Thomas Reade Primary School

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Heads up from Mrs Day

It has certainly been a hot one this week! Thank you for ensuring your children have hats and suncream on before they come to school. I was very disappointed to postpone the Colour Run this evening. We have been working hard to make sure it was all ready but it is too hot to have everyone on the field with no shade. Thank you for your understanding. We hope that the current Year 6 children will be able to come back and join us on our new date (Friday 26th September) and it will be something to look forward to for the first term. In the meantime, we have our School Association Summer Fete Saturday 27th June which we hope you will all join us for. It is always a lovely day with fun stalls, activities and some singing and dancing. Fingers crossed the sunshine stays (but is slightly cooler than this week!). We also go straight in to Sports Day on Monday 30th June (what a busy term...) and the email with timings came out yesterday. Again, this is a wonderful opportunity to come together as a community and we thank you in advance for joining us. I know how difficult it is to try to balance work and school events and we always appreciate your attendance. Please be rest assured though, that if you are not able to attend, there are plenty of staff (and other parents) who are always cheering for your child!

I am sorry to say that unfortunately the fox cub that was stuck in our football net on Thursday did not survive. This is the third time we have had foxes caught on the school site and luckily the others have resulted in a positive outcome. It could have been the weather or the duration of time he had been in there but this one was not as lucky. A big shout out to The Oxfordshire Wildlife Rescue who are always quick to respond. We believe the foxes are living on site but as they are protected, we are not able to move them on. We are looking at ways to encourage the vixen to relocate once the cubs have left in the autumn term. In order to try and prevent any more injuries to the foxes, the football netting is going to be removed from the goal posts and only brought out for matches. The children were made aware of the fox today during assembly and the precautions we are taking. As further reassurance, the field and playground are checked by staff members before the children come out to play at either break or lunch times.

I was lucky enough to join some of the Year 5 & 6 children at their cricket match this afternoon and incredibly proud of how they represented the school. I know that the same will be said of the other children who compete next week.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and try to stay cool!

Pay it forward top up account available on Arbor.

In previous years, the school has been in a position to make some funding available to pay for school trips and activities for those children and families facing financial hardship. As the number of families in this group has risen and the national issues of school funding are hitting Thomas Reade, it is now no longer possible for the school to guarantee this facility going forwards. 

We firmly believe that every child in every class deserves the opportunity to benefit from all of these important enrichment experiences and are launching a pay-it-forward initiative to provide a mechanism for our community to come together and help support places on these school trips and activities so that no child is left behind. 

Any amount you can give will be used for a general 'pay it forward' fund to support places on school trips for families facing financial hardship. Payments to this account can be found on the front page of your parent portal under the accounts section where you can top up an amount of your choice. Please see below as an example:

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