The school will be open for visitors on Wednesday 8^th October.

We are extremely grateful to Philip Tull for the wonderful posters he has produced to advertise the event. If you are able to distribute the details to a public building around our community or to a parent who may be interested please see Sam to collect a poster.

The deadline for Reception applications for September 2009 is Friday 14^th November.

Sarah Oliver, Donni’s niece will be handing in her thesis on Tuesday having completed her questionnaires. Thank you to those of you who agreed to allow your children to take part.

Judo

There are now places available if you child would like to join. Please see Sam for further details.

School Office

Many of you will have noticed that our wonderful Admin Officer appears to have moved in to the school! This is not the case – she has just been helping to set up new initiatives and structures to assist in the smooth running of the school. From next week her hours will be:

Monday: 8.45am – 3.30pm  

Tuesday: 8.45am – 12.00

Wednesday: 8.45 – 11.45pm

Thursday: 8.45 – 3.30pm

Friday: 8.45 – 3.30pm

This may vary depending on her work commitments!

Just to clarify – holidays during term time will not be authorized by Donni unless they are for exceptional circumstances. The Local Authority and OFSTED are now taking this issue very seriously. Significant absences are reviewed by the Educational Welfare Officer and can result in parents incurring fines. It has been proven that children taken out of school will drop in their achievement and find it really quite hard to adapt when returning to the class.

Health and Safety

From Monday 29^th September please can all parents and pupils walk around the ICT suite to enter the playground rather than access past Class 1.

With the start of building work from the end of October we need to establish this new routine.

Feeling the pinch?

We are all very aware of the effect the credit crunch on our personal finances. If there are times when payment for something at school is difficult please do tell the school as we may well be able to help. We are all very proud people and we all have times when we need a little help. Please note that any conversations of this nature will be kept strictly confidential.

Abigail Fenn’s PE Kit has gone missing. Please could you check how many sets you have at home?!

The lost property box in the hall is already overflowing! Please could you check to see if any of it is yours?!

The Head Lice Are Back!!

A number of cases of head lice have been reported this week.  Please check you child’s head carefully tonight.  If you are in doubt about what to look for, or how to treat it, please see the advice attached to the newsletter.  As we all know, head lice are extremely contagious and everyone is liable to become infected – even parents!   However, if we all check our children tonight we could stop them, but don’t forget you need to check again and again until all the eggs have hatched.

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Chilton Foliat Primary

School

Head Lice (Nits) Advice

Several cases of head infestation have been reported in school.

·        Please check your child’s hair regularly – if head lice go undetected there is a much greater chance of them spreading and an infestation starting.

Tips for the control of head lice:

·        Wash hair with normal shampoo and rinse.

·        Using ordinary conditioner, condition hair. This will make the hair too slippery for the lice to hold on.

·        With conditioner still on the hair, comb with a fine ‘head lice’ comb (available from any pharmacy).

·        Rinse as usual.

·        If lice are present they will be combed out.

·        If no lice are present, repeat procedures weekly – at night.

• If lice are present, repeat this procedure every 3 days until the lice are combed out – with at least 3 treatments – OTHERWISE RE-INFESTATION WILL OCCUR.

Lice cannot breed until they are mature. This takes 7-10 days. The incubation period for lice eggs is 7-10 days. Therefore, by using this method, lice will be eradicated without using pesticides or risk infecting others. 

From our own personal experiences as staff and parents, we have found that is does help to keep hair neatly tied back while at school. Lice do not jump or fly, heads or hair normally have to touch for the lice to spread, so the less ‘loose’ hair around the better.

·        We would also like to point out that adults can also be infected with head lice, so it is a good idea to check your own hair and that of the rest of the family, (including grand parents!) once on a while.

Please keep this for future reference.