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Keeping you up to date Headteacher Headlines
Newsletters are an important form of communication and give you information about current It was lovely to welcome so many parents to the recent curriculum meetings where year teams in-
and forthcoming events, curriculum activities within each year group, diary dates and anything troduced themselves to parents/career and explained what the academic year of 2018-19 has in
else you need to know as parents/carers Within each newsletter there will be a list of dates for store for their children. If you were able to attend, I hope
that term.
you found the meeting to be friendly, informative and
helpful. If you weren’t able to attend, you can find the
The SJA newsletter is posted on the academy website and sits alongside our academy
twitter feeds as another way we regularly keep in touch with you. There is also a cal- power point for your child’s year group meeting (including
endar on the school’s website which is kept updated with all the events that are hap- information on this years “3 things to remember…”) on the
pening within the school school website under ‘News and Events’. Each power
point contains important information on the year’s curricu-
lum and outlines how you can effectively support your
We send out a newsletter in the last week of each half term. These will be sent elec- child’s learning at home.
tronically for those parents for whom we have an email address. Please ensure that
we have any new addresses so that we can update our system and then let us know Starting from Friday 5th October, we have been welcoming parents into the academy for our ever-
if you do not receive the communication.
popular class visits. These events happen regularly throughout the year and are an opportunity
There are always some spare newsletters in the office should you be unable to access for you to work with your child in class to see what they are learning. If you were able to join us
a copy at anytime. If you would prefer to receive the newsletter by pupil post we can for one of these visits, I hope you enjoyed learning alongside
arrange that, if you let the office know.
your child and managed to get a real flavour of what it’s like
to be a pupil at SJA. I know you saw some fabulous lessons;
Going forward… the feedback we’ve received has been excellent, so thank
Dates for your diary you for taking the time to let us know what you thought.
I also wanted to thank those parents who have signed up to
help us on a regular basis, either by joining us on schools
trips, at special events or as parent readers. Your support is
invaluable to us and I know the children love to see you in-
volved, as and when you can.
I hope you enjoy reading the ‘new look’ SJA Newsletter. Some highlights inside include the Year 3
trip to Southwater / country park, plus some exciting news about this year’s ‘Walk to School’ initia-
tive.
Have a wonderful half term and we’ll see the children back in school on Tuesday 30th October.
Mrs R Toogood, Headteacher
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