All Saints’ has been fortunate enough to be one of the pilot schools for the Stockport Veterans Legacy Project and you may remember in the Autumn Term we had some very special and unique Legacy Team members visit school! The Veterans simply captivated all our children with the opportunity to hear so many first-hand experiences telling the children personal stories about life at home and in the armed forces during World War 2 as living history. The members also taught the children the importance of tolerance and respect for others.
We are therefore delighted to share the below information about the Stockport Legacy Competition launch event. Mr McShane and some children from All Saints’ will be attending to share their learning with others and it would be absolutely wonderful if anyone who was able to could also go along and show their support for some truly inspiring individuals.
Legacy Competition Launch - Thursday 20th June
Stockport Town Hall (Main Hall) 2.00pm - 4.00pm
You will be able to experience:
· augmented reality of veterans’ portraits through iPhones / iPads. Please download the free App Creativmuse from your App store before coming to the Town Hall.
· displays of work produced by a pilot group of schools (including All Saints’)
·WW2 memorabilia which includes (among others) a German helmet taken from Juno Beach during the invasion; an authentic clicker; a kit bag; original military caps and a British battledress.
The Launch is supported by World War 2 veterans, sporting role models and high profile guests.
Please speak to Mr McShane if you have any questions about this amazing event.
Anti-Bullying Audit
As part of our Anti-Bullying work in school just before half term, we conducted an Anti-Bullying Audit with the children. The purpose of this audit was to establish the safe and unsafe areas within and just outside our school grounds. Interestingly, the children brought a few concerns to our attention which we feel are important to share with you. Our children mentioned roads/ cars around our school being a ‘risk’. They mentioned speeding, reversing, people rushing to get to their cars and having to avoid scooters/bikes.
As a consequence, if any of the following statements apply to you, we are politely asking that you bear these in mind:
We will also be reinforcing key messages of road safety with the children in school.
Thank you for your continued co-operation as we work in partnership to keep your children safe.
Spellodrome
Schools subscription to Spellodrome has now expired and as we are currently reviewing all our online subscriptions ready for the new academic year we will therefore not be re-subscribing this term. If you would like for your child to continue with this resource you can personally subscribe via the following website https://uk.spellodrome.com/#/home.
Many thanks and please look out for further updates and exciting new resource opportunities coming soon!
Best Attendance
Very well done to Class 6. You have won the best attendance for last week of term with an amazing attendance percentage of 100%. Fantastic and very well done!
Reminders
Keeping your child safe in the virtual world parent session
2.00pm till 3.00pm on Thursday 11th July Tanya Cross from Stockport Local Authority will be running a session that all family members are invited to. Previous parents who have attend said it was an excellent and very eye opening session that all parents should attend. So we can be aware of numbers please let the office know if you are able to come to this very worthwhile training.
Recycle plastic to make our school fantastic!
Thank you so much to everyone who has dropped off their plastic containers etc into School. It will all really help us to be in with the chance of winning a £10,000 playground makeover. Please see the posters around school and place any recyclable items in the box in the main entrance to school. Thank you very much in advance as every little helps.
Look out Lake District, here we come!
We are so thrilled and humbled by everyone’s donations so far, so a huge thank you for us all.
If you would like to make a donation no matter how big or small, it would be very gratefully received and can be done via the link below.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/all-saints-are-we-nearly-there-yet
The Week Ahead
Monday 10th June – School re-opens Year 1 Phonics Screening Week and National Carers Week.
Thursday 13th June – Year 3 visit to Pizza Express
Saturday 15th June – Marple Carnival – more information to follow
Upcoming Events/ Reminders
Thursday 20th June – New Team Pen Portraits out to families. Year 4 visit to Pizza Express.
Friday 21st June – Reception Class Assembly 9.05am
Monday 24th June – Summer Term Homework Museum
Thursday 4th July – Meet your new class team day – informal parent drop in 2.00pm -3.00pm
Friday 5th July – Whole school picnic, Parents Association event in school for children and Summer Fair after school – more information to follow
Tuesday 9th July – 9.05am Dance Club Assembly
Thursday 11th July – 2.00pm Keeping your child safe in the virtual world parent session by Tanya Cross from Stockport Local Authority
Friday 12th July – Reports go home to families. Parents Association Disco
Tuesday 16th July – Year 3 at Stockport Spectacular music Event
Wednesday 17th July – Year 6 Production 9.30am and 6.30pm
Friday 19th July – Year 2 Class Assembly 9.05am (Please note the new date)
Tuesday 23rd July – Year 6 Leavers Service Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church 9.30am
Wednesday 24th July – Year 6 Leavers Service at All Saints’ Church 1.45pm, also including Year 5 presentation for Young Leaders Award
Thursday 25th July – Ice cream and fruit party and Achievement Assembly
Friday 26th July – Dress Down Day and Talent Contest. School Breaks up for the summer holidays returning on Wednesday 4th September.
It is great to be back and we are very much looking forward to a wonderful final half term, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
We are already in the final week of this half term and what a week it will be! So much is planned for Active Week from scooter workshops, yoga sessions, rugby, dance, archery and forest schools to name but a few. Of course, fingers are crossed for a lovely week of weather and that we can go ahead with Sports Day on Thursday morning too! Always a highlight of the All Saints’ calendar we hope everyone has a fantastic week.
We would also like to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to all our community members who have contributed to making it yet another successful half term here at All Saints’. In particular, we would like to say a special thank you to Emma (Felix, Polly, Louie and Evelyn's Mum) for her support in Y2 as a volunteer this year. Also a huge thank you must go to Kate (Charlie and Isaac's Mum) for all her support with reading as a mentor in Y1. Huge congratulations to both of you on your promotions in your work life. Your time and kindness really has made a huge difference to all the children you have worked with whilst volunteering, so one big final thankyou is very much deserved!
Tennis Success
Amazing result… despite the rain and difficult conditions All Saints’ triumphed and won the local Y3 and 4 Tennis Competition! Future Wimbledon champions we are sure!
Operation Encompass
Please look out for a letter that will be coming home tonight with your child as it explains in more detail about All Saints’ becoming an Operation Encompass School. This is in partnership with Manchester Safeguarding Board and Greater Manchester Police and around information sharing of domestic abuse incidents. 
May King and Queen
A huge thank you to Margot in Year 2 and Tyler in Year 1 for representing themselves, their families and All Saints’ School so beautifully as May King and Queen. Super job and thanks also to Anna (Ollie and Sam’s Mum) for organising the cake stall on behalf of the PA and everyone else involved in making cakes and helping on the day – it is very much appreciated and the wonderful amount of £209 was raised.
Keeping your child safe in the virtual world parent session
2.00pm till 3.00pm on Thursday 11th July Tanya Cross from Stockport Local Authority will be running a session that all family members are invited to. Previous parents who have attend said it was an excellent and very eye opening session that all parents should attend. So we can be aware of numbers please let the office know if you are able to come to this very worthwhile training.
Year 2 Class Assembly
Please note a change in date for the Year 2 Class Assembly to Friday 19th July at 9.05am. We apologise for any inconvenience caused and hope you can make the new date.
Marple Bridge Street Party 
The Marple Bridge Association would like to invite everyone to their street party raising funds for the community on Sunday 21st May 1-5pm. Please see the attached poster for more details.
Wyevale Holiday Events
Little Diggers May Half Term
27th – 31st May 2019
Make a Bird Home – Monday
Decorate a cosy bird box for your garden birds.
Create a Bird Buddy – Tuesday
Decorate and plant your own bird pot for your home.
Grow Your Own Mini Garden – Wednesday
Plant your own mini garden with giant flowers, nee hives and wild friends.
Flower Power Pot – Thursday
Plant your own flower and decorate a pot and plant marker.
Feed the Birds – Friday
Make and decorate your own feeder to entice more birds into your garden.
All events cost only £2.50 per child, are 20 minutes long and include an activity sheet.
Tickets are limited, so book early to avoid disappointment. All events can be booked at wyevalegardencentres.co.uk/event-half-term-craft-events.
Posters also attached for more information.
Best Attendance
Very well done to Class 6. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 100%. Fantastic and very well done!
Reminders
Recycle plastic to make our school fantastic!
Help us to be in with the chance of winning a £10,000 playground makeover. Please see the posters around school and place any recyclable items in the box in the main entrance to school. Thank you very much in advance as every little helps
Look out Lake District, here we come!
We are so thrilled and humbled by everyone’s donations so far, so a huge thank you for us all. 
If you would like to make a donation no matter how big or small, it would be very gratefully received and can be done via the link below.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/all-saints-are-we-nearly-there-yet
The Week Ahead
Monday 20th May to Friday 25th May – Active Week and Wow Walk to School Week. Children to come in sportswear all week, Sports Day Thursday Am. More information to follow. Schools breaks up for half term.
Wednesday 22nd May- Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) Year 1 to Year 6 parents meeting at 5.30pm
Upcoming Events/ Reminders
Monday 10th June – School re-opens Year 1 Phonics Screening Week and National Carers Week.
Thursday 13th June – Year 3 visit to Pizza Express
Saturday 15th June – Marple Carnival – more information to follow
Thursday 20th June – New Team Pen Portraits out to families. Year 4 visit to Pizza Express.
Friday 21st June – Reception Class Assembly 9.05am
Monday 24th June – Summer Term Homework Museum
Monday 1st July – Front row music summer performance 9.00am
Thursday 4th July – Meet your new class team day – informal parent drop in 2.00pm -3.00pm
Friday 5th July – Whole school picnic, Parents Association event in school for children and Summer Fair after school – more information to follow
Tuesday 9th July – 9.05am Dance Club Assembly
Thursday 11th July – 2.00pm Keeping your child safe in the virtual world parent session by Tanya Cross from Stockport Local Authority
Friday 12th July – Reports go home to families. Parents Association Disco
Tuesday 16th July – Year 3 at Stockport Spectacular music Event
Wednesday 17th July – Year 6 Production 9.30am and 6.30pm
Friday 19th July – Year 2 Class Assembly 9.05am (Please note the new date)
Tuesday 23rd July – Year 6 Leavers Service Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church 9.30am
Wednesday 24th July – Year 6 Leavers Service at All Saints’ Church 1.45pm, also including Year 5 presentation for Young Leaders Award
Thursday 25th July – Ice cream and fruit party and Achievement Assembly
Friday 26th July – Dress Down Day and Talent Contest. School Breaks up for the summer holidays returning on Wednesday 4th September.
Have a fantastic holiday and see you all for the final half term of this academic year on Monday 10th June, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
It is lovely to start this week’s newsletter with some special announcements!
Colouring Competition Success
A very well done to Hallie in Reception who recently won the Vernon Building Society colouring competition. Her artwork really impressed the judges in the age 3 to 7 category, so a huge congratulations to Hallie!
May King and Queen
Also, well done to Margot in Year 2 and Tyler in Year 1 who have the honour of being the May Queen and King at this Sunday`s Hawk Green Event. Super applications from both meant they will carry out the special roles this weekend. Very well done to you both. 
Huge thank you to the wonderful All Saints’ Parent Association!
Due to all the support the parents association receives, Mrs Eva now has plenty of wood for forest school. Massive thanks to Lenny Logs who will hopefully be delivering some branches next week as well. You can find him on Facebook should you require any logs for your log burner, chimnea or fire pit. The children will get so much from having these logs and branches for their forest school sessions, so your support and generosity is so gratefully received.
Good luck Year 6 and 2
Year 2 have already been busy completing the Year 2 challenges with excellent attitudes and calmness. This week Year 6 will also join them in completing their nationally set SATs papers. In the All Saints’ Way we wish everyone the very best of luck to shine and simply do their best, all we can ever ask for.
Key Stage One pick up at the end of the day
At the end of the day, we are kindly asking for all parents of Year 1 and Year 2 children to wait on the soft surface of the infant playground where staff will be able to see you clearly and release the children to you safely. A big thank you to everyone for your cooperation in this matter.
Parking on the solid lines
Please do make sure that when picking up, dropping off and parking around school that you obey the road markings. The lines are there to keep everyone safe as when those areas are restricted it increases the chances of an accident happening. Obviously, no one wants this so please do make sure that you do not put others at risk from your parking and driving!
Wyevale Holiday Events
Little Diggers May Half Term
27th – 31st May 2019
Make a Bird Home – Monday
Decorate a cosy bird box for your garden birds.
Create a Bird Buddy – Tuesday
Decorate and plant your own bird pot for your home.
Grow Your Own Mini Garden – Wednesday
Plant your own mini garden with giant flowers, nee hives and wild friends.
Flower Power Pot – Thursday
Plant your own flower and decorate a pot and plant marker.
Feed the Birds – Friday
Make and decorate your own feeder to entice more birds into your garden.
All events cost only £2.50 per child, are 20 minutes long and include an activity sheet.
Tickets are limited, so book early to avoid disappointment. All events can be booked at wyevalegardencentres.co.uk/event-half-term-craft-events.
Posters also attached for more information.
Best Attendance
Very well done to Class 4 (again!!!). You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 100%. Fantastic and very well done!
Reminders
Recycle plastic to make our school fantastic!
Help us to be in with the chance of winning a £10,000 playground makeover. Please see the posters around school and place any recyclable items in the box in the main entrance to school. Thank you very much in advance as every little helps.
Look out Lake District, here we come
If you would like to make a donation no matter how big or small, it would be very gratefully received and can be done via the link below.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/all-saints-are-we-nearly-there-yet
The Week Ahead
Monday 13th May to Thursday 16th May – Year 6 SATs
Tuesday 14th May – Reception Canal trip
Friday 17th May – Year 6 to Linnet Clough
Upcoming Events/ Reminders
Monday 20th May to Friday 25th May – Active Week and Wow Walk to School Week. Children to come in sportswear all week, Sports Day Thursday Am. More information to follow. Schools breaks up for half term.
Wednesday 22nd May- Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) Year 1 to Year 6 parents meeting at 5.30pm
Monday 10th June – School re-opens Year 1 Phonics Screening Week and National Carers Week.
Thursday 13th June – Year 3 visit to Pizza Express
Saturday 15th June – Marple Carnival – more information to follow
Thursday 20th June – New Team Pen Portraits out to families. Year 4 visit to Pizza Express.
Friday 21st June – Reception Class Assembly 9.05am
Monday 24th June – Summer Term Homework Museum
Friday 28th June – Year 2 Class Assembly 9.05am
Monday 1st July – Front row music summer Performance 9:00am
Thursday 4th July – Meet your new class team day – informal parent drop in 2.00pm -3.00pm
Friday 5th July – Whole school picnic, Parents Association event in school for children and Summer Fair after school – more information to follow
Tuesday 9th July – 9.05am Dance Club Assembly
Thursday 11th July – 2.00pm Keeping your child safe in the virtual world parent session by Tanya Cross from Stockport Local Authority
Friday 12th July – Reports go home to families. Parents Association Disco
Tuesday 16th July – Year 3 at Stockport Spectacular music Event
Wednesday 17th July – Year 6 Production 9.30am and 6.30pm
Tuesday 23rd July – Year 6 Leavers Service Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church 9.30am
Wednesday 24th July – Year 6 Leavers Service at All Saints’ Church 1.45pm, also including Year 5 presentation for Young Leaders Award
Thursday 25th July – Ice cream and fruit party and Achievement Assembly
Friday 26th July – Dress Down Day and Talent Contest. School Breaks up for the summer holidays returning on Wednesday 4th September.
Have a fantastic week everyone and we cannot wait for Active Week next week too, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
We hope that everyone had a lovely bank holiday and are ready and eager to go for our four-day week!
Go Team All Saints’
Our Year 5 and 6 Football Team took part in an inter School tournament last Tuesday and by only conceding 1 goal and winning all 6 games they WON the whole event!!! As a result, they are through to the Regional Final! Amazing teamwork and skill shown by the whole team. Also, huge thanks to Mr Granite, Mrs Preece and Miss Taylor for organising and accompanying the children to the event. AMAZING!
Last Wednesday saw 10 year 3 students both boys and girls competing at a football festival held at Manchester City’s training ground. This was a great opportunity for some of our students to participate in an event at such a prestigious venue. The children did magnificently and enjoyed the day thoroughly. Thanks to Miss Day for organising the great event for the children.
Overall another great sporting week at All Saints’ and we look forward to all planned events between now and the end of the school year. Thanks to all parents for their continued support as always.
My Passport Activity Book
The Department for Education have recently produced the ‘My Activity Passport’. It has a checklist of activities for children to experience from Reception to Year 6. It has some lovely ideas and may be of use for the coming Whit and Summer holidays. Thanks so much to Mr Taylor (a Y1 parent) for sharing this and we would love to hear if you complete any!
National Gardening Week
National Gardening Week will take place from 25th May to 2nd June. Many garden centres will be hosting various activities. Gardening can play a huge part in a child’s health & wellbeing as well as being a source of good outdoor fun. There are many ways to get involved. Visit www.childrensgardeningweek.co.uk for more information.
Best Attendance
Very well done to Classes 2 and 4. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing 
attendance percentage of 100%. Fantastic and very well done!
Reminders
Recycle plastic to make our school fantastic!
Help us to be in with the chance of winning a £10,000 playground makeover. Please see the posters around school and place any recyclable items in the box in the main entrance to school. Thank you very much in advance as every little helps.
Look out Lake District, here we come!
If you would like to make a donation no matter how big or small, it would be very gratefully received and can be done via the link below.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/all-saints-are-we-nearly-there-yet
The Week Ahead
Wednesday 8th May to half term – John will not be staffing the crossing after school
Friday 10th May – Year 3 brass lessons start. Hawk Green May King and Queen nomination deadline
Upcoming Events/ Reminders
Monday 13th May to Thursday 16th May – Year 6 SATs
Tuesday 14th May – Reception Canal trip
Friday 17th May – Year 6 to Linnet Clough
Monday 20th May to Friday 25th May – Active Week and Wow Walk to School Week. Children to come in sportswear all week, Sports Day Thursday AM. Look out for your Ping confirming your child’s team colour, if you haven’t received it then please check with the class teacher.
Friday 25th May – 3.15pm - Schools breaks up for half term.
Wednesday 22nd May- Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) Year 1 to Year 6 parents meeting at 5.30pm
Monday 10th June – School re-opens Year 1 Phonics Screening Week and National Carers Week.
Thursday 13th June – Year 3 visit to Pizza Express
Saturday 15th June – Marple Carnival – more information to follow
Thursday 20th June – New Team Pen Portraits out to families. Year 4 visit to Pizza Express.
Friday 21st June – Reception Class Assembly 9.05am
Monday 24th June – Summer Term Homework Museum
Friday 28th June – Year 2 Class Assembly 9.05am
Thursday 4th July – Meet your new class team day – informal parent drop in 2.00pm -3.00pm
Friday 5th July – Whole school picnic, Parents’ Association event in school for children and Summer Fair after school – more information to follow
Tuesday 9th July – 9.05am Dance Club Assembly
Thursday 11th July – 2.00pm Keeping your child safe in the virtual world parent session by Tanya Cross from Stockport Local Authority
Friday 12th July – Reports go home to families. Parents’ Association Disco – details to follow
Tuesday 16th July – Year 3 at Stockport Spectacular music Event
Wednesday 17th July – Year 6 Production 9.30am and 6.30pm
Tuesday 23rd July – Year 6 Leavers Service Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church 9.30am
Wednesday 24th July – Year 6 Leavers Service at All Saints’ Church 1.45pm, also including Year 5 presentation for Young Leaders Award
Thursday 25th July – Ice cream and fruit party and Achievement Assembly
Friday 26th July – Dress Down Day and Talent Contest. School Breaks up for the summer holidays returning on Wednesday 4th September.
Have a great week everyone, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
The first week has flown by and the children are really enjoying their new whole school topic. So many exciting lessons are taking place across school and it has been a wonderful start to the term. Fingers crossed the weather for the coming bank holiday weekend is as good as the last!
Class 4 and Manchester City!
What an absolutely amazing afternoon Class 4 had last Wednesday. Linked to last terms topic Tyler from Class 4 wrote a fabulous letter to her inspirational person, Tessa Wullaert. Tessa responded at the time saying that she was unable to come in to All Saints’ on our special day, but would love to come at some point. Well true to her word she turned up last Wednesday (as an amazing surprise to the children) along with other Man City Club staff. Not only did she play alongside the children in their football lesson but also presented Tyler with presents and gave out signed pictures for all the children! Granada News even came along to film the wonderful experience and this will be shown on Friday at 6pm, so please do tune in! We cannot thank Tessa and Man City enough for making a little girls dream come true. Tyler has really demonstrated what reaching for the stars can do, what an inspirational day with memories to last a life time. 
Active Week
All Saints’ annual Active Week is just around the corner and we have a huge amount of exciting activities and opportunities for all the children, thanks to Mrs Preece. We would also like to invite everyone (children and family members) into the school playgrounds from 8.30am each morning of Active Week to join in some fun activities and get us all moving and ready for the day. Please note that we ask that the children come in all week wearing sports clothing (no beachwear e.g. flip flops for safety reasons please). In addition, Sports Day as shared on the dairy dates last week will be from 9.30am on Thursday 23rd May and be for approximately 2 hours. During this time your child/ren will be in teams (please watch out for what colour T-shirt your child will ideally be wearing on the day) and you will be able to follow them around the field watching them take part and compete in all the different station activities. There will also be the highlight of the parent races, so do get training and make sure you have your trainers on!
Look out Lake District, here we come!
Well the training has started as the countdown is well and truly underway to ‘Team All Saints’’ 26 mile hike (hopefully Mr Granite’s top will arrive before then!) on the 13th July. We cannot thank you enough for all the very kind sponsorship and we are sure that you will all agree for such a worthy charity – Macmillan. If you would like to make a donation no matter how big or small, it would be very gratefully received and can be done via the link below.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/all-saints-are-we-nearly-there-yet
Crossing Patrol
As previously mentioned due to health reasons, John has to attend a number of appointments and therefore is not available for the crossing on Church Lane at the end of the school day from Wednesday 8th May until half term. We would like to thank everyone in advance for your understanding during this difficult time. In addition, if anyone would be available to support John with transport to and/or from his appointments please speak to John directly or let the school office know.
Hawk Green May Pole Event - May King and Queen
All Saints’ has the honour again of choosing the May King and Queen for Hawk Green Maypole Event on Sunday 19th May. If your child would like this very important role then please fill out the attached nomination form. The closing date will be Friday 10th May and we will announce the winners on Monday 13th May.
Eggstravaganza and Summer Homework Museum
Well even when we think there can’t be any more new ideas or get any better in true All Saints’ style they simply do. There were so many amazing entries in last terms Eggstravaganza and thank you so much to everyone who joined in. Very well done to all our winners and you can already start to think about our Summer Term Homework Museum if you wish to make an entry! Please see the attached poster for more information.
Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) meeting
We will be holding our annual RSE meeting for parents of children from Year 1 to Year 6 on Wednesday 22nd May at 5.30pm. The meeting may be more useful for parents of children in Year 3 to Year 6, but infant parents are more than welcome to attend. The meeting is an opportunity to learn more about how we at All Saints’ approach the teaching and learning of RSE, look at the materials used and also ask any questions you may have.
Best Attendance
Very well done to Class 3 and 4. You have both won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 100%. Fantastic and very well done!
Reminders
Recycle plastic to make our school fantastic!
Help us to be in with the chance of winning a £10,000 playground makeover. Please see the posters around school and place any recyclable items in the box in the main entrance to school. Thank you very much in advance as every little helps.
The Week Ahead
Thursday 2nd May – Class Photographs, please come spruced and ready to say cheese!
Upcoming Events/ Reminders
Monday 6th May – May Bank Holiday
Wednesday 8th May to half term – John will not be staffing the crossing after school
Friday 10th May – Year 3 brass lessons start
Monday 13th May to Thursday 16th May – Year 6 SATs
Tuesday 14th May – Reception Canal trip
Friday 17th May – Year 6 to Linnet Clough
Monday 20th May to Friday 25th May – Active Week and Wow Walk to School Week. Children to come in sportswear all week, Sports Day Thursday Am. More information to follow. Schools breaks up for half term.
Wednesday 22nd May- Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) Year 1 to Year 6 parents meeting at 5.30pm
Monday 10th June – School re-opens Year 1 Phonics Screening Week and National Carers Week.
Thursday 13th June – Year 3 visit to Pizza Express
Saturday 15th June – Marple Carnival – more information to follow
Thursday 20th June – New Team Pen Portraits out to families. Year 4 visit to Pizza Express.
Friday 21st June – Reception Class Assembly 9.05am
Monday 24th June – Summer Term Homework Museum
Friday 28th June – Year 2 Class Assembly 9.05am
Thursday 4th July – Meet your new class team day – informal parent drop in 2.00pm -3.00pm
Friday 5th July – Whole school picnic, Parents Association event in school for children and Summer Fair after school – more information to follow
Tuesday 9th July – 9.05am Dance Club Assembly
Thursday 11th July – 2.00pm Keeping your child safe in the virtual world parent session by Tanya Cross from Stockport Local Authority
Friday 12th July – Reports go home to families. Parents Association Disco
Tuesday 16th July – Year 3 at Stockport Spectacular music Event
Wednesday 17th July – Year 6 Production 9.30am and 6.30pm
Tuesday 23rd July – Year 6 Leavers Service Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church 9.30am
Wednesday 24th July – Year 6 Leavers Service at All Saints’ Church 1.45pm, also including Year 5 presentation for Young Leaders Award
Thursday 25th July – Ice cream and fruit party and Achievement Assembly
Friday 26th July – Dress Down Day and Talent Contest. School Breaks up for the summer holidays returning on Wednesday 4th September.
Have a lovely week and bank holiday weekend, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
A very, very warm welcome back to the Summer Term here at All Saints’. We hope everyone had a lovely and restful break and are as excited as we are about this term’s whole school topic of Scrumdiddlyumptious! Think all things food and of course with the traditional Active Week, whole school picnic, Parents Association Summer Fair and Marple Carnival there is so much to look forward to. So please do look at the attached Summer Term Diary Dates and take a few minutes to make sure you have key dates in your diary.
Defibrillator Success!
We are delighted to start this term off with some fantastic news. School has managed to secure the funding for our own defibrillator from a local council fund! We are very grateful indeed to Mrs Hallas (Archie and Penny’s mum) for researching possible funding streams and letting us know about this one. Also, a big thank you to Mrs Hallworth for all her time and support with the application. It will be wonderful to reach this goal and have a defibrillator on site, although we hope never to have to use it is fantastic to have this life saving resource for our school community and local area.
Recycle plastic to make our school fantastic!
We are delighted to announce that following a parent (Ben in Year 1s Mum) we have found out about and enrolled on the recycle plastic to make your school fantastic programme. The competition starts now and finishes on the 28th June with the winning school, the one that collects the most beauty products packaging, getting an amazing £10,000 for a recycled playground makeover! Please see the posters attached and around school for the acceptable waste we can collect. Then please just bring it along to the main entrance where a box will be kept. Fingers crossed we can be in it to win it and happy recycling.
A busy final week of Spring Term ….
Great All Saints’ Bake Off
On Friday 5th April the Pupil Parliament held their first school bake off. We received some beautiful Show Stopper cakes made by children from Reception to Year Six. The Show Stopper cakes wowed us both with the level of effort put in, and the creativity and imagination that went into them too. All entries into the Show Stopper competition won a prize as they were all absolutely stunning! However, our overall winner from KS1 was Elliott with his Sheep Cake, and Connie in KS2 with her spring garden inspired cake. Well done Connie and Elliott! As well as our Show Stopper cakes we had an amazing response from families across the school donating an astonishing array of cakes which the Pupil Parliament children sold to their classes throughout the morning. The Pupil Parliament had a great time organising the day and acting as market sellers for the morning. We certainly got closer to our fund raising target, raising a grand total of £175.06. We have another event planned for the Summer term. All money raised by the Pupil Parliament this academic year will be added together and used to purchase equipment for the All Saints' children to use at playtime. A massive thank you to everyone who donated and bought cakes on Friday!
Easter Service
The children were amazing! They sang their hearts out and performed so confidently. They truly shared the Easter message so clearly and it was wonderful to see the service so packed too!! A huge thank you to all the children and staff for their hard work and Mrs Eva in particular for her organisation and co-ordination of the service.
Marple Cricket Club
Please see the attached poster of an All Stars Programme for your child/children.
Stockport Music Service
Please see attached information about all the sessions available each week from age 0 upwards and also a letter regarding Stockport Young and Junior Choir rehearsals.
Best Attendance
Very well done to Class 4 and 5. You have both won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 99.26%. Fantastic and very well done!
Look out Lake District, here we come!
Thank you to everyone who has already very kindly sponsored Team All Saints’ for the 26-mile hike on 13th July. If you would like to make a donation no matter how big or small, it would be very gratefully received and can be done via the link below.
https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/all-saints-are-we-nearly-there-yet
The Week Ahead
Friday 28th April - 9.00am - 9:30am Year 4 drop in to see all the Castleton photos and share the fun that was had by all!
Upcoming Events/ Reminders
Thursday 2nd May – Class Photographs
Monday 6th May – May Bank Holiday
Friday 10th May – Year 3 brass lessons start
Monday 13th May to Thursday 16th May – Year 6 SATs
Tuesday 14th May – Reception Canal trip
Friday 17th May – Year 6 to Linnet Clough
Monday 20th May to Friday 25th May – Active Week and Wow Walk to School Week. Children to come in sportswear all week, Sports Day Thursday Am. More information to follow. Schools breaks up for half term.
Monday 10th June – School re-opens Year 1 Phonics Screening Week and National Carers Week.
Thursday 13th June – Year 3 visit to Pizza Express
Saturday 15th June – Marple Carnival – more information to follow
Thursday 20th June – New Team Pen Portraits out to families. Year 4 visit to Pizza Express.
Friday 21st June – Reception Class Assembly 9.05am
Monday 24th June – Summer Term Homework Museum
Friday 28th June – Year 2 Class Assembly 9.05am
Thursday 4th July – Meet your new class team day – informal parent drop in 2.00pm -3.00pm
Friday 5th July – Whole school picnic, Parents Association event in school for children and Summer Fair after school – more information to follow
Tuesday 9th July – 9.05am Dance Club Assembly
Thursday 11th July – 2.00pm Keeping your child safe in the virtual world parent session by Tanya Cross from Stockport Local Authority
Friday 12th July – Reports go home to families. Parents Association Disco
Tuesday 16th July – Year 3 at Stockport Spectacular music Event
Wednesday 17th July – Year 6 Production 9.30am and 6.30pm
Tuesday 23rd July – Year 6 Leavers Service Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church 9.30am
Wednesday 24th July – Year 6 Leavers Service at All Saints’ Church 1.45pm, also including Year 5 presentation for Young Leaders Award
Thursday 25th July – Ice cream and fruit party and Achievement Assembly
Friday 26th July – Dress Down Day and Talent Contest. School Breaks up for the summer holidays returning on Wednesday 4th September.
It is good to be back and have a great week Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor
We can’t quite believe we are writing the last newsletter of the Spring Term! As such we would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for all your continued support over the last term and say how much we are looking forward to working together to support your children and our wonderful All Saints’ community over the summer term.
Year Four Residential
The children in Class 4 had a brilliant time on their residential trip to Castleton. They showed so much courage, bravery and resilience and we are so proud of them all. They really did shine in the ‘All Saints’ Way’!
"We had the time of our lives!" Leila
"The food was delicious." Louie
"The caving was amazing and we were all really brave!" Freya
"The hike was really fun because we felt like we were on top of the world." Amelia.
We also would like to give a massive thank you to Miss Taylor, Ms Wilson, Mrs Eva and Mr Granite for accompanying the children and taking care of them while they were away from home.
The children and Class 4 team would like to invite the Class 4 parents to an open morning on Friday 26th April from 9.00am - 9:30am to look at their photos and memories from the trip. We hope to see you there!
Go Team All Saints’
A huge well done to all our Year 4 and 5 Footballers who took part in the Local Authority football final last Tuesday. The girls finished in a very respectable 5th place and the boys achieved 2nd place overall. Another example of the ‘All Saints’ Way’ really coming to life! A great big thank you to the many parents who went to support the children. Of course, another massive thanks needs to be given to Mrs Preece and Mr Granite for all their hard work and preparation leading up to the event and their support and organisation on the day, it is greatly appreciated by all.
Woodwind Concert
What an amazing concert we had last Friday at All Saints’! We had children from Reception, right the way through to Year 6, performing and ‘showing off’ their musical talent and ability. The concert was so enjoyable and we were all proud of the children who participated. We were also impressed with their rhythm, ability to read notes and to perform independently as well as in small groups.
A huge thank you to the parents for continuing to support your children and another thank you to Mrs Hatton who continues to teach them.
Lock Down
In line with our Safeguarding Policy and Procedures, we will be carrying out a Lock Down drill this week in School. As previously communicated to families it is essential we carry out these drills, so that in the case of a real emergency situation staff are fully rehearsed in their responsibilities and duties, and in order to identify any potential any areas for improvement. Also very importantly, that the children are clear on procedures and with the staff’s support can remain calm. If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
New Horizons Volunteers Day
Please see the attached Poster for a New Horizon Open Day on the 14th April.
Easter Colouring Competition
Please see attached the Easter Colouring Competition from Vernon Building Society if you wish to take part.
Best Attendance
Very well done to Class 5. You have won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 99.6%.
Fantastic and very well done!
The Week Ahead
Monday 1st April – Year 6 pre-SATs drop in 3.30pm to 5.00pm (please see Class 6 blog for more information).
Tuesday 2nd April - Eggstravaganza Homework Museum. As mentioned on the Spring Term Diary Dates we will be holding our Spring Term Eggstravaganza homework museum on Tuesday 2nd April. Can’t wait to see everyone’s ‘cracking’ ideas! Please also see flyer sent home and posters around school for more information.
Wednesday 3rd April – Achievement assembly and ice cream and fruit party throughout the day for the children, so please keep working on those key skills!
Thursday 4th April – 9.30am Easter Service rehearsal at Church. As always, we would be most grateful of walkers to help the children get safely to and from Church. We will be leaving All Saints’ School at 9.10am and returning from Church at 11.00am. Please let the school office know or your child’s class teacher if you are able to help.
Year 2 Challenges drop in after school 3.30pm-4.45pm, please see Class 2 blog for more information.
Friday 5th April – 1.45pm Easter Service at Church. Again, anybody able to help walking would be fantastic. We will be leaving school a 1.20pm and returning following the service, many thanks in advance.
All Saint’s Great British Bake Off! No nuts to be used please!
On Friday 5th of April, the Pupil Parliament will be hosting a Great British Bake Off fund raising day. Children will be invited to bring cupcakes and biscuits to Class 2 in the morning. Each class will have a chance to buy the donated treats for 50p or less. The success of the day will depend on how many cake donations we receive so all donations (whether shop-bought or home-made) will be gratefully received.
If your child would like to enter the Show-Stopper Competition as well, they can bring their home-made show-stopper cake and £2 entry fee to Class 2. Show-Stopper cakes will be returned to the bakers at the end of the day and each entry will receive a certificate. The winning entry from Reception and KS1 (Year 1 and 2), and KS2 (Years 3 to 6) will each receive a prize.
Upcoming Events/ Reminders
Tuesday 23rd April – School reopens after the Easter Holidays. Saint George’s Day - Children are invited to wear Scouting/Guiding uniforms to celebrate - Beavers, Rainbows, Brownies, Cubs, Scouts, Guides can wear their respective uniforms to school on that day. For all other children, school uniform must be worn (this is not a non-uniform day).
Friday 26th April - 9.00am - 9:30am Year 4 drop in to see all the Castleton photos and share the fun that was had by all!
Even further in advance…
Please pencil in Friday 5th July after school for the Summer Fair. More information to follow in due course.
Look out Lake District, here we come!
On the 13th July, team ‘Are We Nearly There Yet?!’ aka Mrs. Morton, Mr. McShane, Mrs. Noble, Miss Taylor, Mrs. Chapman, Mrs. Eva, Mr. G, Mrs Davey and Mrs Hodge will be hiking the Ullswater Way in the Lake District, all 26 miles of it, to raise money for Macmillan. The team have set a target of £2000 which will be donated straight to Macmillan via our joint JustGiving page. Simply use the following link and click ‘Donate’.
On https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/all-saints-are-we-nearly-there-yet
Any donation that you can make, no matter how big or small will be massively appreciated and help this amazing charity with the wonderful work that they do to support patients and families living with cancer.
If you have any ideas for simple fundraisers or would like to get involved in helping us to raise money, please contact the office.
We hope everyone has a great last week and pleasant holiday too , Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
With only two weeks left to go before the Easter break, we are particularly looking forward to seeing everyone’s Eggstravaganza entries next Tuesday at our Spring Term Homework Museum! Don’t worry if you haven’t started yet there is plenty of time to get cracking!
Significant People Day
Last Friday was an absolutely wonderful day at All Saints’!
As you know all term the children have been learning about significant people both past and present. Also, spending lots of time writing, blogging, instagramming and tweeting their significant people to invite them to our school for a very special Wow Day!
Where someone could not attend, they communicated via letters, emails and film clips! Juan Mata, a Manchester United football player, sent a special video message to Year 4. Tessa Wullaert, a member of the Manchester City Women’s Football Team even promised tickets to watch one of her matches, for the child who wrote to her! (We are also hoping Tessa can actually visit All Saints’ later in the term during Active Week – which would be wonderful). Chester Zoo Rangers also sent some fantastic letters to the children who contacted them.
The day started with Matthew Walker; a paralympic swimmer who has not only won 11 medals but has also earned an MBE! Well done to Year 2 for inviting Matthew in to our Wow Day he was truly inspirational.
We were then visited by Daniel Moseley who had a very serious accident but delivered clear messages of how to be determined, strong, positive, make the most of our opportunities and live life to the full. James Clayton came in to talk about his games programming experience to Year 3, 4 and 5. Mrs Manning shared her designing skills with our children and every class spent some time with Tracy McGuinness-Kelly a local author and illustrator. In addition as so many of our Reception class said their Mums, Dads and family members were the significant people in their lives they invited them all in. Wonderfully at times on Friday there were more adults than children in Reception! Thank you to everyone who came in! It was a terrific day and we appreciate the time and effort everyone has put into making this day a huge success!
Well done All Saints’
Christmas seems a long time ago now but last Thursday we were visited by High Peak Radio who presented All Saints’ with the 2nd prize cup for the School Christmas Signing Competition. Thank you to everyone who listened and voted for our All Saints/ Christmas Medley and of course to our fabulous children for signing so enthusiastically. 
Parents Association Quiz Night!
Thank you to everyone who attended the quiz night at Hawk Green last Friday evening. It sounds like it was a great night with lots of fun had by everyone. A huge thanks to all the wonderful parents who made it happen and the money raised will benefit all our children greatly.
Best Attendance
Very well done to Class 3. You have both won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 100%.
Fantastic and very well done!
Easter Activities at Linnet Clough
Please see attached poster and booking form regarding Easter activities at Linnet Clough.
The Week Ahead
Tuesday 26th March – 9.00am Tuesday morning dance class performance for parents and families.
Wednesday 27th to Thursday 28th March – Y4 Residential to Castleton.
Friday 29th March - The parents of all children who have lessons in school with Sue Hatton, are invited to a special Woodwind Concert at 9.05am.
Upcoming Events/ Reminders
Monday 1st April – Year 6 pre-SATs drop in 3.30pm to 5.00pm (please see Class 6 blog for more information).
Tuesday 2nd April - Eggstravaganza Homework Museum. As mentioned on the Spring Term Diary Dates we will be holding our Spring Term Eggstravaganza homework museum on Tuesday 2nd April. Can’t wait to see everyone’s ‘cracking’ ideas! Please also see flyer sent home and posters around school for more information.
Wednesday 3rd April – Achievement assembly and ice cream and fruit party throughout the day for the children, so please keep working on those key skills!
Thursday 4th April – 9.30am Easter Service rehearsal at Church. As always, we would be most grateful of walkers to help the children get safely to and from Church. We will be leaving All Saints’ School at 9.10am and returning from Church at 11.00am. Please let the school office know or your child’s class teacher if you are able to help.
Friday 5th April – 1.45pm Easter Service at Church. Again, anybody able to help walking would be fantastic. We will be leaving school a 1.20pm and returning following the service, many thanks in advance.
All Saint’ Great British Bake Off! No nuts to be used please!
On Friday 5th of April, the Pupil Parliament will be hosting a Great British Bake Off fund raising day. Children will be invited to bring cupcakes and biscuits to Class 2 in the morning. Each class will have a chance to buy the donated treats for 50p or less. The success of the day will depend on how many cake donations we receive so all donations (whether shop-bought or home-made) will be gratefully received.
If your child would like to enter the Show-Stopper Competition as well, they can bring their home-made show-stopper cake and £2 entry fee to Class 2. Show-Stopper cakes will be returned to the bakers at the end of the day and each entry will receive a certificate. The winning entry from Reception and KS1 (Year 1 and 2), and KS2 (Years 3 to 6) will each receive a prize.
Tuesday 23rd April – School reopens after the Easter Holidays. Saint George’s Day - Children are invited to wear Scouting/Guiding uniforms to celebrate - Beavers, Rainbows, Brownies, Cubs, Scouts, Guides can wear their respective uniforms to school on that day. For all other children, school uniform must be worn (this is not a non-uniform day).
Even further in advance…
Please pencil in Friday 5th July after school for the Summer Fair. More information to follow in due course.
Look out Lake District, here we come!
On the 13th July, team ‘Are We Nearly There Yet?!’ aka Mrs. Morton, Mr. McShane, Mrs. Noble, Miss Taylor, Mrs. Chapman, Mrs. Eva, Mr. G, Mrs Davey and Mrs Hodge will be hiking the Ullswater Way in the Lake District, all 26 miles of it, to raise money for Macmillan. The team have set a target of £2000 which will be donated straight to Macmillan via our joint JustGiving page. Simply use the following link and click ‘Donate’.
On https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/all-saints-are-we-nearly-there-yet
Any donation that you can make, no matter how big or small will be massively appreciated and help this amazing charity with the wonderful work that they do to support patients and families living with cancer.
If you have any ideas for simple fundraisers or would like to get involved in helping us to raise money, please contact the office.
Have a super week everyone, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Well after Storm Gareth and Storm Hannah hopefully we will start to see some better weather soon! We hope everyone is ready for the last three weeks of this term, we are sure they are going to be great!
Red Nose Day
Well done and thank you to everyone for raising a fantastic £200 last Friday for Red Nose Day, school was full with so many red items of clothing and even hair! The money raised is greatly appreciated and will go to some fantastic causes. Thank you also to the children and families who have already started helping us plan next year when we will have red nose painting taking place in school!
All Saint’ Great British Bake Off!
On Friday 5th of April, the Pupil Parliament will be hosting a Great British Bake Off fund raising day. Children will be invited to bring cupcakes and biscuits to Class 2 in the morning. Each class will have a chance to buy the donated treats for 50p or less. The success of the day will depend on how many cake donations we receive so all donations (whether shop-bought or home-made) will be gratefully received.
If your child would like to enter the Show-Stopper Competition as well, they can bring their home-made show-stopper cake and £2 entry fee to Class 2. Show-Stopper cakes will be returned to the bakers at the end of the day and each entry will receive a certificate. The winning entry from Reception and KS1 (Year 1 and 2), and KS2 (Years 3 to 6) will each receive a prize.
Measles awareness
As many people may be already aware, there has been an increase in the number of measles cases in Greater Manchester. Therefore, the local Authority and Public Health England have sent schools updated awareness raising guidance and asked that we make parents aware. So please do take the time to read the attached information leaflet.
Best Attendance
Very well done to class 2 and Class 4 You have both won the best attendance for last week with an amazing attendance percentage of 100%.
Fantastic and very well done!
The Week Ahead
Friday 22nd March – Let’s see who the children have managed to persuade to come in and help with our ‘Significant people’ topic! Parents Association Quiz Night at Hawk Green Cricket Club, £5.00 per person and that includes a chip buttie too!
7:30pm for 8pm start.
Upcoming Events/ Reminders
Tuesday 26th March – 9.00am Tuesday morning dance class performance for parents and families.
Wednesday 27th to Thursday 28th March – Y4 Residential to Castleton.
Tuesday 2nd April - Eggstravaganza Homework Museum. As mentioned on the Spring Term Diary Dates we will be holding our Spring Term Eggstravaganza homework museum on Tuesday 2nd April. Can’t wait to see everyone’s ‘cracking’ ideas! Please also see flyer sent home and posters around school for more information.
Wednesday 3rd April – Achievement assembly and ice cream and fruit party throughout the day for the children, so please keep working on those key skills!
Thursday 4th April – 9.30am Easter Service rehearsal at Church. As always, we would be most grateful of walkers to help the children get safely to and from Church. We will be leaving All Saints’ School at 9.10am and returning from Church at 11.00am. Please let the school office know or your child’s class teacher if you are able to help.
Friday 5th April – 1.45pm Easter Service at Church. Again, anybody able to help walking would be fantastic. We will be leaving school a 1.20pm and returning following the service, many thanks in advance.
Tuesday 23rd April – School reopens after the Easter Holidays. Saint George’s Day - Children are invited to wear Scouting/Guiding uniforms to celebrate - Beavers, Rainbows, Brownies, Cubs, Scouts, Guides can wear their respective uniforms to school on that day. For all other children , school uniform must be worn (this is not a non-uniform day).
Even further in advance…
Please pencil in Friday 5th July after school for the Summer Fair. More information to follow in due course.
Look out Lake District, here we come!
On the 13th July, team ‘Are We Nearly There Yet?!’ aka Mrs. Morton, Mr. McShane, Mrs. Noble, Miss Taylor, Mrs. Chapman, Mrs. Eva and Mr. G will be hiking the Ullswater Way in the Lake District, all 26 miles of it, to raise money for Macmillan. The team have set a target of £2000 which will be donated straight to Macmillan via our joint JustGiving page. Simply use the following link and click ‘Donate’.
On https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/all-saints-are-we-nearly-there-yet
Any donation that you can make, no matter how big or small will be massively appreciated and help this amazing charity with the wonderful work that they do to support patients and families living with cancer.
If you have any ideas for simple fundraisers or would like to get involved in helping us to raise money, please contact the office.
We hope everyone has a great week, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Welcome to this week’s newsletter, as so much is happening at All Saints’ it is a long one sorry!
Look out Lake District, here we come!
On the 13th July, team ‘Are We Nearly There Yet?!’ aka Mrs. Morton, Mr. McShane, Mrs. Noble, Miss Taylor, Mrs. Chapman, Mrs. Eva and Mr. G will be hiking the Ullswater Way in the Lake District, all 26 miles of it, to raise money for Macmillan. The team have set a target of £2000 which will be donated straight to Macmillan via our joint JustGiving page. Simply use the following link and click ‘Donate’.
On https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/all-saints-are-we-nearly-there-yet
Any donation that you can make, no matter how big or small will be massively appreciated and help this amazing charity with the wonderful work that they do to support patients and families living with cancer.
If you have any ideas for simple fundraisers or would like to get involved in helping us to raise money, please contact the office.
All Saints’ Sporting Successes
Football Tournament
Last Tuesday 15 year 3 and 4 children represented the school at a well-run football tournament at Stockport Academy. We entered two teams who both did tremendously well – finishing 4th in a league table format from 8 schools in each group. Overall a fantastic experience which will give the children who participated the confidence to represent All Saints’ when called upon again. They did exceptionally well considering they were playing against year 4 and 5 children. What skill they must have!!
Dodgeball Tournament
Last Wednesday 8 year 6 children, consisting of 5 boys and 3 girls competed in the Stockport school’s dodgeball tournament. 2 groups consisting of 7 different schools each played every team within their group and all the results were recorded in a league table. All Saints’ managed to win 5 of their 6 group games which ensured a place in the semi-final. A fantastic performance saw the team win and reach the final of the tournament. Facing a tough challenge in the final, the children put on an unbelievable performance and won the final and therefore the whole tournament!! What a fantastic achievement!!
A huge thanks goes to Mrs Preece and Mr Granite for leading our teams to victory!
World Book Day
Fantastic costumes, wonderful books shared, mystery readers on site and a new ‘Open a Book’ song learnt! What more can we say?! A brilliant day with a huge thank you to everyone all the parents, children and staff who really entered into the spirit with some fantastic costumes. A special thank you to Mrs Noble for organising many of the events to celebrate the day.
Book Band Progression
In our continual drive to make our children have a real love reading, explore language and become fabulous writers we would just like to remind parents of the book bands levels expectations. As always, please talk to your child’s class teacher if you have any questions.
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Average Expectations |
Colour Band |
Reading Age Approximate |
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1 Pink |
Less than 5 |
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2 Red |
Less than 5 |
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End of Reception FS |
3 Yellow |
5- 6 |
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4 Blue |
5- 6 |
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5 Green |
5- 6 |
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In line with Y1 |
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6 Orange |
5-6 |
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high 1 |
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End of Y1 |
7 Turquoise |
5- 6 |
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high 1 |
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8 Purple |
6-7 |
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low 2 |
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9 Gold |
6-7 |
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secure 2 |
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End of Y2 |
10 White |
6-7 |
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high 2 |
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11 Lime |
7-8 |
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low 3 |
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End of Y3 |
12 Yellow |
7-8 |
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secure 3 |
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13 Brown |
8- 9 |
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high 3 |
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End of Y4 |
14 Black |
8-9 |
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low 4 |
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15 Grey |
9-10 |
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secure 4 |
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End of Y5 |
16 Rainbow |
9-10 |
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high 4 |
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Free Readers Y6 |
17 Pearl Y7/Gifted |
10-11 |
Spring Assessments
Please note that the children will be coming home with their completed spring assessments on Friday 15th March. Please do take time to read the covering letter to put the tests and your child’s score in context. As always we passionately believe that your children will do their very best when school and home work in partnership to support them,Therefore we greatly appreciate any time you spend with your child celebrating their successes and supporting their areas for development.
Safety Advice
Please can we remind ALL families of the need to be mindful of their child’s personal safety when outside of school. The bullet points below come as advice from the Police and to regularly recap on the below information by discussing it with your children especially those who do things unaccompanied e.g. walking to and from school would be great.
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Best Attendance
Very well done to Class 3 and 4! You have both won the best attendance for the week before the holidays with an amazing
attendance percentage of 100%
Fantastic and very well done!
The Week Ahead
Tuesday 12th March – As part of National Science Week All Saints’ will be hosting a Science Share in School for children from local cluster schools.
Wednesday 13th March – Y3 at a Football Festival, please see additional letter for more information.
Friday 15th March - Red Nose Day children to come dressed in red for a £1.00 donation please. No noses will be sold in school but children are welcome to bring in their own.
Upcoming Events/ Reminders
Friday 22nd March – Let’s see who the children have managed to persuade to come in and help with our ‘Significant people’ topic! Parents Association Quiz Night at Hawk Green Cricket Club, £5.00 per person and that includes a chip buttie too! More information to follow soon.
Tuesday 26th March – 9.00am Tuesday morning dance class performance for parents and families.
Wednesday 27th to Thursday 28th March – Y4 Residential to Castleton.
Tuesday 2nd April - Eggstravganza Homework Museum. As mentioned on the Spring Term Diary Dates we will be holding our Spring Term Eggstravaganza homework museum on Tuesday 2nd April. Can’t wait to see everyone’s ‘cracking’ ideas! Please also see flyer sent home and posters around school for more information.
Wednesday 3rd April – Achievement assembly and ice cream and fruit party throughout the day for the children, so please keep working on those key skills!
Thursday 4th April – 9.30am Easter Service rehearsal at Church. As always, we would be most grateful of walkers to help the children get safely to and from Church. We will be leaving All Saints’ School at 9.10am and returning from Church at 11.00am. Please let the school office know or your child’s class teacher if you are able to help.
Friday 5th April – 1.45pm Easter Service at Church. Again, anybody able to help walking would be fantastic. We will be leaving school a 1.20pm and returning following the service, many thanks in advance.
Even further in advance…
Please pencil in Friday 5th July after school for the Summer Fair. More information to follow in due course.
We hope everyone has a lovely week, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Welcome to this week’s newsletter as we start our second week of this half term.
A great event took place before the half term break thanks to the Parents Association. A wonderful disco raising £318 towards a school defibrillator. Thank you so much to everyone involved in everything from planning to making sure it was such a great event on the night. It really is greatly appreciated. Also, please save the date of Friday 22nd March as the Parents Associations next event is a quiz night at Hawk Green Cricket Club. Tickets are priced at £5.00 per person and that includes a chip buttie too! More information to follow soon!
Following on from the huge recent coverage in the press about Momo and the flyer we sent out last week please see the current advice from CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command) below.
To safeguard your children whilst online, parents should work to create a positive relationship with their children around their internet use. Children’s online access should be closely supervised and you should encourage your children to tell you (or another trusted adult) if they ever encountering anything worrying. Parental controls go some way to protecting children from accidentally viewing disturbing content but are unlikely to prevent it in many cases, for example when the content has been deliberately spliced into content aimed at children. Inappropriate content should be reported direct to the online service it appears on.
Our families may find the following article regarding a Momo Challenge useful-
https://parentzone.org.uk/article/three-minute-briefing-momo-challenge
Best Attendance
Very well done to Class 5! You have won the best attendance for the week before the holidays with an amazing attendance percentage of 100%.
Fantastic and very well done!
Upcoming Events/ Reminders
Wednesday 6th to Friday 8th March – As previously mentioned John will be absent and therefore the crossing will be unmanned on these days.
Thursday 7th March - World Book Day, children are welcome to come dressed as their favourite book character or in their PJs with their favourite book. Please refer to the flyer sent out about the ‘Big Booky Breakfast Club’.
Friday 8th March - Co-producing with Families Information Day: A FREE information day for young people, parents, carers, family members and professionals who have or work with special educational needs and/or disabilities
Key notes: delivered by a young person/parent carers
Workshops: SEN Support in schools, Working with young people to prepare for adulthood, Stockport Therapy Services Review
Tuesday 12th March – As part of National Science Week All Saints’ will be hosting a Science Share in School for children from local cluster schools.
Wednesday 13th March – Y3 at a Football Festival, please see additional letter for more information.
Friday 15th March - Red Nose Day children to come dressed in red for a £1.00 donation please. No noses will be sold in school but children are welcome to bring in their own.
Friday 22nd March – Let’s see who the children have managed to persuade to come in and help with our ‘Significant people’ topic! Parents Association Quiz Night at Hawk Green Cricket Club, £5.00 per person and that includes a chip buttie too! More information to follow soon.
Tuesday 26th March – 9.00am Tuesday morning dance class performance for parents and families.
Wednesday 27th to Thursday 28th March – Y4 Residential to Castleton.
Tuesday 2nd April - Eggstravganza Homework Museum. As mentioned on the Spring Term Diary Dates we will be holding our Spring Term Eggstravaganza homework museum on Tuesday 2nd April. Can’t wait to see everyone’s ‘cracking’ ideas! Please also see flyer sent home and posters around school for more information.
Wednesday 3rd April – Achievement assembly and ice cream and fruit party throughout the day for the children, so please keep working on those key skills!
Thursday 4th April – 9.30am Easter Service rehearsal at Church. As always, we would be most grateful of walkers to help the children get safely to and from Church. We will be leaving All Saints’ School at 9.10am and returning from Church at 11.00am. Please let the school office know or your child’s class teacher if you are able to help.
Friday 5th April – 1.45pm Easter Service at Church. Again, anybody able to help walking would be fantastic. We will be leaving school a 1.20pm and returning following the service, many thanks in advance.
Have a great week everyone, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Welcome back! I hope that everyone had a wonderful break (if you got one) and that all the children are refreshed and excited to be back in school for what I am sure will be a busy but great half term.
Young Voices
We could not possibly start the term without reflecting back on the absolutely fantastic and memorable Young Voices Choir concert, which took place at Manchester arena on Monday 11th February! It was a truly magical event. Singing in the largest school choir in the world and with the likes of Tony Hadley was an unforgettable experience. All 34 members of the All Saints’ Choir where outstanding not only in their performance but in their behaviour and manners, they were a joy to accompany. Thank you so much to Miss Daly and Mr McShane (whose dance moves even managed to outshine some of the international performers we believe) for so readily giving up their free time to accompany the children, the parents for getting so on board and supporting the children in so many ways and of course Mrs Noble! Mrs Noble you excelled yourself in what can only be described as the mammoth task of coordinating and organising all the rehearsals, t shirts, tickets, transport and everything else. It all ran like clockwork and we are all so grateful for literally making the choirs dreams come true.
Best Attendance
Ve
ry well done to Class 2! You have won the best attendance for the week before the holidays
with an attendance percentage of 99.17%.
Amazing and very well done!
Upcoming Events/ Reminders
Wednesday 6th to Friday 8th March – As previously mentioned John will be absent and therefore the crossing will be unmanned on these days.
Thursday 7th March - World Book Day, children are welcome to come dressed as their favourite book character or in their PJs with their favourite book. Mystery readers are also welcome on the day; please speak to your child’s class teacher if you are available to make an appearance!
Friday 8th March - Co-producing with Families Information Day: A FREE information day for young people, parents, carers, family members and professionals who have or work with special educational needs and/or disabilities
Key notes: delivered by a young person/parent carers
Workshops: SEN Support in schools, Working with young people to prepare for adulthood, Stockport Therapy Services Review
Tuesday 12th March – As part of National Science Week All Saints’ will be hosting a Science Share in School for children from local cluster schools.
Wednesday 13th March – Y3 at a Football Festival, please see additional letter for more information.
Friday 15th March - Red Nose Day children to come dressed in red for a £1.00 donation please. No noses will be sold in school but children are welcome to bring in their own.
Friday 22nd March – Let’s see who the children have managed to persuade to come in and help with our ‘Significant people’ topic!
Tuesday 26th March – 9.00am Tuesday morning dance class performance for parents and families.
Wednesday 27th to Thursday 28th March – Y4 Residential to Castleton.
Tuesday 2nd April - Eggstravganza Homework Museum. As mentioned on the Spring Term Diary Dates we will be holding our Spring Term Eggstravaganza homework museum on Tuesday 2nd April. Can’t wait to see everyone’s ‘cracking’ ideas! Please also see flyer sent home and posters around school for more information.
Wednesday 3rd April – Achievement assembly and ice cream and fruit party throughout the day for the children, so please keep working on those key skills!
Thursday 4th April – 9.30am Easter Service rehearsal at Church. As always, we would be most grateful of walkers to help the children get safely to and from Church. We will be leaving All Saints’ School at 9.10am and returning from Church at 11.00am. Please let the school office know or your child’s class teacher if you are able to help.
Friday 5th April – 1.45pm Easter Service at Church. Again, anybody able to help walking would be fantastic. We will be leaving school a 1.20pm and returning following the service, many thanks in advance.
We hope everyone has a lovely week and welcome back, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Well the final week of this half term has sprung upon us and we are already half way through the academic year. How time flies when you are having fun and working hard!
So long, farewell …
It is with great sadness that last week we said goodbye to Miss Pollitt who has been a student teacher in Year 5 since September. The children and staff are all going to really miss you and we cannot thank you enough for all you have done for the children during your time with us.
We are also incredibly sad to be saying goodbye to Miss Aboo who has been at All Saints’ for 5 years! During this time Miss Aboo has worked with so many of our wonderful children, supporting them both in classrooms and at lunchtimes. Miss Aboo will be starting a new role in a school near where she lives as well as getting married and moving house, so as you can see she will be very busy! But hopefully not too busy to pop back and see us when she can. Miss Aboo you have always been so kind and caring to all our children, members of staff and families. You will be greatly missed.
We wish you both all the very best of luck for your chosen career paths and futures. We hope that you will always have fond and cherished memories of your time at All Saints’ as we all will of you.
Year 1 Class Assembly
Well the Year 1 parents and the rest of the school were certainly not disappointed!! We first of all walked into the hall which had been transformed into the North Pole. Although there was snow, icicles and snow prints all around, the children thoroughly warmed our hearts. The Year 1 children, not only celebrated their learning with confidence and enthusiasm but they also shared how much fun they are having. They demonstrated what they had learned in PSHE about being a good citizen, geography, science, English, art, Forest Schools and music. We all loved the various songs, which reminded us of how we can help our planet.
Thank you to our many parents and family members who attended; your children are a wonderful credit to you
Book Fair
Thank you so much for everyone who supported the schoolbook fair. We managed to raise a total of £239. This means that we will ask the children via the Pupil Parliament what new books they would like to see in our fantastic library and will be ordering the new additions soon!
Assessment Week
Well done to all our children last week for approaching their assessments with ease and completing them in the All Saints’ Way. We will be of course marking these challenges in school. Then going through them with the children where valuable learning takes place and finally in line with last term be sending these home with your child for you to see after the holidays.
Parent/ Community Courses
Unfortunately, we will not be able to host the community courses at our school as we did not have enough people enrolling for the courses and the college stipulated a minimum of 12. Thank you to those parents who did enrol for the Spanish, Positive Parenting and Maths courses. There are a few courses taking place in other venues. Please see the attached flier for further information.
Safer Internet Day
Alongside the spiral curriculum approach to internet safety that always happens in school we also had a specific focus last Tuesday for Internet Safety Day. The children looked at a range of ways to stay and keep safe online such as what consent is needed and what to do if they see something they do not like or feel happy with. As always we can never be too vigilant with keeping our children safe in the virtual world so please do take a look if you have not already at the link below. We will also be holding a special Internet safety assembly today.
Best Attendance
Very well done to Class 4 and Class 5 for jointly winning the best attendance this week with an attendance percentage of 100%.
Amazing and very well done!
The week ahead…
Monday 11th February Young Voices Choir Event for Choir Children – we are all very excited!
Friday 15th February Year 4 start brass lessons. Last Year 3 swimming. School breaks up for half term. School Disco between 6.30pm and 8.30pm at Marple Cricket Club, tickets £3.00 and available from the School Office.
Upcoming Events/ Reminders
Eggstravganza Homework Museum
As mentioned on the Spring Term Diary Dates we will be holding our Spring Term Eggstravaganza homework museum on Tuesday 2nd April. Can’t wait to see everyone’s ‘cracking’ ideas!
‘Be Active, Be Healthy’ Family Challenge 2018-19
Please see the attached poster to enter the great competition and see what you could win!
Little Diggers February Half Term activities at Wyevale Garden Centre
18th – 22nd February 2019
? Make a Bird Home – Monday
Decorate a cosy bird box for your garden birds.
? Create a Bird Buddy – Tuesday
Decorate and plant your own bird pot for your home.
? Grow Your Own Mini Garden – Wednesday
Plant your own mini garden with giant flowers, bee hives and wild friends.
? Flower Power Pot – Thursday
Plant your own flower and decorate a pot and plant marker.
? Feed the Birds – Friday
Make and decorate your own feeder to entice more birds into your garden.
All events are only £2.50 per child, last 20 minutes and include an activity sheet.
You can now add a kids’ mean to any craft event! Adult meals are also available to pre-order online.
Tickets are limited, so book early to avoid disappointment. All events can be booked at wyevalegardencentres.co.uk/event-half-term-craft-events.
Suzanne's Simply Health Greater Manchester Run
Please do take a moment to read Suzanne’s story and all about what she is doing to raise money for such a great cause by following the link below.
You can help Suzanne Short (A Year 5 Mum) raise money for this great cause by donating directly to their fundraising page - https://www.justgiving.com/Suzanne-Short1?utm_source=Sharethis&utm_medium=fundraisingpage&utm_content=Suzanne-Short1&utm_campaign=pfp-email&utm_term=rqGq5jMpZ.
JustGiving sends your donation straight to Weekend Day Centre and automatically reclaims Gift Aid if you are a UK taxpayer, so your donation is worth even more.
Thank you for your support!
Thursday 7th March World Book Day you may want to start thinking of your costume ideas!
Have a great week everyone and half term when it arrives, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Welcome to this week’s newsletter. We hope that the weather will be improving soon and thank you for your understanding with the very difficult decision to close School last week!
Assessment Week
This week sees the children at their various ages and stages take part in a number of challenges. These challenges along with your child’s daily classroom outcomes allow staff to plan for and tailor opportunities to best support your child going forward. It is also an excellent opportunity for the children to celebrate and feel confident in what they have achieved and encourage them to reflect on and understand what their next steps are.
Funding
As we have mentioned on numerous occasions, linked to the National Fairer Funding Campaign, we as a Stockport school have a smaller budget when compared to schools with the same number of children in other Local Authorities. With indicative figures circulated for the next financial year, we continue to face challenges with our budget, especially with the continual rises in costs such as rates and utilities. We always strive to give the best value for money including regularly looking at contracts with suppliers and trying to increase our income where possible e.g. through lettings. As a result, of such challenges with our budgets we obviously have to reflect on our current spending and what we are able to continue to provide going forward. Following discussions at Governors and in line with many other schools, we are therefore going to begin asking for contributions towards special class projects. These requests will be made when there are significant costs to All Saints’ for us to continue carrying out for example Design Technology projects/ cooking/ Science experiments. Before class teams issue any letters we will of course always reflect very hard on what we ask for and try to keep these requests to a minimum (a few pounds each per term could make a huge difference!). Although this is not a positon, we want to find ourselves in we appreciate your support in this matter and hope this is a way we can continue to offer your children a fantastic curriculum.
Holiday Dates 2019-2020
Following ratification at a recent Governors meeting please find attached the School holiday dates for 2019 -2020. Please do take a look and be aware of them when booking holidays as no term time holidays can be authorised. In addition to try and support families many of whom who would like to go away for a cheaper long weekend in term time and for staff to have quality time to ensure a really thorough transition we have for the first time two INSET Days in June.
John
As many of you are aware, John out Lollypop man sadly has to attend a number of appointments relating to his health. John is so very keen not to let anyone down and wants to carry out his job, but I am sure you will all join us in understanding that he must attend these appointments. Where cover can be found, Stockport Council will endeavour to do so but where cover is not able to be found, we will PING parents ASAP to let them know that the crossing will not be manned. Thank so much for your compassion and understanding in this matter.
Best Attendance
Very well done Reception for winning the best attendance this week 
with an attendance percentage of 98.08%
Well done Reception!
Suzanne's Simply Health Greater Manchester Run
Please do take a moment to read Suzanne’s story and all about what she is doing to raise money for such a great cause by following the link below.
You can help Suzanne Short (A Year 5 Mum) raise money for this great cause by donating directly to their fundraising page - https://www.justgiving.com/Suzanne-Short1?utm_source=Sharethis&utm_medium=fundraisingpage&utm_content=Suzanne-Short1&utm_campaign=pfp-email&utm_term=rqGq5jMpZ.
Just Giving sends your donation straight to Weekend Day Centre and automatically reclaims Gift Aid if you are a UK taxpayer, so your donation is worth even more.
Thank you for your support!
The week ahead…
Tuesday 5th February Karaoke Singalong until 4.30pm. Please see separate letter Safer Internet Day please do take a look at the materials on the following link. https://www.saferinternet.org.uk/safer-internet-day/safer-internet-day-2019/education-packs/activities-parents-and-carers We will also be having a special assembly on Monday 11th February for the children as well of course always highlighting the importance of Internet Safety with our children throughout the year.
Friday 8th February Year 1 Class Assembly at 9.05am
Reminder if anyone wants to order any additional CGP year group resources to support their child/ children (as displayed at Parents Evening) the closing date will be this Friday and all monies to please be paid via ParentPay.
Upcoming Reminders
Monday 11th February Young Voices Choir Event for Choir Children
Friday 15th February Year 4 start brass lessons. Last Year 3 swimming. School breaks up for half term.
School Disco between 6.30pm and 8.30pm at Marple Cricket Club, tickets £3.00 and available from the School Office.
Thursday 7th March World Book Day - you may want to start thinking of your costume ideas!
Have a great week everyone, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Only a short newsletter this week!
Stockport County Visit
Well we started the week off in style this morning with a visit from Zahra and Darren Stephenson from Stockport County. The children were all really engaged and inspired by their interactive presentation! They learnt all about key healthy living messages, positive decision making and bicycle safety. The children will make their way home today with a County brochure and an offer of free family tickets to a Stockport County home game.
Parents Evenings
Thank you to those who attended last week. It was great to share success and discuss working in partnership for the benefit of your child. As always we greatly value your feedback, so please do take the time if you have not completed and dropped off your feedback forms to do so, many thanks in advance.
Homework Reminders
Please can we just remind families of our homework expectations from Year 1 upwards. Reading at least 5 times a week, raffle prize are given in your child’s classroom. Continued learning of weekly spelling lists sent home. Completing spellodrome and mathletics activities to improve your child’s ability to use correct spellings in their writing and deepen their understanding of mathematical facts and concepts. Thank you very much for all your help in supporting your child through our home/ school learning links.
Parents Association School Disco
The Parents Association are kindly organising another School Disco to raise money for all our children here at All Saints’. The Disco will take place at Marple Cricket Club on Friday 15th February between 6.30pm and 8.30pm. Children are to be supervised at all times so please do come and join in the family fun all for a good cause. Tickets are priced at £3.00 and are available to purchase from the School Office.
The week ahead…
28th – 31st January – School Mathletics competition various activities throughout the week
The deadline has been extended for the maths and parenting courses until Friday 1st February.
Upcoming Reminders
Tuesday 5th February – Karaoke Singalong until 4.30pm. Please see separate letter
Friday 8th February Year 1 Class Assembly at 9.05am
Monday 11th February Young Voices Choir Event for Choir Children
Friday 15th February Year 4 start brass lessons. Last Year 3 swimming. School breaks up for half term. School Disco between 6.30pm and 8.30pm at Marple Cricket Club.
Thursday 7th March World Book Day you may want to start thinking of your costume ideas!
We hope everyone has a super week, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Is the Beast from the East on its way again! At this time of year, we always want to keep the school open as we understand how difficult shutting is for families and disruptive it is for the children and their learning. However, we do have a policy and procedures in place to support us if we unfortunately have to make the decision to close. We endeavour to let families know as soon as possible if either it is not deemed safe for children at school or to get to and from school safely. As the weather is often very unpredictable and can quickly change, we appreciate your understanding in this matter. We will always keep families updated via School Ping therefore please do ensure we have all the correct numbers to contact you on our records.
Driving
Please can we remind families to drive considerately and carefully around school and in particular along Lockside. There have been occasions where children and adults are walking along cars have been driving very closely to them and even mounting the path!
Attendance
As you are aware attendance and punctuality are so important for all our children. At All Saints’ we believe that good levels of attendance and punctuality are key to promoting high levels of achievement both socially and academically and ensure that our children develop good habits for their future at High School and beyond. We want all our children to attend every day and will continue to use the Stockport Local Authority thresholds to categorise each pupil’s attendance and work with families where necessary to, ensure that all our children have ‘Green’ levels of attendance.
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Colour Code |
% attendance |
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Green |
97.0 – 100 |
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Amber |
90.0 - 97.0 |
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Red |
Below 90 |
Film Night
What an amazing film night! There was popcorn galore and plenty of refilling of drinks. The children had a wonderful time relaxing together and enjoying their movie.
The Year 5 children, under Mr McShane’s guidance, did a wonderful job at organising the event which raised £120 for the Compassion Charity. The children should also be praised for contributing well to their community by going out litter picking earlier that day. Great to see they are showingleadership/citizenship skills!
Following this successful event please look out for the next film night. We hear there might be a film night for KS1 children soon!
Year 5 Class Assembly
Year 5 have had a busy week indeed. The parents and the rest of the school were certainly not disappointed!! The Year 5 children, not only celebrated their learning with conviction and enthusiasm but they also shared how much fun they are having. They demonstrated what they had learned in geography, history, science, English, art, forest schools and music. We were also impressed with their knowledge of Children’s Rights as well as the progress they are making towards achieving the Young Leaders Award.
Thank you to our many parents and family members who attended; your children are a wonderful credit to you.
Lullaby Trust
Also a big well done to the children for raising £164.50 for wearing their Christmas jumper in aid of The Lullaby Trust.
Reception Trip
All the Reception children and parents who were able to accompany them, had a fabulous time at Imagine That. There were many opportunities for hands on experiences including the children making slime and strawberry bath bombs, exploring plastic bottle rockets, taking part in volcano eruption experiments and thoroughly enjoy the exploding bubbles. They also became excited when it began to snow in Liverpool!
Thank you again to all our volunteer helpers. This is certainly a place worth visiting again.
The week ahead…
Parents Meetings Reminder
We are looking forward to our Parent Meetings this week. During these times, we would like to remind parents that the Book People stands will be available in the hall for you to browse a range of different and exciting books and buy them if you wish. We will also have a range of materials, to support your child’s learning at home, for you to again browse and purchase if you wish. The resources are approximately £3 each for Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG), Reading comprehensions and Maths booklets the materials will be able to be viewed, ordered and paid for via parent pay using iPADs set up in the hall.
Upcoming Reminders
28th – 31st January – School Mathletics competition various activities throughout the week
The deadline has been extended for the maths and parenting courses until Friday 1st February.
Tuesday 5th February – Karaoke Singalong until 4.30pm. Please see separate letter
Friday 8th February Year 1 Class Assembly at 9.05am
Monday 11th February Young Voices Choir Event for Choir Children
Friday 15th February Year 4 start brass lessons. Last Year 3 swimming. School breaks up for half term.
Have a lovely week everyone, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Well the term is already flying by the children have been really enjoying their topics which is fantastic to see.
Open Afternoon
Thank you to everyone who was able to come and spend some time in their children’s classrooms last Wednesday. The children loved you being in School and we hope you found it both interesting and informative.
Parents Meetings
We are looking forward to our upcoming Parent Meetings on the 22nd and 24th January. During these times, we would like to let parents know that the Book People stands will be available in the hall for you to browse a range of different and exciting books and buy them if you wish. We will also have a range of materials, to support your child’s learning at home, for you to again browse and purchase if you wish. The resources are approximately £3 each for Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPaG), Reading Comprehensions and Maths booklets the materials will be able to be viewed, ordered and paid for via parent pay using iPADs set up in the hall.
The week ahead…
Wednesday 16th January Key Stage 2 Homework Club resumes. The very well attended club will be now in Class 5 from 8.15am. If your child has previously attended then they can just continue and if you would like your child to attend then please sign and complete a letter from the office. Other club letters will be making their way home so please so look out for them.
Thursday 17th January KS2 Film Night
Year 5 would like to invite Key Stage 2 children to watch the Eddie the Eagle Film from 3.30pm to 5.15pm . This is all to raise money for the child in Uganda who we sponsor vis Compassion. Please see additional letter for more information.
Friday 18th January Year 5 Class Assembly at 9.05am
2019-2020 Accademic Year Holiday Dates
The date as set by Stockport Local Authority are available using the following link https://www.stockport.gov.uk/school-term-dates/2019-2020-term-dates. There will be 5 additional staff INSET days distributed across the year and these will be communicated to families by the end of January following Governing Body ratification.
Online Safety
We have received warnings against a video production app https://parentzone.org.uk/article/tiktok-everything-you-need-know-about-video-production-app
We encourage you to make yourself fully aware of how your children are using any device they may have.
Message from Intrahealth
Parents, please could you take part the following survey to rate the flu programme in schools,https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/7FTFSRD ”
Linnet Clough
Please see attached a flyer for February half term Adventure Days at Linnet Clough and booking form if you so wish.
Upcoming Reminders
Tuesday 22nd January Parents Evening - 3.30pm-6.30pm (Book People books available to purchase in the hall during these times)
Thursday 24th January Parents Evening – 4.00pm-7.00pm (Book People books available to purchase in the hall during these times)
The deadline has been extended for the maths and parenting courses until Friday 1st February.
Friday 8th February Year 1 Class Assembly at 9.05am
Monday 11th February Young Voices Choir Event for Choir Children
Friday 15th February Year 4 start brass lessons. Last Year 3 swimming. School breaks up for half term.
We hope everyone has a great week, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Happy New Year and a very warm welcome back to this our 2019 spring term. We hope everyone had a wonderful festive period and are ready and eager to go with our new whole school topic of ‘A Day in the Life of..’. This topic will see all our children go off in various different directions learning about significant people throughout history as well as much more. Thank you so much to everyone for joining in with the spirit of our launch dress up day today, it is wonderful to see so many amazing costumes and fantastic speaking and listening opportunities linked to finding out who everyone is! It has really started 2019 and our whole school topic off with a bang.
Spring Term 2019 Diary Dates
We hope that your child made their way home with the Spring Term Diary Dates on Friday. As always, our intention is to try and get the best turn out at events, therefore please do take 5 minutes to look through and mark any dates relevant to your family on your home calendar/ phone.
Message from Parents in Partnership Stockport
After two very successful parent/carer conferences in 2016 & 2017, Priestnall School, working in partnership with PIPS will again be producing an exciting event for families and professionals working in Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) £15 tickets for parents/carers
£50 tickets for professionals - please email coproevent2019@gmail.com if you wish to be invoiced for this event.
Monday 21st January 2019, 8.30am to 4pm, Cheshire Conference Centre, 18 Hardcastle Road, Stockport SK3 9DA
To book your place(s) please register through Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/copro19-working-together-conference-tickets-53320279391?fbclid=IwAR2O-5Nn0E7pO0MjKkaGfFduMvGtC6z4TeFtF898IN_m37H4-5No8ohuEYs
The week ahead…
Wednesday 9th January Parent Open Afternoon 2-3pm. All families are welcome to come and spend some time in their children’s classes. Please sign in at the main entrance. We look forward to seeing you in school.
Friday 11th January Year 5 Brass Lessons, Year 3 Swimming.
Upcoming Reminders
Friday 18th January Year 5 Class Assembly at 9.05am
Tuesday 22nd January Parents Evening - 3.30pm-6.30pm (Book People books available to purchase in the hall during these times)
Thursday 24th January Parents Evening – 4.00pm-7.00pm (Book People books available to purchase in the hall during these times)
The deadline has been extended for the maths and parenting courses until Friday 1st February.
Friday 8th February Year 1 Class Assembly at 9.05am
Monday 11th February Young Voices Choir Event for Choir Children
Friday 15th February Year 4 start brass lessons. Last Year 3 swimming. School breaks up for half term.
Have a wonderful week everyone and it is lovely to be back, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Let’s step into Christmas as we enter the final school week before the festivities and of 2018!
As always, we would just like to take this opportunity to say a heartfelt thanks to all our wonderful children, families, staff, governors, volunteers and community members. All of whom who have made All Saints’ the very special place it is and also achieve so much this year in so many ways. We thank you for working with us for the benefit of all the children in our wonderful school and wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Spring Term 2019!
Following the success of our Autumn Term whole school topic of Land, Sea and Sky next term at All Saints’ we will be learning all about significant people through our topic of A Day In The Life Of, please see the attached flyer for information on our special dress up day on Monday January 7th to start our topic off with a bang!
Key Stage One Performance
What an absolutely brilliant performance the year 1 and year 2 children put on for us on Thursday. The children were oozing with confidence and had all the parents up on their feet at the end because they were so impressed with their singing, dancing, speaking, acting, expression and enthusiasm. Thank you as always to all our Infant staff who put many, many hours in making such a great production. The whole church had an amazing time and we can't wait for next year’s.
Just a reminder that you can order a video as the performance was professionally recorded. Please see the letter attached.For KS1 perfoemance
Christmas Lunch
All three sittings of our Christmas Lunch last Friday were a huge success. A big thank you to all the parents and family members who came to join us. The atmosphere was so warm and had a real Christmas spirit to it. We would also like to say thank you to Sylvia and her team who cooked all the dinners. It was also wonderful to see Alex from year 6 and his family join us for the Christmas lunch. His class were very happy to see him.
Christmas Guitarists
The children were so entertaining and it was brilliant to see the wealth of talent and progression the children have made in this instrument. The parents also had a good time singing Old McDonald had a Farm!
Year 6 Christmas Cake Baking and Decorating
The All Saints’ festive baking fun once more took place in class 6 last week. We would like to say a huge thank you to the children, families and of course year 6 staff for making this very special tradition so memorable and enjoyable for all. Happy eating!
Choir
Well done to the wonderful All Saints’ Choir who brightened the days of people at Hawk Green Cricket Club and The United Reform Church last week. Thank you also to everyone who helped make these events happen and spread the Christmas Cheer of our children outside of school.
Reminders
Christmas Jumper
As previously shared, the children will be wearing Christmas Jumpers at the Carol Service on the 18th in the evening and on the final day of term Wednesday 19th December. However, following some very recent and tragic events for members of our school family we would like to ask families to pay a £1.00 donation to the Lullaby Trust. This is a wonderful charity that raises awareness of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), provides expert advice on safer sleep for babies and offers emotional support for bereaved families if you would like to know more about the charity then please follow the link https://www.lullabytrust.org.uk/ and many, many thanks in advance for your kindness and generosity.
Parents Evening and Open Afternoon
Please look out as letters to book appointments for parents evenings in January are coming home today. Also, please be aware that we will be holding an open afternoon for you to come and spend some time in classes between 2.00pm and 3.00pm on Wednesday 9th January.
Upcoming events including updates…
Monday 17th December-Reception and Key Stage One Christmas Party
Tuesday 18th December – Achievement Assembly, Ice Cream and Fruit Party
6.00pm Whole School Carol Service at All Saints’ Church (please wear your school uniform with a Christmas Jumper)
Wednesday 19th December – 1.45pm Whole School Carol Service at All Saints’ Church (please wear your school uniform with a Christmas Jumper all day) anyone who can help walking please let the Office Staff know and thank you in advance. The front rows seats will be reserved for the Reception parents.
School Breaks up for the Christmas Holidays. Children return to School on Thursday 3rd January 2019.
So for the final time of 2018 we hope you all have a magical Christmas and see you in 2019!
Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
As we embark on another fun filled festive week at All Saints’ you will be pleased to hear, we have a much shorter newsletter than the last two!
It is a delight to announce that the Christmas Fair raised an absolutely fantastic £1,644.12 we cannot thank everyone enough and the children will all benefit so much from this money, it really does make a difference!
A huge well done as we were runners up in the Stockport Walk to School Fortnight. Thank you to everyone who is and continues to make a concerted effort to walk and park and stride to school it is greatly appreciated by all and really will stop an accident from happening! In addition, we just want to make everyone aware that John will not be operating the crossing on Tuesday 18th December at the end of the day.
Assessment Week
Following on from our recent Assessment Week, classes 2,3,4,5 and 6 have been going through their tests celebrating their successes and learning from their mistakes. To support this further the children will be bringing their assessments home with them to share the scores and again for you as families to further understand what your child(ren) need to work on. We would also recommend although a very busy period that any time on mathletics, focus on any spellings not secure with from the Autumn Term and of course time read, read, reading would really benefit your child.
Christmas Jumper
As previously shared, the children will be wearing Christmas Jumpers at the Carol Service on the 18th in the evening and on the final day of term Wednesday 19th December. However, following some very recent and tragic events for members of our school family we would like to ask families to pay a £1.00 donation to the Lullaby Trust. This is a wonderful charity that raises awareness of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), provides expert advice on safer sleep for babies and offers emotional support for bereaved families if you would like to know more about the charity then please follow the link https://www.lullabytrust.org.uk/ and many, many thanks in advance for your kindness and generosity.
Parents Evening and Open Afternoon
Please look out as letters to book appointments for parents evenings in January are coming home today. Also, please be aware that we will be holding an open afternoon for you to come and spend some time in classes between 2.00pm and 3.00pm on Wednesday 9th January.
Reminders
Homework Club
The last Homework Clubs for Key Stage One and Two in 2018 will take place this week.
Adult Courses at All Saints’ Primary School
Just a reminder to enrol for any of the courses below. This is a fantastic opportunity for all our community
Food Vouchers
As Christmas approaches which can be a difficult and expensive time for many families please do contact Miss Daley or ourselves if you would like some food vouchers. They can be used in several different locations and really are there to try and make a difference.
Upcoming events including updates…
Tuesday 11th December – 12.45pm Key Stage One Christmas Performance Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church (anyone who can help walking please let the Office Staff know and thank you in advance)
Wednesday 12th December – 9.00am Key Stage One Christmas Performance Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church (anyone who can help walking please let the Office Staff know and thank you in advance)
Thursday 13th December – 9.30am Key Stage One Christmas Performance at All Saints’ Church (anyone who can help walking please let the Office Staff know and thank you in advance). The front rows seats will be saved for those who help us to walk the children up safely.
Choir singing at Hawk Green Cricket Club
6.00pm Key Stage One Christmas Performance at All Saints’ Church
Friday 14th December – Christmas Lunch (please see separate letter for further information e.g. times) Key Stage Two Christmas Party (please see previous separate letter that was sent out for more information)
Choir signing at the United Reformed Church
Monday 17th December – 9.00am Whole School Carol Service Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church (anyone who can help walking please let the Office Staff know and thank you in advance)
Reception and Key Stage One Christmas Party (please see previous separate letter that was sent out for more information)
Tuesday 18th December – Achievement Assembly, Ice Cream and Fruit Party
6.00pm Whole School Carol Service at All Saints’ Church (please wear your school uniform with a Christmas Jumper)
Wednesday 19th December – 1.45pm Whole School Carol Service at All Saints’ Church (please wear your school uniform with a Christmas Jumper all day) anyone who can help walking please let the Office Staff know and thank you in advance. The front rows seats will be reserved for the Reception parents.
School Breaks up for the Christmas Holidays. Children return to School on Thursday 3rd January 2019.
Have a wonderful week everyone, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Welcome to this week’s newsletter. At this time of year there is so much going on, so apologies again as it is another long one!
Time to Celebrate!
We could not be prouder of all the children last week as they all approached their assessments with confidence and maturity – well done to all our All Saints’ Superstars!
Website
Last week we spent time updating our website. Most importantly to add the children’s definition of the All Saints’ Way to our homepage…
Also, from parent feedback, we have added a new link to School Ping with a new tab under the Parents drop down header. We hope you like the new look website! Thank you to Mr Patel and Mrs Pratt for all your time and help on this.
Quick Sticks Hockey Team
Well done to the children who brilliantly represented All Saints’ in the hockey tournament last Tuesday evening. Also, thank you to Mrs Preece and Miss Taylor for organising the event and accompanying the children.
Autumn Term Governor Newsletter
Please see attached the Autumn Term Governor Newsletter, which includes key school developments and initiatives. Parents may find the section regarding payment of trips of particular interest. There are also some hard copies in the entrance. Thank you to Alan Bailey our Chair of Governors and the Governing Body for producing this for our community.
Radio
The children were out of this world last Thursday morning singing our All Saints’ Medley they sounded unbelievable. So please read the information below and make sure to tune it to hear our children and please get voting for All Saints’…
Christmas Open Morning
What an absolutely fantastic morning we all had last Friday. Each class was buzzing with excitement and activity as so many parents, grandparents and friends of the school joined together to participate in a variety of amazing crafts. As you can see from the pictures below! Thank you so much to everyone for coming and all the staff for their hard work in making it such an enjoyable morning for everyone.
Christmas Fair
It was amazing to see so many people on Saturday at the Christmas Fair it was a lovely atmosphere and really made a wonderful start to the festive period. The incredible amount of work cannot be underestimated and we are so very thankful for everyone in the Parents Association who contributed to making such a successful event. A special mention to Helena Monds who did a fabulous job coordinating everything and bringing it all together so well. It has always been fantastic to have so many give so generously when raising money for School but especially in today’s financial climate it is even more important as it really does mean we can keep doing some of the things we do, as without the Parents Association money we simply could not!
Reception/ Year Two toilets
A huge thank you to Mr Chaloner who last week spent many hour preparing and painting the boys and girls toilets they are much brighter and the children love the colours!
New News and information
KS1 Nativity letter
Today the Year One and Two children will be coming home with a really important letter regarding their Christmas performance, so please do look out for it! It includes all the information regarding times, costumes and watching your children.
School Holidays
As a Local Authority school our holidays fall in line with the Stockport Council therefore we are encouraging families to have their say on the proposed holiday dates for 2020/21.
Please click on the link below:-
https://www.stockport.gov.uk/topic/nursery-and-school-admissions
Then click on the link in the blue box and you can scroll down to view the two proposed holiday dates via appendix 10.
Finally scroll down to the bottom and follow the link (pictured below) to complete the survey. Please note the first sections are related to proposed changes to admissions at other Stockport Schools the holiday dates questions are at the end.
The consultation closes on 31st December so thank you in advance for taking the time to share your views.
All Saints’ Church
Mrs Holton will be delivering the printed 'Search for an Angel' competition sheets to school this week... if any children have already spotted some names while they were singing or shopping last weekend then please try and remember then to add this week!
Reminders
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Whole School Christmas Service and Christmas Jumpers!
As always, we will be holding our traditional All Saints’ Church Service on the last day of Term (Wednesday 19th December at 1.45pm) at All Saints’ Church. In addition this year from parent feedback, we will also be holding an evening Service on Tuesday 18th December at 6pm (again at All Saints’ Church). This will be the same Service repeated and is open for all year groups to attend – with a special Reception Nativity included in the Service. Children and families are warmly welcome to drop their children off from 5.40pm at the Boyer Hall entrance of All Saints’ Church and then make their way round to the main Church entrance for the Service. Then at the end children will return to the Boyer Hall and be released from there. We hope this will be a way for everyone who would like to take part in the Service to be able to and although obviously not compulsory, it would be lovely to see as many children as possible attend the evening Service please. Finally, in what has become a bit of an All Saints’ tradition it would be great if children could come to the evening Service and for School on the last day of term in their usual school uniform just swapping their school jumper for a Christmas one.
Stockport School Funding Public Meeting
As we have mentioned on numerous occasions funding is currently a huge issue for schools including our own. Therefore please attend the meeting above if you are able to, in order to learn more about the topic.
NEW YEAR! NEW SKILLS!
Adult Courses at All Saints’ Primary School
Just a reminder to enrol for any of the courses below. This is a fantastic opportunity for all our community
Food Vouchers
As Christmas approaches which can be a difficult and expensive time for many families please do contact Miss Daly or ourselves if you would like some food vouchers. They can be used in several different locations and really are there to try and make a difference.
Upcoming events…
Tuesday 11th December – 1.30pm Key Stage One Christmas Performance Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church (anyone who can help walking please let the Office Staff know and thank you in advance)
Wednesday 12th December – 9.00am Key Stage One Christmas Performance Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church (anyone who can help walking please let the Office Staff know and thank you in advance)
Thursday 13th December – 9.30am Key Stage One Christmas Performance at All Saints’ Church (anyone who can help walking please let the Office Staff know and thank you in advance)
Choir singing at Hawk Green Cricket Club
6.00pm Key Stage One Christmas Performance at All Saints’ Church
Friday 14th December – Christmas Lunch (please see separate letter for further information e.g. times) Key Stage Two Christmas Party (please see separate letter for more information)
Choir signing at the United Reformed Church
Monday 17th December – 9.00am Whole School Carol Service Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church (anyone who can help walking please let the Office Staff know and thank you in advance)
Reception and Key Stage One Christmas Party (please see separate letter for more information)
Tuesday 18th December – Achievement Assembly, Ice Cream and Fruit Party
6.00pm Whole School Carol Service at All Saints’ Church (please wear your school uniform with a Christmas Jumper)
Wednesday 19th December – 1.45pm Whole School Carol Service at All Saints’ Church (please wear your school uniform with a Christmas Jumper all day) and School Breaks up for the Christmas Holidays. Children return to School on Thursday 3rd January 2019.
Have a fantastic week everyone, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Hello again and welcome to this week’s newsletter. The days of 2018 are whizzing past but so much is accomplished and achieved each week here at All Saints’, it really is wonderful to be part of this very special All Saints’ family. Sorry in advance, as this week’s newsletter is a bit of a long one but there is lots of important information included so thank you for taking the time to read it!
Let’s Celebrate!
The first All Saints’ Homework Museum was a huge success on Tuesday. It was wonderful to see so many creations and also that lots of people had lots of fun making them too. A huge thank you to Miss Taylor and the Class Four team for organising the event and we hope to see some more fantastic entries in our Spring Term Homework Museum!
Well done to our Year Three and Four classes for their very poignant and informative class assembly on Wednesday. They shared their learning about their Remembrance topic very well and even sang with great gusto. We had some lovely comments from the many parents who came to support the children. Thank you to everyone in the Class Three and Four teams for all their hard work and of course the children for their enthusiasm!
Thursday saw a wonderful day take place at All Saints’ when 20 Primary Teacher Trainees came to School to look at our Design Technology and Art Provision. The students were so impressed by All Saints’ and commented on how much they loved the School, how friendly everyone was and how creative, fun and engaging all the lessons they saw were. A huge thank you in particular to Mrs Noble and Mr McShane who planned and led the excellent day.
Another highlight of Thursday was that our Dodgeball Team won their tournament! The team played amazingly well. They were co-operative, worked together, actioned out clear strategies, were extremely supportive of each other and were an absolute credit to our school and their parents. Thank you to the parents who came to support. Every team member had someone there to witness their skill and success! An amazing job All Saints’!
Farewell to Miss McDonnell who left us after a month in Class Four. She did so much for the children in the short time she was with us and wish her all the very best for the remainder of her training and her future teaching career.
Whole School Christmas Service and Christmas Jumpers!
As always we will be holding our traditional All Saints’ Church Service on the last day of Term (Wednesday 19th December at 1.45pm) at All Saints’ Church. In addition, this year from parent feedback, we will also be holding an evening Service on Tuesday 18th December at 6pm (again at All Saints’ Church). This will be the same Service repeated and is open for all year groups to attend – with a special Reception Nativity included in the Service. Children and families are warmly welcome to drop their children off from 5.40pm at the Boyer Hall entrance of All Saints’ Church and then make their way round to the main Church entrance for the Service. Then at the end children will return to the Boyer Hall and be released from there. We hope this will be a way for everyone who would like to take part in the Service to be able to and although obviously not compulsory, it would be lovely to see as many children as possible attend the evening Service please. Finally, in what has become a bit of an All Saints’ tradition it would be great if children could come to the evening Service and for School on the last day of term in their usual school uniform just swapping their school jumper for a Christmas one.
Stockport School Funding Public Meeting
As we have mentioned on numerous occasions funding is currently a huge issue for schools including our own. Therefore, please attend the meeting above if you are able to, in order to learn more about the topic.
NEW YEAR! NEW SKILLS!
Adult Courses at All Saints’ Primary School
As part of our Wellbeing agenda and our focus on providing for our community, we asked you to complete a survey informing us of what courses you would be interested in being held at our school. We have fantastic news! We are able to offer some courses starting after Christmas and at your preferred time of 6:30 - 8:30pm on a Tuesday evening.
| Holiday Spanish
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Tuesday 15th January -12th February 2019 6.30 - 8.30pm |
£50 for 5 weeks. No charge if on certain benefits* |
| Keeping up with the Children in Maths
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Tuesday 26th February – 19th March 2019 6.30 - 8.30pm |
4 weeks. No charge |
| Positive Parenting
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Tuesday 23rd April - 21st May 2019 6.30 - 8.30pm |
5 weeks. No charge |
A high percentage of survey results also showed an interest in a Paediatric Awareness and First Aid course which, depending on the success of the Spring courses, we are hoping to run in the Summer Term.
These courses are open to anyone in the community who is 19 years old and above (NB There is no crèche available). All you need to do is collect a registration form from the school office or you can contact the college direct. Please complete these registration forms by 14th December and return them directly to the college.
A flier will be coming home with more information so please do look out for it. Courses can only run with a minimum of 12 people so we really hope there is enough uptake for them to run.
Spread the word so that as many people as possible will be able to benefit from these courses.
GDPR
We would like to inform parents and families that the General Data Protection Act (GDPR) came into force earlier this year and in order to comply with the new regulations All Saints' has updated its Privacy Notice. All our GDPR information is on our website and can be viewed by the following link https://marpleschool.org.uk/stockport/primary/allsaints-pri/site/pages/school/gdpr.
If you have any questions or queries regarding this matter, please contact Mrs Noble our GDPR Officer via the School Office.
Reminders
As Christmas approaches which can be a difficult and expensive time for many families please do contact Miss Daly or ourselves if you would like some food vouchers. They can be used in several different locations and really are there to try and make a difference.
The week ahead
W.C Monday 26th November – Assessment Week
Wednesday 28th November – Please can each child bring a bauble in from home to make our tree festive and special!
Friday 30th November - Christmas Craft Morning from 9.15am to 10.15am (as mentioned on the Autumn Term Diary Dates). This will give parents and carers an opportunity to visit their child/children in class and work together on something festive. Please come to the school office after morning drop off and sign in; before making your way to your child/children’s classroom. Be prepared for glue and glitter!
Also Dress Down Day for the Christmas Fair. Reception and Key Stage One to please bring in donations of Chocolates and Key Stage Two Cakes.
Upcoming events…
Saturday 1st December – All Saints’ Christmas Fair (please see the letter already sent home for more information) But used to reiterate the fairs are really important events to help raise funds for the benefit of your child. In the past the funds raised have paid for school trips, experiences with in school and most recently the fantastic new library! Any help parents can provide is always greatly appreciated – these things don’t run themselves.
So get chatting in the playground, send messages on your facebook pages or let your class teacher know if you can help on the day – Saturday 1st December 11am-1pm.
Tuesday 11th December – 1.30pm Key Stage One Christmas Performance Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church (anyone who can help walking please let the Office Staff know and thank you in advance)
Wednesday 12th December – 9.00am Key Stage One Christmas Performance Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church (anyone who can help walking please let the Office Staff know and thank you in advance)
Thursday 13th December – 9.30am Key Stage One Christmas Performance at All Saints’ Church (anyone who can help walking please let the Office Staff know and thank you in advance)
Choir singing at Hawk Green Cricket Club
6.00pm Key Stage One Christmas Performance at All Saints’ Church
Friday 14th December – Christmas Lunch (please see separate letter for further information e.g. times) Key Stage Two Christmas Party (please see separate letter for more information)
Choir signing at the United Reformed Church
Monday 17th December – 9.00am Whole School Carol Service Rehearsal at All Saints’ Church (anyone who can help walking please let the Office Staff know and thank you in advance)
Reception and Key Stage One Christmas Party (please see separate letter for more information)
Tuesday 18th December – Achievement Assembly, Ice Cream and Fruit Party
6.00pm Whole School Carol Service at All Saints’ Church (please wear your school uniform with a Christmas Jumper)
Wednesday 19th December – 1.45pm Whole School Carol Service at All Saints’ Church (please wear your school uniform with a Christmas Jumper all day) and School Breaks up for the Christmas Holidays. Children return to School on Thursday 3rd January 2019.
We hope everyone has a lovely week, Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
Happy new Half Term to you all!
A very warm welcome back to the half term that will see so much packed in before we of course get all glittery and festive in true All Saints’ Christmas style!
All the children and staff would like to give an enormous THANK YOU to Sarah Holton and all the family of the All Saints’ Church for organising such a fantastic three days of cross curricular activities. The children were completely engrossed and loved every aspect of their wonderful experiences.
This ended with an amazing Harvest Festival service where each class presented their celebration of harvest. It was lovely to have so many families and members of the wider community joining us.
Thank you also for your kind donations for the Harvest Festival. These will be taken to the Pantry where they will give much needed food to many.
Attendance
As always we remain focussed on ensuring all our children are given the best possible chances and they start with being present and punctual in school. Unfortunately, we have seen a spike in ‘absence requests’. Therefore, we felt it important to reiterate the guideline via the Local Authority booklet that was sent home with your eldest child in school today (please do take time to read the document). Also, to explain that if you are requesting time off you need to either collect a form from the office or download it from our website with as much time as possible before the date. It is then looked at on an individual basis by ourselves as Co-headteachers and also a Governor. In line with the policy there has to be real exceptional circumstances for it to be authorised and this does not include a family holiday. Therefore, most requests are unauthorised. Our registers are also a legal document that have regular checks by the Local Authority who monitor these requests and also punctuality. As such if your child’s class have gone in you must then take your child into school via the main office and then they will be recorded as ‘Late’ this also effects your child’s overall attendance percentages. As always in the All Saints’ Way we work with many families to support them with morning routines etc to ensure children arrive at school punctually every day. If you would like any further information or any support, then please do contact us.
Parking
Please do take care when driving along Brickbridge Road and when parking in the vicinity of School. It has been brought to our attention that parents/grandparents are parking carelessly on double yellow lines. We would ask that you refrain from doing this for the wellbeing and safety of our school family and community.
Fundraiser
Many of you may be aware that there is currently a raffle taking place to raise funds for Lisa one of our Year Six mums (please see the Parents' Association Facebook page for more information). Tickets cost £1 each and are available in the Key Stage Two playground each morning before school from Maddy and Lily’s Mum!
The week ahead
Wednesday 31st October – Year 1 and Year 2 visit to Manchester Airport
Thursday 1st November – Pupil Parliament members meeting at 8.15 a.m, separate letters sent out if your child is involved.
Upcoming events…
Thursday 8th November - Nasal Flu vaccine for children in Reception to Year 5
Wednesday 14th November – 2pm to 3pm Informal Drop In to see your child’s class teacher (as mentioned on the Autumn Term Diary Dates). There will be coffee, cake and a fantastic Art Exhibition of all the children’s art work. Please see the separate letter for more information.
Christmas Craft Morning ~ Friday 30th November. We would like to invite all parents into school for a Christmas craft open morning on Friday 30th November from 9.15am to 10.15am (as mentioned on the Autumn Term Diary Dates). This will give parents and carers an opportunity to visit their child/children in class and work together on something festive. Please come to the school office after morning drop off and sign in; before making your way to your child/children’s classroom. Be prepared for glue and glitter!
We hope everyone has a lovely week!
Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Gaynor.
The final week of this half term is here and what a week we have to look forward to!
Congratulations!
A huge All Saints’ welcome to the new arrival! Mrs Manning surprised us all when she strolled into School on Tuesday with her beautiful new addition to her family baby Elizabeth. It is wonderful that mother and baby are doing so well and I know lots of you have already had the pleasure of seeing them and the children were so delighted that Mrs Manning managed to pop into School with such a tiny new addition and I am sure you will join us in sending lots of All Saints’ love as they settle into their new family life.
Thank Yous!
Well all the children had an absolutely wonderful time last week on their residential to Robinwood! With them all facing their fears and entering their ‘stretch zone’ fantastically. Most importantly they approached everything from zip wires to sleeping away from home in the true All Saints’ Way.
Working together as a…
T aking risks!
E ncouraging learning
A chieving goals
M aking memories
We are all very proud of our Year 6s, well done!
Finally, a big, big thank you to Mrs Cochrane, Mrs Pratt, Mrs Clayton, Miss Daly and Miss Taylor who all made the trip possible with their hours of planning, organisation and care making sure the children had a fabulous time and even for challenging themselves to jump off trapezes and dive into lakes!
Thank you to all those who supported all our Stockport children by writing letters to William Wragg following the day of positive action last week.
Thank you to Chris Penn, Director of Education for Chester Dioceses, who had a wonderful visit last Friday and said how much he enjoyed being part of our weekly celebration assembly and seeing how many achievements our children had made!
Well done to all our children who engaged in learning linked to National Mental Health day last Wednesday. As always our children were very thoughtful, sensitive and reflective and this will be something that will continue to be woven into our future curriculum offer. In addition, there is a parent flier that you may want to take a look at and it is available on our website below!
Thank you to everyone who attended the Volunteers meeting last Thursday, your time and future support is invaluable in School and gratefully appreciated.
The week ahead
Tuesday 16th, Wednesday 17th and Thursday 18th of October – Children will be going up to All Saints’ Church for a variety of exciting activities including visits from Chester Zoo Rangers and Christian Aid workshops. We would be very grateful to all who are able to help us walk the children to and from church safely, please see the previously circulated letter and let the office know.
Tuesday 16th October – Year 6 Bikeability
Please remember to check bicycles are in good working order and your child has a helmet.
Friday 19th October at 1.45pm – Harvest Service at All Saints’ Church and everyone is welcome.
Upcoming events…
Nasal Flu vaccine for children in Reception to Year 5 – Thursday 8th November
Christmas Craft Morning ~ Friday 30th November. We would like to invite all parents into school for a Christmas craft open morning on Friday 30th November from 9.15am to 10.15am (as mentioned on the Autumn Term Diary Dates). This will give parents and carers an opportunity to visit their child/children in class and work together on something festive. Please come to the school office after morning drop off and sign in; before making your way to your child/children’s classroom. Be prepared for glue and glitter!
School is closed for half term from Friday 19th October and will reopen to the children on Tuesday 30th following a staff INSET on Monday 29th October.
We hope everyone has a great last week of the half term and a wonderful holiday, Mrs. Morton and Mrs Gaynor.
What another busy week! Another few weeks and it will be half term!
Thank Yous!
The All Saints’ Way!
As a school we have over the last week celebrated our new All Saints’ Way motto which was created by the children: At All Saints’! We work together as a…
T aking risks!
E ncouraging learnin
A chieving goals
M aking memories
It is an excellent and memorable summary of the way we do things at All Saints’ in the All Saints’ Way. Thank you again to everyone who voted.
Also, thank you to everyone who was involved in the school disco - £267 was raised! Well done everyone!
Yr1 Phonic Screen Meeting
Thank you to all our yr1 parents who attended the very informative and practical phonics meeting. Many found it a valuable time spent; to ensure that parents are better equipped to support, help and encourage your children. Please do use the pack of resources at home.
Fire Drill
As part of our continual focus on Health and Safety here at All Saints’ we had a fire drill last Friday. As always our children (even our very new Reception children) oozed the All Saints’ Way and we want to thank them and all the staff for carrying out the drill so excellently (Mrs Gaynor was highly impressed with her first fire drill at All Saints’!).
Our Children in Stockport are Worth More
A Day of Positive Action by Stockport Schools Friday 12th October 2018
At All Saints’ we would like to draw your attention, as we have done previously, to the fact that Stockport is one of the worst funded education authorities in England.
Please do take the time to read the letter regarding this that will come home this week (also on the website). We would also really, really welcome any support you can give as outlined in the letter as even with the new funding proposals our children receive less money per pupil than many of the local Greater Manchester authorities and we currently sit in the worst half funded of schools in the country having previously been 136th of 150 authorities. On average this looks like around £1,000 per pupil less than learners who attend Manchester schools. So just think what we could do for your children if we had another £214,000!
The week ahead
Monday 8th October to Wednesday 10th October - Year 6 residential trip to Robinwood, we hope you all have an amazing time Year 6!.
Monday 8th October pm – Mrs Preece is taking a group of children who are training to become Sports Ambassadors (letters already sent home)
Tuesday 9th October and Wednesday 10th October – Year 5 Bikeability
Please remember to check bicycles are in good working order and your child has a helmet.
Wednesday 9th October - World Mental Health Day and your children will engage in some wellbeing activities throughout the week.
Thursday 11th October
We will be running an additional New to Year Group meeting at 9.00am for all those parents who were unable to attend their meeting. Please drop off as normal and then make your way into School via the main entrance. Thank you in advance for coming along to find out how School and Home can work together for the benefit of your child.
Volunteers Induction Meeting – between 10am and 11am
Friday 12th October
Day of Positive Action – Stockport fight for fairer funding
Chris Penn the Diocese Director of Education, will be coming to visit our school
Children will vote for who they want to become their Member of Pupil Parliament
Friday 12th October and Tuesday 16th October - Yr6 Bikeability
Please remember to check bicycles are in good working order and your child has a helmet.
Upcoming Diary Dates
Church Week – Children will be going up to All Saints’ Church on Tuesday 16th, Wednesday 17th and Thursday 18th of October with the Harvest Service on Friday 19th October at 1.45pm. The letter with further information was sent home last week!
Christmas Craft Morning - Friday 30th November. We would like to invite all parents into school for a Christmas craft open morning on Friday 30th November from 9.15am to 10.15am (as mentioned on the Autumn Term Diary Dates). This will give parents and carers an opportunity to visit their child/children in class and work together on something festive. Please come to the school office after morning drop off and sign in; before making your way to your child/children’s classroom. Be prepared for glue and glitter!
Reminders
Mathletics
We have received positive feedback about the changes to our homework and just wanted to clarify that as Mathletics is a Global platform we are unable to alter the fact that it resets on a weekly basis every Sunday evening. Although we can look back on points accumulated, to ensure that the children receive their well-deserve
d certificates in Fridays celebration assembly, it would be really helpful if you or your child could record your weekly points in your child’s reading record. Also, just to let you now that the certificates will be from the previous weeks points. Finally as parents you can sign up for a free email each week to see how many points your child/ren have earned, and how much time they have spent on Mathletics all for free! Please follow the link www.mathletics.com/parent
Homework Club & Regular Reading
Fantastic, is a word we would use to describe how many children are coming to homework club! Now that reading books, passwords and spellings have come home, it would be lovely to engage in the array of opportunities we have provided for your children.
We encourage the children to read at least five times in the week (proven by 5 parent signatures or five dates/initials. We also accept self-annotations made by yr5 and yr6 children) If this is completed, your child’s name will go into a Reading Raffle which is drawn in our Friday celebration assembly. There are lovely prizes to be won.
Wellbeing & Community Courses held at our school
As part of our wellbeing focus this year and in an attempt to meet some of the needs in our community, we would like to host some community courses at our school. Quite a few of these will be FREE but of course there will be a charge for some of them. Thank you for completing the questionnaire to give us an idea of what you would be interested in. These will now be collated and we will be having a meeting with our link college this week, to decide upon the next steps.
Foodbank Vouchers
We have foodbank vouchers in school. If you feel you could benefit from these please approach Mrs Gaynor, Mrs Morton or Miss Daley.
Wow Walk to School
Thank you to everyone who has got on board with our Wow Walk to School scheme it will continue to run all year and we hope to see as many children with as many badges as possible in our monthly assembly!
Head Bumps in School
If your child has a head bump in school we will notify you via School Ping. If you receive a ping there is no need to be alarmed and call school - they are being well looked after! If the injury sustained is serious then we will call you straight away.
We hope everyone has a super week, Mrs. Morton and Mrs Gaynor
Please also see the attached information regarding the school lottery. Thank you.
We are well and truly into the swing of things with our new whole school topic of Land, Sea and Sky. Let’s hope the nice weather continues and the reports of an Indian Summer come true!
Results of the All Saints’ Way vote!
We are pleased to announce that, following the Google Forms vote, the winning entry was…
We work together as a…
T aking risks
E ncouraging learning
A chieving goals
M aking memories
This was actually the children’s entry and received 71% of the vote out of 68 people voting. Over the next few weeks the website will be updated to reflect this vote and we are sure it will be an excellent and memorable summary of the way we do things at All Saints’ in the All Saints’ Way. Thank you to everyone who voted.
International Day of Languages
Thank you to everyone who supported School sharing their language skills it is much appreciated.
Mystery Reader
If you would like to be a mystery reader in School, then please speak to your child’s class teacher. Many thanks in advance.
Meet the Teacher Meetings
Thank you also to everyone who attended the Meet the Teacher meetings over the last two weeks, we hope you found them useful. If you were unable to attend we will be re-running the meeting at 9.00am on Thursday 11th October, so please do come along to find out how School and Home can work together for the benefit of your child.
Mathletics
We have received positive feedback about the changes to our homework and just wanted to clarify that as 
Mathletics is a Global platform we are unable to alter the fact that it resets on a weekly basis every Sunday evening. Although we can look back on points accumulated, to ensure that the children receive their well-deserved certificates in Fridays celebration assembly, it would be really helpful if you or your child could record your weekly points in your child’s reading record. Also, just to let you now that the certificates will be from the previous weeks points. Finally as parents you can sign up for a free email each week to see how many points your child/ren have earned, and how much time they have spent on Mathletics all for free! Please follow the link www.mathletics.com/parent
Homework Club
Fantastic, is a word we would use to describe how many children came to homework club last week! We really hope it is beneficial to the children and also busy families. Now that reading books, passwords and spellings have come home, please ensure your child has the correct things with them to make the most of their time in club.
Wellbeing & Community Courses held at our school
As part of our wellbeing focus this year and in an attempt to meet some of the needs in our community, we would like to host some community courses at our school. Quite a few of these will be FREE but of course there will be a charge for some of them. To give us an idea of what you would be interested in, please complete the brief questionnaire to express your preferences of courses and times by Sunday 7th Oct.
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/WXVWMKH - Following this, we will be having a meeting with our link college to decide upon the next steps.
Foodbank Vouchers
We have foodbank vouchers in school. If you feel you could benefit from these please approach Mrs Gaynor, Mrs Morton or Miss Daley.
The week ahead
Wednesday 3rd October – Stockport Book Awards (an evening event for selected children letters already circulated)
Thursday 4th October - Yr1 parents are invited to a Phonics Awareness Meeting to understand how to best support your child’s progress in reading. Please drop off/ collect your children as normal and then make your way to the main office to sign in.
Friday 5th October - Y4 swimming and Y6 brass continue.
Parents Association School Disco - This will take place at Marple Cricket Club between 6pm and 8pm. Tickets are £3.50 and will be available from the school office from 1st October.
Reminders
Pupil Parliament
Friday 12th October for children to be ready to share their election presentations.
Volunteers
There will be an introductory session with Mrs Noble on Thursday 11th October between 10.00 and 11.00 a.m. but if you cannot attend please approach Mrs Noble at any other time.
Upcoming Diary Dates
Monday 8th October to Wednesday 10th October Year 6 residential trip to Robinwood.
Yr5 Bikeability – Tuesday 9th October and Wednesday 10th October.
Yr6 Bikeability – Friday 12th October and Tuesday 16th October.
Please remember to check bicycles are in good working order and your child has a helmet.
Church Week – Children will be going up to All Saints’ Church on Tuesday 16th, Wednesday 17th and Thursday 18th of October with the Harvest Service on Friday 19th October at 1.45pm. An additional letter will be coming out with more information about the week.
Message from Public Health
The Screening and Immunisation and Public Health Commissioning team at the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership are currently carrying out a review of the school aged immunisation services across Greater Manchester. We are looking for feedback from schools and parents around their thoughts and experiences of the current programmes.
We have two surveys currently live, we would appreciate it if you could forward this email to a member of staff involved in the delivery of immunisations at your school. The survey is short and should only take a few minutes to complete.
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/KKN5X/ (School survey)
There is also a survey for parents to give their feedback on the service. If possible, we would be grateful if you could advertise this survey to parents, either through social media or school newsletters.
https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/YPSOJ/ (Parent survey)
The surveys will close on 31st October 2018.
We hope that your invaluable feedback will ensure we are delivering a high quality service across Greater Manchester, if you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me. I am on A/L next week but will reply to any queries on my return.
We hope everyone has a fantastic week, Mrs. Morton and Mrs Gaynor
Well it is the start of another week already. Where does the time go!?!
Thank yous ...
Mrs Manning would like to say a big thank you for all the kind well wishes as she starts her maternity leave today and 
we can’t wait to share future news of the arrival of her little girl!
Thank you to everyone who has got onboard with our Wow Walk to School scheme it will continue to run all year and we hope to see as many children with as many badges as possible in our monthly assembly!
The All Saints’ Way ...
As you will remember we have been working with the children, staff and Governors to define our vision by clearly and succinctly explaining the All Saints’ Way. As such we now are inviting everyone to vote for their favourite via this link https://goo.gl/forms/vITQZx9aJBGS4WUF2 the closing date for votes is Monday 1st October at 9.00am. There are three to choose from one created by the children, one the staff and one the Governors. The winning entry will be something we hope everyone will remember and sum up what All Saints’ means to you. Thank you in advance for your time and we will reveal the winner in next week’s assemblies and newsletter.
Volunteers ...
Volunteers in our school are invaluable and we are so grateful for the varied contributions of time, many of you have made.
We would like to again invite anyone who can spare some time; anything from half an hour a week, to speak with Mrs Noble. Rest assured that we will always be able to find tasks which you will be comfortable with.
There will be an introductory session with Mrs Noble on Thursday 11th October between 10.00 and 11.00 a.m. but if you cannot attend please approach Mrs Noble at any other time.
The week ahead ...
Meet the new class team meetings at 3.30pm (crèche available) and 6pm.
Monday 24th September – Yr6
Tuesday 25th September – Yr1
Wednesday 26th September – Yr3
Tuesday 25th September
Yr6 trip to Safe Squad in Tameside.
Thursday 27th September
Celebration of Languages Day. If you can speak another language apart from English, please let your child’s teacher know as we will be celebrating the rich diversity of languages on this day. We will be sharing a small part of what they have learnt in an assembly that afternoon.
Friday afternoons. Y4 swimming and Y6 brass continue.
Ofsted and CQC Parent and Carers Meeting.
Important information for parents and carers.
Tuesday 25th September, 11.45am to 1pm at Cheshire Conference Centre, Edgeley Park, 18 Hardcastle Road, Stockport SK3 9DD.
Reminders ...
Pupil Parliament
The new Pupil Parliament will form this half term and we are currently recruiting for this year's members. If your child would like to make their voice heard and represent their class in the Pupil Parliament, they will need to prepare a speech to present to their fellow students on Friday 12 October. The key to a successful candidate speech is to be as persuasive as possible! When each class has heard all of the speeches they will vote on who will represent them in the Pupil Parliament this year. Please do encourage your children to take part! This is a great opportunity to hone skills in speaking in front of other children and adults, thinking about wider issues that affect the school, and getting involved in initiatives and challenges raised by the children, staff, PA and governors.
Keeping our children safe...
A polite reminder ...
- to only enter school once the children have entered school via the main office
- that gates will be open from 8.45am and locked again shortly after the children have gone in at 8.55am
- if your emergency contacts for your children have changed, please inform Mrs Davey or Mrs Pattison in our school office.
Upcoming Diary Dates ... 
Yr1 Phonics meeting
Thursday 4th October at 9:00am and 3:15pm Yr1 parents are invited to a Phonics Awareness Meeting to ensure your child progresses well in their reading. Please drop off/ collect your children as normal and then make your way to the main office to sign in.
Sports Ambassador Training
On 8th October, Mrs Preece will be taking a group of 8 year 3 and year 4 children (children attending will receive letters) to a Sports Ambassadors training session at Rose Hill school. These children will then begin to train others in these skills and apply them at break/lunch times as well during sporting events.
Look forward to seeing you over the coming week, Mrs. Gaynor and Mrs. Morton.
Celebrations.......
On Wednesday 12th September we had a fantastic day linked to our new whole school topic of Land, 
Sea and Sky! Thank you to Mrs Eva and Mrs Cochrane who organised the walk for us. It was such an enjoyable school family experience and this was echoed in an email and verbal communications from parents who all said their children had an amazing time! One child even said “We should do this every week!”
On Friday the 14th September at 9.30am the Parent Association held a Coffee and Cake Morning at Hawk Green Cricket Club. It was lovely to see so many parents and friends of our school. There was a lovely atmosphere and the cake was delicious – especially the Victoria Sandwich! Please do continue to attend any Parent Association events you are able to.
Maternity Leave….
Thursday 20th September, will be Mrs Manning’s last working morning in school before she starts her maternity leav
e. We are all excited for the new arrival of her baby and I am sure you will all join us in wishing her well as she enjoys her time at home. We would also like to take this opportunity to say a huge heartfelt All Saints’ thanks for all Mrs Manning’s hard work in ensuring the many things she oversees in School will be able to continue successfully in her absence.
An opportunity to be a member of our Pupil Parliament….
The new Pupil Parliament will form this half term and we are currently recruiting for this year's members. If your child would like to make their voice heard and represent their class in the Pupil Parliament, they will need to prepare a speech to present to their fellow students on Friday 12 October. The key to a successful candidate speech is to be as persuasive as possible! When each class has heard all of the speeches they will vote on who will represent them in the Pupil Parliament this year. Please do encourage your children to take part! This is a great opportunity to hone skills in speaking in front of other children and adults, thinking about wider issues that affect the school, and getting involved in initiatives and challenges raised by the staff, PTA and governors.
Keeping our children safe…
We continue to have procedures and policies in place to keep our children safe. We would ask that once the children 
are lined up and have made their way into the building that you are then only able to enter the building through the main entrance. We realise that you might still be holding their book bag/lunch bag, etc but our office staff will always be happy to pass these items on to your child.
Punctuality and attendance continues to be a priority for us and we would like to remind everyone that the playground gates are open from 8.45am. The children then need to ready to line up for 8.55am so they are in their classrooms for registration and to begin their learning on time. The school gates will be locked from 9.05am to ensure the children are safely in school.
As everyone is aware we are always very mindful of the difficulties and dangers caused by cars around school at pick up and drop off times especially. Therefore, linked to our constant drive on wellbeing we have started the WOW Walk to School Scheme in School. The children enjoyed an assembly last Monday all about it and will be receiving badges each week in our Friday celebration assembly if they have walked to school that week (including parking and striding from e.g. the Ring O’Bells). We hope that you will get behind and scheme and if you would like any further information then please do contact the office.
Finally, if your emergency contacts for your children have changed, please inform Mrs Davey or Mrs Pattison in our school office.
We hope you have a fantastic week and we look forward to working in partnership with you for the benefit of your children
Thank yous…..
A BIG THANK YOU to all who supported the Cobden Cross Appeal. The money required to put up the new 
wooden cross on the edge was raised and EVERYONE is invited to a Service of Celebration and Thanksgiving on Sunday September 16th at 4pm.
The week ahead...?
Yr4 swimming has begun, please ensure your child has the correct swimming kit.
Yr6 brass lessons also began on Friday afternoon, children will be bringing their instrument home soon so they can practise and make the most of this great musical opportunity.
Clubs
Please note letters for clubs will be making their way home, so do check bags as there will be lots of opportunities available for extracurricular activities. For example, sports after school clubs, before school homework clubs and lunchtime mindfulness and netball clubs.
Upcoming Diary Dates
Please do take a look at the Diary Dates for the Autumn Term that came home with your child last week. It is so helpful if you can stick this on the fridge/ put relevant key dates for your child in your diary to ensure everyone is aware of all the upcoming events, for example parent drop in mornings and Christmas performances!
Your child has also taken home today, information about a Creative Homework Project which culminates in a Museum to celebrate your child’s or family’s fantastic work. So please do take a look and remember changes to homework mean nothing will be given out until it has been explained by your child’s class teacher at the meetings below!
A few other events have also been highlighted below.
Meet the new teacher meeting reminder...
The idea of the meeting is to share lots of information, ensuring school and home can work in true partnership, meaning your child can have the best possible year. For your convenience, there will be two meetings held for each year group. A crèche will be provided at the 3:30pm meeting and the information will be repeated in a later 6:00pm meeting (no crèche will be available at the later meeting). Please let your child’s class teacher know if you would like a crèche place at the 3.30pm meeting.
Monday 17th September –Yr5
Tuesday 18th September – Reception
Wednesday 19th September – Yr4
Thursday 20th September – Yr2
Monday 24th September – Yr6
Tuesday 25th September – Yr1
Wednesday 26th September – Yr3
Tuesday 25th September
Yr6 Safe Squad – PM
Thursday 27th September
Celebration of Languages Day. If you can speak another language apart from English, please let your child’s teacher know as we will be celebrating the rich diversity of languages on this day.
Thursday 4th October at 9:00am and 3:15pm
Yr1 parents are invited to a Phonics Awareness Meeting to ensure your child progresses well in their reading. Please drop off/ collect your children as normal and then make your way to the main office to sign in.
Have a wonderful week everyone, Mrs. Gaynor and Mrs. Morton.
Welcome Back!
We’d like to welcome our All Saints’ school family back to a new academic year. 
It has been an absolute delight to see our children returning a little taller and wiser!
Across the school we have been having a wonderful time considering what constitutes the All Saints’ Way and we will be sharing everyone’s thoughts and views with you soon. We have also introduced our Christian Value for this term, Hope and in our Celebration assembly on Friday, staff were able to share how some of their hopes for their class have already been fulfilled.
Mrs Collinge (yr1 teacher) and Mrs Gaynor (Co-Headteacher) would like to say thank you for your very warm welcome. Our new Reception children have been amazing this week and have been a real credit to their parents/carers. It has been wonderful to see that some grandparents even travelled from as far as Nottingham to share this special time.
A BIG THANK YOU to all who supported the Cobden Cross Appeal. The money required to put up the new wooden cross on the edge was raised and EVERYONE is invited to a Service of Celebration and Thanksgiving on Sunday September 16th at 4pm.
Please also see the attached flyer for the Marple Naturalists exhibition celebrating their 50th anniversary season.
The week ahead...
As always we have come back to school with a bang and we are very excited about all our children from Year 1 to Year 6 going on a walk on Wednesday 12th September. We will have a fantastic day linked to our new whole school topic of Land, Sea and Sky! Please refer to the letter your child received last Thursday for what they will need to wear and bring. The letter is also available on the website below.
This Friday the 14th September at 9.30am the Parent Association are holding a Coffee and Cake Morning
at Hawk Green Cricket Club. It would be lovely to see as many parents/friends of the school as possible.
Yr4 swimming also begins, please ensure your child has the correct swimming kit. Finally Yr6 brass lessons start on Friday afternoon, please sign the form to allow your child to bring their instrument home so they can practise and make the most of this great musical opportunity.
Upcoming Diary Dates
Please do take a look at the Diary Dates for the Autumn Term that will come home with your child tomorrow. It is so helpful if you can stick this on the fridge/ put relevant key dates for your child in your diary to ensure everyone is aware of all the upcoming, for example parent drop in mornings and Christmas performances! Can you believe that Christmas has been mentioned already!
A few early events have also been highlighted below.
Meet the new teacher meeting reminder...
The idea of the meeting is to share lots of information, ensuring school and home can work in true partnership, meaning your child can have the best possible year. For your convenience, there will be two meetings held for each year group. A crèche will be provided at the 3:30pm meeting and the information will be repeated in a later 6:00pm meeting (no crèche will be available at the later meeting). Please let your child’s class teacher know if you would like a crèche place at the 3.30pm meeting.
Monday 17th September –Yr5
Tuesday 18th September – Reception
Wednesday 19th September – Yr4
Thursday 20th September – Yr2
Monday 24th September – Yr6
Tuesday 25th September – Yr1
Wednesday 26th September – Yr3
As we are making changes to the current homework system, no homework other than reading will be given out prior to the new expectations been explained by your child’s class teacher at the meeting.
Thursday 27th September
Celebration of Languages Day. If you can speak another language apart from English, please let your child’s teacher know as we will be celebrating the rich diversity of languages on this day.
Thursday 4th October at 9:00am and 3:15pm
A phonics awareness meeting to ensure your child progresses well in their reading. Please drop off/ collect your children as normal and then make your way to the main office to sign in.
Clubs
Please note letters for clubs will be making their way home soon, so do check bags as there will be lots of opportunities available for extra curricular activities. For example sports after school clubs, before school homework clubs and lunchtime mindfulness and netball clubs.
We hope you have a fantastic week and here’s to a great year Mrs Gaynor and Mrs Morton.
Well it is the final week of this academic year, so here goes for the final newsletter for a while ...
Hopefully your child’s reports made their way to you on Friday. As always we would be very grateful of you taking the time to complete the parental comments section and send it back to school.
This week...
The Year 6 production will take place on Wednesday at 6.30pm we can’t wait!
Books home and lockers empty also on Wednesday.
Celebrations galore on Thursday with Achievement Assembly, ice cream and fruit party and spelling Bee!
Finally day of term Friday!
We will sadly say goodbye to Miss Houghton who has been at All Saints’ for the last year. 
You will be missed and we wish you lots of luck in your new school!
Future dates for the diary ...
As last year we will be holding meetings for you to find out all about your child’s new year group in September. So please see below for dates for the diary:-
Y5 - Monday 17th September 2018
Reception - Tuesday 18th September 2018
Y4 - Wednesday 19th September 2018
Y2 - Thursday 20th September 2018
Y6 - Monday 24th September 2018
Y1 - Tuesday 25th September 2018
Y3 - Wednesday 26th September 2018
All year group meetings will take place at 3.30pm and also 6.00pm.
Marple Hall are holding a (new) Year 6 Parent Information Evening 6.00pm to 7.30pm on Tuesday 11th September please see the poster attached.
Please do get involved in the Marple Look library Summer Reading Challenge and get reading for All Saints’!
We would like to take this opportunity to thank every member of the All Saints’ Community. 
All the Governors, Parents, Staff and Children. Everyone has played a huge part in the last 12 months and we value and thank you all for your contributions. We could not have achieved everything we have and would not have so much to celebrate without the amazing team spirit and lots of hard work from all involved. So a huge thank you again!
Wishing everyone a wonderful summer and we hope our fantastic Year 6s go on to great things at their new Schools and take the All Saints’ Way with them. We look forward to welcoming everyone else back to school on Wednesday 5th September 2018!
Happy holidays, Mr. McShane, Mrs. Noble and Mrs. Morton.
How is the penultimate week upon us!?! As the fabulous weather continues we still have lots to pack into the next two weeks.
Starting tonight with the mathletics/ spellodrome training session for parents 
from 3.30pm to 4.30pm. Everyone is welcome to come along find out more about the resource and how to get your child having fun whilst learning/ embedding those vitally important basic skills especially over the long school holidays.
Tuesday morning starts with a special Dance Assembly at 9.00am for invited families to watch their children who have attended before school dance club with Miss Tommoney and Kerry perform.
Tomorrow we host the Leavers’ Service at All Saints’ Church which all classes and the parents of Year 6 children will be attending. We would still be very grateful if anyone is available to help us w
alk the children up to All Saints’ Church. We will leave school at 1.20pm and return at 2.45pm. Please speak to your child’s class teacher if you are able to help and many thanks in advance.
Wednesday continues the arts theme with a 9.00am assembly again for invited families to watch their child who has attended Front Row Music (previously named Fidler Music) lessons perform.
Mrs Gaynor will be visiting school on Thursday and is looking forward to seeing you all again and spending more time at All Saints’.
Finishing the musical week with even more music on Friday, families have been invited to watch their children who learn the recorder and flute with Mrs Hatton play at 9.00am.
Reports will also be coming out on Friday so please do check those bags!
Have a lovely week Mr. McShane, Mrs. Noble and Mrs. Morton.
Diary Dates 
What a sporting weekend it was and well done England!
We will be hoping for a win on Wednesday to take us all the way to the final!
Well the glorious weather continues and what a joy it was to not spend the day of the summer 
fair wondering if it would be rained off for once! It was such a lovely evening and we would like to extend our thanks to everyone involved in making it all happen, there was a lot of hard work behind the scenes to make it all happen and we are very grateful for such a wonderful fundraising event. Over £1500 was raised with £360 for the extremely worthy cause of the Potter’s Village!
I am sure you will have heard your children talking about the online class competitions well 
there is now Mathletics/ Spellodrome information on the website under the parents and links section. In addition we will be holding workshops in school for parents on Monday 16th at 3.30pm to 4.30pm. Everyone is welcome to attend and find out a bit more. If not then please do look at the information online.
Thank you to all the parents who completed the Curriculum parent survey. Your feedback has
already been shared and will feed into out exciting new curriculum for September 2018! A big congratulations to Charlie C’s parents who were drawn as the winner in the raffle for turned questionnaires.
We would be very grateful if anyone is available to walk children up to All Saints’ Church on 
Tuesday 17th July for the Year 6 Leavers Service. We will leave school at 1.30pm and return at 2.45pm. Please speak to your child’s class teacher if you are able to help and many thanks in advance.
Diary Dates 
Monday 9th July - we host the New Reception Parents Meeting at 6pm a crèche is also available.
Tuesday 10th July - Year 5 need to be at School for 8.30am as we make our way to Marple Hall for a morning of Science!
Friday 13th July - Millie’s Trust will be delivering valuable first aid training to our Years 4 & 5 children in the morning. Then we will be welcoming our new Reception children and families in for a trial lunch.
Friday 20th July – Parents’ Association disco…more details to follow
We hope everyone has another sunny week and good luck England!!!
Mr. McShane, Mrs. Noble and Mrs. Morton.
Well this weather is amazing isn’t it and it looks set to be staying for a while too! 
Please do keep ensuring your child is putting on suncream, wearing a sun hat and bring in a water bottle everyday, so lots of fun can be had safely in the sun!
This week is another busy week as always, with our KS2 watching an equality matters assembly tomorrow all about women getting the vote. I am sure it will be very thought provoking and generate some fantastic discussions amongst our children.
Thursday is when children meet their new class teams in preparation for next year and again we welcome our new reception children and families to All Saints’. Good luck to all our year 6 children as they move on to their high school for the day, we will all be thinking of you and can’t wait to hear all the fantastic stories when you return on Friday.
Over the next few weeks all our wonderful staff will be getting inspired and excited as we spend time looking at the All Saints’ curriculum and how we can make it even bigger and better next year. Of course the children’s voice will be a huge part of the process and we look forward to sharing our work soon!
Finally, of course Friday is also our All Saints’ Summer Fair from 3.30-5.30pm 
please do come along and join in the fun. Also, if you can help no matter how much please do get involved. Many hands make light work and we would love to be able to raise the final amount outstanding for our fabulous new school library.
Remember any donations are gratefully received for this Friday dress down day too. Reception and Key Stage One is cakes and Key Stage Two is chocolate. Look forward to seeing you all there!
Year 6 will have an especially busy day as they are visiting Manchester cathedral for a ‘big bang’ event on Friday also. Enjoy year 6!
Have a great week everyone, Mrs Noble, Mr McShane and Mrs Morton.
Diary Dates
Reception and KS1 – Cakes
KS2 - Chocolate
Welcome to week three of this half term. We hope you are all as excited as the staff with th
e new arrangements for September. With Mrs Manning’s exciting news that she is expecting a baby in October we are delighted to welcome Mrs Collinge to the All Saints’ Team and I am sure you will all look forward to getting to know her when she is in School over the next few weeks and giving her a warm All Saints’ welcome.
The week ahead looks to be a hot one so please, please, please make sure your child has 
sun screen on, a hat and water bottle in school to keep safe and cool as the temperatures rise!
We carried out our Lockdown Drill last Thursday and it went very well. We found it very valuable as an exercise to learn from and improve our future drills. A huge thank you to all the children for being so well behaved, remaining calm and acting very sensibly throughout.
It was so lovely to welcome our new Reception children for their first Stay and Play last week. We hope you had a wonderful time and we can’t wait to get to know you and your families over the next half term and beyond! Starting with the next Stay and Play this Wednesday.
Our current Reception Class are busy preparing for their class assembly and looking forward to welcoming family members this Friday the 29th at 9.05am.
In preparation for the upcoming Summer Fair on Friday 6th July, the next two Fridays are Dress Down Days.
Friday 29th June – Reception and KS1 (Pamper hamper items) KS2 (Bottles)
Friday 6th July – Reception and KS1 (Cakes) KS2 (Chocolate)
Please hand in any donations to the classrooms at drop off to ease the congestion at the sch
ool office!
We would be grateful for any help on the stalls so please do sign up for a slot on your child’s class stall and you may help them win the Class prize for the best stall!
Guidance updates have been provided for PE, so we thought it would be useful to shares some of them with you. Our main priority is to ensure everyone can assess PE safely, so we would appreciate your support in this matter.
Personal effects, including jewellery:
· All personal effects should be removed. Staff should always give a verbal reminder to pupils and, where necessary, visually monitor the group and/or individuals.
· If items cannot be removed, staff need to take action to try to make the situation safe. In most cases, this may mean adjusting the activity in some way or, where a risk assessment allows, making the item in question safe.
Earrings:
· Pupils unable to remove earrings should be required to make them safe by taping, front and back, which may offer a measure of protection. The taping should be sufficient to prevent the stud post penetrating the bone behind the ear should an unintentional blow be received (e.g. from someone or from equipment such as a ball). NB. Taping is not suitable in any activity where contact (with either another person or equipment) is highly likely to, or will, occur e.g. full contact rugby, football etc.
· Taping should not be used when swimming & all earrings should be removed.
· This taping may be done at home for younger children or prior to the lesson for older pupils. Staff are not required to remove or tape earrings for pupils.
Verrucas:
· A verruca is usually spread by direct skin-to-skin contact, or indirectly via contact with contaminated floors or surfaces (for example in swimming pools or communal washing areas). Infection is more likely to occur if the skin is damaged or wet.
· The incubation period for verrucas is thought to range from a few weeks to more than a year. It can therefore take months for a verruca to appear following contact with the virus. This may dispel many of the myths of the pupil who develops a verruca as a result of attending school swimming the previous week.
NHS Guidance: How to stop warts and verrucas spreading:
Do
· Wash your hands after touching a wart or verruca
· Change your socks daily if you have a verruca
· Cover warts and verrucas with a plaster when swimming
Don't
· Share towels, flannels, socks or shoes if you have a wart or verruca
· Walk barefoot in public places if you have a verruca
· Scratch or pick a wart or verruca
Swim England Advice
· The use of devices, such as plastic socks, to protect the feet should be discouraged. The use of a waterproof plaster is sufficient.
The Association for Physical Education (afPE) Advice:
· afPE strongly supports school swimming and the need for young people to maximise their learning time in the water. There is no justification for excluding verruca sufferers from swimming. It is important to remember warts and veruccas are small lumps on the skin that most people have at some point in their life. They usually go away on their own and not associated with serious injury. Treatment is available from a pharmacist in the form of creams and sprays.
The importance of all children and young people learning to swim and developing their stroke technique whilst at school can never be under estimated.
Diary Dates
Reception and KS1 – Pamper Goods
KS2 – Bottles
Reception and KS1 – Cakes
KS2 - Chocolate
Have a wonderful week, Mrs Morton, Mrs Noble and Mr McShane.
What a fantastic All Saints’ community weekend! It began on Friday night with a great turn out for the Quiz evening. A very big well done to the winning team, taking home a very prestigious cup! I think that the teachers need to get some revision done before the next one! So the challenge is on! Then what a joy Saturdays Carnival was. Thank you very, very much to everyone for all their help, support and time preparing and taking part in the carnival! Thank you in particular to Matthew’s Mum for organising a great art club and getting all the balloons ready too, Lily and Ava’s Mum for all the rallying on the day and completing the hefty risk assessment, finally Mrs Cairns-Black who created the amazing and huge helter skelter which along with so many Where’s Wallys made All Saints’ have a brilliant carnival entry. We are very proud to say that we were given 1st prize which will be £500 towards our library! Well done to everyone involved, it was a great effort and wonderful to see so many families come together.
Now moving on to this week...
You will have received a very important letter today about a planned ‘Lockdown drill’ happening this Thursday. Please find this attached, any questions please do get in touch.
Class pen portraits will be shared with classes and families this Friday. You may notice 
new faces this week in the school office! Welcome to Mrs Pattison and Mrs Davey who are our new school secretaries. We are sure you will give them a warm welcome to All Saints’.
Good luck tomorrow to our Year 5 and 6 (named) children attending the Dodgeball/ Netball event at Bramhall High. We also send our luck to the 8 
children who will be attending the great science share with Mrs Cochrane tomorrow in Manchester.
We are very much looking forward to welcoming our new Reception children tomorrow for their first stay and play.
Mrs Gaynor will be spending this Thursday at All Saints’ and I am sure she is looking forward 
to getting to see the children, staff and parents again.
We are currently looking at reviewing our Rewards and Sanctions Policy for September 2018. At present this centres on the Rainbow chart, designed by the School Council, merit badges, whole class ping pong award and always time. As always we want to include as many people’s opinions as possible children, parents and staff in the review, therefore we would be grateful if you could complete the short survey by following the link below by Friday 29th June. Many thanks in advance for your time.
We are pleased to be able to attach the spring/ summer Governor newsletter. It has lots of interesting and useful updates and information so please do take a look. Thank you very much to Mr Bailey for producing it.
We hope everyone has a great week Mrs Noble, Mr McShane and Mrs Morton.
Diary Dates 
I hope everyone had a wonderful break and could enjoy the amazing weather we have been having, long may it continue!
Before we look forward to the final half term of this academic year we just wanted to say
a huge thank you to all the staff for their incredible hard work, especially Mrs Preece, in making Active Week such an enjoyable success. A big thank you also to the children for having such wonderful Growth Mindsets throughout the week, trying many different activities and giving everything a go! Also congratulations to The black team and Mrs Wilson for being the winning team on Sports Day, very well done!
A big reminder that Class photos will be taking place this Thursday 14th June. 
So make sure you give those teeth an extra brush on Thursday morning to make them sparkle for the camera!
The final half term as always sees many, many events and exciting topics taking place. The Year One children start this week with their National Phonics screening check, so good luck year one, we are sure you will be fantastic! Plans are also well underway for transition, with many visits taking place to different nurseries to meet all our new reception children for 2018, we can’t wait to meet you all! We have also been busy planning for teacher and TA deployment for the next academic year. Class pen portraits will be shared with classes and families next Friday 22nd June. Following this there will be many different activities and opportunities to make the transition to the children’s next class as smooth as possible. This includes new to a key stage booklets being shared and meeting your new class team on Thursday 5th July.
As always parking around All Saints’ has never been Ideal, with the school been built long before cars were so common. All we can promote is that people keep the safety of the children at the forefront of their minds whenever driving and parking around school, 
especially at the very busy pick up and drop off times. If you ever see anything that you feel is dangerous then we very much encourage you to call 111 and report it to the police, as they are the force with the ability to respond to this as they would be outside any other building or on any other roads.
Upcoming events reminders ...
We hope you have been busy revising for the Quiz night at 8.30pm this Friday the 15th 
June at Hawk Green Cricket Club. Tickets are available at the office and priced at £5 and it even includes a chip butty. Please help us support the cause of raising money for OUR children!
Of course the following day (Saturday 16th) is Marple carnival and we hope to see as many Where’s Wally
as possible if you please arrive at the parade assembly point adjacent to the old public toilets on Oldknow Road no later than 12 noon that is where the fun will begin and it really is the more the merrier.
Hope everyone has a great week Mrs Noble, Mr McShane and Mrs Morton.
Diary Dates
We hope everyone had a lovely weekend and are raring to go for the final week of half term!
You definitely need lots of energy as our last week is Active Week. We have already seen 
Reception have a wonderful time at their Sports Ambassadors Mini Festival and some great shots in the Archery sessions. The rest of the week sees, street dance classes, forest school sessions, cooking classes, football and cricket matches and of course Sports Afternoon on Thursday, starting at 1pm. We hope you are able to make it and ask you to please enter the field via the Key Stage 2 playground entrance. When the children are safely on the field then please feel free to follow your children round the activities and of course cheer them on!
As I am sure you are aware GDPR is of great prominence right now and at school we 
have been working for a long time on auditing our existing systems and practices and ensuring we are fully compliant with the new regulations. There will be lots more in the future regarding this and a new tab will be set up to include all the relevant policies and documentation on the website. For now though you may wish to watch this short video to get a flavour of what GDPR is all about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua_LzUJ_wu8
Thanks so much to everyone involved in the Cinema night on Wednesday. The children had a great time and the Parents Association managed to raise a wonderful £150 all going towards the library fund.
The Parents Association were also very busy last Sunday at Hawk Green Maypole event. 
Thank you for all the donations of delicious cakes and to everyone who so kindly gave up their time to support the event it is greatly appreciated. Well done to Tia our very own May Queen and Max our very own May King, what a fantastically royal job you did!
A huge thank you to all the fantastic children and parents who helped at Art Club over the 
last two weeks. Lots of messy fun was had and some great things have been made for the Carnival with our Where’s Wally theme.
We are also doing a survey at the moment on our future curriculum. All responses will enter the raffle to win a bottle of fizz! Thank you.
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/LP5JC6M
Please remember there are lots of upcoming Parents' Association events with the quiz night on Friday the 15th June and of course Marple Carnival on Saturday 16th June, it really is the more the merrier!
Have a great, sporty week and we look forward to seeing you cheering everyone on on Thursday afternoon! Mrs Noble, Mr McShane and Mrs Morton.
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ACTIVE WEEK - all children to come in to school dressed in their PE kit or active clothing. Please ensure your child comes in to school wearing suncream, sun hat and a named water bottle!
Summer 2 Term!
One day of the Year 6 ‘show off week’ done, 3 more days of challenges left! 
Year 2 have also been tackling their challenges too and I have to say that all the children have done themselves and their families very proud. Taking things in their stride and exuding the All Saints’ Way and 5Rs in abundance. Well done everyone and keep it up!
Thank you so much to everyone who made Mrs Gaynor’s first full day at All Saints’ such a successful one. She managed to fit a lot in, meeting many parents (thank you to all who were able to attend the drop in sessions) and of course all our fantastic children in their classes too. She wanted us to pass on her thanks for making her feel so welcome. Mrs Gaynor will also be in school for a number of other days over the Summer Term, and she looks forward to meeting even more of you in the future.
On Wednesday night (16th May), Despicable Me will be playing in the School Hall. 
Tickets are now on sale at the office for £2.50 for refreshments including drinks, popcorn and ice pops. It starts at 5.30pm till 7.15pm. So please come along and join in the fun. Children can be dropped off and collected via the School Office.
A letter hopefully came home last Thursday with your child with regards to 
changes to parking at the Conservative Club. The letter is also attached.
Last Friday we also had a special assembly delivered by the Stockport Ethnic Diversity 
team. We learnt all about Ramadan, one of the five pillars of Islam. Our children were very inquisitive and already knew lots of information, such as fasting only happens during daylight hours.
Our advertised picnic to raise funds for Potters Village (which has previously been cancelled due to poor weather and was scheduled again for Friday 25th of May) will now be a co-event with the Summer Fair.
The Summer Fair will take place on Friday 6th of July 3.30pm -5.30pm. We will have fire pit toasted marshmallows ‘Forest School style’, a bar, raffles, many stalls and activities and we hope to 
raise much needed funds for school AND Potters Village.
Feel free to bring a picnic blanket and enjoy the BBQ and games. Further information will follow.
For those that do not know, The Potter’s Village is a Child Crisis and Medical Centre in Kisoro, South West Uganda. As a school we feel it is incredibly important to care for others and do our part where we can.
Carnival Reminder…we are hoping for a big turn out this year. Come and support our school 
and community by donning Where’s Wally outfit and parading the streets on Saturday the 16th of June, parade starts at 1pm!
Have a great week. Mr McShane, Mrs Noble and Mrs Morton.?
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We hope everyone had a lovely bank holiday weekend. So this week is a short one but as always one with lots going on.
We hope you all received the letter last week reminding you that tomorrow (Wednesday 9th May) 
is the great opportunity to meet our new co-headteacher Mrs Gaynor. After dropping children off please make your way to the office where you can sign in and Mrs Gaynor will be in the hall for an informal meet and greet till 9.45am. She will also be in the hall to meet everyone from 2.45pm to 3.45pm again please sign in at the office and we are sure you will all give her a wonderfully warm welcome to All Saints’. Mrs Gaynor will also be spending time in the day visiting all the children’s classrooms so we are sure she will really feel at home by the end of the tomorrow.
As mentioned in last week’s newsletter the Parents’ Association are having a great push to pay the final balance for our new library, so please do support the following events wherever you can.
Next Wednesday evening (16th) Despicable Me will be playing in the School Hall.
Tickets are now on sale at the office for £2.50 for refreshments including a drink, popcorn and ice pop. It starts at 5.30pm till 7.15pm. So please come along and join in the fun. Children can be dropped off and collected via the School Office.
A reminder that cakes for the cake stall at the Hawk Green Maypole event on Sunday 13th
May between 12pm and 4pm can be dropped off at School on Friday 11th May. Any cake donations will be fantastic to help raise money for the new library! Also if you are able to help on the day at the stall please see the office for more information.
Art club for the carnival starts today and is also on next Tuesday. 
We are looking forward to getting in the spirit of all things ‘Where’s Wally’!
Sid, Matty B, Keane and Nathan all met up to watch Mr G win in the play offs with his team Ash
ton United and even joined in the pitch invasion when they secured promotion to the National League North! (with parental permission of course). Mr G was absolutely fantastic with the boys, letting them join in with the celebrations! Well done to Mr G – we are so proud of you!
We hope you a lovely short week Mr McShane, Mrs Noble and Mrs Morton.
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As May fast approaches this can be a time with lots of anxiety for Y2 and Y6 children 
with the administering of the national Statutory Assessment Tests SATs. However at All Saints’ through all the careful planning and ongoing discussions with children and families we really hope it is just business as usual as our children get ready to ‘show off’ in their upcoming challenges. So a huge good luck and keep calm to our end of key stage children.
It was really wonderful to be at the Parents’ Association meeting on Tuesday. Thanks to everyone who came and also those who will be lending a helping hand at upcoming events too. The rest of the term sees a number of great family fundraisers planned, all with the hope of paying the final balance for our amazing new library, what an achievement that will be.
The next event will be the cake stall at the Hawk Green Maypole event on Sunday 13th 
May between 12pm and 4pm. Please bring any cake donations into school for Friday 12th May. If you are able to help at the event please sign up at the office please.
The carnival is just around the corner too and with All Saints’ going for a Where’s Wally 
theme it would be wonderful to see as many of you there as possible to support on Saturday 16th June.
Please watch out for further updates on this!
All Saints’ Film Night on May 16th to start at 5.30pm until 7pm. Pupil parliament are discussing which film to watch! £2.50 a ticket popcorn, drink and ice pops! More details to follow soon...watch out for a school ping!
We hope everyone has a great week Mr McShane, Mrs Noble and Mrs Morton.
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Well the lovely weather was very well received and long May it last!
As always lots has already happened this term and lots is to take place too. Many exciting new topics are well under way and our amazing new library is already being enjoyed by all the children and adults too! Please see the diary dates that are attached below and also went out in hard copy on Friday, there is lots of information on there to hopefully make you aware and give you plenty of notice of upcoming events.
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Hopefully you have seen the letter from Mr Bailey with the exciting news that Mrs 
Gaynor will be joining All Saints’ in September. She is thrilled about becoming part of the All Saints’ team and very much looking forward to getting to meet and chat to as many of you as possible on Wednesday 9th May at the informal drop in between 9.00am and 9.45am then 2.45pm and 3.45pm.
I am sure you will all make Mrs Gaynor feel very welcome in the All Saints’ Way and as Mr Bailey outlined in his letter with her wealth of expertise and experience I am sure she will bring so much to further improve our school for the benefit of all our wonderful children.
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We are also delighted to announce that after a very thorough recruitment process last week 
Mrs Hallworth has been appointed as School Business Manager.
I am sure you will all join me in congratulating Mrs Hallworth and welcoming her to the Senior Leadership Team, where I am sure she will do a fantastic job.
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A huge thank you for the wonderful £90.84 that was raised at our Easter Experiences for the Cobden Cross (Mellor cross) collection. Thank you to Mrs. Nolan for suggesting such a great cause.
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Last week saw many very successful sporting events take place as part of Marple festival of sport. Well done All Saints’ for making us so proud through your demonstration of the 5Rs in abundance and making us super proud with your growth mindset attitude and 
team spirit. Also, a huge thank you to Mrs Preece and Mr Granite for all the hard work you put into coordinating the right children to the right place at the right time for so many events.
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I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible tomorrow night at the PA 
meeting, this is being held at The Crown, Hawk Green at 7.30pm.
And finally, attached is an inspiring video that was shared in Monday’s worship. It has been viewed over 25 million times on Youtube and highlights how one small act of kindness can really spread and make a huge impact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT-HBl2TVtI
Video that will change your life. I have no words left..mp4
Here’s to another great week. Mrs Morton, Mr McShane and Mrs Noble.
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Our new school library was officially opened 
today by Reuben from reception and his buddy Andrew in year 6. They cut the ribbon and were joined by Vernon Bear, our very own Spelling Bee and a packed hall of thrilled school children. It was a lovely way to start the new term. If you can remember the brown cupboard doors that used to stand at the back of the hall and compare to what is there now I am sure you will agree it is a wonderful transformation that allows our children to fall in love with books all over again.
We gave the loudest, heartfelt thanks to our Parents’ Association for all their efforts and generosity in supporting this project. A special thanks also went to Mr. Chaloner who helped project manage the work and also Mrs. Preece for some stunning art work.
We hope this library will serve us well for many years to come and I know the children can’t wait to pick up a book and get lost in an adventure.
A book review competition was launched with a deadline of Friday 4th of May with winners from each class winning a book for themselves and one for the new library. Good luck everyone who wants to enter.
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Mrs. Morton returns from her maternity leave tomorrow and we are all very excited…
“I am very much looking forward to coming back to All Saints’ this week. The last year has absolutely flown by and I can’t believe how much has been accomplished and achieved in school. I have really enjoyed hearing about everything, especially from lots of very excited children!
I would like to say the biggest, heartfelt thanks to everyone for all their support and taking on of extra responsibilities in my absence, especially Mrs Noble and Mr McShane. What an amazing job you have all done - I hope I can keep up all of your excellent work!
All Saints’ is such a special place and I am very excited to again be part of it all. I know the summer term is always a busy time with so much to look forward to and hopefully some lovely weather too! I am sure I will see you all around school very soon and please feel free as always to come and see me if you have an questions or comments”.
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Over Easter we have had a special delivery. Some bird boxes have been installed in our Forest School area by Phil and Chris from All Saints’ church. A huge thank you to you both and we eagerly await our first, feathery visitors!
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Easter:
This term has, as usual, absolutely flown by. Snow days, Castleton, Ofsted, Book awards, 
whole school trip to Chester Zoo and many class trips: Eyam, The Stoller Hall, and of course the Class 4 residential trip to Castleton! World Book day, Safer Internet Day, Valentines Disco with the Parents Association, Parents’ evenings, special assemblies and loads of sporting events and so much more! Have a safe and happy Easter everyone. Remember we are back open at school on Monday 16th of April!
Easter services, as mentioned previously, will be slightly different this year with the Church being set up ‘in-the-round’. This will mean the usual seating arrangements will be significantly different hence the reason for a KS1 and KS2 service. If you able to support walking our children safely to and from church then KS1 Children will leave school on Thursday at approximately 9:10am and KS2 children will leave school at 10:10am.
We will have a collection plate at the end of each service and any takings will go towards the Cobden Cross appeal.
A reminder that Mrs. Burney and the midday team are doing their traditional Easter 
egg hunt and raffle this week. Any money in a sealed envelope with child’s name and class please.
50p for Egg hunt or 20p for a raffle ticket.
Headteacher update:
Please keep your eyes peeled for a letter from Mr. Bailey this week regarding future headship arrangements, it should be coming home today and is also attached below.
In brief: for the Summer term, Mr. McShane will be Acting Headteacher on Mondays, Mrs Morton will return to her post as Headteacher on Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays, and Mrs Noble will be Acting Headteacher on Fridays.
Mrs. Morton, we can’t wait to have you at back All Saints’…we hope you don’t mind what we’ve done with the place and we will ensure your office is nice and tidy!
Library:
Over the Easter break our school hall will be going through a slight make-over with the installation of our new library. We all very excited as school is such a small space so opening up the back of the hall like this will have a big impact for us all. Fingers crossed it will be officially opened on our first day back after Easter!
Just to add, we have raised a staggering £2725 to spend on new books for the library also…amazing. Thank you everyone and well done Mrs. Manning for all your organisation!
Swimming: Change for coming weeks… with the temporary closure at Marple baths we have secured a slot at another LifeLeisure pool and transport will be provided. This will impact classes Years 5 and 6 and further details will be sent home when we have them.
Ice-cream party/spelling bee:
This will take place on Thursday so I hope your child has been learning those tricky words! With any luck our Spelling Bee mascot will be able to deliver many trophies and the whole school can celebrate achieving their targets with fruit and ice-cream...a huge thank you to all families who have supported our push for greater spellers in school.
Consultation at Marple Hall School
The Headteacher and Governing Body of Marple Hall School are proposing to change the shape of the school day in order to facilitate additional staff training and development. Under the proposal the start times for both staff and students will remain unchanged every day of the week, and students will also leave school at the current time on Tuesday to Friday each 
week. The change will affect Monday only, where students will leave school at 2.00pm. The school buses will depart school early on Mondays to ensure that children can get home. In addition should students in years 7 or 8 need to stay in school to await transportation then they will be accommodated up to the usual finish time of 2.50pm.
Full details of the proposal can be found on the Marple Hall School website and paper copies of the proposal will be available from each local primary school from Wednesday 28th March.
The consultation runs until Monday 26th March to Monday 30th April and includes an open forum meeting at the school on Monday 23rd April at 6.30pm where questions can be asked of the Headteacher and Governors.
www.marplehall.stockport.sch.uk
Diary Dates: 
School breaks up for Easter at 3.15pm and reopens on Monday 16th April.
A huge well done to the 36 children involved in our Junior Choir who sa
ng with great enthusiasm and smiles at Stockport Town Hall last Thursday evening. You certainly did rock it All Saints’!
This week is a hugely significant and important one as the interviews for our Co Head Teacher to work alongside Mrs. Morton will take place. We are all really looking forward to welcoming candidates into school this Wednesday for part of their interview process and will of 
course keep everyone informed of the outcome asap. Our Pupil Parliament will play a pivotal role in interviewing the shortlisted candidates which is usually the trickiest part! We all keep our fingers crossed for a great appointment who will work in the All Saints’ Way to enable our school to further flourish for the future. Good luck to all involved in this process.
Please keep learning your Ice Cream Spelling challenges (see Class Webpages/ Homework
blogs) as final end of term challenges will take place this week to see who has earnt different ice cream flavours/ fruit. Don’t forget to also keep learning your year group spelling list words ready for our Spelling Bee on Thursday 29th April. Who will be your class champion this term to receive the Golden Bee trophy? It could be YOU so get learning – practise makes perfect!
During our Basketball Assembly on Tuesday, Gavin from Reddish Basketball Centre 
came into school to talk to the children about getting involved in basketball and competing with other schools in the area. Some children were able to show off their skills! Please look in book bags if your child is interested in starting. One of our ex pupils Saul is now a Basketball Champion so remember to follow your dreams All Saints’…
A huge, huge thank you to all who dressed up for World Book Day this 
Thursday. A school full of ‘Where’s Wally's and Wanda’s’ was certainly a tricky one to decipher who was who! Again, it was lovely to welcome families in for an informal open afternoon and to get involved in some reading activities in classes. Our school hall was bustling with families purchasing books and we certainly hope that children will enjoy reading their special, new books at home. 60% of funds made will go towards new books for our long awaited school library. Library plans are set to go ahead this Easter holidays and we can’t wait to invite families in for our grand opening soon…
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Easter Egg Hunt – 50 p per child – Please send money in a named envelope to the class teacher.
Sponsored read
A massive thank you to all the children who took part in our sponsored read and all the families and friends who sponsored them! We are so proud to announce that this means we will have over £1700 to spend on new books for our new library. A special mention to Reuben Dranfield and his family who managed to raise £105 - thank you so very much - this is truly sensational!
This total could go up depending on how many books are purchased from the Book Fair on the 15th March so make sure if you want to buy your child a special book as a treat to send your slips back in or turn up on the day!
Toys in school
Just a little reminder that school is a place for learning and NOT playing with toys from home (unless of course it is linked to Topic and agreed with class teacher etc). It causes problems when things get lost, broken or traded and can cause disagreements. School will not be held liable for any damage or loss incurred from children bringing toys from home into school.
Operation eagle Eye
Operation Eagle Eye is a collaboration between schools, the Traffic Services Team and the Police and involves school pupils encouraging responsible parking outside the school premises.
This week will see a number of classes getting involved in activities linked to Road Safety. 
Children will learn about;
In particular, please watch out for Y6 with their speed guns before school…!
A local resident has been blocked in on numerous occasions over the last few weeks, at both ends of the day, and it has been difficult for them to get the car in or out – please can we remind all parents to park considerately.
Year 5 & 6 visiting the heroic village of Eyam on Tuesday…
In 1666 the small village of Eyam was unexpectedly hit by the bubonic plague. The villagers set an extraordinary and enduring example of self-sacrifice by sealing off the village from the surrounding areas to prevent the plague spreading. The decision to quarantine themselves worked, the disease did not spread to other towns or villages, although a third of the village died. This is part of our topic ‘What would you do?’
Castleton… and class assembly on Friday 16th
A huge, huge thanks to Miss. Taylor, Mrs. Eva and Mr. Granite for all their enthusiasm, support and care with our 
Y4 children’s on their first residential trip to the Hollowford Centre in Castlefield. A wonderful time was had by all and we are adamant that there were a lot of early nights on Friday after a fabulous and active two days! Our children, as always, were an absolute credit to you as parents and for our school; we are so proud of how maturely they behaved in the All Saints’ Way. From late night caving to trekking in blizzards through waist deep snow, the camaraderie between peers was simply stunning. Well done one and all!
Dodgeball
Dodgeball 2nd place in Stockport a huge congratulations to our Y5 and Y6 children who competed 
and we wish them best of luck for the final in the near future! Watch this space…
Forgiveness
In worship today we looked at how to fix things, from a burst tyre to a hole in a sock, to 
the more difficult one of a friendship. We looked at the parable of the Unforgiving Servant.
Attendance
As ever we are looking at ways to improve school attendance. We will be 
sending letters home or meetings will be requested for children who have significantly improved their attendance during the school year. The National Average for school attendance is 96% and we are aiming to achieve above that! Please support your child by ensuring their attendance and prompt arrival to school.
| Last week’s attendance % |
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| Reception |
98.44 |
| Class 1 |
100 |
| Class 2 |
100 |
| Class 3 |
98.6 |
| Class 4 |
100 |
| Class 5 |
98.33 |
| Class 6 |
99.33 |
Keep up the hard work!
Diary Dates; 
Y5- 9.30, Y4 10.45 (please see class teachers or the office if you are available and can support)
Y3- 9.30, Y6 10.45 (please see class teachers or the office if you are available and can support)
Newsletter 5.3.18
Snow
May I thank everyone for your patience and understanding during our school closure on Thursday and Friday. The safety of our children/staff and indeed parents travelling was our priority. I appreciate it will have caused much disruption; hopefully that will be the end of the beast from the east and the exceptionally cold weather.
World Book Day
Rearranged for Thursday 15th of March. Please still come dressed as your favourite character or Where’s Wally! Parents are still welcome to come in during 2-3pm to read with your child or take part in any class activities. We will also be running the World Day themed lunch, please pay on www.parentpay.com if you would like to order a meal for your child if they don't have a school meal on that day.
Castleton
Year 4 are very excited preparing for their residential. They depart on Thursday this week for one night away and return on Friday. We wish you a safe and memorable trip. Any questions about the trip please speak to Miss. Taylor in Year 4.
Farewell to Mrs. Herbertson
This week is unfortunately the last week in school for Mrs. Herbertson, our wonderful school business manager. 
We would like to say how grateful we are for all you do, managing our school finances and so much more. You will be enormously missed but we wish you luck as you go on to work in a much larger High School Setting in your newly promoted role.
In the interim Mrs. Hallworth will take on extra responsibilities and will be supported at rush hour by Mrs. Adshead. Please be patient as we adjust.
Christian Values
This term our Christian Value is Forgiveness. We will explore how everyone makes mistakes, it’s part of being human. Sometimes our mistakes hurt others and then we need to say sorry. If you would like to discover more, including a home-school challenge for those interested, then look on our website under Parents and Resources (or follow the link)
Fairtrade
The snow disruption delayed our sales but this week the Tuck Shop team will get back on the promotion for Fairtrade goods. They will sell before school (KS1) and after school (KS2). Mr. McShane talked all about the benefits for farmers 
in his weekly worship – looking at the supply chain from farmer, to packer, shipper and retailer. Seeking a fair deal for the people who produce what we use is part of our Christian obligation to love our neighbour and to strive for justice.
This year will be a change from the traditional as All Saints’ church offer us an Easter Experience. The Church will be set up very differently hence the need to run two separate services. KS1 will have a service at 9:30am and KS2 at 10:30am – if you wish to stay for both then tea/coffee will be served in-between.
If you would like to experience the story for yourself the below message may be of interest to you and your family.
Mellor Church Choir
Take Your Next Step in Music with Mellor Church Choir
A number of places will shortly be becoming available in the Treble line of Mellor Church Choir.
We’re a local parish choir, and combine a relaxed and very friendly environment with very high levels
of musicianship.
Choristers at St. Thomas:
? Make friends for life.
? Earn a small wage whilst getting an excellent musical education.
? Regularly go on to earn university scholarships as a result of their musical abilities.
The choir has a lively social side, and for those who want to take part, there are regular musical
events, culminating each year in an optional week away singing services in a cathedral.
Practices are on Friday evening, from 6.30pm until 8pm, and Sunday services from 10am to 11.30am.
Children can begin singing with us from 6/7 years old.
For more information please contact t.howling@nhs.net
Welcome back to spring term two! I hope you have all had a restful and happy half term. Lots going on this term in what will feel like a squeeze with us breaking up for Easter on Thursday 29th March!
A Siberian Snow blast is on the way…keep an eye on our school website or School Ping 
for any updates if and when it happens!
Sponsored Read
It has been magnificent to see so many families get behind the sponsored read initiative, it really is a win-win situation. A reminder that sponsor money is due tomorrow, Tuesday 27th of February!! Any funds that can be raised will go towards our new library.
New Library
Plans are now well under way, thank you to Mr.Chaloner who has started some of the ground work in the school hall and also Diane Peatfield who has started relocated the PA stock to make room for our reading zone. Some artist’s impressions can be seen in the school reception area.
If anyone knows a skilled plasterer who could offer to do some minor preparation work before our install (Scheduled for the 6th April) then we would love to hear from you!
World Book Day: We hope you have all got those costumes ready for our Where’s Wally (or other book characters!) extravaganza on Thursday 1st March! Clare Johnson from Usborne will be here in the afternoon hosting a book fair if you would like to treat your child to a new book whilst also raising funds for the school library. Mrs Manning will be hosting a reading meeting at 1.15pm in the hall to give a flavour of the exciting reading opportunities that have been happening and will continue to happen this academic year, and between 2.15pm -3.00pm you will have the opportunity to bring your favourite story and read a book with your child in class. We hope to see as many of you there as possible – extra points for coming in costume!
Fairtrade fortnight:
Within school over the next two weeks we will all look at the importance of Fairtrade. To encourage less exploitation on farmers around the world our Tuck Shop team will be selling Fairtrade products before and after school together with our usual stock. Items such as Fairtrade Bananas (25p each) Chewy cereal Geo Bars (45p each), Cranberry biscuits, Traidcraft Organic Milk Chocolate and other products that will help producers in developing countries get a fairer deal for their trades will be on sale. School will not make any profit on the goods sold.
Times Tables Rockstars is one of our new and exciting subscriptions to help our young mathematicians secure those all-important times tables facts. 
Look out for passwords and log in details in the coming days and please encourage your child to spend some time on the new site.
https://ttrockstars.com/page/features Further information can be found here.
To keep our children safe and secure the KS2 gate will be locked after school whilst Mr. Granite 
runs his afterschool sports clubs. Parents who wish to watch the sessions are still of course more than welcome to but will either need to arrive before the gates shut (3:30pm) or come and sign it at the office to get access. As I am sure you will agree, we don’t want any unwelcome visitors on site or children being able to wander out of school freely so this measure is to keep everyone safe. Any questions/concerns please come and speak to us.
Future dates: 
Thursday 1st March
Thursday 8th March
Friday 9th March
Friday 16th March
Tuesday 20th March
Thursday 29th March
Wyevale garden centre: 
NEW! Little Diggers Learning to Grow Events
FREE monthly kids’ planting activities
First Sunday of every month*, 30 minute activity at 10:15am and 11am
No need to book, just pop in.
https://www.wyevalegardencentres.co.uk/cms/events/learning-to-grow/
With snow on the ground we started our week with a Chinese New Year assembly and at the end of the day we have an E-safety meeting in the school hall, delivered by Tanya Cross from the local authority that all parents and staff are invited to; it is imperative that we keep well-informed of the latest advances in technology and how best to keep our pupils safe. Start time of 3:30pm.
If unable to attend you may find this a useful resource. https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/
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We break for half term at the end of the week at usual time. Have a safe and relaxing break. 
We are open again on Monday 26th February which will see the start of Fairtrade fortnight. The Tuck Shop team will be selling a range of different products over this fortnight and classes will put a spotlight on trade: when trade is fair it has the potential to improve the lives of the farmers and workers who grow our food, more information to follow.
https://www.fairtrade.org.uk/Get-Involved/Current-campaigns/Fairtrade-Fortnight
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The Parents’ Association would like to thank everyone who came to the Valentine Disco on Friday. 
We raised £300 towards the new library which is fantastic!
Following on from this success we will be holding a pre-Mothers’ Day ‘Ladies’ Afternoon Tea’ on Saturday 10th March 2pm-4pm in the Bowyer Hall at All Saints’ Church. Further details to follow shortly but for now ladies - save the date and spread the word!
World Book Day
World Book Day is on Thursday 1st March and we are having a themed school lunch! Please see the attachment for the menu. If you would like to order a meal for your child if they don’t already have a meal on Thursdays please go to www.parentpay.com and make a payment of £2.15. If your child is in Reception, or Key Stage 1 they qualify for a free school meal.
Thank you to everyone who has now downloaded School Ping. Approximately 95% of parents have accounts 
but only 47% are opening the messages. It is imperative that parents use the school ping either through the app, email or website to receive school information. We are no longer using Teachers2Parents and so this is the only form of communication we will be using other than the website.
If anyone needs any help with the App or log in details then please come and see us in the school office.
Litter Pick
Well done to the team of children and volunteers who picked up a pretty disgusting 4 bin bags full
of litter around our local area in just one hour as part of the Marple Charity ‘One Good Turn’.
Future dates:
Wednesday 14th Drumming workshop year 5 & 6
Thursday 15th February - Year 1 class assembly – families welcome.
Thursday 1st March - World Book Day: Dress up as Where’s Wally? Letters have gone home
World Book Day themed lunch see attachments for menu
Thursday 8th March to Friday 9th March – Castleton residential Year 4 trip.
This week, we will be introducing a community Art Project being led by Tracy McGuinness - Kelly, ex All Saints’ pupil, parent and local Artist, author and illustrator. Having worked alongside Tracy on many school projects in the past, I know that this will be an amazing opportunity for our budding artists to flourish and have their work displayed in our community around Rose Hill Train Station. Please follow links on Facebook – ‘Friends of Rose Hill Collaborative Community Project’ for how to get involved as all age groups and abilities are welcome to participate.
We have introduced this idea of a collaborative community mural in an assembly and now children will be designing their own based on themes such as; train safety, the canal and sports in Marple. A selection of themes will then go through to the next stage where Tracy will come to work with children in a focus group to produce their finished product on a recycled, circular wooden block. The mural is to be made up of individual pieces of art created by the people of Marple themselves.
The Friends of Rose Hill's aims for the mural are;
If you think you might be interested in participating as a group or individual please 
contact Mrs. Noble for a design template. Please note that success rate will be high for anyone who is highly enthusiastic about this project so this is a great opportunity to get fully involved in.
Tracy also runs a number of creative, inspiring Art Clubs in her studio at the Goyt Mill in Marple, please look on her facebook page Art Stop Studio if you are interested in sending your child. (Tuesdays and Thursdays @ 4- 6pm £10 for 2 hours as well as Saturday 1 - 4pm £15).
We have just received our draft copy of our OFSTED inspection report so fingers crossed it won’t 
be too long until the administration department for OFSTED publish our final report in order for us to share with you as parents. As soon as we have everything finalised and the go ahead for the ‘confidential’ grading to be published, then we will of course send a copy home for all to read.
Following on from hearing about the UK based charity Compassion and how members of All Saints’ 
Church support, school staff felt genuinely moved and passionate that we too as a school could and should play our part in sponsoring a child in our world in need of help. As a result, we had a special assembly from ‘Compassion’ where children too were blown away and learnt about the significant differences that this act of kindness can do for a child living in poverty. As we already had a link with Uganda - Africa, we felt that it would be fitting to sponsor a child here too. Our child is a little boy called Uwimana Deus and we are looking forward to helping him every step o
f the way with hope on his journey through childhood. As a school we will be carrying out some fundraising to fund his sponsorship throughout the year as one of or main focuses. Children will write letters to build up a personal relationship with Uwimana Deus and send gifts for birthdays and Christmas etc. This will give our children the chance to find out how the money donated is helping with educational opportunities, medical needs, nutrition etc. Further information to follow throughout the year… www.compassionuk.org/
Dates for the diary;
A damp and drizzly week behind us, I hope the illnesses that have been doing the rounds are on their way out! I hope that those of you who attended Stockport County’s game with free tickets enjoyed the 2-0 victory!
A busy week ahead as we hold our Parents’ evening meetings on both Monday and Thursday, we look forward to catching up with families and sharing our thoughts/targets for the months ahead.
Learning Mentor
We are pleased to announce that Miss. Daley will be our new Learning Mentor within school. We thank Mrs. Daniel for the love and dedication she has given to the children in this role – panic not, she is not leaving us! Mrs. Daniel will instead focus on her teaching assistant role which is demanding enough. Miss. Daley is looking forward to working closely with many children and families who may require that little bit of guidance or support, an ear to listen or some one-to-one time.
Ice Cream/ Fruit Challenge
As per last term, children now have their new Spelling words to learn for their Spelling Bee at the end of the term. It is expected that children will play spelling games in school regularly each week to learn these important sp
ellings as well as to keep up practising them at home (alongside their weekly spellings sent home for the half term. All Ice Cream Spelling sheets have been sent home OR a copy can be found on the class blog on the website.
In order to be in with a chance to compete for your class to win the Spelling Bee trophy don’t forget to start learning now… the more you learn, the more you earn. Please note that this term, the spellings have been differentiated to make it fairer for all to achieve to the best of their ability. Try to learn one set at a time (e.g. earn your bowl, then strawberry ice cream, then cherries etc.) and even if you don’t like the flavour or fruit you should still aim to get them all correct (as a replacement choice will be offered). Last term, some children did not for example like the sprinkles so did not try to learn them!! This term All Saints’ we ALL need to go the whole hog to have a magnificent feast and a party to top last terms (which was pretty awesome!).
As half term approaches please note two great things happening in the area to keep little ones active!
Free swimming lessons, February ½ term
Life leisure are running an ASA Assistant Swimming teachers course during February half term at Life Leisure Grand Central and are looking for swimmers of all abilities to take part in the FREE Monday - Friday course. Lessons will be taught by fully qualified teachers and candidates on the course will assist in the delivery of the lessons, overseen by an ASA tutor. We are running the lessons Monday 19th February – Thursday 22nd February 1.15 – 2.15pm OR 2.15-3.15pm
UNFORTUNATELY THIS IS NOW FULLY BOOKED
Little Diggers February Half Term
19th – 23rd February 2018
Future dates:
Thursday 1st February – 4pm – 7.30pm Parents Evening
Friday 2nd February – Classes 3 and 4 trip to The Stoller Hall
Friday 9th February – PA Valentine’s disco – all details will be confirmed asap!
As Parents’ Evening approaches, we very much look forward to catching up with you and reporting on your child’s current learning. We will be sharing some of the super learning in books that your child has been focusing on since September.
You will see that since last parents meetings, there have been a few refinements to our ‘Marking and Feedback’ policy. Therefore, you will be starting to see less lengthy, written comments from teachers in books (usually carried out after school etc.) but rather more symbols and edits carried out whilst your child is currently working in class so feedback can have immediate impact, showing your child how they can improve their work there and then. ‘People with goals succeed because they know where they are going’.
To continue to develop our pupils as independent, lifelong learners, corrections (such as spellings) will not always be given as we encourage children to find the answers out for themselves. This is all in line with current research and our focus on feed-forward marking to help children improve their work and have most impact on their progress for the future.
Sean Harford, HMI National Director for Education, explains: “There is remarkably little high-quality, relevant r
esearch evidence to suggest that detailed or extensive marking has any significant impact on pupils’ learning.”
At parents’ evening we will ask you to post a little note in your child’s book so that they can have a message from you to read and reflect upon when working in their Topic Book, they always love to search for it the following day!
Love is in the Air!
Please save the date for the PA Valentine's disco on Friday 9th February. All details will be confirmed asap!
All money is going towards the school library. We have exciting plans in place and are in the final stages 
of developing a new, fit-for-purpose school library (we will share more details with everyone very soon). We have £8,000 so far and are having a final push for the extra £2,000 before the end of school year. Please do try to support if you are available.
Mellor Cross
You may well be aware that Mellor Cross on Cobden Edge, a well-loved and much-visited landmark 
was damaged irreparably in winter storms a few years ago. The ‘Churches Together in Marple Area’ group originally erected this cross and have had responsibility for it since it was erected in March 1970. It has been agreed to take down what remains of the existing cross and replace it with a stronger structure of galvanised steel, clad with wood to retain the original appearance.
‘Churches Together’ are running a short appeal to raise the £25,000 needed for the building and maintenance of the new structure to meet today’s exacting high standards. It is hoped that work will start in 2018. Many people, churchgoers or not, value the cross overlooking our community and have been asking when it will be restored from its present T-shape.
The churches themselves will be raising funds, but support from the wider community will be invaluable in helping the target to be reached. If you are able to lend your support, please contact Marian Thompson on 0161 427 7254 or marian37et@gmail.
We have a number of children off at the moment, some of whom are showing flu-like symptoms but as yet we have no further information. We are working hard in school to ensure the children in school are demonstrating good hygiene and taking all appropriate precautions.
Cold or flu..
If your child has any of the following symptoms: fever (37.8?C or higher) and any one of the following: tiredness, cough, sore throat, muscle pain, runny nose or congestion, wheezing etc. in line with Local Authority guidance please keep them off school for at least 5 days. Pupils should:
We will continue to work with our health colleagues to closely monitor the situation and keep you informed.
Parents may find the following link helpful in giving advice on flu. http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/winterhealth/Pages/Fluandthefluvaccine.aspx
Term Dates
Term dates for 2018- 2019 are available on our school website. Please note that dates for next Christmas holidays are slightly different from Marple Hall School (if you have older siblings). All Saints’ have kept in line with Stockport Local Authority guidance for dates. Please check dates carefully for the year prior to booking holidays etc. in order to ensure that unauthorised absences are at a minimum and your child’s attendance is at least in line with National Average of 97%.
Future Dates for the Diary: 
Thursday 25th January – 8pm Ring O’ Bells Quiz to raise funds for our school library project
Friday 26th January – Y3 Class Assembly 9.00am - families welcome
Saturday 27th January- Stockport County football match 3pm – Free Tickets available (see letter sent home last Tuesday).
Friday 2nd February - Classes 3 and 4 trip to The Stoller Hall
Friday 9th February - PA Valentine's disco - all details will be confirmed asap!
Well that really was a week to remember!
All Saints’ book awards, a Mad Science assembly, an Ofsted inspection and a whole school trip to Chester Zoo! Phew…
Ofsted Inspection:
As you know, we had a one day Section 8 Ofsted inspection on Thursday last week. We are not allowed to tell you the result until the report has been written up and quality assured by Ofsted before being sent to us for checking the factual accuracy. This may take up to 28 days.
However, the inspection process ran very well and the children gave an excellent account of themselves and of the school. We thanked children personally on Thursday afternoon and again in whole school worship today.
I would also like to pass on my thanks, and those of the staff and governors, for the tremendous support we received from you through the ParentView online questionnaire, and for the personal wishes passed on to us. The positive comments and very high level of satisfaction demonstrated in the school was overwhelming.
Book awards:
On Tuesday evening last week we packed out New Mills Theatre for a very special event organised by Mrs. Manning (huge thank you). It was lovely to see so many families dressed in their finery having a great time celebrating their love of reading. Poet Craig Bradley had us all belly laughing and it was a truly special evening.
The winning book, as voted for by children and parents alike was Nibbles The Book Monster. Many children took home certificates and trophies for their incredible efforts in reading.
Chester Zoo
Our whole school trip to Chester Zoo on Friday was a ROARING success. It was a pleasure to take such polite, eager and interested children. I am sure the zoologists in the making have reported on their findings and I am sure they would have slept well on Friday evening with the amount of walking we did. 
Trips like these cannot happen without a serious amount of preparation and planning. I would like to thank everyone involved, from John the Lollipop man and Mr. Chaloner and for supporting the safe arrival and departure of the four coaches to our superb office team in all booking arrangements, our many, many volunteers who gave a full day of their time and of course the Parents' Association who completely funded the cost of transport.
All Saints’ is very blessed to have such a strong team.
Parents' Meetings
If you have not already booked your slot with your child’s class teacher or haven’t received a confirmed time then please speak to the class teacher.
Dates for Diary
Newsletter
Happy new year everybody and welcome back to All Saints’. Thank you for all the postcards sent that showed what your child got up to over the Christmas break – winning entries will be announced this week and a school display is going up today! On behalf of all teachers and staff in school can we say a heartfelt thank you for all the Christmas cards and gifts we received, so very kind and generous.
Book awards
We are very excited about the All Saints’ book awards which take place tomorrow evening (Tuesday 9th of January, 5:45pm at New Mills Art Theatre). The event is a chance to dress up in all your theatre finery and enjoy an evening hosted by poet Craig Bradley. We hope you and your child are able to attend. The theatre can be found on Jodrell Street just off Albion Road. There is street parking available however this is limited so there is parking available at the shop ‘Focal Design’ if you turn into the road at the side of the Beehive Pub. Families will be able to choose their own seats when in the theatre – no tickets are required for this event and please feel free to bring along any last minute guests – the more the merrier!
We’re going to the Zoo, zoo, zoo…
On Friday this week (12th January) the entire school are visiting Chester Zoo as part of our Science curriculum. 
To get the most out of the day we are leaving school at 8:30am. It is important that children arrive between 8am and 8:15am on this day so we can do all our pre-trip essentials and get children loaded on the correct coach as it will be extremely busy trying to depart on time.
As such, parking/dropping off on this morning could be very tricky for parents due to four coaches picking up on Brickbridge road, sorry for the inconvenience but I hope you appreciate the situation.
We depart from Chester Zoo at 3:15pm and are expected back at 4:30pm (depending on the traffic situation). We will text if significantly different.
To try and reduce our plastic pollution it would be brilliant (but not a requirement) if children could bring a rucksack to carry around their lunch, rather than a plastic bag, and use their school water bottle rather than a disposable drinks bottle. No glass bottles or fizzy drinks please.
Please wear full school uniform but dress for the British weather – a waterproof coat, hat, gloves etc. are very much recommended.
School will be closed for the remainder of the day with all children and staff at Chester Zoo. In the event of an emergency call Chester Zoo on 01244 380280 and a message will be relayed if required.
School Ping
I hope you are managing to find the download of our new school communication system, SchoolPing, easy and accessible. It is free to download and helps you stay connected to goings on at school. If you do have any issues support is on hand during our parents’ evenings or feel free to pop into the school office and Mrs. Herbertson will help you get connected.
Parents' evening
I hope you have all received your letters regarding the up-and-coming parents' evenings. The sooner you return the slip back the more chance of securing your preferred time-slot. Where possible, please see the class teacher rather than the school office if you need to alter your appointment.
Have your say!
Stockport MBC Schools Holidays Consultation - Have Your Say! The Local Authority are undertaking a statutory consultation process with parents and other stakeholders for the whole family of Admission Authorities in Stockport. They want your views on this consultation which includes proposals to change the Admissions Policy for a number of schools. Marple schools are not affected, but part of the consultation process involves setting the school term dates for the 2019/20 academic year. There are two options available. The first reduces the Whitsun holiday to one week for primary schools, but increases the summer break to six weeks - bringing it in line with secondary schools in the area. The second option is for the holiday pattern to remain the same - two weeks at Whitsun, five weeks in summer. Have your say via www.stockport.gov.uk/school-admissions-consultation-2019-20
Future Dates: (All Spring Term diary dates handed out paper based before half term are also on the school website situated below this newsletter)
Autumn Term Newsletter/Achievements 2017 - Let’s Celebrate…
Classes Highlights / trips and visitors
Staffing
Whole School WOW events
Extra Curricular
Church Schools
Parents
On behalf of all the staff at All Saints’ School, please can we applaud everyone who has ensured that this term has been another great success. We wish you all a very Happy Christmas and fantastic New Year and can’t wait to achieve even more in partnership together in 2018!
We come back to school on Wednesday 3rd of January 2018.
Mrs. Noble and Mr. Mc Shane (Acting Head Teachers).
We are nearly there! There may be a light scattering of snow on the ground and a chill in the air but all is heating up inside as school prepares for another mammoth Christmas finale. Lots of productions, carol singing, dance or music assemblies, achievement assemblies, Christmas parties, Christmas crafts, Christmas lunches and so much more! It is a lovely time to be in school.
Last day of term
Remember we finish at 3:15pm on Tuesday 19th of December, collection from school, following our school service at Church which starts at 1:45pm – you are all welcome to attend.
Spelling BEE
What a great day we had last Thursday afternoon for our Spelling Bee and Ice Cream/Fruit challenge 
celebration. The children competed to see who would be crowned ‘the bees knees’ in spelling for their year group and the competition was fierce! Each class put forward their five top stars to challenge for the trophy and we even had to resort to a dictionary as the words from the class set just weren’t challenging enough!
Everyone else enjoyed their fruit and ice-cream that had been earnt during the term and we had some spelling related dancing and even a visit from Mr. Spelling Bee himself! Well done to the winners who are - Reception -Teddy, Class 1 - Teddy, Class 2 - Matilda, Class 3 - Soren, Class 4 - Zac, Class 5 - Sadie and Class 6 - Azura!
Drop-in
It was lovely to see so many parents attend our first informal drop-in on Friday. Perhaps it was the lure of a mince pie but either way it was a nice chance to have a catch-up, find out your opinion on all things All Saints’ and also give you the opportunity for a quick chat with your class teacher in a relaxed environment.
Reception deadline
Just a reminder if you have a little one wanting to start school in September 2018 or know of any friends or family in a similar position the deadline for Primary Schools applications is January 15th.
If any families would like a tour please do call the school office or e mail to arrange a convenient time/ date.
Hygiene.
Mr. Chaloner has put up some antibacterial hand gel dispensers throughout school in our efforts to help reduce 
the spread of germs, particular at this time of year, as there are so many coughs, sniffles or worse going around. Children have been reminded that this doesn’t replace washing their hands properly with soap and water it is merely as an additional, perhaps to be used before lunch or snack time.
New Year – New School Communication
During the first couple of weeks in the new year we will be launching a new way of communicating with you called ‘School Ping’. More details will follow, including how to download the app onto your mobile phones during the first couple of days back in school after the Christmas break.
Diary Dates (as per the events diary at the start of term)
Dear all,
Advent has arrived…! Excited children, cards galore to write, crazy shopping lists and queues, presents to wrap, endless parties and events and so much to do with so little time left! Don’t panic… we always get there in the end! Wishing you all a very merry season spending special times making wonderful memories with your precious children.
It has been heart-warming to hear so much about the Marple Community coming together to create their own
‘Reverse Advent Calendars’. Remember it’s not too late if you do want to get involved, show a little kindness to others locally and remember that Christmas is about ‘giving’ and helping others for whom Christmas isn’t always the happiest of times in the year. If you can drop a little something each day into a box it would be a great way to show you care!
Our new website!
We are delighted to unveil our new look school website to keep up with the times! We hope that this makes it even clearer and simpler to find important information about our school. A huge thank you to Mrs. Herbertson our wonderful school business manager who has worked especially hard to improv
e the look of our new website.
In addition, a special mention must be given to Mr. Richard Holton who spent time snapping our children and school. We are sure that you will agree that the quality of photography from this talented local photographer is simply stunning.
Please do take time to have a glance through- you may even spot a photograph of your own little superstar on there! We would love to hear any feedback…
Parent Drop In
This Friday a quick reminder that we are holding our first ever Parent Drop in session. As this is our first, 
please do bear in mind that it is a trial and we will be asking for suggestions how to further improve in the future. This will be an informal open forum time to chat to your child’s class teacher and members of the school Senior Leadership team. The event will take place in the hall, giving you another opportunity to ask any questions and catch up on your child or anything specific you want to ask about before parents evening held at the end of January 2018.
Please note that if you do want to discuss anything confidential we would request that you ask if you can have a place in private to take a short time to discuss any issues.
Refreshments will be available and it is a time to come in and chat with other families in the school hall with a mince pie and cuppa! We really hope that families can pop in sometime between 1.30 - 3.00pm for a brief chat and to share some festive cheer!
School Governors
Please find the Autumn Term Governor Newsletter on the school website (see ‘Parents’ tab 3rd along the top, 
then drop down to ‘Newsletter’ and you will see the ‘Governor Newsletter’ Tab at the bottom to click and access). To get further updates on key headlines from Governors at All Saints’ school please do take the time to read more about; our new Governors, SIAMS inspection and fundraising linked to our school in Uganda, Africa. Our hugest thanks to the Governing Body who play a pivotal role in leading our school forward for the future.
Fundraising Updates
Another massive well done to the children of All Saints’ school who raised a staggering £348.19 for the 
Royal British Legion charity. The new merchandise certainly went down a treat! All funds will help those serving and ex- service men and women who have been so brave and courageous protecting others in our country and around the world. We salute you all! A special mention to Matthew in Year 6 who was a true salesman!
In addition, we now have the final, grand total of £1,600 that was raised at this years Christmas Fair! The All Saints’ Library project funds are getting closer and closer so a massive thank to all who contributed so kindly.
Help wanted
In order to ensure the safety of all our children and to adhere to Safeguarding policies in school, we would be very grateful if any families are available to walk to and from Church for our Christmas events. Please see class teachers or cont
act the school office if you can offer any support- we really do need you! Thank you in advance.
Diary Dates (as per the events diary at the start of term)
This week
7.00pm for the service from 7.30pm - 8.30pm.Next week
Week commencing 18th December
Welcome to another, slightly damp week at All Saints’. As our website continues to be updated we have decided to send out a paper copy this week as a one-off to keep you all informed of all things All Saints’. We hope the new site will go live this week.
Christmas Fair
It was lovely to see so many families enjoy the fair on Saturday. Very chilly outside there was a lovely warm atmosphere inside: plenty of fun and games, food and drink and even a very jolly visitor in the form of Santa. A colossal thank you to the dedicated parents’ association for organising and running the event. As soon as we have a final total we will let you know!
Christmas Dinner Letters
Our annual festive lunch is booked in for the 14th of December and letters have gone home today with further information. If you want to dig out that party hat or tinsel scarf and dine with your child and friends can we please have your orders by Thursday 7th of December, giving us enough time to order those Brussel sprouts!!
Be safe with Dogs assembly
Today we had a special ‘Be safe with Dogs’ assembly, led by Blue Cross for Pets. Children learned all about reading dog body language, rules around dogs, what to do if a strange dog runs up to you etc. Do talk to your child about it.
In light of this assembly can we just reiterate that no dogs are to be brought onto the school playground, even if being carried by an owner (unless the dog is an assistance or guide dog).
We do have some children in school afraid of dogs and have a duty to protect everyone. Thank you for your understanding.
An information sheet has also been sent home today with further information and advice.
Obviously we do have a weekly dog visitor in the form of Basil (our reading dog) who has gone through strict training and vetting procedures!
Marple High School of Rock!
Year 6 week will visit Marple High school this week to watch a performance of ‘School of Rock’. Keep your eyes peeled for former All Saints’ pupils!
Ethos group
A massive well done to the five members of Ethos group who put on their school uniform on a Sunday to give All Saints’ church a review of their year. Your confidence and ability to speak in public was marvellous, well done!
No nuts
We have a small number of pupils in our school with serious nut allergies. In light of this our school is aiming to become a nut free school – our school kitchen has already started to implement any changes needed to menus. Please can we ask you to take care when packing lunch boxes and reiterating to your child not to share their lunches/snacks with other children. Although we recognise that this cannot be guaranteed we are hoping parents will support us to protect any children who could suffer from Anaphylaxis.
Please inform school of any allergies (or suspected allergies) you child may have so we can inform our school nurse. If we do not already have them in school please supply us with any up-to-date medications.
Thank you
Invite for a mince pie!
Another reminder that we would like to give families the opportunity to pop in for an informal chat, share a mince pie and have a cup of tea/coffee. As you are aware, parents evening appointments are only 10 minutes (next one is in January 2018) so if you feel you may need a little extra or want a brief catch up before hand with your child’s class teacher, then now is your chance… when? Friday 8th December in the afternoon from 1:30pm – 3pm
Social Media
It can be hard to keep track of what your child is doing on social networks, apps and games or know how to keep them safe. The following website may help you to be able to talk about staying safe online with your child and has some very useful animations.
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/share-aware/
Things to remember
Christmas Jumper Day
For our last day of term, please dig out last years’ jumper and try to squeeze into them or find something a little festive to wear for our Carol Concert and Reception Nativity on Tuesday 19th December. If anyone has any old Christmas jumpers from previous years that they would like to recycle, please do hand in at the office so that we can hopefully leave a box in the entrance for others who may need one to take. Again, please can we reiterate that families do NOT need to go and buy anything new! Simply adding a hint of tinsel or a couple of baubles to any existing jumpers would be just fine! This will be a great way to end 2017 with a great sing along and everyone looking the part (the teachers are already competing to see who will be wearing the most festive jumper!). 
Diary Dates (as per the events diary at the start of term)
Welcome to another week at All Saints’. We are currently updating our school website in the hope of improving the layout and lines of communication so please bear with us – it may cause some disruption in the coming weeks but hopefully it will be worth it!
Samaritans Purse
We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who donated a shoe box for the Samaritan's Purse 
Operation Christmas Child appeal. This year has been our most successful to date with almost 70 boxes having been donated. Your kindness is very much appreciated and your boxes will be distributed to those less fortunate. If you have printed your barcode, you can follow your box at https://www.samaritans-purse.org.uk/what-we-do/follow-your-box-donation/ from January.?
Always time
On Friday Children had their ‘Always time’ event, something the Pupil Parliament decided on a while 
back. Children had the opportunity to visit a classroom of choice and participate in an activity such as dance, cinema or arts and crafts. A Year 6 child said “You have time with your friends, have loads of options and it is a chance to bond with the younger children.”
Nativity Sets
At Marple United Reform Church on Hibbert Lane, they will be holding a display of Nativity sets 
from around the world, around 60 of them, all made of different materials like beaten coke cans, glass, bamboo, fabric etc. all with culturally appropriate characters and scenery. This will no doubt be a wonderful community Christmas event that will be a great conversation starter and an opportunity for us to retell that most wonderful Christmas Nativity story yet again. As it links in so well with the KS1 Christmas concert for 2017 ‘Christmas Around The World’, Y1 and Y2 will be visiting. In addition, as part of their Religious Education topic on the Christmas story, Y3 will also be attending as a class.
As we already have permission slips for all local area trips we do not require any further signing of letters. Please note dates these classes will attend; Year 1 Thursday 23rd November, Year 3 Friday 24th November, and Year 2 Monday 27th November.
Christmas Jumper Day
For our last day of term, please dig out last years’ jumper and try to squeeze into them or find something a 
little festive to wear for our Carol Concert and Reception Nativity on Tuesday 19th December. If anyone has any old Christmas jumpers from previous years that they would like to recycle, please do hand in at the office so that we can hopefully leave a box in the entrance for others who may need one to take. Again, please can we reiterate that families do NOT need to go and buy anything new! Simply adding a hint of tinsel or a couple of baubles to any existing jumpers would be just fine! This will be a great way to end 2017 with a great sing along and everyone looking the part (the teachers are already competing to see who will be wearing the most festive jumper!).
Invite for a mince pie!
Before parents evening in January, we would like to give families the opportunity to pop in for an informal chat, share a mince pie and have a cup of tea. As you are aware, parents evening appointments are only 10 minutes, so if you feel you may need a little extra or want a brief catch up before hand with your child’s class teacher, then now is your chance… Friday 8th December in the afternoon from 1:30pm – 3pm
A big thank you to Mrs. Manning for organising the parents reading workshop which took place last Tuesday after school. It was wonderful to see so many parents there and the feedback was very encouraging.
Christmas Fair
We look forward to seeing many of you at the Christmas Fair on Saturday, held at our school from 11am – 1pm.
Diary Dates (as per the events diary at the start of term)
Closing date for Christmas card orders.
KS1 performance Years 1 & 2 at All Saints’ Church 9.30am and 6.00pm all families welcome – no tickets required.
1.45pm Reception Nativity and Carol Concert at All Saints’ Church – all families welcome
School finishes for Christmas!
Welcome all to more news from our school. Following on from last week’s SIAMS inspection report may we thank you for the messages of goodwill that have come our way. This week proves again very busy, particularly on Friday so please read up to stay fully informed!
Anti-Bullying Week
This week is Anti-bullying week and we started the promotion with our whole school worship led by Mr. McShane, looking at what is bullying? Why do people bully? and who in school could support us? We even started an anti-bullying 
graffiti wall in the school hall.
The theme this year is All Different, All Equal and we celebrate how the many different looks, shapes and sizes, personalities, opinions, talents and backgrounds help shape our wonderful school community.
This is always something we value and take seriously.
The Anti-Bullying Alliance say that bullying is:
‘the repetitive, intentional hurting of one person or group by another person or group, where the relationship involves an imbalance of power. It can happen face to face or online’.
Classes will look at various forms of bullying at an age appropriate level this week and parents are welcome to attend a short assembly on Friday morning at 9:05am to see some of the work our school have been doing this week on anti-bullying.
The following website offers useful advice for parents.
https://www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/tools-information/advice-parents
There is also a video here that we will be sharing during the week with the children. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPNfHSfQgxU
Year 6 Brass Assembly
Friday is proving busy with Year 6 pupils ending the day with a couple of brass pieces for which Year 6 parents are welcome to attend at 2.30pm.
Children in Need
On Friday 17th November we will support Children in Need. We are inviting everyone to wear 
something spotty for a cash donation. Some staff and children will also be offering simple spotty face paint throughout the day for a further donation of 50p to help raise funds for this great cause! We are sure that a SPOTACULAR day will be had by all for a really important charity.
ALSO on Friday 17th the Parents' Association are asking for donations of… KS1 toiletries and small pamper gifts
KS2 bottles to prepare hampers to raffle at our Christmas Fair (Saturday 25th November 11am -1pm).
Art work at St. Martin's Church
The Ethos Group (along with Mrs Daniel, Mrs Clayton and Mrs Wilson) deserve huge 
thanks for their beautiful tapestry which hung in pride of place at St. Martin's Church last weekend. Reverend Ann was delighted with our hard work and it was another great way to be part of our local church community!
Samuel Oldknow
Our current Year 5 (when in Year 4) did some illustrations for their local history topic that have now been 
illustrated in a book all about Samuel Oldknow! The class went to the library to meet the author and we now have many proud children who have been published as illustrators! The book will be made available in all Stockport Libraries so keep your eyes peeled.
www.reviewnewspapers.co.uk/local.../school-children-produce-historic-storybook/
Dates for Diary;
PA Donations- See above.
9.05am - Anti-bullying assembly - parents welcome.
2.30pm - Year 6 brass assembly - parents welcome.
Year 5 trip to Grosvenor Centre Chester - children will be back at later time of 4.00pm.
Welcome to another newsletter, one that brings much to celebrate together with the news of what is going on in and around All Saints’.
You should have received today a letter and accompanying report from our recent SIAMS inspection. The letter is inserted below and the report is attached below as a PDF file. We hope that you will enjoy reading the report; we are extremely proud with our grading. All Saints’ C of E Primary School truly is a special place to learn, work and play.
Photographs:
On Wednesday this week we will be having our individual school photographs. Younger siblings are welcome to have their photographs taken at 9am, please come and sign in at the main office. The children will have their photographs taken during the school day. Please make sure the hair is styled and the toast crumbs are brushed from your jumper (that is for the adults in school who are also having their pictured taken!)
Church Week Photos
We have managed to put up some new photographs of Church Week 2017 on the Ethos page of 
our school website. Found under the tab of school and then Ethos group. We hope they give you a flavour of what superb activities were planned.
Remembrance
Poppies will continued to be sold this week (the children have been doing a great job in selling them and the new addition of friendship bracelets and ‘snap bands’ have been very popular). We will hold our own 2 minutes silence in 
school on Friday 10th of November at 11am.
A reminder of the Remembrance service at 10:15am at the War Memorial in Memorial Park, Marple on Sunday 12th November - you might even see some Year 2 Poppy artwork on display in and around Marple.
Coming up… 
This week in school we welcome Deputy Heads from our local cluster schools and also a team of Teaching Assistants from Gatley Primary as we continue to build and strengthen our links.
Wednesday 8th – Maths meeting for families with Mrs. Nolan from LSS – Learning Support Services (who recently ran our highly successful and popular spelling workshop) - 3.30pm - 4.15pm free crèche available please sign up at the office.
Friday 10th - Operation Christmas Child boxes due in school.
This appeal asks families to fill a medium-sized shoebox with small gifts and toys for it to be sent away and distributed by volunteers and local churches across the world to those in need. Over the past few years we have sent off hundreds of shoeboxes and we are determined that this year can be even more successful, which is why we are getting this letter out so early in the year. The Samaritan’s Purse website is full of all the information that you will need regarding what gifts can and cannot be included.
https://www.samaritans-purse.org.uk/what-we-do/operation-christmas-child/what-goes-in-my-shoebox/
Tuesday 14th - Reading Meeting for families with Mrs Manning - 3.30pm - 4.15pm free creche available please sign up at the office.
SIAMS report covering letter
Dear Parent/Carer,
We are delighted to inform you that the report of our recent church school inspection, which took place just before half-term, has now been published. We have received an overall grade of “Outstanding” (the highest possible rating) and are naturally very proud of this achievement.
Our school motto of All Achieving, All Together, All Saints’ underlines the team approach which we value so highly in our school community and which has been a major driving force in our success. As it says on our website, “at our school everyone is important”.
We hope that you will enjoy reading the report and recognise it as a true reflection of what happens at All Saints’ on a daily basis. Thank you to everyone who gave their time to speak to the inspectors on the day - children, staff, parents and governors – and particular thanks to Mrs. Morton who came in from her maternity leave to support the school throughout the inspection process.
In their oral feedback the inspectors said that it had been a privilege to visit our lovely school and that All Saints’ should be commended for making a huge difference to children and families. In their view we have created a Christian community in action.
Please don’t think that we shall now be taking our foot off the pedal! Although we feel very blessed to be judged as an outstanding school, we shall work hard to address those areas for improvement identified in the report and continue to strive to be the best that we can be.
Thank you once again for all the support we have received from you as parents of the school. We genuinely could not have achieved this result without you.
Yours sincerely,
Kate Noble and Daryl McShane Alan Bailey
Acting Headteachers Chair of Governors
Welcome back – hope everyone has had a healthy, restful and peaceful half term break. Thank you for taking the time to read our Monday Headlines for the week we hope that this does keep you as informed as possible about any events in school. We are always flabbergasted how many terrific things take place that we want to celebrate with the whole community each week upon writing this Newsletter so here goes…
Poppy Appeal:
Tomorrow we start to sell a range of British Legion poppies. Year 6 pupils will sell them at various times 
throughout the school day. This year we have snap bands, reflectors, friendship bracelets, wristbands as well as the traditional poppy. Suggested donations are between 50p and £1 and all proceeds go towards the poppy appeal.
Children will need to be responsible for their own pennies.
The All Saints' Way
The All Saints' Way, The All Saints' Way
I thank The Lord every day
That my children are so blessed
With their school that beats the rest
The staff are amazing and give it their all
The children flourish while having a ball
With the expectations so high it can be hard to have fun
But the All Saints' Way means there’s something for everyone.
So keep doing what you do
And you’ll all get through
To the end of the week
And that rest that you seek
This was just one of the many e mails of good luck we had that we had sent through to us at the end of last term- please do keep them flowing through. Whilst we know we cannot get it right all the time for everyone, we do our upmost and such words really do mean the world to our exceptional staff who every day go above and beyond to help to support your child for now and their future! Thank you to our anonymous poet …!
Harvest
It was lovely to see so many families and community members attend our Harvest festival. It was a joy to watch and brought many proud smiles to parents we witnessed in Church. Thank you all who attended and for the kind 
donations to our local food bank- The Pantry supported by All Saints’ Church. Please do remember if you or any one you know may need a helping hand with food for your family, then head to The Connect Centre on a Saturday morning 10- 12 for some free bags of food.
Farewell Mr. Alston!
For those of you who attended our Harvest Service, you will have heard our words of farewell to Mr. Alston who gave his time for almost the last decade to All Saints’ school in his role as Vice Chair of governors and family and Childr
en’s Worker at All Saints’. His gift from All Saints’ congregation was on his request that money be given to purchase new trees to develop the outdoor Forest Schools Area (£500 has been kindly donated). We cannot wait to see what wonders Mrs. Eva and the Eco team do with these funds… In Mr. Alston’s words “I gave my heart to All Saints’ School and that is for always”. We are sure all who knew this truly kind, generous and honest leader will agree that he will be so dearly missed and we wish him every happiness in his future whatever pathway life may lead him onto next.
Reception Playground
You may have been fortunate to pop your head round into the Foundation
Stage Outdoor Play area to see the revamp which has been renovated by Pentagon Playgrounds. Thanks to a bid put forward by the tireless hard work, drive and passion of Mrs. Preece, our children and future children of All Saints’ will have so many more amazing opportunities to develop their skills especially gross motor skills through new play resources. The children are thoroughly overjoyed and especially loving getting wet! May many years of fun and laughter be brought to our smallest little All Saints' children in this new area.
PA Disco
£500 has been raised for All Saints’ Library renovation funds thanks to a great team who organised the disco at the Conservative Club at the end of last term. Every little helps and even better if children and families get to have a little fun in the process! You know who you those who make these things wonderful events happen (we know the effort and hard work that goes into organising such events and are extremely grateful).
Part 
1 of the library updates…
Stockport Book Awards
A massive, massive thanks to Mrs. Manning for her enthusiasm, professionalism and giving up her time so generously to take some of our children to the Stockport School Book Awards before the holidays. It is nights like this that we hope your children will always remember and maybe give them some aspirations for their futures… As part of her Acting 
Assistant Head Role, Mrs. Manning has done an inordinate amount of things to inspire our children to be readers and it is heart-warming to see around school so many children’s heads stuck in books enjoying the magic our books. Please keep it up everyone! Mrs. Manning will keep you informed of our own All Saints’ Book Awards in 2018… watch this space!
Attendance
How close was your child to National Average of 96.1%? Remember if you are struggling and need any support from the school nurse team or have any issues with lates/attendance then please do always feel free to get in contact with school to see how we can help each other. Here is the attendance percentages from 04.09.17 to 20.10.17.
Reception - 98.03%
Y1 - 98.48 %
Y2 - 97.45%
Y3 - 98.38%
Y4 - 98.72%
Y5 - 97.35%
Y6 - 97.20%
Dates for Diary
Welcome to our final week of Autumn Term one…where has it gone?! We break up at the end of the day on Friday this week (20th October) and return on Tuesday 31st October.
Special Visitors
On Thursday this week, All Saints' will be having a Church School inspection (SIAMS). This will involve some special visitors to our School looking at our distinctly Christian Ethos and various meetings will be taking place with selected parents, children, the Ethos group, members of staff and governors. We will gladly inform you of the outcome when available.
Disco news!
A huge thank you and well done to our Parents' Association for organising the disco on Friday night. A huge £400 was raised, take a bow!! This money will go towards our campaign to improve our school library, keep eyes peeled for further information.
Church Week
This week sees our yearly Church Week event. There is so much going on it will be difficult to explain it all here however each class will visit Church on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and end with a celebration at our Harvest Service at Church on Friday (All families welcome to this Friday service at 1.45pm at All Saints’ Church).
Rec, Years 1, 2 and 3 will visit All Saints’ Church in the mornings and Years 4, 5 and 6 in the afternoons. Whilst they are there, they will join in a range of activities and experiences on this year’s theme: Journeys. The event is a mammoth task and would not go ahead without the many Church volunteers, Mr. Alston, Mrs. Eva and our very own Ethos group to name just a few. Activities this year will include: a treasure hunt, a prayer tent, games from around the world and even space travel – the children are very excited!
We could still do with some help walking our children to and from Church on Tuesday and Wednesday so please see class teachers if you are available or leave a message at the school office.
Harvest Festival
It would be lovely to receive food stuffs on Friday, either through your child bringing to school or the 
Reception class will be collecting at the Church service. Donations will go to the Connect Centre in Marple. Canned food, dried cereal, pasta, biscuits and such are perfect.
Craig Bradley
Poet Craig Bradley will be in school on Wednesday to lead a special assembly and workshops with some children across the school as part of our drive to inspire children to read for pleasure. Please note he will be available after school, where children will have the opportunity to purchase some of his hilarious poetry books for £5.99 each or 2 for £10.
Whole School Award
Year 4 were celebrating on Friday as they were the half term winners of our whole school reward. They pipped everyone to the prize and will now get 30 minutes off timetable on a whole class activity of their choice! Lucky things but thoroughly deserved. This was an award introduced by last year’s school council…talking of which…
Pupil Parliament
New Pupil Parliament: (the new name for our combined Learning Council and School Council) Campaign presentations
and speeches were held and polling cards were collected (thank you Miss. Daley!). The tension was high and new members were announced at Friday’s Achievement assembly. Class votes were tight with so many strong candidates but the elected few were: Year 1 - Elliott & Lauren, Year 2 - Henry & Millie D , Year 3 - Lilly & Isaac, Year 4 - Archie M & Sasha, Year 5 - Maia & Charlie, Year 6 - Archie & Scarlett.
You will play a very important role in our school over the coming months together with our already well established Ethos Group.
Robinwood
Last week I had the pleasure of taking Year 6 to Robinwood alongside Mrs. Noble, Mrs. Pratt, Miss. Day,
Miss Daley and Mr. Granite. Based in Todmorden, we faced our fears and conquered many challenges in the All Saints’ way. We caved, climbed, canoed. We zip-lined, survived the piranha pool, built crate towers and jumped off the ‘leap of faith’ trapeze. We worked as a team, we encouraged each other and had the adventure of a lifetime. It was a fantastic three days and the children behaved remarkably well.
Upcoming events 
A busy start to the week with Year 6 departing and Years 3 and 4 in togas, what an exciting place to be. I hope you have all had great weekends. You may have noticed Mr. McShane was away last week, he was attending the Christian Leadership programme, working with many other colleagues in our Diocese.
Communication
We hope that a text with the link to our weekly Monday newsletter helps everyone to get organised with dates / events. We know you are all busy people BUT we do try as much as we can to keep you informed of dates as early as possible. Please do keep a close eye on the events diary calendar for Autumn which was sent home during the first week in September which is also on the school website. We hope this is a helpful new addition to improve communication between home and school.
New To Year Group Meetings
All new to year group meetings have now taken place. Attendance on the whole was good, very important consent and data collection forms were sent home - please aim to return them to school asap to ensure we have the correct contact numbers and permissions.
Overall, we have had really positive feedback regarding the meetings, we will as always however take into account comments from your evaluations to help to refine and improve things in the future. Thank you for your support.
Please note, as per the initial letter about parents meeting that parents 1- 1 meetings have been brought forward to January (instead of previous years at March time) this seemed to be something that parents may have initially missed. Therefore, as soon as formal assessments have taken place at the end of Autumn term around Christmas time, staff will then meet for the usual 1- 1 meetings at the end of January / start of February. We hope that this eases any worries and of course please do remember that we have an open door policy and if you just want a quick chat about how your child is settling in feel free to chat to staff before/ after school whilst they are in the playground or if it is regarding any sensitive / confidential information then please do book an appointment.
Healthy Food Policy
All Saints’ C of E Primary recognises the importance of a healthy diet and the significant connection between 
a healthy diet and a pupil’s ability to learn effectively in school. At present, we are supporting our children to follow Stockport recommended guidance with the new Food Policy that we will be adopting as a school at the start of 2018 (not long now…!). In the run up to this, please can we kindly ask that ALL children bring in a water bottle which is labelled to ensure that they have sufficient hydration throughout the day, We would kindly request that you only provide water in line with recommended guidance on sugar intake and taking care of teeth.
As part of our drive to become a Healthy School (the best that we can anyway!), please can we ask that 
where possible you provide your child with a healthy snack/ lunch box. Please find recommendations on the below website for a bit of variety.
https://www.nhs.uk/change4life-beta/recipes/healthier-lunchboxes
Whilst in the same note, we do take into account and understand that some children can be picky/ fussy eaters but we would ask that whatever you can do to support we would be very appreciative. Wristbands and stickers will be awarded by midday staff and the Senior Leadership team for those with a healthy lunchbox. Well done if you receive one soon and please do keep it up!
Reception outdoor area transformation!
Thanks to the sheer hard work and dedication of Mrs. Preece and Mrs Herbertson, a grant for £10,000 has been given by Lottery Funded money for a new outdoor area in the Foundation Stage Reception area. This work will be taking olace in the final week of half term (16th – 20th October). Therefore, please do bear with us during this last week when the Reception playground area will be out of action. As per the Reception blog, please can all Reception children be dropped off and collected in the KS1 playground. Reception children will go in through the Y1 class door up the ramp and also leave this way at the end of the day. In addition, any Junior children who usually walk down to meet younger siblings will need to walk through school and through the Y2 exit door onto the playground. Any queries please do not hesitate to see your class teaching team.
After School Cookery Club
Look out for a letter if your child is interested in starting cookery club- ‘Cool Cookies’ will be starting 
after the holidays on a Wednesday with an outside provider supporting our children to learn how to prepare and cook healthy sweet and savoury dishes. £9 for three sessions- first come, first served paid in cash to the school office. Places look like they may go like hot cakes so fill in your slips quickly please!
Y6 Residential
Please bear with us at the start of this week regarding emails/ meetings, as we ensure that our Y6’s have a safe, successful and sensational time at their two night residential at Robinwood. We are sure you will join us all in wishin
g them a wonderful time bonding as they embark on a challenging yet exciting final year in Primary School. Families please try not to worry and enjoy maybe a little bit of peace! I’m off to pack my sparkly wellies and trainers – fingers crossed for no rain as I am sure many of you can imagine I am anything but an outdoors girl. Here goes…!
Best wishes, Mrs. Noble and Mr. Mc Shane
Upcoming Dates
Dear all, lots of news and requests this week so little from us in way of ramblings!
DIY SOS!! WE NEED YOU!
On Tuesday this week Mr. Chaloner needs some volunteers with muscle, spades and wheelbarrows as he has
a huge task of shifting 2 tonnes of gravel from the school gate to the green container in KS2 playground. Any helpers warmly received, even if just lending a couple of hours or just loaning your equipment! Many hands make light work. We are due the arrival of another large container for Forest Schools but need to do some foundation work (the delivery truck couldn’t get the gravel to the desired location due to the poor weather last week). Just drop by between 8am and 1pm!
Year 6 attended Safe Squad - an internet safety morning at Bennett Street in Hyde . This proved an invaluable experience for the children. This complimented our learning in school where we spend lots of time forewarning children of the dangers of social media, staying safe online and how to be a responsible internet user. We also have our anti-bullying week coming up in November.
https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/ and https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/ are both valuable resources that are well worth exploring as parents.
A huge well-done to the boys and girls who represented our football teams so magnificently at last week’s Cheadle Hulme School football tournament, in conjunction with Everton Football Club. 
The years 4 and 5 team played four matches winning two and losing two and the Year 6 team won two, drew one and lost one. All teams were competitive and skilful and were unlucky to not reach the latter stages. A special thank you to Mr. Granite and Mrs. Hallworth for helping to organise our participation and also to our parents who cheered us on and supported with lifts.
In Collective worship on Monday we continued with our value of Hope. Patience and perseverance played a huge part for Moses and the people of Israel going free. It was certainly a message in resilience.
On Tuesday we had a special visitor from the Ethnic Diversity Team who led a Jewish assembly. 
It was a great education; we learnt about the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, by listening to some traditional Jewish music, lighting candles and even discovered that their scrolls are read right to left as the language is Hebrew!
A big thank you to 'Homebase' (Bredbury), for their generous discount on the pots and donated plants 
displayed at the school entrance. These were kindly funded by the PTA and have certainly helped to brighten the school entrance!
An up and coming Parents' Association Family Disco on Friday 13th October.
6.30 -8.30pm @ the Con Club. 
Open to all 'dress to impress' theme.
Tickets £3 per child adults free but children must be supervised by an adult.
Hot dogs and tuck shop available.
Bar open at Con Club
All proceeds to school library fund.
Ethos Group Message:
As part of the local church community we are creating a tapestry to display at St. Martins church. To do this we will need a number of different fabrics, therefore we asking for your help! We are in search of voile, nylon, silk, satin and any other fabrics that are not too heavy. Take a look at the picture attached below for ideas of what colours we hope to use and ideally any fabrics you can give to be in by the end of this week. Thank you!
Know anyone selling their house at the moment? Julian Wadden are kindly donating 5% of their fees to 
local schools to help fund a defibrillator. At a cost of approx. £1000 a defibrillator is a device that gives a high energy electric shock to the heart through the chest wall to someone who is in cardiac arrest. We are close to half way at All Saints’ so please mention our school if you are selling!
Future Dates:
Thursday 5th: Special Emoji Lunch, Year 3 Parents Meeting 3.30 (creche available) and 6pm (no creche)
Monday 9th: Year 3 & 4 Greek workshop
Thursday 12th : Outdoor classroom day – dress for learning outside!
Friday 13th : PA disco (see above for more information)
Wednesday 18th: Special Visitor Craig Bradley That Poetry Bloke. His books will be available to buy £5.99 each or 2 for £10. Send your money in on the day - poster is attached below
For Year 6 Robinwood is coming up! They have been patiently waiting. Time to pack those cases a
nd get ready for an adventure of a lifetime!
We leave on Monday 9th October and return on Wednesday 11th October
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Dear all, another week chalked off. Can you believe we will soon be in October?! Our school, like many lives and workplaces outside of it, is a busy, non-stop, hectic, instant results environment. We move from lesson to lesson, worship or trip, uniform off, PE kit on, before school club, afterschool club, homework in and homework out…it can make for a very exciting place to be. We live in a world where we want things now; instant coffee, immediate emails, texts, microwave food, file sharing, next day delivery etc. So, in our Collective worship today we have continued to look at the value of Hope which naturally led to patience, resilience and faith. It can be really hard to wait for something these days.
“Sometimes, patience is the only way to develop your character and your skills, so don't try to avoid waiting.
Sometimes it's the best thing that can happen!!”
The All Saints’ Way Celebration
Reception -Elizabeth
Class 1 - Elissa
Class 2 - Isaac
Class 3 - Jude
Class 4 - Clara
Class 5 - Evi
Class 6 - Abigale
Huge congratulations to these children voted for by their class teachers and it was wonderful to have so many families there to see them having their moment to shine last Friday.
It was lovely too to have some nominations for people in school showing ‘The All Saints’ Way’ to recognise and reward these stars. If you as parents noti
ce someone (staff, child or volunteer) going the extra mile please do fill in from the office one our Christian Values certificates.
Well done to those classes who earnt a ping pong ball in our Celebration Assembly on Friday. Let’s see who can catch Y4 who are currently our winners (ping pongs are awarded in class tubes in the hall for; Attendance, tidiest classroom, lunchtime manners and behaviour, Sumdog top 3 leaders board for accuracy (please do keep going on at home as part of homework), quietest/smartest class walking in, during and out of collective worship assemblies.
Attendance Matters!
The government target is for at least 96% attendance in school (That only allows for 7 days a year off for sickness). Therefore, where possible please do try to book medical appointments out of school time. For families below 90%, the school leadership team will endeavour to work alongside families to support them in improving attendance / lates etc. in the All Saints’ Way. 100% attendance can also be affected by punctuality in the morning (arriving at school once the register closes). 54 late marks have been issued so far!
| Reception | 99.05% |
| Class 1 | 98.85% |
| Class 2 | 98.51% |
| Class 3 | 97.69% |
| Class 4 | 98.76% |
| Class 5 | 96.90% |
| Class 6 | 97.05% |
Thank you to those who have attended year group meetings so far and we look forward to welcoming more families in the next few weeks. For those who were unable to attend class teachers will be in touch as we are keen to gain 100% attendance from all families so you are clear of year group expectations and how best to help your child reach the challenging end of year goals.
We have made a really good start at reaching our target so far, but let’s see if we can increase this during the week to help us to get more new, inspiring books for our library by the end of the half term for YOUR child. 
Our target is £600 so dig deep everyone and come and see some of the newest books published by some cracking authors in our hall. There will be a £25 voucher awarded to the family who have spent the most money provided by Scholastics.
Calling all volunteers and helpers…
Last Friday saw the start of parents and community members come in for training before they start working as mentors in school (often hearing individuals read) or linked to some of their other talents. Every pair of hands massively helps. If you are available and would like to put a little time into school to help others (just not in your child’s class as part of school policy for confidentiality etc.) then please do see Mrs. Noble or sign up in the school office. If we have sufficient helpers we will run additional training (including safeguarding) at the end of half term. Whether it be half a day a week or a couple of days it makes the world of a difference to us and especially those who are most important …our children!
At the end of each day, in order to leave in a calm, reflective and quiet manner classes join together in worship to say ‘The All Saints’ Prayer’ some children are still trying hard to learn this off by heart so this may be a little something you would like to help them with (also on our school website ‘Ethos Group’ link).
And finally, good luck to the football teams from years 4-6 who are competing today at Cheadl
e Hulme in a football competition supported by Everton FC. I will report back on how they did in the next newsletter!
Future dates;
Another week has vanished at All Saints’ and plenty to report on.
Firstly, a mammoth thank you to all parents and carers who managed to attend the school open morning last Friday. It was lovely to see so many families get to share the learning experience and see your child’s new classroom, seeing first-hand the dedication and enthusiasm of all the staff and children here at All Saints’.
A PowerPoint ‘Help your child to spell’ by LSS Nicky Nolan from the well-attended spelling workshop- which followed the in class activities- will be available on the Parents and Links section of the school website. Please have a look as there are some brilliant, simple and cheap ideas how to support children with learning spellings in different ways for Visual Auditory and Kinaesthetic (VAK learners).
The open door policy continues with even more chance to find out information about the year ahead by attending the relevant year group meetings, starting with Year 6 today.
A reminder of the dates…
| Year 6 Parents meeting (including SATs and Robinwood) |
3:30pm Monday 18th September |
6pm Monday 18th September |
| Reception parents meeting |
3:30pm Tuesday 19th September |
6pm Tuesday 19th September |
| Year 3 Parents meeting |
3:30pm Wednesday 20th September |
6pm Wednesday 20th September |
| Year 4 Parents meeting |
3:30pm Thursday 21st September |
6pm Thursday 21st September |
| Year 2 Parents meeting (including KS1 assessment info) |
3:30pm Monday 25th September |
6pm Monday 25th September |
| Year 1 Parents meeting (including phonics screening check info) |
3:30pm Tuesday 26th September |
6pm Tuesday 26th September |
| Year 5 Parents meeting |
3:30pm Wednesday 27th September |
6pm Wednesday 27th September |
We will have a free crèche for the 3:30pm meetings to help with childcare arrangements.
The Scholastic Book Fair will be on every day after school (finishing on Thursday 21st) and also during the
parent meetings at 6-7pm. School receive a % of all profits which will be pumped straight back into quality books for school. Please have a look and maybe pick up an early Christmas present!
Reception class have completed their first full week at school – I imagine there were some very tired children on the weekend! They have settled well and Year 6 children have supported them through our buddy system.
Homework has gone out and you should have a year group class newsletter also. Keep reading the class blog on our website, every Friday, which we hope to improve over the coming months.
Lollipop Johns Quiz on Friday evening raised £100 for Amelie. He is still accepting donations either in person or via the office in a clearly marked "John's Quiz for Amelie" envelope if you wanted to support his single-handed-superhero effort! Well done John.
Thank you to Mrs. Clayton who has secured some bargain flower pots and plants to brighten the
entrance to the school!
Parking:
Another reminder please to park safely and considerately when near school. We know space is limited, 
there is no solving that, but please be thoughtful to our neighbours and ensure the safety of everyone.
Up and coming Dates:
We pray for good weather on Friday 22nd for the school picnic and BBQ.
Bouncy castle, toasted marshmallows and a chance for a catch up with friends all in the aid of Potters Village. 4pm -7pm.
(£3 per person, pay on gate, or £10 for a family of 4.) Burgers sold separately but remember feel free to bring your own picnic tea!
21st of September: International Peace day 
Hope is our current value within school and many of us will reflect on this in different ways. 
Many children are hoping to achieve a new target this year, perhaps to earn a pen licence or score higher on their spelling tests, to learn how to swim or be able to talk confidently in front of the class…patience may be needed.
Welcome back
…we hope you all had a wonderful Summer break! The children have settled well, fully refreshed and raring to go. There is a lovely calm atmosphere in school currently.
It seems odd writing summer considering the terrible weather we are currently having. The forecast remains the same fo
r the rest of the week – as such we have made an early decision to rearrange our family picnic and will try for the following Friday – the 22nd of September. Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
This week, we look forward to our exploring a little more about Potters’ Village in Africa (with some classes doing additional fundraising for this important cause) and we can’t wait to invite families in to your child’s new classroom for an informal open morning and a chance to chat to class teams and staff (Friday 15th September 9.05am- 9.45am).
Is your child struggling to learn their weekly spellings and challenging year group spelling lists? For many of you the answer we know is YES! To support, Nikki Nolan from Learning Support will be leading a 
workshop to give advice how to help children with that ever difficult, but hugely important skill of spelling. Please do take the time to attend (10.00am- 11.00am) in the school hall on Friday 15th September after the open morning.
Twins Arrival!
Mr. and Mrs. Silcock (Y6 teacher last year) are proud to announce the arrival of their beautiful twin girls. 
Bethany and Hannah made an early arrival in the world (3 lb 14 oz and 2lb 7 oz) and we wish them the greatest of joy with their new baby daughters (who we are sure you will bump into soon in Marple to coo over!). We are sure you will all join the All Saints’ community in praying and sending all our best wishes the ‘The Silcocks’ now that they have just returned home with their very special, new family.
A huge thank you to Mr. Granite who school has now employed as our permanent Sports Coach now that he has made the move to go solo with his own sports business. We are sure the children and parents are as delighted as the staff that Mr. Granite will be around school even more to help to contribute to the children’s sporting talents and to keep us all fit at All Saints’. Good luck with your new venture Mr. Granite – you are an asset to our school! Mr. Granite ran a two week sporting club for children at the start of the holidays and the feedback has been excellent so do look out for similar clubs in future holidays here at All Saints’! (I am sure it all helps for families trying to sort out child care!).
We of course, offer a huge welcome to Mrs. Cochrane in Year 5 and Miss. Houghton in Year 3 and know you too will help them to settle into the All Saints’ Way in their first few weeks especially.
This year, as part of our drive at All Saints’ we are going Reading crazy (as we hope you have noticed…!). 
A huge well done to all the children who made their way to Marple Library to take part in the Summer Reading Challenge. There have been lots of merits received when children have brought in their certificates so please do keep them flowing! The library is our first project which has had a lick of paint by Mr. Chaloner over the summer holidays watch this space for the next instalments…
A huge welcome to all our new families here at All Saints’ we are delighted to have you join All Saints’ and hope it will be the happiest and most successful of journeys for both your child (and yourselves!). We look forward to working together in partnership.
Values certificates
Something new for this year will be a reinvigoration of our Friday Celebration assemblies. Parents will be invited every other week if your child receives an award so watch out for a special envelope coming your way if your child has been awarded an All Saints’ Superstar Award by their class teachers. In addition, we will be having Values certificates that ANYONE in our school community can award to ANYONE! We hope that this helps others recognise when they are demonstrating the All Saints’ Way and making our school the amazing place that it truly is! Again if parents want to award one to an adult or child, you can find them in the school entrance.
School Office
At the start and end of the day it can be rather hectic in the main Reception area, and our priority is obviously keeping your children safe. Please help by posting any letters/ money the drop box, found just opposite the school hatch, which will be emptied as soon as the rush is over!
So this is a start of a new year for all, so we are sure that as parents and carers you put a great value on school and education. Being on time and in school every day and working hard at home as well as in school are important life skills. The value you place on these will be the value your child holds. We all know the more you put in the more you get out… We are all busy people, but with extremely high expectations and government standards a consistent routine in whereby children know they must do their home learning-including reading and spelling- is essential. Our children are our most important gift so we know that we will all help them, guide them and support them. Dedication and commitment is essential – every second counts so please do emphasise this with your child too.
Remember our school quote – now in our school hall again by the talented work of Mr. Chaloner in the school ho
lidays
Thanks to ‘Park Run’ Marple, they have kindly donated additional high visibility jackets to our children
which are always of great use for trips and to keep our children safe. A huge thank you for their kindness and generosity.
Hope is our Christian Value for the term. Please see school website for at home activities which will 
further support and develop your child’s learning in Personal, Social, Moral and Cultural education on our ‘Parents Links’ part of the website.
Diary dates
New dates went out last week with lots of exciting things booked in. You will find a copy of Diary Dates Autumn 2017 on the website at the bottom of the current newsletter page.
A touching service was held last Friday for our Year 6 leavers up at Church. Well-chosen songs and thoughtful gifts from all other year groups gave the Super Sixes a lovely send-off (even though we still have one week to go!) A special thank you to Mr. Bailey who gave an inspiring speech and to all at Church for hosting the event.
By all accounts the children had an exciting surf inspired party, organised by parents, on Friday night and they bow out with their version of Twelfth Night on Wednesday evening. A super cohort of children who will be missed by all but whom we know have bright futures ahead.
REFLECTION
From memorable trips to inspiring visitors, heads in books or fingers in paint, cooking, sculpture, forest schools, can’t-put-down novels, music lessons, class assemblies, awards a plenty, arithmetic, spelling, a reading dog or a sports day jog…this year has been cram packed and has flown by. What a successful year! Thank you to those who have sent report comments back – if you still haven’t we would really appreciate it (even if on a separate piece of paper if you do not want to chop the back page in half!).
Our academic headlines are shared below.
LAST DAY SHOES!!
A reminder that on Friday (our last day) we are encouraging every individual to leave behind a pair of shoes or trainers. Of course you can bring in another pair to go home in but we plan on leaving our classrooms bare foot.
‘Sal's Shoes. Crossing continents to make sure that your used, loved (and barely worn) outgrown children's shoes are delivered straight from you to those in need.’
All shoes will be bagged up and will travel to Uganda to help those less fortunate.
CLEAR OUT!
If children could bring a carrier bag on THURSDAY that should help with the annual round up of books, PE kits, water bottles etc, etc. Lost property will be on display in the hall after school on Thursday too so you can match up that rogue glove or odd sock!
End of year…
We say goodbye to some and welcome others, be it children or staff, and we wish everyone all the very best with their next chapter in life. Special prayers for Mrs. Silcock for the safe arrival of your babies.
The energy and humour of our children, together with the dedication of our brilliant staff, always going above and beyond the call of duty, makes All Saints’ a very special place to be – a summer holiday is well deserved. Recharge and recuperate before we do it bigger and better next year!
We must say a thank you to the constant fundraising and community work of our PA – always with one eye on improving the experiences for our children, where would we be without you?!
So next year, let's continue to pull together, build on our considerable collective strength, look after one another, lift up one another and focus on our core responsibility towards the success and happiness of the children at All Saints’ Primary School.
Have a lovely and safe summer break.
Mr. McShane and Mrs. Noble
***Children are back in school on Wednesday 6th of September!***
The Penultimate week…!
Well the sun shone and a great day was had by all at our annual Sports Day. A special mention to the purple team (led by team leaders Mr. Mc Shane and Mrs. Noble - surely there was a fix there!) for being the overall winning 
team of 2016 - 2017. It was great to see relationships flourish with older and younger and children supporting each other to be the best that they can be and to have the confidence to have a go and be resilient at all the activities set up. A massive thanks to Mrs. Preece, Miss. Leah and the Arts Team and of course the Marple Hall School sports leaders who set up and organised all the activities so superbly.
Reports are out!
We sincerely hope that you enjoyed reading your child’s school report celebrating so many achievements both academically and personally that they have achieved throughout 2016 - 2017. We are always keen to hear feedback in response to your personalised report letters so please do try to complete the parents comments slip and return to school by next Monday 24th July. A huge well done to Mrs. Hallworth in the office who worked tirelessly to print and get everything organised for our reports deadline (whilst still always being so caring to everyone in our school community). We are blessed to have 
such wonderful front of house staff!
Each one of us a single note- together we create a masterpiece!
As the end of term is coming to a close, it is a time that our children have the opportunity to shine through various performances. Y3 showcased their brass playing last Friday afternoon with an amazing rendition of ‘Tequila’ i
ncluding some audience participation. Y3 did an amazing job entertaining us all so professionally and it was wonderful to listen to their live music. Thank you to Danielle Mallas from Stockport Music Service, our excellent brass teacher.
Last week we were also equally impressed to hear our Fidler Musicians who have extra- curricular 
sessions playing Ukulele or guitar. Remember practise makes perfect! We wish our tutor Ben Sayah all the best of luck as he moves on next year to perform and tour with his band. I hope he has been an inspiration to many of our budding instrumentalists over this academic year.
Again, lots of parents joined us for our lively as ever, foot tapping and groovy dance assembly led by Miss. Tommony from Stars Dance Academy. The children dazzled with their pom-poms and definitely looked the part in their bright, 
summery outfits! From the start of the year some children were awarded their gold medals in their presentation morning and there is nothing better than seeing the smiles on their faces on a Tuesday morning as they keep fit and have fabulous fun!
If your child would like to take part in any of these clubs please do look out for letters which will be sent home the first week back in September to sign up for 2017-2018.
Library Book Awards
Mrs. Manning has been passionate about leading a reading project in school in her role as Acting Assistant Headteacher and various different children from each class have been involved in Art days based on the Stockport Book Awards book lists as well as filming sessions talking about their favourite books at Marple library.
Next year, in order to impact and benefit the whole school these children involved will lead a future WOW week so watch this space… This is part of our drive to encourage children to read for pleasure and enjoy the magic of books. 
None of this would be possible without the organisation of Mrs. Manning for so kindly setting up such rich opportunities that will hopefully be one of those things that your child will never forget. Pop into Marple library if you would like to get reading some of these awesome books (I even heard one of the Y3 mummy’s saying that she couldn’t put the book down even when her child had gone to bed so parents get reading too!).
Library Books
Please can families search through books at home and return any outstanding school library books and reading books ready for us to carry out a stock check before the end of term. No matter how long you have had books please, please just return them as they are so expensive to replace and in desperate need for others to read and enjoy too.
Diary Dates:
could possibly help the children from all classes to walk to and from school we would be very grateful. We will leave at 1.15pm from school. Please sign up at the office so that we know we have sufficient adults for our risk assessments.
And finally…
Just to give some advance notice of a very special charity appeal to end our school year.
‘Sal's Shoes. Crossing continents to make sure that your used, loved (and barely worn) outgrown children's shoes are delivered straight from you to those in need.’
There are 300 million children in the world for whom walking with shoes is a rarity.
On our last day of term (Friday 28th July) we are encouraging every child and adult in school to leave a 
pair of shoes on their desk and walk out of school barefooted. This will be a small gesture and we are aiming to get our shoes/trainers to Uganda where we have many, growing links. Bishop Cramner himself told us he had not worn a pair of shoes until he was thirteen years old!
(Of course children can then put on another pair of trainers/shoes from their bag to walk home in and they do not have to leave a pair of shoes that they will still have lots of wear out of).
It is that time of year when we all need to pause and take stock of what we have achieved. We live in a remarkably busy era, it is easy to just keep on pushing to the next date in the diary and the next agenda on the tick list. But as teachers finalise their end of year reports two major happenings this week confirm just far we have come and we should pause and reflect.
Receptions’ assembly on Friday had us all mesmerised by how much learning has gone on this school year. The children have come on leaps and bounds and the assembly was a glowing showcase. It seems hard to believe that our current superstars are almost ready for Year 1. The numbers they are counting with, the tricky words they are learning and the confidence to speak to a packed audience was remarkable. To see them grow in one academic year is amazing and judging by some of the family faces a little emotional too.
Earlier in the week the children at the other end of school received their SATs results. We could not be an
y prouder if we tried. The children gave it their all and got what they deserved. The Year 6’s also visited High School this week to prepare for their transition and it is a reminder again of how far they have come since they were in Reception Class. It has gone incredibly fast, something Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel would know about. His words mean something though:
‘Sometimes you need to pause to let everything sink in.’
Transition
We hope all your children enjoyed spending time in their new classes last Thursday, meeting their new teachers and getting to familiarise themselves a little. There certainly was a buzz around school. The teaching picture is now complete and we are excited that Miss. Day returns this week after her maternity leave. Please do feel comfortable to introduce yourself to your child’s next teacher when you see them on the playground.
Sports Day
Fingers crossed that sports day happens this week after the disappointment of the postponement. A reminder you are welcome to bring a deck chair – just writing that seems ridiculous after the downpour the last time around!!
Dates
Miss. Tommoney’s Dance assembly Tuesday 11th July at 9.00am
Forest Schools Y2 – please remember all the correct clothing as per previous letter – Tuesday 11th July PM
Sports Day Wednesday 12th July at 9:30am
Year 1 class assembly Thursday 13th July at 9am
Future date for Y6 families - Y6 Leavers Service at All Saints’ Church – (for parents and families of Y6 only please) Friday 21st July at 1.45pm.
Super Summer Fair!
Well after much effort (and maybe a little arm twisting!), the ‘Summer Fair’ got all hands to the pump on Friday afternoon to ensure that everything started promptly. There are too many names to mention here but you kn
ow and we know who you are… THANK YOU! In the words of Mrs. Nolan; “much love and endless gratitude to everyone!” A whopping £1,500 was raised to benefit YOUR child.
I would personally like to say a huge thank you to all who ensured that the All Saints’ motto rang true-
‘All Achieving, All Together, All Saints’. Looking around it made me feel extremely proud of the great community spirit that we have and how this is more than just a school for so many of us. The friendships, kindness and care that I witnessed from all generations made me so proud and grateful of the amazing place that All Saints’ truly is. I know that Mrs. Morton and baby Oli were delighted to see so many faces too.
What an Active Week!
A massive lap of honour should be taken by ‘The Art’s Team’ consisting of Mrs. Preece, Miss Leah, Mrs.Pratt, Mrs. Hammond, Mrs. Parry and Mrs. Whittleworth who organised a plethora of amazing activities keeping our children fit, healthy and most of all having a fabulously fun week of sports! The whole week has been an active hive of events which has made us so proud to celebrate some of our talented athletes who excel in this area. We sincerely hope that your child has enjoyed this week and maybe even found a new sport to spark their interest for the future.
‘I most enjoyed running the obstacle course with the rest of the school’ said Evie and Lilian mentioned ‘I liked it when we did tag rugby because it was fun and I have never done it before’.
From Tag Rugby and obstacle courses to Crazy Golf, the week of activities planned were action packed! A special mention must be given to Governors who gave their time; Mrs. Monds and her husband (rugby) and Mr. Phillips (Forest Schools) and parents who transported children to the football tournament on Thursday, your commitment to school is so gratefully appreciated.
Whilst the typical British summer weather and injuries unfortunately held off our official sports day, we are ke
eping our fingers crossed for a memorable day on Wednesday 12th July when we hope to see many of you join us for our reserve sports morning, followed in the afternoon by our visiting Paralympian. Again, Mr. Bailey’s running session will also be rescheduled so do get practising as for some of our children (me included!) soon run out of steam doing laps of the school field. Please note the government recommend 60 MINUTES per day of exercise for children – does your child have this opportunity? A great resource is Change4Life ‘10 minute Shake ups’ based around Disney Films to get children off those iPads and out moving! (Shake Up Summer Passports to be sent home soon with further information).
Y6 Moderation
Our Y6 class were externally moderated by the Local Authority last Monday. We are pleased to report that the two leading moderators found the teaching, assessment and classroom practices of the highest quality. Well done to the Y6 team – Mr. Mc Shane, Mrs. Silcock, Mrs. Pratt and Miss. Aboo. The greatest mention of course is to our super sixes who have worked incredibly hard to get through some incredibly high standards ensuring that from; semi colons to dashes and hyphens they had it all covered.
Term Time Holiday Debate
Please note holiday dates carefully for next year on our school website as we have had a staggering increase in absence request forms (for holidays) this half term. We have and will be discussing each individual case with Governors and inviting families in to school to discuss where necessary. Headteachers cannot authorise school absence purely for the reason of a family holiday. Authorised absence is only given to exceptional circumstances (significant and unavoidable- e.g. illness, bereavement). Whilst in the All Saints’ Way we do fully understand that the cost of holidays particularly for those with a few siblings can be extortionate in school holidays, we kindly remind you to please remember that term times are for education.
Lates this week
There are an increasing number of pupils arriving late into school, last week the total number 
was 35. It is crucial that your child is on the school grounds by 8:55 a.m. each morning so as not to miss any vital learning time. Letters / meetings will be held with those families where attendance is below 90% (classed as a persistent absentee) to discuss with Acting Headteachers and seek to find ways forward together to improve percentages.
Governor Newsletter
Please take time to have a read of the informative Governor Newsletter for Summer 2017 for a refresher on key highlights from this term written by Chair of Governors Mr. Alan Bailey. Can you remember our key school values? Do you know our school bible verse? If not here is the place to remind you. If you would like a paper copy there are a few copies available in the school entrance so please do help yourself.
Further dates for Diary:
Welcome to another week at All Saints’, a week with lots going on and one that will leave us all exhausted at the end.
Active Week:
There is already some heavy puffing and panting as our Active Week has got off to a fast start with tag rugby, circuits, forest school and even our own Chair of governors- Mr. Bailey- leading the running challenges out on the school field. It has been lovely to see many children energetic in their sports kit. As I type the weather is glorious however we could be in for a change throughout the week…fingers crossed for our Sports Morning on Wednesday!
Please remember full sports kit each day and if possible in your team colour for Wednesday 
(Children brought home lists last week). For sports day itself (9:30 am) you are welcome to bring a deckchair and cheer on all participants, enter via the KS2 playground…hopefully we will have a parent’s race for anyone feeling particularly competitive!
Please could we just remind everyone about the sponsorship form which went home on the last day of term.
This is the ‘Sports for Champions’ sponsorship form for your children to bring in with their sponsor money before Active Week. Here is a reminder of what will happen when the athlete comes to school.
The Event
The Inspirational Assembly
After the Fitness Circuit Challenge, there will be an inspirational assembly with the visiting athlete. The athlete will share his own story and his own journey into sports with the children.
The children are asked to bring their sponsorship forms and money during Active Week, because they will be awarded individual prizes for their hard work fundraising and a way of saying a big thank you personally by their athlete when he comes to school on Thursday!
Class prize - The class that works together as a team and raises the most sponsorship will receive an engraved trophy awarded to them by the athlete.
A sporting question to think about with your child: What number is at the 9 o’clock position on a dartboard?
Answer next week!
So who will teach my child?!
The gossip, the rumours and the predictions are over as the eagerly awaited new class teacher lists went out on Friday! Now you have a face for September the children and staff will start to spend some time building up relationships etc. prior to a new academic year– which seems a long way off but we know it will go all too fast! Thursday 6th July is our official transition day when most Year 6 pupils go to visit their new High School and every other year group in school step up a year to help familiarise themselves.
Children in Year 2-soon to move to the juniors- may have spotted that a new name has appeared, that of Miss. Georgia Houghton. She has been successfully appointed as our new, Year 3 teacher on a one year contract and we are delighted to welcome her to our school. This news comes as sadly Miss. Leah has decided that this will be her last term with All Saints’ and that the time is right to move on. We all wish Miss. Leah the very best of luck as she embarks on her new journey and thank her for all her hard work, dedication and professionalism over the three years she has been with us.
So here is the batting order for September 2017/18
Reception – Mrs. Preece
Year 1 - Mrs. Manning and Mrs. Mylrea
Year 2 - Mrs. Noble and Mrs. Eva
Year 3 - Miss. Houghton
Year 4 - Miss. Taylor
Year 5 - Mrs. Cochrane
Year 6 - Miss. Day and Mr. McShane
Summer Fair:
Friday 30th June, 3:30pm – 6pm. Please try to attend and help raise funds for our very active 
PTA.
More hands make light work: If you would like to support in any way, perhaps helping to set up a stall in the early afternoon; run a stall at the event itself or help pack away at the end then we would be extremely grateful. Please pop your name down at the school office and if not we look forward to welcoming you.
All Saints’ Has Talent!
Our talent show last Friday was successful, with children showcasing their many hidden abilities! We raised £120 which will go towards Childreach International, Hayley Clarke our former pupil will be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro to raise further funds. It was a wonderful event and children had great fun at the same time.
School photographs:
You may be aware that we were not happy with the quality of this year’s school photographs. 
As a result we have asked the company to come back and re-take on Tuesday 4th July. I appreciate this isn’t ideal as lots of children will have to re-style their hair, polish them shoes and get rid of the baked bean stain from their jumper but we wanted to ensure you had the opportunity to buy a quality product.
Peace remains our theme throughout school and I would like to end with this calming thought in what is a hectic week,
one we might all do well to reflect on.
Peace is accepting today, releasing yesterday, and giving up the need to control tomorrow.
Dates for the future:
Wednesday 28th June: Sports day 9:30am
Thursday 29th June: Year 5 & 6 boys’ football team – away game at Stockport Academy 
against Alexandra Park.
Friday 30th: Summer Fair 3:30pm – 6pm
Monday 3rd July: Year 5 trip to Whitworth Art Gallery
Tuesday 4th July: Class photographs
Wednesday 5th July: Reception trip to Nest in the Woods
What a scorcher! Disney Magic hit Marple with All Saints’ doing us proud on Saturday. The children were totally amazing who walked in sweltering temperatures and some terrific costumes at the Marple Carnival. As always, our parents went all out from Tweedledee and Tweedledum, to Woody and Cruella De Vil they really were fantastic getting into the community spirit. The biggest shout out must go to Mickey and Minnie who truly were the stars of our parade – I even heard children say they no longer need to go to Disneyland now! A massive thank you to everyone involved especially Catherine Bower who supported the Art Club preparing our Disney Banners and accessories and also to Mrs. Nolan for as ever showing such camaraderie and enthusiasm for our school (and handing out water and refreshments to all our group which was very much appreciated!).
Seven merits were awarded to all children for joining us and they all took a well-deserved bow in 
assembly. I am sure there were lots of tired feet on Saturday evening (mine certainly were!). It all made it worthwhile that All Saints’ won 2nd prize for walking float and will be receiving a cheque for £250. We will consult with our School Council to see what we should spend the money on.
The All Saints tuck shop so far has been a roaring success and as our busy beaver organisers took over the 
Headteacher office to count up their funds on Friday afternoon they were delighted that they had exceeded their target amount to raise in their first week gaining over £150. We hope this has helped families out too so you are not searching for healthy snacks last minute and please, please, please do keep on bringing in those 50ps!
Mrs. Beardwood came to give a special assembly last week on Potter’s Village in Uganda and children were moved to find out how what a vital job this charity does. In the Summer, a group of volunteers from All Saints’ Church will be heading out to Kisoro in Africa and our aim is that we play our part in sending over monetary donations to the charity which helps abandoned and orphaned babies. Watch this space to find out more… .
We have already had children come to see us with great ideas of how we can raise funds and it is always heart-warming to hear what generous, thoughtful children that we have who take initiative and respond to things to see and hear about in the All Saints’ Way!
‘Restorative Ambassadors’ What is that all about I hear you all ask! Well, a team of Year 4 and Year 5 
children have now started descending on both Infant and Junior playgrounds at playtimes to support any children in need of help. These children are visible for all to see wearing their special, new badges and lanyards. Children have received specialist training which has all been organised by Mrs. Sargeant and are taking their important role in school very seriously. Sidney, one of our Y5 Restorative Ambassador quotes; “It makes me feel good helping other people “.
We are sure this will be a really supportive tool to add to the array of things we to in school to further develop one of our key 5R’s- RELATIONSHIPS.
This week we have our value for this half term being covered in Collective Worship – PEACE. 
There are a range of interesting activities that you may like to carry out with your child to stimulate discussion and help further develop their understanding and ability to reflect on this key Christian value. This is something that we intend to do each half term for families so you too can promote (if you wish to) your child’s spiritual and moral development. Please note this is not homework rather if you feel enthusiastic as a family to further explore this area that children will all be exploring in class and collective worship time then why not try one or two of the activities (age appropriate to your child). Please see the school website under ‘Parents’ ‘Resources and Links’ ‘Home School Values’ to access this resource.
Please note whilst we are set for a heat wave this week children will need plenty of water, suncream, sunhats etc. In addition, sandals can be worn so that children are more comfortable.
Dates for your diary…
I hope everyone had a wonderful, relaxing break and are excited as us to return to school. This term is always action packed – transition days, active week (including our sports day) Year 6 leavers’ events, class photographs (so please all look smart this Thursday!) and so much more.
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n the face of adversity Manchester Stood Together and it was with real pride that I handed over almost £300 to Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital on behalf of All Saints’ following our impromptu own-clothes day in the wake of the Manchester Bombing. The nurses on the ward were touched by the generosity of the donation and the kind words penned by Rachel, Paige, Leona and Isabelle from Year 3. Well done everyone, what a great community spirit.
I made it clear our donation was for the nurses to decide what to spend the money on so watch this space…
Tuck Shop!
Always looking at ways to improve things, whilst listening to the children, we are excited to announce our new
initiative…a healthy tuck shop! To improve the quality of snacks at break times is something we encourage (we seem to be crisp-crazy currently!) and this idea should go some way to giving pupils a nutritious choice.
Our shop will be trialled this term by Year 5 pupils, helping them establish as entrepreneurs whilst promoting healthy 
foods. We will evaluate at the end of Summer and if successful make it a permanent fixture at school.
Initially we will sell in the Key stage 1 playground before school (so parents can take care of pennies) and it will also be open for business each day in the KS2 playground for both morning breaks.
All items will be priced at 50p.
Please find an items list attached below to see nutritional value, allergens and ingredients and if you want to see what products will be sold we will leave a selection in the reception of school to browse.
Any profit (which will be minimal) will be reinvested by the Tuck Shop team. School cannot accept responsibility for any pupils losing their money.
Phonics Screening Check
Good luck this week to all children taking part in the phonics screening check. The Department for Education defines the checks as “short, light-touch assessments” that take about four to nine minutes to complete and I know the children from Year 1 (and some from Year 2) will give it their very best effort!
Marple Carnival
A reminder that Marple have their exciting Summer carnival is fast approaching (Saturday 17th of June). 
Movie Magic is the theme and All Saints’ PTA are encouraging a Disney take on this. Mickey or Minnie, Cinderella, Jack Sparrow? You get the idea. Dress to impress and there will be special certificates for the best effort and even a £25 cinema voucher for best dress family!
http://www.marplecarnival.org.uk/
Have a good week everyone, hope the sun shines for the carnival!
Mr McShane and Mrs Noble
Bishop Cranmer and Hope
What a treat we had last week with our special visitors from Uganda coming to lead our Collective Worship and answer lots of our thoughtful questions about Africa from the children. The children’s behaviour was exemplary and B
ishop Cranmer commented on what a truly ‘special’ school we have. We now have a photograph in the entrance hall of our Ethos Group with Bishop Cranmer and his wife, alongside a beautiful gift from our friends in Africa saying; ‘God bless you’. Please have a little look when you are next in the school entrance area.
All Saints’ Bible Quote
You may have noted on the homepage of our website, on our new letter head (as a footer) and in our entrance hall that we now have the addition of the All Saints’ bible quote – as voted for by the whole school;
'The Lord says I will guide you along the best pathway for your life.
I will advise you and watch over you'
(Psalm 32 v8)
We hope and pray that this bible quote will be something that gives us all comfort and reassurance through both good times as well as the hard times.
Mrs. Sargeant
It is with great sadness, that we have to inform you that Mrs. Sargeant, our Year 5 teacher and Special Educational Needs Coordinator will be moving on from All Saints’ at the end of the academic year. We cannot thank her enough for her tireless efforts, total dedication, hard work and astounding expertise supporting so many of our children and families during her three years at All Saints’. She will be greatly missed as such a caring member of our teaching team and I am sure you will join us with wishing her all the best of luck and happiness for her future.
We are delighted to announce that Miss. Taylor, our Year 4 teacher, has been appointed to take over the role of Special Educational Needs Coordinator from September alongside her teaching responsibilities in class. This will mean that next half term both members of staff will have time to successfully pass over information ready for a smooth transition in September. A huge congratulations to Miss. Taylor who we are sure will be a natural in her newly promoted position.
Staffing
We are delighted to announce that we will be joined by a new teacher in September 2017. Mrs. Cochran
e will be joining our team. I am sure she will be given a warm welcome by all.
Parents and children will find out their new class teachers very soon and children will get to meet them on Thursday July 6th as part of our transition day.
All Saints’ Has Got Talent!
I was delighted to welcome back ex pupil Hayley Clarke (aged 19) who I taught here at All Saints’ (no guessing how old I am!) who is going to be taking the challenge of a lifetime climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in August. As a local, Marple girl we were of course keen to show Hayley our support for doing such a great deed for charity (Childreach International). In collaboration with the School Council, we have decided to hold a Talent Show after the holidays on Friday 23rd June. Children can enter as a solo, duet or small group and we will have two acts going through from each class to the final so plea
se get practising! All children taking part will be kindly asked to contribute £1.00. The Audience also will be asked to donate £1.00. In addition, there will be a raffle 20p each to have a picture of your name and the school badge at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro - tickets will be sold in the playground after the holidays. Please, please do support Hayley who needs to raise a grand total of £3,000 as part of her university trek- every little helps! We are so proud of you Hayley and hearing what someone who has attended All Saints’ can achieve! We look forward to welcoming Hayley back into school to lead an assembly this Friday and to hopefully inspire our children for their futures…
Parents' Association
Thanks to the tremendous efforts of our active and caring Parents Association, the Maypole stall at the Hawk Green event made a magnificent, grand total of £522. The greatest thank you must go to those families (Mrs. Jenkins, Mrs. Peatfield, Mrs.
Nolan, Mrs. Cochrane, Mrs. Garraway and Mrs. Phillips in particular) who ensured that this stall was such a roaring success. All money will be going towards supporting YOUR children for special projects in school. Further information to follow soon about our big fundraising project…!
As it now time to gear up for our SUMMER FAIR – one which hopes to be a real sizzler for 2017 please can we request that children come in Dress Down non – school uniform on the following days in repayment for the following items;
| Date- Friday |
KS1 |
KS2
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| 16th June |
Craft |
Outdoor toys/games/gardening
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| 23rd June |
Chocolates |
Bottles
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| 30th June |
Plants/ flowers |
Cakes
|
The answer to last week’s Question: What has 40,000 muscles but no bones?
AN ELEPHANT’S 
TRUNK
Up and coming news…
Y3 and Y4 Girls Football at Marple Hall School – 4.00- 5.30pm
After the holidays:
15th June - Class Photographs
16th June - Year 2 Assembly 9.00am
Marple Carnival- Disney theme - best dressed family will win a £25 cinema voucher.Please come and join us to walk with the All Saints’ Parade- the more the merrier!
Have a fantastic two week holiday everyone and we can’t wait to see you all back for your final half term of the summer as we have so many special days to ensure it will be fun and memorable for all!
Thank you so much for all your support and well wishes over the past half term in our new role- it is very much appreciated.
Mrs. Noble and Mr. Mc Shane
Welcome to this week's newsletter, we hope you have all had a lovely weekend.
SATs
Last week was ‘Show off Week’ for our wonderful Year 6 students (otherwise known as SATs) The children showed a determined but relaxed approach through the week and should feel enormously proud of their efforts; I know every
one in school is! Thank you to so many people; our reading and maths mentors, the school kitchen for providing sausage butties to power us through what was a demanding week, to all staff members who have helped on the journey and of course the parents who have supported us every step of the way. The children will find out their results later in the year and no matter what these say we know how hard they worked and what marvellous young people they are.
Baby News
Mrs. Morton has named her beautiful baby boy Oliver William. We think it is a perfect name and
can’t wait for him and his mummy to visit us soon!
May King & Queen
A big thank you for all the thoughtful and interesting applications for May King and May Queen. After
much deliberation, Rosie in Y4 was chosen as the Hawk Green May Queen and Alex in Y5 as 2017's May King. We are sure you will all agree they are both fantastic citizens who will represent our school superbly and we hope they both had a wonderful day parading around on Sunday and getting crowned! Congratulations to both of you for your community spirit and for keeping up this wonderful tradition.
PTA thanks
Also a special thanks to our ever dedicated team of PTA members for hosting a stall at the Hawk Green May Day - as I'm sure you can imagine the latest craze of ‘Fidget Spinners’ sold like hot cakes! We really 
do appreciate all your time and efforts to help raise funds for our school to benefit YOUR children.
They are also asking for donations of cardboard tubes, card and garden canes please. Drop them off at the school office. Thank you in anticipation.
Ring O’ Bells Quiz
A thank you to our local friends at The Ring O’ Bells who hosted two quiz nights on behalf of All Saints’ school. They generously donated £128 which will be going towards our Active Week. The teachers and Governors sent teams
and were rather proud of their quizzing knowledge! Here’s a question to ponder:
Q: What has 40,000 muscles but no bones? Answers in next week’s newsletter!
Need a clue? Perhaps Year 1 and 2 will be the ones to ask after their exciting trip Knowsley Safari Park last week!
Up & coming:
Tuesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
Plus much more!
Have a good week everyone!
Mrs Noble and Mr McShane
A minor change to our Head Teachers newsletter, it will now be going out at the start of a week (Hopefully it will be worth waiting for!) You will still continue to find out what’s going on in your child’s class by reading their blog page.
Have a lovely weekend one and all.
Mr McShane and Mrs Noble
Well here goes…
It is our greatest honour to date that we write this week’s Newsletter in our new roles as Acting Head teachers.
In true All Saints’ spirit we are relishing the challenge and are looking forward to all that comes our way but we can’t start without the HUGE news…We are delighted to announce that Mrs. Morton welcomed into the world a beautiful baby boy this Monday morning. We are all over the moon to hear about his safe arrival – no name to report just yet, Baby Morton for now! We gave Mrs. Morton a really special farewell last Friday (which brought a few happy tears) and this eventful day might have kick started things!
Mrs. Manning (our new Acting Assistant Head teacher) made up a beautiful song ‘Thank you Mrs. Morton’ that the children sang in a surprise assembly. We had thoughtful presentations from All Saints’ Church and Governors, prayers from our Ethos team and lots of wonderful gifts and cards to present from all the classes, teachers and parents. We wish her new family all the luck in the world as they venture on their new journey together as a family of three!
Both Mr. McShane and I are sharing the position of Acting Headteacher and will be keeping our class responsibilities; ensuring that the children in years 2 and 6 have a successful and happy Summer term and are well prepared for their transition to KS2 or Secondary School. The momentum we have will not be sustained by simply “ticking over” so we will work incredibly hard with our outstanding team so All Saints’ continues to deliver a curriculum to be proud of.
We sincerely look forward to sharing this journey with you the parents, Staff, Governors, and, most importantly, our fabulous children to move the school forwards, never losing sight of All Saints’ distinctive Christian ethos and what makes it such a truly special place to work and learn. We are here to ensure that All Saints’ remains the AMAZING school that it is today and to continue to support all our members of the community to reach for the stars!
From Crufts to All Saints
You may have heard of a rather special ‘Reading Dog’ called Basil (a sheepdog) who came to visit us in school last week. The buzz around school was fantastic and the children were calm and sensible as we met this special pooch. Basil was an absolute star and the children unequivocally fell for him (the teachers did too!) especially when he showed off his trick of waving goodbye. Just to be clear the dog doesn’t read – he just enjoys a good book read by a child. This is part of a ‘P
ets As Therapy’ programme. We are sure that you will welcome Basil and his owner Barbara to our All Saints’ Community if you have the privilege to meet them in school on a Thursday afternoon. Each half term, one lucky child per class will be chosen to read to Basil for 10- 15 minutes to further develop a love of reading (and as a special treat!). If your child is chosen you will have a personal letter sent home to sign and will also be invited in to meet Basil yourself. You may want to research more on the website: http://petsastherapy.org/.
SHOW OFF WEEK!
Finally, may we all wish our ‘Super Sixes’ all the very best of luck for next week – the week that they have all been 
gearing up for with their end of Key Stage Assessment Tests. Please keep them all in your thoughts and prayers – we know you will do us and your families proud! Good luck everyone – from your practices in the hall to revision in the mornings, you have absolutely shone; you are more than ready, so keep your cool and make ‘Show Off Week’ your time to prove that you truly are an All Saints’ Superstar!
Have a wonderful weekend one and all!
Yours faithfully, from your new Acting Head teachers (until the return of Mrs. Morton)
Mr. McShane and Mrs. Noble
It feels very strange to be writing my last newsletter for a while…
It has as always been a wonderful week at All Saints’ and reflecting whilst walking round School as I go off on maternity leave I feel immensely proud to be part of such a fantastic community. It is such a special place full of wonderful children, families, staff and volunteers. I would like to say a huge thank you to everyone for their well wishes, it has been incredibly touching and meant such a lot, more than I could ever express. I am also sure that you will give Mr McShane and Mrs Noble as warm a welcome to the role as you gave me and wish them all the best. I can’t wait to visit soon and over the next year see all the fantastic things that the School will accomplish and achieve.
In other news I am delighted to share that Lily in Year 5 had her haircut during the Easter holidays and raised
an amazing £482.09 for The Little Princess Trust. What an outstanding amount and she should feel incredibly proud of herself for completing such a selfless act to help others.
A big thank you to all those parents who attended our 'Changing Me' SRE meeting on Tuesday evening. We hope you found it useful and that it helped settle any nerves; giving you an overview of the content covered in your child’s year group. In particular a 
big thank you to Mrs. Eva for organising and delivering and please don’t hesitate to chat to your child’s class teacher if any questions come your way!
The following links may be of some help and include some of the materials shared at the meeting for those unable to attend and also some further materials to look at.
Website links: http://parentinfo.org/articles/primary/all
Hawk Green May Pole Event
Don't forget that if your child would like to be May King or Queen then we have a form at the school office!
A reminder about the Parents Association Cake Stall
The Parents Association are running a cake stall at the Hawk Green May Pole Event on the 14th May to raise money for School
. We would love cake donations to sell! If people could bring them to school on Friday 12th May to be collected ready for the event that would be wonderful alternatively, if you would like for your cakes to be picked up over the weekend then please ask the office for a contact email/ number for Mrs Jenkins (Class 3 Mum). Also the PA are looking for help on the day if anyone is free between 12- 5pm please again let the office know so you can get the contact details.
The Parents' Association are also having a meeting next Thursday 4th May at the Crown at Hawk Green at 7.30pm and hope to see you there!
I hope everyone has a fantastic bank holiday weekend,
Mrs Morton.
Welcome back to everyone to the Summer Term. I hope everyone managed to have a lovely and at times restful Easter Break. The term has as always started with lots of new topic fun and also we had a great whole School assembly on Thursday morning from Mad Science. The children got to learn all about sound waves and we even had some visiting chickens and elephants – I am sure your children can tell you all about it.
The Summer Term Diary Dates are attached to this week’s blog and have also come home as a hard copy with your ch
ild. Please make a note of any upcoming events including class and leavers assemblies!
Please see below a message from the Parents Association
The Parents Association are running a cake stall at the Hawk Green May Pole Event on the 14th May to raise money for School. W
e would love cake donations to sell! If people could bring them to school on Friday 12th May to be collected ready for the event that would be wonderful alternatively If you would like for your cakes to be picked up over the weekend then please ask the office for a contact email/ number for Mrs Jenkins (Class 3 Mum). Also the PA are looking for help on the day if anyone is free between 12pm-5pm please again let the office know so you can get the contact details.
We are going to holding applications for the May King and Queen at the May Pole Event. If your child would like to apply to be the May King or Queen, then we have forms at the office. All forms have to be handed in Friday 5th May.
Marple Athletic JFC Girls Only Football Training
Girls of all ages and abilities are invited to attend our Girls-Only training sessions. The sessions are a fun introduction to football, excellent exercise and a great way of making new friends. It is taken by qualified FA coaches. Our newly formed U11 team welcomes year 5/6 players to play in a Saturday league and new teams will be formed to play league games as our numbers in the different age groups grow. We hope more girls will join us and benefit from belonging to a team and the excitement of match days.
Training takes place on Thursday evenings between 7:30-8:30pm at Marple Hall School on the all weather pitch.
Contact helenmlbarry@gmail.com for further information or just turn up on the evening!! Just bring along a drink and wear shin pads and suitable trainers or football boots.
Apologies for the lateness of the blog, the website should now be working normally,
Mrs Morton.
Well another term has whizzed by and the Easter Holidays are already here! We have managed to fit a lot into this last week of term – are you ready?
Monday saw our NK Theatre Arts Children In Need Funded Club perform with a wonderful play by KS1 children and a talent show by our KS2 children. Well done to all the children for showing so many of the 5Rs especially lots of risk taking to stand up and preform. Thank you also to parents for providing costumes etc.
On Monday Evening Miss Leah and Mrs Preece went to put up an All Saints’ display at Marple Train Station. The picture below shows the wonderful and creative efforts of all the children who made individual rainbow coloured butterflies, which has been expertly placed by Miss Leah and Mrs Preece to form a beautiful work of art. Thank you to Mr Black, a Reception parent, for asking us to be part of the project and we hope you enjoy the artwork even more when you next go to the station.
Tuesday afternoon saw everyone attend All Saints’ Church for our Easter Service. Thank you to all our marvellous children who helped plan what they would perform, learnt lines and sung beautifully. Thank you to everyone who came to support the children and also who generously donated to the children’s chosen charity of the RSPCA – we managed to raise £60.00!
Huge thank you to Mrs Burney who organised the very successful Easter Egg Hunt on Wednesday afternoon. She made it particularly tricky for the older ones but their resilience paid off and they managed to find everything!!!
I am more and more impressed every year with the effort, enthusiasm and sheer brilliance that create the Eggstravanganzas 
every year. Some made us all laugh out loud and the children and adults loved seeing them in all their glory displayed in the hall. Well done and thank you to everyone involved.
Class 3 had their trip to the library and they really enjoyed the opportunity to explore the setting with lots keen to make the most of it and get reading over the holidays.
Class 4 even managed to have enough energy to entertain us on the very last day of term with their Castleton Assembly, 
they captured fantastically the essence of the trip and how much everybody got out of it. Thank you for sharing it all with us Class 4 and for everyone who came and made the trip possible and so memorable for the children.
A huge thank you to all the children and families who have been digging deep to buy raffle tickets to help raise funds for our Stockport Normandy Veterans. We have raised an impressive £199.00 which will go towards a book of remembrance and Roll of Honour. A special mention must go to the Year 6 children who have been very persuasive in their sales technique! We were privileged in our end of term assembly to have the veterans join us for the exciting Easter draw and we are delighted to announce that Keane and Kelan are the winners of the two main prizes. Smaller Easter Prizes went to very lucky year group winners.
Unfortunately we are seeing a rise in lateness in the mornings. From the start of this half term to date there were 151 late marks given. 
The school gates open at 8.45am and the bell rings at 8.55am to start the school day. Punctuality is very important in relation not only to attendance but children starting the day in a positive and calm manner enabling them to do the best they can in their learning. Thank you in advance for your understanding and support in addressing this issue and we hope to see an improvement after the holidays!
I hope everyone has a great holiday and I look forward to seeing everyone on Tuesday 18th April when School re-opens,
Mrs Morton.
We are delighted to start this week’s newsletter with the news that Mrs Manning will be Acting Assistant Headteacher during my
maternity cover. I am sure she will do an excellent job and ably support Mr McShane and Mrs Noble in their new roles as well. I am sure you will join me in congratulating Mrs Manning and also supporting her within her new role.
A message from Mrs Eva …
In the development of our outdoor area, we are literally looking for a kitchen sink (and the rest!) - we need kitchen utensils
, pots and pans, cake tins, funnels, measuring containers, basically anything that belongs in a kitchen (non-electrical and not breakable) for the children to use in our soon to be built mud kitchen. If you have anything then please pop it in the crates in the entrance and thank you in advance!
The Governor termly newsletter will be emailed out today and there will also be some physical copies in the entrance. Please do take a look as it is full of lots of interesting and informative information, including introducing our new parent Governors and explaining what the Governors have been working on over the last term. Thank you very much to Mr Bailey for producing the document.
Thank you to everyone who has made Parents’ Evening so successful this week. If you were unable to attend your appointment this week, please do speak to your child’s teacher to make a new one. The opportunity to share information and understand how best to work together to support your child is so vital at all stages of their school life.
Reminders
Just another reminder that Class 4 would also like to invite families to come and share in their residential by joining them for their Class Assembly at 9.00am on Friday 31st March.
The annual ritual that is the All Saints’ Eggstravaganza is fast approaching again! For all our new families 
this is when you are able to join in an optional competition to design a house for an egg (definitely hard boiled) and be as creative and funny as you like. Please see the attached flyer for future information. The Deadline for entries to be in School is Wednesday 29th March and families can come and look at all the Eggstravaganzas in all their glory after School on Thursday 30th March in the hall. Please collect your children as normal and then make your way to the main entrance where you can sign in.
As always we would welcome any help from family members walking to and from Church for the 
Easter Service or Rehearsal. The Easter Service Rehearsal is on Monday 27th March leaving School at 9am and returning approximately at 10.30am. The main service is on Tuesday 28th March at 1.45pm, leaving School at 1.15pm and returning after the service. If you are kindly able to help please either let the office or your child’s class teacher know. Many thanks in advance.
Don't forget to buy raffle tickets for the wonderful raffle prizes. We are aiming to raise money for the Stockport Veterans. Tickets are 20p each and available at the start and end of the school day. Children are also able to buy tickets at breaktimes. Please help us support this worthy cause by giving generously.
I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend,
Mrs Morton.
Well so much has happened since my newsletter last Friday. I can’t believe it has only been a week! Last Friday I felt very proud to accompany Mrs Eva and 7 Year 5 children to Stockport Hydro where they were awarded a certificate and cheque for £200! The money was as a reward for the letters that the children wrote as part of a bid application to Stockport Hydro. The people on the panel said they would like to have given much more money as the letters were so well written and moving that they almost had the judges in tears! A huge well to done to the children of Class 5 and thank you as the money you have raised with go to supporting the development of our Forest School area on Site.
We also received some lovely feedback from Marple Library about all the classes that have
recently attended the various events that they have put on around World Book. The children have really enjoyed them all and All Saints’ has even been chosen to go in the press release with the great picture!
There were lots of brave children and adults on Tuesday morning as Class 4 set off on their train journey to Castleton. The children had an absolute ball and I am sure they came back very sleepy from all their various activities and amount of fun they had. A huge, huge thank you to all the families for supporting the trip and Miss Taylor, Mrs Eva, Mrs Shaw and Mr Bailey for all your hard work preparing everything to make the trip possible, generosity with your time to take the children and enthusiasm to make sure all the children had the best time. It is very much greatly appreciated. Just another reminder that Class 4 would also like to invite families to come and share in their residential by joining them for their Class Assembly at 9.00am on Friday 31/03/2017.
Others reminders …
Red Nose Day is next Friday 24th March and the children have asked to come dressed in red for a suggested £1.00 donation on the day.
Any children who have paid £1.00 for their Parent Association gift for Special Persons Day will be bringing those home on Friday 24th March ready for the weekend.
The annual ritual that is the All Saints’ Eggstravaganza is fast approaching again! 
For all our new families this is when you are able to join in an optional competition to design a house for an egg (definitely hard boiled) and be as creative and funny as you like. Please see the attached flyer for future information. The Deadline for entries to be in School is Wednesday 29th March and families can come and look at all the Eggstravaganza’s in all their glory after School on Thursday 30th March in the hall. Please collect your children as normal and then make your way to the main entrance where you can sign in.
The Middays are also running their wonderful Easter Egg Hunt on Thursday 30th March. 
If you would like your child to take part please send in 50p in a sealed envelope with your child’s name, class and Easter Egg Hunt on.
As always we would welcome any help from family members walking to and from Church for 
the Easter Service or Rehearsal. The Easter Service Rehearsal is on Monday 27th March leaving School at 9am and returning approximately at 10.30am. The main service is on Tuesday 28th March at 1.45pm, leaving School at 1.15pm and returning after the service. If you are kindly able to help please either let the office or your child’s class teacher know. Many thanks in advance.
Don't forget to buy raffle tickets for the wonderful raffle prizes. We are aiming to raise money for the Stockport Veterans. Tickets are 20p each and available at the start and end of the school day. Children are also able to buy tickets at breaktimes. Please help us support this worthy cause by giving generously.
Have a great weekend,
Mrs Morton.
Last week saw a great open morning for World Book Day. Thanks to everyone who was able to attend and all the staff and 
children for their hard work preparing for the events both in class and the parent workshop in the hall. There were some amazing costumes as always and thank you for the feedback we have received. Please do pass your feedback forms back if you have not already done so they are greatly appreciated.
Wednesday this week saw a magical wedding at All Saints’ Church for the Year 1 and 2 Fairy Tale topic.
It really was a fabulous morning, thank you so much to all the children and families for all the effort everyone went to get dressed up in their finest attire to make it so special. Thanks also the Key Stage 1 Team and All Saints’ Church for organising the event.
Thursday night 9 children went to Bramhall High School to take part in the finals of the Inter School Hockey Tournament
following their success at the heats. The children had a wonderful time - we won a match, lost a match and drew a few but great showmanship was shown in the All Saints' Way.
We have some very excited Year 4 children (and staff) very much looking forward to their residential visit to Castleton next Tuesday. So make sure you get lots of sleep to prepare you for all the fun you will be having and activities you will be doing!! Class 4 would also like to invite families to come and share in their residential by joining them for their Class Assembly at 9.00am on Friday 31st March.
Year 5 and 6 were visited earlier this year by the Stockport Veterans and it was a very humbling experience. We want to do our small bit to say thank you to them. All children and staff were moved by the captivating, sometimes harrowing, but always remarkable stories shared. We want to help the veterans leave their legacy so future generations can hear the same stories we did. There is a BIG raffle in school and we are having a HUGE push to sell as many tickets as possible. Each class has a special Easter prize to win and there are two tremendous Easter prizes for all families and friends to win (they are available to view in the school entrance area). Keep your eyes and ears peeled for children collecting raffle tickets at 20p each before and after school (starting on Monday 13th March). Tickets can be purchased by the children during the school day. Please dig deep. We are hopeful the veterans themselves will come into school to draw the Easter raffle and it would be lovely if we can help get their appeal off to a great start!!
We are aware of how busy it can be on the pavements and on the roads around School at pick up and drop off.
Please be mindful at these times of particularly the younger children. Many thanks in advance.
Reminders …
Please return your slips for the upcoming parents' meeting as soon as possible.
The before School Dance Club will be performing a Dance Showcase at 9.00am on Tuesday 21st March and are very much looking forward to sharing their hard work with you all then.
As always we would welcome any help from family members walking to and from Church for the Easter Service or Rehearsal. The Easter Service Rehearsal is on Monday 27th March leaving School at 9am and returning approximately at 10.30am. The main service is on Tuesday 28th
March at 1.45pm, leaving School at 1.15pm and returning after the service. If you are kindly able to help please either let the school office or your child’s class teacher know. Many thanks in advance.
The Parents’ Association have arranged for children to make some individual crafts for Special Person’s Day. We will be selling the special gifts for £1.00 and these can paid for on parent pay The children will be able to take home their gifts on Friday 24th March ready for the weekend.
Red Nose Day is on Friday 24th March and the children have asked to come dressed in red for a suggested £1.00 donation on the day. We will also be selling Red Noses in School from Monday 13th March again for a £1.00 donation.
The annual ritual that is the All Saints’ Eggstravaganza is fast approaching again! For all our new families this is when you are able to join in an optional competition to design a house for an egg (definitely hard boiled) and be as creative and funny as you like. Please see the flyer below for future information. The Deadline for entries to be in School is Wednesday 29th March and families can come and look at all the Eggstravaganza’s in all their glory after School on Thursday 30th March in the hall. Please collect your children as normal and then make your way to the main entrance where you can sign in.
Finally, the Middays are also running their wonderful Easter Egg Hunt on Thursday 30th March. If you would like your child to 
take part please send in 50p in a sealed envelope with your child’s name, class and Easter Egg Hunt on.
Have a wonderful weekend, Mrs Morton.
A very warm welcome back to the second half of the Spring Term. We have already seen sunshine, rain and snow so sure it will be an eventful half term as always.
This half term Chestnut Theatre Drama will continue and run until the end of Easter Term when Sarah the Drama teacher will be going off on Maternity leave. We would like to say a huge thank you to the team as the children have really enjoyed the opportunities and Sarah is hoping to return in September to start up Drama Club again.
As always we would welcome any help from family members walking to and from Church for the Easter Service or Rehearsal. The Easter Servic
e Rehearsal is on Monday 27th March leaving School at 9am and returning at approximately at 10.30am. The main service is on Tuesday 28th March at 1.45pm, leaving School at 1.15pm and returning after the service. If you are kindly able to help please either let the office staff or your child’s class teacher know. Many thanks in advance.
The Parents Association, following a very successful Valentines Disco (huge thanks to all involved in making it happen) are organising for 
the children to make some individual crafts for Special Person’s Day. We will be selling the special gifts for £1.00 and these can paid for by logging in to parent pay to make your payment. The children will be able to take home their gifts on Friday 24th March ready for the weekend.
Red Nose Day is on Friday 24th March and the children have asked to come dressed in red for a suggested £1.00 donation on the day. We will also be selling Red Noses in School from Monday 13th March again for a £1.00 donation.
The annual ritual that is the All Saints’ Eggstravaganza is fast approaching again! For all our new families this is when you are able to
join in an optional competition to design a house for an egg (definitely hard boiled) and be as creative and funny as you like. Please see the attached flyer for future information. The Deadline for entries to be in School is Wednesday 29th March and families can come and look at all the Eggstravaganza’s in all their glory after School on Thursday 30th March in the hall. Please collect your children as normal and then make your way to the main entrance where you can sign in to view the creations!
Finally, the Midday Staff are also running their wonderful Easter Egg Hunt on Thursday 30th March. If you would like your child to take 
part please send in 50p in a sealed envelope with your child’s name, class and Easter Egg Hunt on.
Thank you for your patience in reading the many notices this week and have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Morton.
Unbelievably we have reached the end of the first half term already. We have had another fun packed week with lots taking place as always…
All Saints’ took a girls and boys football team from Key Stage 2 to play in a large interschool football tournament at Aquinas on Tuesday Night. The children were fantastic and really got involved each playing six matches. We are still awaiting the 
results from all the leagues as there were over twenty teams playing so we can share this when we find out. A huge thank you to the children for all their efforts and also all the adults who gave lifts to make it possible and braved the cold to cheer on the teams!
Tuesday saw some very exciting Visitors to Classes 3 and 6, as some Japanese adults and a child came to share some of what 
life is like in Japan with our children. The children were absolutely fascinated and really enjoyed learning first hand about another culture and traditions. Thank you very much Mrs Currie and Rev Currie for organising the visit.
It was brilliant to see so many family members attend the Reception and Year 1 phonics open morning yesterday. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive which is fantastic and please if you get chance to fill in the feedback form over the
holidays it would be great to receive it after the holidays. Thanks also to both the Reception and Year 1 teams for all their hard work preparing the event.
Unfortunately I would just like to put out a request out again for all parents to park following the road marking restrictions around our school. It is for all of our children’s safety that they are adhered to and if not it would then become a police matter.
On Monday as part of our Health and Safety policies and procedures we held a Fire Drill during Collective Worship, where all the children were in the hall. I just wanted to thank the children for the calm and quick manner in which all of them right from Reception to Year 6 left the building and went to the evacuation points on the Key Stage 2 Playground. Well done everyone!
Another reminder about the attached flyer for the Parents Association Valentine’s Disco taking place tonight at the
Conservative Club, I hope everyone has a lovely time.
I hope everyone has a super half term holiday and I look forward to welcoming everyone back on Monday 27th February,
Mrs Morton.
This week lots of children have been taking tests to form part of the Teacher Assessment Judgements and I would just like to say a huge well don
e to all the children who have approached the week with great Growth Mindset attitudes. We have seen so many of the All Saints’ 5Rs been lived out through the week meaning that all the children have done their very best, a great week.
Well done to all our children who took part in the Tri Golf Tournament on Tuesday night at Marple Hall. The children thoroughly enjoyed it
and the two teams came second and third in their competitions! A huge thank you to Mrs Preece and Mrs Hallworth for organising and all the parents for helping with lifts etc.
Next week Reception and Year 1 are having an open morning for phonics. If you are able to pop into your child’s classroom after drop off on 
Thursday you will have the opportunity to see what your children do in their phonics sessions with fun and practical ways to also support at home.
A reminder about the attached flyer for the Parents Association Valentine’s Disco taking place next Friday the 17th, tickets are available at the office!
I can’t believe that next week is the final week of the first half term of 2017. Of course there is still lots to pack in, so I look forward to seeing everyone on Monday. Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Morton.
The week has seen a fantastic Reception trip to Underwater Street in Liverpool between lots of hands on activities and workshops the 
children have been telling me how much they loved it. Many thanks to Mrs Preece and Miss Whittleworth for all their preparation and planning and also all the fantastic parents who very kindly helped on the trip.
Year 6 have also been out and about this week as on Wednesday they visited Marple Hall to watch their performance of High School Musical, they also had a great time and were singing the songs all the way back to School!
Classes 1 and 2 have a wonderful Fairy Tale Wedding planned up at All Saints’ Church as part of their next topic and would like to invite all 
parents and carers who are able to attend. The Fairy Tale will begin at 9.30am on Wednesday 8th March and we look forward to seeing you there.
Thank you very much for everyone’s continued efforts with Sumdog, the children are continuing to really love time on the site and we would like to
flag up a national competition being run by the site between the 3rd and the 9th February, so please make a huge effort this week as the site subscription allows lots of great and fun ways to practice lots of skills and also the opportunity to be a National Champion! Please follow this link to take a look and have a go… https://www.sumdog.com/
In preparation for Red Nose Day we will be selling Red Noses in school for £1.00 from Monday 13th March. We will also be welcoming 
anyone who wishes on Red Nose Day (Friday 24th March) to come wearing something red for a donation of £1.00.
Applications can now be made online for this year's Marple Carnival Parade. Details can be 
found at www.marplecarnival.org.uk The carnival will take place on Saturday 17th June and the theme is "Movie Magic!"
Please see the attached poster below for the Valentine's Family Disco which is on Friday 17th February 
6.30pm - 8.30pm.
I hope everyone has a lovely weekend,
Mrs Morton.
All Saints’ are excited to have been invited to create a display for Marple Train Station, as such each of the classes have been given a colour of the rainbow to 
start creating the master piece. Reception- Red, Year 1 – Orange, Year 2 – Yellow, Year 3 – Violet, Year 4 - Green, Year 5 – Blue, Year 6 - Indigo. If you have any rainbow collage materials for example buttons and materials and you are able to donate them, we would be very grateful if you could pass them on to your children’s class teacher.
Last week we started a great new addition to our All Saints’ Rewards system (you have probably heard about it from some excited children)! The idea behind it is to keep thanking our fantastic children for all they do every day in the All Saints’ Way. It is done via a special time every third Friday when the 
children can choose from a range of fun activities run by all our teachers whilst also enjoy getting to know other children and staff across School. The School Council decided to call the time ‘Always children, Always fun time’ and last week the children could choose from dancing, singing, playground art, mindful colouring, Lego, cinema and origami or a reflection group was in place for those children who have been in the behaviour book during this time period. It was a huge success and we are all really looking forward to the next ‘Always children, Always fun time’.
Run it, Jump it, Throw it to London 2017 challenge.
Sport in Stockport are running a family challenge in line with the World Athletic and Para Athletics Championships that are taking place in London. 
Please see the poster below for more information on how you can take part in this event as a family and win some wonderful prizes!
Year 5 also had a very creepy morning on Wednesday when Zoolab came to visit with some very exciting creatures such as a snake, tarantula and even a rat. The children were wonderful showing super Growth Mindsets and the teachers are developed theirs too! 
Save the Date!
St. Valentine's disco at the Marple Conservative Club on Friday 17th February 6.30pm - 8.30pm. More details to follow...
I hope everyone a lovely weekend,
Mrs Morton.
Well we have had our first full week back in School and the children have really begun getting into their new topics and already lots of learning and fun has taken place.
Years two and four have been part of an exciting project this week linking with the Canal & River Trust. The children have done some
fantastic artwork with a local artist and Year four even visited a drained lock yesterday to see how it all works. Tomorrow sees a lock open day where some of the children’s work will be displayed and you could also get the opportunity to go into the drained lock yourself.
I was also fortunate to take a learning walk with some children from across school this week alongside Mrs Eva, Mrs Daniel, Mrs Sargeant and 
Mrs Clayton to look at our external environment and ideas for how we would like to develop our eco and forest school areas further. The children as always were so enthusiastic and creative with their suggestions. These will all be placed into a number of funding bids and fingers crossed we will be able to feedback with how things can progress if we are successful with the applications.
Attached to this week’s newsletter are the Term and Holiday dates for the next academic year (2017/2018).
On behalf of our Parents Association - their next meeting is taking place next Thursday 26th January at the Navigation Pub in Marple (upstairs in the 'Office Room') from 7.30pm onwards, all welcome.
I wish everyone a lovely weekend,
Mrs Morton.
A very happy new year and welcome back to everyone. I hope that everyone had an enjoyable festive period and are ready and raring to go for
the term ahead.
We started 2017 off with a poetical bang with our Poetry Wow Week! Tuesday saw the poet Ian Bland come and capture all our children’s 
imagination and foster a huge enthusiasm for poetry as showcased by some of the amazing outcomes they produced. The poetry slam, competitions and visits from Marple Hall staff to our Key Stage 2 children also resulted in some fantastic learning opportunities and very importantly lots of fun.
A huge thank you for everyone’s efforts as always with our dress up day today there were some fabulously creative outfits and it was great 
to see. A huge thank you is also in order to everyone who helped with the organisation and running of the Christmas Fair. The money has been counted and an impressive £1800 has been raised!
Attached to the newsletter is a poster about our Minion themed lunch next Thursday. If your child particularly in Key Stage One has a meal it 
would be great if you could ensure they do on Thursday as some of our school funding is based on a census of uptake of school meals taken on this day. Also, I am sure your children will love a ‘Bob Burger’! Many thanks in advance.
If you would like to enter your child for the Carnival Royalty, applications close at the end of January. The categories are:
Carnival Queen (age: 10-15 years)
Carnival Princess (age 7- 10 years)
Carnival Rosebud (age 5-7 years)
Carnival Petal (age 4- 5 years)
Applications can be made online at www.marplecarnival.org.uk boys are welcome to apply too.
A paper copy of the Spring Term Diary Dates has been sent home today, there is also a copy on the website for you to view and update your diaries.
I hope everyone has a lovely weekend and I look forward to seeing you all on Monday when the topics for this half term will really come to life,
Mrs Morton.
A message from Mrs Taylor and the PA regarding the Uniform sales...
Profit from Sep to Dec = £42 which works out as a saving of over £200 to parents on the full price of uniform. Thanks to everyone who has donated and/or bought outgrown uniform. I'll be dropping off some orders in the KS1 playground on Monday morning if anyone wants to ask me anything about it. Or contact me at outgrown.uniform@yahoo.com. The current stock list is on the parents associated Facebook page plus all the others that I am a member of. All the money goes to the PA for things like wow week.
Thank you.
My goodness we have managed to pack a lot into our final week of the term and 2016!
Here's a little breakdown -
Monday saw a Church rehearsal and then a fabulous Reception and Key Stage One Christmas Party in the afternoon, with an incredibly special visitor who manged to find the time in his busy schedule to come to school! Thank you so much Father Christmas, it made it a very special celebration indeed.
Tuesday - we had another rehearsal for the Christmas service at Church in the morning and the Key Stage 2 party in the afternoon, I saw some 
very fashionable outfits and cool moves on the dance floor that day! Also on Tuesday Years 1 and 2 went on a magical trip to Chatsworth House linked to their topic to watch a very special version of the Christmas Story which I am sure will be remembered for a very long time by everyone.
Wednesday - we had our annual Christmas Service at All Saints’ Church and it was wonderful to see so many family members and friends able to come and join us and of course the Reception Nativity along with all the other children’s singing and performances really put everyone in the Christmas spirit. We even managed to fit in Ice Cream Parties, writing cards for our friends in Uganda, raised money for Save the Children from our Christmas Jumper day and lots of Christmas learning and crafts!
The following link may be very useful if you have bought your children any technology based gifts this year to ensure they have the correct safety features enabled.
http://www.saferinternet.org.uk/blog/tech-gifts-christmas
As always at this time of year you look back on all that has been accomplished and all there is to celebrate of which I feel All Saints’ has so much 
to reflect on extremely positively. However we also need to say a very sad goodbye to Miss Shaw who has very successfully finished her apprenticeship scheme with us here at All Saints’ and now secured a Teaching Assistant postion starting in January at Cale Green Primary School. During her time with us Miss Shaw has contributed so much to the life of All Saints’ and also supported and nurtured so many of our children. I am sure you will joining me in thanking her for all she has done and also wishing her all the luck in the world for her new ventures.
I would just like to finish my last newsletter of 2016 by extending my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has made it such a great year for All 
Saints’ Primary School, the families, the staff, the Governors, the Church and of course the children. It is with a really great sense of pride that we close the year and one of excitement for all that 2017 will have to bring!
We look forward to seeing you all when School re-opens for the children on Tuesday 10th January when of course we have a very exciting WOW Week for the children planned. Information for which is on the attached flyer including coming dressed as your favourite word for a ‘Vocabulary Parade’- e.g. hat, poster, T- shirt or prop with Certificates and a Photo Booth for the most ingenious words and costumes on Friday 13th January!
I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Mrs Morton.
Well another Christmas filled week has been and gone….
But of course we had our unforgettable Key Stage One all singing, all dancing Nativity production on Wednesday and Thursday
and it was definitely one not to forget. The children were creative, entertaining and their confidence inspiring to everyone. A huge thank you of course to the children for all their hard work and dedication to their roles they made them all sparkle and shine. The families also who have worked tirelessly to support with costumes and learning lines (I know most of the adults knew the songs word for word!). Finally to our wonderful staff with not only the vision but commitment to organising everything!
The Choir has also shone the ‘All Saints’ Way’ across Marple this week spreading Christmas Cheer at Queen’s Court, the Hawk Green Christmas 
Lunch and Birch Court. The children were a delight and the many residents thoroughly enjoyed themselves and said that they now felt very much in the Christmas spirit.
Our super star All Saints’ dancers also put on a dazzling display in an assembly for families on Tuesday morning and a huge well done to them all, I am sure lots more children are keen to join so please look out for letters coming home.
We have been asked to take part in the Save the Children Christmas Jumper day by some families. Therefore we are asking that children 
(if they wish) come to school in their School uniform but swap their school jumper for a Christmas jumper and again if you wish to contribute a £1 to Save the Children on Wednesday 21st December. We recognise that there has been as always a lot going on at this time of year with many requests and appreciate your support.
Last week our amazing Kitchen team managed to prepare and serve (all very hot and very tasty) over 300 Christmas meals across three sittings!! Thank you so much for all the wonderful feedback and kind comments. I made sure that the team heard them all and they were very much greatly appreciated.
Saturday saw the annual All Saints’ Christmas fair taking place and it was wonderful to see so many children and family members joining in the festive fun. Thank you so much to everyone who helped with organising beforehand and helping on the day as it really wouldn’t have been possible without such a team effort. We look forward to sharing the takings and most importantly seeing it make a difference to all the children of All Saints’.
Due to a wealth of generous donations we are running a whole school raffle to raise funds for Wow weeks etc. Prizes include a tablet, free 
Cheshire Primary afterschool clubs for next term and a food hamper to name but a few. If you would like to enter then please send a sealed envelope with £1 inside and write your child's name on the front by noon next Tuesday 20th December when the raffle will be drawn.
As you are aware there has been cases of Flu verified at a Stockport school. While there are no cases in our school at this time we want to ensure that our children remain healthy and take every precaution against the spread of the virus. The following link gives further information on Flu.
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/winterhealth/Pages/Fluandthefluvaccine.aspx
A polite request that if it’s not raining we ask you to please wait outside prior to coming in for assemblies etc. When the main entrance area gets very congested it can make it difficult for children who are entering via the main entrance and also for the main doors to the building to remain secure.
Another polite request that children come to school wearing the correct school uniform which includes school trousers/ skirts and 
also school shoes not trainers.
As always we would be very grateful for any helpers walking to and from Church next week for the Christmas Rehearsal and Service. If you can help at all even one way please let your child’s class teacher or the office staff know.
Monday 19th December – Christmas Service Rehearsal – leaving School for Church at 9.05am and returning approximately 10.45am.
Tuesday 20th December – Christmas Service Rehearsal – leaving School for Church at 9.05am and returning approximately 10.45am.
Wednesday 21st December – Christmas Service – leaving School for Church at 1.20pm and returning approximately 2.45pm.
Many thanks in advance for your support.
I hope everyone has a lovely weekend and look forward to a special week next week, with a reminder that we break up at normal time on Thursday 22nd December,
Mrs Morton.
All Saints’ really has been alive with the sound of music this week. A very well done to all the children and thanks to all the family members who went to
Saint George’s Church in Stockport on Monday for the School’s Choir Service. It was a wonderful event and put everyone in the Christmas spirit. A huge thank you to Mrs Noble for all her time, effort and hard work in organising the event and getting the choir to sing so beautifully. I had the pleasure this morning of accompanying the Choir to the United Reform Church where once again the Choir brought smiles to the faces of many and shared in the All Saints’ Way beautifully representing School.
Wonderfully the All Saints’ Christmas Tree displayed at St Martin's Church as part of their Christmas Tree Festival won best Children’s Tree as vo
ted for by the Mayor of Stockport. They also said that many people commented on how beautiful and unusual it was. As you can see from the picture it sums up the creativity and uniqueness of our School and children beautifully. Thank you so much to Mrs Eva and Mrs Clayton for all your efforts and time supporting this project and well done everyone!
A huge thank you to everyone for all your Operation Christmas Child donations. We sent about 40 boxes this year which is wonderful and don't 
forget to look out for your email in January to find out where your box went and how your donation has helped! Thank you also again to Mrs Eva for organising.
A huge thank you to everyone who came and joined us for our Christmas Lunch this week and also thank you for your 
wonderful and positive feedback. The lunch was enjoyed by all who came and in particular the children. Many thanks also to our school cook sylvia and her team of staff who worked very hard to serve three hundred meals on the day!
Parents' Association Christmas Fair!
It is finally here and Santa will be arriving tomorrow! There are still places to see Santa remaining so please do come along. 
There is also so much more with fun and games, food and drink for all the family. All money generated will go towards supporting your children here at All Saints’. In addition you will notice our amazing Christmas tree in the hall where an individual bauble created by each child is being displayed. Please do take a look and if you would like to buy your child’s bauble then please send in £2 with your child in an envelope clearly marked with your child's name and the bauble will be given out to bring home before the end of term. Many thanks for all your help and support in advance.
As always we would be very grateful of any helpers walking to and from Church over the next two weeks for both the KS1 Performance and the Christmas Service. If you can help at all even one way please let your child’s class teacher or the school office staff know.
Monday 12th December - Infant Dress Rehearsal (whole school watching) – leaving from School for Church at 1.20pm and returning approximately 2.30pm.
Wednesday 14th December – Infant Performance – leaving School for Church at 9.05am and returning approximately 10.30am.
Monday 19th December – Christmas Service Rehearsal – leaving School for Church at 9.05am and returning approximately 10.45am
Tuesday 20th December – Christmas Service Rehearsal – leaving School for Church at 9.05am and returning approximately 10.45am
Wednesday 21st December – Christmas Service – leaving School for Church at 1.20pm and returning approximately 2.45pm
Many thanks in advance for your support.
The LA has issued an introduction for parents and carers with information about online gaming which is a valuable read and attached below.
I look forward to seeing you at the Fair tomorrow, have a great weekend,
Mrs Morton.
Well December is here and the cold weather has definitely arrived too! Christmas preparations and festivities 
will really start to get underway in the final three weeks of term as we enter this very special and magical time for our children.
I would like to say a huge thank you for everyone’s patience this week with regards to the Key Stage One playground. Unfortunately due to the recent heavy
rain the mains under Brickbridge Road were overwhelmed and this resulted in our cellar flooding. United Utilities have accepted fault and as you have seen the very messy clean up job has begun! As it was not something that could wait until the holidays and due to the nature of the job for obvious health and safety reasons we needed to ensure that the area around the cellar is cordoned off. The insurance company has acted swiftly meaning all our Christmas decorations that were stored down in the cellar will be replaced to ensure we are business as usual over the festive period. Thank you again for your understanding and patience during this period.
Christmas Fair!
A Message from the Parents’ Association
If anyone is able to help out during the Christmas Fair, for any amount of time, even just 20 minutes, please can you let Helena Monds know - 
helenamonds@hotmail.co.uk or comment on the Parents' Association Facebook page 'Parents' Association All Saints Marple'. If you're not already a member of the page just ask to join - everyone welcome and it's a great way to keep up to date with what is going on.
The final dress down day before the All Saints’ Christmas fair next Saturday (10th) is Friday 9th December
Reception and KS1 – cakes 
KS2 – chocolate.
We also have a signup sheet to meet Santa at the Christmas Fair at the Office. It is £2.00 and you can book a time between 12.00pm and 1.30pm.
Year 5 and 6 had a wonderful afternoon on Wednesday when they organised a Veterans tea party linked to their topic. The children were very lucky to spend the afternoon meeting a number of local veterans and learnt so much from the experience. A huge thank you to everyone who came and gave up their time to enrich the lives of our children, it really was a very special occasion.
Thank you to the families who attended the ‘Keeping your child safe in the virtual world’ meeting on Tuesday morning as always the feedback was excellent and I would like to thank Tanya Cross the Local Authority Health and Wellbeing Advisor for running the session.
Well done to our children who attended the Hockey tournament on Wednesday night – they won one match, drew in 
another and lost in two, but had a wonderful time and went home with happy smiling faces.
Finally next Friday the elves will return to take Santa’s post box back to him so make sure you get your letter in on time!
Enjoy your weekend and see you all on Monday,
Mrs Morton.
We are delighted to announce that our Parent Governor vacancies have been filled. Both Ali Holmes and Naomi Makin nominated them
selves for the positions and as there were two vacancies both were able to be appointed without an election process. We are very thankful for them wanting to join the Governing Body and sure they will be wonderful additions bringing lots to their new roles.
Next week we are holding a session on 'Keeping your Child Safe in the Virtual World' on Tuesday morning at 9.00am. This is a meeting for parents
and families and run by Tanya Cross an LA Consultant. The previous feedback from parents who attended said it was an excellent and very eye opening training opportunity, so please do attend if possible.
The Book Fair was huge success and we want to say a huge thank you to everyone who supported school with their purchases. We managed to raise a very impressive £518.75, which will mean the Learning Council will be busy choosing some fantastic new books for all our children to enjoy in the library.
In order to let the Reception children really shine they will be performing their very own nativity at the Christmas church Service on Wednesday 21st December instead of the KS1 Nativity, we can't wait to see all our infant children sparkle.
Marple Hall are holding a Musical evening with KS3 students on Tuesday 29th November at 6.30pm. Admission is free and everyone is welcome to attend and see a selection of their KS3 musicians, please see the flyer attached.
Dress down day reminders –
Thank you for all the contributions you made for today's Christmas fair dress down day and the next two Fridays are for the following.
Friday 2nd December R, KS1 - bottles/ KS2 – Christmas Craft Items
Friday 9th December- R, KS1 – cakes/ KS2 – chocolate
I hope you have a great weekend, remember Santa’s post box is still in the entrance for any letter,
Mrs Morton!
Huge well done to Ollie J in year 3 and Ben D in Reception as they have won the ‘Get caught reading competition’ with some wonderfully unusual locations! Thank you for all your great entries which are now proudly displayed in the Key Stage 2 corridor. Many thanks also to Miss Leah and Mrs Preece for organising.
Last Friday as part of their topic years 5 and 6 went to Memorial Park to pay their respects for Remembrance Day. We are so proud of the children and their respectful and reflective behaviour and this was confirmed further by receiving phone calls and even tweets praising the children and how well they represented themselves and All Saints'. This was also demonstrated by all of the classes and how well they all observed the silence at 11am, so thoughtful - thank you and well done everyone.
I had the absolute pleasure of accompanying some year 5 and 6 girls this week to the Stockport girl’s active day at the Armitage Centre in Manchester and it was a fantastic day. With scooters to baseball and weightlifting to Zumba the children showed brilliant All Saints' spirit and a growth mind set attitude to every part of the day, another proud moment for All Saints' - very well done girls!
On Tuesday Mr McShane set out to Marple Hall with a group of Key Stage 2 runners for a Cross Country competition. Despite getting very muddy and very tired (it was a very long course) the children were still smiling at the end and gave it their all. I know Mr McShane was delighted with everyone’s level of resilience in particular, so another big All Saints’ well done!
Thank you to everyone who came to Parents’ Meetings this week and taking the time to complete the feedback - as always it is greatly appreciated. Please do send it back when you have completed it if you took it home. Once collated and analysed we will feedback to parents on the findings and future actions.
Dress down day reminders -
Friday 25th November R, KS1 – Festive Food/ KS2 – Pamper Products
Friday 2nd December R, KS1 - Bottles/ KS2 – Christmas Craft Items
Friday 9th December- R, KS1 – Cakes/ KS2 – Chocolate
I hope you have a great weekend, remember Santa’s elves will be delivering his post box on Monday ready for your letters,
Mrs Morton.
A huge well done and congratulations to our Year 5, and 6 Boys Football team who won their match against Fairway 3-1 on Monday night. Fantastic All Saints’ spirit displayed and thanks to all the families who came to cheer them on and also Mrs Preece and Mr Granite for organising.
Thank you to everyone who attended the Year 2 SATs meeting on Tuesday at 6pm, it was wonderful to see so many families there, engaging and all working together so our fantastic children can really shine. Thank you also to Mrs Noble for all your planning and preparation and Mrs Shaw and Miss Shaw for giving up their time to allow a crèche to be open.
Next friday is Children in Need Day and to help raise money, we are having a Silly Socks (or tights) day in return for a donation to the Children in Need appeal. Your child should wear their usual school uniform with their choice of silly socks/tights!
The Parents’ Association Christmas fair has been confirmed for Saturday 10th December, in preparation we will be having the following three dress down days for donations towards the fair.
Friday 25th November - Reception and KS1 – Festive Food/ KS2 – Pamper goods
Friday 2nd December - Reception and KS1 - Bottles/ KS2 – Christmas Craft Items
Friday 9th December – Reception and KS1 – Cakes/ KS2 – Chocolate
Mrs Taylor one of our parents has brilliantly set up an ‘Outgrown Uniform’ collection and sales, attached is the flyer. As it s
tates outgrown uniform…saves you money…raises money for school. With the money going to help fund WOW weeks, book bags and many more opportunities for the children that without the Parents’ Association support we simply could not provide.
You have hopefully received your appointment letters for Parents’ meetings next week and we look forward to seeing you then. Also, just a reminder the Book Fair is also on next week we will be displaying lost property in the hall on Monday 14th November 3.30pm - 5.30pm and on Thursday 17th November after school.
The Parent Governor Election closing date is Friday 18th November please do make contact if you would like further information about the role.
Santa's little Elves will be busy dropping off Santa's post box on 21st November, it will be in School until Friday 9th December so plenty of time for children to write a letter to Santa so he can reply to you all before his really busy period starts!
Marple Bridge URC are asking for donations of warm hats and gloves for the Big Issue sellers in Manchester, if you have any that you come across as you dig out your winter clothes at home then please bring them in as any donations will be gratefully received.
Lottery News. This half-term brings a chance to win a Kindle Fire as well as the weekly national £25,000 and our weekly £15. We have 38 supporters with a total of 52 tickets. That number has been quite stable since the summer, which suggests that our new Reception parents may not have cottoned on to this great way to add to school funds without it breaking the bank, and having a bit of fun anticipation in the process. Follow the link on the 'win a kindle fire' poster below. It would be great to have 60 members by Christmas because that would bring in more than £1000 per year for school funds. To steal a phrase - you've got to be in it to win it !
I hope you have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Morton
A very warm (much needed as the weather changes) welcome back to the second half of the Autumn Term. Can you believe
Christmas is not too far around the corner but of course there is much to do before then!
You should have received letters this week for Parent/Carer Meeting Appointments and also regarding the Parent Governor Election. The Governor vacancy letter is also attached below and we would really welcome people contributing to All Saints’ by joining the Governing Body, the closing date is Friday 18th November and the letter has much more information
about the role so please do take a look.
Thank you to everyone who has sent in some fantastic ‘Get caught reading’ photographs there are some brilliant ones and prizes will be announced soon!
A message from Mrs Noble … 
Scholastics Book fair AND Usborne Book Fair - please, please, please help us to buy new, inspiring Library stock! The more you spend, the more money and rewards off books we get to have the best, new quality books in classrooms and in our school libraries!
Please come along into the hall during Parent/Carer Meetings on Monday 14th November (3.30pm - 5.30pm) or Thursday 17th November (5.00pm - 7.30pm) to browse and hopefully purchase a book (or 2!). Also, the Book Fair will be available straight after school every day during that week for children and families to enjoy. This may be a little treat as a reward after Parents evening... or even for families to do a little Christmas shopping!
Many thanks for your wonderful support,
Mrs. Noble and Mrs. Shaw
Attached is a Marple Athletics Flyer with information about a girls event, for anyone that may be interested.
For a great cause please read the attached information leaflet about donating items to help populate the Rift Valley areas first library.
Next week we have the Year 2 Assessment meeting on Tuesday at 6pm, as well as lots of usual fun and learning. I hope you have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Morton.
Well we have had a fantastic end to this half term with our annual Church Week being the usual huge success that it is. The children have had a wonderful time learning a great deal whilst also very importantly having lots of fun too!
Thank you rea
lly does not come close to how grateful and appreciative we are for all the incredible hard work, planning, preparation and kindness that goes in to the event for the children by everyone at All Saints’ Church. There are too many to thank individual (but I hope you like the cards from the children) but of course we do need to mention Mr Alston who dedicates himself tirelessly to supporting our children and making Church Week full of many happy memories so a massive, massive THANK YOU. Thank you also to all the wonderful parents and family members who helped the children walking to and from Church on the multiple trips we would be lost without you!
A flyer is now on the website about our exciting Reading competition. For our new reading recommendation display, we need a photo of you reading in an unusual location! Some of the teachers have given some ideas (sorry to any Warrington Rugby fans about mine!) and there will be a prize for 
the most imaginative entry! Please submit your photo by Friday 4th November. Pass on photos to Mrs Preece (KS1) and Miss Leah (KS2).
Another important deadline date for the diary is for our Year 6 families as the closing date for high school applications is 31st October.
Reminders ….
Donations are still being taken for the wonderful Owen and Maddie who are raising money for charity by having their hair cut off.
Parents' Association meeting will take place on Tuesday 1st November, 8.30pm at the Conservative Club.
Parent Meetings for Year 1 to Year 6 will take place the week commencing Monday 14th November as circulated in September on our Diary Dates sheet. Letters will be coming home to make an appointment after the holidays.
We hope you find the information covered on Parent Governor Vacancies and Academies useful. Many thanks to Mr Bailey for producing the newsletter too.
It just leaves me to say thank you to everyone children, staff, families and our wider community members for making a fantastic start to this academic year. I hope you have a fabulous half term and will see you ready and raring to go on Tuesday 1st November.
Mrs Morton.
Well as I write we have a lot of sleepy year 6 children and staff! But it was definitely all worth it as we had an absolute ball from Monday to Wednesday on our residential visit to Robinwood. They have thrown themselves off trapezes, abseiled down walls, canoed around a lake, built rafts and completed numerous challenges all with smiles on their faces. The children were a joy to take away, they showed amazing Growth Mindsets, challenging themselves to conquer their fears and so importantly doing it in the All Saints’ Way with endless support and encouragement for each other. It was so wonderful to be told by many members of Robinwood staff, which the children came into contact with on their trip, that our children were incredibly well mannered and polite. You are a real credit to yourselves, your families and All Saints’ – a huge well done. Of course I would also like to say a massive thank you to families for supporting the children to attend the trip and our fabulous staff Mr McShane, Mrs Pratt, Mrs Eva and Miss Aboo for all their hard work preparing and making the trip so special, including giving precious time up with their families, it is greatly appreciated.
We also have more amazing news to share from two of our children who separately and independently decided to do a very selfless act to raise money for others. Maddy in Year 3 is having her beautiful long hair cut off to be used as a donation, and Owen in Year 6 is going to shave his head, both are hoping to raise money for Cancer Research. If you would like to sponsor the children for what I am sure you will agree is an incredibly noble act then please do so either by sending in your donations in a clearly marked sealed envelope, or for Maddy please see her mum for details of her just giving page.
Following on from a successful meeting in September please put in your diary that the next Parents Association meeting will take place on Tuesday 1st November, 8.30pm at the Conservative Club, the more the merrier to start organising the Christmas Fair.
Both Drama Club and Dance club are to continue after the holidays following on from successful trial weeks. Letters have been sent home this week with your children regarding the Drama Cub.
A final reminder of our appeal for volunteers to walk the children to and from School for Church Week (week commencing Monday 17th October). If you are able to help at all please let the office know where a list will be kept to ensure we have an equal distribution of adults across classes.
· Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday morning - leaving School at 9.30am and collecting Reception from Church at 11.00am, and Classes 1 to 3 at 12.00pm.
· Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon - leaving School at 12.40pm and returning from Church at 3.00pm.
· Friday PM – whole School leaving for Harvest Service at 1.25pm and returning at approximately 2.45pm.
The Church Service will have a collection for the well spring charity, with any money gratefully received.
I hope you have a wonderful weekend and see you next Monday,
Mrs Morton
I have the pleasure of starting this week’s newsletter with some lovely news that Mr McShane and his wife welcomed their little boy Micah into the world a week last Thursday and I am sure you will join me in wishing them all the health and 
happiness in the world.
We have had lots going on recently in terms of trips and visits with Year 1 and 2 visiting Beeston Castle last week for their ‘Kings and Queen’s Topic’, Year 3 literally walking like Egyptians on their topic day on Monday and also our fantastic Year 5 and 6s who represented All Saints’ in the true All Saints’ Way at the Local Athletics Meet at Marple Hall on Wednesday night. Thank you to all the children for shining the All Saints’ light so brightly and also all the staff and families who supported the events it is greatly appreciated.
Can I just draw your attention to a repeat notice from last week of a request for volunteers to help walk the children to and from School for Church Week (week commencing Monday 17th October). Also, please note that the Reception children will be
returning to School from Church at 11.00am not 11.30am as I put in last week’s blog. If you are able to help at all please let the office know where a list will be kept to ensure we have an equal distribution of adults across classes.
· Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday morning - leaving School at 9.30am and collecting Reception from Church at 11.00am, and Classes 1 to 3 at 12.00pm.
· Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon - leaving School at 12.40pm and returning from Church at 3.00pm.
· Friday PM – whole School leaving for the Harvest Service at 1.25pm and returning at approximately 2.45pm.
Many thanks in advance.
Thank you very much for all of your donations on 'dress in a colour of a country' day - we raised £84.95 which has been 
donated to the 'Send A Cow' appeal helping orphaned children in Uganda.
We have been made aware that Lockside (the road off Suttons Lane) is going to be closed on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (10th/11th/12th) next week for resurfacing, this may affect a number of people’s journey’s to and from School.
Attached is a flyer about FA Girls’ Football Week that will be taking place between 10th – 16th October. A great initiative to 
help get more females involved in football and Marple Athletic JFC is inviting all girls to come and try a free session as part of football week.
Well I am sure along with the Year 6s I will be having a busy weekend packing and getting ready for Robinwood, see you 
there Year 6 and have a great weekend everyone.
Mrs Morton. ?
I would like to start this week’s newsletter with a huge thank you to Mrs Chilton who after our request for any support with some safe outside storage has kindly contacted ‘ The Rotary Club’ and they have kindly donated £100 towards our cause. 
This is wonderful as thanks to the Nolan family we now have secure outside storage for Reception. The money donated will allow us to purchase some safe storage for our ever growing Forest School resources.
Following on from feedback during our Open Morning Parent Workshop last week we have added to the website a leaflet about DB Primary (our online learning environment) and also a video clip that will help you navigate around your child’s profile. They can be found on the home page, under the Parent Tab and clicking on the DB Primary link. We hope you will find this useful.
Mrs Taylor and the Parent’s Association have set up a donation box in the main entrance area for any unwanted uniform. A flyer will follow with more information to save you money whilst raising money for School.
I can’t believe that we are coming up to the annual All Saints’ Church Week, but as it is only a few weeks away we are asking for any parent helpers to assist the children walking to and from Church. If you are able to help at all please let the office know where a list will be kept to ensure we have an equal distribution of adults across classes.
Many thanks in advance.
Finally – unfortunately we had an incident outside of School with a child and a dog last week. We have spoken to the whole School about not approaching unfamiliar animals and we ask that you refrain from bringing dogs onto the School playground and also are mindful if dogs are left unattended outside of the School grounds while collecting children. Thank you for your understanding.
I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend, Mrs Morton. ?
Well it has been another productive and fun week at All Saints’ everyone right from our youngest children in Reception are really settling in to their new classes and taking the challenges in their stride. The children are really getting to grips with their new topics and exciting trips and events are just around the corner too.
We hope that you enjoyed seeing your child’s new class and meeting their staff team this morning, a huge thank you to everyone who was able to make it and also those who were able to stay and attend the ‘How to help my child with their learning’ workshop. We hope everyone had both a useful and enjoyable morning. As always any feedback is gratefully received.
I would like to say a huge All Saints’ ‘THANK YOU’ to Mr and Mrs Nolan who after our call for help after the vandalism in 
the summer came to our rescue and kindly sourced, fixed up and delivered four wonderful metal containers for the Reception Children’s outdoor equipment. We are so thankful for your kindness.
I was recently called by Julian Wadden Estate Agents and asked if we could share the information below and allow them to raise money for School to purchase a defibrillator, we of course said yes so please spread the word…
‘Anyone that sells their property with ourselves and their child is enrolled in All Saints’ C of E Primary School we will donate 5% of our fee to help you raise money for a defibrillator.
This can also apply to anyone who is associated with the school. i.e. Staff, governors, grandchildren etc.
Defibrillators cost around £1,000 and an additional £200 for training. So we are happy to raise £1,200 for All Saints’ C of E Primary School for this worthy cause.
Another great cause is the McMillan Coffee morning being held at Hawk Green Cricket Club on Friday 30th September 10.00am to 12.00pm. Please see the flyer below for more information.
I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and look forward to seeing you all on Monday, Mrs Morton.
Well another week has flown by and lots has been achieved and new topics really begun to capture the imagination. A big thank you to the all the families who joined us this week on Wednesday evening for the Reception Phonics Meeting and also
Thursday evening for the Year 6 SATs and Robinwood meeting (I can’t believe it is that time of year again!). Also a big thanks to Mrs. Preece and Mr. McShane for organising and running the events and Mrs. Noble, Mrs. Shaw and Miss Shaw for all their help with the Crèche.
Homework has gone out his week and we have made some minor tweaks following further feedback and our constant drive to improve. An explanation of the system can be found on your child’s class page (please go to Class tab at the top and select your child’s class) as always any questions please do just ask.
You may remember that we ran a Survey Monkey in July and a huge thank you to all the parents who completed the questionnaire.
Question 1 ‘How many times a year do you feel is appropriate for School Trips and how much do you feel is an appropriate amount of money to aim for per trip?’
The majority of responses were around 1 or 2 a term. The amount per trip ranged from £7.00 to £20.00. We always do try to keep costs to a minimum as understand that it can be a big expense for families. The large proportion of the cost goes on the transport costs and workshop costs even if going to a free location. As such we are going to increase the information that is shared on the letter going home regarding the trip to ensure that the cost is transparent for families. School never make a profit on trips and very often a loss, as such we hope we are able to continue to offer a range of trips and will continue to look for as many free opportunities as possible and if you have any links or ideas we are always keen to hear them!
Question 2 ‘Which Wow Weeks do you feel have been the best and do you have any ideas for future trips?’
There were many favorites named with Science, Dirty Maths Week and Active Week coming out on top. We also had many great ideas with a ‘Bake off’ inspired Wow Week and ‘Outdoor fun’, so watch this space for future events!
Question 3 ‘Which topics in the curriculum have really sparked your child’s interest this year?’
Again there were many examples given so this will be built upon in future curriculum planning as we also continue to try and follow children’s interest.
Question 4 ‘Your feedback on Extra-Curricular opportunities e.g. Music, drama, P.E?’
Music and sports opportunities were very popular choices and had clearly been successful for children. Feedback was also given for after school club ideas which we will of course look into through possible outside agencies and also through staff running free clubs.
Any other comments – including any requests for future parent/ career training events…
Thank you so much for the many words of appreciation and kindness that were shared here it was very special to read and meant a lot to all the staff. Also, requests were shared in how to support your child, therefore next week’s training following open morning will be a session on ‘How to help my child’.
Thank you again to everyone for taking the time to complete the survey.
As mentioned above we have our Open Morning next Friday with a chance to come and see your child’s new classroom from
9.00am to 9.45am (please take your child to school as normal and then make your way to the office to sign in). Followed by a Supporting my child’s learning workshop in the hall from 9.45am to 10.30am. A crèche is available for the workshop and we would be very grateful if you would let the office know if you would like any places and we really hope you are able to make it.
Another Diary Update – Tanya Cross a Local Authority Consultant will be coming to All Saints’ on Tuesday 29th November from 9.00am to 10.00am to run a ‘Keeping your child safe in the virtual world’ meeting for parents. We are delighted she is able to return to deliver the session as it received excellent feedback from families who attended last time and hope you will be able to attend.
I hope you have a wonderful weekend and the sunshine lasts, Mrs Morton.
Marple Rugby have asked us to share with you the attached poster and more details as follows:
They meet every Sunday morning in September at 10:00 at our home ground off Wood Lane (adjacent to the Middlewood Way) - from October our U7 to U11 teams may be at 'away' fixtures. Membership is £60 for the season and that also includes insurance cover from the RFU. Fixtures and training run all the way through to the end of April. We have teams in every age group from Reception to Year 6 and beyond.
All girls and boys welcome - our qualified and experienced coaches foster teamwork, listening skills, spacial awareness, problem solving, agility and balance; as well as delivering the basics of rugby - starting with TAG in a fun and safe way; developing through to the more recognisable 'contact' rugby once they move into Year 4.
Our website can be found at pitchero.com/clubs/marple
A very warm welcome back to everyone as we start our new academic year and of course the warmest of welcomes to all our new children and families who have joined us also. We are delighted to share a massive congratulations to Miss Day and her family who welcomed baby Alexander in the holidays, they are all doing well and we are all really excited to have them come and visit us soon.
It has been lovely to hear of all the adventures that have taken place over the summer and so fantastic to see everyone back 
refreshed and raring to go! As always this term has had a fantastic start with our International Wow Week, the children have had a wide range of visitors from China to Poland, India to Persia and Mr and Mrs Currie also shared what it was like to live in Japan! It has been amazing to have all these special visitors share their cultures with our children and also start to learn about our new link with a School in Uganda which we will be building on in the future. In addition Sylvia in the kitchen has managed to cook up an international feast every day – a huge thank you to her and all our visitors and our fantastic staff for making it such a wonderful first week back. A special thank you to Mrs Noble for organising International Wow Week so wonderfully.
Following on with more positive news the new Landlord of the Ring O’Bells has very kindly emailed to say that he is more
than happy for our families to park at the pub car park and walk to school at pick up and drop off. This is brilliant news to help us ensure that the children can come to and from School safely and as always we ask that you are ever mindful of this when driving around school.
Sadly the next news is not as positive as we were again visited over the holidays by some people who decided to vandalise our Reception playground and damage equipment. We are therefore appealing to people if they know of any links or know anyone with a metal container that they no longer need to please let us know so we can try and improve the security of the equipment.
Attached is the Autumn Term Diary Dates, please do try and make a note of these upcoming events in your diary and more information will follow as events approach. Below is also some information that Marple Athletics have asked us to share with families.
Marple Athletic JFC Girls Only Football Training
Girls of all ages and abilities are invited to attend our Girls-Only training sessions. The sessions are a fun introduction to football, excellent exercise and a great way of making new friends. It is taken by female qualified FA coaches. Our newly formed U11 team particularly needs year 5/6 players to play in a Saturday league and new teams will be formed to play league games as our numbers in the different age groups grow. We hope more girls will join us and benefit from belonging to a team and the excitement of match days.
Training takes place on Thursday evenings between 7:30-8:30pm at Marple Hall School on the all weather pitch.
Contact secretarymajfc@gmail.com for further information or just turn up on the evening!! Just bring along a drink and wear shin pads and suitable trainers or football boots.?
I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and can’t wait to get back and start on their amazing new topics next week.
Mrs Morton
Well I can’t believe it but the 2016-2017 Academic year has come to an end and we really did go out with a bang, thank you to our wonderful Class of 2016! The Year 6s put on a performance of a Mid-Summer Nights Dream (with a few modern 
twists and other dance moves) that I am sure Shakespeare himself would be proud of. A huge well done to them and thank you to all the staff involved in making it such a wonderful memory for everyone to take away with them.
We were also very lucky this week to have our special guests Miss Goulding visit us on Tuesday and Wednesday and also Miss Day was able to come in so we could wish her well as she starts her maternity leave.
Sadly as always the end of year brings people moving on and we want to say a huge goodbye and enormous thanks to Miss Vesey for all she has done for the children of All Saints’ over her four years with us and wish her all the very best as she
embarks on her new role at her new school. We also said goodbye to Mrs Ramsden who has worked for many years at All Saints’ supporting children with SEND and we wish her all the happiness in the world for a long and fun filled retirement.
We even managed to squeeze in a pizza party for Year 6 and two trips this week with Year Y3 and 4 visiting the ‘Garden
House’. Thank you to all the staff involved in making it happen and Harriet’s Mum for suggesting it.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the Survey monkey questionnaire results will be shared in September. Also in September we will be starting term with our International week, the flyer is attached and we are really looking forward to starting the term off with a great array of activities and hope you are all able to join us on Friday 9th September in a flag themed costume (New Reception children as it is there first full day in School will come dressed in their normal uniform).
We had much to celebrate today in our Achievement Assembly and Maths Ice-cream party and I think that we have much to celebrate as this has been an extremely positive year for All Saints’. I would like to take this opportunity to thank our
wonderful children for all their hard work and laughter throughout the year, our amazing staff for their tireless energy and all that they do above and beyond their job descriptions, our fantastic Governors and volunteers who are so dedicated and committed to our children and finally the families who support us every day. Thank you so much for all the kind words and generosity shared with all our staff, it means more than you can imagine.
Finally I wish our Year 6 the very best of luck as they move on and I hope that everyone has a wonderful and peaceful
holiday and look forward to seeing you all again on Monday the 5th September.
Mrs Morton.
Well this week we unfortunately had to say an early goodbye to Miss Day. Miss Day is expecting her first child and was 
hoping to see the children through in Class 5 until the end of the year, but has been advised to rest before the baby arrives. She is very much hoping to come in next Wednesday morning to see the Year 6 Production and say goodbye to everyone, I am sure you will join me in wishing her and her family all the very best.
As always the end of the year brings with it lots of sorting and organising therefore we want to make sure that all the children take everything home from their lockers. As such if you can send your child in with carrier bags particularly next 
Tuesday when they will be bringing their books home to share with you that would be greatly appreciated. Also if you have come across any final library books then please do bring them in.
In preparation for September the required uniform is listed below to ensure everyone comes back smart and ready to go!
Jewellery is not allowed in school, with the exception of earrings. These must be the ‘stud’ type, all earrings must be removed for P.E. and games activities on safety grounds. (In line with L.A. guidelines).
Please ensure all uniform including PE Kit is clearly labelled with your child’s name.
PE Kit
PE Kit should be placed in a bag and clearly labelled with your child’s name, it remains in school in your child’s locker and will be sent home at the end of each half term to be washed.
Possible Uniform Retailers
School uniform can be purchased from:
http://www.tjcanvas.co.uk/school-uniform/all-saints-marple
Mrs Sargeant our SENCo would like to make everyone aware of the All Saints’ SEND Local Offer that explains what we offer for children to support any additional needs, it can be found on our website under the School, then policies and safeguarding tab and please don’t hesitate to contact her if you have any questions.
I’m sure you are all aware of the latest craze sweeping the country at the moment Pokémon Go: and some of the concerns that it’s causing! The NSPCC have produced some information for parents. Please follow the link to find out more, https://www.nspcc.org.uk/preventing-abuse/keeping-children-safe/online-safety/pokemon-go-parents-guide/
In preparation for the current Year 5 children and families making a decision about High School, Marple Hall have asked us to make parents aware that they will be running sessions in September at the following schools and you are welcome to attend any of the events. Each will be held at 6pm on the dates below.
Wednesday 7th : Rose Hill
Monday 12th: Mellor
Wednesday 14th: Romiley
Thursday 15th: Fairway
Next week will as always be full of activities including ice-cream parties and Year 6 production and many celebrations.
Looking forward to seeing you all next week for our final 4 days of this academic year, have a lovely weekend.
Mrs Morton.
Last Friday saw the wonderful Summer Fair take place and there wasn’t even a rain drop in sight (think this is worth a cheer)! It was a pleasure to see so much effort, team work, commitment and dedication to the children of All Saints’ by so many people (adults and children). The excellent planning that went into the event was demonstrated by the wide variety of stalls from hook a duck and rabbit racing to henna and the BBQ. The children from each class had some amazing ideas too and showed some entrepreneurs in the making with their fantastic project management skills! There are so many people to thank but I would like to start with the children for their commitment to their class stalls, staff for supporting them, the fabulous Parents Association who have joined together for meetings and the sharing of tasks so well to ensure that it was such a successful event and finally I will finish with thanking everyone who attended and contributed to the amazing total raised of over £2,000! The opportunities and experiences that this will allow us to bring to all the children is brilliant and would not be able to take place without everyone’s continued support.
Yesterday also saw another example of the ‘All Saints’ Way’ and wonderful spirit of the All Saints’ Community as the day started with the Reception, Year 1, 2 and 3 Singing Schools Concert. The children were exceptional and put on a concert that was extremely professional and thoroughly enjoyed by the family members in the audience. Thank you so much to all the 
children for literally singing their hearts out, the staff and Stockport Music Service for all their support to the project and the audience who made performing in the concert very special for the children.
I can’t believe it is here but we also welcomed the new Families of our new Reception intake last night for their induction meeting, it has been lovely getting to know the children over the last few weeks and welcoming new families into All Saints’. We hope that you and your child/children will be very happy during your time with us and am sure that everyone will make
you feel very welcome.
The Summer Reading Challenge takes place every year during the summer holidays and you can sign up at Maple Library, then read six books of your choice to complete the challenge and there are rewards to collect along the way – please follow this link to find out more http://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/
The children came home today with their end of year reports, we hope that you enjoy reading them and would as always really welcome any feedback via the slips at the end. In addition as at All Saints’ we always aim to be the best we can be and in line with our key principles very much ‘value everyone’ and therefore would welcome your thoughts on 5 questions, so we can use the information in the responses to try and build on and incorporate this into our future planning. We would be very grateful if you could complete the short 5 Question Survey by following this link: All Saints' Summer Survey by Monday 25th July, many thanks in advance for your continued support. The All Saints’ Team.
Each day from now until the end of term we will be trialling daily exercise in Reception, Key Stage 1 and a daily run in Key
Stage 2 to help us improve our fitness and wake us up! If successful we may continue on into the new academic year.
Weather permitting, the exercise/runs will start at 8: 45am in the Key Stage 1 playground and on the school field (trainers needed but no need for full PE kits) and will run until the whistle goes. This activity will be optional and you can join in even if you are not there at the very start.
In September our Wow Week will be 'International Week' and a flyer with more information will be out before the end of term. If anyone has any international links or any language skills then please let the office know so we can get in contact.
And finally, we have invited Badged (The School uniform company) into school next Wednesday 20th July from 3.15pm for
you to be able to be super organised and purchase your child’s school uniform in advance. They can also take orders on this day too.
I hope you have a brilliant weekend and look forward to seeing you all next Monday,
Mrs Morton.
We are delighted to announce that the money raised from the Active Week Passports Sponsorship has been collected and counted and
we raised a fantastic £927. This money will go towards funding the Toilet Twinning Project to help ‘flush away poverty’ and also to save the Children for the fabulous Den Building day that took place during Active Week. A huge thank you for all your generosity and support.
Yesterday saw each of the classes move up for the morning to their new class for September. There were lots of excited children and lots of fun was definitely had. There will continue to be further transition opportunities for the children over the next few weeks and a 
booklet will be coming home to the Reception children to explain the changes as they move into Key stage One and also Year Two as they move into Year Three and Key Stage Two.
Please, please, please could you have a good look through all your books at home to check that you have no home - school reading
books lurking in your own mini libraries? Some book band boxes are now hugely lacking in quantity due to books not being returned to school which leaves us really short as new home- school reading books are approximately £7.00 each! Whatever you have, however long you have had them, please don't worry just bring them back and put them in the 'Returns Box' for our amazing Y6 book monitors to sort ready for children to enjoy next year.
The same applies to all library books. At the start of this school year, we spent approximately £800 on brand new library books but sadly there are many of these quality books that have not been returned. Whilst we love all the books to be out and for children to be reading them at home, we really do need everyone to respect our school stock, minimum budgets and to return the books asap! We are currently doing a huge stock take to get rid of any old stock. Many of these books will be being sold for a very, minimal amount (5p etc) at this Friday's Summer Fair so please do come along and help to bulk up your own home libraries. A huge thank you to Mrs Furniss for the endless job of helping us manage and organise our school library.
During the forthcoming autumn term, with clear shelves in our library we will hold our annual Book Fair to raise funds for further fabulous, new books that we hope will be enjoyed by your child/ren for many years to come from our school library. Further details will follow in the new academic year. In the meantime we look forward to seeing those books rolling in next week!
Today is our Summer Fair so fingers crossed for dry weather and we hope you all come and join in the fun.
Finally a reminder that we are holding a ‘Singing Concert’ where all of our Reception, years one, two and three will be putting on a wonderful performance to showcase their singing abilities for all parents, carers and families. Please come
along and show them your support. The show is taking place next Thursday 14th July at 10.15am in the school hall.
Have a fabulous weekend everyone, see you on Tuesday after Inset Day,
Mrs Morton.
Hello or should I say ‘Bonjour’ in this newsletter as we started off the week with our French day. It was great fun to have a
whole school French themed assembly, French Café to sample the French cuisine and lots of French fun with activities (who can build the tallest Eiffel tower from spaghetti and marshmallows) and workshops from an expert! The children had a huge amount of enthusiasm for the day and thank you to everyone for joining in with the red, white and blue theme. A huge thank you to Miss Taylor and Miss Leah in particular who have worked really hard on organising the day, it was a great success!
We had an absolutely wonderful Singing Concert on Wednesday afternoon with our Years 4, 5 and 6. It was a fantastic 
showcase of all the work on singing that has taken place over the last academic year and the audience really enjoyed it leaving extremely positive feedback. We look forward to the Reception, Year 1, 2 and 3 performance at 10.15am on Thursday 14th July and hope lots of you can join us. Also, attached is a flyer for Stockport Singing Schools Choir to continue to encourage our love of singing at All Saints’.
We had an unannounced visit from Environmental Health on Tuesday and we are delighted to report back that All Saints’ 
received a 5 Star Hygiene Rating. A huge well done and thanks must go to our wonderful Cook Sylvia and her team as this can only be achieved through lots of hard work and elbow grease!
As you will be aware the National Union of Teachers voted to take strike action on Tuesday 5th July and as a result we have a partial School closure on Tuesday. Letters were sent out yesterday along with a text message.
Unfortunately we have recently had quite a few children requiring medication in school. Please be reminded that we are only able to administer prescription medicines.
Next week fingers crossed for a lovely sunny day on Friday as we host our Summer Fair, signup sheets are in the school main entrance and with teachers also, so if you are able to help it would be greatly appreciated and if not please do just come 
along and join in the fun. Each class has also been working on creating their own stall so there will be lots of food, drink and fun to be had with many games.
I hope everyone has a great weekend and look forward to seeing you on Monday,
Mrs Morton.
Amazing, Awesome, so much fun are some of the words that have been used to describe Active Week 2016 and that is just the staff!! I don’t know how it has all been manged to be fit in but this week has seen Den Building for Save the Children, Scooter Workshops, Healthy Cooking, Martial Arts, Wake Up Shake Up, Dance, Obstacle Course, Sports Afternoon and much, much more!! I think we will all need a rest this weekend to recover. I would like to say a huge thank you to all the staff
particularly Mrs Preece, Miss Day and Mrs Manning who have put so much in behind the scenes to pull it all together resulting in such an enjoyable week for all.
The Carnival is another shining example of the All Saints’ Way and 5Rs and Suzanne Nolan (Reception Mum) sent me such a great summary I thought it would be wonderful to share…
It's not often you get to feel proud and part of something amazing! Lysbeth Black to do all that for us without children at school any more is above and beyond the call of duty. Linda Bell (still no idea how you got that flag on the sewing machine Thank you ... Ashley Kennerley (the stars were perfectly aligned) From the Reception kids who walked the whole way shaking buckets for cash, teachers who face painted and walked with us despite having their children on other floats. Dads whose 
muscles held some pretty heavy kites. The children who held banners and waved some very heavy flags, grandparents with sore arms playing parachute games the whole way round ... our Samba band, my three year old shouting "WE ARE ALL SAINTS’" completely unfazed by the crowds ahead of her... Moseley the dog and an amazing home-made Canoe and Olympic torch...and the way the other kids and grownups shouted in support all the way round THANK YOU XXXX ?? we may not have won but I now know just what that ALL SAINTS’ WAY is all about ......and it felt very, very special to be part of it.
Thank you so much to everyone who has attended meetings and organised the wonderful event and well done team All Saints’!
SUMMER FAIR
The summer fair is on Friday 8th July from 3.45pm. This is a HUGE fundraiser for the Parents' Association which enables us to provide extra resources and opportunities for all pupils throughout the school - such as forest schools equipment, the panto visit, Christmas gifts and a year 6 leaver’s meal - to name just a few! Please come along and support your school, have some fun and eat and drink at the onsite Bbq and bar. If you are able to offer some of your time (even just 15 minutes) to help on a stall then it would be hugely appreciated as many hands make light work! Please sign up on the sheet at the office, let your child's teacher know or email helenamonds@hotmail.co.uk, Thank you.
Attached below is another internet guide for parents this time about YouNow and also the following link has lots of Social Media Tips for families on the site. Finally below is also a Poster from the Kids Council for Disabled Children looking for teenagers for a Regional Participation Team, if you know anyone who may be interested.
After another busy week I hope everyone manages to have a peaceful weekend,
Mrs Morton.
Welcome back everyone to the final half term of this academic year. It has been lovely to see everyone after the break and also get started on what is always a busy few weeks. Firstly your child’s new Class Newsletter and Homework Grids have been put on the Class Pages on the Website, so please do take a look at what your child will be up to over the next 7 weeks. Also, your child has come home today with their new Class Team Pen Portrait – this introduces the new adults that will be supporting your child next year. To make everyone aware the classes next year at All Saints’ will be as follows:-
Reception – Mrs Preece, Mrs Whittleworth
Year 1 – Mrs Manning (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday AM) and Mrs Mylrea (Thursday, Friday), Mrs Burney
Year 2 – Mrs Noble, Mrs Wilson, Mrs Clayton, Mrs Hammond, Miss Shaw
Year 3 – Miss Leah, Mrs Parry, Mrs Shaw
Year 4 – Miss Taylor, Mrs Daniel, Mrs Shaw
Year 5 – Mrs Eva (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday), Mrs Sargeant (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday), Miss Daly
Year 6 – Mr McShane, Mrs Pratt, Miss Aboo
We are delighted to welcome Mrs Mylrea to our teaching team here at All Saints’ I am sure she will fit in really well and the children will very much enjoy being in her class.
The time of year has arrived with Marple carnival taking place tomorrow please take part in the quiz and also attend 
tomorrow where everyone is welcome to come and join in. If you could meet us all at 12pm at the recreation ground (in Brazilian/Rio or Olympic Sports themed fancy dress where possible) as the procession will be leaving at approximately 1pm.
The Carver Theatre are pleased to inform families that a number of children attending All Saints’ Primary School are performing in "Shakespeare Rocks". They have sent over a flyer which is attached below so please do go along if possible to enable the fantastic children to perform to a full theatre.
The new banners designed by the School Council have arrived and have been placed around the outside of school to remind everyone to keep our children safe when driving/parking around school. Thank you very much to the School Council for all your help and support with this very important matter.
Before the holidays the Year 6 children completed their three event High Five Netball competition with other local Schools, a 
very well done to all involved for your time, commitment and also determination to succeed you were a real credit to your families and All Saints’, so congratulations and thank you!
Finally, next week is Active Week so please do get sponsoring and come prepared for lots of active fun, also fingers crossed for a dry week so everything can take place including sports afternoon on Wednesday!
I hope everyone has a lovely weekend, Mrs Morton
Well this half term really has flown by. As we embark on the final half term of the year there is still so much to do and more fun to be had. A real highlight will be Active Week, which will take place during the second week back. A letter with more
details about the week, including a sponsor form as we are raising money for toilet twinning, save the children and the All Saints' Parents Association has already been sent home and can also be found below.
For our new families just to let you know that children are welcome to come in sports wear each day during Active Week (no beach wear please) trainers and the correct clothing are essential to ensure that the children can take part in all of the activities on offer across the week. A request also that earrings are not worn unless children are able to take them out themselves, again to ensure no one misses out. A water bottle in school to top up throughout the day is also a must. We are always hopeful for good weather so we would also be very grateful if children come into school with sun cream already on, along with a sun hat where necessary, please do refer back to the Sun Safety guide as mentioned in last week’s newsletter and attached below for recommendations.
A plea again to please use the holidays to check and treat if necessary your child's hair for headlice. We would love to be lice
free after the holidays!!!
I hope everyone has a wonderful two weeks and as always thank you for all your support over the last half term. I very much look forward to ending the year in the final half term with lots of celebrations around everything achieved by our wonderful children. See you all on Monday 13th June.
Mrs Morton.
Well a mixed bag with the weather again this week but yet again it has not stopped All Saints’, who have been out and about a lot this week.
Firstly well done to the Year 6 Rounders Team who represented us fantastically at the Stockport qualifiers at Rosehill last 
Friday, fingers crossed we made it to the next stage! Secondly an amazing set of results meant All Saints’ came 4th in the Year 3 and 4 interschool tournament at Brabyn’s Tennis Club on Wednesday.
Reception had a wonderful visit yesterday to Stockport Town Hall for a Nursery Rhyme Morning and finally Reception also managed to find time to fit in rehearsing and performing this morning a super class assembly. It is incredible to see how much the Reception children have all grown and flourished this year in order to put on such a polished performance! In all the situations listed above and also as commented on by a visiting Headteacher from another authority this week, the children make us very proud through their Growth Mindset attitude and bringing to life our values and the 5R's in the many different situations they encounter.
Public Health England have updated their guidance on Sun Safety (hopefully we will see it again sometime soon!) so please do
take a minute to have a look at the Parent Guidance attached at the very bottom of this page, and also ThinkUKnow.co.uk have brought out a You Tube Guide for Parents and Carers so please do take a look at the advice to ensure you keep your child safe whilst on the internet.
I hope everyone has a lovely weekend and see you for the final week of this half term on Monday, where does the time go…. Mrs Morton.
Well this has been an interesting week, with Academies and SATs very hot topics in the news! However, in the true All Saints’ Way, despite all the uncertainty surrounding education, we have remained focused on what the staff are all here for and that is our wonderful children.
As such we could not be prouder as we have seen our Year 2 and Year 6 children show amazing Growth Mindsets and approach all that has been asked of them with dedication, determination and oodles of the 5Rs. Taking it all in their stride we simply could not ask for anything more and that is why we brim with pride when we see all they have accomplished but most importantly their behaviour as a lifelong learner that will mean they will reach for the stars and achieve their goals and dreams. Well done All Saints’!
I was also fortunate enough to accompany our Year 6 Netball team to a tournament at Rose Hill Primary School last night where again our children shone in their attitudes with true resilience and sportsmanship - we are all looking forward to the next round in two weeks’ time!
Please do take a look at the Governor Newsletter that can be found below, as Governors are keen to share their work and for you to help shape their future focus. If you wish to see a paper copy please come to the School Office.
I also need to yet again bring up the (itchy) subject of head lice. We have had a number of cases reported in school and we urge all parents to please check your child’s head regularly and treat as necessary. If you need any advice you can always contact the School Nurse on 0161 426 9288.
Finally last night saw the Parents’ Association host a brilliant Games Night for our younger children who had a great time with lots of fun games planned and enjoyed by all. Thank you so much to all who came and the wonderful team of parents who organised such a successful event with money raised that will really benefit all the children.
Hope you have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Morton
Well the sun has finally made an appearance and it has been a lovely week here at All Saints’. The Year 2 children have begun their end of key stage assessments and the Year 6s embark on theirs next week. It is a credit to the children, their families and All Saints’ how they have approached ‘show off week’ as we call it at All Saints’ and I am sure you will join me as always in wishing our children the very best of luck.
The Parents’ Association have been busy planning a Reception, Year 1 and 2 Games Night which will take place next Thursday 
evening from 5.30pm to 7.00pm and there are loads of great games planned. Please book your place via the office and we hope to see lots of you there!
At All Saints’ we are very lucky to have such a knowledgeable and dedicated Governing Body who do so much for our school, as such they have decided to write a Governing Body Termly Newsletter which you can find at the bottom of this page as an attachment. We really hope you take the time to read it and find out about important future work including the academy agenda. Some hard copies are also available in the office.
I am delighted to announce that this year’s May King and Queen have been chosen and are (drum roll please …) Matthew B and Lucy Q. You will be able to see them being crowned at the Hawk Green May Day Event on Sunday 15th May. The event will take place between 12pm and 5pm with the crowning at 1.30pm.
I hope everyone has a sun filled weekend and look forward to seeing you next week,
Mrs Morton.
The children are really getting into the swing of their new topics with Amazing Authors in KS1 to Around the World in Key Stage 2. The children have really come back ready to make the most of the Summer Term so a huge thankyou to all families for all your continued support.
A huge thank you to Mrs Eva who has over the past two weeks run two parent Forest School sessions to show families what
Forest Schools is all about. We have received wonderful feedback and it is clear from this how much our children, families and staff believe in the benefits of Forest Schools and how it enriches and enhances our ethos and the All Saints' Way.
We also ran a successful SRE meeting on Tuesday night, where families came and looked at the spiral curriculum we use to teach healthy relationships. We received very positive feedback again and I would like to thank Mr McShane, Mrs Eva, Miss Taylor and Miss Leah for their support at the meeting and also Mrs Shaw and Miss Shaw for running the crèche.
The diary dates that were circulated last week stated that the School Sports Day during active week was going to be in the morning 
of Wednesday 22nd June, it will now take place in the afternoon from 1.30pm, apologies for this change. The Summer Term Diary Date has been updated on the website with the new time.
Please get those applications to be crowned May King or Queen in by next Friday. A reminder that to enter you must be able to attend the crowning on Sunday 15th May at Hawk Green May Day event.
Well the weather has definitely been changeable this week, so fingers crossed for a lovely bank holiday weekend and we will see you all when school re-opens on Tuesday 3rd May, Mrs Morton.
I hope everyone is feeling refreshed and refuelled from the holidays and have had a great first week back.
This half term we are moving onto our 5th Christian Value of ‘thankfulness’ and will be exploring this over the next few weeks through collective worship so please do talk to your children about what it means to them and share with them what it means to you.
Attached is the Summer Term Diary Dates please do take a minute to have a look at all of the upcoming events. Next Tuesday at 5pm we will be holding a meeting for parents to come and look at how our spiral curriculum from Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 2 explores relationships including Sex Education for our older children. Please do come along if possible where there will be a crèche available (please return slips to ensure we have enough staff in place for the crèche). The summer term Wow week will be the much loved Active Week and will be taking place week commencing 20th June where sports morning will also take place (fingers crossed for the sun time shining). More information will follow nearer the time to explain what the week entails.
We have been kindly asked to provide the May King and Queen for the Hawk Green Maypole Event, which is on Sunday 15th May in Hawk Green between 12-5pm (crowning May King and Queen at 1.30pm). Attached is an application form, with the winner being announced on the 6th May.
We had a very productive Parents’ Association meeting on Tuesday with some great ideas and things to look out for over the next term - including preparation for the Summer Fair on Friday July 8th from 3.45pm to 6pm. Thank you to everyone who attended. If anyone is able to donate or obtain raffle prizes please let us know. Thank you to everyone who met on Monday night and have said they will contribute to the All Saints' Carnival entry. If you are interested in helping with anything linked to the Parents’ Association, including the Summer Fair please contact our school office.
I hope everyone has a great weekend,
Mrs Morton.
hope everyone had a lovely Easter weekend. We have managed to pack a lot into this short week.
Firstly we have all been absolutely blown away by the quality and creativity displayed by the cracking array of Eggstravazanga entries this year, they really were eggcellent (sorry :-)). We have Eggihad Stadium, Egg White and the 7 yolks, and Mishell Obama to name but a few. Thank you to everyone's support for joining in with this All Saints' Easter tradition.
Secondly thank you for the wonderfully positive feedback from our Open Morning last Thursday. It was great to see so many family members make it despite the short notice due to the snow! We also received very positive feedback from the session on the New Curriculum and Assessment changes ran by Mrs Noble and Mr McShane, all the slides and handouts have been placed on the website so do please take a look if you get chance.
After great success in recent years the Carnival Team (made up of parents) will be meeting on Monday the 18th of April at 8.30pm at the new Samuel Oldknow pub on Market Street to start preparations for this year’s entry and everyone is welcome to join in! The theme this year is Rio so it should be very colourful and would be great to see if more funds can be raised to spend on our children here in school.
Finally I would just like to take a moment to thank all our community members for all they have contributed to yet another successful term. All our volunteers dedicating their free time to support our children, our governors for the incredible commitment they show to our school, All Saints' church for making us so welcome at all of their events, all our parents and carers for working in such strong partnership with us to help us do the best for the children, our wonderful staff who work tirelessly to do their very best every day and of course our All Saints' super stars - our children who never fail to put a smile on our faces or impress us on a daily basis and I am sure you agree make it so worthwhile for us all.
I hope everyone has a wonderful two weeks and I look forward to seeing everyone bright and ready for the Summer Term (full of lots more fun) on Monday 18th of April.
Mrs Morton.
What a lovely start to Spring last weekend with the sun shining and the spring in our step has continued this week. Over the last four days each of the classes from All Saints’ have had the wonderful opportunity to visit the All Saints’ Church Easter Encounter, where
the Easter Story was brought to life in 3D, with the Church transformed into Jerusalem. It really was a very unique opportunity that the children have really enjoyed. A huge thank you to everyone at All Saints’ Church for inviting us and also for the massive amount of time, energy and planning to make something so unique come to life, particularly David Waterston, Reverend Currie and Mr Alston. Also, thank you to all the walkers who helped get the children to and from Church safely.
The Lower Key Stage 2 children have been especially busy this week as they took a trip to Marple Library on Monday to explore what it has to offer, and Year 3 had an Artist Workshop day on Monday with a guest Artist in all day helping to really bring their Topic to life with some fabulous puppets being produced by the children on the day.
Next week will see the endeavours of the annual (optional) All Saints’ Eggstravaganza come to life. Please remember that this wo
uld count as your child’s Homework for the week too! There will be an opportunity at the end of the day on Thursday after collecting your children to come to the office, sign in and view all the wonderful entries. So let’s get cracking!!! Also lost property will be out on view for everyone to have a look at before the end of term. Can I also just take this opportunity to make a plea for everything that comes into School with your child has your child’s name in, as we are finding it increasingly challenging to return lost property to its rightful owner.
A huge well done and congratulations to Sabina in Class 5 and also to Naomi in Class 4 on both passing their Grade 2 flute exams with a merit. Thank you also to Mrs Hatton for supporting the children and helping them achieve their goals!
This newsletter comes to you on a Thursday as we start the Easter Weekend bank holidays. Unlike many authorities we are in School again next week Tuesday to Friday and break up for the two weeks Easter Holiday on Friday 1st April returning on Monday 18th April. So see you all on Tuesday and I hope you have a lovely long weekend, Mrs Morton.
It is lovely to see the sun shining this week and this was very helpful for our Year 5 and 6 children who set off on Tuesday to Eyam Village linked to their plague topic. Thank you to everyone who helped organise the trip, it was a great success and really brought the gruesome curriculum to life for the children!
Sadly I am writing again about the parking and driving around School as we are increasingly concerned that someone - potentially your child, is going to get seriously injured. We are awaiting new signage to be put up as designed by the School Council and have spoken to all children in assemblies this week about staying safe on the roads. We have spent hours trying to improve the situation with the Local Council but due to funding cuts and job losses this has been to no avail. Whilst we fully support the concern and absolutely want to do everything possible to prevent an accident, as a school we are unable to monitor, police or be responsible for adults and the way they park or drive on public highways. As such we urge if you have any concerns to direct them to Local Authority Traffic Department on 217 6111 or if it is a serious case to call the Police as you would if it occurred in another public location. Thank you very much for your understanding and support in this matter and as we are aware not everyone reads the newsletter so please do spread the word.
Keeping children safe in a virtual world is always a priority at School and the Local Authority have made us aware of some useful parent guides you may like to click on the following link to read through https://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/Support-tools/How-to-guides/ . We will also be hosting another Parents’ meeting run by the Local Authority in the Autumn Term on this topic as it received such excellent feedback last time.
Our re-arranged Open Morning will be held next Thursday and we hope as many as possible can join us. The format will be the same as the previously planned morning, with a chance to visit classrooms from 9.10am to 9.40am (please drop children off as normal and then come to the office to sign in). This will be followed by the Parents’ Basic Skills Training in the Hall from 9.45am to 10.30am approximately. Mrs Noble and Mr McShane will run the workshop and will be covering the new expectations in the New National Curriculum, updates on Assessments and practical ways to help your child. Unfortunately we are unable to run a crèche as the meeting is running during the School day but there will be coffee and biscuits to entice you to stay!! Following the training all the information from will be placed onto our School website so please do take a look.
Next week all classes will be going on a very special visit to All Saints’ Church to experience the Easter Encounter. A reminder that Year 6 will be visiting on Monday, Reception, Year 2 and 5 on Tuesday and Year 1, 4 and 3 on Wednesday.
School will close next Thursday at the usual time for the Easter Weekend and re-open on Tuesday 29th March.
Have a lovely weekend, Mrs Morton.
Well what a 7 days... Firstly the snow that was meant to turn to rain that never did last Friday. We had a wonderful day and it was fantastic to see such an array of costumes for World Book Day and also great fun exploring in the snow too! thank you so much to all the staff who between cars, trains, and long walks managed to make it to school so we could stay open. We will be holding the open morning and parents workshop meeting on Thursday 24th March, we appreciate this is now short notice but felt it important to do it as soon as possible so that assessment updates can be shared.
Well done to everyone who baked and contributed by buying cakes on the day too, despite the day we managed to raise money for the Reception playground storage fund and for the Eco Club fund, thank you to all of you who generously donated. Also, again thank you to everyone who supported the Parents’ Association 'Special Person Shop', with a big, big thank you to Mrs Healey, for her amazing Hunka Munka soap donations and also Mrs Nolan for the beautiful chocolate heart bags, also to Mrs Peatfield and Mrs Cochran for all their help too. Their next meeting will be held on Tuesday 19th April, 8.30pm at the Conservative Club and it really is the more the merrier.
Secondly, our Boiler!!! We want to say a very big sorry for all the inconvenience this obviously caused to lots of families. As you can see from the snow on Friday we would do everything in our power to stay open but this was simply out of our hands. We have three boilers in school (one being a back up) and due to a serious fault all three managed to stop working at once. In consultation with the Local Authority we were unable to be open as the school was well below the necessary temperature. A team of engineers spent Monday sourcing parts and travelling to Liverpool to collect them and sadly the original fault they thought those parts would fix did not get the Boilers working again on Monday afternoon. Therefore, we sadly had to close for a second day to allow the problem to be corrected and then the building get back up to the required temperature to allow the children back to school. Once again apologies for the difficulties caused and thank you for your understanding.
Castleton was a massive success for our Year 4 children, who in two days managed to fit in all of the following .... get the train, hike, orienteering, a complete a range of team building games, go night caving and also master a range of high rope activities. They even managed to make their own beds when they arrived (well nearly all ;-) A huge, huge All Saints' thank you to Miss Taylor, Mrs Eva and Mrs Herbertson for the hours involved in meticulously planning the residential to so willingly giving their free time up to make such a fantastic trip with memories that will last a life time.
I hope everyone has a really a lovely weekend, and fingers crossed for a much less eventful week next week, Mrs Morton.
Well this week has been a 'roaring success'!!! Particularly the wonderful surprise 'Wow' experience yesterday when we all went to the hall and realised that All Saints' had been visited by an amazing dinosaur. It really was an extraordinary experience and one that I am sure all the children will talk about for many years to come. Thank you very much to Mr McShane for organising the event it really will be a hard one to top!!
The Year 3 children had a fantastic start to their forest school sessions on Wednesday with the snow even coming down to make it even more wonderful. Year 4 have also been out and about exploring the local area making sure they are ready to tackle the map reading needed for their trip to Castleton next week, I am sure you will join me in wishing them all a great trip next Tuesday and Wednesday.
As previously mentioned in the Spring term Diary dates there will not be a typical Easter Service at All Saints' Church as an Easter Encounter experience is being put on during Holy Week at the Church. Throughout the week commencing Monday 21st March each class will be going up to church for an individual class session and if you are able to help the children walk up to Church or back to School then please let your child's class teacher know. Year 6 will be going on Monday 21st on the afternoon, on Tuesday Reception will be going at the start of the day, Year 2 late morning and Year 5 in the afternoon, Wednesday will be Year 1 at the start of the day, year 4 late morning and Year 3 in the afternoon. Thank you in advance for your help.
I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and look forward to seeing you for another busy week on Monday, Mrs Morton.
A warm welcome back to everyone following the half term break. I hope everyone had a lovely week and the children have already shown they are raring to go with their exciting new topics over the last few days!
Valentine’s success - a huge, huge thank you to everyone involved in making the valentine’s PA events such a huge success. A great team effort from hot dog buying to bagging up sweets to DJing meant a wonderful amount of money was raised for the children of All Saints', whilst of course lots of fun was had by all in the process! A special mention to Team Watts who won the Valentine's quiz and I think a drum roll is need for the unveiling of the grand total raised from the wear red, quiz, food and discos of £468.57!!! The new Forest Schools equipment will be enjoyed for years to come, by all the children across our school. So thank you, thank you, thank you again to everyone involved.
Thanks also to all the reception and key stage one children who came to our PJs and film night last night, also thanks to all the staff for organising and staffing the event, lots of fun was had by all.
As we are half way through the year a text has been sent out to ask families to kindly remember to update the office if your personal contact details have changed e.g address, mobile number or additional emergency contact details. Also we have asked that any updates to medical information e.g allergies are also updated via the office and that any inhalers/ spacers etc in school are also updated if your child receives a new one via the doctor, many thanks in advance.
Also, I am very excited for our 'surprise visitor' who is coming in to school on Thursday 3rd March! Can I also remind you that World Book Day is officially Thursday 3rd March however we are asking that the children dress as a book character on Friday 4th March as we are having our Open Morning at the same time and it would be wonderful for you to come along and visit your child's classroom 9.00am - 9.40am then join us in the hall for refreshments and Mr McShane and Mrs Noble will be delivering a talk about how you can support your child academically. We're hoping that we will see you there!
The Parents' Association have kindly organised a 'Special Persons Shop' for next Friday afternoon in preparation for Mothering Sunday. Children are welcome to bring in no more than £2 to buy something and also at the same time linked to World Book day there will be opportunity to buy some books for 20p per book. Thank you in advance for supporting the Parents' Association fundraising activities.
Finally it is nearly that time of year again when we hold the much loved and anticipated All Saints' Eggstravaganza. A poster has been attached for all those new families wondering what on earth I am talking about!!! The idea is to have some fun and 'yolks' along the way building a 'cracking' home for an egg or multiple eggs and as you can see from this lots of puns and word play tend to be used!!! This is an optional event but if you would like to get involved then all entries to be in School on Wednesday 30th March please for judging and there will be an opportunity after school in the hall on Thursday 31st for families to come and view the wonderful and 'eggstrordinary' creations (along with lost property).
I hope you have a lovely weekend, Mrs Morton.
It is hard to believe that as we finish for half term today we are half way through this academic year! We have had a wonderful first half of the year and we finished off in style with our very special visitor Bishop Libby coming to see us at All Saints’ on Wednesday. The children shared their favourite things about All Saints’ with her and she was very impressed with their level of questioning too as she spent the morning touring the classrooms. It was wonderful to have the first Female Bishop share some of her time with the children of All Saints’ and I would like to thank Bishop Libby and also of our course our fantastic Ethos Group who wrote such a persuasive letter inviting her!
We are pleased to share the wonderful news that Miss Day (our class 5 teacher) is expecting her first child this August. We are delighted for her and already have plans in place to secure a teacher to cover her maternity leave in the next academic year.
Unfortunately we have been seeing far too many of our little friend 'Head lice' recently at All Saints', I am sure you would agree that half term is a great time to really have a close inspection at home and treat any unwanted visitors!! Thank you for your support in this matter.
Thank you to everyone for your kind donations and joining in the Parents’ Association fun dressing in red today. We hope many of you attend and have a great time at the Valentine’s Disco tonight - with all profit going to fund lots of wonderful things for all our children at All Saints' including Forest School equipment.
After the holidays as previously mentioned on the Spring Term Diary dates circulated in January we have our World Book Day and Open Morning training session for parents on Friday 4th March. Attached are a couple of flyers with more information and we would be grateful if you could please give us an indication if you will be able to attend the training session.
I hope everyone has a great week and look forward to hearing everyone's fun holiday stories when we return on Monday 22nd February, Mrs Morton.
It has been lovely to see so many people this week visiting school for parents’ meetings and viewing the wonderful All Saints’ Art Gallery. The company said it was one of the ‘best collections they had seen from a School’ and they have worked with hundreds of Schools so well done All Saints’. Thank you also for your feedback forms along with the children’s responses they will be analysed and then findings shared in the future helping us to celebrate our successes and also put things in place for future improvements.
Year 3 and 4 had a fabulous time on Tuesday when they had some amazing creatures from Zoolab visit their classroom, the children (and staff) were all very brave and asked some fantastic questions to help them with their topic learning too.
I attended the Parents’ Association meeting on Tuesday night and it was a fantastic meeting and as Mr Bailey our Chair of Governors stated at the meeting it was a wonderful example of one of our key principals at All Saints’ of ‘working together’ coming to life. The meeting was really productive with lots of great events coming up including a date for your diary of Friday 8th July straight after School for the Summer fair!
Also following on from the huge success of the Christmas Fair and Extravaganza, a Valentine’s Disco will be held next Friday at the Conservative Club. It looks like it will be great fun with entertainment already lined up and also hot dogs being purchased. The Parents’ Association just ask that all children who attend are accompanied for the duration by an adult and if you are taking other people’s children that you are responsible for them during the disco also, to ensure everyone stays safe and has fun. Tickets are available at the office or on the door with a charge of £1 each for adults and children.
To get people in the mood everyone is invited to wear something red on Friday 12th for a donation of £1, all of the money raised will go towards buying new Forest Schools equipment for all the children across School to benefit from when they have their sessions.
Finally if you are able to help on the door, selling sweets etc at the Valentine’s Disco even it is for half an hour please contact the office and they will pass on Sarah Philips’ telephone number to you. All help and support is greatly received and really does make a huge difference to all the enrichment opportunities we are able to offer the children at All Saints’.
Next week we are very lucky to be having a visit from a very special guest! Following on from the successful visit to All Saints’ Church last year our Ethos Group wrote to Bishop Libby and asked if she would like to visit All Saints’ School and to the children’s delight she has accepted and will be coming to lead our Collective Worship and also have a tour of our School from the Ethos Group next Wednesday!
I hope everyone has a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing you all next week, Mrs Morton.
Well this week has seen the last of the Key Stage 1 trips linked to their topic ‘Under the Sea’ at the Blue Planet Aquarium. The children truly loved it, and they were a pleasure to have representing All Saints'. A huge thank you to the children and also all the staff for their hard work planning, preparing and making the trip days so successful.
Next week is a busy week with Parents’ meetings taking place throughout the week, a reminder that the hall will be our very own All Saints' Art Gallery for the Monday after school parents’ evening and the Thursday parents’ evening where families can view the art work and make any purchases they wish, also raising funds for school at the same time. The children will also have the chance on Monday afternoon to view the art work.
Tuesday night also sees the Parents’ Association Meeting where I am sure the success of the Christmas Fair will be celebrated and also planning for the future and a possible valentines disco will take place. It would be wonderful to see you at the Conservative Club at 8.30pm.
The Year 5/6 local schools rugby tournament had to be cancelled yesterday due to a water logged pitch but hopefully it will be on the next two Thursdays after school.
Thank you to all families who kindly donated finger puppets to school, we still need more if you have them!
Also a reminder for the following week of the short presentation by the Local Authority at 2.45pm in the school hall on Monday 8th February to see if it is possible to get a walking bus going at All Saints'.
Finally just a gentle reminder about ensuring children arrive to their correct playground on time in the morning to avoid going through the main entrance and being marked as late. Also in line with the recently shared NHS guidelines if your child is sick and/ or has diarrhoea then please ensure the correct incubation period of 48 hours clear is maintained to avoid the spreading of illness to other children and families. If your child is absent from school, then please leave a message on the Absence answer machine to ensure your child has a mark for that day.
Many thanks and hope you have a lovely weekend, Mrs Morton.
As you may all be aware we have sadly experienced some problems with our wonderful new playground in KS2, as some of the surface had started to bubble. With no notice the company turned up to take up the flooring and replace it on Monday morning. As we did not want to send them away so the playground can be fixed and the children using it safely ASAP it meant that we were unable to pre warn families, so thank you very much for your patience and understanding with this matter.
Attached to the newsletter are the provisional dates for the academic year 2016-2017 so families are aware of holiday times. As always absence in term time cannot be authorised unless the Governing Body determine it to be exceptional circumstances as outlined in the previously circulated Stockport LA policy. We therefore encourage children to be in school and on time as much as possible to ensure all learning opportunities are accessed. As with all our safeguarding procedures our systems are checked regularly both internally and externally including registers for attendance percentages and also punctuality. If school can support families with this in any way then please do not hesitate to contact myself.
As we are always looking for new ways to improve the safety relating to parking around school, you should have received a letter in relation to starting a walking bus at All Saints'! We would welcome anyone who is able to attend a short presentation by the Local Authority at 2.45pm in the school hall on Monday 8th February to come and see if this is possible to get in place.
Finally, I would like to thank Mr Thornton who very kindly took the old tables and benches up to Church which have now been replaced by new fantastic tables for the children to use at lunchtime!
Many thanks for your continued support and I hope everyone has a lovely weekend,
Mrs Morton.
Well we are very much back in the swing of things this week as each class settles down to their new and exciting topic we have topics from 'Under the Sea' to 'Amazing America and Animals' to 'Rainbow Nation'! So as you can see another interesting term packed full of learning is ahead.
Your child came home this week with their Parents’ Meeting appointment letter (hopefully or if not may be at the bottom of a bag somewhere) we would be very grateful if you could please return the slip as soon as possible and staff will do their best to accommodate people's first choices. The Hall will also turn into an art gallery for the two after school sessions on Monday 1st February and Thursday 4th February full of wonderful art work for you to view and purchase your child's if you wish.
This week saw two external educational consultants come into All Saints' to look through books and discuss subject leadership. It was both an honour and a privilege to sit through such positive feedback hearing the learning for our children praised very highly for being so creative, engaging, inspiring and the progress children make as a result being very clear to see and of a very high standard. I would personally like to say a very big thank you to everyone who contributes to such wonderful outcomes and of course the super children for all their hard work too!
I hope everyone has a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing everyone again next week,
Mrs Morton.
A very Happy New Year to you all and a very warm All Saints' welcome back to the Spring Term 2016. I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and are just abou
t recovered from all the celebrating. We have had such a fantastic start to the term with our Sublime Science week, the children have had a ball watching and taking part in so many different Science experiments and learning. We have seen some brilliant science in action from Sublime Science, been challenged and inspired by visiting PHD students from Manchester University and been captivated by Science teachers from Marple Hall. Of course Thursday saw some wonderful scientist inspired outfits and a fantastic exhibition of science by Mad Science and many rockets have been made and launched throughout the week too. It really has been a tremendous start to the year and a huge thank you must go to Mr McShane for all the time and effort he put into organising such a great week. I am sure there are many budding scientists in our midst and it has been amazing to see them so enthused.
Next week the children will be starting their new topic and Half Termly Topic overviews are attached to your child's class page to see all the brilliant things they will be doing over the next 5 weeks. Homework will start again next Friday and all other key events are outlined on the Spring Term Diary dates below. Pleas
e note Parents Meetings will commence week beginning 1st February and letters for booking slots will follow soon. Also, we will be having a World Book Themed Open Morning on Friday 4th March including some Parent Basic Skills training to help support your child, this will also include assessment and new curriculum updates. So start thinking about your World Book Day costumes - I can't wait to see them all!!!
I hope you have a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing you all again on Monday, Mrs Morton.
I can’t believe I am sat here writing the last newsletter of 2015, where has the year gone? It only seems 5 minutes ago since Active Week, Leaver's productions, the welcome of our wonderful new reception children and their families, Mrs Preece and Miss Taylor to All Saints' and they have been here a whole term!
Last week saw an unbelievable operation executed with amazing precision and taste too, as I am not sure how, but nearly 300 Christmas lunches were prepared, served and enjoyed by children and families. Thank you so, so much to Sylvia and her team for doing an incredible job and I know a few people asked if she was available on Christmas Day :-).
I was overwhelmed to hear how much money had been raised by the All Saints' Christmas Fair last Saturday (drum roll please ...) £1,966!!!!! It is truly fantastic and I want to say the BIGGEST THANK YOU POSSIBLE to everyone who spent, time
and energy making such a successful event happen. In particular thank you to Mrs Philips, The whole Kayes family and we even had some parents who no longer have children at All Saints', Mrs Furniss and Mrs Findell helping too!! It is brilliant and the children of All Saints' will be able to have some wonderful experiences and opportunities with the money which has been raised. Thank you also for the donations from the Parents Association for the Infant presents (Father Christmas greatly appreciated the contribution) and also the Junior party prizes. A big thank you to Derek (Father Christmas) for taking the time to come along to our Infant Christmas party too!
As they say time flies when you are having fun and I think that must be it as there have been so many highs and laughs along the way for All Saints' in 2015 and I feel so very proud to work in such a special environment with such passionate, dedicated staff and wonderful children in a community full of people who go out of their way to work together for the benefit of everyone. I therefore want to take the opportunity to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone in All Saints' C of E Primary School (children, staff, volunteers, governors, parents, (extended families) and beyond for all you do and most importantly the way you do it in the All Saints' Way. I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Peaceful New Year and can't wait to
start 2016 off with a bang (literally as Mr McShane has been busy organising for our Science Wow week when we come back to school on Tuesday 5th January - please see posters around school, we are asking children to dress up as a scientist for the day on Thursday 7th January) and can't wait for many more memories and good times in 2016.
Mrs Morton
Well stopping and looking around the hall last Friday at our singing, dancing and smiling children was a real, real pleasure. The Pantomime 'Beauty and the Beast' came to All Saints' in real style with amazing sets, wonderful music and everyone had
a brilliant time (oh yes they did!!!). It was a lovely way to say a huge thank and Merry Christmas to all your children for just being a joy to come to work every day and help you all learn and grow in the All Saints' Way.
Unfortunately due to the terrible weather the cancellation of Saturday's Marple Christmas Cracker meant our choir were unable to sing however they were truly sensational when they sang at Saint George's Church on Tuesday night and made All Saints' Shine, with a special mention to Maddison D in Class 5 and Ellen in Class 6 who did a reading beautifully in front of over 1,000 people!!! Thank you so much to our amazing choir for all your performances this week also including singing at Hawk Green Cricket Club and the United Reform church finally thank you to Mrs Noble for the hours of time she has kindly put in to all the rehearsals to make our choir sound like angels!
The Infant Christmas nativity really was a spectacle to behold this week when the children all sang, spoke and danced their hearts out to entertain us all. They really did make many, many people, staff, family and friends extremely proud. Really
well done to Reception, Year 1 and Year 2. Also a huge thank you to All Saints' Church for making us so very welcome hosting us and also to all of our wonderful Infant staff for going the extra mile as always to start everyone's Christmas season off so fantastically.
But we of course cannot forget our super juniors who have also had a busy week with Year 5 and 6 holding their wonderful Roman day on Monday enjoying a feast fit for a king and also Year 3 and 4 who ventured off to the Peak District National Park on Monday to have the most wonderful, wet and muddy day for their Water topic. Many thanks to all of the children for being super and also to all of the staff for their hard work with organising the events.
It would be of great help if you are able to accompany us for our Church service rehearsal on Tuesday morning leaving school at approximately 9.00am and leaving to come back at approximately 10.30am and finally for our Christmas Service leaving school at 1.20pm for the service to start at All Saints' Church at 1.45pm and returning to school following the service on Friday. If you are able please let the office know, thank you in advance.
As preparations get in full swing for tomorrow's Christmas Fair I really hope to see lots of you there to join in the fun - everyone is welcome!
Next week we have Christmas parties and the Autumn Term Ice Cream parties. On the last day of term (Friday) we plan to have a Christmas jumper day but please don’t rush out and buy your child a Christmas jumper, children can wear a Christmas
coloured jumper or top with their usual school skirt or trousers - so lots of fun to be had in the final week of term!
Have a lovely weekend Mrs Morton.
Last Friday saw the count for our new Parent Governor and I am happy to announce that we had a very high number of voters (thank you to everyone who took the time to vote) and 
Helena Monds was successful with 68 votes. We are very much looking forward to welcoming her to the All Saints' Governing Body and I am sure she will contribute a great deal to the role supporting all the children of All Saints'. In a close second with 60 votes was Luke Taylor who was an extremely gracious runner up, so thank you very much for putting yourself forward for the very important role.
We have sent a letter home to all KS2 (Year 3,4,5&6) children on Wednesday about improvements we are implementing from Monday in relation to home time and exiting school. Please return the slips on Monday if you wish your child to be able to walk home on their own in year 6, also if you wish for your child to be allowed to walk to the Infant playground to meet you there.
KS2 also had a very busy afternoon on Tuesday when they had a very special visitor from the Parliament Offices who came in and lead a great assembly and workshops for all the children on democracy in Britain. Mrs Beardwood a School Governor who also attended the afternoon’s events commented on how wonderful the children were in the sessions - well done All Saints'.
The fabulous Christmas Extravaganza took place last night at All Saints' and it really was a wonderful step into the Festive season. Thank you so much to everyone who spent hours organising the wonderful event in particular Mrs Thornton and Mrs Malpus and also to everyone who came along to support. Also, a huge thank you all our amazing children for creating such beautiful decorations for the School Christmas Tree and also one that has been placed at saint Martin’s Church at Marple Bridge for their annual Christmas Tree festival!
Tomorrow please do come along and join the Choir at the ‘Christmas Cracker’ on Market Street from 12.45pm to 1.15pm if you can. Please also let the office know if you can help
walk the children to and from church on Monday 7th leaving school at 9.00am and back at 10.15am and on Wednesday 9th December leaving school at 9.00am and back at 10.15am it would be greatly appreciated.
Next Week the Infant Nativity ‘It’s a Party’ will take place and I for one cannot wait! As it is this at All Saints' Church all KS2 children will get to have a special afternoon where they can watch the DVD of the production in the school hall. Also next week we will have our special Christmas Meal on Thursday. Please can families who are accompanying their children come in to the main entrance for 11.30am, you will eat first with your child/ children and then all the other children will follow on afterwards.
It is now only just over a week to go to the All Saints’ Christmas Fair – I know much has been done in preparation and I am able to reveal that we are so lucky as Father Christmas
will be making a very special appearance between 12.00pm and 1.00pm on Saturday and he has left a sheet in the Office for families to sign up to a slot, and if you could pay on the day that would be great.
It is also the last week for letter to Santa before the elves come and take the post box away…
Have a super weekend everyone,
Mrs Morton.
Thank you to everyone who has signed the Fairer Funding Petition - the link is below in case you have not already done this. Please do share with family and friends as the more signatures the better.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/384/294/003/fairer-funding-for-all-stockport-children/
A big well done to all the children who took part in the Anti-bullying week poetry slam. The poetry, discussions and learning during the week really were wonderful and very thought provoking. Also a very well done to Class One for their super class assembly last week, they really did look the part and entertain us all!
Next Friday the children will be having a fantastic morning when the Beauty and the Beast pantomime comes to All Saints' .jpg?width=160&height=120&scale=LIMIT_MAXSIZE)
children are to come to school as normal and the hall will be already transformed by the travelling theatre company and I am sure it will be a really lovely morning (oh yes it will!!).
Well Christmas 2015 is definitely in full swing at All Saints'...
Firstly a huge thank you for the kind and generous donations for the dress down days we are sure we are going to have a super Christmas Fair on the 12th. Also next Saturday the 5th will see the wonderful All Saints' Choir sing at the Christmas 
Cracker on Market Street from 12.45pm to 1.45pm please do come along and support them if possible.
Calling all musicians ... parents, families and friends of All Saints' School ... If you are available to accompany songs in our Infant Nativity (Wednesday 9th December 9.30am and/ or 6.00pm at All Saints' Church) we would love to hear from you to create that extra special concert please see Mrs. Noble. Also if you would be available to walk the children to and from church it would be greatly appreciated if you could let the office know. We need helpers for the rehearsal on Friday 4th December leaving school at 1.15pm and walking back at 2.45pm and also on Monday 7th leaving school at 9.00am and walking back at 10.15am, finally on Wednesday 9th December leaving school at 9.00am and back at 10.15am.
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Father Christmas has very kindly agreed to deliver a post box again this year and it arrives in school on Monday 30th November it will be collected by Santa's Elves on Friday 11th December. So if you wish to write a letter to Santa please ensure it has a name, class and address on so we can ensure your replies get to you.
In school there will also be a Christmas card box for children to post cards to their friends if they wish this will also be in school from next week.
Finally we are going to end the term with lots of fun and have a Christmas Jumper Day on the last day of term Friday 18th December, so if children (and families of course for coming up to the Christmas Service at All Saints' Church in the afternoon) want to swap their school jumper for a Christmas jumper they are very welcome to make a donation to Text Santa. Donations will not be collected for Text Santa in school, if you would like to make a donation please do this at home, thank you.
I hope everyone is starting to feel suitably festive. Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Morton.
Today your child will come home with a letter to try and get as much response as possible the letter is also below…. Fair Funding (based upon 2014-15 figures)
All schools are inspected using a generic format through Ofsted to ensure quality assurance; however, our financial resources are not equal.
Please read this notice thoroughly; what follows is a statement to give you greater information and understanding as to how our schools in Stockport are funded compared to the national picture.
What does this statement actually mean?
The following facts may help:
1. On average schools across the country receive £4,725 per pupil.
2. Out of 151 local authorities, Stockport is the 5th poorest funded per pupil (£4,198.67 per pupil with 58 Stockport schools receiving £1000 less per pupil than the national average). Manchester is funded £5,080.79 per pupil. The top 10 which include Chelsea & Kensington have funding in excess of £6,000.
3. Our own school receives £3,635 per pupil.
4. Out of this funding, all schools have costs for teachers, support staff, HR, payroll, legionella and all other Health and Safety checks, insurance, grounds maintenance, building maintenance, classroom resources, the list continues….
We ask, is it right that Stockport children should have reduced entitlement through a funding formula that causes such disparity?
This is not a discussion about disparity in affluent areas versus areas of deprivation as under the present regime; areas of deprivation in Stockport receive less per pupil, it is important to seek a solution to address the needs of all our children.
Subsequently, we have decided to petition the Government to address the way in which all schools are funded. Along with other schools in Stockport, we propose that Parents, Staff & Governors begin a petition to show our voice. You are invited therefore to sign the petition that will be available in the playground and office or also via the following link.
financial pressures, we still manage to maintain a very good standard of education for your child with good ratio of staffing, we organise an array of intervention strategies and focus our spending on targeted resources; our school is an amazing environment in which to learn and we have a range of wider opportunities that enhance our children’s experience….Despite
Yet imagine what we could do if we received even £500 more per pupil? Presently, that would be over an additional £100,000 per academic year.
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to get in touch and also Please sign the petition!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/en-gb/384/294/003/fairer-funding-for-all-stockport-children/
In other news well done and thank you to our super star year 3s for their excellent Groovy Greek assembly last week it really was so entertaining and.gif?width=160&height=120&scale=LIMIT_MAXSIZE)
the children and staff worked incredibly hard to put on such a show!
Well done also to the Key Stage 2 children who went to Saint Mary’s in Marple Bridge last week for the inter schools Cross Country event well done to everyone for taking part and getting very muddy and we look forward to getting the results on their placing soon and also good luck next week to our Key Stage 1 team. 
Finally a huge well done and thank you to Olivia, Pippa, Miriam and Owen who spoke at All Saints’ Church on Sunday sharing all they have done since forming an Ethos Group at All Saints’ you were simply a credit to yourselves, your families and also made everyone at school very, very proud.
I hope everyone has a lovely weekend,
Mrs Morton.
As you may be aware from text communication we are holding a ballot for our Parent Governor Election thank you very much to Mrs Helena Monds and Mr Luke Taylor for standing for the position. Your child will come home with 2 envelopes with election slips and information on. You are eligible to vote if you are a parent or fulltime carer of a pupil at All Saints’ Primary School. Therefore if you would like any further ballot papers then please do visit the office to get them. All returned slips will be counted after the closing time of 9.30am on Friday 27th November. Many thanks in advance for taking the time to vote for such an important role.
As the weather turns autumnal we thought it would be timely to give some reminders about our illness guidelines. We of course hope all children are fit and well and in every day however recognise everyone gets poorly and as such we have to follow strict guidelines to try and reduce passing onto others. If your child is ill we would be very grateful if you could call school and leave a message letting us know. Also, if your child needs to take medication in the day we are only able in school to administer medication prescribed by a doctor e.g. Therefore not Calpol unless on prescription. As non-medical experts in school we go off the Department for Education guidelines regarding infection control and we thought it may be useful to share with families the most recent update, therefore the guidance on infection control can be found below. We hope this will be of some help.
It was fantastic last week to see Year 5 and 6 thoroughly entertaining their families and friends with their 'Crime and punishment topic' assembly. It was lovely to see how much all the children clearly enjoyed this new topic and in particular the book 'Holes'! Year 5 and 6 have also been busy on other trips quickly moving on with their new topic 'Romans', they set off to Chester for a super day on Tuesday exploring the History of the location and much more 
besides. Year 6 also made the most of going to the cinema, as Class 5 did last week for National Cinema Month and attended a screening in Altrincham and Stockport. Good luck to all the children on their film review writing for entry to the National Competition. Years 1 and 2 have also been out and about on Monday going to Staircase House to get their imaginations going for their new topic 'Fire, Fire!' Thanks to all the children for being All Saints' Superstars and of course all the staff and parent helpers for making it all possible with lots of time and hard work.
I hope the weather is not too wet this weekend and look forward to seeing anyone on Sunday as our Ethos Group and I visit All Saints' Church, Mrs Morton.
Welcome back everyone - I hope that you have all had a lovely half term and are ready and raring to go for the second half of the autumn term...
The results are in (drum roll please!!)
Following on from the recent questionnaires at Parents Evening, the pie charts on the attachments below summarise the 90 questionnaires returned from families. We are of course delighted with the high numbers of positive feedback and the increasing upward trends, whilst also as always looking at where and how we can improve. As you will see the question 'My child receives appropriate homework' although positive on the whole, was the one area we wanted to promptly address. As I have mentioned before homework is often a tricky one as what works for one family may not for another, however as most of the concerns were centred around the recent changes to homework in KS1, a letter outlining how we have adapted our practice in line with parent feedback will come home with Class 1 and 2 children today and we hope families will benefit from the changes made. As always if you have any concerns, queries or comments we much prefer to be made aware and then we can discuss and work through them in partnership for the best for your child. A huge thank you to everyone who took the time to complete and return the questionnaires.
On Monday we had a fantastic INSET day receiving training on 'Write Dance' something which I am sure your children will start talking about soon as we introduce a fresh new way to teach motor skills development. It is really in line with the 'All Saints' Way' as it is lots of fun with many different exercises to music that help children to build up the right muscles and movements to support their developments in handwriting.
It was wonderful to hear that 13 parents turned up to the recent Parents Association Meeting - a huge improvement on numbers from previous meetings. Lots of things are being organised starting with the Christmas Fair due to be held on Saturday the 12th December, and I am sure if anyone would like to get involved, it really is the more the merrier. Thank you to all and in particular Mrs Bowker and Mrs Philips for continuing to support school by joint Chairing the Parent's Association. So much is gained by the children through all the monies raised.
All Saints' Christmas Fair & Dress Down Days 
The Parents' Association are holding a Christmas Fair on Saturday 12th December here at school. To help to collect goods for the fair we are having some dress down days here in school, the first of which is next Friday 13th November, where we are appealing for Pamper items such as bubble bath, nail varnishes etc from our infant children and Craft items such as felt tips, paints etc from our junior children. Please send your child/children dressed in their own clothes next Friday in return for items as above. Many thanks, as always, for your continued support.
We were really overwhelmed at school with your recent generosity for the Refugee Crisis and although we do not want to make people feel that we are always asking for things we felt the below request was one that families of All Saints' may be able to easily at no cost help with...
Donate your old glasses, sunglasses and Bibles to the Memusi Foundation, Africa.
As a young man was about to go on a trip to Kenya, it was suggested he take pencils, but the reason did not become clear until he was about to leave for home. As he handed a small boy a pencil, the child hung his head humbly and went away. It transpired that having a pencil now entitled the boy to go to school. On returning home, the young man was inspired to do something to help with education in Kenya and so the Memusi Foundation came about to support children in Sub Saharan Africa to escape poverty through education. A Lady at Marple Bridge United Reform Church is on the board of trustees for the Memusi Foundation, and when she visits Magadi, she runs a medical camp that benefits the whole community. People walk miles to be checked out and fitted with donated spectacles. Another Lady has spoken about seeing old men in tears at being able to read their Bibles with their ‘new’ glasses. For her next trip, we have been asked to collect unused prescription glasses and sunglasses (these help to prevent cataracts developing) and also any old Bibles (only the wealthiest can afford them out there).
A collection box is in the main entrance by the hatch and we thank you in advance for your support with this.
I hope everyone has a lovely weekend.
Mrs Morton
It never fails to amaze me how much kindness and generosity that so many people show to the children of All Saints' during our annual Church Week. The amount of volunteers who so willing gave up their time to organise and be part of such a successful Church Week is staggering. The children absolutely loved it with quotes such as 'Church Week is brilliant' and 'it is the best week ever, can we do it more often' typical of the children's animated responses. We are very proud of all the children for how they have shown the 'All Saints' Way' through all parts of the week, speaking so politely to everyone and behaving fantastically representing our School to our Community so very well. Thank you does not quite seem enough to all the helpers but hopefully the cards and this message go a little way towards showing how grateful we are for the wonderful experiences the children have had this week and memories that have been made. I do also have to say one very special thank you to Mr Alston who has so tirelessly worked planning, organising, risk assessing and rallying troops for many months to make it all happen so smoothly and specially for all involved.
I can't believe we have already whizzed through the first half term of the academic year! A reminder that the children return to school on Tuesday the 3rd November as on the Monday we have a staff INSET where we are having training on more ways to get the children active and support development of fine and gross motor skills, which I am sure the children will love as it is introduced across school. Also the children's individual photographs will be on Friday 6th.
I hope you have a wonderful holiday and look forward to seeing everyone on the 3rd, Mrs Morton! .jpg?width=640&height=480&scale=LIMIT_MAXSIZE)
Well 'What a week!!!'...
At long last the Key Stage 2 playground work has finished and the children are able to use the fantastic new facility at All Saints'. Thank you so much for your patience whilst the work was completed and hope you are as delighted as the children are. I am sure you will agree that it was well worth the wait! So many people have contributed along the way starting with Mrs Bower who successfully put together a successful bid to Sport England for £35,000. Next Mr Chaloner and Mrs Herbertson who successfully got us through planning permission procedures and also managed the project listing with many different contractors. To the School Council who worked alongside Mr McShane and Miss Day to design the finished look, to the kind and generous donation from the Bourne family and last but of course by no means least to our wonderful Parents Association who raised and contributed £7700 towards the cost of the work, making a huge difference to the end result. Following on from this the Parents Association is meeting at 8.30pm on Tuesday 20th October at the Conservative Club. Everyone is welcome, all parents, carers and family members to see what fantastic work can be continued, and which makes such a difference to the opportunities we are able to provide for all the children at All Saints'. In addition there is now an Instagram page which has been set up by the Parents Association, please visit @allsaintscofemarplepa to view this.
The Year Six Children all set off on their adventures to Robinwood this week and after what can only be described as three hectic and wonderful days returned ready for lots of sleep on Wednesday. It was nothing short of an absolute pleasure to be with such a happy, helpful, friendly and supportive class of children. Spurring each other on to go higher on the trapeze or working together to get out of the Piranha Pool, throughout each activity and even bed time the children were truly great and it made the adults feel incredibly proud to teach at All Saints'. The 'All Saints' Way' oozed out of everyone over the residential, so thank you so very much Class 6 it really was a joy to be part of. I would also like to say a huge, huge thank you to Mr McShane, Mrs Pratt and Mrs Herbertson for all the behind the scenes hours of planning and risk assessments to make such a packed full trip possible and also thanks to Mr McShane, Mrs Pratt, Mrs Shaw, Miss Daly, Miss Hopwood and Miss Nuttall for so willingly, kindly, and generously giving up their time with their families to accompany the children and make the visit possible.
The Book Fairs and Sponsored Reads have been a wonderful success raising over £1300 to spend on books which is amazing! Thank you everyone who took part and came along. A few very special mentions - one to Naomi in Class 4 who read for an incredible 1,000 minutes in a week, one for Evie B in Class 3 who raised a massive £65.00 in sponsorship money and also Class 2 who had the most children taking part in the sponsored read. The children from the 'Learning Council' have met Mrs Noble to decide on the books to spend the money on, so thank you to them. And also to Mrs Noble for organising such a super event, Mrs Shaw, Miss Shaw, Madeline, Flo, Elsie and Keira from Class 6 for all their help on the book stand each day. Even more reasons now to get excited about reading at All Saints'!
Last Friday the Class 2 children shone as they effortlessly showcased their art, geography, French and music skills to the max in their class assembly based on their topic 'Food glorious food'. They really kept everyone of all ages in the audience entertained, so very well done for a super job Class 2 and also thanks to Mrs Eva, Mrs Noble, Mrs Parry and Mrs Shaw for all of your hard work too.
Thank you to everyone who is making a huge effort in 'Walk to School Fortnight' we continue next week and really hope we can be in with a shot of winning some super prizes from the Local Authority for our children.
Thank you also to those who have volunteered to walk up to Church next week, please do let the office know if you can walk with our children, even if it is only for one journey on one day as it all helps. We look forward to seeing you all next Friday afternoon if you are able to join us at 1.45pm for the Harvest Service at All Saints' Church.
A letter will be coming home with your child tonight (Friday16th Oct) explaining how the Governing Body are looking for a new Parent Governor, please do take the time to read it if possible, you can also see the letter as an attachment at the bottom of this page. We look forward to welcoming a new member to the team.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Morton.
This week has been super busy and has seen celebrations of ....
Donations for the Refugee Crisis
The efforts and kindness of everyone who have so generously donated items for the Refugee Crisis. Mr Chaloner's family made the trip with all of the donated items last weekend. It was all separated and sent to the neediest people and areas. As you can see from the pictures below the two Project Paddington Bears help them on their journey! A huge thank you to everyone involved in particular Mr Chaloner and his family.
Greek Workshop
All things Greek on Monday was a great day for Classes 3 and 4, the children thoroughly enjoyed the activities - huge thanks to everyone for the wonderful costumes and Miss Taylor and Miss Leah for organising the day.
Football Tournament
The true 'All Saints' Way' from our super Year 5 and 6 football team at the inter schools tournament which finished this Thursday. You have made everyone very proud and well done on your very respectable 2nd place. A huge, huge thank you to Miss Day, Mr Chaloner and Mr McShane for all the time and effort put into organising and making such a large event so successful.
Musical madness at Marple Hall
A resounding cheers to Mr. Whiteman (Head of Music at Marple Hall School) for hosting a taster day for musicians where fourteen KS2 children from All Saints' attended. Thank you to all the families who showed their support and attended the afternoon concert - we believe a noisy day was had by all! Huge thanks to Mrs. Chapman, Mrs. Adshead and Mrs. Hatton for accompanying our children.
Athletics Event- Etihad Stadium – Sports City
Sporting fun as eight young athletes from Year 6 went to an interschool competitive event in Sportshall Athletics at Sport City in Manchester. The transition to high school event is always a success and all the children love taking part, well done to you all on coming in 4th place overall! Thank you to Mrs Pratt for accompanying the children.
Parents Meetings
Lots of the children's wonderful achievements shared at Parents Evening Meetings - we are delighted with the turn out and very grateful for the returned feedback forms (please do keep them coming in if you have not returned them already). We have also this week completed pupil voice questionnaires and we will use the results from all feedback to help us sharpen our focus on improvements over the next year.
Next week sees ..
Walk to School Fortnight
'Walk to School Fortnight' we really encourage everyone wherever possible to walk to school, where the children's journey's will be recorded and part of a Stockport wide competition for the best School - so fingers crossed we can add lots of tally's to our charts. On the same theme please, please, please take care when driving and parking around the School - mounting curbs etc especially at busy times, a small child could easily be out of view. We simply don't want it to take something terrible to happen to someone to make people be more aware and careful.
Our New Playground
The finishing of the works on our junior playground has been delayed due to the terrible weather we have had this week. Thank you for your patience with this matter. Please continue to follow current procedures until the works have been completed. Class 3 only are to be collected at the end of each day at the school’s main entrance, and school will continue to open at 8.45am for the children to get in and out of the playground.
Robinwood Residential
A very excited year 6 will be making their way to Robinwood on Monday through to Wednesday, so I am off to have a very restful weekend ensuring I am raring to go on the zip wires and giant swing. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend too.
Mrs Morton.
Also please do read the attachment regarding Marple Skatepark
Another week has flown by at All Saints’ and as always lots has taken place.
A big thanks to everyone who attended the Year 6 Robinwood and Assessment meeting on Tuesday night. In a time of change with the New National Curriculum hopefully we have shared what we know in order to prepare our children for their time in Year 6 in partnership with families and also how to have the best time on their residential trip! Thanks also to Mr McShane, Mrs Pratt and Mrs Shaw for all their help preparing for the meeting. I think I will start getting my extra sleep in now in preparation for Robinwood!
A huge well done to our Boys Football Team for their great efforts and achievements in last night’s Inter Schools Football Tournament here at All Saints’, lots to be proud of and build upon in the final league matches and fingers crossed for a place in the final next week! Thanks again to Mr McShane, Miss Day, Mr Chaloner and Mr Conroy for all your time and effort with the matches; it was greatly appreciated by all
This morning it was wonderful to see so many family members come and see what is happening in their child’s new class. Thank you to everyone who came and for the feedback, it is greatly appreciated.
At long last the playground work has excitedly started this week, unfortunately it is taking longer than planned and will be continuing into next week, so we would be very grateful if children in KS2 can continue to come straight into school in the morning and Year 3 be released at the main entrance until the works are complete.
The Read for my School has been a great success and it is wonderful to see how much money has been raised through sponsorship and how much the children have enjoyed reading. We can’t wait to put the money to excellent use with new books in the library, all recommended and chosen by our wonderful children of course!
For the duration of the KS1 and KS2 parents meetings the Book Shop will be available in the hall at the following times, Monday 3.30 – 5.30 pm, Tuesday and Wednesday 3.15 – 3.30 pm, Thursday 5.30 – 7.30 pm and Friday 3.15 – 3.30 pm, please do come and have a browse as any money spent will mean more books will be donated to School. Also, there will be a Feedback form which we would appreciate if you could complete and return to School or fill out at the event. We are always aiming to improve and your views are paramount in helping us to do this successfully. In addition all children’s views will be gathered next week too, for us to analyse and then set actions in place for the upcoming academic year – as always reaching for the stars!
I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and look forward to seeing you next week, Mrs Morton.
I must start this week with a huge THANK YOU to everyone for all their efforts with Project Paddington donating so many teddies and the kind messages written. I am sure you will agree there is a lot to be proud of from the picture above! The teddies will now be collected and distributed around the world to the many refugee children – I’m sure they will bring lots of joy for many! Some of the teddies will go to some refugee children that have just arrived at the Britannia Hotel in Stockport. I would like to say another huge THANK YOU to Mrs Robinson for co-ordinating the project and also to Mrs Kayes, Mrs Currie and Miss Radcliffe for all the help with getting the teddies ready too.
Following on from the successes above it is with great delight that I can now announce a date for the long awaited new Key Stage 2 Playground. I won’t bore you with all the reasons for the holdup however the new playground for the children will start work on Monday!!! The children’s cheer in assembly was such a happy sound and I am sure it will be a fantastic improvement. In terms of logistics a note has been sent home to explain any difference to the school day, such as that the School being open from 8.45am for children to come straight in as their will be a much reduced space on the playground. Fingers crossed for good weather so the project work should be finished by the beginning of the following week. At the end of the school day the children will come out in the same way in Class 4, 5 and 6 but Class 3 will come out of School via the main entrance to try and help relieve some of the congestion. Thank you very much for your patience and understanding whilst the new playground is being installed, it is greatly appreciated in advance and I am sure you and your children will love the end result.
Thank you to the children and Mrs Sargent, Mrs Noble and Mrs Manning for helping run the Smoothie stall at last Saturdays Marple Food and Drink festival. You demonstrated a shining example of the All Saints’ Way.
This week Reception Parents have had their first Parents Evening and it was lovely to see how well the children and families have settled into life at All Saints’. We also had great attendance on Wednesday for the Year 1 Phonics Meeting. Thank you to all parents who came along and also Mrs Preece and Mrs Manning for organising such successful meetings. Thank you Miss Shaw and Miss Vesey and Mrs Whittleworth for so kindly running the Crèche too!
Upcoming events
We really hope to see you at Class Open Morning next Friday 2nd October from 9-10am. It is an opportunity for you to come and see your child in their new environment and see what goes on. If we can ask you to please drop your children off as normal and then make your way to the office where you can sign in.
Walk to School fortnight from Monday 12th October to Friday 23rd October. More information to follow in next week’s blog!
Hope you all have a lovely weekend, Mrs Morton 
Well another week has flown by at All Saints’ and as usual lots has taken place and been achieved. A huge thank you for the positive feedback regarding the new website and move towards more online correspondence. If anyone is not receiving the Friday text reminder with the link then please do let the office know and we can ensure you get them to try and help everyone keep up to date.
A huge well done to our girls Football Team who represented us last night in an inter school’s tournament held here at All Saints’. You really did show excellent sportsmanship and all of the 5Rs in the ‘All Saints’ Way making us very proud’. A big thank you also to Mr McShane, Miss Day and Mr Chaloner for all their help with this tournament.
We have seen a great response re-Project Paddington and Mr Chaloner’s trip with donations, so many thanks for your generosity; we will of course keep you updated on the progress.
The children are back in the full swing of things and as such homework has started to be given out in line with Government guidelines. In the All Saints’ Way we understand and appreciate how it can be difficult to balance homework with the busyness of everyday life therefore we have started a Lunchtime Homework Club 3 days a week where Mrs Hammond will be there to supervise and support the children with their homework. Monday Lunch is for KS1 (Year 1 and 2), Tuesday Lunch is for Lower KS2 (Year 3 and 4) and Wednesday Upper KS2 (Year 5 and 6). If you would like your child to attend please speak to your child’s class teacher.
Tuesday night saw our new Reception families come along to the ‘Phonics Meeting’, thanks to all who came and also to Mrs Preece and Mrs Manning for all their time and effort preparing for and delivering the meeting. Also a huge thank you to Mrs Noble, Miss Shaw, Miss Whittleworth and family for helping with the Crèche.
Tomorrow children and families are invited to come along between 11 am and 12 noon on Market Street and join in the Smoothie Stall fun at the Marple Food and Drink Festival. If Children can come and represent All Saints’ in their School Uniform that would be great.
Have a great weekend and look forward to seeing you on Monday!
Mrs Morton
A huge warm All Saints’ welcome back to everyone for this academic year! I hope everyone had a wonderful summer, it appears so from talking to the children, and they are clearly well rested as they are full of energy for the new term. So much has happened all ready with our new Reception children already in full time and settling brilliantly (I think there will be some sleepy children this weekend) to our Wow visiting artist Paul Johnson who has worked with every class to produce some amazing books that I am sure you will see displayed around school on our upcoming Open Morning from 9.00am to 10.00am on Friday 2nd October.
As you will see (hopefully) from reading this we are moving with the times and having our newsletter on our website from now on rather than as an email attachment. All the same information will be here just in a slightly different format. The reason for this is that we want to develop our online presence so the website and our DB Primary secure environment becomes the place to find all you need to know, individual class timetables, letters and also very importantly what your children have been up to so you can chat about it - even when they say they have done ‘nothing’ at School J. As you will see when you open up your child’s class below from next week the children will be taking over and writing the blog for their class, which is very exciting! As I am sure you will all know first-hand any changes in technology can go swimmingly or have hiccups along the way, so we just ask for your patience as we try to make the move and hope you will see the benefits as more information is added and the usage develops.
It has been heart-warming to see and hear the care and kindness that people have been giving to the terrible Refugee Crisis and as a School the Ethos Group on Monday presented two ways in which people who are able and would like to help may do so. The first is Project Paddington which is being co-ordinated by Mrs Robinson (Toby and Lucy’s Mum) where if you want to bring into School a clean (doesn’t have to be new) teddy bear with a label (or we have them in School to do) giving a message to the refugees to show we care available at the School Office is the accompanying Sponsorship Form to begin to collect sponsorship to help your Bear travel to their new home. The second is Mr Chalenor our Site Supervisor will be travelling to London on Thursday 24th September to take any welcome donations to help. Here’s what and how you can give:
CLOTHES: Shoes/trainers (size 7-11); jackets (small/medium); socks; belts; wellingtons; tracksuit trousers and jeans (32-36); woolly hats; underwear (they are not currently looking for women’s or children’s clothes)
OUTDOOR EQUIPMENT: Tents, covers, tarpaulin; travel bags; candles/other lighting implements; blankets/sleeping bags; plastic cutlery; plastic bowls/plates etc ...
TOILETRIES: Soap; shampoo; toothbrushes/toothpaste; razors; toiletry bags; body lotion; shower gel
OTHERS: Plastic bin bags; pots and pans; umbrellas; cleaning products
FOOD: All non-perishable food - tinned kidney beans, white beans, chickpeas, green beans (no tinned pasta); rice, flour, (little or no pasta, no couscous, no bulgur, no oatmeal); oil; tomatoes in all forms (sauce, paste), spices; long life milk; sugar; tea/coffee
Many thanks in advance for all your support and kindness.
As always we try to keep parents as informed as possible so please find below and on the calendar the Autumn Term Diary Dates. Please keep it handy and additional information will come out before events. On the Diary Dates is the Marple Food and Drink festival on Saturday 19th September where All Saints’ children have the opportunity to man the Smoothie Stall from 11am to 12pm. Everyone is welcome please just come and find us on market street in your School Uniform if possible and join in the fun! Following on the theme you also find our new Reading Support Guide to accompany our new All Saints’ Reading Records on the Resources Page we hope you find it both useful and information to create a lifelong love of reading which of course is our aim.
I hope everyone has a super weekend and look forward to seeing you all again on Monday, Mrs Morton. 
Well another week has been and gone and I can’t believe that we only have one week left of this academic year. As always this time of year is an exciting time for looking ahead but also means that we say goodbye to some people sadly. As previously mentioned we wish Miss Wilford all the very best as she moves on to her new role and back to her home town of Coventry and thank her for all she has contributed in her 2 years with us. We also say goodbye (again) to Mrs Burks who we can not thank enough for returning to the Reception Class at All Saints’ after her early retirement. Mrs Silcock has secured a place on a Primary PGCE and we are sure she will go on to be an excellent teacher in the future and also thank her for all she has done during this year. Mr and Mrs Hallworth as many of you know will be starting an exciting journey this summer as they welcome a new member to their family and start their adoption leave. We will of course miss them both while they are away but are delighted for them.
Also, a thank you to all our Marvellous Mentors and wonderful All Saints’ volunteers so many to mention but your kindness and patience has made huge differences to children over the year and it is very much greatly appreciated. I would especially like to mention Joan Brown who is sadly leaving us after giving 7 years of service to the school as a reading mentor. Joan’s generosity will continue as she commits herself even more to supporting other families through All Saints’ Church in the local community.
Monday saw Marple Library visit School and give an assembly to introduce the Summer Reading Challenge—all children took home a bookmark sharing the scheme which is the Guinness book of Records. Please sign up at Marple Library where the expectation is for the children to read 6 books over the holidays and there will be certificates/ smelly stickers etc to be awarded in September in School for all those involved. So happy Summer Reading everyone!
The Bake Sale was a roaring success and raised a whopping £75.60 for Cancer Research I would very much like to thank Holly, Casey, Azura, Olivia, Jess P, Teagan and Libby from Year 3 who showed excellent organisation skills throughout all stages of planning the event.
Well done to both our All Saints’ girls and boys football teams who played matches on Monday and Tuesday night after School—unfortunately we did not win but we will keep endeavouring to get our competitive faces on next time and take a victory!
Reception had some very exciting visitors from Zoolab this week and had a brilliant time seeing all the different animals and creatures. They had a ball - thank you to Mrs Burks for organising everything.
Many thanks to Year 4 who entertained School this morning with their assembly thank you to the children and the Year 4 team for all their hard work and everyone who took time out of their busy schedule to come and watch!
Report comments have been coming in and we would like to say please keep them coming in as always we greatly appreciate the feedback.
Lost property will try to be reunited with its owners next Tuesday throughout the day in School and also families are welcome to have a look in the hall after School, please do come and take a look there is a lot!
Please follow the link for advice on how to keep your child e-safe during the Summer holidays.
http://swgfl.org.uk/news/News/E-Safety/Survive-The-Tech-Summer-Holiday
Next week will no doubt be emotional, so have a great weekend everyone,
Mrs Morton
Time to celebrate in the All Saints’ Way!
Go team All Saints’!
Over the past few week the children’s assessments have been taken place and external results have been coming in, I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved with some amazing sets of results across the board this year. It really does go to show with staff, families and children having a Growth Mindset what truly can be achieved. On that note today sees the ‘epic’ - to quote a Year 6—job of the end of year reports finishing as they are sent out today. It has been a pleasure to reflect on so much hard work and so much done in the true All Saints’ Way by so many children and we really hope you enjoy celebrating this with your children.
Music to my ears ...
Congratulations to Naomi (Y3) who took her Grade 1 Flute examination last week, and achieved a distinction under the expert guidance of our All Saints' flute/ recorder music tutor Mrs Hatton. We look forward to hearing about more of our children involved in wider opportunity music sessions in school taking part in examinations in the near future... It has been amazing to see numbers growing and growing with our budding All Saints' Musicians on a weekly basis. Every Wednesday afternoon Fidler Music now lead 41 children in group sessions of extra curricular music. Mrs. Hatton also takes on a Thursday and Friday afternoon 1- 1 sessions, paired and small groups for flute and recorders. If you are interested in your child getting involved please do get a letter from the school office to enquire about prices etc. or see Mrs.Noble. Everyone involved in extra curricular music - Flute/ recorder sessions with Mrs Hatton, Ukulele or Guitar sessions with Fiddler Music as well as the Y3 class who today performed with the Halle at the Bridgewater Hall are invited to our end of year 'Music Celebration' on Monday 20th July at 2.45pm. It is an opportunity to hear the children perform and show off some of their talents and achievements from this year. Please see the attached flyer and we look forward to seeing as many of you there as possible.
Science, assembly and Music Fun!
Well done to the Year 5s and thank you to Miss Day and the team for taking part in an exciting Science Day at Marple Hall on Tuesday. Also well done Year 5 for a very entertaining assembly this morning reliving all the fun of Active Week. In addition thank you to Miss Leah, Mrs Noble and the Year 3 children who also did us proud singing with the Halle at Bridgewater Hall this morning.
Boo!!! Sadly due to planning permission issues our planned Summer Holiday playground upgrade has been postponed until the new term. We are very sorry about this but would like to assure everyone we have not lost the funding and I would also like to say a huge thank you to Mr Chaloner and Mrs Herbertson as they have tried tirelessly to get the work done as soon as it can.
I hope everyone has a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing you all again next week,
Mrs Morton.
Another fantastic week has flown by at All Saints' with so much happening again. Wednesday saw a performance worthy of many Oscars as Key Stage One and Two went to the Carver Theatre to watch the Drama Showcase in the afternoon and then families in the evening. It honestly never ceases to amaze me the calibre of the performance from all the children and some so young. Moving, exciting and hilarious all emotions were created by the cast and of course a huge sense of pride and achievement, thank you so much for all your dedication and commitment as it is clear without which, such a performance could not have been created. Of course a massive, massive thank you must go to Carl and Naomi from Marple drama and Mrs Pratt who have inspired such values from the children through their own extraordinary commitment to the showcase, it really was a treat for everyone.
Thursday saw everyone say hello to their new teaching team and also get some time to spend in their new classrooms. It has been lovely to see how the children have been reflecting on their past year for their reports (please keep those files coming in) with fondness whilst also being excited about their next chapter - well done to all the children and thank you to all the staff for allowing such positive transitions to take place. We of course were sorry to lose our wonderful year 6’s for the day as they went to their new high schools but am sure they did us proud taking the All Saints' Way with them.
Of course this Thursday did see our new Reception children come in for their first stay and play without their parents (many of whom anxiously waited in the staff room - such a big step for everyone- hopefully the cake helped!) and thank you also for coming out to the New Parents induction meeting we hope you found it helpful and are really excited to begin your child's school learning journey together.
Today also saw the new Reception children visit us for lunch for the first time - we hope you enjoyed it and thank you to all the children of All Saints' for making them feel so welcome with your thoughtful, kind and caring ways.
How could I not finish by saying a huge congratulations to our All Saints' football team who took defeat in one match at Mellor with grace and good sportsmanship and also did the same with their 3-2 win in the other match. Well done and go All Saints'.
Hopefully the glorious weather will be with us next week too, so labelled water bottles, sun hats and sun cream are essential.
Have a lovely weekend,
Mrs Morton.
The amazing news that All Saints’ won the Marple Carnival this year has now been shared and we are all absolutely delighted and incredibly proud to have such an accolade. The reason it is so special is it was just all done in the ‘All Saints’ Way’ with so many people pulling together, organising and contributing to such a wonderful group and also making such an enjoyable afternoon. There are so many people to thank but in particular thank you to Mrs Bower, Mrs Findell, Ms Radcliffe and Miss Wood who gave up so much time and effort along with Miss Leah to run Art Club making lots for the procession. Also all the families and children who had such wonderful costumes—including the illusive Spiderman who seemed to know lots of children’s names on the route, stilling perplexing lots of our children (who was it!?!) and finally Mrs Cairns-Black who made such a stunning 3D superhero that really enhanced our School’s entry. The £500 winning cheque will be a fantastic addition to the Key Stage 2 playground fund!
Well what an amazing week Active Week 2015 has been!! We have all been looking at Healthy lifestyles, making smoothies, basketball workshops, circuit training with Year 6, 
doing a whole school sponsored skip, having Zumba sessions, learning how to play dodgeball and of course bathing in the sunshine for our wonderful Sports Morning (I think the teachers have just about recovered—me included from the teacher’s race)! There have been so many highs and this is as result of all the continued hard work and dedication from our wonderful team of staff, Stockport School Sports Leaders and Marple Hall Sports Leaders and of course our amazing children who represented School all week so brilliantly, so a huge, huge thank you to you all. I would just particularly like to mention Miss Day and Mrs Silcock who have tirelessly worked on the timetable and co-ordinating all the outside visitors to allow so many brilliant sporting opportunities to take place in just one week, so I am sure you will all join me is also saying a massive THANK YOU to them!
Next week the children will really commence their transition into their new Classes as we see Swap Over Day take place on Thursday the 2nd July. Just to be aware the children will all come into School as normal in their current classes to be registered prior to the moving to their exciting new classroom for the morning.
Thank you to all those parents and carers who have sent in their child’s past Report Folder—please do keep them coming.
I hope you all have a really wonderful weekend,
Mrs Morton.
All the children have been told today who will be their class teaching team next year and should have (it may be at the bottom of a bag somewhere) a sheet to share with you with pen portraits for each of the adults in their class. So to make everyone aware the classes at All Saints’ next year will be as following :-
Reception—Mrs Preece
Year One—Mrs Manning
Year Two—Mrs Noble and Mrs Eva
Year Three —Miss Leah
Year Four —Miss Taylor
Year Five—Miss Day
Year Six—Mr McShane
As always we are really looking forward to building on our current successes and welcoming new team members to bring fresh and new ideas to the team.
Sometimes the above picture illustrates what it can feel like on the roads around School in a morning and at the end of the day! I know this is a constant reminder to parents to ensure the safety of the children around school but after discussions with neighbours it is also a gentle reminder that we all need to be courteous and all work together to ensure that all residents have emergency access available at all times. As a School we are not able to enforce parking rules and unfortunately our tireless efforts to engage the council have not resulted in positive steps forward, but we do know that in the All Saints’ Way we want to have positive relationships with our community and be able to work together, therefore a reminder that the Church is available for people to park and stride and also please do think before parking with respects to the children’s safety and also our neighbours access.
As you can imagine we get a huge amount of letters etc in to School on a daily basis so to try and ensure as little learning time and also your time is lost the 
office have introduced two ways in which it will hopefully be easier for correspondence to come into School. Boxes have been placed into each of the classrooms so all correspondence e.g. club letters, dinner money can be sent to the office via the Class Box every morning. All we ask is that you remind your child to place the item into the box along with us reminding them to check their bags just so things don’t stay in there for a long time! Secondly the Drop Box has been placed in the entrance to try and alleviate the congestion at the hatch in the morning and after School and save you from queuing unnecessarily just to hand something in.
Thank you to all the parents who attended the Jigsaw SRE Meeting on Tuesday evening. The feedback was positive and stated it was very informative and also a huge thank you to all the staff who gave up their time to plan and deliver the session.
I hope you all have your Superhero costumes out for the Carnival tomorrow it would be great to see as many people there as possible and also your P.E kit ready for Active week next week!
Have a great weekend,
Mrs Morton.
A warm welcome back to everyone for what I am sure will be an action packed and fun filled last half term of this academic year!
As always this time of year gives lots of time for reflection as we transition into the next period. Sadly we will be saying goodbye to Miss Wilford at the end of this year as she leaves us as Class 4 teacher and also a member of our Governing Body. Miss Wilford has contributed significantly in lots of areas of life at All Saints’ during her time with us including all she has done as Computing Subject Leader. We are sorry to see Miss Wilford go but wish her all the best for her move back to her home town of Coventry and to her promotion as Literacy and KS1 Leader at her new School. As a result of Miss Wilford’s departure we have as always been through a rigorous recruitment process and are delighted to announce that Miss Genevieve Taylor will be joining us from September and along with Mrs Preece our new Reception teacher has been busy juggling life at their current schools while going above and beyond to ensure a smooth and successful transition to All Saints’, I am sure they will fit in wonderfully and you will make them feel very welcome in the All Saints’ Way.
It has also been lovely to start spending more time with our new Reception children who have been in this week for their very first stay and play at ‘big school’. It was wonderful to start to get to know our new children and families and again would like to make you feel very welcome as you embark on your All Saints’ journey with us.
Next week will see the children being told who will be their teaching team in their next class and also see this shared with families via the ‘meet your new team’ sheets that will also be shared on Friday 19th June.
The wonderful Active Week will be commencing on Monday 22nd June and I know that lots of planning and preparation has been going on for a long time to make it a great week for everyone. For our new Reception parents and a reminder to all other families children are able to come in sports wear all week, please ensure that it is sports clothing and not beach clothing and that a proper pair of trainers are also worn to make sure everyone can take part in all the activities safely. Also just to remember that the usual rules about jewellery of a watch and stud earrings apply and that they must be removed and long hair tied up for P.E. 
I had a wonderful meeting with some Year Three girls this week who has been busy organising a bake sale for Cancer Research, so just to flag up that on Wednesday 15th July we will be having a sale in the day for the children and after school for parents and all donations of cakes etc will be gratefully received. More information to follow next week.
If you have not sent in your folders for your end of year reports to go in please send them into the office or via your child's class teacher many thanks and have a lovely weekend. Your child has been sent home with a sponsored skip in time for Active Week on 22nd June.
Mrs Morton
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Science Week: Growth 
John, our school crossing officer, is celebrating 70 years on Thursday! Please do wish him a ‘Happy 70th Birthday’ when you see him on Thursday! This would really make his day.
Meet Tim Bowman, Director of Education in Stockport, & Bev Milway, Strategic lead for SEND Inclusion
Meet Tim Bowman, Director of Education in Stockport, & Bev Milway, Strategic lead for SEND Inclusion
HOW TO KEEP YOUR CHILD SAFE ONLINE? 
A Special THANK YOU Message: The Parents’ Association would like to ask you all to join us in making a very special thank you. Some of you may know one of our parents who works hard all year round collecting, cleaning, sorting and rehoming outgrown uniforms. To some she is Margot and Lillian’s Mum, to others Sarah and to a lot, she is simply known as the uniform lady. Even through these very different and difficult times, she has continued to work hard raising much needed funds that are needed more so now than ever before, especially with all our fund-raising activities unable to take place this year. As a token of our appreciation, we wanted to give Sarah a gift that fitted with her ethos and love of nature, we hope she enjoys it. 
Family 
