13th October 2010
Newsletter No: 31
Dear Parents/ Carers,
Inclement Weather As the weather is getting colder, please ensure your child brings a weatherproof coat and appropriate footwear, as we would like the children to go out at playtimes as much as possible.
Year 6 Residential Trip. I was disappointed that some parents have still not returned their reply slip. It is very important that we know how many children wish to participate so that we can confirm if this trip will go ahead as there is a minimum number of children needed for us to make a booking.
Book Fair Today is the last day of our Book Fair so come along to the Small Hall after school to have a look at the books on sale. Every book you buy helps to buy books for the school.
Open School It was lovely to see such a good turnout at our Open School on Monday. Thank you for your positive feedback.
Year 5 Trip Year 5 had a fantastic time on their trip to Hyde Hall on Monday. The children learnt lots about the life cycles of plants and are now ready to start planning their own vegetable garden in school. I was very pleased to hear how well behaved they were.
Beijing Trip Next week, Helen Radmore, Mark Evans and Samina Rai will be visiting Beijing to meet our partner school. They will meet staff and children, observe and teach lessons and discuss how the link can benefit both schools. Please note that 2G and 4G will be covered by Sophia Gypsiotis and Baha Uddin from within the staff team when Mark and Samina are away. A website has been set up so that we can all follow Helen, Mark and Samina’s progress and we can also post comments for them! The website address is cranbrookprimary.blogspot.com
Cultural Dress Day The children are invited to dress in their cultural costume of heritage on 20th October. We are looking forward to seeing the colourful costumes.
International Evening Tickets Please come along to our International Evening on the 21st October from 3:45 – 6pm. This is a celebration of Black History Month and promises to be a great evening. Please return the slip and monies in an envelope as soon as possible as only 200 tickets are available and will be issued on a first come first served basis. Do remember to note on the slip if you are able to donate food or drink. We rely on your generous donations at these events.
Non-Uniform Day This has been cancelled, as the children will be in non-uniform on Wednesday.
Year 6 Secondary Transfer Forms Please return your application forms to Lynton House by 22nd October other wise your child is at risk of not being allocated a place.
Half Term The Half Term break is Monday 25th to Friday 29th October.
Inset Day Monday 1st November School closed. We will be closed for staff training. Please note: there will also be no Breakfast or After School Club on this day.
PTA Hallowe’en Event A letter was sent home yesterday with details of the exciting events planned by the PTA on 4th November. Please return your reply slip and money in an envelope as soon as possible as we are expecting a big response. Mr Marvel has sold out in the past! This will also be a non-uniform day for all children and staff. Please note: there will be no Clubs on this day.
Attendance I am thrilled to report that last week’s overall attendance percentage was 96.2% which is above the national average of 95%. The class with the highest percentage was Year 3 Green with 99.3%. Well done everybody! Let’s keep this up!
Percentages for other classes were as follows:
R Blue 96.6% R Green 93.3% R Red 93.5% R Yellow 92.2%
Yr 1 Blue 96.7% Yr 1 Green 96.0% Yr 1 Red 97.1% Yr 1 Yellow 98.4%
Yr 2 Blue 97.3% Yr 2 Green 99.2% Yr 2 Red 96.7% Yr 2 Yellow 98.6%
Yr 3 Blue 94.9% Yr 3 Green 99.3% Yr 3 Red 92.4% Yr 3 Yellow 96.3%
Yr 4 Green 96.6% Yr 4 Red 96.4%
Yr 5 Blue 99.0% Yr 5 Yellow 96.6%
Yr 6 Red 92.7%
RY, 3R and 6R – I would love to see an improvement in your percentage next week.
Donations of fabrics, material, saris We would be pleased to receive any donations of fabrics, material or saris for use in class and for making costumes. Please give these to your child’s teacher.
Waitrose Vouchers We are collecting Waitrose vouchers which we can exchange for garden tools. Please send any vouchers into class with your child.
Yours faithfully
Jas Leverton
Head teacher
Dates for your diary:
Year 6 Parents Meeting 30th September, 3:15pm
Harvest Assembly 1st October
Book Fair 4th - 13th October
Open School 11th October, 3:30-4:15pm
SRE meeting for Yr 5 parents 14th October
Beijing Visit w/c 16th October
Cultural Dress Day 20th October
International Evening 21st October, 4-6pm
Non uniform day 22nd October
Half Term break 25th- 29th October
Staff Training day (school closed) 1st November
School re-opens 2nd November
PTA Hallowe’en Entertainment 4th November
PTA Pantomime 16th December
Parents Evenings w/c 15th November
Last day of term 20th December
Christmas Break 21st December to 3rd January
School re-opens for pupils 4th January
Monday 18 October 2010
Tuesday 12 October 2010
6th October 2010
Newsletter No: 30
Dear Parents/ Carers,
Year 6 Residential Trip Thank you to those parents who attended the meeting last week. A letter was sent home on Friday with details and we need to receive reply slips no later than this Friday, so that we can confirm that this trip will go ahead.
Harvest Assembly Thank you so much for your donations of tins and packets of food. These will be distributed to the Redbridge Night Shelter and the local Elderly.
Late Children If your children are late for school, please do not just drop them off at the gates as they will be locked out or in the playground as the doors will be closed. Children must be escorted to the School Office and signed in so that we know they are in school and can enter them on the register.
School Office Please note that from now on the School Office will be closed between 10-11.00 am and 1.30-2.30pm to ensure that all office staff have the required breaks. Please also help by sending in any money in labelled envelopes with your child rather than queuing up each day to pay it into the office.
Book Fair Please come along to our Book Fair which is taking place each day until Wednesday 13th October after school in the Small Hall. The children have had a preview of the books which are available to buy. Do come along – the children are very excited about our Book Fair! Every book you buy helps to buy books for the school. Thank you for all your support so far.
Open School Reminder: all parents and carers are invited to walk through the school and look at your child’s class books on 11th October between 3:30 and 4:15pm. Please note, as previously this is not a formal meeting with the class teacher but rather an opportunity for the children to show their books to their parents. Formal meetings to discuss your child’s progress with the class teacher will take place during the week beginning 15th November.
International Evening Tickets You are invited to join us in celebrating diversity at our International Evening on the 21st October from 3:45 – 6pm. Please return the slip and monies in an envelope as soon as possible as only 200 tickets are available and will be issued on a first come first served basis.
Year 6 Secondary Transfer Forms Please return your applications to Lynton House by 22nd October other wise your child is at risk of not being allocated a place.
PTA Entertainment The PTA has arranged an afterschool Halloween Disco with Mr Marvel for KS2 and Year 2 and Mr Marvel to entertain Nursery to Year 1 classes, during the day on 4th November. There will be Clubs that day.
Attendance Last week’s overall attendance percentage was 95% which is the national average. The class with the highest percentage was Year 4 Red with 99.3%. Well done everybody! Let’s keep this up!
Percentages for other classes were as follows:
R Blue 95.9% R Green 91.4% R Red 92.5% R Yellow 91.9%
Yr 1 Blue 94.0% Yr 1 Green 96.7% Yr1 Red 98.6% Yr 1 Yellow 96.8%
Yr 2 Blue 97.0% Yr 2 Green 87.7% Yr 2 Red 97.3% Yr 2 Yellow 93.5%
Yr 3 Blue 93.3% Yr 3 Green 97.3% Yr 3 Red 90.3% Yr 3 Yellow 98.5%
Yr 4 Green 95.5% Yr 4 Red 99.3%
Yr 5 Blue 97.5% Yr 5 Yellow 92.8%
Yr 6 Red 97.3%
2G and 3R – I would love to see an improvement in your percentage next week.
Lost Property Please collect any lost property from the Small Hall after school from 3.15-3.45pm.
Parking The local Police and PCSO team will be patrolling around the school regularly. They will be issuing parking tickets and penalty notices to drivers parked illegally – this includes blocking driveways.
Clubs Update Many of our Clubs started as planned this week with the exception of Cricket and Dance (Thursday) which starts next week, ICT which starts after Half Term and Karate which is being arranged directly by the Karate teacher. We have tried to allocate each child to a club and will prioritise places next term to those children, who were not able to get a place this term. Please remember to enclose your money with the Permission Slip. We are hoping to be able to offer further clubs later in the year and would like to thank you for your support as well as the members of staff who are giving their time to organise and run the clubs for your children.
Waitrose Vouchers We are collecting Waitrose vouchers which we can exchange for garden tools. Please send any vouchers into class with your child.
RHS Campaign for School Gardening We are currently registering with this scheme which will provide help and ideas to get our children gardening. As we complete each of the 5 benchmark stages we will receive a certificate and prize. We can’t wait to get started!
Yours faithfully
Jas Leverton
Head teacher
Dates for your diary:
Year 6 Parents Meeting 30th September, 3:15pm
Harvest Assembly 1st October
Book Fair 4th - 13th October
Open School 11th October, 3:30-4:15pm
SRE meeting for Yr 5 parents 14th October
Beijing Visit w/c 16th October
International Evening 21st October, 4-6pm
Non uniform day 22nd October
Half Term break 25th- 29th October
Staff Training day (school closed) 1st November
School re-opens 2nd November
PTA Entertainment 4th November
PTA Pantomime 16th December
Parents Evenings w/c 15th November
Last day of term 20th December
Christmas Break 21st December to 3rd January
School re-opens for pupils 4th January
Newsletter No: 30
Dear Parents/ Carers,
Year 6 Residential Trip Thank you to those parents who attended the meeting last week. A letter was sent home on Friday with details and we need to receive reply slips no later than this Friday, so that we can confirm that this trip will go ahead.
Harvest Assembly Thank you so much for your donations of tins and packets of food. These will be distributed to the Redbridge Night Shelter and the local Elderly.
Late Children If your children are late for school, please do not just drop them off at the gates as they will be locked out or in the playground as the doors will be closed. Children must be escorted to the School Office and signed in so that we know they are in school and can enter them on the register.
School Office Please note that from now on the School Office will be closed between 10-11.00 am and 1.30-2.30pm to ensure that all office staff have the required breaks. Please also help by sending in any money in labelled envelopes with your child rather than queuing up each day to pay it into the office.
Book Fair Please come along to our Book Fair which is taking place each day until Wednesday 13th October after school in the Small Hall. The children have had a preview of the books which are available to buy. Do come along – the children are very excited about our Book Fair! Every book you buy helps to buy books for the school. Thank you for all your support so far.
Open School Reminder: all parents and carers are invited to walk through the school and look at your child’s class books on 11th October between 3:30 and 4:15pm. Please note, as previously this is not a formal meeting with the class teacher but rather an opportunity for the children to show their books to their parents. Formal meetings to discuss your child’s progress with the class teacher will take place during the week beginning 15th November.
International Evening Tickets You are invited to join us in celebrating diversity at our International Evening on the 21st October from 3:45 – 6pm. Please return the slip and monies in an envelope as soon as possible as only 200 tickets are available and will be issued on a first come first served basis.
Year 6 Secondary Transfer Forms Please return your applications to Lynton House by 22nd October other wise your child is at risk of not being allocated a place.
PTA Entertainment The PTA has arranged an afterschool Halloween Disco with Mr Marvel for KS2 and Year 2 and Mr Marvel to entertain Nursery to Year 1 classes, during the day on 4th November. There will be Clubs that day.
Attendance Last week’s overall attendance percentage was 95% which is the national average. The class with the highest percentage was Year 4 Red with 99.3%. Well done everybody! Let’s keep this up!
Percentages for other classes were as follows:
R Blue 95.9% R Green 91.4% R Red 92.5% R Yellow 91.9%
Yr 1 Blue 94.0% Yr 1 Green 96.7% Yr1 Red 98.6% Yr 1 Yellow 96.8%
Yr 2 Blue 97.0% Yr 2 Green 87.7% Yr 2 Red 97.3% Yr 2 Yellow 93.5%
Yr 3 Blue 93.3% Yr 3 Green 97.3% Yr 3 Red 90.3% Yr 3 Yellow 98.5%
Yr 4 Green 95.5% Yr 4 Red 99.3%
Yr 5 Blue 97.5% Yr 5 Yellow 92.8%
Yr 6 Red 97.3%
2G and 3R – I would love to see an improvement in your percentage next week.
Lost Property Please collect any lost property from the Small Hall after school from 3.15-3.45pm.
Parking The local Police and PCSO team will be patrolling around the school regularly. They will be issuing parking tickets and penalty notices to drivers parked illegally – this includes blocking driveways.
Clubs Update Many of our Clubs started as planned this week with the exception of Cricket and Dance (Thursday) which starts next week, ICT which starts after Half Term and Karate which is being arranged directly by the Karate teacher. We have tried to allocate each child to a club and will prioritise places next term to those children, who were not able to get a place this term. Please remember to enclose your money with the Permission Slip. We are hoping to be able to offer further clubs later in the year and would like to thank you for your support as well as the members of staff who are giving their time to organise and run the clubs for your children.
Waitrose Vouchers We are collecting Waitrose vouchers which we can exchange for garden tools. Please send any vouchers into class with your child.
RHS Campaign for School Gardening We are currently registering with this scheme which will provide help and ideas to get our children gardening. As we complete each of the 5 benchmark stages we will receive a certificate and prize. We can’t wait to get started!
Yours faithfully
Jas Leverton
Head teacher
Dates for your diary:
Year 6 Parents Meeting 30th September, 3:15pm
Harvest Assembly 1st October
Book Fair 4th - 13th October
Open School 11th October, 3:30-4:15pm
SRE meeting for Yr 5 parents 14th October
Beijing Visit w/c 16th October
International Evening 21st October, 4-6pm
Non uniform day 22nd October
Half Term break 25th- 29th October
Staff Training day (school closed) 1st November
School re-opens 2nd November
PTA Entertainment 4th November
PTA Pantomime 16th December
Parents Evenings w/c 15th November
Last day of term 20th December
Christmas Break 21st December to 3rd January
School re-opens for pupils 4th January
Monday 4 October 2010
29th September 2010
Newsletter No: 29
Dear Parents/ Carers,
Year 6 Parents Meeting (Residential Trip) This will take place on the 30th September at 3.15pm. Please do make every effort to attend.
Harvest Assembly Our Harvest Assembly will take place on Friday 1st October. Donations of tinned or packets of food will be greatly appreciated and can be brought in all week. Our donations will be distributed between the Redbridge Night Shelter and the local Elderly.
School Office Please note that from now on the School Office will be closed between 10-11.00 am and 1.30-2.30pm to ensure that all office staff has the required breaks. Please also help by sending in any money in labelled envelopes with your child rather than queue up each day to pay it into the office.
Open School Once again, I would like to invite all parents and carers to walk through the school and look at your child’s class books on 11th October between 3:30 and 4:15pm. Please note, as previously this is not a formal meeting with the class teacher but rather an opportunity for the children to show their books to their parents. Formal meetings to discuss your child’s progress with the class teacher will take place during the week beginning 15th November.
Beijing I am thrilled to announce an exciting link that the school has recently established with a partner school in Beijing. This link is aimed at developing teachers professionally and we hope that in the long term there will be pupil to pupil conferencing etc. To start the link, 3 teachers from Cranbrook Helen Radmore, Mark Evans and Samina Rai will be visiting our partner school during the week 16th October. They will meet staff and children, observe and teach lessons and discuss how the link can benefit both schools. Please note that 2G and 4G will be covered y other staff from within the school when Mark and Samina are in Beijing. Updates will be provided on this exciting project in future newsletters.
International Evening As part of our focus on “Black History Month”, we will be celebrating diversity at our International Evening on the 21st October from 3:45 – 6pm. 200 tickets will be available on a first come first served basis and a letter will go out this week with more details. This will be followed by a non-uniform day on 22nd October when the children and staff will be invited to wear their “costume of heritage” or blue, white and red clothes.
Attendance Last week’s overall attendance percentage was 95.2% which is just above the national average of 95%. The class with the highest percentage was Year 3 Green with 98.7%. Well done everybody! Let’s keep this up!
Percentages for other classes were as follows:
Yr 1 Blue 92.7% Yr 1 Green 96.0% Yr1 Red 96.4% Yr 1 Yellow 94.4%
Yr 2 Blue 95.7% Yr 2 Green 90.4% Yr 2 Red 98.0% Yr 2 Yellow 94.1%
Yr 3 Blue 95.6% Yr 3 Green 98.7% Yr 3 Red 94.8% Yr 3 Yellow 91.5%
Yr 4 Green 95.9% Yr 4 Red 98.6%
Yr 5 Blue 95.0% Yr 5 Yellow 93.5%
Yr 6 Red 96.7%
2G and 1B – I would love to see an improvement in your percentage next week.
PTA Entertainment The PTA has arranged a Halloween Disco with Mr Marvel for KS2 and Year 2 and Mr Marvel to entertain Nursery to Year 1 classes on 4th November. In addition, the PTA is also arranging a pantomime which will be on the 16th December.
Cache Level 2 There are still places available on the Cache Level 2 course at the Children’s Centre - this is a training course for Teaching Assistants and takes place on Thursdays from 10am to 3pm. For more information, come along to the session on Thursday.
Pakistan Appeal Our fundraising for the Pakistan Appeal was a great success and last week we reported we had raised £870.00. We are pleased to announce that Mr Yousaf’s family and friends raised a further £360 for the appeal bringing the grand total to £1238.85. Well done and Thank You to everyone who helped!
Lost Property Please collect any lost property from the Small Hall after school from 3.15-3.45pm.
Parking I am very disappointed to have received complaints from residents on The Drive. Please do not block their driveways when you are dropping or collecting your children from school. Our neighbours have children to take to school and jobs to go to and our parents are making them late. This cannot continue and has been reported to the local Police who will be patrolling regularly. They will be issuing parking tickets and penalty notices to drivers parked illegally – this includes blocking driveways.
Football Team Congratulations to our football team who won 7:2 against St Bede’s on Monday. A great home win - well done to everyone who played : Saif who scored 3 goals, Smaran, Timi and Ibrahim who scored one goal each, our Captain Zaki and the rest of the team – Waliur, Junaid, Bruno, Santana, Abishiek.
Clubs Confirmation Letters These will be sent home on Thursday and Clubs will start next week.
Yours faithfully
Jas Leverton
Head teacher
Dates for your diary:
Year 6 Parents Meeting 30th September, 3:15pm
Harvest Assembly 1st October
Open School 11th October, 3:30-4:15pm
SRE meeting for Yr 5 parents 14th October
Beijing Visit w/c 16th October
International Evening 21st October, 4-6pm
Non uniform day 22nd October
Half Term break 25th- 29th October
Staff Training day (school closed) 1st November
School re-opens 2nd November
PTA Entertainment 4th November
PTA Pantomime 16th December
Parents Evenings w/c 15th November
Last day of term 20th December
Christmas Break 21st December to 3rd January
School re-opens for pupils 4th January
Newsletter No: 29
Dear Parents/ Carers,
Year 6 Parents Meeting (Residential Trip) This will take place on the 30th September at 3.15pm. Please do make every effort to attend.
Harvest Assembly Our Harvest Assembly will take place on Friday 1st October. Donations of tinned or packets of food will be greatly appreciated and can be brought in all week. Our donations will be distributed between the Redbridge Night Shelter and the local Elderly.
School Office Please note that from now on the School Office will be closed between 10-11.00 am and 1.30-2.30pm to ensure that all office staff has the required breaks. Please also help by sending in any money in labelled envelopes with your child rather than queue up each day to pay it into the office.
Open School Once again, I would like to invite all parents and carers to walk through the school and look at your child’s class books on 11th October between 3:30 and 4:15pm. Please note, as previously this is not a formal meeting with the class teacher but rather an opportunity for the children to show their books to their parents. Formal meetings to discuss your child’s progress with the class teacher will take place during the week beginning 15th November.
Beijing I am thrilled to announce an exciting link that the school has recently established with a partner school in Beijing. This link is aimed at developing teachers professionally and we hope that in the long term there will be pupil to pupil conferencing etc. To start the link, 3 teachers from Cranbrook Helen Radmore, Mark Evans and Samina Rai will be visiting our partner school during the week 16th October. They will meet staff and children, observe and teach lessons and discuss how the link can benefit both schools. Please note that 2G and 4G will be covered y other staff from within the school when Mark and Samina are in Beijing. Updates will be provided on this exciting project in future newsletters.
International Evening As part of our focus on “Black History Month”, we will be celebrating diversity at our International Evening on the 21st October from 3:45 – 6pm. 200 tickets will be available on a first come first served basis and a letter will go out this week with more details. This will be followed by a non-uniform day on 22nd October when the children and staff will be invited to wear their “costume of heritage” or blue, white and red clothes.
Attendance Last week’s overall attendance percentage was 95.2% which is just above the national average of 95%. The class with the highest percentage was Year 3 Green with 98.7%. Well done everybody! Let’s keep this up!
Percentages for other classes were as follows:
Yr 1 Blue 92.7% Yr 1 Green 96.0% Yr1 Red 96.4% Yr 1 Yellow 94.4%
Yr 2 Blue 95.7% Yr 2 Green 90.4% Yr 2 Red 98.0% Yr 2 Yellow 94.1%
Yr 3 Blue 95.6% Yr 3 Green 98.7% Yr 3 Red 94.8% Yr 3 Yellow 91.5%
Yr 4 Green 95.9% Yr 4 Red 98.6%
Yr 5 Blue 95.0% Yr 5 Yellow 93.5%
Yr 6 Red 96.7%
2G and 1B – I would love to see an improvement in your percentage next week.
PTA Entertainment The PTA has arranged a Halloween Disco with Mr Marvel for KS2 and Year 2 and Mr Marvel to entertain Nursery to Year 1 classes on 4th November. In addition, the PTA is also arranging a pantomime which will be on the 16th December.
Cache Level 2 There are still places available on the Cache Level 2 course at the Children’s Centre - this is a training course for Teaching Assistants and takes place on Thursdays from 10am to 3pm. For more information, come along to the session on Thursday.
Pakistan Appeal Our fundraising for the Pakistan Appeal was a great success and last week we reported we had raised £870.00. We are pleased to announce that Mr Yousaf’s family and friends raised a further £360 for the appeal bringing the grand total to £1238.85. Well done and Thank You to everyone who helped!
Lost Property Please collect any lost property from the Small Hall after school from 3.15-3.45pm.
Parking I am very disappointed to have received complaints from residents on The Drive. Please do not block their driveways when you are dropping or collecting your children from school. Our neighbours have children to take to school and jobs to go to and our parents are making them late. This cannot continue and has been reported to the local Police who will be patrolling regularly. They will be issuing parking tickets and penalty notices to drivers parked illegally – this includes blocking driveways.
Football Team Congratulations to our football team who won 7:2 against St Bede’s on Monday. A great home win - well done to everyone who played : Saif who scored 3 goals, Smaran, Timi and Ibrahim who scored one goal each, our Captain Zaki and the rest of the team – Waliur, Junaid, Bruno, Santana, Abishiek.
Clubs Confirmation Letters These will be sent home on Thursday and Clubs will start next week.
Yours faithfully
Jas Leverton
Head teacher
Dates for your diary:
Year 6 Parents Meeting 30th September, 3:15pm
Harvest Assembly 1st October
Open School 11th October, 3:30-4:15pm
SRE meeting for Yr 5 parents 14th October
Beijing Visit w/c 16th October
International Evening 21st October, 4-6pm
Non uniform day 22nd October
Half Term break 25th- 29th October
Staff Training day (school closed) 1st November
School re-opens 2nd November
PTA Entertainment 4th November
PTA Pantomime 16th December
Parents Evenings w/c 15th November
Last day of term 20th December
Christmas Break 21st December to 3rd January
School re-opens for pupils 4th January
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