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10th January, 2000

Dear Parents,

A happy new year to you all. I hope you managed to enjoy Christmas and Millennium celebrations in spite of the flu, coughs, and colds which seem to have affected so many families.

AGM for Parents and Governors.
Along with this letter you should receive a copy of the Governors' Report for the l998/99 school year, and an invitation to attend the Annual General Meeting for Governors and Parents on Wednesday, 26th January. The meeting will begin at 7.30 and will be followed (at approximately 8.15) by a talk on Drugs Education by Marilyn Stephens from the East Sussex Advisory and Inspection Service. Marilyn has been working closely with the school assisting with the development of our own policy and scheme of work for Personal, Social and Health Education. She is an expert in this field, and I am sure you will find her talk extremely interesting. If you are able to attend the meeting, please be good enough to return the attached reply slip.

The Puppeteers.
On Thursday, 20th January, the Puppeteers will be presenting a completely new production of "Peter and the Wolf". The Puppeteers are invited back annually simply because they are the finest children's entertainers I have ever come across, and you can be sure that your child will be watching a super production. We would ask you please to send us £1 per child to help meet costs.

Absence from school.
Please remember that if your child is unable to attend school for any reason, we ask you to let us know as soon as possible and by 8.45 at the latest. In addition to the normal school number, you can leave a message outside of school hours on our answerphone system (tel: 440434), which we check at the beginning of each day. Where a child is absent and we have received no such notification, we will phone you to ascertain the reasons. If after two calls, no contact has been made, a letter will be sent to you. Quite clearly if it is left to the school to find out the cause of absence, then valuable time is lost in establishing whether or not a child is safe, not to mention the considerable burden upon office staff engaged in making such enquiries. On the whole, the response to our system has been very good and we are very fortunate that the vast majority of parents inform us as soon as their child is unwell.

Yours sincerely,

John Wilson,
Headteacher.