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Red heat health alert from Wednesday 24 June

The UK Health Security Agency has issued a red heat health alert for the West Midlands. It is in place from Wednesday 24 June until Thursday 25 June.

Severe impacts are expected across health and social care services due to the high temperatures. Including:

• increased risk to life across the whole population, with significant impacts on older people
• significantly increased demand on all health and social care services
• the heat affecting the ability of the workforce to deliver services
• hot indoor environments making provision of care challenging and national critical infrastructure failures, such as generators and power outages
• water-related incidents may increase, including risks from cold-water shock and drowning

Guidance to assist professionals in protecting vulnerable people from the health impacts of severe heat are set out in the Adverse Weather and Health Plan for England. 

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Over the past few weeks we have had a huge revamp of our school throwing away old stock (some of which was published in the 1970's!)

We would now love you to help us to update the books that we do have.

We require donations of:

Children's Fiction

• Mystery, Sci‑Fi, and Adventure books
• Modern, appealing early chapter books (e.g., Harriet Muncaster, Claude, Little Gems)
• Graphic novels - we only have 4!
• Less well known authors
• Poetry
• Plays
• Shakespeare plays
• Joke books
• Poetry

Children's Non-Fiction

• History
  • Egypt
  • Victorians
  • Vikings
  • Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age
  • Romans
  • Greeks
  • Tudors
  • WW2
  • Mayans
  • Monarchs

• Geography
  • Weather
  • Cold and hot places
  • Antarctica
  • The Alps
  • Settlements
  • Deserts
  • Oceans
  • Rivers

• Science
  • Minibeasts/insects
  • Natural world
  • Space
  • Volcanoes
  • Animals
  • Plants
  • Human body
  • Materials

• Languages
• Religion - Catholic and world
• Art and music
• Different sports
• Famous people

We can't wait to build our library into a wonderful place full of exciting texts for all of our children to access!

We are hoping to hold our annual Sports Day on Wednesday 17th June (weather permitting).

As before, the day will run with the following times:

9.15-10.30- Pre-School, YR, Y1 and Y2 Races

10.45-12.00- Y3, Y4, Y5 and Y6 Races

12.00-13.00- Family Picnic on Field

14:30 - 15:00 - Race for Life for Cancer Research: Please donate to using this link!

Parents are welcome to join us for one or both of the sessions, the field will be open at 8.40 once you've dropped children off. You are welcome to bring camping chairs etc. if you will be with us for a while!

Parents are welcome to come along and run our Race for Life on the field.

A decision on the weather will be communicated as early as possible. If the weather is too bad, we will postpone.

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We are thrilled to be having Olympian Jemima Yeates-Brown come to visit school on 5th May!

On the event day, all pupils will take part in a sponsored fitness circuit run by Jemima and then she will share her incredible sporting journey, a story of resilience and determination in a fun and interactive assembly. There will also be an opportunity to ask any burning questions in a Q&A session with their inspiring role-model at the end!  

With our Great Athlete event coming up in a couple of weeks, now is the time to set up a fundraising page for your child to kickstart their sponsorship journey! You can follow the instructions below, or watch the video here: https://vimeo.com/1148909287 

1. Go to the Great Athletes website https://greatathletes.org/
2. Click on ‘set up a fundraising page’:
3. Click on ‘find my school’. 
4. Start typing your school name and select your school from the dropdown – check that the postcode matches!
5. This should take you to a page with your school’s name at the top and information about your visiting athlete. Click on set up a fundraising page.   

1. Create an account by filling in your details.
2. Enter your child’s details and click publish. You can sponsor your child straight away so type in your name and the amount you’d like to sponsor and you’re all set - you can also share this page with friends and family!