Emergency SMS messaging

Following recent feedback from an emergency situation, we have decided to implement an emergency SMS messaging service as part of our commitment to providing timely communication with parents. We will test this service on Friday 8th May at 09.30am. If you don't receive a message as part of this test, please let us know so that we can amend details on our systems to ensure that you do.

STEM Week

We are still looking for parents visitors for STEM week - particularly women as currently we have 5 male visitors across the week. The two days in particular we are looking for visitors are Wednesday 6^th and Friday 8^th May. Please email school@stannesinfants.co.uk if you can help.

Census Day and Special Menus

• Thursday 21st May is Census Day, which helps to determine the school's funding for the following year. To ensure the school receives the highest levels of funding we would like all children to have a school dinner on this day. We have prepared a special census day menu of Fish Fingers, Quorn Nuggets, Baguettes, Jacket Potatoes or Tomato Pasta (with salad bar and fresh fruit available for all children too). If your child is a fussier eater or unsure, parents are welcome to provide a 'back up' packed lunch if necessary.
• Wednesday 20th May we have a special menu to celebrate Culture Day - see menu attached.
• The new Cleverchefs Spring/Summer menu is attached to this page for information.

Community Newsletter

If any parent would like to spill the tea and tell the community about any great days out, vouchers, etc - please let Rae F know for the newsletter scheduled to be sent out 15th May by emailing school@stannesinfants.co.uk

Football/trading cards

Please note that these are not permitted at school - any found during the school day will be kept safe by a teacher and handed back to parents at the end of the day.

🌼 St Anne’s Infants Spring Art Competition 🎨

Please don't forget that the exhibition at St Anne's Church Hall is at 3.20pm TODAY!

Mad Science - CANCELLED

Regretfully, due to the change of day and lack of interest Mad Science have decided to cancel their club for terms 5 & 6. Parents that had already signed up will be notified directly by them. We hope that they will return on their regular Wednesday slot in September.

School Nurse Drop-in - CANCELLED

As it was very close to the last one and no interest, the school nurse drop-in on 28th April will be cancelled for St Anne's families.

 

Year Group Messages

Nursery

 

• Accepting your Primary School Offer

  We hope you have received your Primary School Place Offer. The deadline for acceptance is Thursday 30th April. 

• Hot lunches

  Please consider sharing the Cleverchefs menu with your child when selecting lunches to be more certain of a winning choice (current menu attached to this page at the bottom).

• Phonics 

  Next week, we will focus on letter 'c'. We'll listen for the sound letter 'c' makes by saying the alliterative phrase 'The curly caterpillar crawls.'  When writing the letter, we'll use the cue ‘Curl around the caterpillar.’

Reception

• No new messages

 

Year 1

• Only 6 weeks until the Phonics Screener Check, Miss Pope and Miss Watkins will be sending home individualized sounds and words that children are struggling with. Please could you make sure you are practicing these as well as continuing to read with them. We are please with the progress they are making but would like their confidence to grow.

Year 2

• Year 2's third and final trip to Watercress Farm is on Tuesday 5th May - PLEASE CAN ALL Y2 PARENTS REMEMBER TO SELECT HOME OR SCHOOL PACKED LUNCH ON MCAS FOR THIS DAY BEFORE MONDAY 27TH.
• Financial contributions can be made on MCAS. Please note that if the school does not receive sufficient funding towards travel costs, the trip will need to be cancelled.
• Year 2 - final trip to Watercress Farm - 5th May 2026 - Parent Volunteer Form - please click the link if you can be a parent volunteer for this trip.

Regular reminders

Outstanding payments to be paid to school

Please ensure that you are keeping up to date with payments due to the school. To find out which payments you need to make, you can use either the desktop version of MCAS (example on the left) or the MCAS app (image of the widget on the right).

                                                                       

If you have an outstanding payment to make and require help with this, please email school@stannesinfants.co.uk .

School dinner pre-ordering

Please order all lunches for the following week by the end of Thursday (every week) on MCAS.

If you do not pre-order lunches for your children, then we cannot guarantee that they will be able to have the school meal of their choice.

Subscribe to the school’s live calendar

Visit St Anne's Infant School - Upcoming Events and click ‘Subscribe’. Once subscribed the calendar will automatically update with new events and any updates – this means that school events are always in your calendar with no extra work needed!

If you need a password reset for My Child at School (MCAS), please complete this form 

https://form.jotform.com/252541744332049 . There is also a QR code to scan on the main office door and in Nursery