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Welcome to our New Year January 2024 newsletter.

Message from our Headteachers ...

Image of the Corsham Primary Dragon

We wish all of our parents, carers, volunteers, staff and children, a very Happy New Year and hope that everyone had a wonderful break over the Christmas holidays.

Following our Christmas performance collections, £856 was raised and shared between our two local charities: Corsham Churches Foodbank and The Brunel Shed. Thank you to everyone who came along to enjoy the children's performances and donated to these very worthy causes.

Staff News ...

We are delighted to welcome Miss Hannah Parson, Miss Lucy Organ and Mrs Carlene Barrett to our Pound Pill staff team. Miss Parson has joined the teaching team, Miss Organ has joined our admin team and Mrs Barrett has joined our lunchtime playworker/technician team. We hope they will both enjoy being part of the Corsham Primary family.

This month, we sadly say goodbye and thank you to Mrs Ella Thomson who is leaving our teaching team. We extend our thanks to Mrs Thomson for everything she has done for the children and wish her well.

Best Eco School Award

We were absolutely delighted to learn from Corsham Town Council, that Pound Pill and Broadwood were joint winners of the first ever Best Eco School competition as they were so impressed by all the great environmental initiatives we are running at both sites. Each site has received a £25 voucher to spend on nature books at The Corsham Bookshop.

Congratulations to all the Eco Councillors, and our leaders, Mrs Pink and Miss Barber who hosted the judges when they visited us. We are absolutely thrilled to have won this amazing award and that our collective efforts are making a positive difference to our environment.

Crazy Hair Day - Friday 2 February

Crazy Hair Day with Lalaloopsy Girls | artsy-fartsy mama Our PTA have organised another Crazy Hair Day - come into school with your craziest hairstyle for us all to enjoy! (Please note, no permanent hair dye or extreme hair cuts which will last longer than the day on Friday.) 50p Donations to the PTA.

Plea for fancy dress clothes ...

We would love to have a big box of fancy dress clothing for Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 children to delve into and have fun being different characters during roleplay sessions. If you have any outfits that your child has grown out of, we would be very grateful to receive them at the school office. Thank you.

Playground Crazes of the Month

60+ Hand Puppet Stock Illustrations, Royalty-Free Vector Graphics & Clip Art - iStock | Hand puppet vector, Hand puppet girl, Talking hand puppet Reading Books

French skipping

Card games

Comics/magazines

Puppets

Fidgets

Dinosaurs/ponies

Attendance

Corsham Primary School supports the principles, practice and procedures outlined in the DfE school attendance document. We believe pupils can only take full advantage of their education by regular and punctual attendance at school or otherwise to ensure continuity of learning.

Number of recordings of children late arriving at school
1.23% in December

Total percentage of attendance
93% in December

For planned absences, please complete an absence request form, available from the school office. If your child is ill, please telephone the office absence line before 9am. Thank you.

(01249 712387 Pound Pill / 01225 811997 Broadwood)

Merit Card Achievements ...

Congratulations to Harmony C, Sophie C, Georgia R and Olivia W who have all received Achievement Pens for completing 12 merit cards.

Congratulations to Daulton F, Alexis W, Lexi S, Brady H-W, Millie Y, Abigail E and Alexia B who have all been added to the Roll of Honour for completing 15 merit cards.

Congratulations to Andreas W, Aathavan P, Alex Z, Jack A, Kacper Z, Angel A, Jack M, Asher B, Chloe R and Sophia W who have each received a golden badge for completing 18 merit cards.

Congratulations to Maddie S and Scarlett L who have received book tokens for completing 21 merit cards.

Click here to read about our children's achievements ...

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