Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.

• Red Nose Day - Fri 19th March

  Mon 15 Mar 2021

  Next Friday is Red Nose Day and to try and raise funds for Comic Relief we’d like the children to wear their own clothes to school and hopefully make a suggested donation of £1.  Children can wear something red and red noses if they’d like to. Basically anything goes but we want to make it stress free for you and the children so soon after returning to school. If you wish to, you can make your donation via Parent Pay, using the ‘Red Nose Day Donations’ payment item.

• Parent/Teacher Meetings

  Mon 08 Mar 2021

  The parent/teacher meetings will be happening on 29th, 30^th (only Cheetah), 31th (all classes except Cheetah) of March. Booking for these will go live on Friday 12^th March at 4pm. You will be sent a notification when this happens

• School Shoes & Uniform

  Mon 08 Mar 2021

  We know from our own children, this last lockdown will have seen a little bit of a growth spurt!  If your school shoes are not fitting, then please don’t worry about replacing them now, as we know shops are not open for them, any sort of sensible shoe will do! 

  If you are struggling to find uniform we do have some here at school that we have been planning to set up a pre loved sale shop, obviously Covid has put pay to this for the moment but if anyone is desperate for anything we can check our supplies and see if we can help you out. Please call the office.

• CCI Friends Easter Window Trail is coming!!!

  Mon 08 Mar 2021

  We are looking for windows or gardens in the local Downend area to make an Easter themed display which can be part of our trail which will be held 1st-18th April. However simple or creative we would love you to be involved!! There will be a prize for the best display and those taking part in the trail will be entered into a prize draw to win an Easter Hamper, if they collect the letters along the trail to find the title of a famous children's book.

  Please get in touch by 12th March if you would like to take part by decorating your window or garden! (Email ccieastertrail@gmail.com)

  Look out for further information to share with family and friends on our Facebook page!

• Getting to School

  Mon 08 Mar 2021

  With the majority of pupils returning to school from today and the weather looking fair, it’s a great opportunity to encourage and remind your pupils and parents to think about their journey to and from school, South Glos Road Safety have put together a short video to highlight the importance and benefit of active travel.

  I would be grateful if the below link can be sent out to all parents/Pupils to give everyone an opportunity to plan their return journey.

  Active travel to school - South Gloucestershire Council - YouTube

• Science Week - Message from Mrs Mills

  Mon 08 Mar 2021

  Not only is next week the fantastic topic launch for those children returning to school but it is also British Science Week (5th - 14th March).  The theme this year is 'innovating for the future'.   In keeping with this theme and also linking to our topic of survival, the children will be asked to think about how they could survive on Mars.  They will design and make their own space stations using junk modelling.  Therefore, over the next few days could you please keep any cardboard boxes, toilet rolls, yoghurt pots or plastic containers that you could save from your recycling and send into school to help the children with their projects.  We hope to make the week as fun as possible with practical experiments and cross-curricular links to science.  We will be talking about fascinating people in science and engineering that have made such a difference to our lives. Through story time, we hope to share some inspiring stories around this theme.  If your child has a book they would love to share, they are welcome to bring these into school.  

• CCI Friends Easter Window Trail is coming!!!

  Mon 01 Mar 2021

  We are looking for windows or gardens in the local Downend area to make an Easter themed display which can be part of our trail which will be held 1st-18th April. However simple or creative we would love you to be involved!! There will be a prize for the best display and those taking part in the trail will be entered into a prize draw to win an Easter Hamper, if they collect the letters along the trail to find the title of a famous children's book.

  Please get in touch by 12th March if you would like to take part by decorating your window or garden! (Email ccieastertrail@gmail.com)

  Look out for further information to share with family and friends on our Facebook page!

• Updated guidance for keeping children safe online

  Mon 01 Mar 2021

  The DfE have updated their guidance for parents and carers to keep children safe online. The measures announced over recent weeks to tackle coronavirus (COVID-19), although essential, have disrupted people’s day-to-day lives. As a result of these necessary measures, almost all of us are likely to be spending more time online, including children. This guidance contains resources for parents and carers to help keep their children safe online.

• After school sports clubs – Term 5

  Mon 01 Mar 2021

  We are really keen to restart some sporting after school clubs so will be starting with dance and football with Karen Davis and Premier Sport.  We will be running these for a year group at a time so will not start these for Reception yet as are not 100% sure they will cope with the classes having to stay apart in the clubs and adhere to the social distancing required.  Further details to follow but we think it will be Y1 football on Mon, Y1 Dance Mash-up on Tuesday, Y2 football on Wednesday and Y2 Dance Mash-up on Thursday.  Watch this space and Term 6 will have more variety and hopefully some clubs for Reception.  We are also hoping that all children will be able to start swimming during the school day after Easter.

• Parent/Carer consultations

  Mon 01 Mar 2021

  We wanted to wait to hold these once your children were back in school so that we can tell you how they are doing academically and socially.  These will be held via Zoom once again on Monday 29th March in the morning and Wednesday 31^st March after school – booking details to follow.  Next week you will receive a one page report that shows you how they were doing before Christmas.