See below for news about what's happening in Melling.
GREAT NEWS – MAKE SURE YOU VOTE
Melling Primary School is bidding for a cash boost from the Tesco Stronger Starts scheme. Stronger Starts provides grant awards of up to £1,500 to local community projects, with a particular focus on children and young people.
Three groups in every community have been shortlisted to receive grant awards and Tesco customers can vote for the group they think should take away the top award in their local Tesco store.
Melling is one of the groups on the shortlist in the Sefton area
OUTDOOR SENSORY AND ACTIVITY CIRCUIT
‘Our outdoor sensory circuit will enhance the outdoor learning space for children, especially those with additional needs, and its therapeutic benefits and sense of fun and adventure will support wellbeing of all.’
Voting is open in all Tesco stores from early January until the end of March. Customers will cast their vote using a blue token given to them at the check-out each time they shop. These are the stores at which you, your friends and family can vote for our project:
5700 Lpool Old Roan Exp Small unit L10 2JA
5301 Litherland Large unit L21 8NZ
4786 Sefton Road Exp Small unit L21 9HQ
5448 Crosby Rd Lpool Exp Small unit L22 4QH
6874 Thornton Exp Small unit L23 4TE
6368 Crsby Crnation Rd Exp Small unit L23 5SR
PLEASE VOTE AND GET AS MANY OTHER PEOPLE TO VOTE TOO
1st APRIL TO 30th JUNE
This £5m Stronger Starts grant programme, delivered in partnership with Groundwork UK, helps schools and children’s groups provide healthy activities that support young people’s physical health and mental wellbeing.
TUESDAY 5TH MARCH 9 - 11am
SUMMERHILL PRIMARY ARE HOSTING A MARKET PLACE OF SUPPORT SERVICE FOR SUPPORTING FAMILES - ALL ARE WELCOME TO GO ALONG AND SEE WHAT SERVICES ARE OUT THERE.
WORLD BOOK DAY THURSDAY 7th MARCH
Poetry is valuable for all of us for many reasons: it was invented as a good way to remember important things and interesting things. It still does this, through its musical sounds, rhythms and rhymes. It’s also a good way to play with the language around us and playing pleases us. Life goes by very quickly. Poetry is a way of stopping things for a moment and pointing out something to us. It gives us time to reflect. Michael Rosen
Dear Parents/Carers
WORLD BOOK DAY IS ON THURSDAY 7TH MARCH and as usual we will be celebrating this with our children. We are looking to do something different this year and our theme for World Book Day will be a focus on POETRY. We want to encourage children to develop an interest in a wide range of poetry and to be able to perform a poem with expression, feeling and enthusiasm.
There are all sorts of poems that children should be introduced to: limericks, little two line jingles, rhyming, non-rhyming, using words to paint a picture, using words to express emotions, telling a story etc Poetry books are full of exciting short stories or glimpses of the world from someone else’s point of view.
BOOK CHARACTER COSTUME SWAP:
If your child would like to come dressed as a book character on the day – they are welcome to do so. However, we are not requesting that all children do this – so please don’t spend money on buying a new outfit! The week before World Book Day (26th Feb), if you have any Book Day costumes that you now longer require – there will be a rail underneath the canopy. Hopefully this can be used as a swapping point – place a costume on and if you need a new costume for your child take one off! In the meantime do try and read some poetry with your child. Have a look at the class page section of the website for the poetry pages.
SEE SPECIAL NEWSLETTER FOR SAFER INTERNET DAY
THE Y1 PHONICS MEETING WILL BE ON THURSDAY 8TH FEBRUARY AT 9am IN THE Y1 CLASSROOM.
ADIMINSTRATION OF MEDICATION 18th December 23
Dear Parents/Carers
We are experiencing a significant number of requests to administer medicines. Whilst we do appreciate that there are many illnesses at this time of the year, could I please remind you of the following notice we have with regards to a request for school staff to administer medication.
We would be grateful if you could take note of the following:
Staff are not obliged to administer medicines and so we have a very limited number of staff who are prepared to do this. If there are numerous children with medication requirements this can be very time consuming for that member of staff, who has other important responsibilities. With this in mind please could you consider the following before asking school to administer medication:
1.Your first option: You or a family member should come into school to administer the medication. If this has been thoroughly explored and is not possible...
2.Limit the medicine required in school. If four doses of the medicine are required during the day, could three be given at home and limit to one dose in school? If a dose has to be given in school...
3.We can only provide limited times during the day when the medicine can be given: 12 noon or 1pm (this will allow for medicine required before and that required after eating)...
4.Only in exceptional circumstance will we be able to administer medicine at other times of the day.
We would always wish to support our families. We understand that there will be times when children have been prescribed medicine and we are very grateful to staff who are prepared to administer. However, we would ask that you do consider the above before requesting administration of medicine in school.
Sefton are providing a number of centres across the borough for HAF - Holiday Activity and Food programme during the Christmas holiday. See information sheet on Newsletters page.
If you have any views on the role of carers and support that exists for them, you may wish to complete the consultation document:
https://www.sefton.gov.uk/CarersStrategy
If anyone would like to go to the performance of Sister Act at Maghull on 22nd or 23rd November please contact:
Tickets are £5
The school photographer will be in on Tuesday 14th November to take individual and sibling photographs.