I am delighted to inform you that we have just had the final confirmation from Tesco that we were the outright winners of the Bags of Help appeal!

Our project – ‘Stalyhill Forest Friends’ came out as the winning project in the January and February 2019 appeal.

As you can imagine we are absolutely over the moon and can’t wait to get started on installing much needed drainage into our forest school hill so that the children can make much more regular use of our forest area.

We know that we would not have won the grant without all the help and support that we have had from our amazing parents and families, so I would like to say a huge thank you to you all! We know that lots of you were badgering your extended families, friends and neighbours into supporting Stalyhill too so this really has been a fantastic community effort.

Our neighbouring Stalybridge schools and Hilltop nursery were also supporting our campaign and I’ve made sure to send our thanks to their staff and families too. We will be delighted to be able to reciprocate and promote their campaigns should they choose to enter a bid themselves.

Once again, a huge thankyou to you all, we will keep you informed regarding the schedule of works as soon as we have more information.

Many thanks

Once again we are holding a ‘decorate an egg’ competition for the children to enter. There will be 3 Easter egg prizes per class.

The competition will take place on Thursday 4^th April and any children wishing to enter should bring their decorated egg to school on that day.

As in previous years, the PTA have kindly donated a small Easter gift for every child in school and the children will also receive these that day.

We look forward to seeing the children’s creations and will ensure that we post plenty of photographs on our Twitter feed @StalyhillInfant and on our website.

We are holding a Scholastic School Book Fair again this year!  The book fair will be located in the corridor and will be open at the times below.  You will be able to purchase and order books.  Payment can be made by CASH ONLY.  We are unable to accept cheques.

We hope to see you at the Book Fair!

We are getting very excited about World Book Day on Thursday.. Lots of activities have been planned in each of the year groups to allow the children to explore and enjoy a range of books.

In Reception they are going to be: sharing favourite story books, drawing story maps, making book marks and writing a simple book review.

Year 1 have got a very exciting morning. First the children will be having a visit from the blue Cross, discussing what pets need. They will then be tying this learning to the book ‘Detective Dog’ in which they will be exploring the main character. There will be lots of drama and fun activities to allow the children to explore the book.

In Year 2 the children are going to be exploring the characters they are coming dressed as and explaining why they have chosen those characters. They will also be doing some data handling work, looking at most popular books around school. To end the day they are going to be making a pop - up book linked to our topic London.

Look out for some of our pictures on Thursday to see what we have been up to.

Mrs Meehan J

Tameside Loves Reading is a borough-wide campaign to harness a love of reading and improve reading outcomes for children across Tameside. Officially launched on 27th February 2019, with the Books for Babies campaign, Tameside Loves Reading strives to improve reading skills and wider educational achievement, secure better work and life opportunities, encourage more parents, grandparents and carers to read with their children, and to inspire enthusiasm for books and reading among Tameside families.

Please see the 'Tameside Loves Reading' page in the Parents tab for more information or follow the link below. 

https://www.tameside.gov.uk/tamesidelovesreading

You may have already seen in the media, that there have been a number of recent concerns in relation to children’s safety whilst online. We have been made aware of a very worrying trend where children are using media services (such as WhatsApp and YouTube) to search or send links related to an application called MOMO.

We would like to take this opportunity to make you aware of a link to some useful guidance for parents in relation to keeping children safe online when using social media, the internet etc.

https://www.childnet.com/ufiles/Supporting-Young-People-Online.pdf

In school we work with your children to support them in keeping themselves safe whilst online and we hope that by providing the attached information you will feel confident to talk to your children about their online activity and to support them in keeping safe.

Calendar dates for the remainder of the Spring Term 2019