Weekly Bulletin 05.12.2025
Weekly Bulletin
Whole School Weekly Bulletin 05.12.2025
DECEMBER DATES FOR YOUR DIARIES
08.12.2025 – Eastover Christmas Market
09.12.2025 – Rocksteady Concert
10.12.2025 – Christmas Lunch and Christmas Jumpers
11.12.2025 – Wartime Somerset (Year 6), Flu Vaccination Catch-Up
15.12.2025 – FS Christmas Crafts with Parents, Year 1: Clay in Action at the Brick & Tile Museum, Eastover Christmas Market
16.12.2025 – Year 4: Christmas Service at St John’s Church, Year 2 & 3: Christmas Party, FS Christmas Crafts with Parents
17.12.2025 – FS Christmas Performance to Parents, Year 4 Christmas Party
18.12.2025 – Year 1 & 2: Trip to Scott Cinema, Year 1, 5 & 6: Christmas Party, FS Christmas Crafts with Parents
19.12.2025 – FS Christmas Party, Eastover Christmas Market, Christmas Carols on the Playground
05.01.2026 – Start of Spring Term
Whole School:
Please ensure meals are ordered by 11pm on Saturdays for the following week.
🎅✨ Ho Ho Ho! Our School Christmas Market is Coming! ✨🎅
🎄 “Step into the Magic of Christmas!” 🎄
Join us for a magical afternoon at our School Christmas Market on Monday, 8th December, right after school!
Bring your holiday cheer and enjoy the sparkle of the season with us!!
Christmas Carols on the playground will be on Friday 19th December. Gates will open at 1:50pm for a 2pm start. Parents/carers are able to collect your child/ren after the carol service finishes. The school Christmas market is also open after the carol service and alongside the market will be a second-hand book sale.
Catch-up Flu Vaccinations will be available in school on Thursday 11th December for the children who missed out when the school nurses visited in October. Alternatively, there are other upcoming catch-up flu vaccination clinics for children from Reception age to Year 11 across Somerset. Click on the link to find out where. https://nhssomerset.nhs.uk/my-health/staying-well/flu-vaccination/#catchupflu
If you have any free time on your hands and feel you would like to volunteer in the school, please feel free to contact Lisa Phillips on hedgehogs@eastoverschool.co.uk
🎉 Poppy Appeal 2025 Fundraising Success🎉
We’re happy to announce that our school raised £70.79 for the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal. A huge thank you to everyone who donated and supported.
Sticky Questions Are Back!
We’re excited to reintroduce Sticky Questions—thought-provoking prompts designed to spark meaningful conversations and develop children’s oracy skills. Each year group will be exploring a different question over the course of the month, encouraging pupils to think deeply, share ideas, and articulate their thoughts clearly. We’d love for you to continue these discussions at home with your child, helping them build confidence in expressing themselves and engaging in dialogue. Look out for this month’s question and enjoy the conversations it inspires!
FS: Which cartoon character would you most like to be like and why?
Year 1: What is the most important thing about a hero?
Year 2: Can you cheat if you don’t know the rules?
Year 3: If Jo’s grandad stole something from Alex’s grandma, does Jo owe it to Alex?
Year 4: When you dream, are you the audience, the actor, the director or something else?
Year 5: What would a computer have to do to count as a person?
Year 6: What would happen if money was abolished?
KS1 Autumn Reading Challenge WINNERS!
This week's KS1 reading challenge winners are Otters! They had an average of 4.44 reads. In second place Hedgehogs with a close 4.42. In third place Foxes with 4.16, and in fourth place Rabbits with 4.11.
Total reads across KS1 this week is 438 down from last week (460). Well done KS1. We didn't meet our challenge to hit 5 so let’s try again this week. The star reader to take the case and Snuggles the bear home from Otters is Oakley for always reading every night, 7 nights a week. He loves all books but especially the Gruffalo.
Twilight Club are running some great activities during December. Click here to view the calendar, booking early is advised as places are limited. You can book your child’s place online via Scopay. Please speak to the school office if you would like to book your child onto Twilight club for the first time.
Important notes for year groups:
Year 1
Please can Year 1 parents bring in a £1 donation towards the food and treats for the Year 1 Christmas party that is being held on Thursday 18th December. The Christmas party is the same day as the trip to Scott’s Cinema. Children are welcome to come into school wearing warm party clothes, with sensible shoes and a warm coat.
Year 2
Year 2 start swimming lessons from Monday 8th December. Please can children wear their PE kits to school (no tights)
Your child will need: -
Swimming costume/swimming shorts
A named towel
Goggles (optional)
All children's belongings need to be named. It is helpful that your child knows where their name is on their belongings so they can independently find what is theirs.
Year 4
Year 4 Christmas Service is on Tuesday 16th December at St John’s Church. The service starts at 09:30am but parents are welcome to arrive for coffee from 08:45am.
Workshops for Information, Support and Education (WISE) Being a parent carer of a child or young person with additional needs can bring extra situations which are challenging to know how to handle. To help support parent carers navigate these, we have created a range of workshops based on the subjects you have told us would be helpful. Please click the link to have a look - Wise 2025 to 2026
Down-to-earth parenting advice you can trust. We’re here for you, when you need us. Find answers to parenting questions in our advice articles. Or talk to a parenting coach about anything that’s worrying you. It’s all free, and no topic is too big, small, or embarrassing- https://parents.actionforchildren.org.uk/
Safeguarding is everybody’s responsibility.
- If you are concerned about the safety of a child/children, please phone the school office on 01278 422693 and ask to speak to the safeguarding lead.
- If you have a concern outside of school hours you can contact Somerset Direct on 0300 123 2224 (Daytime) or 0300 123 2327 (Out of Hours) for immediate assistance.
- You can also report concerns to NSPCC on 0808 800 5000.
- To support us in safeguarding your children, please make sure that we have at least two up-to-date contact telephone numbers.
- https://ineqe.com/ is a great website which contains safeguarding information for parents, including E-Safety.
For term dates and more upcoming events, visit the calendar on our website www.eastoverschool.co.uk/calendar