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Briar Hill would like to support Helping Hands, a local community charity, this Christmas to help vulnerable, local children by asking those who would like to, to purchase an 'Extra Gift' for a child. This can be bought for a boy, girl, of any age between 0-16years.

Please send your unwrapped gift into school between Monday 20th and Friday 24th November 2017.

Helping Hands will then sort, wrap and distribute amongst the local community.

Briar Hill is taking part in this to replace the Christmas Shoe boxes we have collected in previous years.

We are aware of how generous our families are and would like to reiterate that there are no expectations for families to take part. We realise that you may support other charities outside of school and appreciate the huge demands on everyone at this time of the year but we feel this is a worthy cause supporting our local community.

We would like to thank you for all of your support throughout the school year.

This year at Christmas we are having a pantomime company come to school to perform to the children. They specialise in performing in schools so it is a child friendly production with lots of interaction from the audience. They performed for Briar Hill last year as they had a cancellation in the area. They will be based at St Margaret's and all children will go over to see the performance. This year it is Dick Whittington. To help with the cost of this we are asking parents for a contribution of £3 per child. This has worked out cheaper than previous years as we don't have the coach costs travelling to the Warwick Arts Centre. All payments are to be made through our School Money payment system, you will be sent details by text and by email.

Any problems doing this please contact the office.

Today you will receive notification of the sale of the class photographs we display in the entrance hall from School Money. We have decided to do this earlier in the year than normal.

The cost is £5 per photograph, it is 8x10 and comes in a cardboard sleeve. The deadline for payment is Thursday 30th November, this is to allow time for printing and distribution to parents before Christmas.

We are also selling the funny ones as there have been requests for these! They will be 6x4 and not in any cover, the price for those is £1.

Please go to School Money and pay for them online. Thank you

We hope you all had a restful half term.

Monday 30th October is an INSET Day, children return to school on Tuesday 31st October at 9am. We look forward to seeing you all then.

Parent Evening appointments will now launch on Monday 30th October, this is due to a technical issue which cannot be sorted until we return to school.

On Thursday some of our children in Year 1 & 2 received their certificates and bookmarks for reading at least 4 times a week at home. If your child didn't get one there will be another chance to do this next half term. They must read at least 4 times a week at home with yourselves every week for at least 4 weeks of the half term. 

You need to write in their reading diary that this has taken place and the class LSA will put a sticker on their chart. There will be a class list monitoring this each week so that towards the end of half term we can count up who has achieves this ready for the assembly, which is held on the last week of the half term.  Good luck and happy reading for next half term!

On Wednesday 18th October at 3.30pm there will be an Annual General Meeting for PTA to vote in the roles needed to run an effective School Association. Please go to the PTA section for more information on the roles to be filled. Some names have been put forward already for the roles, however anyone can be nominated but must be voted in by all.