FOAH will be selling light refreshments and baseball caps. They will be using their newly acquired card reader which did work but can be intermittent so please bring cash as well. There will also be the opportunity to purchase pre-loved books and school uniform. These will be available at the end of sports day too so please take the time to look around and grab a bargain!

 In response to parent feedback, all classes will be permitted to leave at 2.45pm on both Almond Hill sports afternoons. Children will be required to be signed out by an adult. If you would like to take your child early, please go to the classroom door to collect them. If your child is in year 6, please go to the front of Acorn House where staff will be able to help. I understand that parents may have children at Letchmore and children in both the upper and lower school and hope by facilitating early collection, this will make the afternoons more enjoyable and easier to manage for families. However, for those families that do not wish to collect their children early, the children will be supervised until 3.15pm as usual. Please do not collect children who are not your own without prior arrangement with the class teacher. Children who walk home independently will not be allowed to leave until 3.15pm.

All gates will be open at 2.45pm to allow parents easy exit.

I am pleased to tell parents that after half term, we will be offering another opportunity for parents to find out about their children’s experiences at school. Mrs. Cleaves our music co-ordinator has kindly offered to ‘throw open the doors’ for our weekly singing assemblies. Parents are invited straight after drop off on Friday mornings to spend around 30 minutes listening (and participating if they wish!) to our music assembly. There will be 30 places each week with lower and upper school alternating each week. We will start with lower school on Friday 9^th June. Spaces will be given on a first come first served basis.  Places can be booked on School Gateway but once full, it will automatically close. We will alert parents when spaces are available to book.

Lower school – Friday 9^th June, Friday 23^rd June and Friday 14^th July

Upper school  - Friday 16^th June, Friday 7^th July

We have finally seen some sunshine and with that, children have started to eat packed lunches outside from Monday. If the weather does turn cold/wet then children will eat in their classrooms as usual. If your child suffers with hayfever, please ensure they have had their medication before school (if applicable). We are making lots of phone calls to parents to ask them to provide eye drops/Piriton during the school day so please try to do this at home in the morning.  Children are not allowed to bring suncream to school so please make sure this is applied before school.

In line with our sickness policy, please don’t send children into school that have been sick. If your child has had sickness or diarrhoea, they should remain off school until 48 hours have passed from when the symptoms stopped