Thursday 19 January 2012

Newsletter No 17 18 January 2012

Coloured Assemblies As mentioned previously, on Thursdays we have assemblies where all the same colour classes meet to share what they have been learning.
The times for the different coloured groups are as follows:
Blue and Green classes will be every Thursday at 9.10am
Red and Yellow classes will be every Thursday at 2.45pm
We would like to invite parents to come along to these assemblies every Thursday starting on Thursday 26th January. Please ensure you note the time for your child’s class.

Gifted and Talented Assemblies We are also looking to promote the exceptional skills and talents of our pupils and will organise special assemblies regularly to showcase these in front of the whole school. The first of these will take place on Friday 27th January where the parents of the children performing will be invited in.

Attendance Figures for Last Week
RB 95% RG 97.2%
RR 91.4% RY 91%
Yr 1B 93.1% Yr 1G 97.3%
Yr 1R 97% Yr 1Y 96.7%
Yr 2B 98.7% Yr 2G 94.9%
Yr 2R 98% Yr 2Y 87.9%
Yr 3B 82.4% Yr 3G 92%
Yr 3R 93.1% Yr 3Y 94.8%
Yr 4B 93.7% Yr 4G 93.8%
Yr 4R 91.3% Yr 4Y 96.4%
Yr 5G 97.2% Yr 5R 98.6%
Yr 6B 97.7% Yr 6Y 94.7%

Attendance The class with the highest percentage is Year 5 Red with 98.6%, narrowly beating Year 2 Red with 98%! Well done to both classes! The overall percentage for the whole school was 94.4%. PLEASE work with us to improve this to at least 95%.
Let’s work on improving these percentages please!

Open School As usual, I would like to invite all parents and carers to walk through the school and look at your child’s class books on Monday 23rd January (wrong date sent out previously) between 3.30 – 4.15pm. Please note that this is an opportunity for the children to show their books to parents, rather than a meeting with the class teacher.

Parent Coffee Morning Once again, I would like to invite you in as parents to share your ideas about the school and ways in which we can improve our provision further. The coffee morning will be on Monday 23rd January at 9.00am in the small hall.

Dinner Arrears Some parents still owe dinner money despite many phone calls and letters. PLEASE pay your debts immediately. If you are in arrears you will be asked to provide your child with a packed lunch until your debt has been cleared, as ISS Catering will not provide meals. Therefore, your child may end up not being properly fed.

Eligibility for free school meals If you are eligible, please apply, as we lose funding when take up is low. If you require help completing the form, please see Beverley Boothe, Parent Support Adviser.

Parent’s Evening This will take place on February 29th. Please look out for the letter that will come out shortly.

Year 6 Daytime meetings re SATs 7th and 8th February. In order to enable year 6 teachers and parents to meet with individual children, we have arranged day-time appointments for February 7th for 6B and February 8th for 6Y as per letter sent out today. Please respond as soon as possible so that we can allocate times.


Year 1 and 4 performance dates The Year 1 performance to parents is on Wednesday 28th March at 2pm.
The Year 4 performance to parents is on Wednesday 21st March pm.

Team Superschools The rewards from the Team Superschools event with Larry Achike are in the process of being sent to us and will be distributed to the relevant children as soon as we receive them.

Asthma Inhalers and Medication Would you please note that all parents are responsible to check the expiry dates of their children’s asthma inhalers and medication kept in school.

PARENTS BEWARE! IMPORTANT—SAFE USE OF COMPUTERS!We are becoming increasingly concerned about the safe use of computers at home following a number of incidents with our children that have been reported. Please be aware that NO children at Cranbrook Primary should be using Facebook or any other social networking sites. Please ensure you know what your children are doing on the computer at home. Social networking can open them to a range of dangers and expose them to material that primary age children should not experience.


Mon 23rd Jan Parents Coffee Morning
Mon 23rd Jan Open School (please note change of date from last week’s newsletter)
Thurs 26th Jan Coloured Assemblies (All Blue and Green classes at 9.10am and Red and Yellow classes at 2.45pm)
Thurs 2nd Feb National Quiz Club Championship
Weds 29th Feb Parent’s Evening
Weds 21st Mar Year 4 performance
Weds 28th March Year 1 performance to parents at 2pm

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