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Newsletter 15th July 2016
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Headteachers Weekly Message
Headteachers Weekly Message
Dear Parents & Carers,
I can’t believe that this is the last Friday letter of the year it has flown past. The children
and staff are ready for a break and everyone has worked really hard this year.
Just looking around school at the displays showing all of the trips, residential visits,
themed weeks in school, charity days and sporting projects it has certainly been not just a
busy year but a great year in so many ways. It has been great to see the children flourish
and grow and be ready for the next stage of their schooling. A special good luck to all of
our year six pupils who move on to their new schools in September.
Please don’t forget that any important information you might need about the school should
be available on the school website.
On behalf of all of the staff thank you for working with us to do the very best for the
children and we hope to do the same again next year – but even better.
Enjoy your time with your families and I look forward to welcoming you all back on
Monday 5th September.
Best wishes
Mrs J Powell
Message from our chair of governors
Hello everyone,
I just wanted to thank everyone involved with the school for a great year and also wish all the Y6 children and parents the best
of luck for the future. My youngest, Edward, is leaving today and so I know exactly how many parents are feeling right now.
For us it’s the final day of nine years of our children being at Rivelin and so it really is the end of an era.
I would specifically like to thank the teachers and all the other staff for their hard work this year. It’s been a particularly difficult
time in primary education recently, with huge and controversial changes to the way our children are assessed, many of which
are still not fully resolved. And everyone knows that budgets are very tight. Despite this, the staff have secured the very
important and much deserved “good” rating from Ofsted this year and the initial end-of-year results from Early Years to Y6 all
look very encouraging.
If you have time, please have a read of my blog on the website which I will update very soon with more details.
Please have a relaxing and fun summer and I’ll see you next year.
Thanks
Dave Higgens
S P
Chair of Governors
Have you Heard?
This year, Rivelin has taken part in an art project co-ordinated by the
Children’s Hospital Charity. In the Autumn term, your generosity
helped us raise £500 for the charity and in return, the school was
given a fiberglass elephant model to decorate. A school-wide
competition ran to decide which design would be used and in the
end, there were so many fantastic ones that we put a few different
designs together. The children whose designs had been selected
spent a very enjoyable afternoon painting the elephant, showing off
their artistic skills. The elephant is now displayed in City Hall until
September, when it will be returned to school. Please take the
opportunity to go and see it, as well as all the other elephants that
will be around Sheffield!
Important School Dinner Payments
Message to all Drivers
From September all meals for children in Years 3 to 6
must be paid for in ADVANCE and any previous debt
must have been cleared.
Child safety 1st at ALL TIMES
therefore please do not make
U-Turns on the roads directly
outside school. We have had a
number of incidents where
cars are mounting the kerb
Medicine in School
and endangering the safety of
Also we need parents are
entitled
to Income
Based all
Free School Meals to register with Sheffield City Council
Please
can
we remind
children.
parents whose child has
medicine in school to
come and collect it on
the last day of term.
Get Cheaper Travel 1116 megatravel pass,
apply for your
megatravel pass online
at
www.travelsouthyorkshi
re.com
Congratulations to Adam Freeman, Isobel Hewitt,
Taylor Brookfield, Anna Lodge and Thomas Grist who
achieved 100 Superstar tickets and Elodie Greaves
and Jack Randy who achieved 200 Superstar tickets.
A big well done to Alihassan Khan, Eva Globe and
Jonathan Hukporti who achieved 300 Superstar
tickets.
Well Done All!
School Disco
A big thank you to all that attended the school disco the P.T.A
managed to raise £643 on the night and have raised £3800 in total this
year.
So far this money has part paid for end of year treats and we are
looking forward to renewing 4 of the sinks in KS2 classrooms over the
summer holidays, all of this would not have been possible without all
the hard work our wonderful P.T.A do.
Rivelin PTA - Newsletter Summer 2016
Now available to view via our
website
www.rivelinprimary.co.uk
Uniform donations
Any logo uniform and PE
donations will be greatly received
in the school office for the uniform
sale after summer break.
We are very excited to announce that we
are the first school in Sheffield to achieve
the Silver School Games Mark award for our
commitment, engagement and delivery of
competitive school sport in 2015/16.
After School Activities:
Please note the only after school activities
taking place in the First week back are:
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Monday – KS1 Tricky Wingers
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Wednesday – Rec & KS1 Rugger Eds
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Thursday – KS2 Tricky Wingers
First week back dinner menu: Week 2
octer
Get on your bike this summer with sky ride local this July
and August visit goskyride.com/Sheffield to book your place
and receive some free gifts. Alternatively call in the school
office for more information
Rivelin Primary School Diary of Events
July
August
th
Monday 18 & Tuesday 19th - School Closed Teacher
Training
Summer Holiday
th
Wednesday 20 – School Summer Holidays
September
st
October
nd
Thursday 1 and Friday 2 – School Closed Training
day
Friday 21st – Training day
Monday 24th – Friday 28th October – Half Term
th
Monday 5 First day back at school for Y1 – Y6 /
Monday 31st October – 4th November Winmarleigh Y6
Residential
Nursery Closed
Tuesday 6th – Nursery closed
Wednesday 7th – Nursery open for existing children 1st
day for new Reception children
Wednesday 28th – Curriculum evening pizza and
Learning
November
December
Term Dates 2016 – 2017
Autumn
st
st
Thursday 1 September 2016 – Friday 21 October 2016
th
th
(half-term Mon 24 Oct – Fri 28 Oct)
st
th
Monday 31 October 2016 – Friday 16 December 2016
th
nd
Christmas Holiday – 19 December – Monday 2
January 2017
Spring
rd
th
Tuesday 3 January 2017 – Friday 17 February 2017
th
th
( half-term Mon 20 Feb – Fri 24 Feb)
th
th
Mon 27 Feb – Fri 7 April
th
st
(Easter Holiday Mon 10 April – Fri 21 April)
Summer
th
th
Mon 24 April 2017 – Friday 26 May 2017
st
Monday 1 May 2017 May Day Holiday
th
(Spring Bank Holiday Mon 29 May – Friday 2
th
nd
June)
st
Monday 5 June – Friday 21 July
st
nd
st
rd
Training Days: Thursday 1 September, Friday 2 September, Friday 21 October, Tuesday 3 January 2017,
th
Friday 26 May 2017
Attendance
Our attendance figure for the period Friday 8th July – Thursday 14th July is 92.2%
Attendance Champions for period are:
Y4B with 97.6%
Attendance target 96%.
Well done and thank you to all our attending children and their parents.
Attendance is really important to help ensure your child has the best education possible. Please help support your child by
avoiding taking them out of school for appointments or holidays.