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When to send your child to school and when to keep them home?

We understand the importance of good attendance. However, particularly in the winter months, we recognise that children may become unwell.

As a general guide, it is fine to send your child to school with a minor cough or cold if they are otherwise well and do not have a high temperature. However, if your child has a fever, they should stay at home. Please do not give them Calpol in order to lower their temperature before school.

If your child has diarrhoea and/or vomiting they should stay at home for at least 48 hours after the last episode.

The NHS gives further guidance on this area. Please click on the following link: Is my child too ill for school?

Literary Festival

Pupils from Reception to Year 5 will be going to the Henley Literary Festival next week. Thank you to those parents who have volunteered to walk the children there. Please send children to school in smart, clean uniform, with an appropriate coat.

FOTS Glow in the Dark Disco

Tickets are now available for the Glow in the Dark disco on Friday 17th October.

• Session 1:  EYFS & Year 1 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
• Session 2:  Year 2 & 3 - 6:30pm to 7:45pm
• Session 3:  Year 4, 5 & 6 - 7:45pm to 9pm

For more information and tickets please CLICK HERE. If you are able to volunteer to help at the disco, please contact your class rep.

Date for your diary: The FOTS Christmas Fair will take place on Friday 5th December - more details to follow in due course.

Parent Consultations

Look out for an email next week giving details of how to book a slot for parent consultations.

Cross Country

Following on from the Cross Country information sent last week, The Oratory School have asked us to share a change in times for 29th November. For any children in Years 1-6 who are interested in taking part, please view flyer at the bottom of this Bulletin.

Christmas Card Competition

Thames Valley Police & Crime Commissioner Matthew Barber has sent details of a Christmas card competition, open to all Primary School aged children in the area. If your child is a keen artist and would like to submit an entry, then please CLICK HERE for further details about this competition. The closing date is 28th November.

Head lice

We have a case of head lice in Reception. Unfortunately, it is not possible to treat head lice in one attempt. As per the NHS guidelines, it will take up to three weeks of wet combing to get on top of this. Please can we urge you to check your child's hair (and the rest of your family) with a fine-toothed detection comb, and treat if necessary, to prevent it spreading across both classes.

Reading Journey wishlists

Thank you to parents who have purchased Reading Journey books via our LoveReadingKids wishlists, where 25% of the cost is donated back to Trinity, meaning we can buy even more books. The Reading Journey is proving to be incredibly popular this year, so if you are in a position to buy your child's class a book, please click on one of the below links:

• Year 1 Reading wishlist
• Year 2 Reading wishlist

Soil samples

For our new topic, we would like to ask children to bring in soil samples and stones. Please bring them to school in a food bag. Ideally we are looking for examples of loamy and sandy soils, igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. Please give any samples to your class teacher. 

Reading Journey wishlists

Thank you to parents who have purchased Reading Journey books via our LoveReadingKids wishlists, where 25% of the cost is donated back to Trinity, meaning we can buy even more books. The Reading Journey is proving to be incredibly popular this year, so if you are in a position to buy your child's class a book, please click on one of the below links:

• Year 3 Reading wishlist
• Year 4 Reading wishlist

Choir (Years 4-6)

Reminder that Choir will be swapping to Wednesday morning for one week only (8th October) to enable Miss Hart to attend a training course on Tuesday.

Year 6 Secondary Transfer

Reminder to apply for your child's Secondary School place by 31st October at the latest.

Residential Reminders

Please remember to send your child to school on Monday with a packed lunch in a disposable bag, a named water bottle and their bedding.

Parents will be contacted by email to confirm that they have arrived safely at Calcot on Monday.

Reading Journey wishlists

Thank you to parents who have purchased Reading Journey books via our LoveReadingKids wishlists, where 25% of the cost is donated back to Trinity, meaning we can buy even more books. The Reading Journey is proving to be incredibly popular this year, so if you are in a position to buy your child's class a book, please click on one of the below links:

• Year 5 Reading wishlist
• Year 6 Reading wishlist

Choir (Years 4-6)

Reminder that Choir will be swapping to Wednesday morning for one week only (8th October) to enable Miss Hart to attend a training course on Tuesday.