Newsletter No7 17th October 2012

Congratulations to our writers of the week, who are as follows:

Maria Nubheebucus, Vaneeza Jahangir, Angelica Musona, Eliza Younis, Delisha Khan, Rianna Barton, Gaby Kadimba, Isha Uddin, Hafsa Tahir, Azaan Hafeez, Mahena Kadimba, Aaliyah Dadabhoy, Isabelle Bowsher, Naziha Nubha, Aminah Saleem, Nabhan Naweed, Umar Latif, Yusuf Rahman, Sufyaan Javed, Safa Abdul, Alexandru Heitei & Shoaib Ahmed.

What’s on? There are many exciting activities taking place this term. Please do try and come along for the following:

• Friday 19th October at 2.40pm Year 5 parents are invited to attend a Zulu Nation presentation.

• Wednesday 24th October at 2.15pm there will be a Diwali performance for Year 3 parents.

• Thursday 15th November (time to be confirmed) Year 5 parents are invited to an Eid performance.

• Thursday 13th December - Early Years (Nursery and Reception) Christmas performance. The performance times will be confirmed nearer the event.

There will be many fun activities taking place in the lead up to Christmas, so watch this space!

Year 5 Eid Performance Year 5 are doing an Eid performance on 15th November. We are rehearsing for this and would appreciate it if children could bring in traditional Islamic clothing as soon as possible for those who not have these clothes. Your donations would be greatly appreciated.

Colour Assemblies I have been very pleased with the good turn out from the parents and families of the children for the colour assemblies.

Junior Road Safety Officers I am pleased to inform you that Ibtisum Ashhab in 5B and Hajara Rafiq in 5R have been chosen to represent Cranbrook as Junior Road Safety Officers. Yesterday, they attended the launch event at Central Library where they were introduced to their new roles. They met the Road Safety Team and the Deputy Mayor. Our Junior Road Safety Officers are looking forward to spreading the word about road safety and helping to make Cranbrook a safer place.

Attendance Figures For Last Week

Rec Blue 98.1%           Yr 3B 94.7%

Rec Green 98%            Yr 3G 95.2%

Rec Red 97.8%            Yr 3R 93%

Rec Yellow 88.7%        Yr 3Y 98.7%

Yr 1B 97.2%                Yr 4B 98%

Yr 1G 98%                   Yr 4G 96.7%

Yr 1R 97.3%                Yr 4R 100%

Yr 1Y 98.1%                Yr 4Y 100%

Yr 1Ra 91.7%              Yr 5B 98%

Yr 2B 99.4%                Yr 5G 96.1%

Yr 2G 98%                  Yr 5R 96.8%

Yr 2R 95.9%               Yr 5Y 96.1%

Yr 2Y 98%                  Yr 6G 95.5%

                                  Yr 6R 97.4%


Attendance Well done to classes 4R and 4Y who both achieved 100% attendance! The overall percentage for the whole school was 96.8%. Fantastic!

Parking Despite reporting in the newsletter last week of the dangerous actions of some parents in the car park, some of you are continuing to ignore their own safety and the safety of others. Please note that double red lines and more zigzags will be appearing very shortly, so avoid parking there unless you want to be issued with a ticket.

Parents please be vigilant. We have heard reports of muggings in the local area, including one of our parents who had money stolen from her. The perpetrator is described as an Asian man, 40-50 years with a long white beard and traditional clothes. I would urge you all to be very vigilant.

Privacy Notice - Data Protection Act 1998

We Cranbrook Primary School are a data controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act. We collect information from you and may receive information about you from your previous school and the Learning Records Service. We hold this personal data and use it to:

Support your teaching and learning;

Monitor and report on your progress;

Provide appropriate pastoral care; and

Assess how well your school is doing.

This information includes your contact details, national curriculum assessment results, attendance information and personal characteristics such as your ethnic group, any special educational needs and relevant medical information. If you are enrolling for post 14 qualifications we will be provided with your unique learner number (ULN) by the Learning Records Service and may also obtain from them details of any learning or qualifications you have undertaken. We will not give information about you to anyone outside the school without your consent unless the law and our rules allow us to. We are required by law to pass some information about you to the Local Authority and the Department for Education (DfE).

Cranbrook Primary School are required by law to pass some information about you to the Department for Education (DfE) and, in turn, this will be available for the use(s) of the Local Authority. If you want to see a copy of the information about you that we hold and/or share, please contact The School Office.

If you require more information about how the Local Authority (LA) and/or DfE store and use your information, then please go to the following websites:

http://www.redbridge.gov.uk/cmc/education and young people/school support information/strategies plans and policy.aspx and

http://media.education.gov.uk/assets/files/doc/w/what%20th%20department%20does%20with%20data%20on%20pupils%20and%20children.doc

http://www.education.gov.uk/researchandstatistics/childrenand youngpeople/a0064391/who-the-department-passes-pupil-data-to

If you are unable to access these websites we can send you a copy of this information. Please contact the LA or DfE as follows: Research and Data Team, Lynton House, 255-259 High Road, Ilford, Essex, IG1 1NN.

Public and Communications Unit, Department for Education, Sanctuary Buildings, Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3BT.

Website: www.education.gov.uk. Email: http://www.education.gov.uk/help/contactus Tel: 0370 000 2288.


Key Dates For Your Diary

24th Oct Y3 Diwali assembly

25th Oct Y2 trip to Church

29th Oct-2nd Nov Half term

5th Nov School re-opens

6th/7th Nov Y5 to British Museum

8th Nov Y1 Cake sale

15th Nov Children in Need (Non-uniform for pupils– Spots theme)

15th Nov Y5 Eid assembly

15th Nov Parents evening

16th Nov Pupil photographs

19th Nov Pupil photographs

28th Nov International evening

30th Nov St. Andrew’s Day (Non-uniform for pupils – Blue clothes)

6th Dec Y2 Cake sale

10th Dec Reception trip to Church

12th/13th Dec Christmas cake sale

13th Dec Early Years Christmas performance

21st Dec Last day of term

24th Dec– 7th Jan Christmas Break

8th Jan 2013 School re-opens