Headteachers Update 4th November 2022

Good afternoon everyone, I hope you all had a lovely half term holiday with your children and families.

This week as a staff team we have discussed our plans for Christmas festivities and celebrations at HMO! We are looking for parent helpers to work with us for our Christmas Fair on 2nd December, whether that be your time, creativity or donations. We will share more details next week but for now, if you have a connection with a local organisation who would like a stall or you would like to donate bottles, toys or books for our other stalls please start collecting! If you know of any companies that would like to donate items or vouchers for our raffle, again please send these in. Gemma Scoreby will collect these items. Our choir will begin preparations for carol singing in the community in the upcoming weeks.

You will receive the booking forms for our Father Christmas personalised video messages next week. All families are invited to join us for our Christingle service on Monday 12th December. Which then brings me onto our annual whole school performance, last year we showcased this in January, we have voted as a team and feel that January is a much better time of year for our pupils to showcase their talents without the added pressures of changes to routines and excitement surrounding Christmas, it also gives us all something to look forward to when we have January blues! All pupils will participate in our live production, but as I say, it will be in January rather than a traditional Christmas production.

Parents Evening will take place week commencing Monday 28th November, individual teachers will send letters of time allocations next week. Parents Evening is a 15 minute face to face meeting between you and the teacher/class team.

For now, we will enjoy the fireworks and November!