Weekly Bulletin: Friday 14th July 2023

Headteacher’s message to parents/carers

Dear Parents/Carers,

In our penultimate week of the school year, we have finished this term’s program of Open Afternoons, with events for Year 5, Year R, Year 4 and Year 6 all taking place this week.  Our oldest and youngest year groups both chose food-related themes – always a good idea!  Year R read the story of Handa’s Surprise and then chopped, peeled and tasted fruit to make their own fruit kebabs.  Year 6 children spent the morning making their own scones, which were cooked in the school kitchen and then shared with visitors for the annual Year 6 Afternoon Tea.  All of our events had a lovely positive atmosphere and great Tunbury Teamwork.

Thank you for helping your children get involved in today’s ‘Dare to be Different Day’ and donating to our TSA.  Tunbury is a very colourful school today! 

Today, children are bringing home their annual reports, so please retrieve the white envelopes from their bags when you see them after school.  Please read the report and talk to your child about the achievements they are most proud of this academic year.  If you have any queries about your child’s annual report, please do contact their current class teacher – we send our reports home one week before the end of term to allow time for these conversations to take place.

Next week may be the last week of term, but we have plenty to look forward to…. Children will be finishing their learning in this year’s topics, as well as looking forward to the new school year. Year 6 will be staging their production of “I’m an 11 year old, get me out of here!” which already looks and sounds fantastic.  We also have our end of term i-Rock performance to parents/carers on Thursday morning. 

Good news – although we had been unsure whether our Ofsted report would be published in time for the end of this academic year, we have now received it in school. This means that we are allowed to publish it to you on Monday.  We are looking forward to sharing it with you.

Finally, for parents/carers of children in Year 6, we hope that everybody enjoys the Year 6 Prom in school this evening.  Children will be looking super smart and I know that lots of hard work has gone into planning this special event, so thank you for this.  Have fun everyone!

Have a lovely weekend.

Best wishes

Ruth Austin

Headteacher

Notices 

After School Clubs: Please be advised that this series of after school clubs have now finished – there will be no after school clubs next week, the last week of term. We will write to you in the new academic year to give details of our next series of clubs. 

Parent Governor vacancies: Could you be a Parent Governor for Tunbury Primary School? In September, we will have two vacancies for Parent Governors.  We’ll write to you with full details in the new academic year, but we also wanted to mention this now, so you could consider putting yourself forward for this important role.  Please visit www.kent.gov.uk/education-and-children/schools/school-governors for some general information on school Governors or www.tunbury.kent.sch.uk/Governors/ for more information on our Governors at Tunbury. 

School Lunches: The new menu to start in September is detailed on our website, along with a letter for any parents that may need a special diet for their child and details of The TCS Debt Policy. Unfortunately due to the ever increasing food and labour cost, TCS have needed to increase the meal price to £2.40 with effect from September.  www.tunbury.kent.sch.uk/Parents/School-Meals/ 

Consultation on Behaviour Policy and Anti-Bullying Policy: This consultation is still open, and our final consultation meeting will be on Tuesday, from 3.15-4.00, in the school hall.  Please drop in and talk to us, if you wish to share your views or ask any questions. You can view all of the relevant information here:

2023 Draft Behaviour Policy

2023 Draft Anti-Bullying Policy

New Anti-bullying parent/carer leaflet

Weekly Class Attendance: This is a weekly feature on our bulletin to highlight and celebrate good levels of attendance. Great job Blue Class with 100% attendance for KS1! Followed by Indigo leading for KS2. Well done! 

Team Points: Our Team Point totals are as follows - Holmes just can’t stop!  Great work, yellow team.  Next week sees the award of our Golden Team Points (including an unlimited number of Golden Team Points for our Year 6 classes) so we will see if Holmes can hold their lead into the final week of term. 

TSA AGM: The TSA AGM is on Wednesday 20^th September at 8pm in our school hall. All parents are welcome to come along. 

Dates for your Diary 

Term dates for 2023/24: www.tunbury.kent.sch.uk/Parents/Term-Dates-23-24/

Monday 17^th July - Meet the Teacher 9:00am Year 5

Monday 17^th July – TSA Family Picnic 3.15 – 5.30 pm (see attached flyer)

Tuesday 18^th July - Behaviour Policy and Anti-Bullying Policy Review meeting, 3.15-4.00

Wednesday 19^th July – Year 6 Production 2pm and 6:30pm
 

Thursday 20^th July – IRock performance for parents – 9 am

Friday 21^st July - Year 6 Leavers’ Assemblies
                                Violet class – 9.00 am
                                Emerald class – 9.45 am
                                Crimson class – 10.30 am

Friday 21^st July – Last day of term/academic year for pupils

Friday 1^st September – INSET Day – School closed for pupils

Monday 4^th September – First Day of Term 1 for pupils
 

Wednesday 20^th September – TSA AGM, 8 pm – school hall

Friday 20^th October – INSET Day – School closed for pupils
 

Monday 23^rd October – Friday 27^th October – Autumn Break