Saxton Newsletter 29.9.23

Remember to always have a 'can-do' attitude to learning.

As members of Saxton School and, therefore, the local community, please can we all be aware and vigilant of road safety around the school and through the village. It is a 30mph zone and a residential area, which is why we need to be safe on the roads. Along with this, can we please remember not to use the markings outside the school entrance, as a means of parking. This way, we can ensure that all children are safe when entering and leaving school. Thank you for your understanding and continued support with this.

The gate for drop off at school opens at 8.40am. Please ensure that you are with your children until the school doors open, in order to prevent any risk of injury. Children should be entering via the school gates at either the Church entrance or the pathway onto the playground. Thank you for your cooperation with this.

Well done to all children that took part in the Cross Country event on Tuesday. They represented the school with great determination and pride.

Don’t forget that the FOSS AGM takes place in school on Monday at 7pm. Everyone is welcome.

Reminder - The school photographer will be in school on Tuesday 3rd October to take your child's photo. They will be taking individual school photos and in-school sibling photos. Please make sure your child is dressed in full school uniform.

We are holding an open morning on Friday 6th October for prospective new families. Please do help us to publicise this to a wide audience, as we would love to share our lovely school with new families.

Don’t forget that the Harvest Festival will take place in church at 1pm on Monday 9th October. This is open to parents and friends to attend. We will collect gifts of items of food which will be donated to Selby Food Bank.

All the menus are available on meal selector via ParentPay

Please see the menu below for our Special Harvest Festival Lunch on Thursday 5th October.

Children can decide daily whether they are having a school dinner or packed lunch.

Please ensure you use our new meal selector to order lunches for your child for up to 3 weeks in advance, see the link below.

Each day there are 4 choices, either the hot dinner, hot vegetarian option, jacket potato with a choice of toppings or a sandwich. The sandwich and jacket potato always come with a selection of vegetables/salad on the side and have the full pudding choice for that day.

Packed Lunches - if you are sending grapes in your child's packed lunch, can you please ensure that these are cut in half.

Term Holiday club - Now available to book

Various sessions are running throughout the October holidays from Bishop Wood Tuesdays – Thursdays 9.00am – 3.00pm. Lots of free-play opportunities, rope swings, den building, fire

lighting, games, tool use, campfire treats and much more. For more information visit www.treetopsforestschool.co.uk or book a place via www.bookwhen/treetopsforestschool. If you have any questions, please contact Siobhan Bamforth treetopsforestschool@gmail.com

If you are in receipt of certain benefits, your child could also qualify for free school meals during all school years. To qualify you must be receiving:

• Universal Credit, provided you have an annual net earned income of no more than £7,400, as assessed by earnings from up to three of your most recent assessment periods (£616.67 per month)

• Income Support

• Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance

• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance

• Support under part six of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999

• The guarantee element of Pension Credit

• Child Tax Credit, provided you are also not entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual household gross income that does not exceed £16,190 (as assessed by HMRC)

• Working Tax Credit run-on, paid for four weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit

Please note that contributions-based benefits, including contribution-related Jobseekers' Allowance do not entitle you to claim free school meals.

Apply for free school meals

You will receive an instant decision on whether your application is successful. If it is, we will fully process the application in 5 working days and notify the school. Once the school has received this your child can begin enjoying free school meals. You should continue to pay until confirmation comes through. Schools may be able to arrange reimbursement of payment made while your entitlement is being confirmed.

Free school meals claims cannot be backdated. They are awarded from the date we receive the application, once eligibility is confirmed. This is because there is a legal requirement for a request to be made, before a free school meal can be provided. If you are not entitled to free school meals, you will be notified in writing.

We are delighted to be able to have volunteers into schools again, and would welcome parents to help us. If you are able to give any time to us, either on an ad-hoc or regular basis, you will need to complete a DBS application. Please contact the office for more information.

Help raise money for FOSS and label your children's school items. The soft plastic labels can be stuck on machine wash-care labels of clothes, but can also be used on shoes, dishwasher items and general school items.

Please order via the website www.stikins.co.uk and quote Saxton school number 17524

Please be considerate when parking near the school crossing. If parked too close it can be very difficult to see if it is safe to cross, particularly at pick up time-thank you.

Please click here to be re-directed to ParentPay, where you can pay for lunches and other school related items.

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Location: Dam Lane, Saxton, United Kingdom
Phone: 01937 557396
Twitter: @SaxtonCE

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