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Dates for your diary End of summer term Friday 18 July Start of autumn term Tuesday 2 September October half term Friday 24 Oct Return Monday 3 Nov. School lunch – as from 2 September the cost of School Lunch will be £1.60 per day- £8.00 per week. Our school lunches are very good and this still represents excellent value for money. School Uniform – if your child requires any items of uniform, for September please get in touch with Heather our school secretary. Again these are excellent value for money and include sweatshirts, t-shirts, coats and rucksacks. Lets keep our pupils the smartest in Hartlepool. Remember this is also a health and safety issue – we need to be able to recognise our pupils instantly when out on school visits World Book Day – Thanks for your support we raised £15 for Book Aid International Shop for Schools – Again thanks for your support. We were the highest scoring school in the Middleton Grange, Shop for Schools competition and were awarded a computer Residentials – all of our year six pupils and those in Red Class had a fantastic time on their summer residential visits. The weather was kind and they visited a host of locations and experienced many activities. They all came back exhausted (including the staff !!) The visits have many benefits for children back in school Summer visits – pupils have attended a whole range of visits over the summer term including : Summerhill, Hartlepool Marina, Teesside Park Cinema, Butterfly World, Sealife Centre and St Marys Church St Marys Church - after Purple Class visited St Marys as part of their work in music and RE they appeared in the Church Bulletin and also featured in Fr. Mc Giverns Mass for Life. Healthy School – we will be presented with our Healthy schools award on 11th July at Hartlepool Marina. As part of our healthy school promotion several of our pupils have been met off the bus at Tesco in Throston for a morning each week and have walked into school. We hope to give more pupils an opportunity for this when the weather is fine. Tell Us regional get together – this is a conference for parents of pupils with special needs and will be held in Chester-le-Street. You should have received information on this. Travel expenses will also be available. If you have not received the information please get in touch with school. Flora vouchers – you may have seen the sign on the school fence - we are collecting Flora margarine vouchers to obtain cookery equipment for school. If you have any vouchers please send them in Thanks to Warren Road – students at the day centre brought into school some fantastic masks that they had made. Our pupils will enjoy using them in lessons and assemblies. 
Speech therapy – our speech therapists in school – Mike Carroll and Lucy Talbot – will be holding parent drop-ins next term from 3.30 -5.00pm on Sept 17th, October 15th and November 19th. Please call in if you would like information or have any concerns about your child. Leavers 1- As we have already mentioned in previous newsletters two of our staff Gwynneth Hauxwell and Trish Tobin will be leaving at the end of term. Both have been great servants to school and have made an enormous contribution to the education of countless children in Hartlepool and Springwell. We will miss them enormously. We offer them our thanks and our good wishes for the future Leavers 2 – we have 12 pupils leaving school this year and moving on to secondary education in Hartlepool. We pass on our good wishes and say ‘Good Luck’ to : Charlie Anderson, Denim Bigwood, Jack Cook, Adrian Dougherty, Ben Jones, Robbie Jones, Kai Serginson, Nathan Thompson, Ben Swales, Annabel Woodhall, James Worthy, and Connor Young. |
