Issue 1 Spring Term - 11th January 2019

Are you looking for a place in Reception for your child for September 2019? Do you have friends & family who are hoping to apply to us but

anxious about whether they may get in?

Then stop worrying and apply by next Tuesday 15th January via the Surrey website. According to Surrey statistics, this is a very low birth year so our

notional catchment area will be very wide! Just click on this link. https://www.surreycc.gov.uk/schools-and-learning/schools/admissions

FRIENDS OF THE RALEIGH — UPCOMING DATES

Monday 14th January 2019 FoTR Meeting at school at 7.30pm

Thursday 17th January 2019 Quiz Night

Friday 14th June 2019 Raleigh Ball

Happy New Year to all Raleigh families! Please accept my thanks for all of your thoughtful gifts and cards to me and

my staff. Wasn’t it lovely having the full week after New Year...I know many families took advantage of a week’s

skiing! Well done to Elise, May, Milly and Scarlett who sang carols in West Horsley before Christmas and raised £50 for

Cherry Trees. What a lovely thing to do for our local community.

Dates for your diary! Parents’ Evening will take place on Tuesday 12th and Thursday 14th March from 4.30pm to

7.30pm. You will receive information on how to book your slot nearer the time.

The retiring collections from the KS1 & KS2 Christmas productions raised £540 for our chosen charity, which is the

Brain Tumour Trust. Thank you everyone for your generosity. Penny Burnett from ‘Tween The Lines’ led Monday’s assembly. She was promoting a new, after school, Friday

Reading club, which will be inspirational I am sure. Details in the club section on our website.

Year 6 had a great ‘launch’ event on Tuesday for their topic of ‘Exploration’ with a workshop delivered by Jan Meek a

polar explorer. Thanks to the Year 6 & admin staff teams for organising it.

Today, the national organisation ‘Childnet’ delivered workshops to all KS2 children about internet safety. This evening

they will talk to staff after school and from 6-7pm will meet with parents and governors….do come! Thanks for organising this Mr Sainudeen.

Please read daily with your child and sign their reading record, (if they have forgotten it, just write a note). Also

regular use of Mathletics, TT Rockstars and SPAG.com continue to be set as required homework and earn house

points! Please send your child in with a packet of tissues and a glue stick. In younger classes the glue sticks are stored as a

communal class set while the older children are expected to have one in their pencil cases at all times. Many thanks

Year 4 swimming starts this Monday 14th January—so please remember to send in their swimming kit.

Just a reminder that lunches and extended day sessions for this half

term are now on Tucasi. Payments, which are required in advance, should be made by the

end of this week.

Thank you

Our extended day clubs are in need of

plastic toy soldiers and dolls house

furniture.

If you have these items and would like to

donate them, please drop them off at the

school office.

Thank you!

THE YEAR 6 YAP PROJECT

The YAP project, which runs in year 6 for most of the autumn term, made a £366 profit at

the Christmas Fair. The proceeds were split between three charities - £100 to SOSSEN

(for children with special educational needs), £100 to the Psoriasis Association and £166

to the Friends of the Raleigh.

The charities were chosen by year 6 children who, in our English lessons, had all written a

speech about a cause close to their hearts. After listening to a shortlist of speeches,

delivered by the children who wrote them, the children voted for their favourite. Well

done to Robin and Erin for their winning speeches – extremely emotive and persuasive.

Below is an email from Eleanor Wright of SOSSEN thanking us, particulary Robin, for our

donation.

Dear Mrs O’Neill Thank you, the Year 6 staff and children at The Raleigh School so much for the lovely donation you sent which we received today. It was such a lovely surprise and is so generous, particularly given the hard work put in by the children into raising the money sent. We will certainly put the money to good use in continuing to help children with special educational needs and disabilities. Thanks in particular to whichever Year 6 child it was who suggested us and made a persuasive speech in our favour, it sounds really impressive. Your donation has really put our staff and volunteers into a good mood for Christmas! I hope you and all the staff and children have a lovely Christmas break. Many thanks again, and Merry Christmas! We have also received a certificate and letter of thanks

from the Psoriasis Association, which Erin supported.

We would wish to convey our sincere thanks to all of the students who took part in the project and in particular the child who delivered such a persuasive speech in support of this charity. It is very encouraging for us to learn of opportunities taken by young people to raise awareness of psoriasis.

La Meridiana