Animal Professional Required!

The children in Reception will be learning about how to care for animals next term. We are looking for someone who is a vet or veterinary nurse, or someone who works in animal welfare, who would be happy to come in and speak to the Reception children about some of the ways they can help care for animals. If you think you could help, please contact either Miss Robertson (mars@stannesinfants.co.uk) or Mr Soper (earth@stannesinfants.co.uk)

🌼 St Anne’s Infants Spring Art Competition 🎨

A celebration of creativity, colour and the joy of spring

We’re delighted to invite all children in Nursery, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 to take part in our Spring Art Competition.

This year, we’re embracing the season with a special theme: SPRING. From blooming flowers to baby animals, sunshine, rain showers or anything that makes spring feel magical — we can’t wait to see how the children interpret it.

🌟 How to Take Part
- A £2 suggested donation can be made via MCAS. 
- Children can draw it, paint it, build it or snap it — any medium is welcome. 
- Entries should reflect the theme of spring in any creative way they choose.

📅 Key Dates
- Artwork Deadline: 
  Please submit entries to your child’s teacher after the Easter holidays, no later than Thursday 23rd April.
 
- Art Exhibition: 
  All artwork will be proudly displayed at St Anne’s Church on 
  Friday 24th April, 3:20–4:00pm. 
  Families are warmly invited to come along and enjoy the children’s spring‑themed gallery.

🏆 Judging & Prizes
We’re thrilled to welcome local artist Wendy Calder as our guest judge. 
Prizes and certificates will be awarded to our winners

All donations go to the Friends of St. Annes Infants school. 

Poster attached.

Reminder: Enrichment clubs - TERM 5

The following clubs will be running in term 5, with a change in day of the week for Mad Science - some are full and operating waiting lists already.

Mondays - 15:20-16:00: Tiger Martial Arts (waiting list) - https://tigermartialarts.club/monthfree  

Tuesdays - 15:20 to 16:30: Lingohoop Languages Club - See poster attached to this page/email lingohoop@gmail.com 

Thursdays - 15:20 to 16:20: Colourful Minds Art Club - use this link https://forms.gle/TwbTRVM45PsDqLd5A

Thursdays - 15:20 to 16:20: Usports Multisports Club (now open to ALL year groups) - St Anne's Infants | Summer 2026 (Thu 23rd Apr 2026 - Thu 16th Jul 2026) | uSports Bristol | Powered by ClassForKids (poster attached to bottom of page)

Fridays - 15:20 to 16:20: Mad Science Club (moving from Wednesdays from the start of term 5) - iPAL: Booking, payment and management system - Login (poster attached to bottom of page).

Scooters, Bikes and the one-way system

Please can children dismount from scooters and bikes BEFORE entering school grounds (this is at the top of the slope, not the bottom). Also - please respect the one-way system - in to the left, out the other way. This is to avoid collisions and injuries, therefore don't be suprised if we stop you from going the wrong way.

Dog owners are welcome to exit the main gate, but should wait for their path to be completely clear before doing so. A reminder that no dogs are allowed on the playground.

Reminder: Munchkins Easter HAF scheme & Holiday Club

Please view the document at the bottom of the page for information about the Easter Holiday HAF scheme, offered by Munchkins Childcare.

Reminder: School Nurse Drop-in

The next one is at Wicklea Academy on 1st April - 9.45am to 11.45am.

 

Year Group Messages

Nursery

 

• 'Star in the Jar' treat - Sun Class are proud to have filled their 'Star Jar' and are invited to help celebrate by wearing their pyjamas to nursery on Wednesday 1^st April.

• Head lice - please check your child's hair for lice. 

• Phonics - next week, we will focus on letter 'g'. We'll listen for the sound letter 'g' makes by saying the alliterative phrase 'The girl is glad.'  When writing the letter, we'll use the cue 'Left around the girl, then down her plait and curl.'

• Resources payments are overdue for a lot of parents - please be aware that when applying for a nursery place, you agreed to ensure that the £5 per term payments were made. Could we please ask that if you have any outstanding payments that these are made by Thursday 2nd April.

   

Reception

• No new messages

 

Year 1

• No new messages

Year 2

• We hope all the children enjoyed their trip to the SS Great Britain this week. Big thank you to all volunteers and parent helpers that made the trip possible.
• Despite multiple reminders, many parents failed to specify if they required a school packed lunch or were bringing one from home. This resulted in more lunches being made than required, substantial food wastage and costs to the school were incurred, which is not a great scenario. Going forwards, can ALL parents & carers please read and action requests that are sent to them to avoid us being forced to restrict school packed lunches to those children eligible for free school meals.
• A big thank you to all those parents that did make a lunch selection from MCAS well ahead of the 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