PaWS News

Goodbye to Jayne

As we approach the last week of term, we will soon be saying farewell to Jayne Ratcliffe. Jayne has worked in the school kitchen at PaWS for 27 years and is retiring on 18 December 2020! I'm sure you all join us in wishing her a very happy retirement.

I would like to thank UpCountry Garden Centre in Stone Cross for kindly donating our Christmas trees this year. Thank you also to the PFT for providing the lights.

We had a trial run of our lockdown procedures this week just in case we ever have a concern where we need all the children to remain quiet and safe inside the school building. The children were absolutely brilliant! They behaved sensibly and had some really thoughtful questions about what to do at different times of the day or in different situations. In the unlikely event that we would have to do this, we know our children are prepared.

It felt very festive today and the children were excited as they wore their jumpers for Christmas Jumper day. We shall let you know next week how much we raised for Save the Children. For Christmas parties next week, rather than jumpers, children are welcome to bring in some Christmas headwear - it would be fantastic to see some home made Christmas crowns.

Have a great weekend.

Mr Paramor

As some of you may be aware some other local schools have had to close class bubbles. I just want to clarify to you some of the guidance from Public Health England should they ask a school to close a bubble:

Our School Council is made up of pupils from every class from Year 1 to Year 6. One of the topics we discussed at this week's meetings was Christmas Cards. For the last few years the school has chosen to discourage children to send cards to each other in school as we consider the environmental impact. The School Council felt that although it is nice to get cards, they voted to continue to think of the environment first.
In light of the Covid-19 measures we have in place, it is also important that we minimise the amount of things coming in and out of school from different households.

PFT Request - Amazon Smile

When making a purchase through Amazon, the PFT are kindly asking parents to log in through Amazon Smile. Amazon Smile can be accessed following this link for the 'Friends of Pevensey and Westham School' charity and you will be able to use your existing Amazon account.
Amazon Smile offers exactly the same products, prices and service as Amazon, but with the added bonus of Amazon donating 0.5% of the price of your eligible purchases to your chosen charity!
If you use the Amazon shopping App, you can go to your settings and add Amazon Smile on that too.
Thank you for your support.

The ESCC Parenting Team are now delivering FREE simple, practical, online Webinars and Discussion Groups to ALL parents in East Sussex - helping to raise happy, confident children; set family routines and rules that everyone can follow and balance work life and family stress.

Please check the Open for Parents website for available courses and events. Some events are starting soon, so please check dates.

On our Family Wellbeing page on the school website, we also have links to support wellbeing and mental health.

Please click here for full reopening plan, risk assessment, recovery plan and our contingency plans should we need to close any class bubbles.

Dates for your Diary

14/12/2020 - Flu Vaccinations in school
15/12/2020 - EYFS, Year 1 & Year 2 Christmas Dinner
16/12/2020 - Year 3 & Year 4 Christmas Dinner
17/12/2020 - Year 5 & Year 6 Christmas Dinner

18/12/2020 - Last day of Term 2
04/01/2021 - Staff INSET School Closed
05/01/2021 - First day of Term 3

Click here the our complete list of term dates.