HARRIS PRIMARY SCHOOL

Wychnor Fulwood Preston PR2 7EE

Tel: 01772 864135
Fax: 01772 861292

Headteacher: Mrs A Gregory

e-mail: head@harris.lancs.sch.uk

e-mail: bursar@harris.lancs.sch.uk

23rd September 2015

Theme of the week

Attendance
99.6%

Attendance
Attendance currently stands at 99.6%.
This is outstanding! Well done
everybody. Please continue to make
sure your child is in school every day
unless they are ill. Our target for
attendance this year is 98%+.

School Garden
We have plans to extend our gardening
opportunities for pupils with the help
of a specialist teacher, Mrs Heys, who
is working with us closely at the
moment. Mrs Heys will be working with
children in Years 1, 2 and 3 to design
and create a new school garden
adjacent to Year 3 classroom which
will include a plastic bottle greenhouse
and a vegetable plot. Please keep
reading this newsletter for updates.

Newsletter 3

This Week in School

Reminders

Y2 Forest School
Brass Lessons
Brass Band
Y5 Swimming
Library Club
Spanish Club
Woodwind Lessons
Choir
Hockey Matches at UCLAN
School Photographs
Netball Match v Highfield
YR Smarty Pants Day
Netball Club
Star Assembly
Football Match v St Andrews

- Year 3 Forest School is on

Monday 28th September 2015

Gardening Club with Mrs

Heys

Packed Lunches
No chocolate or confectionery in
packed lunches. This includes
chocolate covered biscuits. Crisps are
only allowed on Fridays.

Harris PTFA Quiz Night

Flyer emailed and sent home with
children today - tickets now on sale.

Heroes

Our Gardening lady, Mrs Heys, is

starting a lunchtime gardening
club for children in Years 4, 5
and 6. Maximum 10 places which
will be allocated on a first come,
first served basis. Please see
enclosed letter for further
information.

- Headlice Please continue to

check your childs hair regularly.

PTFA Fundraising Evening

Featuring Phil Cool
(Impressionist)
Joe Martin (Singer and
Songwriter)
Gary Skyner (Comedian)
This is a new and exciting event
organised by the PTFA to raise
funds for our school. The date is
Friday 13th November 2015 at
Preston Grasshoppers Rugby Club
starting at 7.00pm for 7.30pm
Dinner.
Tables of 8/10 are available.
Tickets are priced at 35 (25
upfront, 10 on the night cheques payable to Harris PTFA).
School will keep a list of
individuals/couples to make up
tables.

House Points last week

Reading Challenge

Beacon

2233

This week children have

read on average, including
Y6,

Calder

1954

3.3

Grizedale

2120

Wolf

1847

times per week

This has improved since last
week (2.9).
Well done and lets see if
we can reach 4.0!

PTFA Dates for your Diary (provisional)

Quiz Night Friday 16th October 2015

Childrens Film Night - Wednesday 18th
November 2015
Christmas Fair Friday 4th December 2015
Childrens Discos Thursday 11th February
2016
Easter Bingo Tuesday 22nd March 2016
Summer Fair Saturday 2nd July 2016

Scooters
For safety reasons, please do not let your child ride
their scooter on the playground.

Crossing the road

Our children are trained to wait for a gap in the
traffic before crossing Wychnor. Parents sometimes
kindly stop to let them cross but, as we have found
out in the past, drivers behind are not so patient and
may try to overtake you, putting the children in
danger as they walk across the road. Please drive
past with care. Thank you.

Citizen of the World

This week we have visited the
Rugby World Cup.

Socrates
This week Socrates is asking Year 4
the following question:
Would you rather live in the past
or the present?

Summer Reading Challenge

Well done to all those children who read lots of
books over the summer holidays. Last chance to
bring in Summer Reading Award sheets is
tomorrow morning. I will give out stickers and
small prizes at our Star Assembly on Friday.

Reception class photograph

The Lancashire Evening Post usually give parents
the option to purchase the class photograph at a
reduced rate if purchased through school. We will
let you know when the photo is available. The LEP
should also be letting us know when the photo will
appear in the paper.
From 1 October 2015, private vehicles in England
and Wales must be smoke free if they are
enclosed, there is more than one person present
and one of them is under 18. It will be an offence:
for a person of any age to smoke in a
private vehicle carrying someone under 18
for a driver (including a provisional driver)
not to stop someone smoking in these
circumstances.

Sports Results
Football result v Highfield at home

Team 1
Team 2

Harris: 1 3 Highfield
Harris: 2 0 Highfield

Hockey league results - Congratulations to our Hockey team who qualified for the Hockey Premier League at
UCLAN yesterday.
Harris: 0- 0 Queens Drive
Harris: 1 0 St Gregorys
Harris: 2 0 St Stephens