Saxton Newsletter 19.12.25

Our attendance last week rose again 96.6%. Thank you for helping it to move closer to our target of 97%. The NHS has published guidance that you might find helpful: NHS Guidance for Parents: Is my child too ill for school? – a useful resource to help parents decide when children should stay at home.

Our collective worship theme next week is Respect. Please take time to talk with your child about this.

We are now able to offer after-school wraparound sessions on Friday. These will start on Friday 9th January – please sign children up in the usual way.

We are delighted to have appointed a new teaching assistant to join our team. Mrs Roberts will be working in Maple class from January.

All about family magazine is aimed at giving parents valuable information for their children. There is exclusive content from NSPCC, St John Ambulance, plus more. The winter edition can be found at https://allabout-family.co.uk/national-magazine/

A new group is launching for anyone aged 16+ who identifies as female. Join artists Sally Wright and Hafifa Ahmed to connect, chat, meet new people, get creative, share skills - and food, if you like! Sign Up For Women Make

There is a community food bank collection happening in Sherburn, at the Old Girls School tomorrow morning – please see the attached poster for information.

Staff would like to thank everyone for their kind wishes, cards and gifts. We hope that everyone enjoys a very merry Christmas, and a peaceful New Year. We will see you when school re-opens on Tuesday 6th January 2026.

DECEMBER

22nd December - 4th January School Holidays

JANUARY

5th January Training Day School Closed

16th January RE Immersive Day - Sikh Guru Har Rai Jayanti (birth of the guru)

21st January Maple Pizza Express Trip

28th January Young Voices Y5

FEBRUARY

11th February Willow Forest School Introduction Day

12th February Maple Forest School Introduction Day

13th February FOSS TTR dress up day

16th February - 22nd February School Holidays

MARCH

4th March RE Immersive Day - Hindu (holi) colour run

17th & 18th March Forest Schools Day

20th March Rocksteady Concert in the Church

24th & 25th March Forest Schools Day

28th March - 12th April School Holidays

All the menus are available on meal selector via ParentPay

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.

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.

Email: admin@sp.starmat.uk
Website: http://www.sp.starmat.uk/
Location: Dam Lane, Saxton, United Kingdom
Phone: 01937 557396
Twitter: @SaxtonCE