Dates for your diary
Half Term
Summer 2
5th June - Children back to school 8.40am
6th June - – Book Look, another chance to look at your children’s books @ 2.30pm
12th – 16th June – Year 1 phonics screening week
23rd June - Sleepover – Owl Class
5th – 7th July – Stem activity days
11th July Sports Day - KS2 @9.15am
13th July Sports Day – KS1 @9.15am
13th July - End of year reports out to parents
13th July - Year 6 leavers play @ 1.30pm and 6pm
14th July - Leavers celebration @ 5pm
21st July – Year 6 Leavers Assembly
21st July - End of year family picnic 12 - 1.30pm (School finishes at 1.30pm)
Special Days
19th June – Father’s Day
Autumn 1 - 2023/2024
1st/4th Sept – Inset days – No school as staff training days
5th Sept - Back to School for Robins, Owls, Kingfishers, Woodpeckers, Herons and Kestrels
5th Sept – Puffin Class (Dragons and Griffins – 9.00am – 12.30pm)
6th Sept –Puffin Class (Phoenix and Pegasus – 9.00am – 12.30pm)
7th Sept – All Puffins start school 8.40am
13th Sept - Meet the teacher sessions – Puffins, Robins and Owls @ 2.20pm
14th Sept - Meet the teacher sessions – Kingfishers, Woodpeckers, Herons and Kestrels @2.20pm
18th – 21st Sept – Kestrel house captain speeches
(18th – Dragons, 19th – Griffins, 20th – Pegasus and 21st – Phoenix, voting will take place after each assembly and the winners announced in Friday’s celebration assembly)
22nd Sept – Jeans for Genes day and welcome coffee afternoon for all families
4th – 6th Oct – Year 4 residential to Sayers Croft
10th – 12th Oct - Settling in parents evenings from 3.30pm
10th Oct – Little Wandle - Phonics and reading drop in session for Puffin/Robin Class parents - 3.30pm onwards
16th Oct – Nasal flu vaccination (Years R – 6)
19th Oct - Year 6 SATs talk
19th Oct - Harvest festival at St Mary’s Church for Puffins, Robins and Owls @ 9.30am
19th Oct - School finishes at 3pm for KS1 and 3.10pm for KS2
20th Oct – Inset Day -– No school as staff training day
Half Term
Autumn 2
30th Oct - Children back to school 8.40am
30th Oct – Individual photos
30th Oct – RSPB ‘feed the birds’ day
9th Nov – Early maths workshop for Puffin Class parents @ 6pm
10th Nov – Remembrance Day -2 minute silence and assembly
13th – 17th Nov – Anti Bullying Week (Odd Sock Day 13th)
1st Dec – Pantomime for all classes – Dick Whittington
4th Dec – Nativity dress rehearsal for the KS2
5th Dec – Puffin, Robin and Owl Nativity 2pm and 5.30pm
6th Dec - Puffin, Robin and Owl Nativity 9.15am
13th Dec – Herons Carol Concert at St Mary’s church – 6pm (Rehearsal at the church on 12th @ 1.30pm)
14th Dec - Christmas parties – mufti day
15th Dec - Christmas jumper day with Christmas Lunch - school finishes at 1.20pm for KS1 and 1.30pm for KS2
Christmas Holidays
Spring 1
2nd Jan – Inset day – No school as staff training day
3rd Jan - Children back to school – 8.40am
15th - 18th Jan – Book Look, a chance to look at your children’s books - 3.15 – 4pm
15th – Dragons, 16th – Griffins, 17th – Pegasus and 18th – Phoenix
26th Jan – RSPB Bird Watch Day
2nd Feb - NSPCC day
5th – 11th Feb - Children’s Mental Health Week
6th Feb – Safer Internet Day
7th Feb – Panto dress rehearsal for school
8th Feb - – Kingfisher and Woodpecker Panto @ 1.45pm and 5.30pm
9th Feb - School finishes at 3pm for KS1 and 3.10pm for KS2
Half Term
Spring 2
19th Feb - Children back to school 8.40am
7th March – World Book Day (A whole day of literacy activities for the children to enjoy, No dressing up day)
5th – 7th March – Parents evenings (5th will be meetings via zoom and the 6th and 7th in person at the school)
25th March – Class photos
27th March – KS2 Easter service at 9.30am at St Mary’s Church (Rehearsal at the church on 26th @ 1.30pm)
28th March - Easter egg hunt
28th March - School finishes at 1.20pm for KS1 and 1.30pm for KS2
Easter Holidays
Summer 1
15th April - Children back to school 8.40am
tbc – Kingfishers parents evenings
6th May - May Bank Holiday – No school
13th – 17th May – KS2 SATs
24th May - School finishes at 3pm for KS1 and 3.10pm for KS2
Half Term
Summer 2
3rd June - Children back to school 8.40am
tbc – New puffin parents information evening
10th – 14th June – Year 1 phonics screening week
14th – 17th June - Year 6 residential
1st – 2nd July – Art/DT exhibition in the hall
5th July - Sleepover – Owl Class
9th July Sports Day - KS2 @9.15am
tbc – New Puffins teddy bears picnic
11th July Sports Day – KS1 @9.15am
19th July – Dress Rehearsal Year 6 leavers play
19th July - Leavers celebration @ 5pm
22nd July - Year 6 leavers play @ 1.30pm and 6pm
23rd July – Year 6 Leavers Assembly
23rd July - End of year family picnic 12 - 1.30pm (School finishes at 1.30pm)
Special Days
6th Sept – National Read a Book Day
8th Sept - International Literacy Day
13th Sept – Roald Dahl Day
15th Sept – International Dot Day & International Day of Democracy
19th – 25th Sept – Recycle Week
22nd Sept – Jeans for Genes Day
29th Sept – National Teaching Assistant Day
October – ADHD month October – Black History Month
3rd - 9th Oct – Dyslexia Awareness Week
4th Oct – World Animal Day
5th Oct – World Teacher Day
9th – 15th Oct – Dyspraxia Awareness Week
10th Oct- World Mental Health Day
21st Oct – Wear it Pink Day
5th Nov – Bonfire Night
12th Nov – Diwali
13th Nov – World Kindness Day
13th – 17th Nov – Anti Bullying Week
14th Nov – National Diabetes Day
16th- 20th Nov - World Nursery Rhyme Week
30th Nov - St. Andrew’s Day
7th - 15th Dec – Hanukkah
27th Jan – Holocaust Memorial Day
2nd Feb – Wear Red Day – Heart health
6th – 12th Feb – Children’s Mental Health Week
6th Feb – Safer Internet Day
10th Feb – Chinese New Year
13th Feb – Shrove Tuesday
14th Feb – Valentine’s Day
1st March – St David’s Day
8th March – International Women’s Day
17th March – St Patrick’s Day
10th March – Mother’s Day
11th March – Ramadan starts
21st March – World Poetry Day
29th March – Good Friday
22nd April – Earth Day
23rd April – St George’s Day
7th May – World Asthma Day
28th May – World Hunger Day
16th June – Father’s Day
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