We’ve almost made it to the end of term – and what a week we have had and we are excited about the activities going on next week! This week we have had Miss Smith learning with her new class (current Rinsey Cove) and lots of additional transition work going on across the school. Y6 have completed an amazing art unit of learning and have excitingly been retweeted by our focus artist (Suzanne Kruisdijk) – what a talented group of Y6 we have! We have also handed out our Jubilee books – one for each child – as a memory of this significant occasion.

We have also worked as a staff team to work on improving our relationship policy, reading current research papers, consulting with children and staff and using high quality books. This has been a really exciting opportunity for our staff to have professional discourse and some great ideas have been put forward.

Next week we have our sports afternoons and we will obviously be consulting with our H&S teams on risk assessments for each day, dependent on the weather. If there are any changes to the plan, we will let you know asap. Currently, we are planning to have the EYFS and KS1 starting at 2pm, and possibly be slightly shorter, and Y3/4 on Tuesday and Y5/6 on Wednesday both starting at 1.30pm.

We hope that you all have a wonderful weekend, please stay safe and listen to all the weather advice.

Ms Teagle

FOODBANK VOUCHERS FOR THE SUMMER

If you would like a foodbank holiday voucher to cover the summer holidays please email the office secretary@threemilestone.cornwall.sch.uk before Thursday 21st July. After this date you can text the word ADVICE to 78866 and Citizens Advice (Cornwall) will call you back. For further help or more information Truro Foodbank can be contacted on 07721 711669 or trurofoodbank@gmail.com.

YEAR 2 RECORDERS

Mrs Browning will be running a recorder club for Year 3 next year. To the current children who are in YEAR 2, if you would like to join this recorder club, you are able to keep your recorder! If this is not for you, then please can you return your recorder to Mr Lara or Miss Wallis.

YEAR ONE NEED YOUR HELP

Our Year 1 outdoor play area is having a bit of a makeover over the summer holidays and we need your help! We would really appreciate any of our parents, carers or local businesses offering us any: bags of bark, astro turf, tree stumps or logs (big enough for seating), cable reels (for tables), tyres and palettes. We would be so grateful for your support – thank you.

TMS PARISH COUNCIL PARK

Kenwyn Parish Council is looking for members of the public to form a new working group “Friends of Threemilestone Play Park” (at Polstain Road). We hope this group will get involved with carrying out smaller tasks around the park, with councillors, such as planting trees, weeding etc, reporting issues and much more. We also hope that this group will get involved with constructive suggestions and gather local residents ideas on what we may be able to do to improve the park in the future.

If you would like to join in or would like any more details, you can contact one of your local councillors on the email addresses below:

cllr.laborde@kenwynparishcouncil.gov.uk

cllr.jones@kenwynparishcouncil.gov.uk

cllr.green@kenwynparishcouncil.gov.uk

PTFA ASDA GREEN TOKENS

The PTFA have been nominated to be part of the Asda Foundation Green Token Giving online vote through the local Asda store Falmouth and this is now live. Supporters can vote for the PTFA by visiting www.asda.com/green-tokens and selecting Falmouth from the drop-down box. You will be able to vote once every seven days, so please return and revote in the following weeks. Voting will close at midnight on Friday 30^th September 2022.

FREE SCHOOL MEALS

“You will be aware that since December 2020 schools have been funded by the Local Authority to provide food vouchers for children eligible for benefits-related Free School Meals over school holiday periods. These vouchers have been funded through various government grants to Local Authorities, including the Covid Local Support Grant and the Household Support Fund.

At the recent budget the Government announced an extension to the Household Support Fund to support households in the most need, particularly those including children and pensioners, who would otherwise struggle with energy, food and water bills. The Council will continue to use the Fund to support low-income families eligible for Free School Meals. However, the method for delivering this support is changing and will no longer be provided through supermarket food vouchers linked to school holiday periods. Instead, families eligible for benefits-related Free School Meals will be eligible to receive a cash payment from the Fund to give them greater flexibility to use the support towards their household living costs.

The one-off cash payments will be issued to families to cover the Household Support Fund period from 1 April to 30 September 2022. The payments will not be linked to school holidays and we do not expect to issue payments until late June at the earliest. Further communication and guidance on accessing this support will be made available to schools and families in the coming weeks.

Schools will not be funded to provide Free School Meals vouchers for the May half-term, nor the Summer holiday. We will shortly be issuing a press release and other public communications to ensure families are aware of this change. However, you may also wish to communicate directly with your Free School Meal families.”

As you know, all children in years EYFS, Years 1 and 2 are entitled to Free School Meals. However if you are eligible for Pupil Premium funding, this brings money into the school so that we are able to put in targeted support across the school where needed. If you are in EYFS, Years 1 and 2 and you think you may be eligible CLICK HERE to find out more. This reminder is especially for families of children in year 2, as in September, your child will not be receiving universal Free Schools Meals, so it may be worth checking out to see whether you are eligible. As the cost of living increases and more families are finding the financial burden incredibly challenging, this may be something which could help your family, just a little bit.

HELP WITH SPORTING FIXTURES 22-23

We need your help for next year! As many of you are already aware, it has become increasingly challenging to transport children to and from sporting fixtures, of which we try to attend as many as possible! In keeping with safeguarding guidance, as well as ensuring we are covered with suitable insurance, it has meant that this year, we have ended up travelling ‘in style’, either by taxi, or bus, which although is much fun, inevitably has an expense to the school. Next year we are asking parents and carers to help!

If your child is in KS2 and you think that at some point in the next year, you may be able to offer transport IF your child is selected to represent the school, please come into the office and see Miss Hawken, where we are able to pay for you to get a DBS check done. We cannot accept DBS checks from other settings.

Having this DBS check done will not guarantee your child’s place in the team … and not having it done will not affect the choices either!

For festivals and competitions with large numbers of children attending, and those in KS1, we will continue to hire a bus. We will always walk if events are held at RLS or Truro College.

Letters emailed home

DIARY DATES

All of next year’s school dates are on the website –  Diary – Threemilestone Primary School