3rd September 2009

Dear Parents,

Welcome back in our new school year.  I am looking forward to yet another successful and happy year with your children.

During this year we are having three new classrooms built at one end of the playground and an extension built to our Children’s Centre.  I shall let you know more details nearer to the time.

I have attached to this letter the latest advice from the NHS on Swine Flu and what to do.  I will be keeping the school open as per Government advice. I would hope that you can send your child to school normally even if we do have some cases of swine flu.  We shall obviously keep a close watch on the situation and report to you regularly.  Apparently the virus is very mild and there is no need for alarm.

I hope that we can meet our attendance targets in the year ahead.  For various reasons we did not meet them last year.  I shall be relying on your support to achieve as full an attendance as possible.

I look forward to working with you again – your involvement is so important for your child’s success.  Please do not hesitate to contact me if you need to know anything about the workings of our school.  One thing that we have been working on during the summer is a brand new report format which will be with you next year.  This has happened after some parents came to me and declared that they felt our current format was not telling them enough about their child and their progress.  We have, we believe, come up with a different format which addresses this problem.  I value such input from you.

Yours faithfully,

F E Gulley