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NEWSLETTER Nov 2004

Welcome back to one of our busiest half-terms. I hope that many of you will be able to attend our Christmas events this year.

1 HARVEST FESTIVAL
Thank you for your support at our Harvest Festival this year. I would like to thank the children for their wonderful singing and Rev. Tomalin for his contributions. We raised the sum of £270 for Christian Aid, which was an increase on last year. The food contributions went to Grangemead which was delivered by some of the children from the School Council. We received a lovely thank you letter from Grangemead.

2 CHILDREN IN NEED – 19TH NOVEMBER
We would like to support Children in Need this year by asking all children to bring in a “handful” of small change on 19th November. We will then cover ‘Pudsey Bear’ in the school hall/playground as part of the event.

3 PARENTS’ EVENING
We had an excellent turnout this year. Thank you for attending the consultation evening. There will be another opportunity to speak to your child’s teacher next term. If you do have any further questions or concerns, please let your child’s teacher know.

4 PARENT GOVERNOR
We will soon be sending out nomination letters for a new Parent Governor to join the Governing Body of Hawkes Farm in January, 2005. Please do take some time to consider the availability of this post. If you
have any questions, please come and speak to myself or let the office know and we will put one of our current Parent Governors in contact with you.

5 CELEBRATIONS
a) The Hawkes Farm Football Team won the local schools’ tournament. Congratulations to them as this is their second year in a row.
b) Nick Buckfield – Great Britain Pole Vault. We had a fantastic morning when Nick joined us to celebrate the school’s Activemark Gold Award. Nick talked to the children (Yr 2 – Yr 6) and then took Year 6 for a warm up and gymnastic coaching session.

6 CHRISTMAS EVENTS
The Friends of Hawkes Farm are holding their Christmas Fayre on Saturday, 11th December from 2.00pm – 4.00pm. More information will be sent out nearer the time.

Reception/Year 1 Christmas Play – “Humph the Camel”
Tuesday, 7th December 2.15 pm
Wednesday, 8th December 9.30 am

Year 2 Christmas Play – “Hosanna Rock”
Thursday, 9th December 9.30 am

Junior Christmas Church Carol Service
Tuesday, 14th December 7.00 pm St Mary’s Church
A separate letter will be sent out next week

Christmas Lunch
Wednesday, 15th December

Christmas Parties
Letters will be sent out nearer the time with information about Christmas parties.

7 CHRISTMAS SHOW
We have been able to book a Christmas Show to visit the school in December for all the children. The Infants will watch the “Three Little Pigs” and the Juniors will see “George and the Dragon”.

To allow this to happen we would like to ask for a voluntary contribution of £1.50 per child or £2.00 per family towards the costs. We hope this will prove very successful and provide all the children with the opportunity to see a Theatre Production.

Please send contributions in an envelope marked “Christmas Production” with the name of your child/ren and their class by Friday, 19th November.

Thank you for your continued support. I look forward to seeing you at our Christmas Events.

Yours sincerely

Mrs V Cobb
Headteacher