Newsletters
Headteacher: Mrs Helen Calpin
Chair of Governors: Mr Chris Emsen
Email: snaith.primary@eastriding.gov.uk
Website: https://www.snaithprimary.org.uk/
Newsletter Friday 25th April 2025
This week’s attendance 95.8%
Mrs Hill
Today Mrs Hill begins her maternity leave. We know you will join with us in wishing her and Mr Hill the very best for the special time ahead. We will of course keep you informed of their exciting news in a few weeks time.
We also welcome back Mrs Bristow to school to cover Mrs Hill’s maternity leave for the rest of this year. Mrs Bristow is a longstanding friend to our school and we are delighted she is able to bring her immense expertise to our school once again.
VE Day Commemorations
During the week beginning 5th May, children will be undertaking learning linked to the VE day commemorations.
On Thursday 8th May we will be holding a special VE day remembrance in school.
Children are invited to wear Red, White and Blue for this day and we will have a ‘garden party lunch’ in the school grounds with 40’s music. A selection of sandwiches (ham, jam, chicken and cheese), sausage roll, cucumber/carrot sticks and a Victoria bun with red/white/blue sprinkles. This will be served instead of the school lunch.
On Sunday 11th May we would like a group of children to represent school at the Memorial Garden in Pollington where children will lay flowers on behalf of the school. This is something we do twice a year alongside children from Pollington Primary School. If your child is able to represent school please let me know as soon as possible. We will meet at the Memorial Garden at 11.40 for the laying of flowers at 12 o’clock. If any participating family would like to attend a lunch afterwards at The Pollington RAF museum please let me know. The Museum, open every Sunday is definitely well worth a visit. https://rafsnaithmuseum.co.uk
RAP
We have now posted our fantastic school RAP recording and video on the HERO app in the community page. I would like to once again thank everyone who helped create this, children, staff and Mr Miley. Please do take a look if you haven’t already.
Arbor
All of the outstanding balances and credits from School Gateway for Nursery and Before & After School clubs have been transferred over to Arbor. You should be able to see these under accounts, select the account and then credit notes. Please take the time to check these are as expected as we only have a limited time to make any amendments to this.
Wraparound Care - Bookings
To book wraparound care on Arbor, go to the activities section, click on clubs, register for the club and select your dates. Parents are unable to cancel bookings made for wraparound care. Please contact the office to do this for you.
Thank you to everybody who has signed up to Arbor. We have a 99% uptake! We are no longer using the School Comms/Gateway app for anything. Please delete this from your devices. We are now only using Arbor for any payments, trips, clubs, wraparound care etc. Thank you for your support during this transition and if you have any queries about Arbor, please contact the office and they will endeavour to help.
Hero - Teachers will still be communicating classroom information via Hero. (Evidence Me for Nursery/Reception) All communication for appointments, illness should be communicated via the school office either by the Arbor App or telephone/email. We appreciate that there had been some issues with notifications on Hero, but have ben assured by the company these have now been resolved.
Staying Safe, Social Media
You will be well aware through much media attention of the national concern regarding children’s activity on social media and mobile devices. I would like to urge all parents to monitor your child’s activities and check the settings regularly. Please ensure that you do read the monthly newsletter we publish on this newsletter and on our school website, and we collectively work together to safeguard children, including their mental health and wellbeing.
https://www.snaithprimary.org.uk/attachments/download.asp?file=3055&type=pdf
Tesco – Blue Tokens
Whenever you are shopping in Tesco stores in Goole can we please ask that you choose our project when voting with your blue tokens. Please ask your friends and families too!
Stores which will vote on our project are listed below and are all in Goole
2180 Tesco Express Rutland Road Goole DN14 6LX
2593 Tesco Superstore Goole Boothferry Road DN14 6BB
The project with the highest number of votes across our region will receive £1,500, the second placed project £1,000 and the third placed project £500. If successful we will be using this money for much needed sports equipment.
Voting has commenced in stores and this runs until the end of June 2025.
School Meals
East Riding Council are currently having supplier issues, which is impacting on the lunch menus we set! We endeavour to notify you of these in advance.
Bag 2 School
Thank you to everyone who brought in a Bag 2 School, this raised over £96 for the PTA fund.
Dates for your Diary
(Please note that more events will be added – but a few key dates to start adding to your diary.)
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Summer Term |
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Thursday 8 May 25 |
VE Day Celebration – children to wear Red, White & Blue |
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23 May 25 |
Break up for half term |
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2 June 25 |
School reopens to children |
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11 June 25 |
Y6 Growing Up Talk |
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13 June 25 |
Sports Day (KS1 am KS2 pm) |
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2-4 July 25 |
Y6 Transition Days at The Snaith School |
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7-9 July 25 |
Y6 PGL Residential |
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18 July 25 |
Break up for Summer |
Useful Links
School Uniform
https://www.snaithprimary.org.uk/page/?title=School+Uniform&pid=81
School Meals
https://www.snaithprimary.org.uk/attachments/download.asp?file=3066&type=pdf
School Holidays
Term Dates 2024-2025
https://www.snaithprimary.org.uk/attachments/download.asp?file=2891&type=pdf
Term Dates 2025-2026
https://www.snaithprimary.org.uk/attachments/download.asp?file=3038&type=pdf
An Absence from School for Exceptional Circumstances Request Form, must be completed for all absences (not medical). https://www.snaithprimary.org.uk/page/?title=Attendance+%26amp%3B+Punctuality&pid=77
Please can I remind parents that school is not able to authorise any holidays during term time. Therefore, it is important to consult these dates before making any booking. Penalty Notice Fines are issued on a per parent per child basis for term time leave of 5 (10 sessions) or more consecutive days.
As school is in session during these times, if your child does not attend school due to an unauthorised absence, school will not provide work for this period of time as children are expected to attend school to undertake their learning.
Penalty Notice Fines are also considered, if a child has 10 sessions of unauthorised absence in 10 school weeks.
We are committed to improving achievement through attendance, and any pupil whose attendance falls below 97% becomes a cause for concern. Attendance below 90% is classed by the Government as persistent absence. If a child’s attendance falls below 90% we refer all cases to the Education Welfare Office at East Riding Council, who is likely to contact parents directly to give support and discuss the matter.
(Parent, in relation to a child or young person, includes any person who is not a parent of the child but who has parental responsibility for the child, or who has care of them).
