Newsletter No. 9 7th November 2012

Congratulations to Faiza Choudhury who completed the Redbridge Summer Reading Challenge to read six books during the summer break. Well done!

Also, congratulations to the following writers of the week:

Aaliah Patel, Maisha Choudhury, Keerthana Thurisumy, Baljit Assi, Zahra Ahmed, Aliya Hussain, Saad Khan and Nahia Hussain.

School Fundraising As part of our commitment to “giving back” we shall be taking part in the following where children are invited to wear non-uniform clothing:

15th November - Spots theme (funds to Children in Need)

30th November - Blue theme to celebrate St. Andrew’s Day (contributions to the school fund)

We shall be asking that children bring in a donation of £1 which will go to the relevant fund.

Go Green for MacMillan Cancer Support Each year group have been allocated two collection buckets, where children can donate money to choose the green character they wish to have painted on the reading wall. The choice of character is either Shrek or Kermit the Frog. A big thank you to all the children that have already voted. If your child would like to vote they need to make a donation to help fill the collection bucket for their character choice. The character who raises the most money wins, so let’s get voting! There is also a Y1 cake sale taking place this Thursday after school. Please do come along and support this cause.

Attendance Figures For Last Week

Rec Blue 84.5%           Yr 3B 83.3%

Rec Green 82%            Yr 3G 84.5%

Rec Red 85.4%            Yr 3R 83.3%

Rec Yellow 74.5%        Yr 3Y 84.7%

Yr 1B 80.3%                 Yr 4B 87.3%

Yr 1G 85.3%                 Yr 4G 82%

Yr 1R 87.3%                 Yr 4R 86%

Yr 1Y 81.9%                 Yr 4Y 89%

Yr 1Ra 82.6%                Yr 5B 84%

Yr 2B 88.4%                 Yr 5G 87.3%

Yr 2G 83.7 %                Yr 5R 81.1%

Yr 2R 81.4%                 Yr 5Y 77.4%

Yr 2Y 80.7%                 Yr 6G 86.1%

Yr 6R 84.5%

Attendance All the attendance figures are low as last week many of our families took time off to celebrate Eid. Let’s get that percentage up again.

Parking Following a serious incident where a parent was verbally abused by another parent in the car park, I would remind you all to show respect and be mindful of not displaying unacceptable behaviour in the presence of the children, or indeed anyone else!

Eid Assembly Year 5 parents are warmly invited to attend the Eid assembly on Thursday 15th November at 2.15pm.

Packed Lunch/P.E. Kits Please encourage your child to remember to bring in their P.E. kit and packed lunch to school in the morning. This will avoid constant disruption to the class.

Please bear in mind the office staff take their breaks at the following times:

10-11.30am

1.15-2.30pm

Please avoid these times.

Parents’ Evening Please can you complete your slips as soon as possible so that times can be allocated for the meeting on Thursday 15th November.

Poppy Appeal For a small donation, children will be able to buy poppies. These will be available to purchase this week.

School Lettings

The following are available to hire from Monday to Friday 4pm to 10pm and on weekends and school holidays from 8am to 11pm:

Large Hall £60 per hour - Capacity up to 500 people depending on the nature of event

Small Hall £30 per hour - Capacity up to 60 people depending on the nature of the event

Dance Studio £30 per hour - Capacity up to 60 people depending nature of event

Main playground (please call for quotes)

For all lettings enquiries and availability contact Rahima Patel (Funding and Facilities Coordinator) email: Rahima.patel@redbridge.gov.uk.


I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a happy Diwali for next week.



Keys Dates To Note

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

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

15th Feb Inset (school closed to pupils)

18th- 22nd Feb Half-term

25th Feb School re-opens

6th May Bank Holiday

24th May (Inset) school closed to pupils























Headteacher: Jas Leverton

Cranbrook Primary School, The Drive, Ilford, Essex, IG1 3PS

Telephone: 0208 518 2562 Fax: 0208 554 1575

Admin.cranbrookprimary.redbridge.gov.uk www.cranbrookprimary.redbridge.sch.uk



Jas Leverton

Headteacher