Friday 30th November 2018 Autumn Term - Issue 12

School Newsletter Trinity Academy Eppleby Forcett and Middleton Tyas

Proud to be church of England Academies

THE WEEK IN REVIEW

Dear Parents and Carers,

What a busy week! We had a super day on Monday, when we were visited by Bob Hartman, who really was in-spirational! The children thoroughly enjoyed taking part in his stories and songs. Do ask them to tell you all about it!

At Eppleby Forcett this week, the children have been busy making their Christmas crafts. The Reception children have been planting hyacinths and learning about how to look after and care for plants and the Preschool chil-dren made some sensory playdough.

This week, Year 1 have been getting to know the story of ‘The Snail and The Whale’ even more; they have acted out the story, created beautiful backdrops and written great descriptions for each of the scenes in the adven-ture. They have also enjoyed getting crafty this week. They have been busy making Christmas pudding pom-poms and snowmen ornaments for the Christmas fair. Year 2 have also started their Christmas theme in RE. They have looked at how lights are used during the festive period and what light represents. They have al-so been very busy practising for the Christmas play. They have been practising lines; singing songs and learning their stage directions!

In Year 3, the children have been reading ‘Kensuke’s Kingdom’ and drawing maps. They have also been learning about Japanese origami and created boats, hats and trees displaying extracts of the story. The Year 4 children have been looking at non-chronological reports in English. Their topic for this half term is Buildings, so they have been designing their own buildings and writing some amazing reports about them too!

This week, Year 5 have enjoyed using drama workshops to inspire writing based on their class novel. Also, a big 'Well done' to Year 5 for creating excellent games stalls for the Christmas fair. They were great fun! This week, the Year 6 children have been busy planning their residential trip to Robin Wood. They have also been finishing off their enterprise stalls for the Christmas Fair – they were absolutely fantastic!

Of course, one of the highlights of our week was the amazing Christmas Fair on Thursday evening. As always, it was great to see so many parents and Friends of the school. THANK YOU to everyone who came along to help and to support our schools.

Looking forward to next week, we will be continuing our Christmas preparations and also have our first Friends’ wreath making event on Saturday evening.

For day-to-day enquiries please contact the school office or speak to your child(ren)’s class teacher. As you know, I work for the Federation for 50% of the week and share my time between school sites, so am not always availa-ble. Do remember that our Head of School, Mrs McLean, can be contacted on a daily basis if necessary.

I look forward to seeing you in school soon.

Kindest regards,

Mrs K. Williamson, Executive Headteacher

INFORMATION

DIARY DATES - DATES IN RED ARE FRIENDS EVENTS

Wednesday 5th December - Ordered Christmas Cards to be distributed

Wednesday 5th - Friday 7th December - Y6 Residential to Robin Wood

Saturday 8th December - Wreath Making Evening at Eppleby Village Hall

Tuesday 11th December - Wreath Making Evening at Eppleby Village Hall

Tuesday 11th December - Film Night at Middleton Tyas, 3:15-5:15pm and BAG2SCHOOL collection

Thursday 13th December - Nativity at Eppleby Forcett, 2pm

Friday 14th December - Christmas Jumper Day at both settings

Friday 14th December - Christmas Lunch at Eppleby Forcett (details to follow)

Tuesday 18th December - Christmas Performance at Middleton Tyas, 2pm and 6pm

Thursday 20th December - Christmas lunch and Party Day at Middleton Tyas

Friday 21st December - Christmas Service at Middleton Tyas Church, 2pm for Reception - Y6 children

Friday 21st December - Schools close for the Christmas Break - PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS NO AFTERSCHOOL CLUB AT MIDDLETON TYAS SO SCHOOL WILL CLOSE AT 3:15pm.

Tuesday 8th January - Schools reopen for children

Wednesday 23rd January - Friends Meeting from 3:30pm at the Middleton Tyas setting

It is that time of year again when you will need to apply for a primary school place for your child if they were born between 1st September 2014 and 31st August 2015.

If you would like to choose our schools for your child’s education you will need to select your catchment school as your first choice, which will be either Trinity Academy Eppleby Forcett or Trinity Academy Middleton Tyas and then put the other school as your second choice. If neither school is your catchment school we would suggest choosing Trinity Academy Middleton Tyas as your first choice and Trinity Academy Eppleby For-cett as your second choice.

Applications must be submitted by 15th January 2019.

The national offer day (the day when you find out where your child has been allocated a place) is Tuesday 16th April 2019.

For further information click here to access the admission letter on our website or contact either school office.

You can also access information from North Yorkshire County Council by

visiting the North Yorkshire Admissions website.

APPLYING FOR A PRIMARY SCHOOL PLACE

BUS SLIPS

PLEASE REMEMBER TO HAND YOUR BUS SLIPS IN ON A THURSDAY NIGHT/FRIDAY MORNING READY FOR THE

FOLLOWING WEEK. EVERY CHILD THAT TRAVELS ON OUR SCHOOL BUSES MUST HAVE A SLIP COMPLETED EACH

WEEK.

ANY CHANGES THAT NEED TO BE MADE ON THE DAY MUST BE PHONED IN BEFORE 2:30pm AND FOLLOWED UP

WITH AN EMAIL.

IF WE ARE IN ANY DOUBT OF IF YOUR CHILD SHOULD BE TRAVELLING ON THE

BUS OR NOT, WE WILL KEEP THEM AT THE SCHOOL THEY ARE TAUGHT AT.

THANK YOU

DINNER MONEY

For all those children in Y3-Y6 that have a school

lunch, the amount payable for this half term is

£87.50

Please make your payments on

ParentPay.

If your child is not currently having a school dinner

and you would like them to, please contact the school

office.

PLEASE CAN ALL OUTSTANDING BAL-

ANCES BE CLEARED IMMEDIATELY.

NUTS!

As you are aware we are ‘Nut Free’ schools.

Please can you ensure that children do not bring in any products that may contain nuts.

This includes all variants of Chocolate Spread.

MUSICAL EVENING

SCHOOL BADGES

We are now in a position to sell the new School badge

with the new logo.

If you require any please email the school office and

let them know.

The badges cost £1.00 each. They look amazing.

We would like to say a MASSIVE THANK YOU TO MR

AND MRS YOUNIS for acquiring the

badges at such a reasonable cost.

THANK YOU!

AFTERSCHOOL AT MIDDLETON TYAS

Due to the film night on Tuesday 11th December,

there will be NO After School Club on this night at

Middleton Tyas. Breakfast club will run as normal.

Due to the Christmas church service on Friday 21st

December, there will be NO After School Club at Mid-

dleton Tyas on this night. Breakfast club will run as

normal.

CHRISTMAS CARD POST BOX

From Monday 3rd December, the children can bring in their Christmas cards and post them

in the school post box.

They will be distributed to the children on a daily basis at Middleton Tyas, by the Year 6

children and at Eppleby they will be distributed by staff regularly.

ACHIEVEMENTS

ATTENDANCE

Congratulations to Year 1 this week for achieving an amazing 100% attendance.

Well done!

SUPERSTARS RECEIVING CERTIFICATES THIS WEEK

We are so very proud of all our children across both settings as they are and continue to be superstars in every-thing they do.

However, a special congratulations to the children pictured here that have received certificates in school this week.

FRIENDS NEWS

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING

Don't forget to sign up to Easyfundraising.

So far we've raised over £1700 via Easyfundraising, which has gone towards class music lessons and musi-cal instruments.

Going forward this money will be spent on buying new and exciting books for the children.

https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/

friendsoftrinityacademyefmt/

WREATH MAKING WORKSHOPS

These workshops are now fully booked.

Thank you very much to everyone that has booked places.

If you haven’t paid for your place yet, please do so by Friday 7th December.

AVIVA COMMUNITY FUND

Thanks to everyone who took the time to visit the AVIVA Community Fund website and vote for our MU-GA project.

AVIVA had millions of votes cast this year and unfortu-nately our project didn't get enough votes to take us through to this year’s final.

However, as one of the first 1,000 entries submitted by a customer our MUGA project is eligible to receive £200.

We will applying for more grants in 2019, if you can help us please let us know.

BAG2SCHOOL

Our BAG2SCHOOL collections are on 10th and 11th December.

Please keep collecting your clothes and textiles.

Drop offs are as follows;

Monday 10th December by 3pm at Eppleby Forcett (Bags to be left under the school notice board)

Tuesday 11th December by 9am at Middleton Tyas (Bags to be left in parent carpark between 8am-9am)

Thank you.

THANK YOU

Thanks to everyone for coming to our Christmas Fair.

A special thanks to all those who give up their precious free time to help behind the scenes prior to the event, those who helped on the evening, and the staff who manned stalls and helped the children with their crafts and

enterprise stalls.

Lastly a very special thank you to everyone who donated so generously towards our Christmas Raffle and to par-ents for their donations towards bag-a-bottle and Tombola stalls.

We’ll publish money raised on Facebook and in next week’s newsletter.

CHRISTMAS LIGHT SWITCH ON

RICHMOND TOWN COUNCIL,

THE DUCK CLUB AND ROUND TABLE

SWITCHING ON THE RICHMOND CHRISTMAS LIGHTS

In FRIARY GARDENS and the TOWN

at 7.00 p.m

FRIDAY, 30th November 2018

Murphy’s fairground rides in Market Place

Free Mulled Wine and Mince Pies available in the Market Hall

From 6.00 pm

COMMUNITY