Dear Parents/Carers,

Year 3 and 4 Musicals

The booking form for tickets closed at 12.00pm today. We will be taking some time to look through and will allocate additional tickets. Please note that we cannot allow children on laps. I know some parents are disappointed that we have only been able to guarantee 1 ticket per family but our hall is very small. To put it into perspective, we have 75 children taking part in both musicals and with one parent each, that is already 150 people to fit in the hall. We must follow the fire regulations which allows approximately 115 people as guests (on top of the staff and children we have already accounted for). 

We try very hard to work alongside Letchmore when planning events as many of the parents at Almond Hill have children at both schools. This can make planning events tricky to ensure we don’t clash and for these events, this only left us with Tuesday and Wednesday. We are also planning for two year groups (6 classes of children) as current year 4 children were unable to perform in person last year due to covid restrictions.

Whilst videoing the performances feels like a good solution, we have lots of children across the school who do not have permission for their images/videos/voice to be shared online. This would therefore exclude those children from participating.

Year 3

2.00pm performance – please can parents arrive no earlier than 1.40pm and enter via reception to be signed in. At the end of the performance, parents can leave through the hall doors into the quadrant and make their way to the year 3 classroom doors for usual collection.

6.00pm performance – please bring children to their classroom door for 5.40pm where their teacher will meet them. Parents can then walk round to the quadrant to enter the hall. FOAH will be arranging refreshments in the foyer so please bring cash with you. Parents can then exit through these doors at the end and collect their children from the classroom doors.
Year 4

2.00pm performance – please can parents arrive no earlier than 1.40pm and enter via reception to be signed in. At the end of the performance, parents can leave through the hall doors into the quadrant and make their way to the year 4 classroom doors for usual collection.

6.00pm performance – please bring children to the central cloakroom doors in the quadrant (where children exited for the recent silent disco) for 5.40pm where a member of staff will take them to their classroom. Parents to enter the hall via the quadrant hall door.  FOAH will be arranging refreshments in the foyer so please bring cash with you. Parents will exit through these doors and collect their children from the dining room door.

FOAH will also be selling the Aim High beanie hats at the evening performances which cost £8 each.

Whole school reading afternoon

It is fantastic to see so many parents have signed up to our reading afternoon on Thursday 8^th December. There is still time to ‘book your place’. The reading afternoon starts at 2.15pm and will finish promptly at 2.45pm to allow enough time for parents with children at Letchmore to collect on time at 3.00pm. Please arrive at school after 2.00pm and enter via reception where you will be signed in. Parents can take children home at 2.45pm from the classroom if they wish but unfortunately, we will not be able to collect and sign out siblings. So, if you have more than one child to collect, you will need to wait until the end of the school day as usual. If you need to collect children from Letchmore, children can wait at school in their classes as usual until you are ready to collect.

https://www.almondhill.herts.sch.uk/survey

Year 5 and 6 Church Performance

The Church have informed us that they are limiting numbers for the church performance on Monday 19^th December to ensure they are keeping in line with fire regulations. We can invite 100 guests to attend with the children (this, along with children and staff attending will bring them to full capacity) which means we will only be able to invite year 6 parents to attend and those parents of children in the choir. We see this as an issue going forward and have decided to invite year 6 parents each year to ensure that all parents will be able to see their child participate in the Church service once.

Emma Fordham,
Headteacher