Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Expectations for the School Year

  Wed 06 Sep 2023

  A few reminders about changes and expectations for the year:

  Uniform

  A reminder that children should wear full normal school uniform comprising blue polo shirts, jumpers and grey trousers/skirts/shorts or a blue gingham school dress with school socks and shoes. They do not need to have branded items – they can have plain blue jumpers or cardigans which are entirely acceptable.

  They need to bring a full PE kit to change into on the appropriate days – black shorts/jogging bottoms, plain blue t-shirts, a plain jumper/tracksuit top and trainers/plimsolls.  Provision will be made for the older children to change in separate areas in the school for PE lessons and clubs after school. They will be expected to change back after PE lessons and after clubs before leaving school. PE kits can remain in school.

  Water Bottles

  Children need to bring a water bottle into school everyday. This can contain plain water or weak squash. They are not to bring fizzy drinks, sports drinks or energy drinks of any kind. Last year, a number of older children were stopping at the shop on the way to school to buy drinks of this kind – perhaps without parents knowing. Any fizzy, sports or energy drinks will be removed from children and handed back at the end of the day. Please can children not bring ‘Prime’ bottles, even if these contain water or squash so that we don’t need to check contents.

  School Trips

  One of the areas school staff have been working on during the two training days is the planning of school trips. We are aware that often these all seem to come at the end of the summer term making it a very expensive time for families. We have tried hard to spread these out during the coming year while ensuring that they are still related to learning outcomes in the classes. We do understand how difficult it can be to afford these little extras during times when money is tight. However, school budgets are similarly challenged and last year we were on the verge of cancelling several trips as we had not had the funds from parents to cover the costs. We are not able – and nor would be want to – bar children from attending the trip due to parents not being able to pay for it, however, if we are not able to cover the costs, we will be forced to cancel the trip for everyone. The letter regarding trips is always worded as ‘a voluntary contribution’, we would appreciate it hugely if parents could make at least part payment towards the costs.

  Many thanks for your co-operation and continued support. 

• School Council Charity Raffle

  Wed 19 Jul 2023

  Thank you to all who supported our charity raffle at sports day, either donating prizes and/or buying tickets.

  The children also had such fun at the 'soak a teacher' stall on Monday!

  With your support we raised a fantastic £85 for each charity - Odylia and Muscular Dystrophy.

   

• St Sebastian's Triumph at Rounders Festival

  Thu 13 Jul 2023

  A huge congratulations to our school rounders team who won the Grantham schools rounders tournament on Thursday 13th July 2023.

  And after a long day of hard work and super team spirit, they were victorious – a fantastic achievement!

  

• School Council - Raffle Prize Donations

  Wed 28 Jun 2023

  The school council would like to hold a charity raffle at school on sports day - Wednesday 12^th July.

  The children have decided to support two charities:

  Musculardystrophyuk.org and Odylia.org.

  To enable us to hold this raffle and raise money for these charities, we are in need of raffle prizes and would be grateful for any donations.

  If you are able to donate a prize, please drop these in at the school office by Tuesday 11th July.

  Thank you for your support.

• Rail Safety Week - Competitions

  Tue 27 Jun 2023

  This week is Rail Safety Week.

  The Rail Forum team are delighted to be running a colouring competition for children aged between 4-8 years old that reside in the UK and a word search competition for ages 8-11.

  There two age categories for the colouring competition: 4-6 years and 7-8 years.  The 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes for both age categories are outlined below.

  1^st place: £30 Waterstones voucher
  2^nd place: £20 Waterstones voucher
  3^rd place: £15 Waterstones voucher

  For the word search, there is one absolutely fantastic prize for this competition, a railway Lego set sponsored by Babcock International.

  The winner will also receive a signed copy of Arlo’s Adventures courtesy of Community Rail Education Network.

  Colouring and wordsearch sheets can be found by following the link below. Please send any completed entries into the school office by Tuesday 18th July. Please ensure that you include the name and age of the entrant and an email address for contacting any prize winners.

   https://www.railsafetyweek.org/resources/rsw-childrens-competitions/

  Many thanks and Good Luck!

  

• Lawn Tennis Competition - Thursday 15th June 2023

  Thu 15 Jun 2023

  This week a group of children took part in a tennis tournament for the school.
  We are so proud of the children, not only did they all play their best, but their great sportsmanship and fairness in the games were noticed and commented on by teachers from other schools.
  Well done team!

  

• Online Safety Newsletter

  Fri 09 Jun 2023

  The latest Online Safety newsletter is available to download from our Online Safety webpage, please click here.

• Active Spelling Open Morning

  Wed 07 Jun 2023

  We are holding an Active Spelling Open Morning for all parents/carers with children in Year 2 and above on Thursday 22nd June 2023 at 9am.

  Active Spelling is the programme that we use in school to help teach children to spell. At the open morning, you will learn more about how your child learns to spell in school and then you will have the opportunity to join an Active Spelling lesson with your child in their classroom.

  Please see ParentMail for more information or contact the school office.

  

• Attendance Award

  Wed 07 Jun 2023

  A huge thank you to all our families for your dedication to attendance this year.

  Our school attendance target is 96.5%

  In the Spring Term, our school's attendance was in the top 25% of all Fischer Family Trust (FFT) Primary Schools.

  

• NHS Birthday Card Competition

  Tue 16 May 2023

  To celebrate the 75th Birthday of the NHS, they are holding a birthday card competition. (Please see the below information)

  If children would like to take part in this, they are being asked to design a birthday card to celebrate the NHS. 

  Designs should be as creative as possible, using crayons, pens, sticking etc and no bigger than A4.

  The competition closes during half term, so we shall be sending the designs away on Friday 26th May. All entries MUST be handed in to the school office by lunchtime on Friday 26th May.

  Many thanks

  'On Wednesday 5 July 2023, the NHS will mark 75 years of service. To help celebrate this, NHS Lincolnshire is launching a design a birthday card competition open to all primary school children in the county.

  The chosen entry will win themselves and their school class the exciting opportunity to visit the new tri-service centre in Lincoln, which is home to fire, police, and ambulance services.
  The children will have the opportunity to have a tour and sit in the emergency service vehicles, and also speak and ask questions to the emergency services team. The visit will take place on Tuesday 18 July 2023.
  Entries should be on A4 paper and be as creative as possible to help celebrate this exciting milestone, so get the glue, glitter and the crayons out and join in the fun.
  The winner will be chosen by representatives of each of Lincolnshire’s NHS organisations on Friday 9 June and will be announced on Monday 12 June 2023.'