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Newsletter 05 - 3/10/25

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Issue 5

03.10.25

2025 - 2026

 Easy fundraising here,
Amazon Wish List here and My School Fund via ESPO here.
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We’ve had a busy and exciting week at Swavesey Primary School, filled with celebrations, events, and excellent learning across the school.

This week, we marked our Harvest Festival with a visit from Jimmy’s Shelter. Thank you for all your generous donations, which were gratefully received by Jimmy’s. It was heartwarming to see the children contribute so kindly to their community and take a moment to reflect on how fortunate we are.

We also celebrated National Poetry Day by exploring a wide range of poems and poets in class. Whether it was classic poetry or nonsense verses designed to make us laugh, the children thoroughly enjoyed shining a spotlight on poetry and expressing themselves creatively.

Some of our Year 4 pupils represented the school brilliantly at a special sporting event. Please do check out the full report and photos in the gallery on our school website. We are incredibly proud of them all—they were excellent role models for Swavesey Primary.

Another important event this week was the first meeting of our newly appointed School Council. The children have written their own message for the website to share with you. We are very proud of everyone who put themselves forward for this important role, and we’re confident that our new council members will do a fantastic job.

Looking ahead to next week, we’ll be focusing on supporting our own and others’ mental health as part of World Mental Health Day on 10th October. See below for more information on how we’re supporting this cause and opening up conversations about mental health with our children.

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CLA (Governors) Meeting
6:30pm – 8:30pm
08
October
PTA Bake Off
All Day
20
October
Parent Consultations
All Day
21
October
New Intake 2026 Talk and Tour
2:00pm – 3:00pm
21
October
Parent Consultations
All Day
22
October
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Links to each Phase page under the Curriculum tab on our website

Reception    Yr1/2    Yr3/4    Yr5/6

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03 Oct 2025
Year 4's enjoy the first inter-school 'SCSSP' event of 2025/26 with the 'Team Challenge' Event
Lots of smiles, team work and determination, competing in five different challenges, throughout the afternoon.
Read more
03 Oct 2025
Message from the School Council
A Message from the new School Council!
Read more
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New Reception Intake 2026 Talk and Tour Dates

If you have a child due to start Reception in Sept 2026 and would like to come and look around our school, please book using the following link: 

Talk and Tour dates Autumn Term 2025

The dates are as follows: 

  • Tue 21st Oct 2.00
  • Thurs 23rd Oct 9.30
  • Wed 5th Nov 9.30
  • Wed 19th Nov 9.30 
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Chickens 

The year 5/6 chicken helpers are doing a great job at looking after Penny, Heather, Dotty, April and Emerald. Throughout out the year, other children will be given an opportunity to volunteer to help. 

If you have any spare egg boxes, please bring them to the school office. Thank you.

School Uniform and Lost Property

The school uniform dress code is as follows: 

  • Black or grey trousers, shorts, skirts or pinafores 
  • White or red polo shirt (with or without school logo)
  • Red cardigan, or sweatshirt (with or without school logo)
  • Red and white summer dress (we request no play suits in EYFS, please)
  • Plain white, grey or black socks or tights
  • Sensible black shoes (sandals may be worn in the summer but these need to be practical for indoor and outdoor learning and play)
  • A sun hat for hot days and a waterproof coat for cold/wet days which are suitable/appropriate for school and weather conditions.

Children should not be coming to school in any other items of clothing.

Please make sure that you label every item of your child's school uniform. Every week we have multiple 'lost' items that we cannot return as they are unnamed. If it is named, it will be returned to its owner!

We have a new ottoman in the front entrance for storing unnamed items of lost property. This will be cleared out regularly as we do not have space to store huge amounts of lost property. 

See below for second-hand uniform, if you need anything. 

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Pupil Premium

At our parent's information sessions, we also shared information about how you can sign up to receive support through Pupil Premium funding for your child. 

Pupil Premium is extra funding given to schools to help children who may face barriers to learning—such as those from low-income families, in care or adopted, or with parents in the armed forces.

If you receive benefits like Income Support or income-based JSA/ESA, your child may qualify. Even if your child gets Universal Free School Meals (Reception–Year 2), you must still apply to unlock Pupil Premium funding.

For more information see: Pupil Premium Information

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Thank you to everyone who was able to attend the AGM meeting, we feel it was a real success with many exciting things discussed! The minutes for this meeting will be circulated in the next newsletter.

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PTA News - access their website page here for ways to support our fundraising

Dates for your diary: 

2nd October - AGM (see poster)

Fri 3rd Oct - Cauliflower cards to be returned to school (see detail below)

20th October - Bake Off 

Fri 7th November - Fireworks

Second Hand Uniform Clothes - if you need any uniform items please get in touch.

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School PE Days

Just a quick reminder of the PE Days for each of the classes - Please can children come to school on these days wearing their PE kit. Not all classes in a phase have PE on the same day, so please check the class names in brackets to to see which classes this links to. 

Reception

Rabbits and Mice - Wednesday and Thursday 

Yr1/2

Foxes and Otters - Monday and Wednesday

Squirrels - Monday and Thursday. 

Yr3/4

Swans - Monday and Tuesday 

Kingfishers and Badgers - Tuesday and Friday 

Yr5/6

Swallows - Tuesday and Wednesday

Owls - Tuesday and Thursday 

Ravens - Monday and Tuesday

After School Sports Clubs

Monday 3.30 - 4.15pm Year 5 / 6 Netball for fun with Miss Bennett

Tuesday 8.00 - 8.40am Year 5 'NEW'BEE Netball (INVITATION ONLY) with Mrs Turian 

Wednesday 8.00 - 8.40am Year 6 'WORKER'BEE Netball ( LAST YEARS CLUB MEMBERS ONLY) with Mrs Turian 

Thursday Year 5 / 6 Mixed Football with Mr O'Neill (Full)

Friday 8.15-8.40am Year 1-6 Golden Mile Club with Mrs Maloney - no need to sign up, just meet at the side rear gate at 8.15am prompt!

Drop off and collection for all climbs is from the back gate onto the green.

Recorder Club

Mrs Stevenson will be running recorder clubs on Wednesday lunchtimes.

Please meet in the library.

Yr 6 group at 12pm

Yr 5 group at 12.30pm (please go into lunch first)

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SEND, Safeguarding, Health and Wellbeing Links

SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) information can be accessed through our SEND website pages here

Safeguarding Information - please click here for our Safeguarding page especially should you have concerns relating to the safeguarding of our children and families.  Please click here to go directly to our Safeguarding policy.

Attendance Policy - please click here for the school's attendance policy. It is vitally important parents and carers are aware of their responsibilities and the formal processes for attendance matters.  The NHS have created a useful webpage to support decision-making when children are unwell - you can click here for the link.

SEMH (Social Emotional Mental Health) resources for parents - Please click here to access an overview sheet with signposted resources for you to use at home to support your children.  The overview sheet can also be found at the bottom of the SEND page on our website here.  

H.A.Y Cambridgeshire Community Wellbeing support -  How Are You South Cambs? | Home (haysouthcambs.co.uk)

NHS Mental Health Services - www.keep-your-head.com and SHOUT - a new Text service on 85258 which provides real-time support to people of all ages who are struggling with their mental health (text the word HEAR to 85258).

Chat Health is a NHS confidential NHS service for help and advice. It’s safe and easy for you to speak to a qualified health professional. Just send a message, you don’t have to give your name. Discreet and quick. It only takes one message to start making a difference. You’ll get confidential advice from trained health staff in your area. Click here to access the site to start a web chat today.

NHS Pharmacy First Service - the NHS Pharmacy First Service enables children and adults to get convenient access to healthcare advice and treatment where appropriate, for seven common conditions without the potential delay of having to wait for a GP appointment. There is no need to make an appointment; parents or carers can pop into their local Boots pharmacy with their child and ask for help under the service.

Support for the following conditions can be accessed under the service, free of charge (unless NHS prescription charges apply):

Common condition

Patient eligibility

Earache

1 to 17 years

Impetigo

1 year and over

Infected insect bites and stings

1 year and over 

Sore throats

5 years and over 

Sinusitis

12 years and over 

Uncomplicated urinary tract

Women 16 to 64 years 

Shingles

18 years and over

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Could you foster? 

At Nexus Fostering based in Lolworth, we’re looking for local people like you to become foster carers. By providing a loving and stable home environment, you can support the increasing number of children and young people in the local area who cannot live in their family homes. Not all children require long-term care. We also need foster carers for short-term placements, respite care, and to provide temporary homes to support young parents and their babies. So, if you have a spare room and are ready to change lives, please give us a call on 01223 903 503 or email Leanne on leannea@nexusfostering.co.uk.

Please access their poster here