🌟Evening dining invitation🌟

I would love to invite parents/carers into school to come and taste one of our school meals.
For the first one I am planning on doing a curry night, you will get the chance to taste some of our forest school produce, hear about some of the dinners that your children are enjoying and all the super veg that we are getting into the meals and get to enjoy a tasty meal and have a night off from cooking!
If there is enough interest the first one would be on Thursday 21st May at 5pm, bring your own drinks, bring your family along and try a delicious curry!
Please contact the office if you are interested.

Devon County Council Press Release.
Seven Devon Primary Schools to increase their early years provision

Seven Primary Schools in Devon will receive funding to increase their capacity for early years provision for children below school age.

The Department for Education (DfE) has confirmed each of the schools will receive up to £150,000 to create new early years places in their schools.

Devon County Council supported the schools with their applications for the Schools-Based Nursery Grants.

The schools include:

Winkleigh Primary School
All Saints Marsh Church of England Academy, Newton Abbot
Monkleigh Primary School
Halwill Primary School
Highweek Primary School, Newton Abbot
South Brent Primary School
Stockland Church of England Primary Academy
The schools all meet the DfE’s grant criteria, demonstrating that there's a clear need for more early years places in their local communities; and there are high levels of deprivation in their catchment areas.

We really enjoy the first Tuesday in the month as thats when we take it in turns to go to the Village Hall to join in with their craft sessions.

Some children from years three and four went to the village hall yesterday morning to do some crafts . They had an amazing time!

Wow - what amazing entries we had for our egg decorating competition! We were blown away by all your amazing efforts. A huge well done to everyone who took part and our winners! (It was a tough job choosing our winners, a great job done by our school council members, James and Will!) 👏 🐣

Bookings are open 😄😄
We are excited to announce that we will be offering a holiday club this summer holiday.
It will run every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 8.30am – 4pm.
The club will be run by school staff and we will offer a range of activities including arts and crafts, rounders, painting, football, camp fire (weather permitting), films, outdoor games and challenges and much more.
Price will be £25 a day and is open to children from age 3 – 11 (we can only take children who are toilet trained). We can take older siblings who no longer attend the school.
Light snacks and drinks will be provided but children will need to bring their own packed lunches.
Bookings can be made on parent mail by 11th July, all bookings need to be paid for by this date to secure a place (non refundable), there will be 20 places available.

Thank you
Mrs Reeves

Save the date Friday 11th July 2025
Over the next few weeks we will be adding to this event.
This celebration day will also include our Sports day 😄
Cream teas
Stalls
Raffle
😄😄😄

So pleased to show off and use our running track.

Every child in the School is excited to be able to go for a walk, jog or run even in the rain.

We have set up a gofund page to raise the money for a running track at school.
We are asking everyone to get involved by running, walking, rowing, swimming etc any distance to help us get to the Olympic Games in Paris - just under 500 miles! Go on our page donate to our running track and tell us how far you have travelled to add to our total and perhaps send a photo.
Please spread the word as far as you can so that we can get as many people involved as possible to help make our wonderful school even better for all our lovely children.
See the link below:


https://gofund.me/186c5d5e

Stars of the Week enjoying their tea and biscuits with Mrs Reeves.

Another great session at Monkleigh Village Hall Craft morning.

We would like to say a huge Thank You to the wonderful team who make these sessions fun and give us great ideas to take back to School.

Stars of the Week enjoying their cup of tea and biscuit.

Stars of the Week enjoying their cup of tea and a biscuit with Mrs Reeves.

Our Stars of the Week enjoying tea and bisuits with Mrs Reeves.

Stars of the week enjoying their cup of tea and biscuit with Mrs reeves.

Our Playground Leaders 2023/2024

The aim of Playground Leaders is to introduce and develop leadership skills in Yr 5 and 6 children by training them up and getting them to organise activities for other children in the playground. SASP has provided training for lunchtime supervisors and LSA’s to help with the organisation of this. One of the aims of the scheme is that it will increase the amount of physical activity undertaken during playtime and reduce the amount of anti-social behaviour. 

Congratulations to Shayla, Sofia, Harry and Charlie on acieving Gifted & Ta;ented in PE.

Great opportunity to try new sports out this year and work with coaches who will provide you with great skills.

Our Gardening crew have been preping beds, busy planting our bulbs and still picking flowers.

Myself and the Chair of Governors have carried out a risk assessment and due to the position of the school ,on a hill, and that last time we had a storm we lost 2 roofs and the barn behind is also very dangerous with loose metal sheeting, we have made the difficult decision to close tomorrow. We have also received information from DCC recommending this.
I would rather let you know now, than wait until the morning, so that you have more time to make arrangements.
The children's and your safety is of paramount importance, so if the storm is as bad as predicted please keep safe.
Class teachers will be in touch with some home schooling that you may wish to carry out tomorrow.
Thank you