Please look on our website www.kf.starmat.uk for up-to-date information.

Dear Parents / Carers,

Welcome back! I hope this first week has gone well for you and your children.

It has been lovely to welcome all the new pupils to school and see how smart everyone looks in their school uniforms, but most wonderful of all has been to see the children mixing and playing with friends from other classes. It has certainly been busier and noisier than we have seen school for many months but seeing everyone gathered together for worship has been great!

The children have settled well into new routines and their new classes and we have all been so impressed with the way they have adapted yet again. I know there have been one or two teething problems with bottle necks at classroom doors or the main gate but we are aware of this and are monitoring the situation. Thank you for your patience with this and also with the building work going on in the main playground which should be finished today.

Attached to this newsletter is a message from the Friends of Kirk Fenton about what they do and the date of their EGM on Tuesday next week. The Friends do an amazing job to support the school and pupils and it would be a dreadful shame to lose such a valuable resource. If you are able to get involved please let the committee know or attend the online meeting on Tuesday. The current committee is very willing to support new committee members with the role.

Finally, please could I ask that parents not gather around the main gate when waiting for the older children at the end of the day as this is causing a bottleneck that means people cannot leave the site quickly and easily. Thank you.

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Karen Williams

Head Teacher

This week's certificates were awarded to the following children:

Bears - Betsy D and Howie G

Bees - Erin N, Tom O'C and Teddy D

Hummingbirds - Zion P and Joseph C

Tigers - Mollie H and George S

Sharks - Olivia D and Ralph S

Earthworms - Nancy C and George B

Jaguars - Freya C and Thomas M

Wolves - Isaac E and Louie S

Well done to the following who earned the hot chocolate award:

Bees - Taryn S-C

Hummingbirds - Huey W

Tigers - Harvey S

Sharks - Laurence H-F

Earthworms - James N

Jaguars - Edith D

Wolves - Isla S

As you will be aware, Universal Free School Meals are automatically available to all children in EYFS, Year 1 and Year 2. However, if you meet certain criteria, your child may be eligible for Free School Meals for the whole of their primary education as well as additional funding to support them with their education, called a 'Pupil Premium'. This additional funding benefits our school to support us to increase your child's attainment.

To qualify for Free School Meals and Pupil Premium funding, you must fulfil one of the following criteria:

• Universal Credit, provided you have an annual net earned income of no more than £7,400, as assessed by earnings from up to three of your most recent assessment periods (£616.67 per month);
• Income Support;
• Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance;
• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance;
• Support under part six of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999;
• The guarantee element of Pension Credit;
• Child Tax Credit, provided you are also not entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual household gross income that does not exceed £16,190 (as assessed by HMRC); or
• Working Tax Credit run-on, paid for four weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit.

If your family circumstances change, you may become eligible. Please see the North Yorkshire website below for more information and to access the relevant application forms. Once your application has been processed, school will be notified automatically . If you require any support with understanding Free School Meals and Pupil Premium funding or help with your application, please call one of our admin team who will be happy to advise.

https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/free-school-meals

Please see updated term dates for 2021/2022 which have been changed by North Yorkshire due to the Queen's Jubilee next year. These are also available on our website.

Training Day

Monday 6th September

Term Begins

Tuesday 7th September

Friends EGM

Tuesday 14th September - online. A link to join will be sent out on Tuesday

Individual Photographs in School

Monday 20th September

If anyone would like to say thank you to or has any positive comments for a member of staff then please complete and submit the form below.

As you will be aware, Universal Free School Meals are automatically available to all children in EYFS, Year 1 and Year 2. However, if you meet certain criteria, your child may be eligible for Free School Meals for the whole of their primary education as well as additional funding to support them with their education, called a 'Pupil Premium'. This additional funding benefits our school to support us to increase your child's attainment.

To qualify for Free School Meals and Pupil Premium funding, you must fulfil one of the following criteria:

• Universal Credit, provided you have an annual net earned income of no more than £7,400, as assessed by earnings from up to three of your most recent assessment periods (£616.67 per month);
• Income Support;
• Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance;
• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance;
• Support under part six of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999;
• The guarantee element of Pension Credit;
• Child Tax Credit, provided you are also not entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual household gross income that does not exceed £16,190 (as assessed by HMRC); or
• Working Tax Credit run-on, paid for four weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit.

If your family circumstances change, you may become eligible. Please see the North Yorkshire website below for more information and to access the relevant application forms. Once your application has been processed, school will be notified automatically . If you require any support with understanding Free School Meals and Pupil Premium funding or help with your application, please call one of our admin team who will be happy to advise.

https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/free-school-meals

Welcome back everyone and welcome to all the new children and parents joining Kirk Fenton Primary School! We hope you have all had a lovely summer break.

Before the summer break we held our annual AGM but due to not having the required numbers in attendance, we now need to hold an EGM. We have scheduled this for Tuesday 14th of September at 7:30pm and it will be held via a virtual meet on google meet. Since many of the current committee have been members for many years, we feel that it is time to hand over the baton to others so we are currently looking for new members in order to take Friends forward and to carry on with the important work that the charity does within the school.

If you would be interested in joining Friends or the committee, please come along to the meeting on Tuesday and if you are unable to attend the meeting, then you can email your nominations and interest to friends@kf.starmat.uk

If you would like any more information about what is involved, then please email us or check our Facebook page. Our Facebook page is updated regulatly, so keep an eye on that for updates.

We look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday please find enclosed a little bit more information in what is involved in friends and what we can achieve.

friends@kf.starmat.uk

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This Sunday (12th September) come and celebrate school and our teachers!

Come and help us think about words - how they encourage us and help us to learn.

Hope to see you and your families before we head over to the Big Belated Birthday Party.

Rev Lucy

Dear Parent(s) / Guardian(s)

We are anticipating that all* music lessons should be possible in school premises on a face to face basis from September 2021 in line with Government recommendations. Should a school close as a result of a Covid19 outbreak, or are still operating Bubbles meaning that Face to Face lessons are not possible, we will move to online lessons, if possible, via Teams.

Instrumental lesson will commence week commencing 13th September 2021.

* Unless arrangements have been made with you direct to continue lessons online

Attached are the revised tuition and Music Centre fees applicable from September as well as remissions; details of tuition dates; and a reminder of the notice period to stop lessons.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you should have any queries.;

Please click on the following link for details of our current vacancies:

https://web.starmat.uk/vacancies/