Our penultimate week of the year has been a wonderful one. Excellent SATs results on Tuesday, a wonderful Wimbledon Tennis Experience day on Wednesday and of course, the Year 5/6 performance (mentioned below). Here's a picture of a couple of our Year 5 enjoying a celebratory glass of fizz (non-alcoholic) after the amazing performance. To finish the week off nicely, it's been 'Break the Rules' day today, which the children absolutely love.

Next week is the final week of the academic year. We've the end of year disco on Thursday and the special Leaver's assembly on Friday afternoon.

Have a super weekend everyone. Come on England!

Our Year 5/6 performance of School's Will Rock You was an absolute blast! Thank you so much to Claire (StageKidz) for all her wonderful support, and also to the PTA who came along to provide refreshments too.

The children were simply amazing. Here's a short clip of them during dress rehearsal, where they wowed the Year 5/6 children at Sherburn Hungate, who thought they were amazing!

Here's the STARMAT Safeguarding Newsletter for parents/carers with useful information on how we can all work together to keep our young people safe. This month's copy can be found at the link below.

This afternoon was the second School Council conference of the STARMAT, and I was delighted to take a couple of our representatives of our Junior Leadership Team (Buddy & Millie) to share the work that we do at Appleton with those in the wider STARMAT. It was a super conference where we gained lots of ideas for futures activites.

Talk is really important for all learners in school and we know that our children are exposed to lots of exciting learning opportunities, both at home and at school. To help develop speaking and listening skills and knowledge of the wider world, we're introducing Car Convos! A topic that we share in the newsletter on a Friday, that families can discuss in the car on their travels. We'll then pick this up after the weekend.

This week's Car Convo centres around the Euros!

STUNNING SPORTS DAY PHOTOGRAPHS AVAILABLE

On our school sports day last month, Jack Heseltine's grandad too a range of wonderful action photographs, class photos and house team photos which are available to purchase through ParentPay at a cost of £3.00 per image.

Here's a link to the folder of photographs:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RCyhjdz3-lNKKmNAoPdGLVqAWRKp4E8_?usp=sharing

To purchase:

- Make a payment via ParentPay for your chosen photo or photos.

- Make a note of the image name and email this to admin@ar.starmat.uk.

- We will then email the photographs directly to you.

All proceed will go towards resources for use in school. They really are wonderful photographs.

A big thank you to everyone that came along and supported the PTA stall at the Appleton Roebuck Community Fair. We raised £350.00. Thanks also to everyone that helped out - we really appreciate your support.

Our public school calendar has been fully updated with a range of events and is continually being added to. You can access this calendar on our school website.

You can book wrap-around care for the coming term below.

You can book one off (ad-hoc) wrap-around care below.

Bolton Percy Church celebrated its 600th Birthday last weekend and the children from the village made a time capsule which was filled with photos of families, past events etc and it was buried by the Arch Bishop.

Here's the article in the York Press.

All Saints Church in Bolton Percy are hosting a flower festival in church to celebrate its 600th year.

A pop up pub and pizza night is available on the evening. Everyone welcome!

Families are invited to join us for our NEW Sunday afternoon informal service at St Giles on the first Sunday of each month at 3pm.

We'll explore through interactive and creative ways a different theme or story from the Bible together. All are welcome.

Dates on the attached poster. Note: No service in August and bring your school bag for blessing in September as we explore 'New Starts'

For a chat or to find out more please contact info@abc-churches.org

Sunday 21st July, St John's Church, Acaster Selby, 3pm

Come and join us for our annual Picnic Service -

Bring your own food and picnic mat or chairs and enjoy some outdoor games and activities all around the theme of sheep and a good shepherd! Especially suitable for young families and children. Rev Lucy is also inviting all baptism families back to this special service, giving her a chance to say goodbye

Sunday 18th August, All Saints Church, 10.30am

Roots, our outdoor church, has a stand alone outdoor Pet service. Bring your pet with you so we can focus on the importance of other living things in our lives and our responsibility to care for animals. Crafts, activities and a special prayer of blessing for our pets. Especially suitable for young families and children. Rev Lucy is also inviting all baptism families back to this special service, giving her a chance to say goodbye

A polite reminder that we have children in school who have severe nut allergies. Please ensure that you do not bring nuts on to the school site or include them in packed lunches.

Thank you for your support with this.