Scholastic Book Fair 

 

On Friday 27th September, we will be opening the downstairs hall for our annual scholastic book fair. There will be many books available to purchase and are suitable for all ages. The book fair will be open from 3.15 to 3.45. 

 

It will be open on Friday 27th, Monday 30th and Tuesday 1st October. We will only be able to accept cash. 

 

We look forward to seeing lots of you there! 📚 

Travelling Tales is coming to PRPS! We are celebrating 'Share-a-Story Month' and the theme is Travelling Tales. See the image below for more information! 

Celebrate Autism Awareness Week

This week is Science Week at Prince Rock. Each class will be learning about plastic pollution and completing an activity to reduce, reuse or recycle plastic waste. We will be sending a pledge home on Friday for you to complete as a family. There is also a poster competition. Thank you for your support as we aim to become a Plastic Free School!

Dear Parents/Carers,

 

Following on from last week's letter about Free School Meal funding we have received another last minute update regarding school budgets and funding.

 

We receive all our funding for the Key Stage 1 dinners (Years R, 1 and 2) based on the dinners taken on 2 days. One of these is in October and the other on 17th January (this Thursday). If your child is in Reception, Year 1 or Year 2, it would be really helpful if you could send your child in for a school dinner on Thursday, even if they do not usually have one on that day. If your child does not like a roast dinner or jacket potatoes, we can provide a school packed lunch (Cheese, Ham or Tuna). It is an unusual system but if they do not have a dinner on Thursday, we will receive no funding for all of the other dinners they do have on other days. This means we would have to take the money out of the school budget to cover this instead of it being given from a different pot. This could affect a wide range of things such as amounts of Teachers/TAs, opportunities for extra curricular activities and even how many books we can buy for the library.

Please help by sending your child in for a school dinner on Thursday. We really appreciate your help and support.

Yours sincerely

 

Mrs L Hanley 
Head of School

We will be consulting on our admission arrangements for 2020/2021 through Plymouth City Council. The consultation will be live between 10 December 2018 and 20 January 2019. If you wish to find out about our policy or make any comment, please visit: www.plymouth.gov.uk/admissionconsultation.

Plymouth Teaching School Alliance (PTSA) are hosting an event with a range of teacher training providers from the South West, for you to train as either a primary or secondary teacher.

 

The event will take place on Thursday 8th November from 4-7pm at High View Primary School, Plymouth. 

 

Book your place at our train to teach event:

 

https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/teaching-events/training-provider-events/181108-plymouth-teaching-school-alliance-train-to-teach-event

Thank you to PC Large and PCSO Money for helping to keep us safe on the roads at the end of the school day. Please remember to use the allocated crossings or footbridge.

It's a new school year and we'd like to get our Friends' Group up and running. It's a great opportunity to get more involved in the life of the school. Dads, Mum's and all carers welcome. Please come along to our first meeting on Friday 12th October at 2.15pm. It you are unable to make this date but would still like to be involved, please contact Mrs Hanley or Miss Brake.

Well done to all the children at Prince Rock who have been trying to be more active walking to and from school. Understandably, it can be difficult for everyone to walk to school if they live far away but some of our children have been clocking up their "Moon Minutes" at break and lunchtimes with their own walking clubs! What a fantastic start to the 'Classroom to Moon Challenge'. Hopefully we will be able to help Astro Mo reach the moon with the rest of the schools in Plymouth!