Newsletter No 15 4 January 2012

A very happy, healthy and successful year to you all!

This term I would ask for your support in doing the following:
Reading with your child regularly
Ensuring that he/she is in uniform each day
Ensuring good punctuality and attendance
Ensuring that all dinner and trip money is paid promptly.

Although this is a short term, we have a great deal planned for the forthcoming weeks, some of which is in response to the feedback we received from the coffee mornings which took place last term. Please make a note of the key dates for your child’s class.

Attendance Figures for Last Week of Term
RB 89.7% RG 90%
RR 83.2% RY 95.9%
Yr 1B 94.5% Yr 1G 94%
Yr 1R 96.7% Yr 1Y 91%
Yr 2B 98% Yr 2G 93.2%
Yr 2R 86% Yr 2Y 97.2%
Yr 3B 88.7% Yr 3G 93%
Yr 3R 92.4% Yr 3Y 97%
Yr 4B 95% Yr 4G 91%
Yr 4R 97.9% Yr 4Y 92%
Yr 5G 96.9% Yr 5R 93.4%
Yr 6B 96% Yr 6Y 93.7%

Attendance The class with the highest percentage is Year 2 Blue with 98%! Well done Year 2 Blue! The overall percentage for the whole school was 93.2%. PLEASE work with us to improve this to at least 95%.

Class Information SessionsThese begin tomorrow with Year 6 and will take place at 9-9.30am, providing you with information about this term’s learning theme for your child’s class. Please make every effort to attend. The dates for other year groups are as follows:
Tue 10th Jan Year 5
Wed 11th Jan Year 4
Thu 12th Jan Year 3
Fri 13th Jan Year 2
Mon 16th Jan Year 1
Tue 17th Jan Reception

Clubs Letters allocating clubs will be sent out before the end of the week. Clubs will begin next week as explained in the letter sent out before Christmas.

Nursery Would all parents/carers of Nursery children please remember that Nursery is closed this Friday (6th January), the rest of the school is open as normal.

Open School As usual, all parents will have the opportunity to come into school on Thursday 26th January to view your child’s books with him/her and find out what targets he/she is working on.

Workshops/Review of Homework Following feedback from parents last term, we will be running further workshops for literacy and numeracy and carrying out a review of homework across the school. More to follow in future newsletters.

Cranbrook Parenting Course We would like to invite parents and carers to take part in a 5 week parenting course at Cranbrook Primary School. The course will start on Thursday 12th January and will run for 5 weeks until Thursday 9th February from 9.00am – 11.00am. Parents will have the opportunity to meet other parents, explore new ideas for managing behaviour, raise children’s confidence and develop new skills and techniques. A certificate will be awarded to all participants and free refreshments will be provided. If you would like to enrol please come into the office to put your name down on the waiting list or contact Beverley the school’s parent support adviser for further information.

Zumba Classes Zumba classes will be taking place every Thursday from 4.15-5.15pm in the main hall at a cost of £5 per session. Anyone over the age of 16 is welcome to come along to keep fit and have fun!
Calendars School Calendars are on sale for £6.00 each from the School Office.

Dates for your diary:

Fri 6th Jan Nursery closed

Class Information SessionsThurs 5th Jan Year 6
Tue 10th Jan Year 5
Wed 11th Jan Year 4
Thu 12th Jan Year 3
Fri 13th Jan Year 2
Mon 16th Jan Year 1
Tue 17th Jan Reception
15th Jan Deadline for Reception Applications Forms for September 2012 to be submitted

Thurs 26th Jan Open School
Weds 29th Feb Parent’s Evening