First Federation Trust
Keep up to date with all the latest news happening in school at the moment.
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#HelloYellow
Thu 30 Sep 2021Next Friday 8th October, all children and staff are invited to wear something yellow with their uniform in support of Young Minds - a donation of up to £2 should be handed into the class teacher ð
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School Tour Booking
Wed 29 Sep 2021We are pleased to be able to offer open tours of our school for any families looking for a primary school place for September 2022. Please click on the link below for more details and to book a tour ð ð ð
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New Starters 2022 - School Tour and Craft morning
Tue 28 Sep 2021Join us on Saturday 6th November for our very first Saturday morning school tour and craft morning for potential September 2022 starters - more weekday tour dates to follow including virtual Meet the Head of School meetings ð click on the link below ð to book a place.
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Tesco Community Grants Scheme
Thu 16 Sep 2021A while ago the school put in an application to Tesco Community Grants Scheme. We are pleased to say we have been shortlisted. Their focus is reducing food poverty.
Voting will commence in store from 1st October and continue to 31st December 2021.
When you shop you will be given one token per transaction and can vote for a cause.
Stores where we will be considered are:
KINGSTEIGNTON EXPRESS
NEWTON ABBOTBOVEY TRACEY
TEIGNMOUTH EXPRESS
The project with the highest number of votes across our region will receive £1,500 (or the amount that was requested up to this value), the second placed project £1,000 (or the amount that was requested up to this value), and the third placed project £500.
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The Dawlish Big Green Week
Thu 09 Sep 2021There are lots of Green events to take part in during The Dawlish Great Big Green Week, from 18th to 26th September 2021, coordinated by Sustainable Dawlish, Transition. There’s The Great Big Green Dawlish Lawn Event on the 18th September, with School Choirs and musicians in the morning and in the afternoon, the South Devon Singers Community Choir, an acoustic Guitarist, and an Acapella group to entertain you. Plus, there’ll be lots of Information Stands to give you more information about how to protect our precious natural environment; about greener lifestyle choices you can make; a Nature Detectives Competition for children; a ‘Moths to a Flame’ installation art activity and much more.
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Westcliff Community Garden ðŠī Project
Wed 28 Jul 2021The Community Garden project aims to provide a welcome green space for the community whilst improving health, wellbeing and educational opportunities. We plan to create a wellbeing garden that can be used by groups and individuals within the local area as well as the school community.
The garden will have several different areas and uses; a growing area for outdoor learning to teach children about nature and where our food comes from, a mindful/wellbeing area for some quiet space after the pandemic, a hive of activity for nature to flourish and to encourage wildlife into the garden, including a bug hotel. We will also have a picnic and wildflower area for families to come together. Within the garden area we will have a memorial for Louis, who was a pupil at the school.
We have some dedicated volunteers who have been clearing the site and getting it ready for the Autumn and the new growing season beyond. What we need now is to raise some funds for exterior paint, fencing and tools to help get us started.
Thank you so much for donations made so far! If you would like to volunteer to help or to donate plants or seeds please get in touch via the Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/698928733977701/?ref=share
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Book Grant
Tue 27 Jul 2021This year we were successful in a bid for £2000 from The Foyle Foundation to help us purchase non-fiction books to make up a selection of topic boxes - we have been able to purchase a wide variety of books covering many topics and we will look to build on these with additional resources and artefacts ð
http://www.foylefoundation.org.uk/
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Summer Break
Fri 23 Jul 2021
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New SEND website
Thu 08 Jul 2021Devon County Council’s new website for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
https://www.devon.gov.uk/education-and-families/send-local-offer/
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CAP Workshops
Mon 05 Jul 2021CAP UK is a school-based project that works with the whole school community to reduce children’s vulnerability to abuse. CAP equips children with the skills and strategies necessary to stay safe from harm and encourages them to grow up to be strong and confident young people.
Our project generally works with primary aged children, and we will be working with the children in your school this Summer Term The workshops will run on the 12th,13th and 14th of July and the 19th,20th and 21st of July 2021 with each class having a total of three hours of workshops. The content of the workshops will include keeping safe around other children, around strangers, and also the people that they do know. The years 2,3,4,5 and 6 classes will also learn about keeping safe on-line.
The format of the workshops will be a combination of role-plays and group discussion and the Rec and YR 1 classes will also be having a puppet show.
We very much look forward to working with your children to help to keep them SAFE STRONG and FREE and to empower them to keep safe in all situations. For more general information about our charity please visit our web site or you can click on the link below which takes you directly to our Parents page where you can watch a short film about our CAP workshops.
