BBC CHILDREN IN NEED

Just a reminder that donations can still be made on the Arbor app/portal. Please click on ‘School Shop’ to make a payment. Donations can be made until Monday 17^th November. So far, we’ve raised £146.00 for Children in Need.

MATHS FAMILY STAY & PLAY – MONDAY 17^TH NOVEMBER

We would like to invite our children and their families to our next Maths Stay and Play on the 17^th November 3.15pm to 4.15pm in the main hall. There will be fun, maths based games, puzzles and activities to enjoy and we hope they will inspire you to have fun with maths at home! Children will need to be supervised by an adult.

IDLE PURSUITS – A MESSAGE FROM ‘MUMS FOR LUNGS’

Hello from Mums for Lungs! This half term, Ms Paulson has very kindly agreed to let ‘Mums for Lungs’ have a space in the newsletter to support the aim of making our wonderful school a safer and healthier environment for all our children.

This time out we want to talk to you about Idling. Idling is when a vehicle's engine is left running while it is stationary.

Doing this for more than ten seconds uses more fuel than restarting your engine and chugs through over half a litre of your fuel an hour (quite substantially, depending on your car). More importantly though, it’s bad for your health.

This is worth googling, but in short, Idling increases the amount of exhaust emissions in the air around the vehicle. This impacts health, effects the local air quality, but is particularly bad for anyone in the car (and especially those in the back).

It’s illegal to leave a vehicle's engine running unnecessarily while stationary on a public road (there are some specific exceptions to this, but you’ll want to be sure they apply because), idling outside a school can, and has resulted in fines.

We know it’s cold and damp, but wrapping up and switching off your engine when outside the school, will save you money, avoid fines and most importantly is better for your health, the health of the children and adults attending the school and especially any little ones in the back of the car.

Data from traffic monitoring team from last half term, suggests up to 60 vehicles a week idling directly outside the school at pick up and drop off times. Most (though not all) of these,  belong  to the families of children at the school. If you can, switch off your engines, help us get those numbers down and make the air our children breathe just a little bit better. Thank You.

COLDER WEATHER

Now that the colder weather has arrived, please ensure that your child has appropriate clothing and footwear in school and that it is clearly labelled with their name.

STREET AID MACHINE

A Street Aid donation machine has been installed next to the Co-op and Nibbles on Mansfield Road. The yellow wall-mounted device enables members of the the public to make a minimum contactless donation of £3. All contributions go towards supporting individuals experiencing homelessness, helping them to take positive steps towards rebuilding their lives.

 

READING, READING, READING

                                 

 

WEEKLY % ATTENDANCE FIGURES – THIS WEEK’S WINNERS ARE: FS & 3T  

FS	99.63%	FW	99.62%	1ST	99.26%	1W	97.40%	2C	97.00%
2F	97.70%	3G	96.67%	3T	100.00%	4H	98.57%	4W	97.30%
5C	98.15%	5H	96.17%	6C	91.85%	6CH	96.67%

100% ATTENDANCE WINNER – KS1:Arabella (1ST)  

DONATIONS OF SPARE TROUSERS AND JOGGING BOTTOMS

We are looking for donations of spare trousers and jogging bottoms from the older children age group. If have you any spare bottoms, please leave them at the school office. Thank you.

 

 

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

6C Swimming	Friday 7th November – Friday 21st November
Maths Family Stay & Play	Monday 17th November
Year 3 Magna Science Centre Trip	Tuesday 18th November
Bike Bus	Friday 21st November
Inset Day	Friday 28th November
Year 4 Nottinhgam Playhouse Panto	Thursday 4th December
Nursery Lantern Walk	Thursday 4th December – 5pm – families welcome
PTA Christmas Fair	Friday 5th December
Singing Club & Area Band ‘Christmas in the City’ Concert – Albert Hall	Monday 8th December – 5.30pm
Year 2 Christmas Performance – ‘Hey Ewe’	Tuesday 9th December – 2.30pm – families welcome Wednesday 10th December – 2.30pm – families welcome
F2 & Key Stage 1 Christmas Dinner	Wednesday 10th December
Key Stage 2 Christmas Dinner	Thursday 11th December
Year 1 Christmas Songs around the Christmas Tree	Thursday 11th December – 3.30pm – families welcome
F2 Lakeside Arts Trip – ‘The Littlest Yak’ Performance	Tuesday 16th December
Singing Club Christmas Concert	Tuesday 16th December – 4pm – families welcome
F2 Christmas Performance ‘Whoops-A-Daisy Angel’	Wednesday 17th December – 10.00am families                                  welcome                                - 4.00pm families                                  welcome
Year 5 Nottingham Playhouse Panto	Thursday 18th December
Christmas Party Day	Thursday 18th December
Nursery Christmas Song Celebration	Friday 19th December 11.00am – 11.45am - families welcome
Last Day of School	Friday 19th December
Christmas Holidays	Monday 22nd December – Friday 2nd January
Back to School	Monday 5th January
Year 5 Stratford-upon-Avon Residential	Wednesday 21st January – Thursday 22nd January
Last Day of School	Friday 13th February
Half Term Holidays	Monday 16th February – Friday 20th February
Back to School	Monday 23rd February
Last Day of School	Friday 27th March
Easter Holidays	Monday 30th March – Friday 10th April
Back to School	Monday 13th April

 

Signposting

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Hollygirt Senior School Entrancce Day (for Year 7 entry 2026) – Wednesday 14^th January 2026. For more information and to find out about potential academic and creative scholarship offers, please contact our Admissions Manager on 0115 958 0596, or email info@hollygirt.co.uk.