Anlaby Acre Heads Primary School
Spring Newsletters
Press Gang
Competition ++ Tops for Sport ++
Books for Schools ++ Christmas Photographs
Christmas Card Recycling ++ Arrival at School ++ Wheels
for Yelwoko ++ Spelling Challenge
Transfer to Secondary School ++ European Week ++ Dates
Dear Parents,
First of all may I wish you a very happy and prosperous new year and I do hope you had a
good Christmas (although it probably all seems a long time ago now!).
1999 is going to be a very busy and exciting year for the whole school community.
There are many new things which are going to be happening at the school, some of which
will involve parents in different ways. Perhaps the most obvious ones are the
development of a new homework policy for the school and the introduction of Home-School
Agreements, which the Government would like schools to have in place for Autumn
1999. The school's curriculum has recently been revised in the light of national
changes in what school's are expected to teach. Later this year the second major
change in the curriculum will be the introduction of the National Numeracy Strategy, which
aims to improve skills in mathematics across the country.
There will be a wide variety of events at the school this term, including the forthcoming
Comic Relief Day, the school's first Spelling Challenge and our first European Week.
Of course, the Friends of Acre Heads will also be organising special occasions and the
FOAH Herald, the association's newsletter will be with you soon. The diary at the
end of this newsletter gives provisional dates for most of these. Fliers and further
newsletters will confirm dates and provide further information.
Prime Minister
Press Gang Competition Football in the Community
Somebody from this school is guaranteed to win a tour of a local football ground, a ticket
for a local team home game or some Wagon Wheels! Children from year 4 to year 6 can
enter this competition. All they have to do is collect an entry form from the school
office and write a little about football and come up with a sporting question to ask the
Prime Minister. Entries must be returned to school before Wednesday January 27th.
Following the great success of last year's training, we shall once again be hosting Hull
City A.F.C.'s Football in the Community coaching course for boys and girls aged 6-11 at
the school. You should have already received details of this exciting course.
Tops for Sport:
Pringles foil top collection
The school is collecting the foil tops off
packets of Pringles. If we collect enough we will be able to get free sports
equipment. Tops can be deposited in the box in the school entrance. Your child
should have brought home a special collector's pack.
Books for
Schools Tokens
The school is certainly collecting the Books
for Schools tokens available from various sources. This is a major promotion and is
a great chance to build up the school's stock of books. It would be wonderful to
receive as many of these tokens as possible and so may I ask you to ask friends, relatives
and neighbours to collect them for the school as well. Tokens are printed on packs
of Walkers Crisps, Walkers Lites, Quavers, Monster Munch, French Fries, Doritos, Cheetos,
and inside copies of The Sun, The Times, The Sunday Times and News of the World.
Tokens can be deposited in the box in the school entrance, but please help us by
cutting them out first.
Christmas
Photographs
Photographs of some of the children involved in the Christmas performances will be on
display for a few weeks in the school entrance. Copies of these photographs are
available to buy from the Hull Daily Mail. Order forms which can be sent to the Hull
Daily Mail are available from the school office, should you wish to buy any of the
photographs.
Christmas Card
Recycling
Friday 22nd January will be the last
day for Christmas cards to be brought to school. So far we have collected the
equivalent of almost ten bags and we should be receiving some free English resources from
the Post Office as a 'thank you' for taking part.
Arrival at school
May I remind you that children should arrive at
school between 8:45 and 8:55 in the mornings. Staff are not officially available
before those times and there may be no-one available to deal with accidents in the
playground. In the last week we have had many children at school well before 8:45am
and the cold weather and slippery conditions made it even more important that they did not
arrive early. I do realise that the recent bad weather made it difficult for all the
children to arrive on time and would like to thank everybody who made extra efforts to get
their children to school for 8:55am. As you all know it is very important that the
children are in school on time, so we can have a settled start to the mornings and start
the lessons on time after the registers have been completed.
Wheels for
Yelwoko Appeal
Next week the school will be visited by Jacob
Ayebo. Jacob was the African contact for the Wheels for Yelwoko Appeal organised by
a group from St.Mark's Church. The appeal aimed to raise money for a motorbike for
an African village to enable them to get medical assistance to the villagers. You
may remember that the Generation Gap did a concert to help the appeal. I believe
that the appeal has raised the money that was needed and Jacob will be visiting the school
to let the children know how the motorbike will make a difference to the community of
Yelwoko.
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