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St William of York Parent Newsletter - Friday 27th June 2025

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This week's letter from Mrs Mayers...

Dear Parents and Carers

As the sunny days continue, we've been reminding everyone to stay safe in the sun - don't forget hats, water bottles and to apply sun cream in the morning.

A huge well done to our school choir, who sang beautifully at the Big Sing in the Big Top at St Dunstan's Sports Ground in Catford. What a magical event! A special thank you to Mrs Shanahan for all of her hard work and dedication in preparing our children for their performances. This is the last event for choir this year and there will be no more choir until September 2025.

If you can, do join us for the Rock Steady concert next week, on 2nd July at 2pm, in the school hall! Please take a look at our notices below about the Summer Fair so you know what donations are needed next week.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Kind regards

Hayley Mayers (Headteacher)

Non Uniform & Bottle Tombola Donations

Friday 4th July is a non-uniform day at school.

Please bring in a bottle of wine, beer, soft drinks etc. for the ever-popular Bottle Tombola at the Summer Fair!

This is in exchange for your children wearing their own clothes for the day.

Please make sure they wear sensible shoes - no open-toed sandals and their shoulders must be covered.

Summer Fair ...

By Monday 30th June...

Please bring in packets of sweets as SWOYSA will be making these into sweet cones in advance of our Summer Fair.

Please also bring in any plants, cuddly toys or toys that are you donating to the Summer Fair stalls.

Raffle tickets have been sent home with your children today, please return the stubs with payment, in the envelope provided, if you wish to purchase these raffle tickets.

Thank you for your support!

End of Term

The end of the summer term is on Friday 18th July 2025 at 2pm.

School will be closed over the summer holidays. Children will return to school on Wednesday 3rd September 2025 at the normal time.

This week's Friday Club was... Khadija, Godwill, Diego, Layla, Vincent and Ariana.

Well done to all of you! Yu have been recognised for being ACE and for consistently going 'over and above'.

School Information / Reminders

Arbor Parent App / Portal

Thank you to everyone who has already logged in.

Please can all parents/carers make time to download the app and login. You will have received an email entitled 'Welcome to Arbor'. To ensure you continue to receive messages from school.

We will be streamlining communications & payments - all on the Arbor Parent App:

Text messages are expensive to send, therefore we will be moving to in-app messages (which are free to send). Please ensure you have notifications switched on. This will also keep messages in one place.
Payments - you can make payments online for school trips (& in future for music lessons). Nursery parents & carers can pay for lunches & additional hours (if applicable). Helpsheet for making payments on the Arbor App.

If you have an outstanding balance, you will be able to see this when you log into the app - if you think the amount is incorrect, please contact the office.

Congratulations to....

Kostek in Yr3! Last Saturday, Kostek had a tournament in Jiu-Jitsu. He was working so hard and he won and he was recognised as a champion The Most Technical Student Category of his group! What an incredible achievement! Well done Kostek!

Congratulations to...

Phanuel in Yr4! Phanuel plays for an Under 9s football team called FC United. Last week, he received a trophy for being the football player with the BEST ATTITUDE! This is such a great achievement and we are all very proud of Phanuel. Keep it up Phanuel!

Young Savers Club

We are looking for a volunteer to take over the Young Savers Club from September 2025.

If you are interested, please speak to Mrs Roper or Mrs Jackson in the school office.

Thank you!

POSTER COMPETITION

SWOYSA would like the children to design a poster for our Summer Fair and International Day celebration. Please include the following information and bring your posters in by MONDAY 30th JUNE at the latest.

International Mass in church 10.30am
Summer Fair: 12.00 - 2.30pm
Please bring a traditional dish of food from your heritage to share with the community
Raffle tickets available!

Late Collection

We understand that, from time to time, unforeseen circumstances can result in occasional lateness. Please telephone the school office if you are running late so we can let your child and their class teacher know. We must also ensure the safety and wellbeing of all children, and this includes managing the impact of late collections. Please see our Late Collection policy here.

School Uniform - please ensure your child's clothes have their name on.

Please do make sure that you check the school uniform list before you buy or replace any items of clothing.

Key things to remember:

Trainers are NOT uniform
Polo t-shirt: white
School shoes: black
Trousers: grey
Skirts: navy
Hairbands: plain black or navy
Summer dress: light blue gingham
Tights/socks: plan grey or white

Absence Requests

In August 2024, the DfE published new statutory guidance for improving attendance; this is reflected in our school attendance policy, which you can find here.

Section 5 details guidance on requests for authorised absences. There is limited scope for requests that can be approved so please read this section carefully when submitting a request.

You can submit a request for an authorised absence via the form on our website, which is linked here.

Medical / dental appointments during school hours

Where possible, please organise for appointments to take place outside of school hours.

We understand that this is sometimes unavoidable. If this is the case, please let the school office know asap, and please provide a copy of the letter / email received confirming your child's appointment.

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