We are pleased to announce that school will be open again tomorrow. Please accept my apologies for the closure but as the school had no water we were unable to flush toilets and wash hands. The school kitchen was also unable to prepare any lunches.

Regards

MC

Year 6 children should check 6/5H blog after 9.30am to find today’s work.

Year 5 children, please see 6/5C blog.

We apologise for the inconvenience

MC

Thanks to the hard work of Diego Lopez , our sport’s worker, we have been awarded the new Nike kit worth £400.  The Football Foundation provides £1M worth of kit and equipment vouchers to junior clubs and schools, ensuring young players of all abilities have the best possible start in the game.

Well done Diego!

Plymouth Grove is very proud of its working relationships with parents and carers. We have been identified by the local education authority as working hard to develop our links with parents.

Over the next 18 months Plymouth Grove will be working towards achieving a national award called the Leading Parent Partnership Award (LPPA). We will be working to develop all aspects of home school relationships and ensure that carers and parents are involved and included.

If you have any suggestions or feedback on how we can improve our parental involvement or any questions about the LPPA award please contact:

Alison Botfield-Parent Support Advisor

Louise Salvaterra-LPPA coodinator

Rachelle Whittle-family support worker

more information to follow shortly…

Many thanks to Miss Wakefield for all her hardwork and preparation for a great day.

Remember to go to the music blog to find out more.

MC

I would like your suggestions about things we can do before we speak such as counting to 10. Please leave your comments.

A very Happy New Year to all our families and thank you for making your way to school in difficult conditions.

New staff

We would like to welcome Janet Howard and Carl Matthews to the Plymouth Grove team. Janet is our new school business manager and Carl will be teaching in Year 4/3. We hope they will be very happy at our school.

Snow disruption

As you are all aware the snow has caused massive disruption over the last few days and I thank you for your understanding over having to close the school. There were a number of factors that I had to take into consideration when making the decision, including; the ability of staff to be able to get to school as many have lengthy journeys to make, the safety of staff and pupils when  in school and the effectiveness of our heating system. I also wanted to give parents as much notice as possible in order to make alternative arrangements. We only have cleared key areas as we have to be able to manage our grit supplies.

If these situations arise again the school blog, www.plymouthgrove.net will always contain up to date information and we always inform local radio stations. On the Monday and the Tuesday we tried to phone as many parents as possible to inform them of the school closure. There was a number of occasions when the telephone numbers were incorrect. Please can you make sure that you keep the school up to date with any changes in contact details.

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