News from EBPS 24th January 2025
Dear Parent/ Carer,
It has been a lovely week in school; the children particularly enjoyed the windy weather at breaktimes today!
A special mention to the three EBPS children who ran in the county cross country finals at Abington Park last Saturday on a freezing cold day! Aria, Josh and Jude K-S – all in Year Five - ran superbly and certainly showed our school value of self-belief as well as perseverance! Josh and Jude whose top 18 finish means they have qualified through to the regional round – we wish them the best of luck!
The build is really starting to take shape now with the internal walls of classrooms going up rapidly; even the door frames are now visible which gives a good idea of the layout and space we will have.
Celebration Assembly
Well done to all of our stars of the week who were awarded certificates in assembly today; superstar writers seemed to be the theme with lots of fantastic writing being celebrated. Well done also to house point winners, a few children are starting to be awarded gold for achieving 250 house points. We are pleased to see a big improvement in the numbers of children reading at home 5 times this week – thank you for your support with this. The winning reading classes for this week: Infant winners were Bluebell and Primrose jointly and Thistle class in KS2 (their first win of the year!) The individual winners were Harrison and Arlo. Also congratulations to the lucky children who were chosen for the weekly Hot Chocolate Friday.
Term dates
A reminder that Friday 14th February is a teacher training / INSET day and school is closed to children. Our term dates for 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 can be found on our website.
Parking / traffic
Please remember the spaces outside the Earls Barton Library are not for parent parking / drop-off. This morning, there was a large lorry, two forklift trucks and several parent cars trying to park causing chaos and unsafety on the road behind. When dropping children off, even for morning clubs, please park safely and legally and walk your children to the door. Thank you.
Every day this week I have seen cars continue to park fully on the pavements on Broad Street and Churchill road – local residents and businesses have again complained to me about this. Please DO NOT PARK ON THE PAVEMENTS. As well as being illegal, this prevents pedestrians, buggies and wheelchair users being able to walk safely and causes them to need to walk in the road.
I have requested Parking Enforcement Officers visit the school to issue tickets to all vehicles parked illegally.
Attendance this week
Our Attendance this week is a big improvement on last week at 95.2%. Thank you for your support with this. Let’s keep going to meet our 96% target. The top 3 classes this week are Poppy with 98.3%, Primrose with 99.1% and Rose with a brilliant 99.5%. We are keen to see which class can achieve 100%. Some classes are getting closer and closer each week. You can do it!
(Almost) FREE school uniform
In the reception / office area (KS2 building) we have a selection of pre-loved uniform donated to the PTA – jumpers, shirts, fleeces, trousers, coats, PE kit and more. Please do come and see if there are any items you would like. We only ask that you make a small donation to the PTA, if you are able. We are also happy to accept items if you would like to donate used uniform that is still in good condition.
Half term activities
We already have some half term activity fliers on the Community Page of the school’s website. We regularly update this page with items we think may be useful to families, so please do take a look.
Wishing you a lovely weekend, stay safe in the windy weather!
Miss Lally & Mr Morris
Co-headteachers
Letters home this week
Y6 mock SATS
Numbots – EYFS only
Northamptonshire parent carer voice workshops
Young Voices tickets – senior choir only
KS2 winter games invitation – selected KS2 pupils only
EYFS superhero day
EYFS toilet and kitchen roll tubes
Y2 seaside trip poll
Attachments
Housepoint sponsor – Haversley
Health and fitness apps
HOUSEPOINTS TERM 2
