Brookvale Primary School

Good morning Parents and Carers, Vacancies have arisen for two parent governors on our governing body. The governing body is asking you to nominate someone with parental responsibility for a child at the school. If more than two nominations are received, then a ballot will be held. I have attached a letter explaining what the role of Parent Governor entails and a nomination form. If you are interested or want to ask any questions about the parent governor role, please call or email me. If you want to nominate yourself or someone else for the roles, you can either collect a nomination form from the front office or email the school direct on sec.brookvale@haltonlearning.net I would like any nominations sent to me by Friday 24th October. Kind regards Mr Moore

Good morning Parents and Carers, Our Brookvale Parent Teacher Group are very excited about our Halloween Discos and will be selling glow sticks, masks, drinks and treat bags. Year 3-6 can also buy hot dogs as their event is after school. Children in Reception can attend school in their Halloween costumes. Year 1 and 2 must come to school in their uniforms and bring their disco clothes in a bag and get changed into these in school. Year 3 - 6 attend school as normal in uniform and return to school for the disco in their outfits. Please see attached our Halloween Disco Flyer with the dates and times. It is £1 to attend. It is important that children in Year 3 through to Y6 are collected by an adult after the disco as they will not be allowed to walk home on their own. Kind regards Mr Moore

Good morning Parents and Carers, We are keen on developing more play opportunities at break times for our children and we have some ideas that we would like to introduce. Unfortunately, like most schools we are managing everything on a limited budget. If you have any of the following that you could donate to school that would be greatly appreciated and would help us introduce some new play activities. We would like the following: Muffin/ cup cake baking trays Children's buckets and spades and tools for digging (trowels) sieves kitchen utensils - old wooden or plastic spoons old toy figures/ vehicles long skipping ropes Any old fancy dress up clothing for role play If you have any other suggestions, please let the school office know. If you do have any of these items, please bring them to the front office and Mrs Doyle or Mr Worrall will collect them from you. Thanks for your support. Kind regards Mr Moore

Good afternoon Parents and Carers, Our teachers and children are excited about inviting you into school to take part in an autumn themed lesson with your child. Please find below the dates and times for each class: Monday 6th October 2:30pm – 3:15pm -Year 1E and Reception Tuesday 7th October 9:00am - 9:45am – Year 6H and 2:30pm - 3:15pm Year 2K Wednesday 8th October 1:30pm – 3:15 – Year 5L Thursday 9th October 9:00am - 9:45am Year 4R and 2:30pm – 3:15pm Year 3L Friday 10th October 11:00am – 11:45am – Nursery It would be lovely to see as many of you as possible. Kind regards Mr Moore

Good morning Parents and Carers, I would like to remind you that we have a no nut policy in school due to a considerable number of children at our school who have severe food allergies. The most serious risk in our school is nut allergies which can cause life threatening anaphylactic reactions to some of our children. Therefore we insist parents, carers and staff NOT to send/bring food to school that contains nuts (especially peanuts). This includes all types of nuts, peanut butter, Nutella and food containing nuts. For example: Packs of nuts Peanut butter sandwiches Nutella/ Chocolate Spread sandwiches Fruit and cereal bars that contain nuts ie tracker bars Chocolate bars or sweets that contain nuts Sesame seed rolls (children allergic to nuts may also have a severe reaction to sesame) Cakes made with nuts Our school kitchen and food are already nut free and we do not supply any ingredients in food technology that have nuts or nut derivatives. I have attached a copy of of our Nut Aware Policy. Thanks for your support with this matter. Kind regards Mr Moore

Good morning Parents and Carers, Please find a copy of our Welcome Back newsletter. You will find key dates for events taking place over the autumn term, as well as other reminders about uniform and PE kit. Kind regards Mr Moore

Good morning Parents and Carers, Each year we like to welcome parents into to meet their child's class teacher. During the meeting, you will find out some key information about the year ahead. Year 3 is yet to be confirmed and we will let you know when that will happen. Below is the timetable. Monday 22nd September - 2:55 - 3:15 - Y6 Mr Hidden Tuesday 23rd September - 8:45 - 9:00 - Y5 Miss Lacey and 2:55 - 3:15 - Y2 Miss Knowles Wednesday 24th September 8:45 - 9:00 - Y1 Mrs Egerton (This will take place in the school hall) 2:55 - 3:15 - Y4 Mrs Rushton Kind regards Mr Moore

Good afternoon Parents and Carers, As it is the beginning of the year, I thought it would be useful to send you a copy of our safeguarding information for parents and carers. This includes details of our safeguarding team. Thanks for your continued support. Kind regards Mr Moore

Good morning Parents and Carers, Our current school meals provider has increased the cost of both toast in the morning and school lunches. We have been in conversation with them and managed to agree a price on school dinner, lower than what they quoted. They wanted to put the price of school lunches to £3.05, however, we have negotiated a lower price and managed to reduce this to £2.95. This is still higher than last year's price but the best we can do with the current provider. Unfortunately, the price of toast in the morning has increased to 30p a slice from 20p. The supplier explains that the price increases are due to the unexpected additional employers' costs, increases in food, ingredients and suppliers. ALL price rises have taken effect from the start of term. I know this is not ideal for many of you and we have tried to keep costs down best we can, but ultimately it is out of our hands. If you believe that you may be able to receive free school meals please check the link below. It may also be worth checking this even if you do not think you are. https://www3.halton.gov.uk/Pages/EducationandFamilies/Schools/FreeSchoolMeals.aspx Kind regards Mr Moore

Good afternoon, I have been made aware that Brookvale Community Centre have started a group called Brookvale Youth Advisors. I have attached a copy of the booklet explaining what they do. I think it would be a great opportunity for children to get involved and have their voice heard in making decisions for the good of the local community. I have shared this with the children this morning during assembly and if your child is interested in joining this group, I have printed out some of the leaflets for you to collect, complete and hand in to the community centre. The leaflets are available from the main office. Kind regards Mr Moore