Thursday 26 April 2012

Newsletter No 28 25th April 2012

Congratulations Congratulations to Jamaal Mamsa, Qasim Javaid (2G), Soumya Agrawal (3G) for achieving their Gold Awards. Headteacher’s Awards were also presented to the following children: Abdurraheem Shoaib (RG) for good speaking and relationships with other children. Alvi Hussain and Sami Mohammed (3Y) for good work in all subjects. Maya Michelak, Aleena Khawaja and Nicole Rozycka (1B) for great use of phonics and reading a challenging book and to Rianna Barton (1B) for brilliant maths work. Well done children!

Attendance Figures for Last Week

RB 94.7% RG 92.4% RR 92.9% RY 91.7% RRB 94.4%
Yr 1B 95.3% Yr 1G 71% Yr 1R 92.1% Yr 1Y 88.6%
Yr 2B 92.3% Yr 2G 94.7% Yr 2R 97.9% Yr 2Y 93.7%
Yr 3B 98.6% Yr 3G 87.7% Yr 3R 91.3% Yr 3Y 98.6%
Yr 4B 94.7% Yr 4G 93.8% Yr 4R 92.4% Yr 4Y 89.9%
Yr 5G 90% Yr 5R 96% Yr 6B 98% Yr 6Y 91.3%

Attendance The classes with the highest percentage are Year 3 Blue and Year 3 Yellow with 98.6%! Well done to both classes! The overall percentage for the whole school was 92.5%.
PLEASE work with us to improve this to at least 95%!

Class Information Meetings A reminder to parents that the class information meeting for Year 4 is tomorrow (Thursday) and will be taking 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.

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 30th April 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.

Jubilee/Afternoon Tea Party A Jubilee/Afternoon Tea party is being organised by the local Neighbourhood Watch Team for the 27th May 2012 at the Frenford Club. The event is open to all in the neighbourhood, so family and friends are welcome. There will be a charge on the door for £1 per adult, children free entry. A Neighbourhood Watch newsletter will be printed in the next few weeks with further information.

Disabled Parking Bays Please only park in the disabled parking bays if you have a disabled blue sticker.

School Council Charity Bake Sale After the success of the last cake sale, the school council members have organised a bake sale to raise money for a chosen charity. The sale will be held after school on Wednesday 2nd May 2012 in the small hall. Most of the cakes on sale will be prepared during the day, however we would also welcome any cake donations. If you would like to donate a cake, please give it to your child’s teacher by the morning of Wednesday 2nd May. Whether freshly prepared or donated, all the cakes will be utterly delicious, so come along and treat yourself! (Make sure you bring your small change)

CFA Table Top Sale We are glad to inform you that the Valentines Park branch of Barclays Bank have match-funded the money raised at the Table Top Sale meaning that the event raised almost £1,000. Thank you Barclays!

Choir for Years 4,5 and 6 Choir for years 4, 5 and 6 is being held every Friday from 3.15-4.15pm starting this Friday 27th April and will be working on songs that will lead to a performance at school in the summer term. If your child enjoys singing, is prepared to work hard and would like to be a part of Cranbrook choir, please collect a form from the school office and return by Friday morning (27th April).

Collection of children after clubs Please note that to improve our security, children will need to be collected from the link doorway. Therefore, parents will need to come to the main school gate.

Police Presentation/Parking Workshop All parents/carers are invited to attend this workshop. This will be taking place next Tuesday 1st May at 9am and will be addressing the major ongoing issues we have at Cranbrook, these will include keeping your children safe whilst driving to and from school, safe parking in the vicinity of schools and the use of seat belt restraints. Please make every effort to attend what should be a valuable session.

Dates for your diary:
Thurs 26th April Year 4 (please note rescheduled date) Class Information Session
Mon 30th April Open School 3.30-4.15pm
Tues 1st May Police Presentation/Workshop 9am
Mon 7th May Bank Holiday (school closed)
w/c 14th May Year 6 SATs week
w/c 21st May Year 2 SATs week
Tues 22nd May Glasbury Meeting for Yr 6 parents
w/c 28th May Diamond Jubilee Week
Fri 1st June Inset Day (school closed to pupils)
4th June—8th June Half Term Thurs 14th June
CFA Event—Community Fair
18th June-22nd June Year 6 Glasbury Residential trip
Tues 26th June KS2 Sports Day AM KS1 Sports Day PM
Thurs 5th July Year 2 performance
Thurs 12th July Year 6 performance
Fri 13th July Last day for nursery children
Mon 16th July Whole School Exhibition
Fri 20th July Last day of term—finish at 2pm

Term dates for this year:
Summer 2012 16th April—1st June 2012
Half term break 4th June—8th June 2012
11th June—23rd July 2012
Inset Days 1st June 2012 23rd July 2012
Autumn Term starts on Thursday 6th Sept

Thursday 19 April 2012

Newsletter No 27 18th April 2012

Welcome back! I would welcome you all back and hope you had a good Easter break and are now looking forward to the term ahead, as we certainly are.
Congratulations Congratulations to Allaya Rasul of 5R for achieving her Gold Award. Well done, Allaya.

Royal Albert Hall Well done also to all the children in Years 5 and 6 who represented Cranbrook at the recent Choral Festival at the Albert Hall. We had the pleasure of watching a magical performance in this fantastic venue where over 2000 Redbridge pupils performed. Many thanks to all the staff who supported this event.

Attendance Figures for Last Week
RB 89% RG 89.3%
RR 90% RY 89.7%
RRB 91.3%
Yr 1B 94.3% Yr 1G 93.1%
Yr 1R 85.7% Yr 1Y 91.7%
Yr 2B 95% Yr 2G 93.3%
Yr 2R 95.9% Yr 2Y 96.7%
Yr 3B 92.9% Yr 3G 92%
Yr 3R 86.7% Yr 3Y 100%
Yr 4B 91% Yr 4G 91.4%
Yr 4R 85.3% Yr 4Y 93.2%
Yr 5G 93.3% Yr 5R 87.7%
Yr 6B 88.3% Yr 6Y 93.3%

Attendance The class with the highest percentage is Year 3 Yellow with 100%! Well done to Year 3 Yellow! The overall percentage for the whole school was 91.6%.
PLEASE work with us to improve this to at least 95%!

Class Information Meetings A reminder to parents that the class information meetings are continuing to 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 each year group are as follows:

Thu 19th April Years 5 and 6
Fri 20th April Year 2
Mon 23rd April Reception
Tue 24th April Year 1
Thurs 26th April Year 4 (please note rescheduled date)

Clubs Letters allocating clubs will be sent out by the end of the week. Clubs run by the school will begin next week starting on Monday 23rd April. Walking club will begin week beginning 30th April. Children should ask Sheena (5R) if they wish to join in as this club is run at lunchtime.

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 30th April 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.

CFA Table Top Sale Thanks to all the CFA Committee and Helen, Beverley and Stephen for their excellent organisation. We raised £473.22 and enjoyed a lovely afternoon.

Colour Assemblies Please note that there is a change of time for the Red and Yellow Classes assembly every Thursday. The assembly will now start at 2.40pm.

Healthy Lunches We have seen a real decline in the quality of some packed lunches, the worst ones being items such as a packet of chocolate biscuits and nothing else! Please help your child by ensuring that there is a balance of nutrients within the meal provided. Healthy suggestions include— fruit, yoghurts, sandwich, wraps, salad, etc.
Remember– High sugar = poor behaviour = poor progress.

Class Photos The photographers will be in school next Wednesday 25th April to take class photos. Please make sure that your child comes to school in full school uniform.

St. George’s Day Children are invited to come into school on Monday 23rd April wearing red and white in celebration of St. George’s Day for a donation of £1. We will also be donating some of the money towards a charity organised by a local Mosque to support a young girl to walk again.


Dates for your Diary:
Class Information Sessions:
Thurs 19th April Years 5/6
Fri 20th April Year 2
Mon 23rd April Reception
Tues 24th April Year 1
Thurs 26th April Year 4 (please note rescheduled date)
Fri 20th April Family Numeracy Course
Mon 23rd April Non-uniform day St George’s Day (Red and White)/Fund-raising
Weds 25th April Class Photos
Mon 30th April Open School 3.30-4.15pm


Term dates for this year:
Summer 2012
16th April—1st June 2012
Half term break 4th June—8th June 2012
11th June—23rd July 2012
Inset Days
1st June 2012
23rd July 2012
Autumn Term starts on Thursday 6th Sept