Swalecliffe Community Primary School

We won!!!!! Well done Swalecliffe Year 4 children and a huge thank you to Mrs Bradley for organising and Mr Wills for driving the mini-bus. Thank you as well to the Carnival Creative Team, our staff volunteers and our parent volunteers! What an excellent day!

Come and cheer our Year 4 children along this afternoon at the Carnival, starting at 5.30 in Tankerton. Year 4 children, who are meeting us to be part of the Carnival on Northwood at 4pm, look out for Mrs Bradley, Miss Garton and the rest of the Carnival staff team with the school minibus.

Swalecliffe Leavers Disco 2025 was the best fun!!! Year 6 families - we do have more photos but these include children without FB permission so we will print some off for the children. Also, they were sooooo busy dancing!! Thank you to our absolutely brilliant PFA for funding this event!!

We seem to have had a few issues with our school Facebook last week which have now been fixed. Just letting you know in case you missed the history enrichment and Bugsy photos. There was also a reminder about the circus but look out for photos of this brilliant day instead! Thanks all.

This year's production of Bugsy Malone was a huge hit!!! Well done to every one of our Year 6 children! Here are some of our cast members...

Some of the fantastic, enriching and immersive history-themed days at Swalecliffe this year: Year 2 - Kinights and Castles Year 3 - Roman Day Year 4 - Ancient Greeks History learning in action!!

A reminder that we still need donations please ... This year, we ask parents to bring in any items suitable for decorating masks for our free craft area at the Circus. This could be colourful paper, material, beads, feathers etc, anything you are happy to recycle! There is a collection box for these items is now in the office! Tomorrow is the last day for donations. Please help if you can! Raffle Thanks to our amazing local businesses our summer raffle prices are now worth over £1700 – and we are still adding more daily! Latest prizes include 3 month gym membership at Snap Fitness Whitstable, tickets for 2 adults and 2 children to Diggerland and a family tour of the Whitstable Oyster Farms, including Oyster tasting, drinks and a voucher for the Lobster Shack. Friends and family all welcome to buy tickets - £1 each Raffle tickets are still available from the office tomorrow and at the circus event – winners will be drawn and announced on Monday 14th July.

Hope you are all having a lovely Sunday! This did go out in the weekly newsletter a couple of weeks ago with transition arrangements but a reminder for our current Year R to Year 5 families ... Tomorrow (Monday 7th July), after school, classrooms will be open for your children to show you where their new rooms are and where you can meet them at the end of the day from September. Collect your child as normal at the end of the day and they can show your their new rooms. They will be open from 3.15 to 3.45.

Year R certainly have green fingers! Their new garden area is bursting with life and we are looking forward to the harvest next term. Keep an eye on those pumpkins and beans!

Don't miss out on this amazing raffle - get your tickets as soon as you can!

The Sports Day and interhouse winners are Herons!! Well done to all the houses but a well-deserved win for the yellows! All the children were utterly brilliant!

Whitstable Carnival 2025 preparations are underway with our Year 4 children again this year. The theme of the Carnival is 'Peter Cushing' and we will be embracing Frankenstein and the Daleks as our inspiration this year. We are very thankful to members of the Whitstable Carnival Committee who have come into school to support Year 4 with their creations. Year 4 families please save the date - Saturday 2nd August, early evening - to come and join in as Year 4 Swalecliffe children participate in the carnival procession, which was a great success last year! Further details to follow. (Although the group says 2024, it is very much for this year!) (

Our Year 6 adventurers had a great time today- pizza pockets, marshmallows and den building in the forest followed by archery then bowling and ice cream this afternoon!