Save the date
to celebrate
heritage
Wednesday 7 June, 3-7pm
University of Leicester Campus

Cancellation of the Arts & Crafts Week 

Grand opening Community Café Thursday 
12th January 3:45pm
We have been very lucky to secure funding through the lottery community fund to open a community café.  We hope the café will be a place that can bring the community and families of Folville together.  We will have an information corner and notices which will provide information on services and support available. We will work with local food banks, and can support any needy families in making referrals.  We will invite other service providers along to offer information on the services and support they can provide. 
The community side of the café will be a place for face to face social interaction, book club, learning new skills, sewing, knitting and arts and crafts. 
We will also use the café to offer a uniform swap shop, recycling uniform.  We will have IPads available for use and offer some online training and safety sessions.  For any local trades people, we will have a specific notice board where you can leave your business card or small advertisement.
Alongside all of this we will provide hot and cold food cooked and prepared on site,  all the sales of food and drinks will be to cover costs and the café will be a non-profit-making project.  With the funding secured this will help us run the café for the first year, but thereafter we will need to make sure that the café is self-funding. 
The grand opening will be Thursday 12th January 3:45pm – we will have hot food available, but this will be limited until we know the number of visitors we receive, so please bear with us, if we don’t quite have enough on the opening day. Please come along and join us.  
The café will have a capacity restriction of 50 adults and children at any one time.

All visitors will be welcomed.
Thank you 

Additional bank holiday Following the announcement of His Majesty’s coronation on Saturday 6 May 2023, an additional bank holiday has been announced on Monday 8 May.   Summer term 2023 Open/Closure/Holidays Date

The household support fund is open for referrals from 16 May to 4 September 2022. The grant is funded by the government to support people most in need of help with rising living costs. Schools will act as lead referrers.

 

How can families get help?

Families cannot apply to the fund directly. Funds are limited and the government has changed how councils are required to target them.

Families needing support from this fund will need to be referred by a professional.

Referrals are able to be submitted from the following Leicester City Council teams:

• social workers
• neighbourhood housing officers
• housing related support workers
• income management officers
• city schools (see below for access)

We are asking schools to support us by working with those families who are struggling and have been affected by rising living costs.  The scheme is open for schools from Monday 16 May and will close 4 September 2022.  This will give you time to work with your families. 

The Psychology Service have produced advice and guidance for for parents/carers and education staff to help them support children and young people’s emotional wellbeing and resilience during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.  Teacher and parents/carers are also able to book 30 minute telephone consultations if needed for support. The guidance can be viewed at https://schools.leicester.gov.uk/supportingemotionalwellbeing.

Please click here for our safeguarding contacts.  If you have any safeguarding concerns please contact any of the following designated safeguarding leads and deputies. Thanks 

 

The school celebrated NSPCC number day a few weeks ago, a total of £220 was raised! Throughout the day children developed their problem solving skills and also rocked out on Timestables Rockstars. It was great to see some very creative outfits as some dressed up for digits or came as a Rockstar. The day was rounded of with the live draw for the first round of the NSPCC Rockstars Cup - thanks to our local "Rockstars" for coming along!

 

On Monday 11th November, all of Year 4 thoroughly enjoyed having a "comfy read". The children brought in their favourite books, alongside pillows, blankets and even some cuddly teddy bears to read to! There will be more comfy reading sessions planned in the new year!

Match Day Statistics 6 Schools - 85.7% attendance 51 Players 9 Teachers Round 1 started at 4.00pm Round 5 finished at 5.25pm Duration of matches - 4 x 12 minutes and 1 x 10 minutes 11 League matches played and 3 Friendlies

Earlier in the month, Year 4 ventured out to Ullesthorpe for their residential. Despite some wet weather at times, the children enjoyed an array of outdoor activities including; fieldwork, compass and navigation skills, tie dye t-shirt making, potion

Our first pupils to quiz with Accelerated Reader.

Iron Man Construction Afternoon

On Wednesday 1st May, Year 4 pupils and their parents/ careers constructed some almighty and very impressive Iron Men which Year 4 have been reading as their class book.  Prior to the afternoon children have created and elaborately performed their own Iron Man poems using the poet  Michael Rosen as in inspiration for their performance poetry. The designs involved plenty of cardboard boxes, foil and many other materials to help construct and decorate the Iron Man. As part of their design they used their knowledge of the Iron Man so many of the Iron men only had one ear as this was lost following a terrible fall early in the story. Well done and thank you to all the parents that were involved. We even managed to fill the stage in the hall with Iron Men, quite a sight to behold!

Mr Poli 4P AKA Mr Bump