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A very Happy Diwali to all our pupils, staff, parents and carers.

Parental Choice – Diwali/New Year’s Day

Most parents will be aware that Diwali falls on Tuesday 13^th November and New Year’s Day on Wednesday 14^th November 2012. Following discussions with the Chair of Governors – Councillor Rashmikant Joshi – we have agreed the following:

The school will remain open on both days. We will have sufficient staff in school to ensure that the children present receive a quality day of education and are properly safeguarded.

All Hindu and Sikh staff are being offered one day’s leave of religious observance. This is a standard procedure for all key religious events that fall within term time.

Hindu and Sikh parents and carers have the choice of whether to celebrate Diwali and/or New Year’s Day as a family at home or send their children to school. We are aware that not all parents will be able to take leave from work.

Hindu and Sikh children not at school will be marked as ‘R’ – Religious Day.

Thank you to all parents for your co-operation in this matter.

You could help Abbey Primary Community School raise funds is by using our charity search engine http://abbeyprimary.easysearch.org.uk in addition to other search engines. An average searcher can raise £25 a year by using easysearch.

Please set http://abbeyprimary.easysearch.org.uk as your default search engine and support us whenever you search.

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A big thank you to everybody who helped with our Tesco Clubs and Schools voucher  campaign.

We managed to more than double our collection, compared to 2011, to a total of 25,000 vouchers and have managed to trade these for items such as cameras, cd players, science equipment and more.  Hopefully we will continue to match or beat our efforts again
next year.

Many thanks – Emran Kharodia (IT Manager)

Turn your online shopping into donations for Abbey Primary Community School!

Do you shop online? Did you know that every time you buy something you could be raising money for Abbey Primary Community School ?

That’s right – over 3000 well known retailers including Amazon, M&S, Boden, Waitrose, House of Fraser, Vodafone, Virgin Atlantic and many more, will donate a percentage of what you spend to Abbey Primary Community School! when you shop with them, via fundraising website easyfundraising.org.uk

How does it work?

It’s like nectar but instead of earning points, each purchase generates a donation. So instead of going directly to a retailer’s website, go to easyfundraising first and choose the retailer you want to shop with – then everything you spend with that retailer earns a free donation for Abbey Primary Community School. It’s completely free to use and your shopping won’t cost you a penny more.

On average, each retailer will donate 5% of the cost of your shopping – and those donations soon mount up.

So whatever you need to buy, from your weekly grocery shop or fashion must-have, to your business travel, office supplies or mobile phone, buy it via easyfundraising and raise money for Abbey Primary Community School at no extra cost to you!

Please register to supporting us when you shop online – http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/abbeyprimary

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Well done to our girls and Rimple too! They lost 2-1 to a strong St Thomas More team  and they drew 0-0 with Stokes Wood (who finished runners up).

Finally we played the winners – Folville School. We were 1-0 up with a minute to go when they equalised.

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