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Dear Parents/Carers,

What a blustery week it has been! Fortunately, the children haven’t let the wind get the better of them and we have had a very productive week.

On Tuesday, over 60 children went to one of the MAT schools to take part in a cross-country event. We managed to come home with two second places and the children finished up tired but happy.

Year 4 experienced the York food festival on Tuesday morning. Bread making, herb smelling and chocolate lollipop constructing went down a treat and they made us proud with their manners and behaviour.

Thank you to everyone who has already donated to the OPAL resources. This is an ongoing thing so don’t worry if you haven’t had chance to drop anything off, the drop off point will remain active indefinitely.

Next Wednesday (2nd October) is the Friends of Kirk Fenton AGM being held at the Fenton Flyer 7-9pm. New members are always welcome!

Finally, a polite reminder that school gates don’t open until 8.35am. Some children have been dropped off at 8:25 and staff are not available to supervise them due to meetings and preparing to teach.

Thank you as always for your continued support.

Mrs Mel Walmsley

Headteacher

This week's attendance is 98.19%

This week's certificates were awarded to the following children:

Goodall - Grace and Isla

Shackleton - Sonny and Edward

Wright Brothers - Cecily and Theo

Carson - Darii and Martha

Newton - Sylvana and Jaxon

Muir - Raven and Alistair

Johnson - Lenny and Matthew

Curie - Sam and Harry

Well done to the following who earned the hot chocolate award:

Goodall - Cora

Shackleton - Scarlett

Wright Brothers - Jack

Carson - Jacob

Newton - Zach

Muir - Joe

Johnson - Poppy

Curie - Brooke

We’ve had lots of fun this week. For starters, on Tuesday 60 of our amazing key stage 2 children ran one and half miles for cross country! They all did incredibly well with two students picking up a silver medal. Also, yesterday Year 4 went to the York food festival and made some delicious snacks including lollies and bread.

Head pupil awards go to Ralph (Y6) and Fleur (YR)

Bella and Ollie

Well done to everyone going onto Numbots or TTR to practise their maths at home. Research shows that 25 minutes each week is enough to make recall of the number facts practised automatic. This really helps your child in their maths learning at school.

Our Numbots Superstars this week are Isla H, Freya N, Jack B, Mykytir S, Holly S-W, Oliver K and Alice H. This week's Rockstars of the Week are Min B, Toby M, Esme K, Tom O, Zion P, Samantha D and Eric P. This week's lucky raffle winners were Ivy K and Evie S. Well done everyone.

Well done to Newton class for having the tidiest cloakroom this week.

Thank you to Logan (Y5), Isaac (Y1) and Adelaide (YR) for helping us all to enjoy our lunchtime in the dinner hall.

Well done to the Orange Spitfires and their team captains Skyla and Harry for their win this week.

Tom and Albert have been amazing harvesting the crops and clearing the beds for winter including spreading manure this week. Many thanks to Tom and Albert's families for providing the lovely rich manure!

If anyone has any old carpet remnants or other suitable materials for covering the beds, please can you drop them in to the office.

Thank you

This session will give you an insight into how we teach reading in school. Free childcare will be provided for children who attend the school (unfortunately our insurance does not extend to providing care for children who are not pupils). We would love to see everyone there.

Many thanks,

Mrs Westfeld

YR and KS1 parents/ carers Phonics Meeting

Wednesday 2nd October, 4.30pm in the school hall

Friends AGM

Wednesday 2nd October, 7pm in the Fenton Flyer

Open Classrooms

Wednesday October 9th, 3pm

World Mental Health Day - wear something yellow to school

Thursday 10th October

New Starters Sept 2025 Parent/Carers Open Evening

Thursday 10th October, 5-6pm

Parent’s Evenings

Tuesday 15th October and Thursday 24th October (times tbc)

Training Day

Friday 25th October

Half Term

Monday 28th October -Friday 1st November

YR-Y6 Flu Immunisation

Monday 18th November

If anyone would like to say thank you to or has any positive comments for a member of staff then please complete and submit the form below.

Friends of Kirk Fenton AGM

We are delighted to have had new committee members come forward, meaning Friends of Kirk Fenton can continue to support the school.

The AGM will take place on Wednesday 2nd October, 7pm - 9pm, in the Fenton Flyer.

To hold a successful AGM we must have at least 5 non-comittee members, so if anyone would like to join to learn more about Friends and the work we've done please do come along. By attending it doesn’t mean you have to join the committee - so don’t be scared! Be curious….

friends@kf.starmat.uk

Registered charity no: 1154660

Like us on Facebook for up-to-date information www.facebook.com/FriendsOfKirkFenton

As ever, you can always set up EasyFundraising as an easy, free, way to help raise funds for the school whilst you shop. https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/kirkfenton/)

Please click on the following link for details of our current vacancies:

https://web.starmat.uk/vacancies/

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