Newsletter No: 17

Dear Parents/Carers,

Pupil Achievements It is a pleasure to congratulate the following pupils for being awarded the Gold Award for their success in class: Umar Patel in Rec Blue and Aliya Patel in Rec Green. Well done children! I hope you enjoy the books you chose as your prize.

Attendance I am thrilled to announce that last week’s overall school attendance percentage was 94.4% which is just below the national average of 95%. This is a significant improvement and I feel confident we will reach our target of 95% very soon.

The class with the highest percentage – 100% - was Year 5 Red – Well done!

Percentages for other classes were as follows:
Rec Blue 92.3.5% Rec Green 94.6% Rec Red 98.0% Rec Yellow 94.8%
Yr1 Blue 89.0% Yr 1 Green 96.0% Yr 1 Red 93.2% Yr 1 Yellow 98.3%
Yr2 Blue 95.9% Yr 2 Green 90.3% Yr 2 Red 95.0% Yr 2 Yellow 97.5%
Yr3 Green 91.7% Yr 3 Red 93.7% Yr 4 Blue 90.4% Yr 4 Yellow 93.3%
Yr5 Red 100.0% Yr 6 Yellow 95.9%

Please remember to call the school if your child is absent as all absences need to be recorded with reasons. Our registers are reviewed by the Education Welfare Officer each week.

Parent Volunteers Meeting I would like to invite all parents with enhanced CRBs already in place to attend a meeting on 26th May at 9:15am if you are interested in helping within the school.

Nursery Messy Fun Day The nursery staff will be inviting parents to join their children in a messy fun session on Wednesday 26th May. A letter will be sent out soon with more details.

Pantamime The Kenneth More Theatre will be visiting school on 27th May to perform a pantomime for our Key Stage 2 children.

Open School Session for Nursery A.M. We will be offering an opportunity for morning nursery parents to see their children’s book of work before school on June 10th between 8.45 – 9.15 instead of the later time previously announced. This will only apply to the parents of children who attend nursery in the mornings.

Charity Bikeathon In assembly tomorrow the children will be hearing about a Bikeathon & Fun Day which raises money for Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research. The event will take place in Valentines Park on Sunday 13th June. We hope that many of our pupils will take part. This event is not run by the school so you would need to ensure your child is accompanied by a responsible adult.

Library We are starting to scan the books and enter them on to our electronic library system. We look forward to inviting you to our grand opening in the near future.

No Balls Games before School Balls games are not allowed in the playground at the start of the day for health and safety reasons. We have a large number of people in the playground at that time including pregnant ladies and babies and we do not want any accidents.

Playground Equipment We are having a selection of playground equipment fitted this week including a boat and gym equipment. The children are being well behaved during the installation and we are all looking forward to it being fully operational next week.

Breakfast and After School Club It has come to my attention that our current Breakfast Club provider has decided to stop working with us from Half Term. I realise that this is short notice for parents and I am looking to put interim arrangements in place to help those parents. We will write to parents with further information next week. We are hoping to launch a new Breakfast and After School Club service from September. More news to follow.

Curent Year 1 Last Friday, all parents should have received a letter about re-organising classes for September. Having spoken to some of you this week, I have had a very mixed response with some parents very pleased about the decision whilst others are concerned about their child’s friendships. I would, therefore, reassure you all again that every effort will be made to cause as little disruption as possible in order to have four class groups that are balanced in terms of gender, ability, behaviour and special needs. If you have concerns, as indicated in the letter last week, I would ask you to put them in writing by 27th May so that your concerns can be taken into consideration before new class lists are finalised.

Inset Day 28th May is an Inset Day, so please make arrangements for your child.

Yours faithfully

Jas Leverton
Head teacher

Dates for your diary:
Skip Hop Session for Yr 3&4 20th May
Parent Volunteers Meeting 26th May,9:15am
Nursery Messy Fun Day 26th May
Kenneth Moore Pantomime for KS2 27th May
Staff training day school closed 28th May
Half term break 29th May - 6th June
School re-opens 7th June
Open School – Children’s Books Session 10th June,3:30-4:15pm & 8.45 – 9.15(Nursery AM)
Gypsy Roma Week w/c 14th June
School Photographs 16th June
Science Week w/c 21st June
Night Owls Visit 24th June (KS1) and 25th June (KS2)
Year 6 Performance 7th July
Summer Fair 9th July
Sports Day 14th July
Open Exhibition 19th July, 2:30-4pm
Musical Afternoon Tea for local pensioners 21st July
Year 6 Final Assembly & Drinks Reception 22nd July
Last day of the school year 23rd July